Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
Speaker 1: to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
Speaker 1: am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
Speaker 1: about your life so that you can live life on
Speaker 1: purpose and for a purpose. If this is your first
Speaker 1: time tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's a pun
Speaker 1: of my name. My name is Dawn and you get
Speaker 1: Vitamin D from the sun. So I'm here shed light
Speaker 1: into your life. And I do this with inspirational insights
Speaker 1: and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me,
Speaker 1: Because if you want to be better and you want
Speaker 1: to do better, then you're going to have to be
Speaker 1: able to see better. So join me on this journey
Speaker 1: of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how
Speaker 1: you are your greatest ass at get your vit D
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Speaker 2: And get excited about your life.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, my sister is feeling
Speaker 1: a bit emotional. I don't know if I'm PMS and
Speaker 1: or what. I started feeling emotional on my way into
Speaker 1: the studio, well actually before I got in the car
Speaker 1: to come to the studio, and I guess what was
Speaker 1: on my mind is like I know what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like, well, God, what's going on now?
Speaker 3: If you were to ask me.
Speaker 1: Where was I how did I feel three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five days ago? And I'd tell you today I
Speaker 1: am one thousand percent better mentally, emotionally, well, I probably
Speaker 1: slacked not I probably I did slack on my working out,
Speaker 1: so physically not so much. But what I mean is
Speaker 1: is just the weight of caring, of not knowing what's
Speaker 1: going on, and not even sure that my feet are
Speaker 1: standing on the ground.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: And yet here I am in a whole other situation
Speaker 1: where I actually got in the car and drove up
Speaker 1: to the studio. Because if you've been listening to me,
Speaker 1: you'd probably catch me back on some episodes discussing how
Speaker 1: emotional I felt about the idea of having to take
Speaker 1: two and a half buses just to get to the studio,
Speaker 1: fighting and wondering if I could.
Speaker 3: Get back in here.
Speaker 1: And I am here, and I found myself earlier today
Speaker 1: emotional about it. I don't know what necessarily calling it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can understand where I'm coming from, because perhaps
Speaker 1: maybe you find yourself in a better situation than you
Speaker 1: were before. But for some reason, you're just feeling emotionally everywhere.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm reflecting back on two conversations I had,
Speaker 1: one with a loved one and one with a friend.
Speaker 1: No need to share who they are, because that's not
Speaker 1: what's and im what's important is what I have to
Speaker 1: say in regards to my conversation with them, and overall,
Speaker 1: the premise, the foundation, the common denominator was fear. Now
Speaker 1: you know what I say. Fear is false evidence appearing real.
Speaker 1: Now how we should look at it as face everything
Speaker 1: and run. But this thing of fear and its negative
Speaker 1: connotation is something that will keep you bound. I was
Speaker 1: talking to a loved one who has gifts on gifts
Speaker 1: on gifts, and yet they find themselves in despair saying
Speaker 1: I'm scared. I don't want it to make a mistake.
Speaker 1: I just want it to be right, and not realizing
Speaker 1: it's all those things that prevent you from getting started. See,
Speaker 1: fear will have you second guests in yourself.
Speaker 3: Fear will have your confidence diminished. Fear will stop you
Speaker 3: from living and you'll realize that you're functioning. So I
Speaker 3: have to ask you what has fear done or what
Speaker 3: is fear doing to you?
Speaker 1: I mean, fear will have you basically sitting in a
Speaker 1: rocking chair, going back and forth with your thoughts and
Speaker 1: realizing that all you have to do is make a decision,
Speaker 1: and that decision is you choose yourself.
Speaker 3: But how come that's so hard? How come we can.
Speaker 1: Walk into a job so confident that you're going to
Speaker 1: get that paycheck, You're gonna like the facility, your transportation
Speaker 1: is going to work, and they are surely going and
Speaker 1: surely they will surely pay you on time. Yet something
Speaker 1: that you do have control of, which is yourself, there is.
Speaker 3: A lack of confidence.
