Speaker 1: What up y'all this midweek mom chat? I am just
Speaker 1: going to talk about worry and also why I'm like why,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh worry, Like why ife worries a waste
Speaker 1: of time? So I just didn't really cool. Today I
Speaker 1: was asked to speak at my old college school, my
Speaker 1: old college campus, Belmont University. I went there and I
Speaker 1: had a friend asked me to come talk to her class,
Speaker 1: which is such a cool class, Like I didn't even
Speaker 1: know this was existing these days. There's this whole class
Speaker 1: called Women and Entertainment in college, like you can like
Speaker 1: register for that, and so she asked me to come speak,
Speaker 1: and I was like, um, are you sure. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't feel qualified to like speak to students, but
Speaker 1: I immediately said yes because I thought this is so cool. Um,
Speaker 1: And I just remember when I was in college, I
Speaker 1: had a lot of anxiety about not knowing what I
Speaker 1: was supposed to do with my life and not knowing
Speaker 1: like like I believed that I was worthy of great things,
Speaker 1: but yet I also believe that I I hadn't accomplished anything,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't I believed I was worthy of stuff,
Speaker 1: but then I also didn't feel worthy because I didn't
Speaker 1: have anything to show for myself, and I'm like, how
Speaker 1: am I ever going to have anything to show for myself?
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to get started. And man,
Speaker 1: I just had probably one of the best experiences today
Speaker 1: that I've ever had getting to teach this class of students.
Speaker 1: So everyone in this class is obviously creative or like,
Speaker 1: has a desire and a dream and they want to
Speaker 1: be in the entertainment industry. And it is just so
Speaker 1: easy to get discouraged when you're first getting started and
Speaker 1: at any point in your journey, honestly, because when you
Speaker 1: haven't got like this huge resume for yourself, and maybe
Speaker 1: you already are dealing with a lot of self doubt
Speaker 1: and overcoming obstacles, maybe family obstacles, maybe you're overcoming um.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything in your life that has posed
Speaker 1: itself as a hardship or has made you feel inferior,
Speaker 1: or has made you feel um less than, or has
Speaker 1: made you feel like you have to fight and be defensive,
Speaker 1: or that you're not good enough or whatever. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: that could be anything. I'm not even gonna try to
Speaker 1: guess what it all could be, because there's such a
Speaker 1: variety of options. Um. But man, I just felt like
Speaker 1: I felt really lucky that I had the chance to
Speaker 1: talk to these students today because I was that student.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what each one is thinking, obviously,
Speaker 1: because everyone's their own individual person. But I sat in
Speaker 1: those I went to Belmont. I wanted to be in
Speaker 1: the music industry. I wanted to be a singer, to
Speaker 1: be a songwriter, be a star. I thought I wanted
Speaker 1: to matter, and I thought if I could become something important,
Speaker 1: that I would matter, and you know I was looking
Speaker 1: for I thought it was like I thought that like
Speaker 1: stars that I looked up to, or people in the
Speaker 1: music industry that I looked up to, I thought they
Speaker 1: were more special. I thought they were more equipped. I
Speaker 1: thought they had um. I thought that they had just
Speaker 1: like they were gifted more than me, and that they
Speaker 1: just had this like magic mojo that I would never have.
Speaker 1: And through my journey, which I explained to the class,
Speaker 1: I've realized that nobody hasn't figured out. Everybody is a
Speaker 1: work in progress. We all come from situations that we
Speaker 1: have insecurities from. We all I don't know how to
Speaker 1: get started. We all hit moments where we feel like
Speaker 1: we're a loser. We all hit spots in the journey
Speaker 1: where we're like, I don't even know what I'm what
Speaker 1: I want to do in my life at this point,
Speaker 1: like just feeling lost, feeling stuck, feeling um completely alone.
