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Speaker 1: A mindset shift is when you change your thinking or

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Speaker 1: possible to do that. That's a very possible thing to do,

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Speaker 1: but in order to do that, you have to you

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Speaker 1: have to change. In order to do that, you have

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Speaker 1: to process new information. In order to do that, you

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Speaker 1: have to commit to achieving an outcome. An easy example

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Speaker 1: for me to describe this is if there's a goal

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Speaker 1: to lose weight, I have to change my mindset on

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Speaker 1: how I view food. I have to start viewing food

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Speaker 1: as a source of energy and nutrition instead of taste

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Speaker 1: taste and flavor, I'm very likely to continue to experience

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Speaker 1: weight issues. But if I change my mindset about this

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Speaker 1: that's a mindset shift, And in order to do that,

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Speaker 1: you just have to commit to the process and you

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Speaker 1: have to take on new information and allow that to

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Speaker 1: impact how you think. Welcome back to family Therapy. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Elliott Connie. What's been better since you listened

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Speaker 1: to the previous episode? Once again, this is a very

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Speaker 1: important aspect of solution focused brief therapy where I want

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Speaker 1: you to focus on things that are getting better. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to always ask ourselves that question. It's very

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Speaker 1: important that you are able to gauge your progress towards

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Speaker 1: a goal, because if you don't do that, then every

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Speaker 1: step feels like failure. Like if you don't gauge how

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Speaker 1: much you're progressing towards an outcome, then every day you're

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Speaker 1: not at your outcome feels like failure. But if you

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Speaker 1: every day feels like a micro achievement on your way

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Speaker 1: and that changes the feeling of failure to feeling of success.

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Speaker 1: A comfort zone is exactly as it sounds. It's a

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Speaker 1: place where you feel most comfortable. But it's actually the

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Speaker 1: success is because we seek out comfort without thinking about

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Speaker 1: whether or not comfort is healthy or not. Comfort is

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Speaker 1: just what I'm most familiar with. So if you grew

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Speaker 1: We don't think about whether it's good for us or not.

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Speaker 1: We just think that it's comfortable for us. And when

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Speaker 2: Thought staying consistent with certain things? Added something else so

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Speaker 1: What made you bring that back? Like, at what point

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Speaker 2: Well, just with you know, the last couple of sessions

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Speaker 2: I was like, David, know what, start doing your push

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Speaker 2: The way I respond, the way I'm not getting upset

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Speaker 2: You smiling more, you know, just feeling good. It's got

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Speaker 2: It's gonna come back. And then with having that approach

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Speaker 2: see it came back. Can't be mad, you can't dwell

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Speaker 1: Man. That's how different is this from the way you

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Speaker 2: You know, Oh, it's a big difference. It's a big

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Speaker 2: like it's a it's like night and day pretty much. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not the same, David. I don't care what nobody

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Speaker 1: Okay. So what what are you hoping you could get

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Speaker 2: You? No, I don't know, man. You know, I'm used

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Speaker 2: like the last two sessions, like everything that you was

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I think it had to be a

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Speaker 2: all right, here we at? This is what okay, David? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I think it would take more than you know,

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Speaker 2: I got to get out of my comfort zone. And

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Speaker 2: of the things I listened to with Les Brown. Get

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Speaker 2: That's one of the things that Jay said this before

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Speaker 2: And it's like he's comfortable. He's aweso maddic. He says

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Speaker 2: that he's comfortable. Right, it's so many other things that

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Speaker 2: He could do it with his eyes closed. To sit

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Speaker 2: I just know what questions I ask you. That's how

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Speaker 2: because he's starting to you know, he's starting to be

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Speaker 2: he's only five years old though, but he's a good

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Speaker 2: You top of the mountain, top of the mountain. If

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Speaker 2: And I and I think that's what it is, right,

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Speaker 2: So it's it's definitely time for that change. Especially I

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Speaker 2: like I'm tired of doing this. And it's like a

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Speaker 2: will it hurt for a second, absolutely right, But will

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Speaker 2: So I'm the asset. I'm the one that's thriving in store.

