Speaker 1: Well, hello, there, you are listening to the very first
Speaker 1: episode of the Vitamin D Podcast. I'm your host, a
Speaker 1: Dawn Day, and I'm here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life. Now, first, let me tell you Vitamin D
Speaker 1: is a multi vitamin for your mind. It is a
Speaker 1: pun off of my name. You know, like dawn the
Speaker 1: break of day. As you know, you get vitamin D
Speaker 1: from the sun. So I'm here to share some light
Speaker 1: into your life. You see what I did there? On
Speaker 1: this podcast we talk about the importance of speaking life.
Speaker 1: Life and death are in the power of the tongue,
Speaker 1: and I truly believe we have the power to create
Speaker 1: whatever life that we want. And we got to realize
Speaker 1: too that we have to live on purpose and for
Speaker 1: a purpose. Now, as for me, Dawn day, all day,
Speaker 1: every day, and I'm from Detroit. What I've don't right
Speaker 1: there off for a mile between Evergreen and last Year,
Speaker 1: and I'm just a Detroit girl with a big dream
Speaker 1: and a brave voice. The thing that I find more
Speaker 1: importantly is that people always say have a sense of
Speaker 1: bringing you boy and happiness to their life and just
Speaker 1: making him feel good and and provide us a good
Speaker 1: insight which leads me to the topic of this episode
Speaker 1: of Vitamin D greater division, because you can't be what
Speaker 1: you can't see. So I took some time to talk
Speaker 1: with a mentor, a close friend, the very first person
Speaker 1: that gave me an introduction to the public speaking world
Speaker 1: on a professional level, The one and only c J
Speaker 1: growths about what it means to have the greater division,
Speaker 1: the greater the opposition, the greater the reward. Take a lesson,
Speaker 1: get your vieminy right with me, and get excited about
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on today, No problem
Speaker 1: at all, anything for you die. But this is this
Speaker 1: is near and dear to my heart, like this hell
Speaker 1: of stuff. You know, I haven't doing diversity inclusion stuff.
Speaker 1: Mostly I can't believe I look it all this time
Speaker 1: now um, and I'm like, wow, I am sitting here
Speaker 1: for one of my original mentors, see J Gross, the
Speaker 1: host with the most The interesting thing is, was it
Speaker 1: the greater the vision, the greater the opposition, the greater
Speaker 1: the reward. I was sitting here today and I was
Speaker 1: thinking about our interview and or like I'd like to
Speaker 1: say chat, and I was like, the greater the vision,
Speaker 1: the greater the reward. But guess what when you talk
Speaker 1: about a great vision, it comes with a climb M
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's the opposition. So now it makes
Speaker 1: sense because I was like, hmm, I wonder how we're
Speaker 1: gonna put this together. But that was the link. But
Speaker 1: you just you just said something that was powerful. You
Speaker 1: talked about you said the climb, right, So you know
Speaker 1: how You'll go on into the internet and look at
Speaker 1: like these uh, really beautiful uh photograph photographs of landscape
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're a high and we never think about
Speaker 1: like how did you how did that person get that photograph? Right?
Speaker 1: A lot of times they you know, the most exotic photographs,
Speaker 1: there's danger, whether it's surrounding exotic animals or you know,
Speaker 1: aerial views or on the mountaintop or the desert or something.
Speaker 1: So it's like the beauty of that photo, that photograph
Speaker 1: really is indicative of what was necessary to get there.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of times we're just magazine
Speaker 1: turners were like that's a nice photograph. That's nice photograph.
Speaker 1: But I believe when you can look in your own
Speaker 1: phone and you have beautiful pictures, there is a story
Speaker 1: behind those pictures that you know, is is really how
Speaker 1: you bring your vision to life, Like what you what
Speaker 1: you went through to get that to make that happen.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm like wow, because well, I
Speaker 1: thought of two things. One, I've been telling people to
Speaker 1: check out this. Uh it's a Disney animated film, so
Speaker 1: animation and it's called Onward and oh, by GE's your life.
Speaker 1: It just came out like this year. It is everything.
Speaker 1: When I say on a spiritual on a motivational inspirational tip,
Speaker 1: but just one of the characters on there, she talked
Speaker 1: about her challenge and her opposition. Rather, it was all
Speaker 1: about the greater the risk, the greater the reward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. I'm gonna definitely check that out.
Speaker 1: You gotta go all in. And so just when you
Speaker 1: were talking about that, you know, you think about that climb,
Speaker 1: but guess what on that climb to get to that level,
Speaker 1: to get to that peak, A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: tread there. And unless you work out those muscles to
Speaker 1: to to get there, that's like that's a whole other moment,
Speaker 1: whole other moment, whole other moment. So you taught me that,
Speaker 1: and I feel like when you always talked about the
Speaker 1: greater division and what was just back? I met you
Speaker 1: when I was a student at Howard University, found you
Speaker 1: on Craigslist. You were looking forward? Does that? And you
Speaker 1: were my first connection with a motivational speaker, right because
Speaker 1: you know, see Jay, that's that's the grand vision of
Speaker 1: it all. I am going to use radio and television
Speaker 1: and voiceover to inspire. And then you always used to
Speaker 1: tell me, you said, Dawn, I don't say motivate because
Speaker 1: you get motivated to get started, but you get inspired
Speaker 1: to change your life. Talk about seeds of life. Stop
Speaker 1: playing with me, see Jay. Yeah, that's a that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's because that's it. That's it. Motivation is for time
Speaker 1: and inspiration is for lifetimes. Like and and this shows
Speaker 1: right how many years ago was that we calculated? One time?
Speaker 1: I think we were between thirsty. Yeah, it it's more
Speaker 1: than that. It was a Wow, I'm like a junior.
Speaker 1: Look now you got me telling my age, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell them too. Yeah. So we you know, both
Speaker 1: of us had our visions and look at you know
Speaker 1: where we are now. You know you're a California You're
Speaker 1: doing your thing. Um, you pursued it. You know you're
Speaker 1: catching it and you're ascending. And I think that's that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of you know, the ability to have your
Speaker 1: vision and and what you um you want to accomplish
Speaker 1: and doing the work to create it, to bring it
Speaker 1: into life, to bring it into fruition like you just
Speaker 1: like you're having a baby. But I don't have an
Speaker 1: experience with that, like having a baby. But you know, okay,
Speaker 1: so how about this as a word right now? I
Speaker 1: mean I just had to jump up for a second
Speaker 1: because I actually put that up on Facebook to day.
Speaker 1: I said, I have been working so hard, but I
Speaker 1: know all this is for, you know, my greater purpose,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna walk in faith with it that I'm
Speaker 1: doing things I've never done before, things that I am
Speaker 1: so uncomfortable with that I want to go hide that
Speaker 1: I've said here and cried, tried to figure things out.
Speaker 1: I just completed a sketch and I was telling a
Speaker 1: friend I said that felt like I gave birth because
Speaker 1: I was frustrated. I was crying, and then when I
Speaker 1: got it out, it was like, yes, yes, we're talking
Speaker 1: about vision. And I think it's one of the important
Speaker 1: things that every person that's probably alive needs to have
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know anybody better other than
Speaker 1: you that I would speak to this about, because you talk.
Speaker 1: You were the first person that introduced to me what
Speaker 1: it was to have vision and what it meant and
Speaker 1: and the diligence. And you know what I've realized. I
Speaker 1: started meditating, uh, and of probably like fall of twenty nineteen. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was just a matter if I said, I
Speaker 1: gotta get my chakras together. I have to move into alignment.
Speaker 1: And I'm one, and just because of grinding, of just
Speaker 1: constantly hustling and moving and everything that I'm not doing
Speaker 1: a self check in and I said, God, I have
Speaker 1: grinded for years and I know that I have a
Speaker 1: long way to go, but I need to move soundly, right.
Speaker 1: I hate need to move with discernment because now you know,
Speaker 1: you just start realizing time, you start realizing your efforts,
Speaker 1: and when you sit down and you smell the roses
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, God, I see where you've placed
Speaker 1: me order my steps. That's so powerful to be in
Speaker 1: that place. And when you know that, you can lean
Speaker 1: on it more. Because I think when you first start
Speaker 1: out on your journey and your vision, it's like being
Speaker 1: a baby, you know you're taking me steps and you
Speaker 1: don't know why how, And as you grow you start
Speaker 1: to think, okay, well that was meaningful. I didn't see how.
Speaker 1: And then you get to the place where the place
Speaker 1: around at now it's like I know my steps are ordered,
Speaker 1: and I know things are unfolding. There's some things that
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there's so much more that I
Speaker 1: know now because I've seen it in my past. I
Speaker 1: felt that one Okay, I'm listening, you know, I was
Speaker 1: thinking about our interview, well, our conversation. I think about sight,
Speaker 1: you know, like vision and sight, and I remember I
Speaker 1: think what Willie Jolly has said, Um, which we wille
Speaker 1: who we will know? And and then the four from
Speaker 1: from my book, Um, he's a greatness, he said, there's
Speaker 1: four different sites. There's um, there's hindsight, when you can
Speaker 1: have reflection on what has happened. You know, you're able
Speaker 1: to look and reflect on on your past experiences and
Speaker 1: gain information from that. And um, there's foresight, so when
Speaker 1: you're able to see the future in your mind's eye
Speaker 1: and see what you want to come and pass. And
Speaker 1: then there's oversight when you've been given you know, resources,
Speaker 1: and opportunities, and you oversee those resources and opportunities, Like
Speaker 1: people have opportunities right now that they're not they're not
Speaker 1: actualizing on like on their job, or maybe someone got
Speaker 1: laid off and maybe they can start a business, but
Speaker 1: they don't have that, you know, oversight of the resources.
