Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Welcome to season four of my podcast, Cheekis
Speaker 1: In Chill. Thanks to you, guys, those that listen and
Speaker 1: come back every week twice a week to listen to
Speaker 1: my podcast, I am so grateful.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: If you've been here since season one, if you came
Speaker 1: on a little later, if this is your first time
Speaker 1: listening to my podcast, welcome. We receive you with lots
Speaker 1: of love and open arms. I'm excited to have you.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have all of you. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: for you guys listening in, I would not have a
Speaker 1: podcast and I would not be on season four.
Speaker 2: So we got to celebrate that. I have missed you, guys.
Speaker 1: I hope that you missed me, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: start this season talking about what I have in store
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five and just be completely, one hundred
Speaker 1: percent honest with you guys, the way I always am.
Speaker 1: That's what Cheeky's and Chill is all about, and I
Speaker 1: don't intend to change that even if it is new year.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna let you guys know what's on my mind,
Speaker 1: in my heart, and what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2: So here we go. It's the first episode.
Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know, you know, there's
Speaker 1: Cheeky's and then there's Jane. Janay is my birth name.
Speaker 1: I think I've shared it plenty of times here on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but if I haven't, you know, Jenney means
Speaker 1: precious gift from God. And I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: in a way not neglecting Jeney because I always do
Speaker 1: my best to like stay centered and stay true to myself.
Speaker 2: And I'm both Jenay and Cheeky's. I mean, I can't
Speaker 2: change that.
Speaker 1: But I've been called cheeky since I was very young,
Speaker 1: since I was little, and for a long time, that's
Speaker 1: what I thought my name was. Until I started going
Speaker 1: to school and I was like, oh my god, my
Speaker 1: name is Jenney and not really Jena. It was actually Jane.
Speaker 1: But that's a whole other story and we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it here on the podcast. But anyways,
Speaker 1: my point is that for the past I don't know,
Speaker 1: I want to say for sure ten years, I have
Speaker 1: been very, very focused heavily on Cheeky's and growing my
Speaker 1: career as a singer and solidifying myself as a recording artist.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I've done a pretty good job,
Speaker 1: thank God, and thank God for the people that listen
Speaker 1: to my music.
Speaker 2: And stream it.
Speaker 1: It may not be crazy ass streams like other artists,
Speaker 1: but I'm so grateful because the people that follow me
Speaker 1: on the music platforms are the ones that are definitely
Speaker 1: listening in So that means a lot to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful. But I feel like in a way,
Speaker 1: I haven't catered as much as i'd like to Jinee
Speaker 1: to like who I am at the core of myself.
Speaker 1: That sounds weird at the core of myself, but yes,
Speaker 1: at my core and anyways, So I just feel like
Speaker 1: this year it's more about Jinae and to be completely
Speaker 1: honest with you guys, I don't necessarily know what that
Speaker 1: looks like fully, And on my New Year's post I
Speaker 1: put that I was very honest. I you know, there's
Speaker 1: no other way I know how to be. But I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm starting the new year on the right foot, But
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I'm not necessarily ready for you, but
Speaker 1: I will be. And that's how I feel. This year
Speaker 1: already started off with so many things emotionally heavy. I
Speaker 1: feel like the energy has been dense everywhere I speak
Speaker 1: to people and they're all feeling the same way. So
Speaker 1: I am kind of like at a crossroads. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know exactly what my year looks like. I have plans,
Speaker 1: plans as far as becoming a mother, and I hope
Speaker 1: that comes to fruition, and I'm just praying about that.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like the only thing that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I really want to focus on this this year, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe until that happens, I'll have more clarity
Speaker 1: as far as my career goes.
Speaker 2: But here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to do what we have been doing,
Speaker 1: and it is a podcast about health and beauty and
Speaker 1: spirituality and feeling your best and becoming the best version
Speaker 1: of yourself. So as I'm doing that myself, tapping into
Speaker 1: this new soft Girl era, should I say, I want
Speaker 1: to share that with you guys, And on the podcast,
Speaker 1: I want to have professionals and experts on certain topics,
Speaker 1: maybe becoming a mother or nutrition, you know, mental health.