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Speaker 2: Once the passion is gone and you don't want to

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Speaker 2: I called out, Wow, what what is higher ticket sales.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, yo, he's not even sales. This is

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Speaker 2: It's just a different product. Right. So that's why when

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Speaker 2: money not gonna impress me. I don't care if you're

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Speaker 2: So I don't care. None of that is going to

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Speaker 1: So if you if you keep being uncomfortable and keep

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Speaker 2: that's what's gonna happen. My boys are going to start

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Speaker 2: to a practice or something like that. No, I want

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Speaker 1: absolute top of a mountain before, Like that's not unusual.

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Speaker 1: How do you think you're your history of getting to

428
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 1: the top of another mountain will help you get to

429
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: the top of this.

430
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 2: Next one, because I know what it's gonna take to

431
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: do that, right. It's just like, you know, back to

432
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 2: the furniture thing, like I done been to the top

433
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 2: of it and sells right, it's nowhere else to go

434
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 2: just to sell more like a champion all that stuff created,

435
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 2: increase revenue and store and things of that nature. So

436
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 2: there's nowhere else to go unless you want to switch

437
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 2: your position, right, And I don't want to switch my position,

438
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 2: So I know it takes hard work, it takes discipline. Right,

439
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: It's not gonna like You're not gonna the Floodgate's not

440
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: gonna open up right away. And I understand that process.

441
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 2: That doesn't discourage you, right, because I know if you

442
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 2: keep at it and you keep working and mastering your

443
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 2: skill set with because I still I still listen and

444
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 2: read stuff about seals and how to close seals and

445
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 2: figure out people and personality and human behavior things of

446
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 2: that nature. So once you get all of that and

447
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 2: then you put it into your own routine like I

448
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 2: did with football, I did with cells when I was

449
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 2: in furniture and security systems and things of that nature,

450
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,479
Speaker 2: is going to get you to that level. It's the same,

451
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 2: it's a it's the same same process, different discipline, same process,

452
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 2: different different discipline, and that's all it is. Now that

453
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 2: just got a switch because you're going into a different industry, right,

454
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 2: same process though, same process, and I gotta get that process. So,

455
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: like you said, let's brown get uncomfortable for a little bit.

456
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 2: And it's crazy. When I was listening to him, I

457
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 2: felt like he was talking to me, like I just like, damn,

458
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 2: is he sitting in the car with me? It's like,

459
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 2: I'm like, Dad, I looked over to the side. I

460
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: was like, nah, I ain't sitting there, but why are

461
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 2: you talking to you? This felt like he was just

462
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: talking to me. Like I didn't hear nothing else around me,

463
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: no cars, no fire trucks, nothing. I just heard him

464
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 2: and that was it.

465
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yeah, I love the energy of

466
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: this session. We'll continue this conversation with David to learn

467
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: more about the changes he is making when we come back. Okay,

468
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: so back to this the scale number, how would you

469
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: notice over you said it would take a couple of

470
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: days of consistency. What would be some of those signs

471
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: over those couple of days that would tell you I'm

472
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: kind of more like a four and a half five? Now,

473
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: what would you what would you.

474
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: See maintaining my month, my morning routines, Uh, my energy,

475
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: not physical energy, but you know, my my my aurah.

476
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 2: And you know, I think if that stays consistent, I

477
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: know you're gonna have some off days. It's the way

478
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 2: you handle your off day, right, I think that's gonna.

479
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 2: That's gonna. Let me know that. Okay, it's trying to

480
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: raise the number up a little bit. I think that's what.

481
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 2: That's definitely gonna let me know, right, it's not as

482
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't make it. I can't put a

483
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 2: number on it tomorrow. You know, I need I need

484
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: a couple more days of Okay, all right, this is

485
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 2: what I want because you know, let's say tonight, the

486
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: baby crying or whatever, and I go to sleep late,

487
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: or I wake up at four in the morning and

488
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 2: can't go back to sleep, right, usually I do that.