Speaker 1: So they're just chilling, playing on the couch. You're not
Speaker 1: utilizing your time. But the most important one, I believe
Speaker 1: is insight. So insight is when you're able to gather
Speaker 1: deep information about yourself or a person in that moment.
Speaker 1: And it's not something necessarily that you can see what
Speaker 1: the naked eye. It takes time to know that this
Speaker 1: is something special, this is something I should move on,
Speaker 1: this is something that um and it's something sometimes your
Speaker 1: your head can't help you with. It's like you gotta
Speaker 1: lean into your heart. My daughter was diagnosed with a
Speaker 1: serious illness and I had to really make a really
Speaker 1: difficult choice. Um where I'll getting all into it. Had
Speaker 1: to make a really difficult choice, and there was this
Speaker 1: opportunity that came up for me and um my my
Speaker 1: daughter was in this place of transition in the hospital
Speaker 1: and I had some support systems and I really it
Speaker 1: was really lunge. And it was. It was the one
Speaker 1: of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in
Speaker 1: my life, because I had to make a decision whether
Speaker 1: I was going to get on an airplane to capitalize
Speaker 1: on this opportunity, or was I gonna stay in hospital
Speaker 1: because I wasn't sure my daughter's gonna get a hospital.
Speaker 1: Better not to be moved, right, And so, without getting
Speaker 1: into the particulars of it, I had insight. And people
Speaker 1: did not understand me. They thought I was being a
Speaker 1: bad parent because you know, I was a single parent
Speaker 1: at the time. But they were like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: rocaching his business dreams and all those other things. But
Speaker 1: I had insight. And when you have insight, you move
Speaker 1: in faith. And I moved in faith and and and
Speaker 1: it changed the trajectory of my speaking and coaching and training.
Speaker 1: And from that I became a international speaker. I I
Speaker 1: you know, I was able to Uh. It led me
Speaker 1: to a path where I was able to, um, purchase
Speaker 1: multiple homes, uh you know, you know, travel, travel the world, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, work on my fourth book, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just so many other things. But a lot of other
Speaker 1: people couldn't see that at the time. So I think
Speaker 1: insight is one of those visions that you know, like
Speaker 1: in your situation and being able to block our fear
Speaker 1: in all the noise. M And it's so interesting you
Speaker 1: say that, because that's one of the things that I
Speaker 1: was realizing when it came down to manifestation. And if
Speaker 1: you get even down biblically speaking of why do you
Speaker 1: have to write the vision? And and for me, what
Speaker 1: I've realized of why you have to write the vision
Speaker 1: and how you have to put things in hindsight because
Speaker 1: this whole thing about life is a matter of communication.
Speaker 1: And just like you said, with going in and getting
Speaker 1: into that insight is getting rid of the distraction and
Speaker 1: the noise. So what I found is that your spirit
Speaker 1: already knows that's the intuition, that's your gut that's speaking
Speaker 1: to you. But at the same time, we're spiritual beings
Speaker 1: having a human experience, and so now we have to
Speaker 1: have a communication of what's going on to the spirit
Speaker 1: and with the mind. And hence that's why I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have to write the vision. We have to make
Speaker 1: sure to see things even if it's not naturally out there.
Speaker 1: How would you orchestrated and put it together, and I
Speaker 1: find that sometimes that's even more fun because guess what,
Speaker 1: you live your life limitless, that's right, you said, limitless.
Speaker 1: Tapping into the potential that we that we all have.
Speaker 1: But turning that potential within the acorn into the oak
Speaker 1: tree is the everybody's like, you know that that acorn.
Speaker 1: We want to be the oak tree. But we don't
Speaker 1: want to move off the ledge. We don't want to
Speaker 1: get a little dirty because we gotta get some fertilized
Speaker 1: with some nutrients. We think we can just jump out
Speaker 1: there and fresh fertilize those things. Oh, doesn't it us
Speaker 1: start hurt? But it's beautiful, it's it's amazing. It teaches
Speaker 1: you just it gives you everything you need, your nutrients
Speaker 1: to grow, that's right, it makes you have You gotta
Speaker 1: go deep. The roots go down before the style comes
Speaker 1: out of the dirt, right, the roots go down to
Speaker 1: build your foundation, and in that time you don't see anything,
Speaker 1: but that's where that's why it's important to have the
Speaker 1: insight knowing that the season been planning, something's going down
Speaker 1: and it's like the same thing you know in your story.
Speaker 1: You you you know, you graduated from Howard University and
Speaker 1: you know, that was just the seed that you were
Speaker 1: planning part of your education and building your foundation. And
Speaker 1: then I was, I was, I was impressed. You were like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to New York. I'm gonna go do this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it happen. And I was, I was excited.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh cool. And then even you went
Speaker 1: to California, I was like, oh, you know, you were
Speaker 1: working with Lisa Nichols, you you know, and then you
Speaker 1: needed to Steve Harvey Show and you know, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: those those seeds you were planning and then they were
Speaker 1: just starting to take place. But you have to have faith.
Speaker 1: You have to you know, overcome the fears that were
Speaker 1: necessary in order to bring and bring into fruishing your
Speaker 1: your potential. But yeah, I needed so a couple of
Speaker 1: things that were special. Well, I definitely had my sweat equity,
Speaker 1: were probably some tears or just the to go around
Speaker 1: and go. But I had to go through a process
Speaker 1: that allowed me to have those nutrients and photosynthesis because
Speaker 1: I have mentors like you just show me the way,
Speaker 1: to show me the light, which leads me to wonder,
Speaker 1: what was the inspiration behind seeds of life? LLC because
Speaker 1: I find when individuals find mentors like you, there's a
Speaker 1: planting going on. What inspired that? So? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not a gardener. I'm gonna tray my hands on, but
Speaker 1: I'm not really a gardener. But what I do understand
Speaker 1: is that there's something special about the way agriculture happens.
Speaker 1: You have to plan a seed in the ground, right,
Speaker 1: So there's nothing that's gonna come up if you plant
Speaker 1: no seeds, right, or if you keep the seeds in
Speaker 1: your pocket, you know, there's nothing's gonna happen, right. So
Speaker 1: it made me think about life. You're always those who
Speaker 1: grow or listening and hearing and you know, finding information
Speaker 1: and they're seeking the information. They're not just sitting and waiting.
Speaker 1: They're actually going out and seeking the information. And those
Speaker 1: that information is seats and then that information is life.
Speaker 1: And if you plant it into you the ground, to
Speaker 1: the soil of your spirit, into your heart, they will
Speaker 1: they will, they will birth. Now here's the thing about that.
Speaker 1: Some people are planning some seeds, but it's not what
Speaker 1: they want, well, land seeds of dandelions or you know,
Speaker 1: you don't need to see the damnim or I guess
Speaker 1: you do. But the point is they have all these weeds,
Speaker 1: but they're not planning the things that they want, Like
Speaker 1: they want apples, they want avocados and all that. You
Speaker 1: have to plant the seeds for those things too in
Speaker 1: order to grow. Is that because they don't have the
Speaker 1: proper vision for it? Or what what's knowledge? Again? If
Speaker 1: I go to the if I go to the um,
Speaker 1: to the nursery, to you know, we play, we buy seeds,
Speaker 1: I can tell them exactly what kind of um trees
Speaker 1: I want, what kind of plants someone, and they'll tell
Speaker 1: me exactly what to to plant, how much water it needs,
Speaker 1: how much um, what kind of dirt to put it
Speaker 1: into everything planting in the shade that needs this amount
Speaker 1: of life. If I'm willing to listen, that those seeds
Speaker 1: will grow. And what most people are doing one is
Speaker 1: they're not seeking the knowledge, right which the knowledge as
Speaker 1: the seeds. They're not seeking the knowledge like what you
Speaker 1: did and like what I did. I had a mentor
Speaker 1: and I have mentors as well. So people are kind
Speaker 1: of just trying to figure out on their own. They're
Speaker 1: just throwing seeds around, some of some of the landing
Speaker 1: on the concrete and even going into the dirt, and
Speaker 1: some of the land on top of the dirt top soil,
Speaker 1: the birds come and picking them off and they're like,
Speaker 1: but I have no crops, I have nothing to eat. No,
Speaker 1: because you didn't plan it, you didn't nurture it, and
Speaker 1: you didn't get the knowledge to even how to do it.
Speaker 1: And I think that is one of our biggest challenges
Speaker 1: because if you don't reach out to someone that is
Speaker 1: further along than you or has insight on some different
Speaker 1: components of life, then you're gonna stay stagnant, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen year after year after year after year, and
Speaker 1: someone else is gonna be sitting, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of years later. They're gonna be sitting under their tree
Speaker 1: that has is producing fruit, and they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to eat the salad that they put on the fruit
Speaker 1: that they had planned a couple of years ago. And
Speaker 1: you're still out there, you know, on the wilderness. And
Speaker 1: so you have to be willing to um to step
Speaker 1: out on the lim someone said step out on live
Speaker 1: because that's what the fruit is, right, and that means
Speaker 1: like buying the book, you know, that means listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast day um reaching out the going to Craig's
Speaker 1: Listen and answering the ad. You know someone else saw that.
Speaker 1: It was like, nah, it's probably they're not really doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's unfortunately because I think so many people have so
Speaker 1: much talent. And again I get this from less Brownie.
Speaker 1: So you should die empty, just giving it all out,
Speaker 1: just coming with well, I don't, I don't not not
Speaker 1: necessarily broken. But when I say you got dying empty,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's necessarily for me if I
Speaker 1: would ever say completely empty, because I would hope that
Speaker 1: whatever joy or whatever purpose I'm doing, I'm on overflow.
Speaker 1: So I'm just constantly going like I never really lose
Speaker 1: out because it's more like an energy source or flow. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think what even you said the quote is
Speaker 1: that you know the world should know that you were here.