Speaker 1: And that was like a really cool moment for me
Speaker 1: today to get to go and share my story and
Speaker 1: to say you are totally on track, like you're exactly
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to be. I know, it feels stressful
Speaker 1: because you have all this pressure from the world, from
Speaker 1: maybe from your family, maybe from maybe I mean just
Speaker 1: like to make money. I mean, we have to make
Speaker 1: a living. Hello, we have to survive in this world.
Speaker 1: There's all this pressure coming at us that we've got
Speaker 1: to have our life so buttoned up and figured out
Speaker 1: and ready to rock in this timeline, Like, man, did
Speaker 1: I have a timeline? And I talked about this today,
Speaker 1: Like I had a timeline. I was going to be
Speaker 1: like and love and by the time of I was
Speaker 1: gonna be married. By the time I'm like seven, You're
Speaker 1: gonna have my first kid. Before thirty, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in my dream job. All of the stuff. Oh my god, No,
Speaker 1: Like my timeline, I was all over the place for
Speaker 1: my timeline. My timeline got thrown up the window, and
Speaker 1: I just it was really empowering for me today to
Speaker 1: talk to all these students and be like, listen through
Speaker 1: the timeline out the window, and I know that you
Speaker 1: all have a dream and your dream. Your dream brought
Speaker 1: you to Nashville. Your dream brought you to Belmont, Your
Speaker 1: dream brought you to pursue whatever it is. Like, you
Speaker 1: came from wherever you're home town is, You traveled, and
Speaker 1: you came to this school to be in this environment
Speaker 1: and this music industry because you had a dream. And
Speaker 1: I just sort of told them my philosophy and I
Speaker 1: was like, I had a dream to be a singer,
Speaker 1: and I moved to Nashville, and I I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to do, and I started following my curiosity. And
Speaker 1: that was my first step that I encouraged them to do.
Speaker 1: When you don't know what to do, follow your curiosity
Speaker 1: and just let that lead you and just taking that
Speaker 1: next step. But I was like, pretend you're like in
Speaker 1: an ocean and hold onto your boogie board. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm like a million years old and I'm saying hold
Speaker 1: onto your boogie board, but like, hold onto your boogie
Speaker 1: board and all you have to do is hang on
Speaker 1: tight to that board and step into the water. So
Speaker 1: you step into the ocean, and then you know where
Speaker 1: you want to go, Like you have an idea where
Speaker 1: you want to go, but you have to let the
Speaker 1: waves take you. And they're gonna not take you on
Speaker 1: a straight path at all. It's gonna like, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're thinking you're jumping in and going forward,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're turning to the
Speaker 1: right and you're like going that way, and then you're
Speaker 1: the waves are going to ride you back out in
Speaker 1: a different direction, and you just have to hang on.
Speaker 1: And that's what I tried to tell them. I was like,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to know that they can have this clear
Speaker 1: cut path and then it's all I'm just gonna work
Speaker 1: out and that everything's gonna fall into place. And you
Speaker 1: have this dream and you're trying to follow these steps
Speaker 1: and you want to you want it to be this
Speaker 1: like paint by number type situation, but that is just
Speaker 1: not how life goes. And you just have to be
Speaker 1: willing to ride the wave, and you have to have
Speaker 1: some faith. You have to like give it up on
Speaker 1: some level, we all want to have this like tight
Speaker 1: grip and this deep control because if we feel like
Speaker 1: we can get everything boxed up and like stay on
Speaker 1: our timeline and get everything in order, then life is
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. But guess what I heard him Carrey
Speaker 1: say this in an interview. I think he was like
Speaker 1: giving him a speech to um his like alma mater
Speaker 1: for college or something, and he was talking about his dad.
Speaker 1: I'm fairly confident with Jim Carrey and his dad like
Speaker 1: had this was like followed this really safe route and
Speaker 1: really wanted like it was like worked hard, showed up
Speaker 1: at the same job every day, like did his due diligence,
Speaker 1: never took a sick day, like was safe, was calculated,
Speaker 1: did what he was supposed to do, and he got
Speaker 1: let go, like the company went under something and his
Speaker 1: dad got let go. And Jim Carrey was like, my
Speaker 1: dad showed up every single day, did what we supposed
Speaker 1: to do, worked as hard as he can, followed all
Speaker 1: the rules, and he still got let go and his
Speaker 1: life got turned upside down. So why would you go
Speaker 1: for a road that the safe road? We think if
Speaker 1: we go for this like safe road and we get
Speaker 1: everything all box in that like nothing can happen to us.
