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Speaker 2: Take a deep in through your nose. Holds it now,

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Speaker 2: release slowly again, deep in haale hold release, repeating internally

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Speaker 2: deeply well I am deeply Well. I am deeply Wow.

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Speaker 2: I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land on

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Speaker 2: your journey. A podcast for those that are curious, creative,

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Speaker 2: I'm Debbie Brown. This is where we heal, this is

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Speaker 2: where we come. Thank you for joining me for this

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Speaker 2: is a two time Grammy Award winner. She exudes soulful charm, wit,

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Speaker 2: motherhood and lifestyle brand, Mellie Belly. Excitingly, Melanie Fiona is

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Speaker 4: me about? What do I want them to know about

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00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 4: their mother in her journey, on her journey? And so, yeah,

433
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 4: it's been it's been really important to be mindful for

434
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 4: me about everything that I do now, how what I consume,

435
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 4: how I consume it, Who do I engage with, Where

436
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 4: do I socialize? How do I socialize? Where is my

437
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 4: energy best served? Can I quiet the voice down that

438
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 4: says you have to be in it, you have to

439
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 4: do it, you have to keep going.

440
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 3: Do I right? Or can I take the time I

441
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 3: need because it's mine to take. So that's yeah, that's

442
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 3: what I keep telling everybody, Like whenever I speak to

443
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: other artists or creatives, I'm always like, take your time,

444
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 3: it's yours to take. When I think about the break

445
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 3: between my projects, my last project, full length project, came

446
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 3: out in twenty twelve, twenty twelve, it's been thirteen years

447
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 3: in the space of what they've told us about what

448
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 3: makes longevity or what people amount success to or you

449
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 3: got to be in it. If people will forget about you,

450
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 3: or you'll be washed out, you'll be washed up, you'll

451
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: be forgotten, damaged goods. I'm still here with more to

452
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 3: say and more to give and more to offer, and

453
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: that is nothing short of God and just being obedient

454
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 3: and protecting and doing the work along the way. Because

455
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 3: if I wasn't doing the work along the way, I

456
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 3: might be in it. I might be on a different path.

457
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: I might not have the peace that I have that

458
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 3: I saw and fought so hard for, certainly, you know.

459
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 3: So I'm grateful that I learned some very valuable lessons

460
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 3: in what I always call my awakening year, which is

461
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, and that really put me on

462
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 3: I think the trajectory to have longevity and sustainability, to

463
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 3: be here again, to still be healthy and to have energy.

464
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: And I keep saying, gas in the tank, gas in

465
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: the tank, because it's a journey, so you.

466
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: Know, I.

467
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting, it's exciting, so.

468
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: Exciting and so deep and so exactly what this is,

469
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: you know, like this is what purpose is. This is

470
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 2: what devotion to your gifts into the way you're meant

471
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: to serve is, you know, and it's meant to be

472
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: so many things, you know, it's meant to change form

473
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: in so many ways. And it's like every every decade,

474
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 2: every five year cycle, every ten year cycle, like we

475
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: should be looking and doing things that are different, yes,

476
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 2: but still settled into the truth of who we are,

477
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: what our gifts are, what our skills have been Like

478
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 2: this is it?

479
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: Yes?

480
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I have to say too, just everything that

481
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: you spoke to in regards to how you talk to God,

482
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: how you connect with God with your children, I see

483
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: I relate to, I deeply connect to in so many ways,

484
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: and that kind of living prayer, there is nothing more

485
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: powerful in the world, Like I've just found the way

486
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: that kind of living your prayer and being in constant

487
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: dialogue about every piece, every piece, like down to everything.

488
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 2: Just like like one of the things that I just

489
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: am always saying throughout the day is like, teach me God,

490
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 2: show me, show me God, teach me, Surprise me.

491
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: God, surprise me God.

492
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so powerful. And thank you for sharing the

493
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: process because I think so many people are going to

494
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: be able to bring more of that because nothing else matters.

495
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: Like if we can be clear and honest, nothing else matters.

496
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 2: If you weren't doing all of this for God, what

497
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: is the point.

498
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 3: I think people get so embarrassed sometimes at the idea

499
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 3: of hearing themselves say certain things out loud. They feel

500
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 3: like it has to be this quiet thing. And that's

501
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: fine if that's what you feel is needed. But I

502
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 3: truly believe that sometimes people are afraid to say no,

503
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 3: I talked to God out loud, or to walk around

504
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 3: and say it out loud in your house to yourself.

