Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
Speaker 1: to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
Speaker 1: am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
Speaker 1: about your life so that you can live life on
Speaker 1: purpose and for a purpose. If this is your first
Speaker 1: time tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's a pun
Speaker 1: of my name. My name is Dawn, and you get
Speaker 1: Vitamin D from the sun. So I'm here a shed
Speaker 1: light into your life. And I do this with inspirational
Speaker 1: insights and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you
Speaker 1: and me, Because if you want to be better and
Speaker 1: you want to do better, then you're going to have
Speaker 1: to be able to see better. So join me on
Speaker 1: this journey of living our best lives and understanding and
Speaker 1: realizing how you are your greatest ass at get.
Speaker 2: Your Vitamin D right with me, and get excited about
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: The message is simple, just do it. Listen. I know
Speaker 1: you scared, you don't want to make the wrong decision,
Speaker 1: you don't even want to have to make a choice.
Speaker 1: You tired, you stressed out, and that's not going to
Speaker 1: stop time. That's not going to stop that desire. It's
Speaker 1: not going to stop you from having to make a decision.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of freedom and choice, but
Speaker 1: you have to exercise that choice just the same as
Speaker 1: you exercise your freedom, you exercise your mind and you
Speaker 1: exercise your body. It's part of the growing process. Nothing's
Speaker 1: going to come to you just sitting there waiting and
Speaker 1: wasting time. The only thing that's coming faster is death.
Speaker 1: I know, I say it all the time and it
Speaker 1: sounds so morbid, but I don't think people realize that
Speaker 1: you are going to die. Listen, we heading over to
Speaker 1: life Insurance Awareness Month. Yeah, I'm going to have a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Wanda Honoree, who talks about the
Speaker 1: importance of having life insurance. How can it benefit you
Speaker 1: not only after life, but during life? And I think
Speaker 1: half the time people don't really realize that because they say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not something that I need to be concerned with
Speaker 1: right now. That's not true, because what if you get sick? Huh?
Speaker 1: What if you get ill? What if your loved ones,
Speaker 1: whatever happens in your life that affects your income, what
Speaker 1: are you going to do? See at that point, you're
Speaker 1: going to be forced to react or redact. I don't
Speaker 1: know I wanted to insert that in there somewhere because
Speaker 1: that rhymes. But anyway, the point is to just do it.
Speaker 1: Please Jesus for your sanity and for your peace. To
Speaker 1: you feeling alive, Do you satisfying that dream that's inside
Speaker 1: of you. I understand that you may be scared and listen,
Speaker 1: I mean, is that really a wrong way to learn,
Speaker 1: because the most important thing is to learn now? One
Speaker 1: really really gets mad at the teacher of life because
Speaker 1: usually when you are preparing yourself in school, your teacher
Speaker 1: gives you assignments. Right, you might take some pop quizes,
Speaker 1: some quizzes before you get prepared for the test. But however,
Speaker 1: they say life is the greatest teacher because you take
Speaker 1: the test and then you learn the lesson. Well, half
Speaker 1: of y'all are not even showing up for the test,
Speaker 1: yet you want to get the lesson. It's like you
Speaker 1: want the physique and the body without working out. You
Speaker 1: wanna be healthy with not eating right. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: fake it for a little while, but best believe it's
Speaker 1: gonna tear you up inside. It's gonna mess with your peace,
Speaker 1: it's gonna distort your vision, it's gonna start you to
Speaker 1: start it's gonna start you to hear things different ways.
Speaker 1: That was really insane coming out, but you got what
Speaker 1: I mean. Okay, so just do it. Oh and a
Speaker 1: follow up from the podcast yesterday so or not yesterday,
Speaker 1: well technically yesterday, but you're gonna hear this on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Probably it don't matter. The last episode. I did remember
Speaker 1: when I said I was going to meet Jennifer Lashley
Speaker 1: or jen you know from Solo Robotics. We we're gonna
Speaker 1: ride around and the way more car chiw. I did
Speaker 1: not make it over there, not in a bad way.
Speaker 1: I was still making money. I got calls because you know,
Speaker 1: I do some hosting, some live hosting, selling luxury bags,
Speaker 1: and I was asked to stay a little bit longer
Speaker 1: to sell some bags. And I did because I was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta get that shwiney. And I didn't make it
Speaker 1: out to and I didn't get a chance to send
Speaker 1: an email. Then I came back home, got my stuff.
Speaker 1: Then here I am at the studio, had a conversation
Speaker 1: with Jade Barnes. He is the LA coordinator for the
Speaker 1: Black Men's Wellness Day. I don't know if you're familiar,
Speaker 1: you may have heard me talk about it before and
Speaker 1: perhaps if you are a continued listener, you probably heard
Speaker 1: the conversation or perhaps me talking about it the African
Speaker 1: American Male Wellness Agency and Black Men's Wellness Day Well.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with him on his podcast called
Speaker 1: Cultured Podcast k U L t r D Podcasts and
Speaker 1: their Cultured pod on all social media. We were talking
Speaker 1: about the movie Shirley. You know about Shirley Twill Chisholm,
Speaker 1: the first African American wan to run for president, and
Speaker 1: we go aligned that with Cora aligned. We aligned that
Speaker 1: within discussing about Kamala Harris, and along with that came
Speaker 1: about how we as black people need to stick together.
Speaker 1: Do we just jump on the board for somebody who's black,
Speaker 1: what it means to be growing up in a broken household.
Speaker 1: We even touched on cam Noon and Nick Cannon, and
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it all intertwined in the conversation
Speaker 1: when we're talking about a woman running for president. We
Speaker 1: had one of Jade's friends he's known for over twenty years.