Speaker 1: There are so many things like I have questions about
Speaker 1: and I really really want to tap in to that
Speaker 1: space on the podcast this year or this season. Should
Speaker 1: I say, I'm going to continue to share my personal
Speaker 1: life with you guys as I have been doing. Something
Speaker 1: always happens in my life, and I'm gonna continue to
Speaker 1: be honest and open with you guys, because one thing
Speaker 1: I do have clear and has not changed is the
Speaker 1: fact that I am meant to change the world one
Speaker 1: heart at a time, and my podcast is definitely an
Speaker 1: essential part of that. So again, thank you guys for
Speaker 1: listening in and being here and being open to listening
Speaker 1: to my thoughts, to my experiences, to my aspirations to
Speaker 1: this new era that I don't even know what it
Speaker 1: looks like, Guys, I really don't. And I had mentorship
Speaker 1: the other day and I told my mentor that and
Speaker 1: he said it is okay to say I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, you're right, because I've always
Speaker 1: been the type of woman that's like, I have a plan.
Speaker 1: I know what my year is going to look like.
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to go on tour. I know
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna, you know, bring out two albums. And
Speaker 1: I always have a plan and I love schedules and
Speaker 1: I love to do lists, and right now, for the
Speaker 1: first time I think in a long time, if not
Speaker 1: in my life. I am just taking it day by
Speaker 1: day and if I feel like resting, I'm gonna rest.
Speaker 1: And if I feel like getting shit done, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Like I don't know, something is definitely shifting.
Speaker 1: And I said this on one of my episodes with Roddy,
Speaker 1: and she's like a spiritual, like amazing woman. If you
Speaker 1: guys did not listen to that episode in season three,
Speaker 1: please go listen to it. But I felt a shift.
Speaker 1: I felt it. I felt it coming. I felt it
Speaker 1: like the end of last year. And I'm like, something
Speaker 1: is changing. I don't know what it looks like. And
Speaker 1: I'm just embracing that right now and I'm okay with that,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to share it with you guys as
Speaker 1: I go. And that's just the truth. We're gonna figure
Speaker 1: this out together. What I keep hearing during my time
Speaker 1: of like meditation is going back to basics, going back
Speaker 1: to that why I started everything that I do, the music,
Speaker 1: the book, like everything that I that I that I do,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to forget the why.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. Like I feel like.
Speaker 1: Spirituality, like a different version of myself is getting ready
Speaker 1: to like be born and it's kind of crazy because
Speaker 1: I want to give life to another human being, so
Speaker 1: I feel like in order to do that, I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I am prepared in every way
Speaker 1: and that I am my best self. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm feeling. And of course I still want
Speaker 1: to do music. Absolutely, there's still events that we're going
Speaker 1: to be doing, but I'm not going to go as
Speaker 1: hard or as heavy, and I'm not I don't want
Speaker 1: to feel pressured in any way now more than ever.
Speaker 1: If I want to say no to something, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say no and be okay with it, like that's it.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I did this year in regards
Speaker 1: to that is saying no to some like Grammy events.
Speaker 1: Because I did go to the Grammys. Guys, we were
Speaker 1: nominated for an American Grammy. You know, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: We didn't, but I was happy to be there. But
Speaker 1: before that, there were events that were very good for
Speaker 1: me to be at, you know, networking and you know,
Speaker 1: being in that space, especially because it's like you know,
Speaker 1: it's the American side of things, and of course making
Speaker 1: connections is important. But I wanted to spend time with
Speaker 1: my nieces and nephews and my husband and I did that,
Speaker 1: and I maybe my management wasn't too happy about it,
Speaker 1: but they respected it. But before I'd be like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I have to be there. Okay, fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to do that this year. I
Speaker 1: really want to put like my family first, my husband,
Speaker 1: like I want, I want to spend more.