505
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 3: Surprise me, God, surprise me God. God loves direct communication

506
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 3: just like every other healthy relationship, right like we ask

507
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 3: for it in our marriages and our relationships and our

508
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 3: friendships and our professional relationships. God absolutely so that God

509
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 3: can be direct with you. Because I think that that's

510
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 3: also the thing is that I've in recent in the

511
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 3: last year, specifically, there's been a couple of situations so

512
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 3: I've been like, God, if this is not meant for me,

513
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 3: if this person is not meant to be here, show

514
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: me remove it. And sure enough that person is like,

515
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, I can no longer be here. Great,

516
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: thank you, no no problem, you know, And I listening

517
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 3: to that, it's been, it's it's it's it's been so

518
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 3: important for me, I think to have space to listen

519
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: to the voice of God when I when I ask

520
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 3: for it, and remember that I ask for it, for it,

521
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 3: for it.

522
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: Deeply. Well, first of all, this new EP Yes four Yes,

523
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: it will be birthed into the world Say Yes. Say

524
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: the power of that statement alone. Talk to me about

525
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: how this creation began to take form and most especially

526
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: the title.

527
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: So the song itself, say Yes on the project was

528
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 3: kind of the anchor for me. This is my heartful

529
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 3: in the word, hard capital art piece. I love this

530
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 3: song so much because it came from such divine magic

531
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 3: in this room. This song was created a complete live

532
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 3: jam session, Wow Yes, with some of the most incredible

533
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 3: producers and musicians that we know. I'm going to say

534
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 3: their names because they are so magical. Andre Harris, then Undercat,

535
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: Charlie Burrell, Chris Dave, some of the most just incredible

536
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 3: artists and musicians all came together in one room and

537
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 3: we were in the room one night and they just

538
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 3: started playing and the music that came out was this song.

539
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 3: There was no conversation, there was no direction. Wow, it

540
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 3: was a it was a full channel just working through

541
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: everybody in the room. I co wrote this song with

542
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 3: Sir another incredible R and B artist, and even that

543
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 3: was such a very sacred time because he hadn't even

544
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 3: arrived at who he would become as well. He was

545
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 3: still more behind the scenes at that time, and so

546
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 3: it was just magical. And I knew that this song

547
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 3: was magical, and I knew that it was very important.

548
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: It would have a life in my career, and I

549
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 3: didn't know how or when, because I was going through

550
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 3: some changes that I didn't know how things were going

551
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 3: to land on where it was going to be or

552
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: when these songs were going to come out. And so

553
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: when the time arrived that I started revisiting putting out

554
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 3: new music, say Yes was there and I was like, Okay,

555
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: this is it. I know that this is this is

556
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 3: the piece that I've been carrying and the magic of

557
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 3: what this song represents, the live instrumentation, the soulfulness of it.

558
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: The story. The story is about me and my now

559
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 3: husband of what we had to what we had to

560
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,959
Speaker 3: do to arrive at this life. We had to say yes,

561
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 3: to overcome the fear, to put the doubt away, to

562
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 3: put the traumas away, what we've been through, and say

563
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 3: yes to one another and move forth and to be

564
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:48,720
Speaker 3: vulnerable and that messaging alone again like I said earlier,

565
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 3: outside of the music is what I want people to know.

566
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 3: I want people to know that everything remarkable that I

567
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 3: personally have ever done has come from saying yes. Absolutely,

568
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: everything that I've ever achieved, every new height that I've

569
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: ever risen to, has come from saying yes. And so

570
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: I want people to feel that. I want people to

571
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: So many people say, oh, I love your love, I

572
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 3: love seeing you and your husband, and we know our

573
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: story of what it took to get there, But listening

574
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: to these songs, you'll have a deeper understanding of what

575
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 3: it really did take. And how can you apply that

576
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 3: mantra to your life, whether it be for your love,

577
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: your professional endeavors, whether it be for the way that

578
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 3: you want to see yourself honor yourself. What do you

579
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 3: want to say yes to yourself for? And so that

580
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 3: is that's where this title and just the affirmative of

581
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: the power of the words. When people say, oh, you

582
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 3: have a new ep say yes, they're putting more energy

583
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 3: into the into the saying, into the saying say yes,

584
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 3: say yes yes, plant the seeds. Have somebody say have

585
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 3: you heard Melanie's new EPCE Say yes, Oh, say yes yes,

586
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 3: say yes yes, I have heard it just more affirmative language,

587
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: you know, And that's I didn't arrive here without affirmations.