Speaker 1: Her name is Tanil, she's down in Atlanta. And then
Speaker 1: his co host was it Keenan Floyd. He's a comedian,
Speaker 1: interesting brother I told him before we left, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we need to have another conversation so
Speaker 1: we can unpack some things, unpack some things. It was
Speaker 1: juicy child. Was supposed to be an hour max. An
Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minutes. We didn't get off to two hours.
Speaker 1: But we had a great conversation. That's nevertheless, that's all
Speaker 1: that matters. And check it out. It's probably up now.
Speaker 1: They're gonna put some highlights and so forth on the
Speaker 1: social media's for you to check out. But anyway, got
Speaker 1: completely derailed. So yeah, I came back, recorded that and
Speaker 1: then here I am now. But also what I want
Speaker 1: to say, I'm actually going to see Jay tomorrow and
Speaker 1: I want to encourage you to pull up if you're
Speaker 1: around on Thursday, August twenty ninth, I would love for
Speaker 1: you to pull up on me. We have a committee
Speaker 1: planning meeting, So if you're interested in saving the lives
Speaker 1: of black men, because here in California, did you know
Speaker 1: the estimated age is sixty eight years old. Yes, black
Speaker 1: men are only living to the age of sixty eight
Speaker 1: and we need to put an end to that. And
Speaker 1: it all comes down to awareness and knowing your numbers,
Speaker 1: because when you know better, you can do better. So
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of this change,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the commitment,
Speaker 1: come on and tap in. We're going to be at
Speaker 1: the MLK Center for Public Health right off of Wilmington
Speaker 1: eleven eight thirty three South Wilmington Avenue from twelve thirty
Speaker 1: to one thirty. Pull up on us. We're also seeking ambassadors.
Speaker 1: So if you know somebody who has a profound voice
Speaker 1: within the community that can invoke change, that can congregate people,
Speaker 1: and also has a voice that others can hear literally
Speaker 1: and figuratively, please send them my way. Please go ahead.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have a special email. I actually created
Speaker 1: an email for the organization because they have hired me
Speaker 1: on to handle some social media content. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: the social media coordinator. Believe it or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I share with you, but if you are
Speaker 1: a listener, then you will know that I served as
Speaker 1: the digital content producer for the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Yes,
Speaker 1: even on Instagram alone. I started that account at thirty
Speaker 1: four K and got them up to nine hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four K, so basically almost a million. That was
Speaker 1: in about two and a half years and so a
Speaker 1: lot of those tactics I brought to the table. And
Speaker 1: as you can see if you follow us on social
Speaker 1: media at AA Wellness LA, you will see that. Also.
Speaker 1: If you know somebody that wants to be ambassador, if
Speaker 1: you will like to be a vendor, if you would
Speaker 1: like to be a sponsor, if you want to just
Speaker 1: touch your hands on it, and you got some questions
Speaker 1: I want to I urge you to send an email
Speaker 1: to bmw d LA twenty twenty four. That's bmw DLA
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Basically it stands for Black Men's Wellness
Speaker 1: Day LA twenty twenty four at gmail dot com. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and send me a message. I just hit up
Speaker 1: Dale Cornergame. I end up Kevin Cross. You may be
Speaker 1: familiar with the FMDL. If not, honey, we about to
Speaker 1: get familiar with the whole community. And I told them,
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, we got a meeting tomorrow. Hey, would
Speaker 1: you like to be an ambassador? Send me a video.
Speaker 1: You can check the Instagram. Not the Instagram, you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and check Facebook. Right now, I was doing
Speaker 1: the test recording in the studio and Dale had called
Speaker 1: me to make sure the audio was together, and he
Speaker 1: was like ding I got your bag. Kevin Ross commented,
Speaker 1: I made sure I slid in his DM sent him
Speaker 1: a text message, and so now I'm calling on you
Speaker 1: pull up, okay, because we got to look after each other.
Speaker 1: This goes on the same notion of the conversation we
Speaker 1: were talking about on culture Podcasts, when we talk about
Speaker 1: these broken homes because we don't know better, we can't
Speaker 1: do better because we so busy worrying about right now
Speaker 1: trying to function rather than thriving and surviving living. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that makes sense, but you know what
Speaker 1: I got, and I came in here and gave you
Speaker 1: a word. Okay. We talked about the importance of just
Speaker 1: doing it. We talked about how we can't wait for nobody.
Speaker 1: We talked about life insurance awareness months next month and
Speaker 1: how you need to be up on it. And now
Speaker 1: we're talking about how to get involved to saving black
Speaker 1: man's lives, which turn around effectively saves your own soul.
Speaker 1: Get out there and do it. And to piggyback on
Speaker 1: the conversation from Cultured Podcasts, I want to remind you
Speaker 1: to go ahead and register to vote, make sure your
Speaker 1: voice is heard, get active, and get in the know
Speaker 1: at least know what you're fighting for, Know who's fighting
Speaker 1: for you, if anything, know who is representing you. And
Speaker 1: I just want to know. Do you want to have
Speaker 1: a say? So that's it? All right, let me get
Speaker 1: out of here. It is super late, I must say.
Speaker 1: In the past couple of days, child, I feel like
Speaker 1: I ain't got no sleep. I will start singing that
Speaker 1: Janna Jackson song. Don't you get a song? No sleep,
Speaker 1: no sump child. Bye. Anyway, it's time for me to
Speaker 1: get out of here. You know what tign that is. Listen.
Speaker 1: If you know somebody, like I said before, that want
Speaker 1: to be a guest on the podcast, can you send
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Speaker 1: know I always say I'm in the business of making
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Speaker 2: Indy right here with me, and get excited about your life.