WEBVTT - The Breakthrough 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.559 Get your Vitamin D right with me and get excited 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:12.200 about your good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.080 may be. You are tuned into the Vitamin D Podcast 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.000 and I am your host, Dawn Day, here to get 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.759 you excited about your life so that you can live 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.040 life on purpose and for a purpose. Now, if this 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.200 is your first time tuning in, let me just say welcome, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.760 thank you for choosing you, thank you for investing in yourself, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.559 and thank you for joining me on this journey of 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.479 living my and living your best life. Now, Vitamin D 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.720 is upun off. My name. My name is Dawn, which 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.600 means the sun. So I am here to shed light 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:55.120 into your life. And I do that with inspirational insights 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.880 and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.440 And I even use the lyrics of popular music just 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.880 as a means of finding ways to inspire. You know, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.880 there's something to be said about song. You know, it's 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.240 a movement, it's a vibe. You can hear tracks that 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.200 you may not even know what they're saying, even understand 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.960 what they're saying, and you can still rock with it. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.560 I don't know, I just like music has a way 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.920 of caring. So that's what I want to do, and 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.640 that's what I do on the Vitamin D Podcast. And 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.440 I've mentioned this before, but I just want to remind 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.080 you that if you haven't already, make sure you head 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.600 over to our YouTube page Dawn Day Speaks and check 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.000 out all of the interviews, um that we've had on 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.520 this podcast. And you know, I said interviews, but I 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.840 like conversations, UM because it's just folks were just talking. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.800 We're just talking on ways of how to live our 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.480 best life. And one thing that I did not mention, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.240 I want to make sure I get this across too. UM. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.800 On we talk about Vitamin D and we talk about 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.760 shedding a light. Uh. That means that we're cutting light 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.760 or shedding light on the good and the bad. You 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.839 understand what I'm saying, because if you want to be 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.240 better and you want to do better, you have to 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.480 have the ability to see better and oftentimes that's just 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.920 seeing ourselves. And one thing about it when we talk 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.080 about um following the light and we talk about being 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.160 the light, we heard it when we were younger. This 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.079 little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. It 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.679 gives other people permission to want to shine too. And 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.280 you know, it's just like this major bubble that just 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.639 keeps expanding. It gets larger and larger because everybody can 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.440 just see better and they're doing better and they're feeling better. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.600 And that's what I want for you, and that's what 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.400 I hope to have for you, and I hope that 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.280 you have it for yourself. But the reason why I 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.120 wanted to make sure to mention the whole idea of 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.640 light and shutting on is that sometimes think could be 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.000 not so pretty, And only I say not so pretty 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.840 because it may not be something that you want to 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.160 look at or something that you want to admit to. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.120 But it's like, how can you grow? How can you 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.480 expect to be more if you don't understand where you are, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.519 who you are and have an idea of where is 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.600 it you're going? And we have to get to a point, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.840 we have to identify that, which leaves me kind of 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.880 what I want to talk about today. You ever heard 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:30.760 someone saying it's always something, and then on the flip side, 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:40.000 you're gonna hear somebody saying everything's all good, everything's working 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.280 from your greater good. And it's so interesting because we 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.880 see it oftentimes when we look at the yin and yang. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.280 But I think we can also see it of just 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.160 UM looking at the night of the day, like they 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.200 coexist with one another. And I think it's the understanding 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.400 UM of that. And I guess here recently, I'm sharing 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:06.680 because uh, it reached a bit of home for me. Now. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.440 I say that because I told you guys before what 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.120 it is. It was it The episode was entire new chapter, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.640 same journey. You know, Dawn Day. You know I've released 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.080 my job and walking this line of figuring it out. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.240 Now you know, I'm a firm believer that you know 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.680 how you have to release other things to make room 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.800 for others. And when I tell you, um, I got 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.920 game shows that I'm coming on in a couple of 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.239 weeks probably and probably a week or so, you're gonna 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:39.920 find me on the game show. I can't talk about 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.640 it right now because I signed an agreement. But if 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.080 you follow me on social media at the Dawn Day Speaks, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.159 I want to let you know that, Um, I will 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.960 be sure to post some clips. But that happened, and 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.440 then I have the opportunity where I have voiceover gigs 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.080 that are coming. But then at the same token, you know, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.520 I have this whole situation of figuring out what I'm 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.279 gonna do exactly financially, and then some health things to 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.599 come about. And it's some things that you look at 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.520 and you're like, oh my gosh, why me. I think 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.800 we have to start changing the conversation of saying why 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.280 not being so right now, I'm at home and here 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.279 in Los Angeles, California, and I've adjusted a few things, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.520 but I am standing or I am sitting right in 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:31.000 front of my vision board and at the very top 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.320 in the center it says, embark on the extraordinary. I 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:41.000 have the word congratulations several times on here because that's 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.279 the season that I chose to be in. Also says 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.479 and as I said season, I said, the season to 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.960 celebrate make time of your own. I have one here 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.359 Women of Coloring Media syndicated on a read before I 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.840 release my job working with the Steve Harvey Morning Show, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.200 I'll have you know that I a syndicated on my 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.800 Saturday What's Happening segment. So it came to fruition UM 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.719 women of Color and Media. Right before that, I spoke 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.960 on a panel UM and I was represented as a 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.320 woman of color and media on here I said, coming 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.320 out of the shadows. I see that because even um 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.599 as in my position or as my role on for 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.040 the Love of Jason, as my opportunity to have the 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.160 segment on the Steve Harvey Morning Show, what's happening, even 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:37.320 to me having my podcast right now, it's happening. What's 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.880 happening is what is happening, and on here I have 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.080 all access and manifest I say all that to say 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.640 I got to the moment of releasing my job. That 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.279 was a whole of the journey in itself. Okay, Then 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.280 I got a praise report where I'm being featured on 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.600 Spectrum News for the Groundings. That's another dream because I'm 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.560 telling you I'm coming for SNL. But then at the 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.719 same token, I'm up here trying to figure out what 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.479 I am about to do with my health insurance on 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.599 top of the fact of having some health things to 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.360 come to service. Now it's not that I'm holding back. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.400 I'm grappling. I'm figuring out if you're gonna stay on 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.960 this journey with me. Some things you know we're going 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.520 to find out together. But I just want to let 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.200 you know that even in the midst of the celebration, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.840 even in the midst of the praise reports, even in 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.480 the midst of me it's realizing that all of my 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.520 wildest dreams are coming true. I don't look in the 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.440 sense of I don't know what's going to happen financially, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.040 I don't know how everything is gonna pan out with 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.320 the recent dealings with my health, recent dealings that I'll 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.840 just just give you an idea of the severity. And 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.560 I don't say that in the way. I'm just showing 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.280 you how you have to choose to be optimistic. You 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.120 have to choose to go after people in my my 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.840 family have died of just what I have. Just what's 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.240 happening in my life now. Um, I'm not saying that 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.160 that is my story, but let's just say that it 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.560 is something that good results of me. You know, I'm 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.280 sending this earth. But you know, one thing I can 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:11.920 say about it is that you gotta stay on your 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.920 health and you gotta do a check in. And I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.080 talked about it a lot with the Life Bank account. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.320 So here I am having this praise report of you know, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.200 being on the television show. Heck, even with the Vitamin 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.560 D podcast. You know I said this before, but I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:32.840 started out in New York in my room that I 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.720 was renting in an apartment, under my comforter with my 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:43.520 Sam song U s B microphone, sweating profusely to read 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.800 to come to your life with Vitamin D in Vitamin 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.559 D is up in the studio. What is my name? 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.600 So that's why I just had to say as a 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.240 reminder that regardless of the oppositions, and I wanted to 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.040 give you an idea just so that you can understand 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.800 the gravity of what I'm saying of just the news 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.600 that I'm finding about myself, but looking at the praise 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.439 reports and the strides, and how you have to choose 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.320 to keep going. Because when I'm seeing my vision board 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.760 and I see on here that I got my dream house, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.840 a one million dollars in cash for the dream house. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.840 When I look on my vision board and I can 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.559 see the pamphlet of the Brownings. When I look at 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.439 my vision board and it says, now is the time. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:31.760 Now is the time. That's what I want to say 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.280 to you. Oftentimes we find ourselves in situations waiting for 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:42.400 the perfect situation or opportunity, the perfect landscape, the perfect person, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:47.360 the perfect situation, and not realizing that the only perfect 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:53.520 time is right now. It's so interesting how we can 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.920 bet on something that happened in the past, be so 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.360 eager to bet on something that's happened the future. Yet 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.319 we can't even look around to see what we're standing 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.640 right now, for where is the direction and where we're going. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.720 That's just going to lead to the trajectory of our lives. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.200 So there's no better time now than to live. There's 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.920 no better time now to go after your dreams. You 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.040 have to even understanding that even in life, I said, 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.760 how it's always good and it's always something. It's almost 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.400 like a roller coaster. It's almost like holding on to 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.960 a ride of your life because even in the valleys, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.560 even in the highs, the dips, the downs, you just 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.480 have to learn how to stay steady with it. And 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.679 I think it's because of the downs you can look 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.520 up and because you you're up, you know what it's 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.520 like to look down. You understand what I'm saying. It 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.200 gives you that level of appreciation, It gives you that 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:51.839 notice of just understanding how precious time is right now. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.720 And that's why you have to keep inspiring. In fact, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.880 I don't know if I ever told you but um, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.680 although you know Dawing Day is my name, am. I 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:07.360 even made Day an acronym destined to aspire, to inspire, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.200 destined like that was the destiny on it. So I 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.319 don't know what it is or whatever adversities you're going through, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.400 but I am going to be a living testament so 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.800 that when you hear me say how, no matter what 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.640 is coming at you your way, you gotta know where 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.640 you're going with and you're gonna have to push through. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.960 And yes, it's gonna be hard. Shoot, just me in general, 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.280 I can tell you right now, I'm not gonna pretend 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.760 like I haven't been stressed out. Oh my gosh, I'm 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.280 gonna eating my face out. In fact, Jeremiah and I 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.480 just had chicken tiki Marsala with cheesy not and Bostemonic ras. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.600 It was everything. And I'm not saying it's okay, but 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.600 I am showing myself grace. Perhaps that we need to 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.960 show our own selves grace a little bit more, you 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.800 know what I mean, Because sometimes I feel like we're 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.480 just so hard on ourselves about things. We don't give 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.880 ourselves a moment to breathe, a moment to be regular, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.719 a moment to say we're understanding. A moment to realize 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.559 that we're growing, a moment to just saying that, oh 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.880 my gosh, I'm human. A moment of looking in the 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.240 mirror and understanding that all that's looking back to you 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.760 is a human at least in this form and what 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.880 that that means. Things are always going to be perfect, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.480 But it also lets you know that there's always something 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.120 to aspire and to grow to. It lets you know 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.200 that you're still here, So there's a reason for that. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.280 Also just to let you know that time is so precious. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.760 You know, I'm grateful because you know, I found out 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.800 this whole recent thing of what's going on. Um I 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.319 went back to Detroit. My baby, my nephew's birthday's name 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:52.040 is l J. My baby four tea. I told my trainer. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.520 I said, um, I said, my baby's fourteen years old. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.839 He said that ain't no baby. He was like, I 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.360 tell you what I was doing that fortune. I was like, ah, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.120 stop stop. But even just looking at my nephews and 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.120 seeing how much they're growing up so fast, unless you 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.680 realize the time and how you gotta be bold and 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.800 how you know, even looking back, I'm telling you all 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.400 this stuff that's going on. And I say all that, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.120 I don't want to put as much brevity on it. Um, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.199 I'm just saying the new findings that I'm finding out 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.280 with my health. That one could have said, hey, you know, uhh, 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.480 you left your job and look what's going on. But 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.280 perhaps I had to leave that because I could have 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.520 been so distracted, so distracted that I didn't take time. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.680 So I guess I want to say, also take time 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.840 with yourself. In fact, I have that on my vision workcase. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.000 I can always be a one to just be a 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:51.480 go go go, and sometimes you just gotta slow that 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.160 bucking down, as my mama would say, you gotta slow 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.000 it down. I remember I was at uh middle school 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.199 and there was a song. I took a music class, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:08.000 probably a singing class, and we combined two songs together 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.640 and one song was slow down, you're moving too fast. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.840 You gotta make the morning less and then the other 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.280 part was like the bird, Uh doude do do doude 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.000 do do? Anyway, it doesn't matter. The whole point is 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.480 is that slow it down some and do that temperature check. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.160 And I talk about oftentimes when I talk about your life, 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.680 bank account, and that's what it's realizing how you are 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.360 your greatest assid because how are you going to understand 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.840 what your account is doing if you aren't checking in? 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.640 And I had to do with check in. And I 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.840 know that I'm still winning. I know that because the 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.040 vision is still there. I know that because I can 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.760 look at my board and I can see the things 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.640 are manifesting. I got all access to my dreams and 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.080 I want you to know that you do too. And 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.120 I want you to know that whatever it is that 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.680 you're going through, you are going to have to choose 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.320 to fight. Like I said, I'm looking and get in 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.960 this perspective as well. It's just the growth that I've 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.520 done with working out with my trainer. You know. He 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.680 said something that was so profound in mind to his 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.120 name is my plateeth um oh m training. He's all 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.440 about no comfort zones. He's actually going to be coming 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.680 up on the podcast, so be on the lookout because 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.920 that's in a special treat. But he mentioned to me 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.160 one time, he said, you are going to get out 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.560 of it what you put into it. And I think 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.880 that's how we have to take life. It's what are 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.080 you willing to put into it? We can understand when 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.560 it comes down to um planting. You know, if you're 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.320 gonna plant an apple seed, you know that you're gonna 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.760 get an apple tree. If you want to plant a 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.040 cherry bush, you know that you're gonna get cherries. And 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.000 I think that's what we have to realize in life. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:50.640 What are you putting in your life? What is it now? 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.720 I had to ask you that because I'm hoping that 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.040 it aligns to what you want, because if it doesn't, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.560 I can imagine that you're probably a bit stressed out, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.360 You're probably a bit uncomfortable, You're probably a bit frustrated. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:12.440 But remember you chosen where you are right now is 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.320 as some of your decisions, whether that's things that you 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.880 can change or things that you can't. But you also 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.040 realize is that you have the decision to create the 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:29.480 mindset to either get you through over or under another situation. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.840 It's just all about figuring out what your position is 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.560 and what is your outlook on life. I mean, we've 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.520 we've seen it and it's been told to us so 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.480 many times of just adversity, and I don't care what 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.960 you're going through. We can look at the story of Moses. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.120 If you've ever been on a boat. If you ever 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.320 watched a movie and you've seen the water from as 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.600 far as your eye can see, it's nothing but water. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.200 But this man had no other choice but to go through. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.200 And I guess the the the whole point and me 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.280 saying that is to use that parable as an analogy 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.400 for your life. Whatever it is. From it as far 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.280 as your eye can see, you might see pain, you 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.800 might see confusion, you might see um, disturbance. I don't 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.800 whatever it is where it seems insurmountable. There is a 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.000 story that has written eons, thousands of years ago, that 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.840 has been translated in so many other language to say 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.480 that no matter what it is that you are going through, 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.200 you can get through the other side because at one 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:39.200 point that was somebody just like you. And if you 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:47.639 can ridicule yourself, judge yourself, condemn yourself for things that 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.359 you've done in the past, maybe some decisions that you 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:56.400 perhaps aren't very proud of, how you can hold onto that, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.120 why don't you hold onto this story too, and understand 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.399 that somebody that may not be going through exactly what 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.600 you're going through, but has a picture that can fit 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.679 the frame. If everything that you feel is holding you 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.920 in right down and they got through. So what you're 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.280 gonna choose? Are you gonna sink or swim? Are you 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.640 gonna run or walk? Are you gonna talk or be silent? 