Speaker 1: We think that we are escaping potential pain or potential
Speaker 1: trauma happening, or potential like upset of our life happening.
Speaker 1: But none of us are exempt. And you can play
Speaker 1: it safe and you can go down this road and
Speaker 1: you can try to avoid any kind of variable that's
Speaker 1: going to mess up your stability, but you can never
Speaker 1: plan for everything, and they're always unknowns that can happen
Speaker 1: that are bigger than us, and your life can still
Speaker 1: get turned upside down. And you could have played it
Speaker 1: as safe as you ever can and everything and still
Speaker 1: fall on its face or it might work out, who knows.
Speaker 1: But you can also follow your passion, chase your curiosity,
Speaker 1: have some side hustles, And that's what I told to
Speaker 1: cost it down. Like you want to be a singer,
Speaker 1: you want to be a manager, you want to be
Speaker 1: an artist, you want to be um an event planner,
Speaker 1: you want to all these students have such great dreams.
Speaker 1: I made each student go around the room and say
Speaker 1: why they moved to Nashville, what they loved, what they're
Speaker 1: drawn to, and why they think they're going to succeed.
Speaker 1: Because I think it's so important to speak that out
Speaker 1: out and it was so cool because there's probably thirty
Speaker 1: kids in the class, and every single one of the
Speaker 1: kids had a different dream, very different dreams. Like one girl,
Speaker 1: she loves writing music, but she loves doing like, like
Speaker 1: um soundtracks to TV shows. So what she does is
Speaker 1: she'll turn off the music and a TV show and
Speaker 1: she'll turn on her Spotify and she will make music
Speaker 1: for the scenes in the movie and the show. I
Speaker 1: would never even think to do that. I'm like, that
Speaker 1: is such a unique gift and such a unique calling.
Speaker 1: And so many of the kids, I'm calling them kids,
Speaker 1: So many of these young adults had all of these
Speaker 1: very specific dreams, Like one girl wanted to be a
Speaker 1: I think coordinator on a Disney cruise ship because she
Speaker 1: wants to make people happy and she wants to travel
Speaker 1: the world and she thinks Disney is great. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just saw it was blown away by these people's
Speaker 1: dreams and there were such cool dreams. It just reminded
Speaker 1: me that we have to go for it. And like
Speaker 1: I was saying about that speech from Jim Carey and
Speaker 1: talking about his dad playing it safe, Um, you can
Speaker 1: play safe, and that's totally cool, like it really is,
Speaker 1: Like I get it. There's all sorts of there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of circumstances in everyone's life, and you have to
Speaker 1: do what feels right for you. You have to you
Speaker 1: have to take care of yourself. You have to do
Speaker 1: what feels right. But when I had the chance to
Speaker 1: talk to these students who are wide open, who have
Speaker 1: all of this just beginning in front of them, like
Speaker 1: they're so they are just a blank canvas, and they
Speaker 1: all have these hopes and they all say they all
Speaker 1: have these dreams, and I thought to myself, like I'm
Speaker 1: really getting a chance to impact here, and like I
Speaker 1: really took seriously what I was saying, and I said
Speaker 1: to them this. I said, There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that comes your way that is going to
Speaker 1: deter you from your dreams. You are going hang on
Speaker 1: to your biggie board, jump into the ocean, ride the wave.
