Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am
Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life so that you can live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. And this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name.
Speaker 1: My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: So join me on this journey of living our best
Speaker 1: lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest
Speaker 1: stats act. I want you to be a roach. Yes,
Speaker 1: I said a roach. Now, it probably shocked you when
Speaker 1: I said that. Heck, it shocked me when somebody said
Speaker 1: that to me. But I had to think about and
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, you gotta be real dope to
Speaker 1: be a roach. I was in Hollywood the other night
Speaker 1: and I was at this dive bar, and so I
Speaker 1: was kicking up with this guy. My friends and I
Speaker 1: were just talking about our journey in life, and he
Speaker 1: was saying the story of how he came to l A.
Speaker 1: He said he was on sheer survival mode. Now I
Speaker 1: wish I could remember this brother's name was Michael or
Speaker 1: brand because it was two guys there, but only one day.
Speaker 1: But either way, it doesn't matter. This guy was talking
Speaker 1: about his dream and what he had to do to
Speaker 1: survive and to make it. So he said, for a
Speaker 1: minute there he was living in his car. He said,
Speaker 1: how he was able to pay for his food or
Speaker 1: to eat rather? Is that I guess Wendy's had like
Speaker 1: a special or something going on. And he said he
Speaker 1: did this for three months where if you signed up
Speaker 1: for a or with a new email address, you got
Speaker 1: a free mail, like whether it be a burger or fry.
Speaker 1: And he said, for months, that's how he relied on
Speaker 1: his food. Now he comes to the point fast forward,
Speaker 1: he has a whole loft downtown in l A. Won't
Speaker 1: he do it? As he was leaving, we were celebrating
Speaker 1: the like, wow, thank you for sharing a story. Um,
Speaker 1: I appreciate talking to you. He said, be a roach
Speaker 1: And like I said, I was shocked. But if you
Speaker 1: think about roaches are gone store, like you talk about
Speaker 1: being outside, roaches then outside. Now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're familiar how roaches go, but I was like, let
Speaker 1: me just google some things on what I know about
Speaker 1: roaches or how they they survive everything. Now, these are
Speaker 1: just some random facts that I just saw. And some
Speaker 1: of the things taken consideration is that they are able
Speaker 1: to live like weeks without a head. They can hold
Speaker 1: their breath for several minutes underwater. Um, they survived bombs,
Speaker 1: like if you ever had roaches or have family members
Speaker 1: that had roaches, and you know that the whole bomb
Speaker 1: thing they survived. That they have the strong and flexible
Speaker 1: outer exoskeleton, which makes it harder to squish them as
Speaker 1: compared to other pests. They can often withstand the hardest
Speaker 1: shoe stump or the strongest swing of a newspaper, especially
Speaker 1: on soft surfaces like cushions, bedding, and carpet. Roaches be
Speaker 1: out side. Roaches are survivors. Be a damn roach. You know,
Speaker 1: roach has been out for millions of years. People can't
Speaker 1: stand because they survived. You ain't gotta be like a
Speaker 1: roach because every time in adversity comes your way, you
Speaker 1: gotta think about the uprise. You heard that. Uh that
Speaker 1: trend adn't sound on TikTok. Prepared to be suckled me.
Speaker 1: Prepared to be suckled me. That's how I want you
Speaker 1: to be. Be a damn roach. You got this. I
Speaker 1: don't care what's coming your way. You just gotta keep going.
Speaker 1: You know what I said before. Sometimes we can feel
Speaker 1: like we drown it. We're trying to swim, We're trying
Speaker 1: to make it, We're trying to figure it out. All
Speaker 1: I need for you to do is focused on keeping
Speaker 1: your head above water. Be a roach, got dagg it.
Speaker 1: They try to push you, squeeze out. Be a roach.
Speaker 1: God dang it. They try to bomb you, You still
Speaker 1: show wow. Be a roach. God dang it. They cut
Speaker 1: your head off, You're still moving. Be a roach, God
Speaker 1: dang it. Be outside. That's it. I want to be
Speaker 1: a roach. What about you get your right any right
Speaker 1: with me and get excited about your lives. I said
Speaker 1: it before, and I'll say it again, and I will
Speaker 1: continue to say it. Vulnerability is everything. Vulnerability gives you
Speaker 1: the ability to be seen. Vulnerability also gives you the
Speaker 1: ability to connect I was talking to a high school
Speaker 1: friend of mine for obvious reasons. As I continue on
Speaker 1: with the story, I'm going to leave his name out
Speaker 1: of it. But we called, we talked to each other.