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.399 For whatever it is that you want? You know, I 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:32.679 often say that sometimes you gotta break in order to 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.399 get through. That's why they call it a breakthrough. Sometimes 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.200 you gotta fall apart so you can be put back 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:47.600 together piece by piece p e A c E by 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:53.439 p I E c E piece by piece. That's what 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.520 I want for you. And I want you to put 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.639 your mosaic so beautifully together. And keep in mind, whenever 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.320 you feel in doubt, always remember what allows the diamond 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.959 to shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.640 placed within it. You are that diamond. You are creative 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.399 with all so much strong, hold of just so much diversity, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.239 all of this pressure, things that I've chipped away from you. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:20.480 But guess what, You've chosen to step into the light, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.520 and you had to step into the life because you've 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.879 chosen to be better. You've chosen to do better, and 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.960 so therefore you can see better. And when you gave 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:38.879 yourself permission to shine, he's shine and people stand and 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.960 all of your beauty of everything that you were able 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:50.480 to overcome and oftentimes the many more cuts that you have. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.879 What is it depression? What is it poverty? What is 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.440 it abuse? What is it neglect? What is it gluttony? 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:01.920 What is it addiction? That you chosen to keep going, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.040 that you've chosen to stay strong, that you've chosen to 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.000 step in the light. And now we just see your reflection. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.199 You just bounce off because there's nowhere to hide. I 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.240 guess that's what it means to come out of the shadows. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.800 That's what it means to book your next dream. That's 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.440 what it really means to honor yourself, your body, your mind, 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.760 and your soul. That's what I would say is the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.960 true wealth. That's why, out of every account that you 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:35.080 can never have in your life, understand the value of 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:40.359 your life bank account and the currency. I'd say it's time. 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:46.840 How about that? The way you make transactions in your 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:52.360 life bank account is on your time. So now it's 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.600 about are you spending time for yourself? Are you spending 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.440 time for your dreams? Are you wasting time on other people? 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.959 Are you easting yourself in the wallow? Did you decide 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.160 to breathe in oxygen or did you decide to drown yourself? 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.840 Guess what? Notice I said, what did you decide? Make 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:18.520 the decision? Be fluid with it, don't judge yourself, be 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.399 patient with yourself, Be the reminder of what it is 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.560 that you want for yourself. You got everything around you 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.840 to tell you what you can't do. You got everything 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:29.840 and around you to discourage you. And then you have 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:36.359 everything you need inside of you. What you ever noticed, honestly? Okay, 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.600 and then let me get off my my hole spield 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.560 real quick. But you ever noticed how in the moments 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.879 of confusion is because you're looking around everywhere, up and 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:51.920 down and all the way around, backwards, left to right, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.560 And people are like, hey, listen. If you want to 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.399 have peace, if you want to feel free, if you 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.960 want to ease your mind, just go with it. Oh 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:06.000 sometimes you're hear its prayer. Oh sometimes it's called meditation. 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.639 I just call it getting weird of it yourself. I 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.480 call it taking time. I call it coming out the 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.680 shadows because I think sometimes we hide from ourselves. Get that. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:27.240 Imagine hiding from yourself. Imagine running away from yourself. Yet 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.280 the start and the finish are in the same location 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.359 and that's an insatity move right there, and we oftentimes 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.280 do that and it looks in the whole sense of 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.320 saying what it is we want by doing something that 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:44.600 garners something else. So what do you want? No better? Yet, 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.639 what do you choose? Because we can save me one 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:52.439 one thing, But what are you choosing for your life? 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.840 Every decision that you make, every person that you allow 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:01.240 yourself to surround yourself with, apple re opportunity that you 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.920 decide to seize or to let go, Ask yourself, this, 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:10.560 does this the support the person I aspire to be. 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.520 That's how you're gonna know if it's for you, that's 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:16.920 gonna make you feel good, and it's gonna be good 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:19.560 for you. It's gonna be in alignment with everything that 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:24.000 you want, even despite the naysayers, even despite the prognosis, 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:28.520 even despite the last battle wounds. You know what it 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.440 is that you want because you're a champion, and champions 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.919 don't stop. Champions just know how many ways not to 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.160 fail or better yet, how many ways you can fail 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:44.920 until they win. So I see a winner, I see 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:47.080 a champion inside of you, and I just want to 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.119 let you know that no matter what it is, that 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.600 you're going through because Hey, I told you my story. 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:55.080 You're gonna have to choose and you don't have to fight, 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:58.000