489
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't got time to do nothing in

490
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: the morning. I'm cranky and everything. Right, No, still gotta

491
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: get up, Still gotta do what I need to do,

492
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 2: do my pushups, listen to my motivational stuff. You know,

493
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,959
Speaker 2: it don't gotta be twenty minutes. It could be ten minutes.

494
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: And just keep it going, right, That's how you know

495
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 2: when all right, this is now, this is just happy.

496
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: He's gonna keep on doing it. He's gonna keep on

497
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: doing it. And it's crazy too. I don't even drink

498
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: coffee as much as no more said I have, like

499
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: I have about two cups of coffee in the last

500
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 2: two weeks and don't even need it. Going to bed early, right,

501
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 2: I started going to bed a little earlier now instead

502
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: of staying up till two three in the morning, I'm

503
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 2: in bed probably like eleven. The other night I stayed

504
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 2: up a little late because I was working, right, But

505
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: other than that, I'm in bed about eleven, ten o'clock,

506
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Wake up in the morning. No coffee, like

507
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: I probably had, like yeah, maybe maybe three cups in

508
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 2: two weeks. Is that on? Oh? I was a that's

509
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: definitely unusual. Used to be. I wake up, drink my

510
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: bottle of water. If Jay's up before me, and I'll

511
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: smell of coffee. I'm like, yo, she ain't make no

512
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 2: coffee yet. I'm downstairs at coffee on Yeah, maybe a

513
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: cup and a half. I'm taking my Tumblr with me

514
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 2: to work with a thing full of coffee, straight black.

515
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: Right to the point now, I was like, like, no, not,

516
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 2: I haven't had I definitely I didn't have none today, Yesterday, Monday,

517
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: Sunday definitely had nothing. Saturday, I think I had my

518
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: last cup of coffee probably was like Friday, I think

519
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: I had a cup Friday, No, I had a cup.

520
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: No, But how do you explain that that is such

521
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: a drastic shift? How do you explain that?

522
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I think I was dependent on

523
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: it because I was feeling sluggish, right, and then it

524
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: just started. You know what, you want to stop feeling sluggish,

525
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: Go to bed a little earlier, right, do your pushups? Right?

526
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: When you work out, you create more oxygen in your blood, right,

527
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 2: more oxygen in your body, more energy you have. Right,

528
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 2: So I know the science on that. So I was like, well,

529
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: if I stopped doing this and that, then maybe I

530
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 2: don't need a coffee in the morning. Right. And then

531
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 2: you know, like, I'm like, I like I read it.

532
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 2: I do a lot of stuff on health. It's not

533
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: the best choice of an energy boost, right, but it's

534
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: a good It's not a super bad choice though. But

535
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: I was like, nah, I don't even need it, like,

536
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: for real, don't even need it. Don't even need it.

537
00:29:53,880 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Mmm, that is crazy. As do you continue

538
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: to shift in this way? What do you hope? What

539
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: do you hope this does to your relationship with Jay?

540
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 2: I hope and I pray that it just brings us

541
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: closer and help us to communicate with each other more,

542
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: love on each other, more open up our hearts more

543
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: to each other. Like I really, really really think I

544
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: really want that to happen. And I think by this,

545
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: by me doing this, because one thing she told me

546
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: this before, she said, you have all the tubes, right,

547
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: you have everything that you can get whatever you want.

548
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: You just got to go for it and do it.

549
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: And I think by me doing this, it's going to

550
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,959
Speaker 2: keep that consistent smile on her face and it's going

551
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: to help me concentrate more on her too, Right. But

552
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: I gotta get myself right. I gotta get myself right,

553
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: you know. And it's going to take some sacrifice and

554
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: some discipline for me to do that. And then it's gonna,

555
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 2: I know, it has to like it got to work,

556
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: like it has the work as the work as the work.

557
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: You've said a few things about Jay that make me think,

558
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: and I just want to make sure I caught this right.