588
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 3: I didn't arrive here without affirming and believing that I could.

589
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 3: I didn't arrive at this life and this love and

590
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: this these blessings without allowing God to be present and

591
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 3: to work and to say yes to it all.

592
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: You know.

593
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 3: So overcoming fear was a big part of this, big

594
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,959
Speaker 3: part of all of it, to welcome love into my life,

595
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 3: to take the step of uncertainty and unknowing how things

596
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: could or could not turn out, but to continue to walk,

597
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 3: to continue to journey. And so yeah, it's about It's

598
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 3: about the affirmation. But then the music I'm so proud of.

599
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 3: I'm just so proud of these. I think they feel

600
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 3: really good. They feel really good.

601
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: You know.

602
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 3: I worked with incredible people on this project. James Fauntleroy,

603
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: an incredible songwriter, producer, one of my longest friends in

604
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 3: the music industry, both of us knowing each other before

605
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: anyone knew our names, and to create with him on

606
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: this project was It's very special to me because I

607
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: just admired his work so much. D Mile incredible live musicians,

608
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 3: just so much talent that showed up for me on

609
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 3: this project, and then these stories of just love and

610
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 3: how I celebrate my love and love in general in

611
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 3: this season of life. Six songs easily digestible, press play,

612
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 3: let it run, say yes. On the project, I brought

613
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 3: back at the end of the project for a full

614
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 3: seven minutes. It's a seven minute song, and so that

615
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 3: was intentional. It's getting lost in the music house.

616
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 2: Yes, I was like, that was the seventies. Yes, Oh

617
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: my god, these beautifully long, long with long intros and

618
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: outros to lead you.

619
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 3: In and take you out and ah, and that is

620
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for people to hear that. Yeah, because

621
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 3: it's a vibe. Dance to it, make love to it,

622
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: smoke to it, whatever you do, ritual to it. I

623
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 3: don't care. But the music is so beautiful and knowing

624
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: I want people to understand that. Again, the way this

625
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: song was created, there was no conversation. These transitions when

626
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 3: you hear the music and you think it's about to

627
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: end and then it goes into another groove was just

628
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: just magic happening in the room. And I was sitting

629
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 3: there like, what am I whim saying? It's a memory

630
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 3: etched in my mind, and so I want people to

631
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 3: experience what that feels like. And so yeah, and then

632
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: this project is I think the platform and the door

633
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 3: opener for me for for completion, because I know what

634
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: it took to get here. I know the times where

635
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure if I was going to arrive back here.

636
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 3: I know the times when I didn't know if there

637
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 3: was more gas in the tank and if I could

638
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 3: heal beyond what I had been through to arrive back

639
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 3: at this place. And so to me, success is releasing

640
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 3: it on April fourth, not the expectation of how successful

641
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: and who and that I've done it for myself, that

642
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 3: I've fulfilled this calling to continue to use my voice

643
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 3: the way I know I am intended to the way

644
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 3: I was gifted to the way I was put here to.

645
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: And so.

646
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 3: It's a marker of success for me personally to cross

647
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 3: that finish line with this project so amazing and then

648
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: be open to what God has in store for me

649
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 3: after right.

650
00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 2: So amazing and creation for creation's sake, you know, creation,

651
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: because you are built to create, and God says, so

652
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 2: you know, It's like, I think what you're describing to

653
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: is something I think about a lot where it's like

654
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: people that are true creatives, people that are really here

655
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 2: with gifts and need to serve. It's like taking the

656
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 2: ego out of it, right, And it's so hard to

657
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 2: do because we are so conditioned by society, but especially

658
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: coming from the industry. It's like it's themn near impossible today, right,

659
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 2: But it's like it just speaks to such deeper layers

660
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: of surrender and trust and again purpose and alignment. Because

661
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 2: when you're a great, when you're someone that has something

662
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 2: to really offer and deliver, it is for all time, right,

663
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: Like it is not just for this year or this

664
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: award cycle. It is for all time. Yes, And your

665
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 2: fans are heavy, so of course they're gonna love this project.

666
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 2: And and someone in a couple hundred years might find

667
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 2: it and be brought to life in a different kind

668
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 2: of way and it could mean something entirely different or

669
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 2: more to the people of that time. Like none of

670
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: that matters. Creation is what matters.