Speaker 1: Now we met in high school, and now where we're
Speaker 1: going on? Shoot him? Don't let me tell my age
Speaker 1: about twenty something years done one. But anyway, we caught up.
Speaker 1: We hadn't talked for a bit, and you know, he
Speaker 1: had noticed or he had paid attention to my social
Speaker 1: media account. He saw that I had been dressing a
Speaker 1: little bit different, you know, giving more of a drogyn
Speaker 1: us presenting my masculine side. And so it said, Dawn,
Speaker 1: I got something to ask you already know where he's
Speaker 1: going with it, he said. So, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he said, Dawn, do you like women? I don't know
Speaker 1: if he said, Dawn, are you gett I don't know
Speaker 1: what he said. And I said to him, I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm attracted to women. And we began to talk,
Speaker 1: and further on the conversation, he revealed to me that
Speaker 1: he has an attraction to men. Now we're both from Detroit,
Speaker 1: and he was just explained to me, how you know
Speaker 1: in Detroit is a black man, that's something that you
Speaker 1: don't discuss and in me showing up as me, he said, wow, Dawn,
Speaker 1: for us to know each other since high school, almost
Speaker 1: twenty something years, he said, I am so grateful. I
Speaker 1: am so glad that we have the ability to connect
Speaker 1: on this level. He said, I never had anybody I
Speaker 1: could really share it to, let alone, especially being where
Speaker 1: we're from. He said, after this conversation with you, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm I feel so much lighter. He said, I feel inspired.
Speaker 1: And I was like wow, because you know, I've been
Speaker 1: really working with myself and how I wanted to present,
Speaker 1: how I want to show up, because I really don't
Speaker 1: do labels. But when we talk about we're leaving somebody
Speaker 1: of stress, anxiety, somebody that perhaps even thought about taking
Speaker 1: a life. Come on, what are we really talking about here.
Speaker 1: We're all special offers here for a limited time only.
Speaker 1: Life is too short to live unhappily. You better live
Speaker 1: while you're still alive. And so when he said that
Speaker 1: to me, I just thought about how many other people
Speaker 1: probably are not bold enough, probably not stepping into themselves,
Speaker 1: not going after their dream job, not fulfilling that relationship
Speaker 1: they want because they are ashamed of perhaps no one
Speaker 1: else has come forth that looks like them and say hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just like you. And me being able to do that,
Speaker 1: I realized how I was able to connect and for
Speaker 1: him to say he feels that much lighter. So I
Speaker 1: want to implore. I want to charge you whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Show up. You are perfectly perfect, just the way you are,
Speaker 1: every intention of how you were made. That's how it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. I just need you to walk
Speaker 1: in it. And I want to say this too. I
Speaker 1: know what God's promises for my life because God said
Speaker 1: exceedingly and beyond. And you know, I found myself in
Speaker 1: tears at times because I am amazed one that I
Speaker 1: can dream so big, so big that when I stepped back,
Speaker 1: I want to laugh, or I just get emotional because
Speaker 1: I'm like, this sounds insane, but it came to me
Speaker 1: and I feel it, and to know that God said
Speaker 1: far more than what I could ever imagine. But this
Speaker 1: is the key. I gotta show up. See, it's just
Speaker 1: like anything God formulated, this cake, this formula, and all
Speaker 1: of these elements have to come together to produce what
Speaker 1: it is that you're meant to do or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to do. And I realized that is me
Speaker 1: encompassing all of dawn and showing up as dawn. Hence
Speaker 1: why I say, I gotta make a room. And that's
Speaker 1: why you need to make room for yourself, because it's
Speaker 1: time to show up, because we gotta show out because
Speaker 1: God said exceedingly and abundantly, far more than what you
Speaker 1: could ever imagine. And guess what it's going to require
Speaker 1: you to be all of you, not part of you,
Speaker 1: not some of you, but all of you behind the curves,
Speaker 1: beautiful people, intoviting indeed day and and talking to my friend,
Speaker 1: very heavily connected with church, couldn't really put together the connection.