559
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: Some of this stuff she's been asking you to do

560
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: for a really long time.

561
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I would bet you.

562
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: Knowing what I know about you know, relationships and people

563
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: and how we operate, she might be noticing some of

564
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: these things. But she might be thinking, you know, it's

565
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: about time, what took you so long? Or you know,

566
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: too little, too late, or all of those things. What

567
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: do you imagine she needs to notice that would help

568
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: her realize like, oh, this is real, Like this is

569
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: this is actually happening. He's not just doing this, He's

570
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: this is real.

571
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: I think the biggest change when she knows for real,

572
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: for real is when I walk away from home. Wow, okay,

573
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: I think when I think when I do that, she's

574
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: gonna be like and got a plan, like already got

575
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: something in play, because that's one thing I do. I'm

576
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 2: not gonna quit a job and don't have nothing else

577
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: for a backup. Like that's just not I don't think

578
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: that's a good decision, especially when you got people that's

579
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: depending on you, right, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,

580
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: now I'm sick. I'm sitting on a couple million dollars

581
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: and I do that, then that's a whole different ball

582
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: game though. But I won't do nothing like that as

583
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 2: a man. I won't do that. Right. But if I

584
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 2: walk in the house and I tell him, like, yo,

585
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: today was my last day. Yeah, right, I'm serious, call

586
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:45,719
Speaker 2: them accent right for real? What made you? Oh? Them

587
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 2: sessions really helping?

588
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: How shocked would she be for you to say, like,

589
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm walking away from making and I'm selling a higher.

590
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm selling houses, cars, apartments, one of those higher to.

591
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: Listen. When when I was with Neil Shot and I

592
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: parted ways with them, well they let me go, right.

593
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna come home and she was

594
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: gonna rip me a new one. I came home, man,

595
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: and this one I was still eating me. She was

596
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: asking me, what do you want for dinner? I said,

597
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 2: what I want for dinner? I said, baby, they just

598
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: let me go. She said, I know it wasn't your fault, right,

599
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: They didn't want you there, David, I don't want you

600
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: there no more? Right, So what you I was like, Okay, well,

601
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: I want you to make that good old meatloaf that

602
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: you make with the spendings and empetic cheese and all that. She'said,

603
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 2: that's what you want? I said, absolutely, I'm simple, that's

604
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: I love that ditch. When I ate, I loved that,

605
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 2: and like she like it wasn't she was because my

606
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 2: friends he man, they was like yo, Jay's man. I

607
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 2: was like ah, bro, she wasn't even mad, Like she

608
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: know I like tequila. She had me some some tequila

609
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: waiting for me at the house, and I was like,

610
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: she ain't even mad, bro, It was like for real.

611
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: I was like nope. And I told I'm gonna take

612
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 2: the summer off because she was pregnant. I say, I'm

613
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 2: gonna take the summer off. I'll start looking for something

614
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: in September, turn down a job, offering everything because I

615
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: ain't want to work that far because she was pregnant

616
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 2: and it was a high risk pregnancy and we enjoyed

617
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: our summer and everything. Yeah, I was shot. So for

618
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 2: me to walk away from right now on my terms,

619
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: walk away on my terms and and have a plan

620
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: in play, oh yeah, she gonna Yeah, it's gonna be

621
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 2: a double high five hug probably, or she might because

622
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 2: I know I know her, she might try to hold

623
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 2: back a little bit. She'd be like, okay, all right,

624
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: all right, you no good job, fizz bump high five,

625
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 2: you know right now, let's see now, let's let's just

626
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: keep this train rolling. But I think it'll definitely bring

627
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 2: some joy inside with her, right I think she'll probably

628
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: step on the porch or whatever, and probably like yeah,

629
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: you know, or when she pray at night, she'll probably

630
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: say something like thank you for let opening up dated

631
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 2: eyes or giving them the courage and you know, for

632
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: him to walk away, because like things of that nature.

633
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 2: I think that's what she'll say. And it's about that,

634
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: it's not it's happening, Yeah, it's happening.