Speaker 1: You're going to crash. You're going to crash. People are
Speaker 1: gonna tell you you're stupid. People are gonna tell you
Speaker 1: it's not smart what you're doing. But you know, And
Speaker 1: like thirty of these kids went around the room and
Speaker 1: said what they loved and what they were drawn to
Speaker 1: and what they wanted to do, and every single one
Speaker 1: of them was different. That is no mistake. They all
Speaker 1: have this different desire and this different calling. That is
Speaker 1: why they are here. And I was like, listen, it
Speaker 1: is hard to chasee your dreams, which it's also hard
Speaker 1: not to chase your dreams. If you don't chase your dreams,
Speaker 1: you sit around and you think about all day that
Speaker 1: you're not chasing your dreams and you're not fulfilled. If
Speaker 1: you are chasing your dreams, you sit around thinking about
Speaker 1: how hard it is and that you're trying to make
Speaker 1: your dreams happen and you're getting door slammed in your face.
Speaker 1: It's hard no matter what. So you just have to
Speaker 1: decide what kind of road you want to go down,
Speaker 1: because they're both going to be hard. Whether you chase
Speaker 1: your dreams and you try to pursue your calling or
Speaker 1: you try to pursue a safe road, you're going to
Speaker 1: run into hardship either way, So you just have to
Speaker 1: de say which kind of hardship you want to run into.
Speaker 1: And I told him, like, you're gonna get the door
Speaker 1: slammed in your face. You are going to not know
Speaker 1: what in the world you're supposed to do with your life.
Speaker 1: You're going to hit moments of feeling lost and feeling
Speaker 1: like you're a total loser and feeling like you don't
Speaker 1: know what to do and that nobody understands you. You
Speaker 1: are going to hit those moments, but just take a
Speaker 1: baby step forward if you can, just take a step
Speaker 1: forward and just keep moving towards your joy. And that's
Speaker 1: what I told him. If you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do in your life, start writing down what
Speaker 1: makes you feel alive, Write down what makes you feel alive,
Speaker 1: and start noticing people in the world that are doing
Speaker 1: jobs that you would love to have, and take note
Speaker 1: of this and journal about it, and like really start
Speaker 1: trying to pinpoint where in the world people are doing
Speaker 1: something that you would love to do. And if you're
Speaker 1: in a situation and all of a sudden you're feeling
Speaker 1: alive and inspired, take notice of that and start seeing
Speaker 1: if that could be a job, because there's always a
Speaker 1: job for every passion that is out there, there is
Speaker 1: a job that goes with it. Because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we are all humans and we're all
Speaker 1: fueled by passion, and so there are careers out there
Speaker 1: that are very passionate. You just have to start getting
Speaker 1: creative and paying attention and start realizing how things that
Speaker 1: you love could turn into a job. And sometimes it
Speaker 1: starts as a side hustle. Like one girl was like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be a singer, but she was struggling
Speaker 1: with she wants to just only be a singer, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I get that, but sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: have a side hustle first before you can just become
Speaker 1: a singer. Like, yes, that will be your ultimate goal
Speaker 1: to sing and make music and have that be your living.
Speaker 1: But if you can't make that be your living right away,
Speaker 1: then do it as much as you can. Play writers
Speaker 1: round right, songwrite with friends, songwrite with other songwriters anytime
Speaker 1: you get the chance. But you might have to work
Speaker 1: a waitress drop. I mean, you might have to keep
Speaker 1: a side side hustle going until you start making enough
Speaker 1: money and it becomes a big enough force in your
Speaker 1: life that you can drop your hustle, your side hustle.
Speaker 1: And so I was just encouraging this class to realize that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so say you need say you want to be a singer,
Speaker 1: and you want to be a side hustle. It's like,
Speaker 1: and you you want to be a singer, but you
Speaker 1: need a side hustle. It's like, what if you get
Speaker 1: the job to babysit for a hit songwriter? Like what
Speaker 1: if they need a nanny and you are great with kids.
Speaker 1: You want to be a songwriter, but here's this hit
Speaker 1: songwriter that needs a nanny. You start nanny for them.
Speaker 1: You're still writing. Over time, you build a relationship, You
Speaker 1: get to play them some of your songs. They hear you,
Speaker 1: they realize that you're talented. They want to help you.
