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Speaker 1: On this week's episode of Cultivating her Space, It's normal

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Speaker 1: to grieve the life you thought you'd have by now.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say that again for the people in

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Speaker 2: Hey lady, have you ever felt like the world just

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Speaker 3: There, all right.

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Speaker 2: Our quote of the day, Adulting is realizing that you

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Speaker 2: have to take charge of your life even when it's hard.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that one more time for the folks

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Speaker 2: you understood it. Adulting is realizing that you have to

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Speaker 2: take charge of your life even when it's hard. All right,

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Speaker 2: te you know how we do. And I saw your

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Speaker 2: facial expression as I was reading that quote. So what

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Speaker 2: comes up for you as you heard that quote of

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Speaker 2: the day?

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Speaker 1: Girl? As I heard this quote of the day, Because

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Speaker 1: this topic is so I feel like it's so fresh

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Speaker 1: for me because of all the things that have been

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Speaker 1: and I kind of want to have a little tanserment,

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Speaker 1: but like, I don't want to do all this shit,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't knew who knew that this is what

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Speaker 1: adulting was like? Yea, So remember when we were younger

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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I want to grow up. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to be grown at the house and that

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Speaker 1: shit is hard, and it makes me think about the

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Speaker 1: adults in my life. I was recently thinking about my

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Speaker 1: parents when they were raising my siblings and I and

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Speaker 1: and I'm like imagining that, and so I just think

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Speaker 1: that I'm happy that we're having this conversation and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to unpack today. So that's how I'm feeling

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Speaker 1: about that quote, what about you Listen.

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Speaker 2: I think about how as a child, I too had

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Speaker 2: moments where I wanted to be an adult so bad

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Speaker 2: and wanted some of the freedom that I felt came

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Speaker 2: enjoy childhood as much as you can for as long

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Speaker 2: as you can, because adulting is for the birds. I mean,

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Speaker 3: But adulting is yeh, listen, there are.

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Speaker 2: Lots of advantages. Yeah, so I want to I want

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Speaker 2: to say, do acknowledge that right, that there are lots

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Speaker 2: There are days when you're like, I wish someone would

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Speaker 2: I have to do right fast forward a week, a

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Speaker 2: But sometimes we need a moment to throw that little tantrum,

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Speaker 1: That's right. I love the way you frame this episode

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Speaker 1: is like the energy's there is already flowing. And Girl,

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Speaker 1: this past week, like, it was such a challenging week,

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Speaker 1: texting you like, girl, I can't wait to catch up

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Speaker 2: I think for me, part of what it is is

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Speaker 3: Like because life just is life just.

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Speaker 2: Feels like a here's a good descriptor everything feels when

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Speaker 2: everything feels like a coster fuck, right, and it's like

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and yes, I love the way you frame that,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I love it. So I guess it's time

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Speaker 1: We have ten things to remember when adulting gets to ghetto,

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Speaker 1: and I guess we should just jumped right into number one,

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Speaker 1: which is crying doesn't mean you're losing. It means you're releasing. Now.

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Speaker 1: So releasing, I think is so important.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think what I appreciate about crying is,

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Speaker 2: like you said that that word the release that tears

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Speaker 1: Too.

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Speaker 2: I think about how many times I might have had

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Speaker 3: And once it's released.

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Speaker 3: And so I do.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yes, yes, that's so good. Tom m h. Were

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Speaker 2: and you miss those positive things because our brains are

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Speaker 2: wired to seek out pleasure and joy. And so then

435
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Speaker 2: recognizing that it's okay to miss people who are no

436
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Speaker 2: longer in our lives, there are also people who truly

437
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Speaker 2: aren't in the physical form anymore. Right And so number

438
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Speaker 2: five is your ancestors would be so proud of you.

439
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 2: So no matter what your beliefs are know that the

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Speaker 2: people who came before you, especially for us as black folks,

441
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Speaker 2: descendants of enslaved people here in the Americas, the things

442
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Speaker 2: that our ancestors went through from the previous generation to

443
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Speaker 2: four or five generations back, the things that our ancestors

444
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Speaker 2: went through, they would be so proud to see what

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Speaker 2: you are doing today. You're an elementary school teacher, you're

446
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 2: a nurse, you're a firefighter, you are a cashier at

447
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: the local grocery store, you are in the C suite,

448
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 2: whatever position you have in life. Right now, you get

449
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 2: up every day and you do the things that need

450
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Speaker 2: to be done. You are adulting. Your ancestors would be

451
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: so proud of you.