635
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: I think the phrase you use was happy inside. What

636
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: difference would it make for you to be making her

637
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: happy inside?

638
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: It would make a big difference, because you know, it

639
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 2: was just one thing, and I said, is before one

640
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: thing that you know makes like that? I feel good.

641
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: It makes me happy and smile and seeing a smile

642
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: on my lady's face and my kids' faces, that's the

643
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 2: best joy. Like that joy right there. It's just like

644
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: as hon as you know, it's no it's priceless. And

645
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: I think and I needed them smiles. I need to

646
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: put those back on her face, you know, I need.

647
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: I need to put those on her face, and some

648
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 2: of my chace and moving forward with life is gonna

649
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 2: definitely do that, because then everything else is gonna start

650
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 2: falling into place like it should be like it used

651
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 2: to be.

652
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: Right right, And how cool would it be for you

653
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: to have like a couple million dollars in the bank

654
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: and your your lady kids happy, Like if you continue

655
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: on this path at some point in the future, like

656
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: your bank account is full, Like what how cool would

657
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: that be?

658
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: That'd be real cool. It'd be awesome. It'd be real awesome, right,

659
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 2: Probably not a couple of million dough but I have

660
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 2: some big money in the bank, And it's a different

661
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 2: type of feeling. But having it, having it and don't

662
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 2: having really like your significant other to share it with

663
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: it is a little is different. Having somebody you can

664
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: share it with and with your kids and stuff like that.

665
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 2: That's a ravery good thing. That's a good thing.

666
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: How do you know that?

667
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: Because it's like even like you know, like even now

668
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 2: like with the little the little right, my sons and

669
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: daughter com their life up to this age, even my

670
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 2: daughter has sixteen is night and day compared to minds

671
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: in Jaylub to their age, right, And it's just the

672
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 2: sacrifices that us as parents that we made, and you know,

673
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 2: the things that we do to provide for them to

674
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: give them a little bit better life to do things

675
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 2: like that. Now that's definitely gonna happen. I'm not one

676
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: of them guys that just because I got a few

677
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: dollars that I needed to have the most expensive stuff

678
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: on and things are like, not, that's not me, that's

679
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 2: not me. Right So but this changing changing my income

680
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: or and my savings is just going to open up

681
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: their eyes to different things that's out there in the world.

682
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: Like my sons is like Zeke ain't even two yet,

683
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: in Isaiah is five. They don'et been on more airplanes

684
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 2: than I did. Like I didn't get out my first

685
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 2: airplane until I went to a college visit and I

686
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 2: was seventeen. My daughter and them been on shee took

687
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 2: multiple flights and she's only sixteen, right, So just that

688
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 2: little little stuff like that, little vacations going to different states,

689
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 2: the furtheres I've been until I was until I went

690
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 2: out my college visit was d C. Fursther As. I've

691
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 2: been from Jersey to DC. Never been to Connectic kut

692
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 2: no three hours, yeah, three hours, yeah, never been to

693
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: Never been to Georgia until I became a young man,

694
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 2: like twenty twenty one, twenty two. Never been to Florida.

695
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: My family wasn't in one of the feelings that everybody's

696
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: gone down south for the summer, because a lot of

697
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: my family was up in Jersey. So we did a

698
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: lot of stuff up here, right but yeah, yeah, yeah,

699
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 2: like nope, mm hm. So that's big right now, little

700
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: things right now, the little stuff we introduced my son

701
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 2: to right now, you know, the neighborhood we live in

702
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: right now, Like I grew up in the hood, like

703
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: literally the hood. Like you can't walk down my block.

704
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: You after a certain time of the night, if you

705
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: ain't from the area, you're not walking down my block,

706
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 2: right you're not gonna walk down there. And that's now.

707
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: Right back then you probably could a little bit, But

708
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: I grew up in the hood, like my son don't

709
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: know about that. Our job is for our kids to

710
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: grow up better than us, right, that's our job. I'm

711
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: not mad at my mother and father. My mother raised

712
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: four kids by itself. She did what she needed to do.