671
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Oh my gosh. It's like we, like I said,

672
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 3: it's very difficult, I think, especially in a space of

673
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 3: social media, right, Like we feel triggered and challenged all

674
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 3: the same time when we see people just doing the

675
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 3: thing and doing the thing, and people are like, oh

676
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 3: my gosh, it's too much. But it's like is it

677
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 3: too much or are you afraid to do it? And

678
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: that's why it feels a little triggering. Create the thing,

679
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 3: put the thing out, Create more, create more create. So

680
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 3: that's why for me, I think not allowing myself to

681
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 3: get caught up in is this better than the work

682
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 3: that I've already created. No, it's the best work you've

683
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: created right now, cause you did it, you know, And

684
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 3: so I'm so glad you said that, because it is

685
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: about creation. Everything has come from creation. We have been created,

686
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 3: and so that is really important. I'm excited about what

687
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 3: I do at sixty five, right right, I'm not concerned

688
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 3: about getting older.

689
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 2: What a blessing to be able to do it.

690
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 4: Please God let me get older, right please God, let

691
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 4: me get a privilege.

692
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 3: Aging is a privilg But how you do it and

693
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: what you want to do with it is up to you.

694
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 3: So I'm excited about what I can create and continue

695
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 3: to create.

696
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: This just made me think of this mantra from the

697
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 2: designer Norma Kamali. So she has a beautiful book that

698
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: I don't know if this was her intention. But this

699
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 2: is what I relate to it as as like a

700
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 2: book of aging, where it's every chapter is broken down

701
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: by the decade of her life. And she's in her

702
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: seventies now. But one of the things she shared was

703
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 2: this affirmation I think she starts saying in her forties,

704
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: which is I will age with grace, beauty, power, and influence.

705
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: And I was just like, that is so powerful, and

706
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 2: none of none of them those words individually need to

707
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 2: be defined right there. There's not really an expectation of

708
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: how that word quantifies, right, but to say that as

709
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 2: the intention. So I've started saying that every day since

710
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 2: I read the book, and I'm like, I just I

711
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 2: love that so deeply because there are so many things

712
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: to be created with the privilege of aging and with

713
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: the perspective and with the additional gifts and attunements, and

714
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 2: it's just it should never end.

715
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 3: It should never end. Yeah, it should never end. I

716
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 3: look forward. I look forward to it. I look forward

717
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 3: to whatever days I have ahead and the space to create,

718
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 3: because it's just it's it's like we said with God,

719
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 3: it's like it's all possible. It's just all possible. Anything

720
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 3: is possible.

721
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: And me think any think deeply. Well, Okay, you have

722
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: to finish telling me this story, because when we were

723
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 2: off camera, you told me the first parts of the

724
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 2: story about say Yes, and you were like, I think

725
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 2: something about Instagram.

726
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 3: You had said something about say yes on Instagram on Instagram,

727
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 3: and I remember, I'm going to go back and find

728
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 3: it in our in our messages, okay, because I was like,

729
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: we have to talk about this, and I hope we

730
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 3: can recall it. Okay, I hope we can recall We're

731
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 3: gonna find it because I knew when this happened when

732
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 3: you said that, I was like, I'm going to sit

733
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 3: down and talk with Devi and it's going to be

734
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 3: about this project. It's going to be about this and

735
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: it it just when those words came up, when you

736
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 3: said them, I was like, oh, it's perfect. I'm going

737
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 3: to go talk with her, and here we are, and.

738
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 2: It's just it's so like I've just really loved hearing

739
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 2: your relationship with God. You know, It's been such a

740
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: privilege and a pleasure to hear you share about this

741
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 2: because that like that is the prayer, right, It's just

742
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 2: yes once you learn okay, it's not yes if you're

743
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 2: a people pleaser. It's not yes if your current battle

744
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: and spiritual curriculum is standing up for yourself and having boundaries.

745
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 2: I don't want you to weaponize that or use what

746
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 2: we're saying as a way to subjugate yourself. But I

747
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 2: will say you'll know when it's time to learn how

748
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 2: to say yes again. And at the juncture of the

749
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 2: journey you arrive at after a lot of that crevice

750
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 2: work after are a lot of those shadowy parts. It

751
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 2: is trusting yourself to say yes again. It's empowering yourself

752
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: and your connection with God to say yes again. And

753
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 2: it's like, that's that's the prayer, just yes God, Yes, Yes.

754
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: The answer is always yes God.