Speaker 1: If things happen and they can't find you on the internet,
Speaker 1: you know, what was the whole purpose of you being here?
Speaker 1: You know, you just sucked up the air. You know,
Speaker 1: you got on people's nerves. You know somebody has to
Speaker 1: deal with your stinky attitude, and you didn't leave the
Speaker 1: world no better then how you found it. I think
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the sense. Should you want
Speaker 1: the sense? All right? Taking up occupancy? When you look
Speaker 1: at how much life is a gift and it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, not the treasurer. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: you know. I think sometimes we have people that may
Speaker 1: not necessarily go after dreams or necessarily feel like as
Speaker 1: though they have something to pursue because they feel like
Speaker 1: they don't have a vision. Like is everybody given? Is
Speaker 1: everybody given a vision? Can everybody seek a vision? Can
Speaker 1: everyone attain acquire a vision? What is the vision? That's
Speaker 1: a great question. I think I think both happened. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you sometimes we're giving a vision but we don't see
Speaker 1: it right or we suppress it. Um. And I always
Speaker 1: tell people when I'm coaching them, um, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what their career goals are businesses, I said,
Speaker 1: what is that thing that keeps coming up to you
Speaker 1: that you're ignoring? What's that thing that keeps you up
Speaker 1: at night? What's that thing that? Um? Someone you think
Speaker 1: it and you you you shut it down, you suppressed it,
Speaker 1: and then someone else says it and every way you
Speaker 1: turn is that that is the thing that's the vision
Speaker 1: that you're that you're that you're looking away from, you're
Speaker 1: hiding from. Some people do their whole lives and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you would be great, you know, making donuts
Speaker 1: or something, and you just keep not doing it because
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you make up excuses. So that person
Speaker 1: has a vision, but they're not willing to see it.
Speaker 1: You know how you get up in the morning and
Speaker 1: the sun comes in. Instead of letting them when the
Speaker 1: sun come in, you should close the blinds. The sun
Speaker 1: is still there, but you just close the brands and
Speaker 1: those things go back to sleep. Yeah, that's the vision
Speaker 1: when you put it like that, and you know, for
Speaker 1: somebody that might be listening to us, the vision it
Speaker 1: should be so big that it right. Yes, for for you,
Speaker 1: I've met people that they didn't want to you know,
Speaker 1: travel the world and those things. They wanted to go
Speaker 1: back to school to be a teacher, but they didn't
Speaker 1: want to let their parents down because you know, their
Speaker 1: doctor or engineer or whatever it was. Because of their culture.
Speaker 1: They felt like they couldn't do it. So for us
Speaker 1: like that, I wouldn't want to take away that money,
Speaker 1: but that's not a big deal. But for them it's
Speaker 1: a big deal. So one person just wants to go
Speaker 1: to school, so it doesn't have to be for them.
Speaker 1: That is a huge monumental vision. So so yes, UM,
Speaker 1: it's big when it's big and relative and relative to
Speaker 1: that person in their experience. So when it comes down
Speaker 1: to you and you talk about how greater the vision? UM,
Speaker 1: what's the vision you have for your life? And are
Speaker 1: you living it out? Yeah? Great question. UM. So the
Speaker 1: vision that I have for my life is to inspire,
Speaker 1: motivate people through writing books, doing videos, UM, podcast, write article,
Speaker 1: speaking at speaking at UM conferences, UM, creating financial opportunities,
Speaker 1: residual income only real estate, UM, you know, just inspiring
Speaker 1: people at all levels. Uh, and work with Fortune five companies, CEOs,
Speaker 1: things like that. So yes, I am. I'm living that vision.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about and that's what keeps me going because
Speaker 1: and that's where my energy come from, because I'm doing
Speaker 1: something I love to do and then started out doing
Speaker 1: where I was making money, I started doing it for
Speaker 1: free and that so you started off saying motivation versus inspiration.
Speaker 1: If I was only motivated, we wouldn't be making this
Speaker 1: connection right now because I would have given up because
Speaker 1: I wasn't making any money, So there was no external
Speaker 1: motivation to keep me going. But the inspiration, the same
Speaker 1: inspiration I had then is the same inspiration that I
Speaker 1: have now. It gets me out of bed. It makes
Speaker 1: me think, Oh, who needs me today? Or not me,
Speaker 1: but who needs me to walk my path today so
Speaker 1: that they can help find their path? So did you
Speaker 1: know that your path was going to lead you to
Speaker 1: be a speaker? Like? When did you? How did this
Speaker 1: come about? No? This is check this. I actually wanted
Speaker 1: to be a engineer. I wanted to be a mechanical engineer.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be an engineer. The reason why was
Speaker 1: because my vision was limited to the vision of the
Speaker 1: people that are around and um, my mentor was a
Speaker 1: electrical engineer. My mom was a weapon specialist, so she
Speaker 1: was she was in the tech film Yeah what she
Speaker 1: has to do? Right? Um? And my dad was a electrician,
Speaker 1: so everyone was very technically inclined around me. Right, And
Speaker 1: that was part of the part of my vision for
Speaker 1: my life. And although in my spirit I realized one
Speaker 1: day I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I knew it
Speaker 1: from like tenoral eleven, but once I got older, it
Speaker 1: was like, what do you really want to do, and
Speaker 1: I started to shape and form my vision based on
Speaker 1: what I saw my family do, and which is nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. If that's what your that's what your
Speaker 1: path is to be. And so I didn't see I
Speaker 1: didn't fully connect my vision again until I saw Willie
Speaker 1: Jolly speaking one day and he was, you know, motivating
Speaker 1: the crowd, and I was like, I want to do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So wait, what stage in your life or how old
Speaker 1: are you when you realize I want to do that.
Speaker 1: I would say I was definitely my twenties. I would
Speaker 1: probably say I was twenty between twenty seven and thirty.
Speaker 1: I became a mechanical designer. I worked for General Electric,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I was I was good, but
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't like my job. I actually hated
Speaker 1: my job with a passion. Yeah. And and the problem was,
Speaker 1: you know, this is bad when they do layoffs, they
Speaker 1: off half of the company, and you're mad because you're
Speaker 1: not laid off. I was bad, oh man. I followed
Speaker 1: my path to a speaking coaching and all those other things.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I believe that my steps you
Speaker 1: mentioned this earlier, steps are steps are ordered. I was
Speaker 1: meant to go through the to go through the UM
Speaker 1: experience of being becoming a mechanical designer and working in
Speaker 1: the engineering field. And the reason why that was important
Speaker 1: because my first job out of engineering was a teacher.
Speaker 1: At the time, I did not have a degree. I
Speaker 1: went back to the school to get my degree UM
Speaker 1: to be a draft person to teach the kids that
Speaker 1: have been incocerated UM drafting skills and entrepreneurs skills. And
Speaker 1: I had to have so much time under my belt
Speaker 1: working in that field. So the reason why I didn't
Speaker 1: get laid all. I can look back now and I
Speaker 1: had one less year, I would not been able to
Speaker 1: receive my UM teacher certification and I end up making
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars more than what I was making. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now you know, full circle. That was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: Full circle. I'm actually speaking now to engineering company. I'm
Speaker 1: speaking to the Toyota's, I'm speaking to the Turner Constructions,
Speaker 1: to the company that I have the technical skills in there.
Speaker 1: And it's just happening UM this week because people are
Speaker 1: now trying to figure out what's going on with this
Speaker 1: situation with the social injustice across the country, and people
Speaker 1: are reaching out to me but the people that are
Speaker 1: reaching out to me are the manufacturers, the engineering companies,
Speaker 1: the construction companies, because that's my background. So it's all
Speaker 1: come full circle and it's on a global scale. What
Speaker 1: you say? What? And you know, it's so interesting because
Speaker 1: I think that some people feel as though that the
Speaker 1: vision has to come by a certain time, and it's
Speaker 1: just like it just has to come in the season
Speaker 1: where you receive it. Because it's like if you were
Speaker 1: to take a cut cake out of the oven, do soon,
Speaker 1: or if you're cooking any food, or if a baby
Speaker 1: comes out. You know, there's a reason why you have
Speaker 1: to go into seasons. And I even thought about that
Speaker 1: when you were talking about the seats and so forth.
Speaker 1: It's not only of where you're just throwing it, but
Speaker 1: what kind of so you are you putting it in? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it does not go in the microwave because that
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Cans of thirty seconds and okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come out with a big little tree. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to labor, and that's why I cannot be motivation
Speaker 1: as the inspiration. You have to labor, and it needs
Speaker 1: to be a labor of love because if not, you
Speaker 1: will not have the discipline or the fortitude to to
Speaker 1: go and to you know, turn the soil, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: to put the water, put water on the on the
Speaker 1: on the seats, to uh to think about it, to
Speaker 1: figure out how to get experts out there and do
Speaker 1: all the things you need to do. And if you're
Speaker 1: only motivated by money, then you will want that microwave
Speaker 1: situation and that um you know again I call less
Speaker 1: Brown a lot. He says that your true treasures are
Speaker 1: in your heart, So follow your heart because that's where
Speaker 1: your your treasures are. In your head is where your
Speaker 1: fears are. Yeah, that's not mine. I can't take that's
Speaker 1: that's less branded And I probably jacked up a little
Speaker 1: bit there, but because sometimes we get so caught up
Speaker 1: in our head thinking the hound to why not wellfore
Speaker 1: and when first it's just being in the moment and
Speaker 1: just literally feeling each beat and moving to the rhythm
Speaker 1: of your own drum. You know. I was actually just
Speaker 1: thinking about that today with everything that's going on with
Speaker 1: the social injustice and a lot of the question, reigins
Speaker 1: is that, you know, should those people that appropriate the culture,
Speaker 1: whether you're into music, whether you're into film, if it
Speaker 1: inspires you should you be required to speak up, And
Speaker 1: just like when we talk about your passion and your purpose,
Speaker 1: you gotta realize it's not something that you put on
Speaker 1: when it's convenient. You're gonna live in it regardless, and
Speaker 1: as long as you're speaking with your truth, you don't
Speaker 1: have to blast off and let it be known a moment.