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Speaker 1: Love this so much, John, And I think that even

453
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Speaker 1: if it's gonna this is gonna go really well with

454
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Speaker 1: the next point that we're gonna make. But I want

455
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Speaker 1: to stay focused for a minute and say that just

456
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Speaker 1: the fact that you are here, like you survived this far,

457
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Speaker 1: you survived all your bad days, right you are here

458
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: right now, and you're surviving and thriving in this very

459
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: challenging world that we live in. Like we live in

460
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: a world that especially with the access, the easy access

461
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: that we have to all this information sometimes very depressing.

462
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: It's like you're here, you're making it right, and so

463
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: I think that's really important to remember, Like our ancestors

464
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: would be so proud. And I'd love for you to

465
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Speaker 1: think about, you know, what would your grandmother say to

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Speaker 1: you right now, if you had a close relationship with

467
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Speaker 1: your grandmother, Or what would the person who raised you,

468
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: the person who showed you so much love and support

469
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: and guidance when you were younger, what would they think

470
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Speaker 1: of you right now? Right? What generational cycles are you

471
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: actively breaking in your life? Right? How are you showing

472
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: up more intentionally than past generations? And just know that

473
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Speaker 1: there's a very profound meme or even this, I think

474
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Speaker 1: it might it might even be a song or a hymn,

475
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: and it says, bitch, you doing a good job. Okay,

476
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Speaker 1: And I just felt that, but yes, okay, b you

477
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: doing a good job. Okay, you're doing a good job.

478
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Speaker 1: You're doing much better than you think you are, and

479
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: we are proud of you. If no one has told

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00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: you recently, we are proud of you. And that ties

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Speaker 1: well into verse seven, which is, oh wait are we

482
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Speaker 1: on number six?

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Speaker 2: Non?

484
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Speaker 1: Am I getting number?

485
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Speaker 4: Sit?

486
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Speaker 1: Myself's only on the ridge. We're on number six, number six. Listen,

487
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Speaker 1: this is the one right here. It's normal to grieve

488
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Speaker 1: the life you thought you'd have by now. And I'm

489
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Speaker 1: gonna say that again for the people in the back. Okay,

490
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: it's normal to grieve the life you thought you'd have

491
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: by now. I'm gonna keep it all the way A hunted. Okay.

492
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: I was looking at some old videos and old journal entries, right,

493
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Speaker 1: and I have been on you know, I had to

494
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Speaker 1: grow up fast based on my upbringing, and I have

495
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Speaker 1: been on this journey to wealth, living my purpose and

496
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Speaker 1: all that I would say as a teenager, but definitely

497
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Speaker 1: at seventeen. I literally have a video of me in

498
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Speaker 1: my freshman dorm of college haying my name is Terry

499
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Speaker 1: Little maxon one day, I'm gonna be rich. And maybe

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Speaker 1: it's been seventeen eighteen years and I ain't there yet, Okay.

501
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: And if somebody would have told me back then, like

502
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: girl at this age, you would have accomplished a lot

503
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: in your mid thirties, but you still won't be there.

504
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: I may have been discouraged, but what I'll say is

505
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Speaker 1: every step of the journey that I've experienced over the

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Speaker 1: past eighteen years on my way to my you know,

507
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: aspirational life, it has been for my good. It has

508
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: been filled with lessons, gems and a lot of beauty

509
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: and some hardship, but everything has honestly made me a

510
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,239
Speaker 1: better person and it's taught me life changing lessons. And

511
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: so it is important for you to think about, you know,

512
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: what version of your life did you have to let

513
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: go of to be where you are right now?

514
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 2: Right?

515
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Speaker 1: How to grieving that dream open space for something else?

516
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: Because I think that when you can be honest with

517
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: yourself about where you thought you would be and give

518
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: yourself grace, it can free up space for the next thing. Right.

