Speaker 1: Get inviting indy, you write with me and get excited
Speaker 1: about your life.
Speaker 2: Guess what I did a thing.
Speaker 3: I did a thing that I had dreamed of doing
Speaker 3: for nearly damn there forty years.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're following me.
Speaker 3: On social media at doing Dai speaks, but I recently
Speaker 3: performed at an open mic. And it wasn't just any
Speaker 3: open mic. It was a hip hop cipher freestyle where
Speaker 3: they played the beats and we spit the lyrics.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The reason why this is so important one because this
Speaker 3: has always been a dream of mine, But then also two.
Speaker 3: I was planning my birthday, or I'm planning it now,
Speaker 3: and I was talking to a friend and she said, Dawn,
Speaker 3: why don't you do an open mic, invite some friends out.
Speaker 3: They'll show you some support and you could live.
Speaker 2: Out your dream. And I said, that sounds really good.
Speaker 2: Let alone.
Speaker 3: A few days later, I had another friend reach out
Speaker 3: to me, who I've taken a few in prop workshops with.
Speaker 3: They were driving home, Dawn, I saw an open mike.
Speaker 2: You want to go?
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, this is an alignment. I was just
Speaker 3: talking to one friend. Then this comes presented, and it's
Speaker 3: at a theater that I've been to before for various
Speaker 3: poetry slams. Well, that same friend that invited me out
Speaker 3: built on me the day before. But I said, I'm
Speaker 3: still going, one because I purchased a festival pass already,
Speaker 3: and two, well, I'm stepping in what I want to
Speaker 3: do and I can't allow any distractions or anybody else's
Speaker 3: decisions to hinder me from being and evolving into my
Speaker 3: best self. So as I'm driving on my way to theater,
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I'm coming up as Dawn Hill. Now.
Speaker 3: Down Hill is my legal name in case you may
Speaker 3: not know, and Dawn Day is part of my name too,
Speaker 3: but that's part of my middle name. But I said,
Speaker 3: I want to get back to the core. I want
Speaker 3: to get back to the heart of the matter. This
Speaker 3: is something that I have always wanted to do, So
Speaker 3: let's start with the Lord. These are my thoughts as
Speaker 3: I'm driving up there.
Speaker 2: So I get there.
Speaker 3: I get to the box office, all right, they checked
Speaker 3: me in. Then I had an individual say, oh, are
Speaker 3: you going to perform tonight? I said, what, I don't
Speaker 3: have anything performed. They were like, it's okay, I just
Speaker 3: go off the dome. Well, challenge accepted. Listen, we here
Speaker 3: for a good time, not a long time, and tomorrow
Speaker 3: it ain't promised.
Speaker 2: So I put my name in that hat. So now
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, I said, doing what we gonna do?
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to another brother that wanted to sign up
Speaker 3: but that didn't and they were like, oh, what if
Speaker 3: I embarrassed myself? I said, listen, the worst thing that
Speaker 3: can happen is that you die. Everything else is not
Speaker 3: on the void. They decided not to do it. I
Speaker 3: still did it. We get in there. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: that stage, I'm like, don you got to do this?
Speaker 3: I say, yeah, don't even know what's about to come out,
Speaker 3: don't even know what to expect, all right. Wasn't even
Speaker 3: sure if I was going to get called up because
Speaker 3: they were only selecting five names. Well, I ended up
Speaker 3: being one of the names selected. Come to find out
Speaker 3: they had a prize. Didn't even know that they were
Speaker 3: giving away a prize. First place five hundred dollars, second
Speaker 3: place to fifty. We go through the rounds. One person
Speaker 3: gets a beat, they flow. The next person gets a beat,
Speaker 3: they flow. The audience chooses who they want to go
Speaker 3: on to the next round. Well, first round succeed, second
Speaker 3: round succeed, third round. This is the round that dictates
Speaker 3: the five hundred dollars winner and the second place two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars winner.
Speaker 2: Now the brother that I battled.
Speaker 3: Well, just so you know, I got second place two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars and the brother that I did battle.
Speaker 3: Not that it means anything, but that it means something.
Speaker 2: How does all? Mike Okay.
Speaker 3: Was beat boxing machine and has done poetry for over
Speaker 3: fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Here I am.
Speaker 3: I spent a line here and there, you know, go
Speaker 3: with the flow, letting it go, but never doing the
Speaker 3: real thing. So it was actually an honor to lose,
Speaker 3: I guess in a way to him. But I mean,
Speaker 3: essentially I still won. And how I want is because
Speaker 3: it so happened that this brother was holding a cipher
Speaker 3: or is holding a cipher on the day of my birthday, Saturday,
Speaker 3: April nineteenth. Don't play with me, play with yourself. Me.
