WEBVTT - New Chapter, Same Journey 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Get your Vitamin D right with me and get excited 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:12.440 about Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.239 into the Vitamin D Podcast and I am your host, 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.040 John Day, here to get you excited about your life 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.720 so that you can live life on purpose and for purpose. Now, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.160 if this is your first time, welcome, I'm so glad 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.880 to have you. Thank you for tuning in, Thank you 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:32.720 for choosing yourself. Um, Vitamin D. It's my baby. It's 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.199 a punt off my name. You know. My name is 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.960 Dawn right, which means the sun. So I am here 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.880 to shed light into your life. And I do this 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.360 by using inspirational insights and conversations with UH celebrities and 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.840 everyday people like you and me. It's all about being 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.159 better and doing better and seeing better and sometimes that 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.800 requires for you to cut on the light. And that's 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.040 what we're here to do. So thank you for joining me. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.760 Oh and may not forget because I've kind of missed 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.520 this on the past few episodes in the beginning, Please 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.640 be sure to check out the YouTube channel. Dawn Day 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.679 speaks all of the interviews that you are listening right here. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.880 You can catch the visuals on the our YouTube channel yeah, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:22.720 vanessabout callaway a major kire Carla Anthony Hamilton's. The list 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.920 goes on and on. Check it out so you can 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.760 get inspired. Okay, Now, um, today, I'd like to call 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.320 this kind of episode my go off episode or like 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.560 my check in, because it's just me talking to you, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:36.800 giving you an update of what's going on on my 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.320 end and what's happening in my life and how I'm 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.199 using my words to inspire myself and to hold myself accountable. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.360 So I haven't really shared this outwardly yet. I mean, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.279 it's known if you follow, you may have noticed something 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:57.360 may have changed. But I resigned from my job working 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.680 with the Steve Harvey Morning Show as the digital content 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.360 for sir uh to take a chance on me to 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.240 live out my dreams everything that I say and I 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.799 implore everyone to do, because you know we're gonna die, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.880 right and you know, I always say, you gotta live 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:18.280 while you're still alive, and while you're living, you gotta 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.600 live full out, you know. I find sometimes even with 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.839 myself being in positions where you're waiting for somebody else 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.640 permission to do something, waiting for somebody to give you 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.560 the green light, thinking that you have to rely on 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.080 someone else to be your best self. When you are enough, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.680 you have everything in your life to succeed. And I 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.520 made this decision because, um, I decided I wanted to 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.640 go more in with Dawn, to grow more on Dawn, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.440 to take flight of everything that I've dreamed of. And 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.880 it's a scary Yes, do I have the map out 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.480 plan of what the next step is known? But I 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.160 got the faith of my dreams and I'm holding myself 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.680 accountable and I'm gonna be honest with you. This is 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.320 not the first time that I've left a job and 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.440 took a jump, but it was definitely more difficult this time, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.399 or challenging, and I actually got annoyed with myself. It's 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.320 something interesting about when you get older, Right, the further 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.640 we get from being that mind of a child, it 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.120 seems as though more of the fear and the apprehension 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.480 seems to set in. And I was looking at myself 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.800 because I'm like, Dawn, I don't even recognize you, Like, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.680 what are you hesitant about what you want to do? 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.079 Usually I make up my mind for something and then 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.240 I do it right now. In this case, I still 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.560 did it, but it was something in this this transition 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.400 process of making decisions to do it that kind of 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.560 like made me feel uncomfortable, and not the uncomfortable you 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.680 need to grow, but uncomfortable, like Dawn, why are you 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.120 like hesitant? And because I am one or I have 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.960 coined myself as somebody to be daring and somebody to 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.600 take a chance, it just caused a little friction. But 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.480 we're in a pandemic right now. There are so many people, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.200 um without jobs, people that are losing their lives, and 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.360 yet I still chose to take a chance on me. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.080 You know. It just kind of reminds me of the 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.240 story of kind of like Moses and the Red Sea. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.880 You know, this brother stood in front of the sea 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.760 and guy, I was like, yo, you can't go back. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.800 He only had a way to go forward and forward 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.679 for as far as his eye could see was water. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.559 But it was the faith, you know that said, Okay, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.200 we gotta still do this. And I look at the 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.400 pandemic in the way of like this sea, this massive 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.640 sea as far as I can see, and I made 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:36.440 the decision to move my way through it. And it's um, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.200 it's challenging, and it's so far. Uh. You know, my 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:45.280 last day was a and uh, I'm still here. I've 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.359 I've managed to keep myself busy. But I want to 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.159 say to you and I want to encourage you to 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.800 take a chance on yourself to go out there and 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.760 um live your best life for you. Now. I cried 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.720 those tears, but I know the promise that's been on 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.480 my life, like the promise that were dawn of being great, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.840 and that causes me to get out there and speak. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.080 I want to use all my gifts. I want to 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.560 live full out. And if you find yourself, whether it's 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.719 in a relationship, whether it's in another job situation, whether 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.479 it's with friends, do what you gotta do so you 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.600 can soar. And often times what I think what prevents 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.440 us from soaring is this whole idea of this wind, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.720 this extra air because you decided to lift your arms up. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.680 But it's only when you lift your arms up do 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.320 you know that you can reach the sky. And then 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.800 reaching the sky, guess what the stars are. That's what 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.960 the stars that I meant to shine. So I know 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.320 that I'm meant to shine. And it made me kind 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.080 of think of some lyrics to some songs. And you 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.440 know how if you catch me on some other days 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.680 usually Wednesday and Friday, I do my traditional Vitamin D 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.599 where I'm using the lyrics of popular music and I 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.480 focus on the song. And this one it was like 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.880 a couple of songs that that came my way. One 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.599 that stood at the most is by Alo Black and 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.479 Tidle my way, and it kind of reflected or not 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.839 kind of it reflects or mirrors kind of like my 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.920 views on my dreams in my life. Because you know, 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.919 you can look back and you stand there and you 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.760 see it's like, Wow, you're working with one of the 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.080 biggest celebrities in the world. And when I tell you, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.279 I've worked my entire life and radio. I fell in 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.400 love with radio as a kid when we used to 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.840 go to the remote. I mean like if they were 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.039 at the skating ring or at to stay Fair at 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.320 the carnival. You know, you get your shirts and maybe 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.479 you screaming in the concerts. I was like, Wow, radios 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.200 for the people. And to get to a point where 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.039 you at the number one syndicated Urban a C show 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.000 and I have to make a decision to choose don 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.799 and I don't want people to be afraid to choose 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.360 you. You You can never go wrong with doing you, because 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.960 once you do, you you realize that that's the only 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:00.279 way you can be true. So it may at me 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.719 think about Ala Black because it could look like it's 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.120 foolish for me to leave right, But he says in 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.920 his lyrics, people say I'm foolish, people say I'm blinded 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.560 by faith. If I crash, I don't care. I'm going 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.520 to do it my way. Here's the thing, when it 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.120 comes down to making decisions, even what I found with myself, 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.080 it's so normal to go after someone else and ask 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.119 them what their opinions and what their views are, and 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.360 perhaps as a scapegoat, because if it turns out not 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.680 the way we wished, we can say, oh, I shouldn't 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.080 have listened to social and such, or I should have 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.160 listened to such as such. But what if you just 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.240 really took time in yourself to figure out what it 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.120 is that you want. You can't regret it because you 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.320 did the best that you know how in that moment. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.960 But oh my gosh, having the regret of saying that 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.400 you never did and you never tried. And so I'm 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.800 want to be that living example. I want to be 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.760 that beacon of light. Hear me out, I have no 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.720 intentions of feeling. That's where my faith lies. It reminds 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:06.040 me of the song by Hillsong Oceans. Spirit lead me 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.160 where my faith is without borders. Let me walk upon 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:17.000 the water wherever you will call me walking on water. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.320 Let my faith stand where my feet fail. Can you 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.560 dig it? Oftentimes you say you want something in life, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.960 But I have a question for you, how bad do 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:33.199 you want it? In a room of darkness? Imagine that 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.440 a room of endless possibilities because no one else has 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.160 stepped on the cut on the light in the room 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.000 of darkness? Will you choose to be the light? Will 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.199 you choose to be your own light? To go after 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.800 your passions, your desires, and your dreams. That's what I 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.240 had to ask myself. Could I be okay with taking 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.600 my last breath knowing that there was more or something 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.280 else that I wanted to do that I did not 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.000 do it. I don't know about you, but I'm trying 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.800 and a die empty And if it means being scared, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.080 so bid Because I gotta look at my circumstances right now. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.560 I'm not in a committed relationship. Right now, I don't 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.040 have any children. That depends on me. So Dawn why 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.280 aren't you living all the way out that you want to? 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.160 If I have this faith, these are the conversations. These 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.160 are the things that I said to myself. If I 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.960 have this faith and who I am and what my 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.679 purpose is, If I don't believe in me, if I'm 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.400 not willing to take a chance on my dreams, what 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.480 makes it think that someone else will. Whether it is 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.640 a network, whether it is a radio station, whether it 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.080 is a clothing line, whether it is a modeling agency, 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.560 whether it is an artistic company, whatever it is, I 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.480 Dawn Day has to be willing to take a chance 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:51.000 on me. And that's what I'm doing. I can't tell 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.080 you with the future holes and how the wide will be, 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.200 but I guess what I'm telling you that I'm going 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.840 because I know the promise. I am so convicted and 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.920 what I'm doing and know it's interesting like looking at 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.959 the grates, And this is a conversation I had to 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.160 say with myself. Looking at people that I admire, they've 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:13.240 all taken a chance on themselves. Heck Harvey himself, he 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.480 talked about I think his day was October nine and 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.439 he just quit his job. I think he was working 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.880 for a carpet company or something like that. Lived in 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.520 his car for a year and look at him now, Huh. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.439 I told you my plans out to be big in 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.559 than Oprah. And it does get scary, yes, because it's 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.680 out of the comfort zone. I'm coloring outside of the lines. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:41.160 I'm going into uncharted territory. Yeah. It's not like I 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.160 can call my mother both of my parents are deceased, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.440 or anyone to help me. But I'm going to take 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.959 a chance on Dawn because I don't know what's what's worse, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.680 the the fear of feeling like what it would be 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.719 like to be without, or the fear or the anxiety 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.559 creative knowing that I never lived. You know, some people 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.000 live to die and some people die to live. Which 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.240 one do you choose? I choose to live in order 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.040 to die because I want to die empty. I want 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.400 to die knowing that I gave it all a lot. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.120 I don't want to die knowing that I helped pencil 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.920 in somebody else to be there best life, or perhaps 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.240 served as that eras, or to make them forget all 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.760 the things that are not the best. I want to 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.680 be that person that somebody looks at me and say 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.320 dawn because of you. I can't dawn because of you. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:35.640 I did Dawn because of you. I will. So that's 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.200 what I had to make the decision to do. And 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.760 you know, even outlaw, he continues to say, in the darkness, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.280 I don't hide because I got pride. That gives me clarity. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.920 You see, the option of defeat is not in my story. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.839 So if you are convicted, just like I had to 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.440 be convicted with my dreams, me not being bigger than 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.760 Oprah is not an option. You know. Oftentimes I feel 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.480 like when we don't take a chance on something, it's 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:07.319 because we feel like it's though, um, there's an opportunity 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.679 to fail. But I have the mindset that you can't 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.840 fail if you don't quit. And I've said this before, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.840 just as my old barber, Louis t Pot was saying. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.400 He says, the journey is in the experience, and the 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:26.360 experience is in the journey. I'm trying to experience life. No, no, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.720 I'm not trying because unlike you, either do it or 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:34.360 you don't. I am experience in life. And oftentimes, you know, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.560 we have a tendency to hold onto things, you know, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.200 whether it's relationships, whether it's stuff in our house, um, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:46.200 whether in some situations a job, but yet we're seeking more. Well, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.120 how about we getting the notion that we have to 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.040 make wrong? And sometimes it's clearing things out and we 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.640 see that a bit. You know, oftentimes people say, you know, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.079 how meditation and how important that is, And basically that's 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.840 a clearing out of the mind so that you can 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.040 go within and when you make room, you allow other 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.800 things to come in. So I'm welcoming a new thing, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.079 and I want you to welcome a new thing, a 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.360 new you get outside of this whole comfortable bubble because 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.520 there's more, far, exceedingly and beyond. And guess what, you 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.640 can have it all, Which takes me to another track 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.600 that I was thinking about. You know DJ Kalin, You 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.160 know he has this new album out CALLI Kalen, and 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.280 I'm telling you right now that's I've been listening to. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.360 What I would say of the track is Vitamin D. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.440 It's a whole inspirational album. I love all the tracks 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.000 and there's this track and entitled I Can Have It 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.440 All on this featuring Post Malone and Megan the Stallion, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.120 and it says one of the lyrics, I can have 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.880 it All knowing I was special from a young age. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.679 You know, I don't think it's a coincidence how they 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.480 say to have a heart in the mind as a child, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.200 because you know how hearted in the mind of a child, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.200 there's no fear they just do. They just dream. They 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.320 anything that's impossible, it's possible for them because they have 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.880 the imagination. And just like I was telling you this 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.800 frustration that hit me as to whether or not I'm 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.200 gonna leave this job, it was because I was letting 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.240 too much of the stuff come in. I forgot the 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:22.200 magic of dawn. My gift is my voice. It's the speaking, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.440 not only the sounds of my voice, but how I 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.840 use my words. And who am I not to use 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.400 my words even to speak life and myself? And it's 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.960 interesting that I think oftentimes we forget the power of 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.760 the tongue. I said it before I got life, tied 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.800 it in my mouth, because life and death are in 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.640 the power of the time. And even if you are 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.600 a spiritual religious person, they say that um, at first 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.160 there was the word, and the word was with God, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.440 and so with that you have to realize the power 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.760 of the world within yourself. You have to speak things 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:59.040 over yourself and realize that everything that you've been working 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:04.080 for right now, it's happening right now, and you have 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.560 to declare to yourself and make that promise. And this 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.760 is also what they say in the track made myself 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.000 a promise, A promise. I'm gonna win. You trying to win. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.440 You can't try to win the game. Start yelling from 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.840 the sidelines. You gotta get in the game of life, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.280 and you gotta play. You gotta take the shot, you 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.080 gotta take the kick, you gotta take the chance, because 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.000 if you ain't gonna take a chance on you, who's 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.560 gonna take a chance. So I had to take a 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.840 chance on Dawn. Yeah, I cried many times. But then 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.720 I'm reminded of the Blessings dot Com, the TV shows, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.240 the job opportunities, the sketches that I'm doing. Oh my gosh, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.600 it's gonna be amazing, and I'm speaking on it. I 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:49.040 still have every intention of being bigger and over. Every 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.840 attention is still being on sn I have every intention 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.600 of doing it all because the option of defeat is 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.680 not written in my story. See something. Oftentimes, we get 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.640 so many options of what the possible ability of something 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.960 could be, rather than just what it is like, speak 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.760 the truth in your life and declare that so you 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.240 have to see it. This is your reality, because if 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.320 you can create the life that you want, then you 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.600 gotta speak in it, you gotta walk in it, you 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.840 gotta do everything in it to be in it. And 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.840 then you realize that when you operating your gift, when 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.600 you operating your true self, that is nothing but a 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.320 service to someone else. Say, your gift is meant so 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.440 that you can present it to someone else. And when 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.880 you withhold your gift because of whatever insecurity, you're not 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.640 only doing your own self a disservice, but you're doing 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.440 everyone else in the world around you a disservice. It's 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.480 just like the life cycle. You know, it can be 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.840 kind of sad in the situation of some animals die 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.640 so other people can live. Well, you gotta live out 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.680 your dreams so other people can live out their dreams. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.280 How dare you hold your gifts to yourself? How selfish 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.640 is that? There are so many people I can tell 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.920 you right now that probably needs to hear your story. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.000 Whether your story comes with the form of your hands 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:02.239 like me and my voice, um, whether it comes with art, math, science, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.720 take a chance and do it. There's a reason why 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.160 it's on your heart to do it. Do it. Don't 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.399 you want to be great? In fact, why wouldn't you 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.080 want to be great? Why wouldn't you want to be 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.760 your best self? And the thing that's so interesting is 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.240 that when we have these dreams and desires of our hearts, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.359 these gifts that come to us, they're an instrument of 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.920 our peace. There's a moment of relaxation. Oftentimes people say, Dawn, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.760 how do I decide on the life that I want. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.440 I don't know what my dream is, I don't know 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.160 what my purpose is. And I always say, do whatever 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.399 it is that makes you happy, Do whatever it is 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.119 that you find your most peace, and do whatever it 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.840 is that keeps you going and keeps that sense of happiness. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.320 That is your purpose. Because when you give your self 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.320 permission to shine, you give others the permission to shine. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.879 You also serve as a beacon of light to other people. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.320 We heard it when we were younger, this little lot 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.160 of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Say you gotta 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.040 let it shine, let it shine. You just gotta let 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:10.000 that bad boys shine. And realize that I'm gonna live 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.000 out my dreams. You gotta live out your dreams. And 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.040 just like Alt Black stated, every time they build a 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.880 wall around me, I will tear it down and say, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.440 I'm gonna live my dreams. I gotta live my dreams. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:32.439 You can't let relationships, jobs, circumstances build up a wall 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.400 around you, a wall that's gonna keep you imprisoned from 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:41.320 traveling and discovering your best self. And you gotta remember 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.000 that people who are not you, people that don't understand 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.159 the vision for your life, are gonna think that you're foolish. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.919 They're gonna think you're crazy. But remember you have to 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.879 get within and know the reason why you are designed 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.880 and why your faith is in yourself, and know that 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.720 you have to do it your way. And guess what, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.080 Just like any graphic chart on the way up, as 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.159 you progress through times, it's weikly, there's no straight line 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.639 towards it, But imagine the peace of mind knowing that 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.040 you did it your way, because even on your way 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.760 of failing, you're still towards success because you're learning a 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.119 different way of not doing something. So is it really 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:26.760 failure then? I think not. I've decided to take a 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:32.320 chance on myself. Um, and it's going to be exciting. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.399 I'm so excited about what's to come. I'm so excited 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.040 about what's to be. I'm so excited of discovering who 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.080 I am. I even appreciate the fact that I got 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.760 annoyed with myself about this hesitation to take a chance 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.800 on me, because oftentimes we get through life of just 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.800 moving and functioning that we forget to sit with self. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:56.720 I don't know about you, but often times we get 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.440 in the mirror. But how many times have you really 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.720 seen yourself? Because you know, sometimes you're getting there looking like, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:03.800 oh my gosh, what did this pop up? When did 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:10.639 this happen? It happened. Because we're moving every single day, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.480 you have an opportunity to tact a chance on yourself, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.159 to live out your dreams, to save a life, to 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.080 just be present in the moment, to give to yourself 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.960 with your best life. So that's what I'm doing. So 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.040 this road is going to be exciting. I'm excited that 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.280 I can uh stand up against everything that I'm telling 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.520 everyone else to do and you get to see it 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.520 happen in real time. We're going to see how it unfolds. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.080 And already know I already know what's written in my destiny, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.240 So I'm just gonna walk in it. I'm gonna walk 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.000 in it confidently. And it doesn't mean it. Being confident 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.800 that something doesn't mean that you don't have emotions. It 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.920 just means that even though you are in the storm, 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.480 you have what it takes to weather it. And what 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.359 you have to realize too. If you're in a situation 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.240 where you're feeling any sort of discontent, whether it's because 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.960 of your environment or whether because within you knowing that 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.520 you are going to do more, just ask yourself this, 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:15.119 what does the garden produce that's full of weeds? Huh? 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.840 What are you trying to produce? What are you looking 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.480 forward to grow? And you gotta understand this too, in 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.480 this whole moment in transition and of growing and going 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.000 after your dreams and taking a chance, that a lot 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.359 of this work that you're doing is everything that is 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.320 the foundation. It's the roots. Well, let's think of it 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.880 just like any other plant, any of the tree, any 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.760 other thing that's going from the ground. Um, we realize 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.720 the taller they are, the deeper the roots are, how 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.879 more connected they are to the center, to the core 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:51.600 to earth. Now, imagine Earth being you and your core. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:57.480 What's sprouting from your planet? Hmm, what's in your atmosphere? 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.120