Speaker 1: And it may not appear as a lack of confidence
Speaker 1: at first. It just comes as a hesitation or I
Speaker 1: don't have everything together, or I don't have all the resources, basically,
Speaker 1: excuse after excuse. Then I was talking to another friend
Speaker 1: or a too a friend, and they were telling me
Speaker 1: about a business that they're doing, and I said, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you got a B, C and D, just go out
Speaker 1: there and do it. I know, I just got to
Speaker 1: get all these ideas together. I got to figure out
Speaker 1: where to start. Well half the time, we just got
Speaker 1: to start and realize that it is us getting in
Speaker 1: our own way? How long are we going to allow
Speaker 1: ourselves to get in our own way of living our
Speaker 1: lives to our greatest potential, to be living in abundance,
Speaker 1: to be living free. And I guess that just tripled
Speaker 1: down effect. I just got done watching Kamala Harris or
Speaker 1: soon to be First Lady or not First Lady President
Speaker 1: Harris I delivered her speech at the DNC, and of
Speaker 1: course she's been playing and using Beyonce's song track Freedom,
Speaker 1: that's her soundtrack. And I even got more emotional when
Speaker 1: I started hearing the lyrics. And I guess because here's
Speaker 1: Beyonce Freedom, Freedom, I can't move Freedom, cut me loose. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling emotional because I'm just thinking how many people
Speaker 1: out there, including at Tom's myself, have held our own
Speaker 1: seals captive as a prisoner because we're afraid, afraid to
Speaker 1: take a chance, afraid to make a mistake, afraid to
Speaker 1: be seen, afraid to be loved, simply afraid.
Speaker 3: To get started.
Speaker 1: And it here's the thing, too, we sit so comfortably complaining.
Speaker 1: Part of me, my nose is stopped up because the
Speaker 1: sisters crowing, which I told you I was feeling emotional,
Speaker 1: but no, really, when we literally hold ourselves prisoners. And
Speaker 1: the thing that makes it even worse, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 3: Mean by holding our own selves as prisoners. Well, let's
Speaker 3: think about it.
Speaker 1: If you have somebody captive, or if they are a prisoner,
Speaker 1: chances are you have the key to unlock the door,
Speaker 1: unlock the gate, flip the switch, hit the gas pedal,
Speaker 1: put the key in the ignition, press the button. Yet
Speaker 1: we stuck on froze because of that fear. And it
Speaker 1: just further reminds me of that saying or a quote,
Speaker 1: or however you want to put it, when they say
Speaker 1: the greatest No, the richest place in the world is
Speaker 1: the cemetery, because so many people have died with their
Speaker 1: dreams freedom, freedom, I can't move, freedom, cut me loose.
Speaker 1: They died captive, being afraid to take a chance on themselves.
Speaker 1: And it's the great chance that you ever have to make,
Speaker 1: the one that has the greatest return on your value,
Speaker 1: on your investment, the one that can truly at least
Speaker 1: your heart's greatest desires. Yet we're caged. So freedom, where
Speaker 1: are you? Because I need freedom too, don't you? Well,
Speaker 1: when you're gonna make that choice to live to be
Speaker 1: because you know we're here for a good time, not
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 3: And I get it.
Speaker 1: You are looking around and you say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: how am I going to get through? Oh God, where
Speaker 1: are you? How many times am I going to be
Speaker 1: tested tried until I turn blue? Remember you can't fail
Speaker 1: if you don't quit. And if you fall down seven times,
Speaker 1: get up eight. Your location is not your destination. I
Speaker 1: mean it really has me thinking how you have to be.
Speaker 3: Delusional with your dreams.
Speaker 4: Because these eyes here sometimes they will fail you. These
Speaker 4: ears here sometimes they can be manipulated, even by you,
Speaker 4: by what you're allowing to be placed within it or
Speaker 4: within them.
Speaker 3: Can you feel me on this?
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you how many people and
Speaker 1: cohorts have said kind of like they felt like giving up,
Speaker 1: kind of like they just feel like they want to stop.
Speaker 3: But I gotta ask you, where is your freedom? Where
Speaker 3: are you.
Speaker 1: When it comes to your life? Are you ready to
Speaker 1: go after it and get it? I'm just thinking about
Speaker 1: Kamala's speech and her talking about her mom and how
Speaker 1: she persevered and how just coming out here. I believe
Speaker 1: she said she wanted to be a doctor, and then
Speaker 1: she was going to go back cold to India, but
Speaker 1: life had a different plan. She end up fighting a
Speaker 1: future getting married, or fighting for a future for her
Speaker 1: family getting married and having two beautiful daughters. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know about married, but she was with their father,
Speaker 1: so hey, let's keep it open. But that's not what's important.
Speaker 1: What's important is that as she was talking about her mom,
Speaker 1: and she said her mom was kind of like a
Speaker 1: tough cookie, you know, standing that five feet And she
Speaker 1: said that when it came down to justice or anything
Speaker 1: that they felt was right, you know, Kamala says, she'd
Speaker 1: get in there and start complaining.
Speaker 3: And then her mom said, all right, all right, So
Speaker 3: now what you're gonna do about it?
Speaker 1: Ha?
Speaker 3: You're gonna fight for yourself because because if you don't,
Speaker 3: who gonna do it? Huh? If you want change or
Speaker 3: you gonna be able to see it, huh. I just
Speaker 3: gotta know. These are the type of questions that I
Speaker 3: have for.