Speaker 3: Showing up allowed Dawn to give a gift that was
Speaker 3: ungifted for years, and understanding that I was the only
Speaker 3: person or only thing being that could give it to myself, took.
Speaker 2: Me, damn near forty years.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're waiting on, and I don't
Speaker 3: know what's holding you back, but I'm telling you got
Speaker 3: to go after and get it. They say the richest
Speaker 3: place in the world is the cemetery because so many
Speaker 3: people die with their dreams.
Speaker 2: Don't let that be you.
Speaker 3: You got greatness inside of you, and you can't allow
Speaker 3: this fear of regret, this fear of not having enough money,
Speaker 3: not looking right, not having the right size, the right complexion,
Speaker 3: the right skin tone hold you back. Living is for
Speaker 3: the living, and if you hear my voice, that means
Speaker 3: you're alive. It makes me think of this track by
Speaker 3: Landrelle entitled flow State, and in it he says, I'm
Speaker 3: just going with the flow state. And in it he says,
Speaker 3: I'll be in a flow state Floa state. Everything is okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're tripping about, but you just
Speaker 3: gotta go with the flow. In fact, he says, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Going with the flow, catching all the waves, Catching.
Speaker 3: All the waves. I mean what we say about the
Speaker 3: way a wave goes up and it goes down. It's
Speaker 3: this body of water that causes moving. But oftentimes when
Speaker 3: we catch ourself facing a wave. Many of us are
Speaker 3: gonna duck, We're gonna shield, We're gonna hold our breath.
Speaker 3: But then you have those others that are gonna pull
Speaker 3: out the surfboard, stand up tall, and ride it, knowing
Speaker 3: that they're going up only to go back down. And
Speaker 3: chances are they have a possibility to go back up.
Speaker 2: So what say you?
Speaker 3: Are you ribbing yourself of the possibilities in your life
Speaker 3: for you to tap into your greatest potential, tone you
Speaker 3: to rise to the occasion, for you to feel the
Speaker 3: endorphins that can last you a lifetime, but only take
Speaker 3: a moment a second to create. He continues on to say,
Speaker 3: I be in a flow stack. I never force it.
Speaker 3: Faith and persistence are so important, avoiding resistance with make
Speaker 3: none choices. I say a prayer, Let the universe endorse it.
Speaker 2: Don't play with me. They say life and death are
Speaker 2: in the power of the tongue. What are you speaking?
Speaker 3: You gotta speak life over yourself, okay, because that life
Speaker 3: is a vibration. That vibration is that energy, That energy
Speaker 3: is what produces life. Why do you think they say
Speaker 3: life and the death are in the power of the tongue.
Speaker 3: Perhaps we don't seek the life and death and the
Speaker 3: power of the tone because we're afraid to grow, We're
Speaker 3: afraid to change. Landrell continues on all in my orbit,
Speaker 3: I'm changing, I'm morphine, rise through misfortune, allowing. My source
Speaker 3: and my origin are so divine, I'm so aligned. I
Speaker 3: know it's mine, and so it's mine. You gotta speak it,
Speaker 3: you gotta claim it. What the clarksist to say, name it,
Speaker 3: claim it? Hm.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to get into your flow? Stay?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be uncomfortable because it's gonna require movement, and
Speaker 3: oftentimes movement is growth, and growth requires change, moving out
Speaker 3: of one position into the next. Lndrelle closes out saying,
Speaker 3: love where you are in the flow. Trust where you
Speaker 3: are in the flow. Go with the flow, Grow with
Speaker 3: the flow, don't resist the way, go.
Speaker 2: With the way. Better, stop playing with me, and most certainly,
Speaker 2: stop playing with yourself. We here for a good.
Speaker 3: Time, not a long time, and God willing we here
Speaker 3: for a good time and a long time.
Speaker 2: So let's make it count. Step into your flow state.
Speaker 2: All right. That's it for your dose of Vitamin D.
Speaker 3: Be sure to follow on all social media at Vitamin
Speaker 3: D Dawn Day and if you would like your own.
Speaker 2: Dose of personal Vitamin D, that be me baby.
Speaker 3: You can follow me on all social media at Dawn DA.
Speaker 2: I speaks all right. You know.
Speaker 3: I'm in the business and making dreams come true and
Speaker 3: I damn show make gon forget about mind. So until
Speaker 3: next time, always remember you are your greatest as at get.
Speaker 2: Your Vitamin D.
Speaker 1: You right here with me and get excited about your life.