519
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: And the mantra that I always lean into is like

520
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: everything is working out for my good. And even though

521
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: sometimes even with the podcast, lady like Dom and I

522
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: we've been doing the podcast for what seven years now, Dom, yes, yep,

523
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: And although we've made an impact, although we've done great

524
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: things in our lives and with the podcast, it's not

525
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: where we want it to be. It's not the ultimate goal.

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Speaker 1: And it be a struggle sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes, it is a struggle sometimes, and I

528
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Speaker 2: think it's important to acknowledge that, right that there are

529
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Speaker 2: moments when you look at the life you currently have

530
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Speaker 2: and despite all of the good that's there, if it

531
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: is not exactly what you had previously envisioned, there there

532
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: will be some grief, and that it is okay to

533
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: allow yourself to feel that grief. We don't get bogged

534
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: down by it, we don't let it deter us. But

535
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Speaker 2: we have to feel those feelings because, as you mentioned earlier, Terry,

536
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: if we don't allow ourselves to feel those feelings for

537
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 2: the with the authenticity that it requires, those feelings are

538
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: going to keep coming back. Yeah, and sometimes they come

539
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: back in other forms that aren't related to the original form,

540
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: and then that requires even more work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: So we let ourselves feel those feelings, and I think

543
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: that leads into the next one, because oftentimes when we're

544
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Speaker 2: in this space of grieving what the life that we

545
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: thought we had, it leads into us defining how we

546
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: think about ourselves. But Terry, I know you had a

547
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Speaker 2: point you wanted to make before we dive into the

548
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Speaker 2: next one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, you're picking up on a body language.

550
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, don because you and I

551
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: have had conversations and struggles and experiences behind the scenes

552
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Speaker 1: about number six, grieving the life you thought you'd have

553
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: or grieving yeah, the time the timeline, and I wanted

554
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Speaker 1: to just kind of add a little like point a

555
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Speaker 1: under I need six and talk about comparison, because you

556
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Speaker 1: and I, yes, you know, we've talked about this before,

557
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Speaker 1: and I think it'd be really insightful, lady like for

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00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: us to just pause really quick and have a conversation

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Speaker 1: about comparison, because a lot of times when you're on

560
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: your journey, especially like I've experienced this personally and professionally

561
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: in our relationship and business, you know, connection with the podcast,

562
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: you look at other people who are where you think

563
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: you should be, or people who haven't been doing what

564
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: you've been doing as long as you've been doing it,

565
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: or people who you know you're like their character and

566
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: energy and integrity is trying to like be a tattletale god,

567
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: but like they not even really you know what I mean.

568
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Speaker 1: It's easy to get into the habit of that, and

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Speaker 1: I've been there, and so I love for us to

570
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Speaker 1: just talk about don I'd love to hear your perspective

571
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Speaker 1: on how do you grapple with comparison and those phases

572
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: of the journey where you see someone who's in that space,

573
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Speaker 1: and I love to talk about that from my perspective

574
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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that.

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Speaker 2: You know, the phrase comparison is the thief of joy

577
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: always come up for me, right, So when I find

578
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: myself in that space of comparison, I let myself acknowledge that,

579
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Speaker 2: right that. Okay, wait, yep, I'm doing that comparison thing again. Okay,

580
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Speaker 2: hold on, Let me recognize that if I stay in

581
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 2: this comparison space, then that means that I'm going to

582
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Speaker 2: miss out on all the good that is present in

583
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Speaker 2: my current moment in my journey, and it will cause

584
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Speaker 2: me to miss overall what my journey is supposed to

585
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 2: be about. And that's the key. It's my journey. My

586
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 2: journey is not supposed to be anyone else's journey. And

587
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: so when I find myself in that space of comparison,

588
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: I acknowledge that I'm doing it, and then I move

589
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Speaker 2: into okay, this is not helpful for me. Let me

590
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Speaker 2: remind myself of the good that I have, why my

591
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: journey is what it is, and so then once I

592
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 2: can refocus, then I'm able to shift away from that

593
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: comparison space. And when I shift out of that comparison space.