Speaker 1: It's just something that's going to attract you. And kind
Speaker 1: of like that same thing when you talked about how
Speaker 1: the vision is always there and you kind of get signed,
Speaker 1: you kind of get reminders. But then if that fear
Speaker 1: comes into play where you're constantly in your head and
Speaker 1: not allowing yourself to be how can you receive it?
Speaker 1: I was thinking even when I asked you, I said, well,
Speaker 1: when did you know you wanted to be a speaker?
Speaker 1: Like for me? And you always want to entertain and
Speaker 1: I like to speak. I just like to talk and
Speaker 1: just say hey everybody. And probably the earliest memory I
Speaker 1: went to minor story school, so preschool, Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: mind story girl. So we put on like a lot
Speaker 1: of plays and stuff. That was a moment, it was invigorating.
Speaker 1: But then when I knew it was something like for real,
Speaker 1: for real. It was when I was in high school
Speaker 1: and this guy came on stage. I went to all
Speaker 1: girl high school. Not that that part matters, but we
Speaker 1: had something like it was like, um no, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we gonna seminar or a pep Rowley. He was in
Speaker 1: the auditorium and this guy came and he was on
Speaker 1: stage and he was just up there talking and I
Speaker 1: remember he showed people how to do the moonwalk. People
Speaker 1: were screaming. I was like, and from him, I or
Speaker 1: in the moonwalk by the way, you know, I got it.
Speaker 1: Um And I was like, wait a minute, what is
Speaker 1: this And people are just yelling, just engaging back and forth,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, people are having a good time.
Speaker 1: And now I'm the same girl. That'sn't the same high
Speaker 1: school where we say prayers over the p a system.
Speaker 1: That's a moment like people are coming down. Was like, Dawn,
Speaker 1: was that you? And I'm like that was me, thank you,
Speaker 1: because I've always just taken so And it was then
Speaker 1: that I found out. I said, wait a minute, you're
Speaker 1: telling me you can get paid to speak. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you're telling me you can pay me to help other
Speaker 1: people feel good about themselves. Come on. It's like the
Speaker 1: drug that can what But here's the thing, even if
Speaker 1: I feel that, even if you don't want to be
Speaker 1: a speaker, it doesn't mean that you can't experience the
Speaker 1: same thing because, like you said, when you start to
Speaker 1: go with the passion what's inside your heart, you're going
Speaker 1: to realize that you are going to attract people no
Speaker 1: matter what you do. Whether you're a person that's good
Speaker 1: with numbers, whether you're a singer, that's the song that
Speaker 1: you're singing, whether you're you're a writer, that's the book
Speaker 1: that you're writing, a painter, it's just whatever i'd like
Speaker 1: to say. Your song is just singing in your tune. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you just came with that. Come on, stop playing what
Speaker 1: you saying. You're absolutely right. I think that we you know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned it, and it's like we were missed if
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about it. It's like fear. The only
Speaker 1: thing that holds us back is fear, you know, and um,
Speaker 1: it's crippling. Unfortunately, it's like driving a car with the
Speaker 1: parking break up. You don't realize it until you realize it,
Speaker 1: and then being able to put that parking breakdown, which
Speaker 1: means that sometimes it's about, really, you know, going against
Speaker 1: what you've been taught. What you mean, maybe taught in school,
Speaker 1: your parents taught you. It could be going against what
Speaker 1: society says is a appropriate um. And then you know,
Speaker 1: we again in our heads, we lay in our beds
Speaker 1: and we we um ruminate over these these things because
Speaker 1: our heart is like, I will let me out. I
Speaker 1: got something to share, and our heads are like, now
Speaker 1: lay back down, and the problem is um. Jim rones
Speaker 1: at this one. He said that UM, paying now or
Speaker 1: regret later. So instead of taking action to do what
Speaker 1: you need to do now, you will regret, you will regret.
Speaker 1: And I my dad, he's um in his a lot
Speaker 1: of years. He's in the years that you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's regretting some things. And as I'm sharing with him
Speaker 1: some things that I'm going now, he's so excited and
Speaker 1: he says, you know, I wish or would have I
Speaker 1: would have done those things. Well, here's the thing, it's
Speaker 1: never too late. And I'm speaking about my dad. My
Speaker 1: dad was the type of person, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: he smokes cigarettes, He drunk a lots of alcohol, you know,
Speaker 1: and he had diabetes and he didn't take care of
Speaker 1: himself and not until his until he was in his
Speaker 1: seventies did he did he change into a vegan. Craziness right,
Speaker 1: And I am changed into a vegan. And first of all,
Speaker 1: I was motivated and inspired, but I was like, if
Speaker 1: he can do a vegan? You know this guy and
Speaker 1: what that did for him. He was able to get
Speaker 1: off the medicines. You know, it's seventy something years old.
Speaker 1: Nothing on eighty years old. He was able to get
Speaker 1: off his medications and make some other miraculous changes in
Speaker 1: his life. And that's the thing. So you can have regret.
Speaker 1: But no matter how old you are, what your situation is,
Speaker 1: if you have kids, if you have a bit mortgage,
Speaker 1: you have student loans, you know, you live in a
Speaker 1: developing country. You don't have a lot of money, or
Speaker 1: maybe you have too much money, because that's you know,
Speaker 1: this is too much money, you know, and there it's
Speaker 1: never too late until you are not you're not here anymore. Hello.
Speaker 1: I always tell people that you have forty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred chances every day to live your best life,
Speaker 1: because there are forty eight thousand, six hundred seconds and
Speaker 1: every day. But hold on a minute, Oh work it work, it.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I realized, and I think I
Speaker 1: may have seen this in myself a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes when people think about fear, it's like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: scared to do something because what if this happens, If
Speaker 1: this happens to me. Now what I've found because I
Speaker 1: am stretching myself out of my comfort zone doing things
Speaker 1: where I'm not good at because I need training to
Speaker 1: do it, not because I won't be great. It's just
Speaker 1: that I'm exercising this muscle. And where how I found
Speaker 1: how my fear is trying to appear and step before me,
Speaker 1: is that I'm stuck. And it's not that I'm scared.
Speaker 1: I'm letting all of this stuff like how you talked
Speaker 1: about getting in your head all these ideas of the
Speaker 1: different things to do, whether than just coming clear mind
Speaker 1: in the focus. And that's what I think for myself.
Speaker 1: Meditation has helped me so much of just centering the
Speaker 1: vision because it focuses me focused to take time to
Speaker 1: just sit there. I then have the decency to take
Speaker 1: my job and write down the experiences and kind of
Speaker 1: like how you say, these things start popping up. I
Speaker 1: think also on another side that's when things start working
Speaker 1: in alignment, when you start getting into that manifestation role,
Speaker 1: because you'll start realizing that the conversation that you have
Speaker 1: with something else, someone else is appearing for you, maybe
Speaker 1: on the television, or maybe with another friend, or maybe
Speaker 1: somebody just gave you a note or you receive something
Speaker 1: in the mail. And I think it's just so important
Speaker 1: for people to realize that when you have a vision,
Speaker 1: when it's great, it's outside the comfort zone and it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're scared like a monster, but it means
Speaker 1: you just gotta move. Wait a minute, can you say
Speaker 1: that again? Because that was powerful you said, when you
Speaker 1: have a vision, it's gonna be outside. People need to
Speaker 1: hear that. They need to hear that and know that
Speaker 1: that's reality. It's like it's not going to turn over
Speaker 1: the bed and it's right there, because that's that's not
Speaker 1: a vision that you're behind and that's what you can
Speaker 1: actually see. And remember when we talked about vision and
Speaker 1: actually what you spoke about, it's greater. It's beond the eye,
Speaker 1: it's like the horizon, it's like the seeking the scope
Speaker 1: of it all. And it's like, okay, why can't you
Speaker 1: have that? If you were able to conceive it, why
Speaker 1: can't you achieve it? Yeah, that's it, because you gotta
Speaker 1: believe it. So as far as you know your vision
Speaker 1: and far speaking and speaking to all these tech companies
Speaker 1: of opening your houses, traveling the world, what do you
Speaker 1: think is the most valuable part about having a vision
Speaker 1: And what is something that you are working on now
Speaker 1: that you're manifesting in one of your visions. The best
Speaker 1: way to describe I was in a mentorship program once
Speaker 1: and I was mentor recording and I had a guy
Speaker 1: come and speak and he said, the hardest thing that
Speaker 1: people understand about mentorship is that the reason why mentorship
Speaker 1: is important is because I'm gonna say this slow because
Speaker 1: it was so powerful. He said, you can't be what
Speaker 1: you can't see what he said, run it around one
Speaker 1: more time. He said that if you want to be
Speaker 1: Because we were mentoring young boys, right, he said, if
Speaker 1: you want this boy to become a man and have
Speaker 1: these attributes not just physically be a man or be
Speaker 1: a male, but to be what we consider to be
Speaker 1: someone as upstanding and you know all these other things,
Speaker 1: he needs to be able to see it with his
Speaker 1: very own eyes. He needs to be able to touch it.