Speaker 1: You for myself too. Freedom. Freedom, Where are you? Because
Speaker 1: I need freedom too? And here's the thing. The reason
Speaker 1: why I have to say, your location is not your destination. See,
Speaker 1: oftentimes we look around and you get confused about what
Speaker 1: you see about where you are, that you lose track
Speaker 1: of where you're going, and you gotta be grateful for
Speaker 1: where you are because just like you follow a map,
Speaker 1: just like you putting your navigation directions, you always have
Speaker 1: a starting point and you just.
Speaker 3: Gotta look at this as your starting point.
Speaker 1: And like I said, you gotta put one foot but
Speaker 1: in front of the other. Because I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: delusional right now, fighting so hard to get back in
Speaker 1: the studio, just various obstacles of what even just how
Speaker 1: to get up in here, how to get across here,
Speaker 1: that I fought a mental game of.
Speaker 3: Just cutting back on the mic, figured out what I
Speaker 3: was going.
Speaker 1: To say, and partly probably just because if so many
Speaker 1: changes a level of embarrassment, and that.
Speaker 3: May be the same for you.
Speaker 1: You may not want to go to that networking event
Speaker 1: because you may not feel like you have anything to wear,
Speaker 1: you may not feel like your hair is in order.
Speaker 3: You may find whatever excuse.
Speaker 1: There is to not go and show up for you,
Speaker 1: whether that's that relationship, whether that's you going to the gym,
Speaker 1: whether that's you accepted a job, whether that's you mowing
Speaker 1: across the country, whether that's you falling in love, whatever.
Speaker 3: It is freedom. Freedom? Where are you?
Speaker 1: Because I need freedom too. You gotta realize, in order
Speaker 1: to do something that has never been done before, it's
Speaker 1: going to require you to be someone.
Speaker 3: You have never been before. I mean, imagine how that work.
Speaker 3: It can't work unless you do.
Speaker 1: So where are you? I want you to keep fighting
Speaker 1: and keep pressing. And I'm saying this to you as
Speaker 1: I say this to myself. A lot of this is
Speaker 1: probably emotional pmbassa or whatever, but I know that it's
Speaker 1: also truth because, like I said before, of you to
Speaker 1: ask me three hundred and sixty five days ago from today,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I pray for today such as today, what.
Speaker 3: Are you praying for?
Speaker 1: What are you asking for? And what are you going
Speaker 1: to do about it? At what point are you going
Speaker 1: to decide? Or better yet, at what point are you
Speaker 1: going to decide to bet on yourself, to take a
Speaker 1: chance on yourself, to actually believe in yourself, Because there're
Speaker 1: gonna be people around you that's gonna doubt you.
Speaker 3: I mean people that you hold close.
Speaker 5: Now again, I said that I'm a little emotional, so
Speaker 5: I don't know exactly how I feel about this, but
Speaker 5: I'm gonna share it because maybe you have witnessed someone
Speaker 5: saying or reacting to the same thing.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a good girlfriend of mine. Lord
Speaker 1: knows if she listened that, she gonna know it's her
Speaker 1: best friend's sister friend. We on the phone and I.
Speaker 3: Was telling her this story.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell it to you another day, but I
Speaker 1: was telling her this funny story of something that happened
Speaker 1: to me. At the time, it wasn't funny, but I
Speaker 1: was telling her this story was funny. She said, girl,
Speaker 1: you ever thought about doing some comedy? I said, girl,
Speaker 1: I study at the Groundlings. No, she didn't just say comedy,
Speaker 1: she says stand up. I was like, girl, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm doing at the Groundlings. We have several members there
Speaker 1: that I actually do stand up and what I remember
Speaker 1: is one of the actual groundings and also some of
Speaker 1: my classmates, my cohorts. And she was like, cause you
Speaker 1: are hilarious. You had me cracking up. And I'm like, yeah, girl,
Speaker 1: you know, basically, thank you so much. That's what I've
Speaker 1: been studying. And then she said I think you still
Speaker 1: got it, or she said I believe you still got it.
Speaker 1: And now I'm not trying to be a negative. Nancy
Speaker 1: but I was taken aback because it was almost as
Speaker 1: if she was saying it to me to convince me.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if my response was, well, what
Speaker 1: did you mean by that? But I essentially said I
Speaker 1: never stopped doubting myself or doubted myself or better yet,
Speaker 1: I never thought or it never came across my mind
Speaker 1: that I didn't still have it. And see, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that she had any negative intentions. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not I received it incorrectly,
Speaker 1: But what do you mean I believe you still got it?