Speaker 1: They start bringing out to like maybe a number one
Speaker 1: event every now if they wrote a hit song, they
Speaker 1: invite you to the number one party. They introduce you
Speaker 1: to people. That stuff leads to stuff. As long as
Speaker 1: you are moving in the right direction and you are
Speaker 1: moving forward. You don't have to end up in your
Speaker 1: perfect dream job right away, but just taking steps forward,
Speaker 1: just taking opportunities. When you get an opportunity, you have
Speaker 1: to be willing to jump and to go for it,
Speaker 1: and like, you can't always know where it's all going
Speaker 1: to end up and have everything perfectly planned and have
Speaker 1: it all boxed up, because that's just not how it works.
Speaker 1: And I just felt really, um, I'm not blessed. It's
Speaker 1: the word that I mean that the word can be overdone.
Speaker 1: Someone's like, I feel so blessed, but I really did.
Speaker 1: I felt like I had such an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: to talk to all these these students who are so
Speaker 1: fresh and so ready to attack their dreams, and I
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, this is a privilege that I'm getting
Speaker 1: right now to inspire them in a way that I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to say you have to have all these
Speaker 1: boxes checked off, but it's more like, do not lose
Speaker 1: that spark in you and I don't bury it. And
Speaker 1: listen to your body. And if your body is giving
Speaker 1: your resistance, and if your body is telling you, know what,
Speaker 1: this is not the right path. And if your body
Speaker 1: is saying I feel gross about this or this feels wrong,
Speaker 1: or like this isn't right for me, you have to
Speaker 1: listen to that. And if your body is saying I
Speaker 1: love this, and I feel alive, and this feels good
Speaker 1: and I feel easy. It feels easy, and this feels free,
Speaker 1: you have to listen to that. And it's a lot
Speaker 1: simpler than we make it because we we put all
Speaker 1: these rules on ourselves, and we put all this this
Speaker 1: like pressure on ourselves, but really our soul, on our
Speaker 1: body and our heart and our mind. It knows what
Speaker 1: we're drawn to. It knows what we love, and it
Speaker 1: knows when we're feeling good and when we're feeling bad.
Speaker 1: And it's pretty much as simple as that. If you're
Speaker 1: feeling bad, you got to reevaluate. If you're feeling sick,
Speaker 1: if you're feeling bad, if you're feeling dread, if you're
Speaker 1: feeling hopeless, you got to reevaluate. And I was telling
Speaker 1: them it's okay to be lost. I've been lost so
Speaker 1: many times in my life. But every time you're lost,
Speaker 1: take a moment and to start thinking about what you love,
Speaker 1: and start noticing what you love, and start moving towards
Speaker 1: what you love, and it will open opportunities. It will
Speaker 1: things will move around, and stuff will shift and you
Speaker 1: will get opportunities presented to you. You will start seeing
Speaker 1: things in a different light if you just start focusing
Speaker 1: on what you love and committing to that and not
Speaker 1: thinking you're crazy for wanting to do something that you
Speaker 1: love or live a life that you love. You're not
Speaker 1: crazy for wanting to love your life. We have one life.
Speaker 1: You're not crazy for wanting to love it. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying we can make it exactly how we want it
Speaker 1: to be. We're not god like, but we can really
Speaker 1: reframe our mind into seeing the blessings that are already
Speaker 1: in our life and then and paying attention to where
Speaker 1: we feel drawn to move instead of just letting life
Speaker 1: happen to us, instead of just letting life like feel
Speaker 1: like we're under the eight ball and that we were
Speaker 1: behind and we can't We're like, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: heavy and we're stuck. Instead of just getting stuck on
Speaker 1: those feelings, we have the opportunity to open our eyes
Speaker 1: and be like, Okay, I know I meant to live
Speaker 1: a life that I love. I know I'm here on
Speaker 1: this earth for a very short time. I know it's
Speaker 1: a miracle that I'm here. I have a purpose. I'm
Speaker 1: going to start diving into what I love. I'm going
Speaker 1: to start paying attention to that. Maybe I'm gonna point
Speaker 1: in my life where I cannot fully pursue what I love,
Speaker 1: but I am definitely at a point in my life
Speaker 1: where I can pursue starting to learn more about what
Speaker 1: I love. I can pursue making it even a side hustle.