Speaker 1: He needs to be able to ask questions, He needs
Speaker 1: to be able to mimic it. He needs to be
Speaker 1: able to walk into it. And if you can't see
Speaker 1: what it is that you want to be, you will
Speaker 1: be whatever. If you just keep looking at a rock
Speaker 1: all day, you want become that rock, right because your
Speaker 1: brain wants to to create. Your brain wants to retreat
Speaker 1: whatever it sees. And if you just see stagnation, you know,
Speaker 1: I said a rock, but it could be. You know,
Speaker 1: people in your life they're not going anywhere, and you
Speaker 1: just keep hanging around them. Your vision becomes, you know,
Speaker 1: mesh into what you see in their vision and what
Speaker 1: they've created, and you become only that. And so if
Speaker 1: you're not very clear on the possibilities or your life,
Speaker 1: you know, you won't get outside of your own community.
Speaker 1: You won't go to the gym, you won't go look
Speaker 1: at that car. It's a good one. Here, it's a
Speaker 1: good one. Um many people like I want a new car.
Speaker 1: You know I want this and that. Now I have
Speaker 1: a whole process of manifestation, our process for manifestation, and
Speaker 1: it starts with a vision, and you need to be
Speaker 1: able to touch it. So anytime I want something new
Speaker 1: and this is scary but a lot of people, but
Speaker 1: this is my process. When I want something new, I
Speaker 1: actually will create it. So for example, if I want
Speaker 1: a new car, which I have done for the last
Speaker 1: five cars, and here's what I do. I think, I
Speaker 1: get a photograph of the exact color, this exact year,
Speaker 1: the exact model with the interior and exterior code that
Speaker 1: I want. I cut either I cut a picture out
Speaker 1: or you know, now we use the digital thing, right,
Speaker 1: And then I look at it. I look at it,
Speaker 1: I look at I put on my vision board, and
Speaker 1: then I go test rapt that baby, I go test
Speaker 1: rap that I get in that thing. And I remember
Speaker 1: going touter of a car once I touched like this
Speaker 1: Tesla's like, UM, I can't afford this car right now,
Speaker 1: and they're probably gonna look at me crazy. That's the
Speaker 1: fear talking. That's the fear talking. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: in the car one day thinking about what I was
Speaker 1: projected onto the salesperson, thinking that they they're probably thinking
Speaker 1: I can't afford this car when I can't afford it.
Speaker 1: And so I started to hold back to be the truth.
Speaker 1: And once I shifted that because I knew what the
Speaker 1: vision was. It was so powerful. Not only did I
Speaker 1: get and this happened five times consenstively with the last
Speaker 1: five vehicles that are there own. I got down to
Speaker 1: the exact color, last car I purchased, left, the exact color,
Speaker 1: the exact model, the exact um interior, the mileage, the cost,
Speaker 1: everything that has happened to me five times in a row.
Speaker 1: And so you you have to not be afraid to
Speaker 1: go if you want to buy a house. I sent
Speaker 1: you a picture of the house that that was gonna
Speaker 1: didn't think I could afford. I would have never thought about,
Speaker 1: you know, building and how I don't build? How do
Speaker 1: I build up? I might why not build that? I
Speaker 1: was just I wanted to go look at that house,
Speaker 1: and I was inspired. And when I the faith part
Speaker 1: was putting down the money, which was only five percent
Speaker 1: of the money I had to come up with. I
Speaker 1: didn't know where the rest of the money has come.
Speaker 1: But I was inspired. And here's how powerful it is
Speaker 1: when you have a vision and you walk towards your vision.
Speaker 1: ME walking towards it was putting down the initial doubt
Speaker 1: that the downpayment deposit the rest I was like I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I knew him getting the house and
Speaker 1: I wanted Someone asked me this the other day, was like,
Speaker 1: but how because I came up with I'm manifested forty
Speaker 1: tho dollars in less than six months. And when I
Speaker 1: say manifest I'm talking about not out of my paycheck,
Speaker 1: but I'm manifested out of other opportunities. Because I wanted it.
Speaker 1: I was inspired, and people always say, well, what do
Speaker 1: you mean manifested? This is what I mean. I was
Speaker 1: traveling and was in Canada, and when I was in Canada,
Speaker 1: I normally traveled, and people are always like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: if you get off the airplane and give up your seat,
Speaker 1: will give you two hundred dollars, you know, some you'll
Speaker 1: get a discount on the next flight or something. And
Speaker 1: I'm never able to do it. And plus it's like
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. I won't be sleeping in the airport
Speaker 1: for a two hundred dollars. So the one time this
Speaker 1: this happens to me, the one time I'm able to
Speaker 1: do it, they say, listen, if you give up your
Speaker 1: seat will give you like a thousand dollars or something.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about it and I'm asked about a
Speaker 1: decent amount of money, man, I'm willing to do that.
Speaker 1: Long story short, I give up my seat, and it
Speaker 1: starts out of the thousand, then it goes fift hundred,
Speaker 1: and then it goes to two thousand and goes twenty
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. They give me twenty four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to give up my seat when it's never happened to
Speaker 1: me before, and I've never heard that price before. Why
Speaker 1: did that happen? It happened because I took faith. I
Speaker 1: walked in faith and moved towards it. Another thing happened.
Speaker 1: I got an email from General Electric that was my
Speaker 1: last engineering job, that said, you have an unclaimed account.
Speaker 1: And in that unclaimed account and not a lot of
Speaker 1: these a lot to you about this. There was a
Speaker 1: there was an amount of money like five thousand. I
Speaker 1: was like four something like that, five thousand dollars. Only
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars money just came out of nowhere. So
Speaker 1: stuff like that, stuff like that just kept happening to
Speaker 1: me into it accumulated to a forty thousand dollars of
Speaker 1: income that did not come out of my paycheck. And
Speaker 1: I can't tell a person that the money is gonna
Speaker 1: come from here here. All I can say to a
Speaker 1: person is when you have a vision, walk in faith.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's putting twenty dollars down on something, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's getting up early in the morning. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: your payment towards it. UM. But I can guarantee you
Speaker 1: if you if it's if it's your true vision, that
Speaker 1: UM things will happen in your favor and Providence will
Speaker 1: step in and build bridges and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest, you know, one of the biggest things
Speaker 1: for you. Manifesting forty thousand. We were talking about we're
Speaker 1: gonna take twenty four months to save up out of
Speaker 1: our paychecks, but instead it came in the way of
Speaker 1: opportunities in less than six months. And I showed you
Speaker 1: a picture of the house, right That's why I wanted
Speaker 1: to right here. And that was always a vision of
Speaker 1: mine to have a house that has certain things in it.
Speaker 1: And I wrote that vision down a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and it's manifesting, and so be specific about it and
Speaker 1: attention and that's okay, So we gotta I don't even know,
Speaker 1: let's start at all. Okay, Well, let's just sit here.
Speaker 1: That's why I am so gun ho about speaking life.
Speaker 1: You have to be intentional with your words and understanding
Speaker 1: that life and death are in the power of the
Speaker 1: time and even when you were talking about living in
Speaker 1: it and being into it. One thing I heard was
Speaker 1: from a good friend in New York. His name is
Speaker 1: Rafael Gordon. He goes by Rock Gore Motivations, and he
Speaker 1: would say that my location is not my destination where
Speaker 1: you're right now. It doesn't dictate where you're going. It
Speaker 1: only gives you a little smoke trail of where you've been.
Speaker 1: And just you said, the things that I may have
Speaker 1: appeared before in your life and you realize they circle
Speaker 1: back around. They don't knock you off your feet like
Speaker 1: they used to. And sometimes you gotta go through it
Speaker 1: at this level so that when you get really high
Speaker 1: on that level because you're seeking out the vision, that
Speaker 1: same vision that you probably have to go down to
Speaker 1: go up so that you can spring forward, or maybe
Speaker 1: you had to plant the roots down a little bit
Speaker 1: before you grow up. That's the same thing we gotta do.
Speaker 1: And it just reminds me of a song by Meek Milan.
Speaker 1: This is something that actually started out with d D.
Speaker 1: I would use just the lyrics of popular movie because
Speaker 1: his dreams chasing uhhuh, his dreams. He said, if you
Speaker 1: wanted you gotta see it with a clear eyed view.
Speaker 1: If you want it, you gotta see it with a
Speaker 1: clear eye view. I'm gonna tell you this now first
Speaker 1: time I mentioned on the podcast c J. There are
Speaker 1: times that I've caught myself and it's almost like my body.
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know what it is, but I've caught
Speaker 1: myself that I'm standing and I'm literally speaking to the
Speaker 1: wall in spine ring. There's times that I've sat down
Speaker 1: and I can feel one one person that I look
Speaker 1: up to it in the industry a lot, as as
Speaker 1: far as a woman and just being living lessening my Tifa.
Speaker 1: There was a time I sat down and it was
Speaker 1: almost like I could feel her energy as if I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's already there, it's already done, and I'm just crying
Speaker 1: because I say, my God, and that's what keeps me
Speaker 1: holding on when I want to stop. And just like
Speaker 1: I was telling you what that Facebook post like of
Speaker 1: working a lot, but I know that the promises and
Speaker 1: I think that when you are searching for a vision,
Speaker 1: and you may not feel like it's coming directly. You
Speaker 1: gotta remind yourself with the promise because there was a
Speaker 1: seed that was planted inside that gave you the ability
Speaker 1: to fathom to imagine what this vision is. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The thing that I find interesting c J
Speaker 1: is that we ask for these brand divisions, right. But
Speaker 1: just like you made reference that every day that you
Speaker 1: wake up and that sun is beaming through and you
Speaker 1: gotta close the shade right because the light is so bright.
