Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
Speaker 1: to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
Speaker 1: am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
Speaker 1: about your life so that you can live life on
Speaker 1: purpose and for a purpose. And this is your first
Speaker 1: time tuning in. 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 a 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: ass at. Get your vit.
Speaker 2: Indy right with me. I get excited about your life.
Speaker 1: I say to you, hold on. We're my water walkers
Speaker 1: and where are my water rollers at? I need you
Speaker 1: to hold on. I mean just thinking of what it
Speaker 1: means to be a water walker or a water roller.
Speaker 1: Your feet aren't touching the ground, yet you got to
Speaker 1: keep pressing forward. You got to keep putting one foot
Speaker 1: in front of the other and keep going. I will
Speaker 1: never forget when I would do my five mile walks
Speaker 1: each day. There was a gentleman that I would constantly
Speaker 1: see in the neighborhood and we would see each other
Speaker 1: at the grocery store and the conversation started because we
Speaker 1: were both wearing the same kind of shoe. Now this
Speaker 1: had to be a year and a half, maybe even
Speaker 1: two years ago at the time. Hokus hoka. That was
Speaker 1: a free plug for advertisement. Huh, well, anyho, you don't
Speaker 1: see many people were at that time with that shoe.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about the shoe, and he was
Speaker 1: telling me. He was like, you know, I really see
Speaker 1: you a lot around the neighborhood working out doing your thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, thank you. We'll whoop. And as
Speaker 1: we begin to talk, he became interested in what I
Speaker 1: was about and what I came to do. And you know,
Speaker 1: as I tell you all the time, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be bigger than opera. And he says, oh wow, he
Speaker 1: says that's a big thing. And I said, yeah, the
Speaker 1: greater the vision, the greater the reward. And he said, well,
Speaker 1: I believe you can do it. He's like, not everybody
Speaker 1: can't do that, but as long as you continue to
Speaker 1: go through life as if you have ear plugs in
Speaker 1: and blinders on, you'll be able to do it. And
Speaker 1: I sat there and I thought about it, and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay. You know, like if you go to
Speaker 1: a horse track, or if you've seen horses race, they
Speaker 1: may not have ear plugs in, but they have blinders
Speaker 1: on so they can focus on their lane. And I
Speaker 1: feel half the time, when we are in pursuit of
Speaker 1: our dreams or a better life, or for something that
Speaker 1: we've never experienced, we're always trying to rely on some
Speaker 1: type of pamphlet, instruction, a booklet, or even perhaps the
Speaker 1: opinions and the views of someone else. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: the destination and where you're going. We're going nobody has
Speaker 1: ever been before, So what type of references are we seeking?
Speaker 1: What type of advice are we seeking? And because no
Speaker 1: one has been where it is that we are seeking
Speaker 1: to go, how much should we be paying contention to
Speaker 1: what they have to say, because of course it's not
Speaker 1: going to make sense. That's why it's called your dream
Speaker 1: your vision for a reason, because it was given to
Speaker 1: you and just like every snowflake that falls from the sky,
Speaker 1: no one is the same, So why would you think
Speaker 1: that your story is going to reflect someone else's. Again,
Speaker 1: I am talking to the water walkers and the water rollers.
Speaker 1: I am telling you that you need to hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on and focus, focus on the vision. Don't let
Speaker 1: what you see make you forget what God said. That's
Speaker 1: why it's so important to speak life, to speak it
Speaker 1: because when you cannot see it, how can you seek it.
Speaker 1: You have to speak it. And there's life in it
Speaker 1: because there's a vibration and we know what. There's a vibration.