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Speaker 2: I'm able to hold space for joyfully celebrating myself as

595
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Speaker 2: well as the person or people or things that I

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Speaker 2: might have been comparing comparing myself to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what about for Uta? Those are such great points,

598
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: and I think we have some similar points there. I

599
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: think acknowledgment is so key, like don't lie, letus not

600
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: lie to ourselves. Be honest, Like be real at least

601
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: with yourself, right, you don't got to tell nobody else

602
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 1: but be honest, acknowledge it. I like to ask myself,

603
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Speaker 1: like where is this coming from? And then I like

604
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Speaker 1: to dig in deeper and just remind myself like, you

605
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: don't know that person's story. You don't know what they're

606
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: doing behind the scenes. You don't know what they're going through,

607
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: you don't know what discipline they have in place that

608
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm not doing the same things right, You

609
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 1: never know. I just ask myself various questions. Right. Another

610
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Speaker 1: thing I remind myself of is what's for me is

611
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Speaker 1: for me, And I don't want to step into any

612
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Speaker 1: of my gifts, any of the experiences that are for me.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to step into anything prematurely so I'm like, God,

614
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Speaker 1: if you guys to make me wait until you know

615
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Speaker 1: that you know that you know I'm ready, Like, make

616
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Speaker 1: me wait. I don't want to step into anything prematurely,

617
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: and so I remember that, and then I also don't

618
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: like to lean into gratitude. And I think about certain

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Speaker 1: my experiences in servant leadership positions where I was helping

620
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Speaker 1: someone else build something. And I'm a firm believer that

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Speaker 1: what you make happen for someone else, or the love

622
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Speaker 1: you show someone else, I believe that same love and

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Speaker 1: support will be shown to you. And when I'm in

624
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: my good space, like when I'm my highest self, when

625
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm feeling great, I love to support people, compliment people

626
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: and love on them, you know, and just give that

627
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: genuine support. And so I try to shift into that

628
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: energy of how can I support that person, how can

629
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Speaker 1: I celebrate them genuinely? Right? So that's my perspective on

630
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Speaker 1: that thank.

631
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Speaker 2: You for this, yes, And I can call all of

632
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 2: that yes, yes, I think all of that is important.

633
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 3: And what that also does is it leads right.

634
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Speaker 2: Into number seven, right of acknowledging that you are always

635
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 2: worthy of love even when you think you're a mess.

636
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 2: And So how that connects with with number six is

637
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: that or specifically when you're in that comparison game, it's

638
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: recognizing that typically when we're in that comparison game, it's

639
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: when we're feeling less than about ourselves or feeling like

640
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 2: there's something that we're not doing right. And when we

641
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: get in those spaces, then we often might feel like, well,

642
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 2: we don't deserve whatever love we're receiving, we don't deserve

643
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: whatever praise we're receiving, and we don't deserve all the

644
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: good things like just we don't deserve. And the reality

645
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 2: is that you are always, always, always, always worthy of love,

646
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: worthy of all the good things. So it may be

647
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Speaker 2: that today you woke up, you didn't make the breakfast

648
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Speaker 2: that you said you were going to make. You didn't

649
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Speaker 2: make that lunch that you said you were going to

650
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Speaker 2: make to take.

651
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 3: With you to work.

652
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 2: You have no idea what you're gonna have for dinner

653
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: because you didn't go grocery shopping the day before. Your

654
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: place looks a mess. You actually woke up kind of late,

655
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 2: so now you're rushing to get out the door. You

656
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: have ten things that are on your to do list,

657
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: half of which you probably won't get done today and

658
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: you'll have to put off till tomorrow. And even with

659
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: all of that, you are still worthy of love.

660
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: As you are still worthy of love. And I truly

661
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: believe that that love it can start with us, right,

662
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: even if it's a process, because I remember in a

663
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: space in my journey where I was not able to

664
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: give myself the love that I desire. But I do

665
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: believe that there's so much power when we can give

666
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 1: ourselves the love, the compassion, the touch, all of that

667
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: that we desire. If we can give it to ourselves,

668
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: I think it's really powerful because it can just put

669
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: us in position to receive more of that, and it

670
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: kind of puts us in this posture letting the universe know,

671
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: like I'm available for this, right, I'm already giving it

672
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: to myself, so I'm available for this. And it makes

673
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 1: you feel good too, Like I think about even taking

674
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 1: a shower and you get out and rubbing oils in

675
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: your body and saying affirmations and loving those parts in

676
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: my body that I've had to, you know, give some

677
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: extra attention to because I wasn't too fond of it.