755
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 3: Ah, Oh my gosh, that was perfect. That is so

756
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 3: perfect what you just said, exactly because I think a

757
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 3: lot of people we have said this before. We focus

758
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 3: so much on saying no, you know nos, and it's

759
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 3: a full sentence of course. Yeah, it is, of course.

760
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 3: And I've said a lot of no's, and I've earned

761
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 3: the right to say yes. I've done the work to

762
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 3: say yes. I've done the work to know that if

763
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 3: I say yes to something, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine

764
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 3: because I'm saying it from a place of faith, of intuition,

765
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 3: of experience and trust. And so it is that. It

766
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 3: is that because I'm so glad you said the people

767
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 3: pleaser thing. Because that doesn't mean you just go and

768
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 3: say yes to everybody. No, you have to arrive at

769
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 3: the place to say yes, shadowy no good And.

770
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: Well you know if this message is for you in

771
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 2: your life right now, yes or not yet? Yeah yet,

772
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 2: or you're walking up the hill to it absolutely yes, yeah.

773
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 2: Before I invite you to share some soul work with

774
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 2: the audience, I would love to hear a little bit

775
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 2: more about your creative process. How do you invoke the muse?

776
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: How do you invoke the spirit when you know it's

777
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 2: time to create again?

778
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 3: I create space for myself. I will especially say this

779
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 3: in motherhood. I have a very hard time, or I've

780
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 3: had a very hard time in balancing the guilt of

781
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 3: needing to be other places right, and how I don't

782
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 3: think about dinner when I'm supposed to be writing a song, right.

783
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 2: And so.

784
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 3: I have learned the art of compartmentalizing these roles in

785
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,919
Speaker 3: my life and also communicating with my children and getting

786
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 3: their blessing for it. When I leave the house and

787
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 3: when I have to do things, mommy has to go,

788
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 3: I'll be back. I'll show you what bake my kid.

789
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 3: What are you going to do today?

790
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: You know?

791
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: And so what it looks like, I think in the

792
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 3: space for me is I always walk with my incense.

793
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 3: I'm always walking with my Polo sanso. I'm always walking

794
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 3: with crystals. I wear my crystals, and I set intentions

795
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 3: when I'm going into a space. Creativity for me is

796
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 3: like a faucet, and it's one that sometimes takes a

797
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 3: little little loosening up before it starts to flow. And

798
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 3: so for me, the practice is showing up with consistency.

799
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 3: It's showing up with the spirit of allow what is

800
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 3: to come out to come out, and if it doesn't,

801
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 3: try again tomorrow, try again tomorrow. So and also it

802
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 3: comes from being in spaces with people that are of

803
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 3: the same vibration in frequency. I cannot work with anyone

804
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 3: anymore that I don't feel like I can be my

805
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: authentic self, like I can share these things out loud,

806
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 3: say these things out loud, that I feel that we

807
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 3: can have a conversation and our words flow and intertwine together.

808
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 3: If I'm writing with you or if I'm creating with music,

809
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 3: whatever it is, it has to be on the same frequency.

810
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 3: I can't and so when certain things come up, if

811
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel aligned, I just no, thank you, no

812
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 3: thank you. I say yes to spirit and no thank

813
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: you to that and so and so.

814
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

815
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 3: So the creative process for me is just you know,

816
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 3: I would love in an ideal world, I would love

817
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 3: to just go away into a very small place on

818
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 3: an island and shut out the world and get quiet

819
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 3: and pick up a guitar and play and isolate myself

820
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 3: for three to six months. And maybe I will. Maybe

821
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 3: I will one day. Yeah, but my kids need me

822
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 3: right now. It's not that season of my life. But

823
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 3: I would love to at some point. And maybe that's

824
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 3: what lays Liza ahead of me, you know, maybe that's

825
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 3: the space that I need to find the next level

826
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 3: of my voice, and that I feel is something that

827
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 3: I would would like to explore one day. But for

828
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 3: right now, it's conversations, intention setting and being in spaces

829
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 3: with people that want to create the same way I

830
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 3: want to create and want to impact people the same way.

831
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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful, powerful, thank you, Yeah wow. I would like

832
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: to invite you at the end of every episode, our

833
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: guest gets to share a piece of soul work, which

834
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: is an opportunity for everyone listening to integrate what they've

835
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 2: heard or what they may be experiencing inside with a

836
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 2: practice of any kind. So that can be a favorite

837
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 2: ritual of yours. It can be a prompt for journaling

838
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 2: or self inquiry, a favorite quote, or an actual type

839
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 2: of physical or even mental practice.