Speaker 1: There is an energy, and we know what. There is energy,
Speaker 1: there is life, and therefore there is you. But you
Speaker 1: have to move as though you have blinders and air
Speaker 1: plugs on, because there's things in place that are meant
Speaker 1: for you to get distracted, that are meant for you
Speaker 1: to get discouraged, that are meant for you to try
Speaker 1: to get you to give up. But you can't give
Speaker 1: up because you can't fail if you don't quit. And
Speaker 1: the only reason why you would stop, what you would
Speaker 1: give up is if you lost sight of the vision,
Speaker 1: if you allow the words of other people, the views, opinions,
Speaker 1: and thoughts to get into your head. That's the only way,
Speaker 1: right because even if you hit a roadblock, you fall
Speaker 1: down seven times, you get up eight If you can
Speaker 1: look up, you can get up. And your location is
Speaker 1: not your destination. We get distracted on what we see,
Speaker 1: what we feel that we are and not realizing that
Speaker 1: we lost our focus as to where we're going. And
Speaker 1: that's why you must hold on. You must take a
Speaker 1: snapshot of the vision in the direction so that when
Speaker 1: those hard times come, you realize that you can get
Speaker 1: through with it, because all you have to do is
Speaker 1: keep one foot in front of the other, keep the
Speaker 1: vision in front of your eyes, because you are going
Speaker 1: to have to decide if you are going to happen
Speaker 1: to life or are you going to allow life to
Speaker 1: happen to you. But it's your choice, and you got
Speaker 1: to speak over yourself, and it's gonna take a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't feel as though I even realize how much
Speaker 1: it takes. And again that goes for all of us
Speaker 1: because we even ever been there before. We rely on
Speaker 1: the words of someone else, We rely on the views
Speaker 1: and things that we've seen from someone else. Realizing this
Speaker 1: is the first time we have to experience it, and
Speaker 1: it's our experience. And I think what is so important
Speaker 1: is that we realize that how big a hunger is
Speaker 1: for our dreams. You know, ET says you have to
Speaker 1: want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe.
Speaker 1: I say, you have to want your dreams as bad
Speaker 1: as you want to breathe. And I always say that
Speaker 1: because they will come to a point where, even if
Speaker 1: you did not want to fight, even if you've made
Speaker 1: in your mind to give up, if you try to
Speaker 1: restrict the oxygen from your body, your body will literally react.
Speaker 1: One would even go as far as to say unknowingly,
Speaker 1: because you aren't forcing your body to fight for this oxygen.
Speaker 1: But your body is reacting. So let's take it now.
Speaker 1: Think of it as this way. If you want whatever
Speaker 1: it is out of life, as bad as you want
Speaker 1: to breathe, how is your body reacting? Is your body reacting?
Speaker 1: You said you wanted it. That's probably why you may
Speaker 1: be feeling a bit of discontent because you realize that
Speaker 1: this is something that you set your mind to and
Speaker 1: seeing life be lifing. My mama used to always say dying,
Speaker 1: just live a little longer, you'll see. And I'm seeing.
Speaker 1: But I remind myself, Dawn, don't let what you see
Speaker 1: make you forget what God said. No, do not do
Speaker 1: away with the desires of your heart. No. Look, we're
Speaker 1: here for a good time, not a long time, and
Speaker 1: that's why we have to make it count. People are dying.
Speaker 1: You may even feel as though you are dying inside.
Speaker 1: But I'm imploring you to keep pressing forward because there
Speaker 1: was a dream and a vision came to you. And
Speaker 1: in pursuit of your dream, in pursuit of this vision,
Speaker 1: you are inspiring someone else. And here's the thing. Stop
Speaker 1: feeling as though you have to have everything together. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we put the pieces together as we flow. I don't dance,
Speaker 1: I just float. That made me think of the track
Speaker 1: by janellmo Name And I feel as though if we
Speaker 1: all go into a floating stage or flowing stage, where
Speaker 1: things will carry us. And I say that because it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we aren't actively moving in that direction.
Speaker 1: What it means is though we move with grace. And
Speaker 1: what do I always say? Grace is nothing but space?
Speaker 1: What is the space? What amount of space are you
Speaker 1: allowing yourself? Hm? How are you allowing yourself to move?
Speaker 1: If are you allowing yourself to glide. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you may not shift and blow slightly in another direction.
Speaker 1: But how are you moving with grace? Are you moving
Speaker 1: with peace? Are you moving with ease? Are you moving
Speaker 1: in a state where you say, Hey, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to allow what I see to make me forget what
Speaker 1: God said? And what God said is simply the desires
Speaker 1: that you feel inside your heart? What is the God
Speaker 1: in you saying? Would you actually be okay if you
Speaker 1: exited this earth without doing your deepest desires? You know
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to pursue it, or hard
Speaker 1: to sit by the wayside and let it pass you by.
Speaker 1: So how are you going to choose your heart? See?