Speaker 1: And I mean Am and I were both like, you know,
Speaker 1: I would talk to him like you're gonna be a
Speaker 1: past one day. You know. We joke around and we
Speaker 1: say things like that, Um, I think we both have
Speaker 1: a clairvoyant kind of well with us. And he noticed
Speaker 1: that it it puts some friction, he said, you know what. Door.
Speaker 1: He was like, I had to leave the church, the
Speaker 1: church that he was committed to at the time, because
Speaker 1: he saw that it was bumping heads. And I saw
Speaker 1: this video and this gentleman was talking. He was talking
Speaker 1: about men versus women. Okay, he was saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: women have the ability to explore their sexuality, yet they
Speaker 1: can't be promiscuous, while men can be promiscuous but aren't
Speaker 1: allowed to explore their sexuality. And I said, and you
Speaker 1: don't really have to be thinking, because I've really opened
Speaker 1: my mind up to things. Uh. If you would have
Speaker 1: asked me before and whatever, realm or ignorant mind, and
Speaker 1: I say ignorant because of lack of knowledge, I would
Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, I would never date a
Speaker 1: man that's bisexual. I would never do anything like that.
Speaker 1: And if you are doing today, I don't know. I say,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because it is just skinned. And if
Speaker 1: we are these spiritual beings having this human experience, what
Speaker 1: are we talking about right now? And so what the
Speaker 1: guy was saying is that when do we get out
Speaker 1: of the terms or what do we get out of
Speaker 1: the realm of accepting what is natural versus subscribing to
Speaker 1: what is said to be normal. And I said, you're
Speaker 1: onto something because it isn't a situation of your harming
Speaker 1: or doing anything else. Because somebody can say, hey, don
Speaker 1: you know, it may be natural for somebody want to
Speaker 1: hurt somebody else. But we're talking about a situation out
Speaker 1: of love. And here my friend is telling me that
Speaker 1: he was having friction, hesitancy of showing up as himself,
Speaker 1: of even staying with his church based on what he
Speaker 1: was taught and who he was proclaimed to be. You know,
Speaker 1: he said he was like, you know, I was teased
Speaker 1: the time growing up and people telling me who I am,
Speaker 1: and I haven't even figured it out. You know what
Speaker 1: I had me thinking, I have a friend who has
Speaker 1: a cins gendered son, and I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to say they dressed him fluently, but he dresses
Speaker 1: in men and boys and girls clothes almost like I
Speaker 1: don't know the term that I'm looking for, but there
Speaker 1: is no definitive. It's of freedom there, and I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think. I'm like, is anything wrong with that, letting
Speaker 1: the child choose? I don't know. I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: subscribed to that, but what I am subscribing to you
Speaker 1: in this talk, in this conversation, vulnerability is everything. Show
Speaker 1: up so that you could connect, Show up so that
Speaker 1: you can inspire, Show up so that you can be
Speaker 1: all that you can be. Because guess what you deserve that.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta get out this notion of hiday.
Speaker 1: We gotta get out this notion of secrecy and understand
Speaker 1: that everything is about timing. But it's so important when
Speaker 1: we talk about living our best life. It's so important
Speaker 1: of standing who you are. And I what I know
Speaker 1: is that it's a confidence. And and the think about confidence,
Speaker 1: I think people think that it's a concoction, that there
Speaker 1: is a method to it, there's a formula, right, But
Speaker 1: essentially confidence, it's just no wing. Huh, just no wing.
Speaker 1: Who you are, Not subscribing what somebody else is telling you,
Speaker 1: but sitting down with yourself, embracing yourself, receiving yourself, and
Speaker 1: acknowledging yourself. I am, so, who do you say that
Speaker 1: you are? You don't have to be alone. If you're vulnerable,
Speaker 1: I promise you somebody will relate to you. You might
Speaker 1: even save a life. Well, tell somebody to tell somebody else,
Speaker 1: to tell somebody else, to tell somebody else that Dawn
Speaker 1: Day got a podcast. It's called Vitamin D with Dawn
Speaker 1: Day and it's available wherever you get your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1: Vitamin D is all about shutting the light on the
Speaker 1: good and the bad because If you want to be
Speaker 1: better and you want to do better, you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to see better. It's time to shine bright. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of here. You know, always say
Speaker 1: I'm in the business of making dreams come true, and
Speaker 1: our damn show ain't gonna forget about mine. So until
Speaker 1: next time, always remember you are your greatest stass. Act,
Speaker 1: get your rightamind right with me, and get excited about
Speaker 1: your lives.