Speaker 2: Time with my friends. I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I even get really like emotional thinking about it because
Speaker 1: I've been working so damn hard for the past, for
Speaker 1: my whole life in reality, but especially since my mom
Speaker 1: passed away twelve years ago and for sure for the
Speaker 1: last ten years that I'm like, I just want to
Speaker 1: go back to me, to my soul, to what I'm
Speaker 1: meant to do here and make a difference and do
Speaker 1: more philanthropy work. And I really, really I'm craving that
Speaker 1: and taking a step back from music, not stepping away
Speaker 1: because some people were kind of like from one of
Speaker 1: the last episodes in season three, I kind of talked
Speaker 1: about it, you know, the New Year's one, and people
Speaker 1: were like, oh my god, Jesus is going to retire
Speaker 1: from music, and I'm like, no, that's not what I said.
Speaker 1: I'm taking just a step back, which means I'm able
Speaker 1: to look in I want to fall in love again
Speaker 1: with the process of making art, and I also feel
Speaker 1: like I want to write different type of music and
Speaker 1: I want the sound to be different without thinking of
Speaker 1: awards and recognition. Although all that feels amazing, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, But now I'm like, I want to sing
Speaker 1: about something different. I'm in a happy place, thank God,
Speaker 1: and I hope it stays that way for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life. But I want to talk about love
Speaker 1: and about how can I inspire people and all the
Speaker 1: things that I talk about on the podcast and all
Speaker 1: that I am like on social media, like how can
Speaker 1: I bring that into my music? So in order to
Speaker 1: do that, I need to step back, take a little break.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with taking breaks. I feel like breaks
Speaker 1: are definitely necessary because when you're in like sometimes it
Speaker 1: kind of fogs your vision. And I feel like it
Speaker 1: did for a little bit because especially last year, we
Speaker 1: went hard and I told myself I wanted to go
Speaker 1: hard in twenty twenty four, careful what you asked for,
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh my gosh, and it was
Speaker 1: very successful and I don't regret anything, but I was mentally, physically, emotionally,
Speaker 1: spiritually exhausted, and I'm like, if I don't take a
Speaker 1: little break, I'm going to burn out and I'm going
Speaker 1: to resent my career and I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to be present. I still want to
Speaker 1: be on social media and share my life and share
Speaker 1: things with you guys. But I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to necessarily tour as hard as I did the
Speaker 1: past ten years, you know. So that's just that, and
Speaker 1: again we're going to figure it out together, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm taking it literally day by day, month by month,
Speaker 1: you know. Right now, I feel like I'm on a
Speaker 1: soul break, on a soul break to kind of become
Speaker 1: my best soul child. I was talking to my mentor,
Speaker 1: you know, and we talked about what this year because
Speaker 1: last year was fulfillment. I always have like a word
Speaker 1: for every year. So last year was fulfillment. This year
Speaker 1: it's rejoice, Rejoice, reset, recalibrate. It's kind of like that
Speaker 1: kind of vibe, and with that comes Yes, I want
Speaker 1: to take a break from alcohol. I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: do this for a very very very long time, and
Speaker 1: I take long breaks. I do forty days. I did
Speaker 1: ninety days last year, and I know that as I'm
Speaker 1: tapping into this healthier version of myself, not only mentally
Speaker 1: and spiritually and emotionally, but physically, and I want to
Speaker 1: prepare my body to have a child. I know what
Speaker 1: alcohol does. Since I know this, this.
Speaker 2: Is how I know.