678
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: And as you think about this number, I think this

679
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: is number what number seven? Number seven? Yeah, A couple

680
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: questions you can ask yourself are what lies have I

681
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: believed about my worth on hard days so that you

682
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: can acknowledge them and then ideally try to reprogram yourself

683
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: right to think about what are the truths that I

684
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: want to lean into? And also think back to times

685
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: when someone loved you through chaos. Right, maybe you have

686
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: a moment in time, but you can think back to

687
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: those moments where either you were loved through it or

688
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: you got yourself through it and kind of remind ourselves

689
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: of like, huh, I did this before, I experienced this before,

690
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: it's available to me in the future. And that takes

691
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: us to number eight, which I will want to say

692
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: is probably one of Diaald's favorites. Yes it is, And

693
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: if you listen to the podcast regularly you know. So

694
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Number eight is you're allowed to rest even if nothing's done.

695
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: This is not an easy one, but we won't say

696
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: it again. Put the people in the bag. You're allowed

697
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: to rest even if nothing's done. And this is something

698
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: that I am still working on reminding myself that I

699
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: don't have to finish it all today. I deserve peace

700
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: and rest and also working through not feeling lazy when

701
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: I do take a break, even though stuff needs to

702
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: get done. Literally, last night I was up vibing and

703
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: working late and I ended. Usually I like to clean

704
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: my whole house before I go to sleep, make sure

705
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: everything's ready for the morning. I left everything out. It

706
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: was just messy, and I was like, you know what,

707
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: it's okay. I'm going to just go ahead and go

708
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: to sleep and I'll clean it up in the morning.

709
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: And reminding myself, I have all the time I need

710
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: to get done everything that needs to get done. That's

711
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: another man trait that I like to use. And guess what.

712
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning. I had two meetings that

713
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: were canceled. I had all the time I needed get

714
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: all that shit done. The mess was still there there.

715
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: I cleaned it up and had a great day. You

716
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: are allowed to rest like this. Life is so precious

717
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: and it's so important for us to give ourselves rest, pleasure,

718
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: time to just chill. You can sit on a couch

719
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: and watch Netflix and eat some yummy snack that you like,

720
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: and that's okay.

721
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think the thing also to remember is

722
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 2: that rest is important.

723
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 3: Rest is a necessity. Rest is different from sleep. Oh,

724
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 3: and so you need to sleep. Okay, we all need

725
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 3: to sleep.

726
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: It is a biological function that we all need.

727
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 3: Rest is a necessity. But rest is different from sleep,

728
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 3: and that rest is literally you are not doing anything.

729
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: You are awake, but you are not doing anything that

730
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: falls into the quote unquote paragraph of product. So rest is,

731
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 2: like you said, sitting on the couch watching Netflix and

732
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 2: having a yummy snack. Rest is sitting on your patio

733
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 2: having a cup of tea, watching whatever's passing by in

734
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 2: front of you. Right.

735
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: Rest is.

736
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 2: Laying in bed in extra ten minutes in the morning

737
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: thinking about nothing. Rest is something that we all need.

738
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: And it again, like you pointed out, it does not

739
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:55,760
Speaker 2: mean you're being lazy. And I think in this capitalist,

740
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: pro productivity society that we live in, the majority of

741
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 2: us have been conditioned to believe that if we are sitting.

742
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 3: Down doing nothing, we're being lazy.

743
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,959
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not saying that you need to spend twenty

744
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 2: days in a row doing absolutely nothing when there are

745
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 2: things that need to get done.

746
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that.

747
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that we need rest to reset ourselves,

748
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: not to be productive, but to be brought back to equilibrium.

749
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 3: That because of the.