713
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: She put food on the table, close on our back

714
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: and the roof of our head, and she did what

715
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 2: she needed to do, right. She got up and worked

716
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: doubles and triples so she can provide for us. And

717
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: that's all right. So that was my turn for my children,

718
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: right I don't gotta work doubles and all that stuff.

719
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 2: I still work long hours, though, but I'm not working

720
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 2: from nine o'clock in the morning two three to seven

721
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: o'clock the next morning. I'm not doing that. My mother

722
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: used to do that, Like I won't see my mother.

723
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: My sister's at home, but I'm not doing that.

724
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: How satisfying does that feel to know that, even though

725
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: when you haven't been feeling like the best version of you,

726
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: you still are providing a life for your children that

727
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: is very different than the life you had grown up.

728
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: It feels good, it feels it's definitely feels good, and

729
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 2: I know it's going to get better. But it's a

730
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 2: like okay, and I'm not content with it. I think

731
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 2: at some point in time I got like, all right,

732
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 2: that's it. No, mm hmm. I want to do better.

733
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 2: I gotta do better. I want them to have better, right.

734
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: I want them to see certain things. I want them

735
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 2: to go to certain places for them to get there

736
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 2: and do that. I gotta change certain things, right, I

737
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: think by that, And now that I know and I

738
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,959
Speaker 2: want that, I got it. Like I said, I gotta

739
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: get uncomfortable for a little bit while they're still young,

740
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 2: so that way, when they start getting older, you know,

741
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: they'll know and they having these conversations with their peers, right,

742
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 2: and they see it. You know, they're like, oh, well,

743
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 2: my dad is home. Your dad is home. Yeah, but

744
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 2: my dad works at home, and you know, exposing them

745
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: to certain things, that's what that's the thing, exposure, right,

746
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 2: we gotta I feel like as black men, we gotta

747
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: black men, women and families, we got to expose our

748
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 2: kids to certain things outside of the norm. And there's

749
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. I think we I think we

750
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 2: feel like that. It's something. Oh it's uh, why just know.

751
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 2: Do I want to live in a predominantly Caucasian white neighborhood. No,

752
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: I do not. But I don't want to live in

753
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 2: the hood. Don't either. I don't want to worry about

754
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 2: my car getting broken into or I gotta watch them.

755
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 2: I mean I watch them on my back no matter

756
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 2: what and where I'm at, But I don't need to.

757
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: I don't want that. Right, my son, I want to

758
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 2: be to play in his backyard in front of the

759
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: house and don't got to worry about gunshots and things

760
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 2: of that nature. Like, yes, absolutely, I want him to

761
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 2: go to a good school me and Jay when are

762
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,919
Speaker 2: big on not having them in a predominantly Courtcasian white school.

763
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 2: That's it's just us, right when I tell that to people, right,

764
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: I say, that's just the way we operate. That's what

765
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 2: we want. We don't want that, you know, But we

766
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: definitely don't want to live on Grandad in Pattison either. No, no, yeah, no,

767
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. So it's gonna take

768
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 2: some sacrifice into for him to not have to worry

769
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 2: about that. And there's nothing wrong, it doesn't change, it

770
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 2: doesn't make you less of a man or none of that.

771
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: And I told that to I said this in college

772
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: one time, said this, right. I was like, it was

773
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 2: one of my communication classes, and we're doing we're saying something.

774
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 2: I was like, see, dude, some of y'all that's from

775
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,959
Speaker 2: the suburbs and the picket fence and all that. Y'all

776
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 2: want to be down and come down to the hood

777
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, like digging, that's what it is.

778
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: Were trying to get up out of here. I said, Listen,

779
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 2: I'd have loved to grow up in the picket with

780
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 2: the fence in the backyard and the finished basement and

781
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 2: all that. Stuff all the love, but I unfortunately it

782
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: did and I'm sitting right here next to you and

783
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 2: you did. So what now, Hey, yeah, yeah.