Speaker 1: When you talk about having the greater division, which is
Speaker 1: gonna have a greater opposition, but guess what it's going
Speaker 1: to ensure that you have a greater reward. You gotta
Speaker 1: understand us man that you're looking at, and you gotta
Speaker 1: position yourself. I have a question for you though, yes,
Speaker 1: because you know what you mentioned something about Queen La Titha,
Speaker 1: what you've met, right, I've met her but on one
Speaker 1: of her shows, been in your house. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about your vision because you know what we talked
Speaker 1: about was all those things that happened and you doing
Speaker 1: your thing and then I would just watch, um, I
Speaker 1: will be on social media and how would see you
Speaker 1: with like kinda hart you know, you know Steve Harvey, Um,
Speaker 1: you know Oprah. I saw you in the Oprah shot.
Speaker 1: Is that don I'm like, I'm talking about inspiration. You're
Speaker 1: talking about inspiration. I mean I would see you with
Speaker 1: all these people and you would just be like, there's
Speaker 1: no thing. So it's like you weren't like the star strippers.
Speaker 1: You were just like having coffee with them something. What
Speaker 1: is it like to be able to now be able
Speaker 1: to have conversations with people that are on that level
Speaker 1: like the Queen Latifa's and you know, and my question
Speaker 1: to you, who's the person? You mean, so many people,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you get starstruck anymore,
Speaker 1: but who's the one person that when you met them?
Speaker 1: And it could be Laia you met them, you were
Speaker 1: like you could soft sound right like who's that? Because
Speaker 1: you met so many stars, so many big people. I
Speaker 1: mean it's Oprah Like what else? She said, Okay, what
Speaker 1: do I come with things? So? Well, you know the
Speaker 1: one that got me was Queen Latsifa. That was in
Speaker 1: eighth grade. Uh, this is around the time now whether
Speaker 1: the book came out specifically, then it's like eighth or
Speaker 1: ninth grade. But it was like Sister Soul was really
Speaker 1: big and it was all about the coldest one to ever.
Speaker 1: Everybody was reading Eric, Jerome, Dickie and every all of
Speaker 1: those books. But they had something called a Tean Pex
Speaker 1: Total You Tour. First of all, I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: that I looked up. I admired, I adored her like
Speaker 1: I did like I think, probably because I saw like
Speaker 1: a woman that looked like me, and she was unapologetic.
Speaker 1: She could, you know, she could wrap, she can sing,
Speaker 1: she could act, she could produce, she did it all.
Speaker 1: She was limited TV Like you're a cover girl, you're everything,
Speaker 1: and guess what you walk with so much authority that
Speaker 1: you have what people addressed you as queen. So anyway,
Speaker 1: go back to our eighth or ninth grade where at
Speaker 1: the tem Pex Total You Tour. So they had it.
Speaker 1: They did a little speech and then you could walk
Speaker 1: up there and she's doing her thing with cover girls,
Speaker 1: so probably talking about hair color or no, actually it
Speaker 1: was probably about the lipstick with Queen collection. Do you
Speaker 1: know I walked up there. I ain't even get a
Speaker 1: chance to get a word out. She's like, oh baby,
Speaker 1: it's okay. But I was crying and I had met
Speaker 1: even then, like probably meaning some celebrities, And still to
Speaker 1: this day, no one has gotten me like that. Now,
Speaker 1: when I did meet Brandy, I got nervous and I
Speaker 1: was acting out of pocket, just doing like weird, just
Speaker 1: weird stuff, like why are you doing that? Did you
Speaker 1: just say that? But to the point where overwhelmed with
Speaker 1: emotion was Queen Latifa. And I think here's the thing too,
Speaker 1: whatever your belief is or whatever I find that people
Speaker 1: um aspired to do or whatever guid's them, you got
Speaker 1: to realize that you do all that you can do,
Speaker 1: and then you have to rely on your faith because
Speaker 1: if you're doing so much work of trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. It goes back to that same thing when
Speaker 1: you talk about fraction, I mean friction and all that
Speaker 1: static where you can't hear see if if it's already
Speaker 1: been on Dane and it's already promised, I don't have
Speaker 1: to ask for it because I continue to want it.
Speaker 1: I have to do the thing and claim it that
Speaker 1: it's already mine. So even with meeting Queen Latifa, I
Speaker 1: didn't it never hit me like, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't wait. I said I'm going to meet her. It's
Speaker 1: only a matter of time, even when it came out
Speaker 1: to l A so hold home. I met her first.
Speaker 1: I was at Gray I was crying like crazy. Then
Speaker 1: the second time, she was singing some jazz concept in
Speaker 1: New York. I went up there and I'll meet. I
Speaker 1: got the picture up on my Instagram at Dawn day Speaks.
Speaker 1: Check it out, and I mean, I am down to
Speaker 1: the sweats and I remember she was she she was
Speaker 1: on stage, she was on her head in her hills.
Speaker 1: Then she had some glittery sneakers, sneakers and waiting for her.
Speaker 1: When she got off the stage, and I remember everybody
Speaker 1: bum rushed to the gate and I was like no,
Speaker 1: and everybody was screaming her name, Queen Lativa, Queen a Tifa.
Speaker 1: I must have looked at the security guard. I said, sir, please,
Speaker 1: can I get a picture? Boom? Got the picture right?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, not done yet. Then let's fast forward
Speaker 1: some years down the line. I never worried out. Oh
Speaker 1: am I going to meet her again. I know she's
Speaker 1: gonna be the homie. I'm gonna sit there and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell her about it, about each instance that we've happened. Okay.
Speaker 1: I would always tell people that we're gonna be so
Speaker 1: cool you It's not gonna be like the picture that
Speaker 1: you see the actual vision of the picture of us
Speaker 1: standing next to each other. When you see me and
Speaker 1: I'm just with the crew, just chilling. You know, it's real.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go back to that because getting back
Speaker 1: to what you said about being specific with your words.
Speaker 1: So even coming out to l A. I live in
Speaker 1: this area called men City. My friend lived over here,
Speaker 1: he said. He said boom, he said, Queen Latifa, it's
Speaker 1: over here. I said, what this is why I'm still
Speaker 1: in New York. I said, what do you mean? He
Speaker 1: was like, there's a store that has her picture in there.
Speaker 1: I know she comes in there all the time because
Speaker 1: I even seen her walking down the street. I said,
Speaker 1: you're lying right. Fast forward probably three or four years
Speaker 1: after that, I moved to l A. I'm in the area,
Speaker 1: I'm at this store. I'm like, wow, that's the picture.
Speaker 1: Still didn't realize how I was going to meet her
Speaker 1: yet had signed up. I was going to enroll in
Speaker 1: an internship with Sony when she had the Queen Lativa show,
Speaker 1: just so that I could intern on the show. Still
Speaker 1: didn't fret didn't worry about it. I couldn't register for
Speaker 1: the class. Didn't get that. Then when I felt the
Speaker 1: vision came over me. When I had came out here
Speaker 1: and I was practically working a year at a company
Speaker 1: called Unsung, where or it was called a Smith, but
Speaker 1: we produced Unsung, and I knew that. I said this
Speaker 1: time for me to go. I didn't know what I
Speaker 1: was gonna do. But it's just talking about you gotta
Speaker 1: go out on the limb to grab your fruit. Right,
Speaker 1: So I knew I had some fruit with some seeds
Speaker 1: on the other end that I had to get to.
Speaker 1: So I had let that job go. I had an
Speaker 1: email that popped up right before I moved out to
Speaker 1: l A. It was on backstage and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're looking for Kirby women who need to makeover on
Speaker 1: a stylist. Now, usually this email that they send out
Speaker 1: you have to be subscribed on their subscriber list. Otherwise
Speaker 1: they just give you the head inc and then you
Speaker 1: have to go ahead and sign up to their website
Speaker 1: to apply. Well, let me tell you how my God
Speaker 1: is set up. The email that they sent out had
Speaker 1: all the information for all the castings. Now what I'm
Speaker 1: not model, height, sized or whatever. But I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's go ahead and do it. Let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and apply for a makeover. I am doing
Speaker 1: a show. It's called Curvy Style. What I come to
Speaker 1: find out? Okay, well, let me tell you. I auditioned
Speaker 1: to get made over. I'm working at my my job
Speaker 1: at this online radio station. The producers called me and
Speaker 1: they're like, wow, we love you. Instead of being someone
Speaker 1: to get made over, how would you like to get
Speaker 1: paid to be on the show? What not even done yet?
Speaker 1: Guess what the guys show that I'm going to be on.
Speaker 1: It's Queen Latifa Stylist. Stop playing with me. That's when
Speaker 1: people tell me and they're like, oh, it's not possible,
Speaker 1: and how you can't manifest I'm not even all the
Speaker 1: way there yet, and I am a living proof. Yes
Speaker 1: I'm on her show. Wait a man, now, this sounds
Speaker 1: kind of creepy, and everybody listening call it what you
Speaker 1: won't because back in the day of somebody threw a
Speaker 1: shirt at you or just even signed a piece of napkin,
Speaker 1: there were times that I'm thinking to myself, I am
Speaker 1: pulling clothes for my idol. I am I put your
Speaker 1: shoes on my feet, shoes that she is not wearing anymore,
Speaker 1: of course, or that they're giving away, or even just
Speaker 1: seeing garments or here's a dress. Even down to the
Speaker 1: point where back to what I said that you gotta
Speaker 1: be specific about what you say. So even as you said,
Speaker 1: uh okay, I said, I wanted to be to part
Speaker 1: where I'm hanging with her crew. We were doing a
Speaker 1: cover shoot. Uh was it? I don't know if it.
Speaker 1: I think it was for Vanity Fair. It was a
Speaker 1: double shoot. It was Lee Daniels, so it was the show.
Speaker 1: I think it was Star and then it was another show. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we were doing it for Queen lat Tifa. I said.
Speaker 1: I prayed to God. I said, God, please don't let
Speaker 1: me act like a fool. It's like I can't afford
Speaker 1: it because then it been in the distance or I've
Speaker 1: seen items, but not to be like you right here
Speaker 1: on my face, like I'm right here, like what's up? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what happened. We're at the warehouse. Okay. They
Speaker 1: got it all set up where there's like tents and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, Jesus, please don't let me lose it.