750
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: Way a lot of us have been socialized in programmed

751
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 2: and the way that we typically engage, we end up

752
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 2: in a space of rest when that's our bodies as

753
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 2: our body is telling us, yeah, you've been doing a lot,

754
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 2: slowed down, listen. Most of us ignore that, and then

755
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 2: we end up sick.

756
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: Exactly, and your body's like, oh, your ass gonna sit

757
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: down now.

758
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 3: And I told you to rest. You ain't listen.

759
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: That's the words God, when your body's like, right, I told.

760
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 2: You and so and so. I think that it is important,

761
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 2: particularly once you get that signal from your body, to

762
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: let yourself rest no matter what chaos might be happening

763
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 2: around you, so that you have that chance to reset.

764
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: That chaos will still be happening, so let yourself do

765
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: that reset. That rests to reset. And so then that

766
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 2: takes us to number nine. Your dream isn't too big,

767
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: it's just being built on divine timing.

768
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: Oh amen.

769
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 3: Yes, So.

770
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: It's your dream for a reason. You don't have to

771
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 2: give up on it no matter what people around you

772
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 2: are telling you, unless there are realistic things that are

773
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 2: getting in the way of that. So your dream is

774
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 2: to own a transportation company, but you don't have your

775
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 2: driver's license, and you are not old enough to get

776
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 2: your driver's license yet. Wild example.

777
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 3: I know, but follow me.

778
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 2: That dream is a great dream. You just aren't old

779
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: enough to follow that step. Right if you are told

780
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: that you want this transportation company, and now you've met

781
00:45:54,960 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 2: the age requirement, but there are things from your pasts

782
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 2: that now absolutely prohibit you from having the driver's license

783
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 2: that you need to start that transportation company. Guess what,

784
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 2: While you might not be able to be the person

785
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 2: to own that transportation to drive the vehicles in that

786
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 2: transportation company, that does not mean that you cannot still

787
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 2: own your own transportation company. So now you may have

788
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: had a few roadblocks and a few setbacks, and there

789
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 2: may be some adjustments that you need to make to

790
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 2: get to that dream, but that dream is still possible.

791
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and yes, I love that you mentioned adjustments

792
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: because listen there, the journey is usually never a straight path.

793
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: There's usually lots of twist and turns. And there's a

794
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: quote that I've had in my email signature for years.

795
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: It's just so good I can't let it go. And

796
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: you'll have to google the quote to see who says

797
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: it's always Butcher's name. But the quote says, the creator

798
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,439
Speaker 1: did not give you a longing to do that which

799
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: you have no ability to do. And I truly believe that,

800
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: Like I truly believe that if you have a desire

801
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: to do something in this lifetime, I believe it's possible.

802
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: And I think there are a couple of things to remember, Like,

803
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: you want to be coachable, right, you want to make

804
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: sure you're improving, you're getting feedback, you're not just doing

805
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,240
Speaker 1: the same exact thing and realizing that it's not working.

806
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: And then you're just committed to that particular way. Know

807
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: that your method may change, but the goal doesn't necessarily

808
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: have to. So I think that when you're achieving your goal,

809
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: try they think of the why behind it, because sometimes

810
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: it's it's the why that can drive you to the purpose. Right,

811
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: So maybe you want to be wealthy, or you want

812
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: to like you said, Dom, I think it was a

813
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: start a trucking company.

814
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 3: A transportation company.

815
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: A transportation company, Well, maybe think about the why behind that,

816
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: because maybe the why is really you want to be

817
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: finance independent. So maybe you realize, oh, maybe it's not

818
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 1: the transportation company. Maybe it's this other thing that I'm

819
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: passionate about that'll lead me to the bigger why, which

820
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: is financial independence. So just be open to different paths

821
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: and know that if you drunk it, it's possible. So

822
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: don't give up. Yes, yes, And that takes us to

823
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: our final reminder, number ten, which hopefully just imagine as

824
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: we are stating number ten, just imagine a big hug,

825
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: good energy surrounding you, bright white light and just good vibes,

826
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: a hug from the universe, a hug from God. Right,

827
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: whatever's going to make you feel good. And number ten

828
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: is everything is going to be okay, even if it

829
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it, or even if it doesn't look

830
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: like it. This is so important to remember, I was

831
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: telling Don before we started this. Sometimes, especially when you're younger,

832
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: you just need somebody that you trust to tell you

833
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be okay. Yeah right. I just think about

834
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: like my grandmother. Oh my mamm I mess her so much.