Speaker 1: Perhaps you're getting frustrated because it doesn't look like or
Speaker 1: isn't panning out as you planned. But I'm saying you
Speaker 1: got a hold on because you are set to do
Speaker 1: some things that have never been done before. So whatever
Speaker 1: blueprint or whatever imagination as you thought the process was
Speaker 1: going to be, you're going to have to do away
Speaker 1: with that. One foot in front of the other, one
Speaker 1: foot in front of the other. You know, they say
Speaker 1: inch by inch, life's a sinch. Yard by yard. Life
Speaker 1: is hard and half the time when we made this
Speaker 1: projection on how we feel like life is supposed to be,
Speaker 1: we're looking at it by a yard by yard basis,
Speaker 1: in fact, perhaps by Acre's basis. But see, when we
Speaker 1: move with that inch by inch, it reminds us to
Speaker 1: stay ingratitude, because therefore we realize that we're one step
Speaker 1: closer to where we want to be, not looking oh,
Speaker 1: oh wow, how far it is we have to go.
Speaker 1: And I feel as though half the time that puts
Speaker 1: the frustration in place. They say success isn't linear. I'm
Speaker 1: realizing that now because I've heard it, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: we've all heard it, but it's nothing like experiencing it done.
Speaker 1: Just live a little longer, you'll see. I would think
Speaker 1: oftentimes how some people choose not to be successful, and
Speaker 1: what I mean by success not doing the heart's desires,
Speaker 1: or perhaps giving up too quick, it's because they've decided
Speaker 1: to look at their life on a yard by yard basis,
Speaker 1: looking at how far it is they have to go, regretting,
Speaker 1: replaying the steps that they should have taken, not realizing
Speaker 1: that they're farther from whether it started. Whether it is
Speaker 1: a physical step, a thwarted motion, forward, or simply another
Speaker 1: way of looking at something. Hold on, don't let what
Speaker 1: you see make you forget what God said. You have
Speaker 1: to want your dreams as bad as you want to breathe.
Speaker 1: I've said that just before. There's a track by Kevin
Speaker 1: Gates entitled I Don't get tired. He said, keeping the
Speaker 1: faith even when it gets dark? How are you keeping
Speaker 1: your faith even when it gets dark? Although I walk
Speaker 1: through the valley of the Shadow of Death, I fear
Speaker 1: no evil. For your ride and your staff they comfort
Speaker 1: me even thinking about that valley. Can you imagine the sounds,
Speaker 1: the noise, how dark it is, just on a metaphorical level,
Speaker 1: just metaphorically speaking, how lonely, how scary it is. But
Speaker 1: you gotta hold on. You gotta listen to the God
Speaker 1: inside of you, and you have to remind yourself. I'm
Speaker 1: a water walker. I'm a water roller, So I walk
Speaker 1: by faith, not by sight. And no matter if that
Speaker 1: mountain seems dinormous, remember, all you need is faith the
Speaker 1: size of a mustard seed. Just a little little keep going.
Speaker 1: Show me, somebody tell me about somebody that you can
Speaker 1: recall that didn't quit and they failed. You can't because
Speaker 1: you can't fail if you don't quit. And what it
Speaker 1: is is that we need to make room for research
Speaker 1: and development because when we talk about this journey and
Speaker 1: this path towards success, what we project as that yarder
Speaker 1: that achored forward, not realizing that half the time we
Speaker 1: need to reflect, reassess, and do some research and development
Speaker 1: because there's another area that we're growing. But if we
Speaker 1: don't make room for that, we get distracted because then
Speaker 1: we're referencing the steps someone else took. We're referencing the
Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions of other people, not doing a self
Speaker 1: check of the desires of our heart. Again, you have
Speaker 1: to want your dreams as bad as you want to breed.
Speaker 1: You have to realize that your location is not your destination.