Speaker 1: I can pursue following my curiosity. I can I can
Speaker 1: pursue showing up for myself. I can sue being intentional.
Speaker 1: I can pursue chet king out of my phone, checking
Speaker 1: off of the TV, and like showing up in conversations
Speaker 1: and like finding people that inspire me and asking them
Speaker 1: to go to coffee and picking their brain about how
Speaker 1: they got to where they were. And I can pursue
Speaker 1: being positive and choosing to we have gratitude for the
Speaker 1: things that are that I know I love in my life.
Speaker 1: And I might not be exactly where I want to be,
Speaker 1: but I can choose to have gratitude for things that
Speaker 1: I do love in my life, and like focus on
Speaker 1: what I do love. I can make those choices, and
Speaker 1: I can keep making those choices every day, and slowly
Speaker 1: but surely I can inch my way into this life
Speaker 1: that I love, some more or less. That's what I
Speaker 1: was talking about today, and I just basically wanted to
Speaker 1: let them know that, Like, I'm thirty six years old
Speaker 1: and I've been on a ton of journeys and I
Speaker 1: still don't know what I'm doing. I'm still figuring it out,
Speaker 1: but I've never been scared to jump. I've always listened
Speaker 1: to my gut. If I get a feeling of non
Speaker 1: don't know, resistance, resistance, resistance, I stop and I take
Speaker 1: a new turn, and I analyze, and I figure out
Speaker 1: where I need to go next. And sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know where I needed to go next, but I know
Speaker 1: if I like, I know if I'm on the wrong road,
Speaker 1: because it feels terrible. And if I get that feeling,
Speaker 1: I stop, I reevaluate, and then I'll just wait for clarity,
Speaker 1: and I'll take a break. And I'm okay with having
Speaker 1: a season of waiting. And waiting sucks, and none of
Speaker 1: us like to wait, but sometimes we have to wait.
Speaker 1: It's better to wait than to make a hasty decision
Speaker 1: out of fear. And I have learned that because I've
Speaker 1: made plenty of hasty decisions out of fear. But really,
Speaker 1: if you're if you wait for clarity and you keep
Speaker 1: pursuing your curiosity, and if you feel resistance, you take
Speaker 1: a beat, you take a break, You evaluate why you
Speaker 1: feel that, and you try to move towards the open feeling,
Speaker 1: the good feeling, the love feeling. You will slowly start
Speaker 1: working your way into your purpose, and that's what I
Speaker 1: was encouraging all these kids. These keep calling you kids,
Speaker 1: they're not kids, they're students. But like these students to
Speaker 1: do is don't think you're crazy for wanting to live
Speaker 1: your dreams. You're not. You're not crazy for wanting to
Speaker 1: live your dreams. That's why we're all here. We want
Speaker 1: to live our dreams. And you can do it. And
Speaker 1: I believe that you, who is listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: right now, can do it as well. Whatever stacked up
Speaker 1: against you, I know you have that spark in you
Speaker 1: that knows you're worth it, that knows there's something bigger
Speaker 1: for you. Or maybe you're already in your dream job
Speaker 1: and that's freaking awesome, or your purpose. But I know
Speaker 1: every single one of you guys who is listening to
Speaker 1: this right now, I know you're worth it. I know
Speaker 1: you have a purpose. I know there's something bigger inside
Speaker 1: of you that you came here to accomplish. I know
Speaker 1: you can do it. You are special, you are capable.