Speaker 1: At what point did you stop thinking I had it?
Speaker 1: Did I come off as if I thought I did it?
Speaker 1: Because no matter what I've been through and continue to
Speaker 1: go through, I've constantly kept pressing.
Speaker 3: Were times where I didn't know because I couldn't even see.
Speaker 3: I felt like I could.
Speaker 1: Barely hear about what was going on in the next move.
Speaker 1: But I just knew I have.
Speaker 3: A fight.
Speaker 1: Because in this ridiculous mind divide that I praise and
Speaker 1: I say ridiculous in the most flattering way.
Speaker 3: I aspired to be bigger than opera. And my friends will.
Speaker 1: Tell you younger daughter's always talked about my yacht, having
Speaker 1: my libations on the deck, doing what I do.
Speaker 3: Then you d called me in the studio.
Speaker 1: Get about six figures, five to six figures to lay
Speaker 1: down in a voiceover track. Then I'm back to pair
Speaker 1: of sailing, cruising, cascading around the world on my yacht,
Speaker 1: and of course I'll be talking to you as well.
Speaker 1: But it really disturbed me in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And when I say disturbed, it bothered me. And it
Speaker 1: was like a pinch because I realized that your faith,
Speaker 1: your conviction, has got to come from you, and you
Speaker 1: gotta keep going and you gotta keep pressing at the
Speaker 1: minute you want a second out yourself, the minute you
Speaker 1: have somebody that attempts to throw shade yourself and not
Speaker 1: necessarily saying something outright negative, but putting a shade as
Speaker 1: if a cast on, as if it was something wrong
Speaker 1: or something missing or something not there. Because yes, it
Speaker 1: was a compliment to say, yes, Dawn, you're very talented,
Speaker 1: but what do you mean I think you still got it?
Speaker 3: At what point did I think that I not had it?
Speaker 1: And she was like, you know, it's just amazing because
Speaker 1: everything that you touch or get your hands into, you
Speaker 1: get to the top at it, even things that I've
Speaker 1: had no experience in, or it hasn't been my true passion.
Speaker 1: But I'm just a believer in hard work and perseverance.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to encourage you coming up here. I
Speaker 1: don't know what this fear is doing to you, but
Speaker 1: I want you to tell it to cut you loose,
Speaker 1: because I need you to take a chance on yourself.
Speaker 1: You got somebody look at you that you inspire. They say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I aspire to be just like you. Because you're gonna
Speaker 1: go forward and push. You're gonna open some doors. It's
Speaker 1: gonna let some other people in, and you're gonna keep rising,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna lift as you climb, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to remind yourself that the bottom of every valley
Speaker 1: is the start of the next peak of the highest mountain. Okay,
Speaker 1: so keep going and keep believing in yourself and say,
Speaker 1: I break chains all by myself. Won't let my freedom
Speaker 1: right in hell? Hey, I'm gonna keep running because a
Speaker 1: winner don't quit on themselves. You caught that a winner
Speaker 1: don't quit on themselves. That's why you can't feel If
Speaker 1: you don't quit, you just keep putting one in front
Speaker 1: of the other. And I know that anxiety. It comes
Speaker 1: so loud when you can't think, you can't see, you
Speaker 1: barely feel like you can get your breath.
Speaker 3: But peace be still.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep running because the winner don't quit on themselves.
Speaker 1: So I just want to encourage you to win, not
Speaker 1: for anybody else, but for yourself. When for your dreams,
Speaker 1: When because of your freedom, When because your peace of mind?
Speaker 1: When because of that love and relationship? When simply because
Speaker 1: you take up space? All right, that's all I have
Speaker 1: to say. Freedom, exercise it with yourself. It's time to
Speaker 1: use the.
Speaker 3: Key and un like it. Why because the winner don't
Speaker 3: quit on themselves.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for your DOCA vidad, I want
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Speaker 1: forward to having you or someone you know as a
Speaker 1: guest on my podcast, our podcast, so we can dive
Speaker 1: into a good conversation and inspire someone else to live
Speaker 1: their life on purpose and for a purpose. And what
Speaker 1: else am I missing? I think that's about it. I'm
Speaker 1: just missing you and I can't wait to see all
Speaker 1: of you soon. All right, I love you, I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm gonna get our head out
Speaker 1: of here. I'm headed out of here. You know. Always
Speaker 1: say I'm in the business of making dreams coming true
Speaker 1: and I damn show ain't over.
Speaker 3: Forget about money.
Speaker 1: So until next time, family, always remember you are your
Speaker 1: greatest ass.
Speaker 2: Get your right in, Mandy right here with me, and
Speaker 2: get excited about your life.