Speaker 1: You have to stand firm if that. But if you
Speaker 1: fall down seven times, get up eight Why because if
Speaker 1: you can look up, you can get up. Are you
Speaker 1: ready to get up? Are you ready to see yourself
Speaker 1: for who you are? Well? If so, you just better
Speaker 1: hold on. That's what love will make you do, That's
Speaker 1: what love will require you to do. So then it
Speaker 1: becomes how much do you love yourself? Do you love
Speaker 1: and believe in yourself enough to give yourself the best
Speaker 1: life that you truly desire, because guess what, you are
Speaker 1: in charge of it. It's up to you. Do you
Speaker 1: want your dreams? Do you want your best life? As
Speaker 1: bad as you want to breathe? And I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you that you have a moment forty eighty six
Speaker 1: hundred moments every day to make that decision. So what
Speaker 1: are you choosing? Because you have twenty eight six hundred
Speaker 1: seconds in every day and you can't get caught up
Speaker 1: on what did happen or what did not happen. You
Speaker 1: gotta caught up on what is because that's what's important
Speaker 1: right now, where you are, right now. And that's why
Speaker 1: they say gratitude is everything because the more grateful we are,
Speaker 1: the more things we have to be grateful for. So
Speaker 1: what are you grateful for? Are you grateful that you
Speaker 1: woke up? Are you grateful for this oxygen? Are you
Speaker 1: grateful for this roof over your head? Are you grateful
Speaker 1: for the water? Are you grateful for the breath and
Speaker 1: your lungs? Are you grateful for hearing my voice? Because again,
Speaker 1: you could have gave up. Again, you could not have
Speaker 1: a train again, you could not have a voice, But
Speaker 1: you do that is not your narrative. What are you
Speaker 1: doing with your story? Are you going to choose to
Speaker 1: live it out? Because we're here for a good time,
Speaker 1: not a long time. Do you see why we have
Speaker 1: to make it count? Do you see that somebody didn't
Speaker 1: wake up today? Do you see that you still have
Speaker 1: a vision? Do you see that you still have a purpose?
Speaker 1: Do you still feel the desires of your heart? And
Speaker 1: if soul? I just want to implore you to hold
Speaker 1: on because you're worth it and because you deserve it,
Speaker 1: and you know, realizing and understanding how all you have
Speaker 1: to do is have faith. The sides of a mustard seed, Well,
Speaker 1: think about what happens when you have to plant it
Speaker 1: and you got to go into that ground and it
Speaker 1: gets dark, and realizing that in order for you to
Speaker 1: sprout out is that you got to get some mess
Speaker 1: on you. You got to get some fertilizer. And the
Speaker 1: fertilizer may stink, It may stink real bad, but sometimes
Speaker 1: you need a little stink on you. You got to
Speaker 1: go through some things so that you can get your
Speaker 1: wheel power so that when the next wind comes, when
Speaker 1: the next rain comes, it's just the blow. It's not
Speaker 1: here to deter you.
Speaker 3: I'm going through some things, but nothing can turn it
Speaker 3: around a little wind and some it can't touch the
Speaker 3: joy y'all found. I'm gonna poosh my trusting you for
Speaker 3: whatever problem, man, I'm gone to.
Speaker 1: See it through. I need a breakthrough. I need a word.
Speaker 1: That's Greg o' quinn with the track breakthrough and even
Speaker 1: understanding that sometimes you gotta break in order to get through,
Speaker 1: and that break isn't to break you down, but perhaps
Speaker 1: just to put you together again. I mean you, let's
Speaker 1: think about it. Think about coming up in elementary school,
Speaker 1: middle school, some part in your learning years when you
Speaker 1: learned about mosaics and how there were these little pieces,
Speaker 1: whether there were stones, whether they were some type of
Speaker 1: colorful plastics or metals or ceramics, these beautiful pieces that
Speaker 1: you put together to make a picture. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of Andre three thousand. He says, you gotta turn a
Speaker 1: negative into a positive picture because on one end, one
Speaker 1: can look at all these little pieces and said, oh,
Speaker 1: they've been broken off from somewhere, But how about we
Speaker 1: gather them together to put something new and place that
Speaker 1: is the same as you. What are you calling to
Speaker 1: put together a new because we are breaking out of
Speaker 1: the old thing and stepping into something new. Should we
Speaker 1: go to that of the life of a butterfly? This caterpillar,
Speaker 1: that only new life on the ground was crawling, oftentimes
Speaker 1: dodging footsteps, dodging birds, dodging so much bigger and looking
Speaker 1: up at a view that was so much bigger than
Speaker 1: what it was. But had the caterpillar got caught up
Speaker 1: and just being what it is, perhaps there will never
Speaker 1: be opportunity to develop to what it is to become.
Speaker 1: Because just like going into that ground and putting that fertilizer,
Speaker 1: that's no different from the caterpillar jumping into its cocoon.
Speaker 1: It gets tight, uncomfortable work for a period of time.
Speaker 1: But see that light, that longing, that desire of your heart.