Speaker 1: You are not a loser. You are not alone. And
Speaker 1: no matter how much you feel like you were behind,
Speaker 1: someone else is doing it better. How you will never
Speaker 1: catch up. How you are not worthy. I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you you are. If you are looking for a sign,
Speaker 1: this is your sign. I believe in you. I know
Speaker 1: you can do it. The reason I know you can
Speaker 1: do it is because I have written the same wave
Speaker 1: in my own life. Like everyone has their own story
Speaker 1: and nobody can compare to anybody else's. But like I
Speaker 1: have had highs, I've had loads. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was crushing it. I felt like I was a failure.
Speaker 1: I've done all the things, and I just know that
Speaker 1: all of us are here for a reason and we
Speaker 1: have a purpose and listening to everything. One of these
Speaker 1: students purpose. Today. They went around the room and said
Speaker 1: what they loved and what they're drawn to. Every single
Speaker 1: one of them was different, and that just confirms the
Speaker 1: fact to me that everybody has their own desires and
Speaker 1: dreams and goals. Here's just a bunch of wide eyed
Speaker 1: dream or students. They I mean, they all very specifically
Speaker 1: knew where they were drawn and what they wanted to do,
Speaker 1: drawn to and what they wanted to do. That just
Speaker 1: goes to show, like you right now, who's listening to this,
Speaker 1: you were drawn towards something that is very unique for
Speaker 1: your life, and that is important for you to pursue
Speaker 1: that because that is your gift and you were so
Speaker 1: talented at that gift. And you don't give yourself enough
Speaker 1: credit because you feel unworthy for whatever reason. But you
Speaker 1: are worthy, and I'm proud of you. And if has
Speaker 1: if no one's told you this today, you can do it.
Speaker 1: You can and you can start small, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: You don't have to totally turn your life upside down.
Speaker 1: I know we all have responsibilities. I know we all
Speaker 1: have stuff we gotta do. I know we all have
Speaker 1: things that like we can't walk away from, and sometimes
Speaker 1: we feel stuck and lost and all that. But you
Speaker 1: can keep pursuing that little spark. You can listen to it,
Speaker 1: you can pay attention to it, you can find time
Speaker 1: to like just tap away at it. Just let it
Speaker 1: start coming alive and and just like follow your curiosity
Speaker 1: to see where you're curious and let it lead you
Speaker 1: to a podcast, Let it lead you to a book.
Speaker 1: Let it leads you to a conversation with someone, Let
Speaker 1: it lead you to opening up about something. Just let
Speaker 1: it lead you a little bit that spark that's in
Speaker 1: you that you knows you're driving force, let it start
Speaker 1: leading you a little bit, just a little bit, just
Speaker 1: a little bit, and slowly but surely it will lead
Speaker 1: you to your purpose. Um. I love you guys, and
Speaker 1: thank you all so much for falling along with me
Speaker 1: and staying on this journey. I truly feel like y'all
Speaker 1: are this community that I'm a part of, and that
Speaker 1: we're all just striving to navigate life and help each
Speaker 1: other be the best that we can. Give yourself some grace,
Speaker 1: accept the reality that you're in. Mallory Irvin said something
Speaker 1: and I have never forgotten it. Do not let your
Speaker 1: blessings become your burdens. Remember what your blessings are. Do
Speaker 1: not get so overwhelmed the life that you let your
Speaker 1: blessings become your burdens. Take enough time, give yourself enough
Speaker 1: space in your life to remember where you're blessed, and
Speaker 1: to never forget your blessings, because remembering your blessings is
Speaker 1: going to make you more blessed. And the more you
Speaker 1: can think about your blessings, the more blessings come your way,
Speaker 1: the more joy you have in your life, The more
Speaker 1: fulfilled you get in your life, the more happy your
Speaker 1: life gets, the more opportunity to start showing up. So
Speaker 1: just focus on your blessings and don't let them become
Speaker 1: your burdens. Even though I know we all have burdens
Speaker 1: and we all have heavy stuff we have to deal with.
Speaker 1: Focus on your blessings, not your burdens. I love you guys,
Speaker 1: and thank you all so much for being in this
Speaker 1: community with me. You are the best