Speaker 1: That there has to be a change, because I know
Speaker 1: how toxic, how poisonous alcohol is for our bodies. I
Speaker 1: want to start doing things that are going to increase
Speaker 1: my life, not decrease my life, because guys, whether I
Speaker 1: want to admit it or not, and I'm better with
Speaker 1: this now. I'm going to be forty this year, and
Speaker 1: I want to live long and I'm going to have
Speaker 1: hopefully a child, you know, so I'm having a child
Speaker 1: later in my life, which there is a study they
Speaker 1: just sent me this. Guys, anyone that has a child
Speaker 1: after forty just saying has a I don't know what percentage,
Speaker 1: but a larger percentage of like living till one hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily know if I want to live to
Speaker 2: one hundred, but I'm just.
Speaker 1: Saying, you know, it made me feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: But I definitely want to have stopped thinking about out
Speaker 1: what makes me happy right now in the moment, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, that instant gratification like alcohol, because
Speaker 1: alcohol gives you that dopamine and that serotonin and it's like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, I feel really good right now.
Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, you know, I want to stop
Speaker 1: doing that because that's a disservice to myself, you know,
Speaker 1: and start thinking about, Okay, I know that this will
Speaker 1: make me happy now, but how is it going to
Speaker 1: affect me tomorrow and in my future. That's really really
Speaker 1: loving yourself. And I'm a person that I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: all about self care and self love, but that's a
Speaker 1: huge part of my life that has had a bit
Speaker 1: of a hold on me.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that gay, I enjoy social drinking and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, but it's not good for me. And that's
Speaker 1: my personal opinion. That's my personal choice, and I really
Speaker 1: really want to get a hold of that.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 1: I'm already starting by drinking less the month of February.
Speaker 1: I gave up red meat, I gave up coffee, and
Speaker 1: you know, making it easy on you know, the alcohol,
Speaker 1: like really practicing my willpower. But I need to like
Speaker 1: I want to cut it off completely. It's again a
Speaker 1: lot easier said than done. I love saying that, but
Speaker 1: it's true. But that is one of my goals this year.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: You know, like, for instance, the gym. Sometimes there's days
Speaker 1: where I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want to go.
Speaker 1: It's tough, like my trainer kicks my ass. But then
Speaker 1: I start thinking, now, how am I going to feel
Speaker 1: after because there's so I wake up really early to meditate,
Speaker 1: to like pray the whole thing, to prep my day
Speaker 1: before I go work out. So sometimes I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm so tired. I want to text him
Speaker 1: and tell him, you know what, I don't feel good today.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, I say a little prayer. I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: give me the strength to get out of this bed,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 1: feel so good afterwards. I want to do more of that,
Speaker 1: because yes, a lot of things that are good for
Speaker 1: us guys don't necessarily feel great in the moment, but
Speaker 1: afterwards you feel freaking accomplished. And I love that feeling
Speaker 1: of accomplishment, and I want to get addicted to that.
Speaker 1: Feeling that after feeling not the right now, feeling okay,
Speaker 1: right now, I feel good right now, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink and I'm gonna feel good right now,
Speaker 1: But then I feel like shit the next day because
Speaker 1: I don't. Honestly, my body's not taking alcohol the way
Speaker 1: it used to, like it gives me a headache, like
Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay, I think my body's even like
Speaker 1: rejecting it. So I really need to tap into that,
Speaker 1: and I need you guys to help me. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna probably speak to an expert about alcohol so that
Speaker 1: we can all learn together the effects of alcohol, because
Speaker 1: it's poison, guys, it really is. And also if we're
Speaker 1: not careful, it can make us do really bad things
Speaker 1: and make bad choices. We'll talk about that in an episode,
Speaker 1: but that's just me personally.
Speaker 2: That's my choice.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling everyone to do that, but I think
Speaker 1: it's important for us to be informed, and that's what
Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to have those hard
Speaker 1: conversations and face those hard conversations that perhaps in the
Speaker 1: past I've been you know, putting on the back burner
Speaker 1: or ignoring because I don't necessarily want to know because
Speaker 1: I kind of know. But if I know more than
Speaker 1: hopefully you know, I'll be able to just really cut
Speaker 1: back or cut everything.