835
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: She's like, baby, everything's gonna be okay. You don't know

836
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: how it's gonna be okay. You may not believe it necessarily,

837
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: but because that person said it, you're like, you know

838
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: what it has to be? Like this is going to

839
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 1: keep me going. And when I think about this particular reminder,

840
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: one of the things that I think is so important

841
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: for us to remember is that our thoughts are not

842
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 1: always facts.

843
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 2: Right.

844
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: Just because the thought pops into your head doesn't mean

845
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: you have to believe it, right. I think about so

846
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: many times I'm having to reorient and control my thoughts.

847
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes my thoughts the critic is trying to talk about me,

848
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, won't play about her. No, we not

849
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: like I have a whole conversation. We're battling in the

850
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: mind of like, this is what I'm choosing to believe.

851
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: This thought popped up, but I don't want to believe that.

852
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: It's not gonna put me in the direction I want

853
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: to go in. It's not giving me the energy that

854
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: I want to have. And so it's so important to

855
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: remember that, like, everything is going to be okay, even

856
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: if you don't see it. Now. My think back to

857
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: so many moments in life where I thought it was

858
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: the end, where I thought, oh my gosh, I'm not

859
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: gonna make it, and I made it and I'm still

860
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: here and looking back on it. In my personal journey,

861
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: everything that happened was happening for me and not to me,

862
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: and so I think it's a great reminder for us

863
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: to close the conversation like everything's going to be okay.

864
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, I can't stop saying it as you

865
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: were saying it, and I'm saying it in my mind

866
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 2: of like, yes, this is all. This is a good

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Speaker 2: gentle mantra and reminder of everything is going to be

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Speaker 2: oh okay. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but truly

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Speaker 2: eventually everything is going to be okay. All right, ladies,

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Speaker 2: So we know, like we said at the top of

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Speaker 2: the episode, adulting can be a true clusterfuck at times,

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Speaker 2: and so here are our ten reminders one more time

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Speaker 2: to help you get through when adulting is looking pretty rough.

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Speaker 2: Number one, crying doesn't mean you're losing.

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Speaker 3: It means you're releasing. Number two.

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Speaker 2: You're not weak. You're carrying a lot right now. Number three.

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Speaker 2: Just because you're alone doesn't mean you're not supported. Number four.

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Speaker 2: It's okay to miss people who are no longer in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 3: Number five.

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Speaker 2: Your ancestors would be so proud of you. Number six,

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Speaker 2: it's normal to grieve the life you thought you'd have

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Speaker 2: by now. Number seven, you are always worthy of love.

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Speaker 2: Even when you think you're a mess. Number eight, you're

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Speaker 2: a lie out to rest even if nothing's done. Number nine,

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Speaker 2: your dream isn't too big. It's just being built on

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Speaker 2: divine timing. And number ten, everything is going to be okay,

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Speaker 2: even if it doesn't look like it yet.

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Speaker 1: It was such a beautiful recap. Dom and Lady Dom

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Speaker 1: and I are going to go record the after show

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Speaker 1: where we talk more about behind the scenes stuff, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of stuff from the episode process the content

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Speaker 1: we cover. So join us. Visit Herspace podcast dot com,

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Speaker 1: you there.

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Speaker 4: Lady, it's doctor Dom here from the Cultivating her Space podcast.

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Speaker 4: Cultivating her Space. Remember that while this podcast is all

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Speaker 4: about healing, empowerment, and resilience, it's not a substitute for therapy.

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Speaker 4: If you are someone you know needs support, check out

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Speaker 4: resources like Therapy for Black Girls or Psychology Today. If

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Speaker 1: And before we meet again, repeat after me. I honor

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Speaker 1: my journey by balancing effort and rest to achieve my goals.

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Speaker 1: Keep thriving, Lady, and tune in next Friday for more

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Speaker 1: inspiration from Cultivating her Space. In the meantime, be sure

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