784
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: We're about out of time, but I just want to

785
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: ask you to do one quick thing. What's that As

786
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: you keep moving up that scale that we were talking

787
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: about earlier, and you start noticing that you're more like

788
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: a four and a half maybe five instead of three

789
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: and a half maybe four, I want you to notice

790
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: how people around you respond. That includes Jane, that includes

791
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: people at work, and it even includes your kids. Like

792
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: if you watch them really closely, you're gonna notice little

793
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: changes in them. And here's the example. Here's an example.

794
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: If I were watching you really closely, a really small

795
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: change is actually evidence of a really big change. And

796
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: a small change you did that I'd have to be

797
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: watching you really closely to catch. Would be you are

798
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: no longer drinking coffee every morning. That seems like a

799
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: tiny thing, but that means you're going to bed earlier.

800
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: That means you're getting rest. It means you're waking up

801
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: with excitement. That means you're getting your energy from less

802
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,280
Speaker 1: brown as opposed to black coffee. Like that one little

803
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: thing is a sign of a larger shift. And I

804
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: want you to pay really close attention to the loved

805
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: ones around you, because they are probably doing little things

806
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: that are evident that they're noticing something's different with David,

807
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: something different with Dad, and I want you to I

808
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 1: want you to pay really close attention to them to notice.

809
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 2: Okay, that sound cool, yep, sound like a play.

810
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: Excellent, man, Well, good luck bro, it is. It is

811
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: amazing to hear what you're doing. And I'm super excited

812
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: I get to watch it.

813
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 2: All right, man, Thank you man, I appreciate it.

814
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Very welcome.

815
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 2: Bro. All right.

816
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: Next, you know, for David and people like David, if

817
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: you find yourself in a situation where you're stuck, you're

818
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: dealing with the same problem over and over again, you're

819
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: tired of being who you are and you want to

820
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: become who you were meant to be, then I think

821
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: it's time to seek how to psychotherapists. Like we think

822
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: that psychotherapy is about like I've got a problem and

823
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: they need to talk to it therapists to solve that problem.

824
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: But that's actually not true. Psychotherapy is more about healing

825
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: than it is problems. Psychotherapy is more about patterns than

826
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: it is problems. So if you find yourself in a

827
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: pattern that is leading you in a direction that you

828
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: don't want to go in, and you want to develop

829
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: a new pattern in your life that will help you

830
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: evolve and grow in a direction that you do want

831
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: to go in, then go find a psychotherapist and hold

832
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: that therapist accountable to do the kind of work that

833
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: leads to you healing. And if they don't, find another psychotherapist,

834
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: and another psychotherapist and another psychotherapist until you find the

835
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: right one that's going to help you create the life

836
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: that you desire and in fact deserve. The difference between

837
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: motivation and discipline is motivation is not consistent. Motivation is

838
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: an emotion, Like when I go to the dentist and

839
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: the dentist tells me you got cavities, and I've actually

840
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: never had a cavity in my whole life. But you know,

841
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: you go to the dentists and the dentist tells you

842
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: you got cavities and teeth problems and you need to

843
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: start flossing, and you know, doing these things for dental care,

844
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: you're super motivated because you don't want the pain of

845
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: a deep cleaning in the dentist again, but a week later, like,

846
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: you're not really interested in flossing because that motivation, that

847
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: the pain that's associated with that motivation has waned. But

848
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: discipline is the act of being consistent with a behavior

849
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: simply because it is good for you or in line

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Speaker 1: Discipline is more important than motivation because discipline means I

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Speaker 1: because all change requires sacrifice. In order to become who

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Speaker 1: This is not just a podcast that I want you

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Speaker 1: and in fact, we can't help but be impacted by

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Speaker 1: Come on this journey of change rediscovery with us. And

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Speaker 1: the way to do that is to just pay attention

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Speaker 1: consequence of listening to this podcast. Pay attention to things

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you about your healing journey,

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Speaker 1: Network special thanks to our assistant Glendell Sepe. It's produced

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