Speaker 2: For twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: At the end of twenty twenty five, i'd like to
Speaker 1: say I will be a mommy. I have shared a
Speaker 1: lot here on the podcast how I've gone back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, with the thought of becoming a mom. For
Speaker 1: a long time. I didn't want to be a mother.
Speaker 1: When I met at Media my husband, one of our
Speaker 1: very first conversations was, Hey, I don't ever want to
Speaker 1: get married again. I don't want to have kids. Are
Speaker 1: you cool with that? He was like, hell, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: Neither do I. And here we are.
Speaker 1: We're married and planning a baby, and I feel good
Speaker 1: about it. I haven't told a lot of people this,
Speaker 1: so they're going to find out, you know, with this episode.
Speaker 1: But I am excited. And the more and more I
Speaker 1: think about it, the more excited I get. And I
Speaker 1: know that I'm going to be a great mother, God willing,
Speaker 1: and I think this everything happened the way it was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen. I can honestly say I'm excited to
Speaker 1: turn forty and to be able to look back on
Speaker 1: my life and say, Wow, I've accomplished so much. I've
Speaker 1: done so much, I've traveled, I've lived, you know, and
Speaker 1: now I'm ready to live my life for a little person.
Speaker 1: And this will be like the biggest project, accomplishment, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, of my life. And I've
Speaker 1: never felt more ready. And of course I'm scared, of course,
Speaker 1: because I'm stepping into the unknown, but I also kind
Speaker 1: of know because I've raised my siblings. But at the
Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five, I hope that I can
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, oh my gosh, not only am I pregnant,
Speaker 1: but I have a baby. Because if we start soon, guys,
Speaker 1: then by the end of the year, I'll have a
Speaker 1: little baby. So that is the biggest thing I want
Speaker 1: to accomplish this year, to be honest, that's the only
Speaker 1: thing I can really think about right now. And the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is that I've been working on a children's
Speaker 1: book and if you guys haven't seen on my social media,
Speaker 1: I put it and you know, it's all kind of
Speaker 1: coming together and I did not plan it this way.
Speaker 1: It's called The Girl who Sings to Bees, So it's
Speaker 1: all kind of just coming together. So I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: happy and I am hopeful and optimistic for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It did not start in the best of ways. I
Speaker 1: had a very heavy heart all of January a little
Speaker 1: bit of February. But now, you know what, I'm feeling
Speaker 1: better and I and I think it's all how we
Speaker 1: choose to see things and look at things and do
Speaker 1: our part in the world. And that's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. I'm going to do my part what I
Speaker 1: can do, and that'll be my way of making this
Speaker 1: world's a better place, you know. So twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: now I'm ready. In the beginning of the year, I
Speaker 1: can't say I was, but still the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: But still I'm ready. I'm more ready than I was
Speaker 1: for sure January first. And I hope you guys are too,
Speaker 1: and I hope that you guys are excited for this
Speaker 1: new season of Cheeky's and Chill. I think we're going
Speaker 1: to learn a lot together and we're going to have
Speaker 1: some tough conversations, but with tough conversations comes growth and maturity,
Speaker 1: and more than anything helps us and preps us for
Speaker 1: becoming our best selves and anything that is worthwhile. Guys
Speaker 1: will be uncomfortable, but when we're uncomfortable, that's when we grow.
Speaker 1: So I am ready to grow and I hope you
Speaker 1: guys are too.
Speaker 2: So that is it. That is all I have to
Speaker 2: share for this episode.
Speaker 1: And please tell your friends and share it and let
Speaker 1: them know that like cheeks and Chill podcast is the
Speaker 1: best podcast ever. And yeah, I'll catch you on the
Speaker 1: next episode of Cheekys and Chill and don't forget dear
Speaker 1: Cheeky's on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: Kay. I love you.
Speaker 1: Guys, and I'm excited. I'm excited for this new season,
Speaker 1: this new era that's coming for all of us. Do
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