840
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 3: So many come to mind. Right now, what would I

841
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 3: like to share? I'll take a moment to ask God

842
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 3: right now what it is that I am supposed to share.

843
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 3: The thing that comes back to me is my younger self,

844
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 3: My four year old self said that I wanted to

845
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 3: be a singing nurse when I grew up. And when

846
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 3: I was younger, it didn't necessarily make the most sense

847
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 3: to everybody. It was cute, it was laughable. Oh it's

848
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 3: singing nurse. Who would think to say something like that.

849
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 3: The thing that I'd like to share is I will

850
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 3: ask everybody to think back to the youngest version of

851
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 3: themselves that they can remember, the most joyful, the most free,

852
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 3: the most sure of self version of yourself as a

853
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 3: young child. And I want you to think it could

854
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 3: be at any age, whatever that is for you minus

855
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 3: four years old, And I want you to think about

856
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 3: what makes that version happy, what lights or used to

857
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 3: light up that version of yourself. And I want you

858
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 3: to think about your journey through life as a tether

859
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 3: back to that four year old, six year old, three

860
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 3: year old, seven year old, nine year old self, whatever age.

861
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 3: And I want you to imagine yourself walking the line

862
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 3: of your life, but understanding that it's curved and you

863
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 3: go off track sometimes and you come back, and I

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Speaker 3: that that is the alignment that you are always seeking

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Speaker 3: and told you what it needed to be, who you

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Speaker 3: are at the core. Holding on to that version is

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Speaker 3: when they are aligned, and so don't let them pass

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Speaker 3: you by flippantly or as just moments going, oh that

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Speaker 3: with you every day, and it's our job to remind

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Speaker 3: ourselves to be and remain connected to that. That has

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Speaker 3: been something for me.

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Speaker 2: That I.

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Speaker 3: I know when happens now, I can clearly identify and

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Speaker 3: I hold onto that and make I make mental notes,

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Speaker 3: don't don't don't forget that you're on the right track.

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Speaker 3: Keep going. You're on the right track. Keep going. It's

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Speaker 3: confirmation for me. So I don't know if that was

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I lost anyone there, but I

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Speaker 3: saying is feeling that because it's been a huge That's

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Speaker 3: what I That's what I have as a marker of

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Speaker 3: success for me. When four year old Melanie is like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're so happy. I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 2: Look at you.

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Speaker 3: Good job, good job. I know who she is. I

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Speaker 3: know who she is.

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Speaker 2: So beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for asking me to share.

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Speaker 2: That was so beautiful. This beautiful body of work. Say

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Speaker 2: Yes is available April fourth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Live with it, live with it, live with it, pray

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Speaker 3: with it, pray with it, dance to it, love to it,

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Speaker 3: and come see it live on tour. Yes She will

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Speaker 3: be on tour this Yes Spray. I'm going on tour

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Speaker 3: at the end, starting with the end of April, and

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Speaker 3: I'll be performing the catalog songs, the new songs. And

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Speaker 3: this experience that I want to create is one that

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Speaker 3: I want people to walk away feeling like they have

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Speaker 3: embodied what it means to say yes. And so that's

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Speaker 3: my that's my hope for every stage that I touch

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Speaker 3: on this tour, every person that's ever been with me

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Speaker 3: on this journey, that has come to see me, that

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Speaker 3: want to make a deeper connection beyond the music. I

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Speaker 3: want everyone to feel like they can and say yes

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Speaker 3: when they leave that room. So come to the tour,

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Speaker 3: listen to the music, say yes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah. I'm like I already I wanted to say

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Speaker 2: right away yes. So everyone scrolled down in the show

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Speaker 2: notes of this episode, whether that is on YouTube and

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Speaker 2: you can see me right now, hello, or you are listening,

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Speaker 2: scroll into the show notes. Few things you can link

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Speaker 2: to the project. You can check out Melanie's websites. You

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Speaker 2: can get all the tour dates, and you can connect

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Speaker 2: with her on Instagram, so you can figure out all

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Speaker 2: of the things, all these things. Yeah, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us. Thanks you.

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Speaker 3: This was a breath of fresh air for me in

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Speaker 3: a murriad of conversations and promotional appearances and singing. This

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Speaker 3: was a true gift. So thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for creating this space to have conversations like this.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Melli Belly,

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Speaker 2: let it anchor in let it integrate and really climb

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Speaker 2: into your heart with this one. Who are you being

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Speaker 2: called to become right now this moment. Thank you for

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