Speaker 1: So we're in the room, I'm setting up, I'm making
Speaker 1: sure the shoes are out. And this is all lingering
Speaker 1: because I was on this makeover show where she was
Speaker 1: the executive producer and the stylist is her stylist. So
Speaker 1: we're doing a job which is for her. She comes
Speaker 1: in there. Wait a minute, you gotta understand. Remember I
Speaker 1: told you were two people I tripped out of. I said,
Speaker 1: Queen Latifa and Brandy may be nervous. The DJ got
Speaker 1: the music going, all right, she already has the dress on.
Speaker 1: We gotta figure out the shoes and the air rings.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I wanna be down by Brandy
Speaker 1: is on and Queen Latifa's lyric drops, I'm dying because
Speaker 1: she's in there. She starts rapping, Dawn, please don't freak out,
Speaker 1: and then the song is done, and so I said, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Dawn, and she was like, I'm law and I
Speaker 1: want to be like, I know who you are. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Even as we were walking around there
Speaker 1: and we're going to another building for her to do
Speaker 1: an interview, that same thing where I said, we're going
Speaker 1: to be to the point where I'm gonna be part
Speaker 1: of the crew. I was part of the crew. But
Speaker 1: see that this is about to be the HOMEI she said,
Speaker 1: I'm Lae right law, I've met her best friend. And
Speaker 1: this is not on some stalker thing. But it's just
Speaker 1: the think of having that vision you realize you attract
Speaker 1: that and just knowing walking in conviction and authority. So
Speaker 1: when you say, like, Dawn, well, how did you manifest
Speaker 1: this stuff? I think because I kept chasing what I loved.
Speaker 1: I kept chasing the long hours I sit and think back,
Speaker 1: even at being at Howard, I would be working in
Speaker 1: the studio for twelve hours a day. That led me
Speaker 1: to have that grind ethic to to put me in
Speaker 1: front of working with the likes of Steve Harvey, or
Speaker 1: perhaps that ambition that allows me to be on the show.
Speaker 1: And Oprah's like Dawn Day and I'm like, hey, I
Speaker 1: said that Oprah speaks your name. What do you want
Speaker 1: to understand this too? When I was in New York
Speaker 1: and I had an article that actually came out in
Speaker 1: the New York Times and none a voice for radio
Speaker 1: with Oprah's ambition, ce J Gross, I'm gonna be bigger
Speaker 1: than Oprah. Oh, dare you'd be so bold to say
Speaker 1: that Dawn because the vision is that great. And when
Speaker 1: I say that, I'm saying having the magnitude and to
Speaker 1: be able to touch like I'm going to do. George.
Speaker 1: One thing you said earlier it was and I think
Speaker 1: we definitely need to lift that up, is that you
Speaker 1: said authority earlier, having an authority and I would say
Speaker 1: audacity like that you just said, I'm me both bigger
Speaker 1: than Oprah. The authority and the audacity to say something
Speaker 1: like that will bring grief life into it. And then
Speaker 1: you mentioned also we whether person spiritual or not, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna call it. You know. You know some you
Speaker 1: were called hired nature of God, spirituality of the universe.
Speaker 1: But your thoughts or prayers, right, and whether you're sitting
Speaker 1: down on your knees and praying drives closed, you know
Speaker 1: a certain type of prayer, or if you're just saying
Speaker 1: it or thinking about it, it's you're praying and you're
Speaker 1: consistently praying. And you know, God or the universe, whatever
Speaker 1: you're calling, if you believe, is bringing it forth for you.
Speaker 1: And it's that that authority. And when you say your
Speaker 1: words are vibrating and bringing those things into your life.
Speaker 1: And I love your story about Queen Latifa, and you
Speaker 1: were constantly praying, you were constantly meditating on it, you
Speaker 1: were constantly having a vision for where you were going
Speaker 1: to be in the future, and you wasn't thinking about
Speaker 1: what am I gonna have it? And I think as kids,
Speaker 1: we we we had when we were kids. You know,
Speaker 1: in my generation, you had the Seers of Robots catalog
Speaker 1: and you cut out the bike that you want and
Speaker 1: you and you talked about it. You thought about it
Speaker 1: all day long. And it wasn't called a vision board
Speaker 1: back then. It was called coldge a collage. Go to
Speaker 1: collage and you put these pitchers on the collage which
Speaker 1: we later want to turn into a vision board, and
Speaker 1: you would hound your parents and you would know everything
Speaker 1: about that one thing, and eventually, you know, Santa Claus,
Speaker 1: your parents put it under the tree and you got it.
Speaker 1: But you didn't stop until you got all. You got
Speaker 1: a paper out like I did, get it yourself. And
Speaker 1: so I think that's so powerful how you bring that
Speaker 1: story to the forefront, and it's very inspiring. It's very inspiring.
Speaker 1: But like girl, like I was on your show, I've
Speaker 1: met your best friend. It's only a matter of time
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna sit here and it gotta be to
Speaker 1: a point. She gotta see me. And it's like, girl, like,
Speaker 1: are like you, what's up? No, I'm my father like that,
Speaker 1: but listen let her through. Come. People like, all right,
Speaker 1: you got the vision, you got the energy, the vibe,
Speaker 1: and it's like, listen, listen. And here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why this is all turning about, queen. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the vision. But it a good
Speaker 1: story though. That's all that matters, you know, because you
Speaker 1: know we and I think that's what I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: somebody gathered to that you gotta have visions that make
Speaker 1: you giddy like that. You gotta have visions that just
Speaker 1: so outlandish that you said something like that, because that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna keep you going when you tire, That's what's
Speaker 1: gonna keep you fired up, when you feel like being
Speaker 1: blown out. That is so important. I developed the program
Speaker 1: and more so recently about uh, you know, living a
Speaker 1: life by Design, and part of that first phases divisions.
Speaker 1: Funny we're talking about that, and the lady said to
Speaker 1: me said, well, why why did you you know? I
Speaker 1: just come with this program. I used to write books
Speaker 1: and programs, do programs based on my own personal life.
Speaker 1: That way, I don't have to think that hard to
Speaker 1: do research. And I said many of people, but I
Speaker 1: know myself. I wanted to have a life that was
Speaker 1: the life that I've designed in my head, not that
Speaker 1: someone else design. And what did that life look like,
Speaker 1: you know, traveling the world, doing different things and having
Speaker 1: a experience that supported, you know, things that I like sleep.
Speaker 1: I like sleep, So I don't want to do things
Speaker 1: before ten o'clock in the morning. That's and it's something small,
Speaker 1: but it's big for me. And I want to be
Speaker 1: able to travel. So, you know, a week or two
Speaker 1: we close on our house, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: the house in Puerto Rico and I'm gonna be working
Speaker 1: on my next book. And that was the vision for
Speaker 1: me to be in a real property, you know, and
Speaker 1: a um warm tropical environment, you know, working on a book.
Speaker 1: And at that point, I need to have a book.
Speaker 1: And so I love the fact that when we talk
Speaker 1: about these these ideas and these these thoughts that we have,
Speaker 1: um some people might And that's why I think it's
Speaker 1: important to hear the story. Because if we just talked
Speaker 1: about if someone just heard, yeah, I do see Harvey
Speaker 1: shot on this and that they're like, oh, but they
Speaker 1: create a narrative for you. That's not true because their
Speaker 1: their narrative is based in fear. And so it's important
Speaker 1: for them to hear your narrative where you first started,
Speaker 1: my narrative, where I first started to realize, we started
Speaker 1: where they are lower, and we got to this place.
Speaker 1: And it is possible to do it in a lot
Speaker 1: of times, and it happens through someone hearing someone else's story.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think it's so important to communicate.
Speaker 1: It's so important to share. It's so important to water
Speaker 1: one another, to need each other soil, because we are
Speaker 1: all connected in some kind of way. And it's just
Speaker 1: so important that when you talk about even putting the
Speaker 1: elements in the process to cut together to have the vision,
Speaker 1: that it takes different pieces, it takes different experiences, it
Speaker 1: takes different viewpoints, because that's when you look at in
Speaker 1: a culmination of everything that comes together, then you're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: this vision has been completed or it's manifesting in a way,
Speaker 1: or as you said, you're just living in it. And
Speaker 1: so that's what I want to encourage people like, whatever
Speaker 1: your vision is, already, be the vision. Don't wait to
Speaker 1: receive the vision. Be the visions, because you gotta act
Speaker 1: as if you already are. You gotta claim it as
Speaker 1: if it already is, because guess what if you're not
Speaker 1: acting as if it is already, how would you know
Speaker 1: how to act when it comes. So I gotta train
Speaker 1: my thoughts. I gotta train my position, and I have
Speaker 1: to train my movements, my words to reflect the life
Speaker 1: that it is that I want, because art imitates life,
Speaker 1: and when we talk about creating, we are all artists,
Speaker 1: made piece by piece from a master. You said something
Speaker 1: I want to mention a quote by by Less Brown.
Speaker 1: It says, you don't get what you want to life.
Speaker 1: You get what you are. You don't get what you
Speaker 1: want in life. You get where you are. So if
Speaker 1: you're thinking whatever it is that you're you're you're constantly
Speaker 1: attracting those things into your life. And some people said,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to use the words and say
Speaker 1: you ain't you know what? Right? It's like putting that
Speaker 1: out You want to get that and you're vibrating. That's
Speaker 1: like the law of attraction. You're vibrating at the level
Speaker 1: of what you're getting. So if you don't like your life,
Speaker 1: it's because you are tracking that. And even in your
Speaker 1: relationship is like you know, I heard people say, man,
Speaker 1: she crazy. He crazy? Is like, well, well, if it
Speaker 1: walks like Dug, talks like Doug, it probably is Dug.