Speaker 1: Things are taking place, things are forming, and even in
Speaker 1: this tight cocon their wings being developed to take it
Speaker 1: to the next height. Oh the sights for this young
Speaker 1: butterfly to soar. But seeing this cocon things look a
Speaker 1: little different, right, And had this caterpillar been so caught
Speaker 1: up on what it has known and being on the ground,
Speaker 1: there's no way that it could have broken out of
Speaker 1: the cocoon to fly to soar. To spread its wings,
Speaker 1: spread its beauty, to be everything that it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: So what say you, are you ready to step into
Speaker 1: that life that you deserve? Because I'm going to need
Speaker 1: you to hold on to the vision because just like
Speaker 1: that butterfly so uncomfortable breaking through, I mean, that is
Speaker 1: a perfect example of how sometimes you have to break
Speaker 1: in order to get through. That butterfly had to break
Speaker 1: out of that cocoon to soar to the heights that
Speaker 1: it's meant the sore. Why do you feel that there
Speaker 1: should be any difference from you or even with you,
Speaker 1: Because that's the reason why you have this frustration, right,
Speaker 1: that's the reason why you can't understand what it is
Speaker 1: that you're going through. And that's the reason why perhaps
Speaker 1: you're in discontent. Have you lost focus of your vision?
Speaker 1: Did you flap one of them blinders off? Or now
Speaker 1: you're getting focused on somebody else that is not in
Speaker 1: your lane? Did you take out those earplugs and you're
Speaker 1: listening to the views and opinions of someone else. And
Speaker 1: guess what, Because we're allowing grace, we're allowing space, we
Speaker 1: can pick ourselves up, we can dust ourselves off, and yes,
Speaker 1: we can try again, then try again, and then try
Speaker 1: again after that. Why, because you can't fail if you
Speaker 1: don't quit. But I'm gonna need you to have a vision.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to have that love on yourself
Speaker 1: to say I'm here to hold on. Hold on. I
Speaker 1: want you to hold on. You are worth it, you
Speaker 1: deserve it. Okay, Now I say these words to you
Speaker 1: as I speak them over my self, because we're here
Speaker 1: for a good time, not a long time. So we
Speaker 1: have to make it count. So let's make it count.
Speaker 1: Let's choose to live. Let's not give up, because we're
Speaker 1: worth it. You're worth it? Did I say that you're
Speaker 1: worth it? But you gotta know and we know that
Speaker 1: there's confidence and knowing, and that's what we call faith.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, it's something about the whole on.
Speaker 1: It's something about the whole notion of even if you
Speaker 1: can't see it, you gotta believe it. So whatever language
Speaker 1: that it can make sense for you. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that there's something inside of you that you want. Continue
Speaker 1: to go after it because I guarantee you it's going
Speaker 1: to be hard to go through it and to go
Speaker 1: without it. And at least there's a joy of becoming
Speaker 1: something that you've never been, because there's complacency and doing
Speaker 1: what you've always done. So I got to ask you
Speaker 1: what do you want and more importantly, how bad do
Speaker 1: you want it? Dreams don't work unless you do, So
Speaker 1: let's go all right. If you enjoyed that, can you
Speaker 1: go ahead and rate this podcast? Go ahead and put
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Speaker 1: And you may need some advice. You know, I have
Speaker 1: my Vitamin D advice letter. So now I want to
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Speaker 1: give you the real reel because Vitamin D is all
Speaker 1: about shedding the light on the good and the bad.
Speaker 1: Because what do I say? If you want to be
Speaker 1: better and you want to do better, well, you're going
Speaker 1: to have to be able to see better and that
Speaker 1: means they not so good, right, but doesn't mean that's
Speaker 1: where you're going. But I just want to be clear
Speaker 1: because I want the best from you, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: out of here. I truly enjoyed speaking with you today
Speaker 1: and how important it is to hold on because I
Speaker 1: think half the time that's the true battle, just holding on.
Speaker 1: We think that it's getting there, but how about we
Speaker 1: just focus on holding on, hold on to that dream,
Speaker 1: hold on to things that serve in the betterment of you,
Speaker 1: because greater is coming and it's starting with you. Okay,
Speaker 1: dreams don't work unless you do. So we get into work,
Speaker 1: all right. Let me get out of here like I
Speaker 1: always say. You know, I'm in the business and making
Speaker 1: dreams come true, and I damn she ain't gonna forget
Speaker 1: about mine. So until next time, family, always remember you
Speaker 1: are your greatest dis site.
Speaker 2: Get your right in Indy right here with me, and
Speaker 2: get excited about your life.