Speaker 1: This with some mother ducks. Now you you mentioned to
Speaker 1: me before and I saw you mention it. Now you
Speaker 1: talked about a program. But I understand that you write
Speaker 1: a book too, So yes, So I have a lot
Speaker 1: of projects going on, and you did ask me that.
Speaker 1: Ques was like, you asked me a question, that's what
Speaker 1: we do. Um. Yeah, So what do I have going
Speaker 1: on now? I am working on a book. It's called
Speaker 1: What's Your zip Code Story? And it's about class bias.
Speaker 1: It's overcoming class bias and how you rise above it.
Speaker 1: And because a lot of the work that I do
Speaker 1: now from a speaking perspective is UM like diversity, inclusion
Speaker 1: and equity work, so class bias. But it then gets
Speaker 1: back to this doing your own work. Um. And then
Speaker 1: I'm also working on a website called Impact Harbor, which
Speaker 1: people will be able to go to to gain information
Speaker 1: and UM motivation from information personal development. One of the
Speaker 1: first programs that we're gonna put up is life by Design.
Speaker 1: And so whether persons for in the visual coaching, they
Speaker 1: can do group coaching, they can't afford group coaching, they
Speaker 1: can UM they'll be able to go through the automated
Speaker 1: program with they sign up and they'll watch videos and
Speaker 1: they'll have PDF and they have access to a coach
Speaker 1: via email, and it will be at a price that
Speaker 1: they can ford because without personal development, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's really hard to get to where you want to
Speaker 1: go if you don't have this information. So we wanted
Speaker 1: to bring this information down to anyone's um ability to
Speaker 1: access it. So that's that's UM. Those are the main
Speaker 1: things that I'm working on right now. So if somebody
Speaker 1: wants to find some more information, is there email address
Speaker 1: or website or George, they can actually go to UM
Speaker 1: impact Harvard dot com. So that's I P I M
Speaker 1: P A C T H A R h O R
Speaker 1: dot com. I hope I spelled it right, not put
Speaker 1: it in Google bat Harper dot com. UM. They'll be
Speaker 1: able to find the beginnings of that program there, and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna continue to expand. And what is this
Speaker 1: program going to help people do? Again? So it's gonna
Speaker 1: help them personally and personally and professionally to develop themselves
Speaker 1: to get there, to reach their goals. That's the that's
Speaker 1: the bottom one. So what's the difference between having a
Speaker 1: vision and having a goal. So a goal a lot
Speaker 1: tells people think it's like tangible. It's the goal is
Speaker 1: the steps to get to the vision. So for imagine
Speaker 1: yourself going up some steps right now. If I'm if
Speaker 1: I want to go to the upper room, I remember
Speaker 1: that upper room. I gotta take steps to get there. Now,
Speaker 1: each step is a goal, right, but it is not
Speaker 1: the upper room. It's not the room of the place
Speaker 1: that you're going to. So each step is a goal.
Speaker 1: So if you want to, you know, own a business,
Speaker 1: maybe you have to apply for your LLC. The vision
Speaker 1: is not the LLC. The vision is the business. The
Speaker 1: goal is the LLC. The goal is the funding. The
Speaker 1: goal is the knowledge. You know, you have a goal
Speaker 1: to get a mentor so you can learn how to
Speaker 1: do business. So goals are super important, but they lead
Speaker 1: up to the vision. Gotcha. And you have to understand
Speaker 1: too that those goals are still as important and they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be treated like anything less because it's still another leverage,
Speaker 1: another level. The goals are usually tangible like something that
Speaker 1: you can touch, and the vision is something that usually
Speaker 1: can both are important and I think that people didn't
Speaker 1: do They hit off track when they can't hit their
Speaker 1: goal and then in the vision kind of goes to
Speaker 1: the wayside. So yeah, so goals are definitely important, but
Speaker 1: the vision is what's going to keep you out of
Speaker 1: you know, get you out of bed, and get you
Speaker 1: motivated your stories. You know, it allows your brain to
Speaker 1: connect with this this picture. Because one of the things
Speaker 1: is we don't think in um in words, were thinking pictures.
Speaker 1: So if I say red rose, no one's thinking about
Speaker 1: how they spell red roles. They're seeing a red roles
Speaker 1: in their in their brain, their mind side. So it's
Speaker 1: not like Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna get a car,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be living on the beach, and you know,
Speaker 1: you write it out and then you need to see
Speaker 1: that thing. You need to be able to visualize it
Speaker 1: in in that vision, um it starts to manifest it.
Speaker 1: So it's like if you if you wanted a new
Speaker 1: car and you go you start setting over that car
Speaker 1: and you start to see that car everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: You start to see those shoes everywhere you go, that house,
Speaker 1: or that degree or whatever it is. And it's because
Speaker 1: of your articular activating system which allows you to focus
Speaker 1: on certain things because it's in your consciousness and awareness
Speaker 1: to bring it forth into your into your your awareness.
Speaker 1: And that goes right back to what you were talking
Speaker 1: about about, what is your level of vibration? What are
Speaker 1: you attracting? If you want to sit there and you
Speaker 1: want to muddle with other people, you have no business
Speaker 1: and muddling. You guys will just muddle at that level together.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you gotta change your situation. You have to
Speaker 1: evolve with some of the people that you're with. And
Speaker 1: guess what you started tracking it? What you want? You know,
Speaker 1: not tell people that as well. You talk about vision
Speaker 1: and going after what you want is that you have
Speaker 1: to treat things like you have it all white outfit on,
Speaker 1: meaning protect your surroundings, being mindful about what's around you,
Speaker 1: mean mindful of your lords, mean mindful of your thoughts,
Speaker 1: and mean mindful of your surroundings. So absolutely now hear
Speaker 1: you on that CTJ. And now is there anything else
Speaker 1: that we did not cover talking about vision that you
Speaker 1: might want to share or talk about. I would say
Speaker 1: the minimum minimum tips to mamphis vision and definitely have
Speaker 1: a vision, write it down, UM, Read as much as
Speaker 1: you can possibly read about what it is you want.
Speaker 1: Find a mentor someone who is doing what you want
Speaker 1: to do. UM. It's not just the inspire you will
Speaker 1: find someone to do what you want to do. UM.
Speaker 1: And I would say taking action and getting outside of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone is one of the best things because
Speaker 1: once you've jumped in the water and realize your feet
Speaker 1: cannot touch the ground, but you can steal swimming. You
Speaker 1: didn't die. That's so powerful for your self esteem and
Speaker 1: in your in, your in your in, your belief in
Speaker 1: yourself because faith is what you can't see. Belief is
Speaker 1: what I had, what I can't see. If I jump
Speaker 1: into water and I don't know I can do it,
Speaker 1: I've never done it before. Once I've done a couple
Speaker 1: of times and then I know I can swim. Now
Speaker 1: I have belief. So you have phase first, then you
Speaker 1: have belief, and you only get that by taking action
Speaker 1: outside of your comfortble. So I would say those are
Speaker 1: those are the steps that was all poetic and stuff
Speaker 1: that was great. I don't know about that, but I
Speaker 1: mean that was so great. Thank you for believing to me.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking a chance on me. Um, I
Speaker 1: thank you for all the years that you just called
Speaker 1: and just check in. Hey, don't I'm just checking in
Speaker 1: and say hey. It means the world. And when I
Speaker 1: look at you, know my aspirations and the things that
Speaker 1: I want to do is people like you in my
Speaker 1: life that it's like I owe you. I owe you
Speaker 1: for taking time with me. Thank you you always paying
Speaker 1: pay and paid for it. You know. It's like your
Speaker 1: mentoring your mentor mentees. And I am absolutely blased to
Speaker 1: have met you and to to watch you grow on
Speaker 1: this journey so and many more things to come. I'll
Speaker 1: receive it in the name on Shandala. All right, So
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I appreciate you. Now. When I
Speaker 1: look back on this and my time talking to c J,
Speaker 1: I kept thinking about how in order for you to
Speaker 1: make your dream a reality, you have to take responsibility
Speaker 1: for it, for crafting and and nurturing it. You have
Speaker 1: to realize that your dream is your baby. And on
Speaker 1: this journey of giving a birth to your dream and
Speaker 1: your vision, it's going to be uncomfortable, but is your vision,
Speaker 1: so it came to you, so spend time with cultivating it.
Speaker 1: Understand what it is that you're wanting, what you're going after.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of a line from Meek Mail, and
Speaker 1: he said, if you want it, you gotta see it
Speaker 1: with a clear eyed view. So again I have to
Speaker 1: ask you, what is your visit? How big is your vision?
Speaker 1: And are you living out the vision for your life?
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for tuning into the first
Speaker 1: episode of the Vitamin D podcast. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you for being part of my dream. Thank you for
Speaker 1: experiencing this trip. I want to also thanks Jennifer lion
Speaker 1: Grouper for taking a chance on me. I'm just so
Speaker 1: excited to go on this journey with you all in
Speaker 1: an exploration of change, about what it truly means to
Speaker 1: live your best life and and and do it intentionally.
Speaker 1: I'm shooting for the stars and I'm ready to make
Speaker 1: a change in me. So are you ready to make
Speaker 1: a change with you? How about we make it together?
Speaker 1: And you know what, there's no better way to start
Speaker 1: it than your weekly doll Survitamin D every Monday, and
Speaker 1: I'll have some more inspiring conversations to help you get
Speaker 1: excited about your life. Okay, well that's it for your
Speaker 1: DO Survitamin D. Now I want you to follow me
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Speaker 1: d a I speaks on all social media. Until next time,
Speaker 1: always remember you are your greatest asset.