WEBVTT - Mindfulness and Motivation with Devi Brown 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.440 I'm the Duval and this is Conversations with the Podcast. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.880 Today's guest is a master well being, educator, a healer, 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:12.400 a storyteller, author and host a deeply well podcast. Let's 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.920 welcome my good friend Debbie Brown live on with you. Boy, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.880 oh little thall, I want to introduce a special guests. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.320 And I'm not like Envy just say special guests, just 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.560 to say it, I said, because this woman is really 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.400 special to me, my friend, you know, my I guess 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.400 what else can I call you? My? Uh? What? What's what? 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.120 What is your title now as far as in the 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.880 realm of the earth, what is your type the earth? Yeah? 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.520 You know, I don't know how to use those things? 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.199 What is your type of that? I don't know what 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.680 you call you? 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.520 Well, my Instagram bio and my website bio says master 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.440 while being educator and multidisciplinary healer. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:57.560 So that's that's what she is to me. God damn it, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.000 that's what she is to me. And I'm not just 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.880 saying that because she read is to me because she 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.560 helped me at a time where I was fucked up, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.840 you know I was. I'm gonna let her introduce herself 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.520 a little more because she could tell you more about 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.560 who she is more than I am. Let me introduce 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.360 Dave Brown, Debbie Brown. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:17.319 Hello, what's up? You look so good? How are you? 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.720 I'm chilling man, you see you know, you know I am. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.000 I'm blessed. You know, I'm blessed as a mother for 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.280 I appreciate you coming over here. It's it's crazy that 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.800 I met you on my show, on my show, because 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.360 I really can trying to get on your show because 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.640 I want you to interview me. You know, I don't. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.399 I don't feel like I could interview you like that 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.000 because shiit, I need you more than you need me, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.240 you know what I'm saying. But first to tell them 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.760 who you are with and what you've been doing in 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.920 the game and how you evolved into who you are now. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.800 Oh or we ain't got that much time. Well, we 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.400 originally meant like back back, back, back, back in the day, 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.280 and I'll never forget the moment I met you, like 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:03.520 I will never ever ever forget it. Twitter had just 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.840 started and at the time, I was working in broadcasting, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.400 so I used to work in hip hop and entertainment 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.320 and radio, TV, all that kind of stuff, And I 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.400 was doing that in La at the time, and I remember, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.000 like Charlemagne would come up to LA from time to time, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.800 both of our brother and you came up to the 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.560 radio station with him, and we were all going to 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.760 go to a party together or something. And I remember 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.000 I had I mean, I had seen you on TV 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.880 and I heard so many things about you, and you 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.160 came up there and you were just like Twitter had 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.040 just started. And I remember you sat at my desk 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.840 and you were like, watch this, and you opened up 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.840 your Twitter and literally like every millisecond it kept refreshing 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.040 and it was like thousands and thousands and thousands before 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.840 tweeting you, I was like, what the hell is going on? 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.840 What is this? I'll never forget what I think I 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.560 had just got on. But it like you at the 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.720 beginning Twitter, like it was like big if you had 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.520 one hundred followers, like that was. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.600 So early that was there at that time. Yeah, Like 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.560 I'll never forget. One time I was in DC and 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.320 I was at this party with J Cole's. It was Wallet, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.160 it was a couple other people that I don't remember everybody, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.120 but we was all there and this when Twitter was big, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.480 and this when I realized so much power. I just 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.720 tweeted one thing as soon as I pressed seeing everybody 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.639 in the club looked down at their phone, and that's 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.560 when I was like, Yo, this is way too much power. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.120 You know what I'm saying. It was a louder and 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.560 that's when I realized. I was like, oh, this is 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.600 the world now, this was almost this had to be 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:49.160 almost fourteen fourteen years ago, you know it, say it again. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.080 I think it was like two thousand and eight. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.800 Damn, that's a long time. And so I would know 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.760 you for almost almost we almost ever dubbed that. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.320 I know, but I'm so much younger than you, but 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.160 we are like we have known each other a long time. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.880 Hey, I like being old, though I enjoined being old 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.960 because I've always seen myself as the old person, you know, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.000 Like I just didn't think getting being old was going 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.440 to become this quick, like this shit wow. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.839 Yo, like so fast. And I feel like the pandemic 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.760 sped it up because I feel I feel. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:34.000 Like the world lookers. I feel like everything that happened 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.279 in the pandemic, I already seen it coming. But it's 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.040 just like it's sped up the rest of work because 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.640 nothing changed. And just let let us know that we 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.919 already had a lot of this technology sitting there because 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.520 all this didn't been here. The stuff we using right now, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.919 this shit been here. It's just we didn't think about 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.440 using it till we had no choice, and now we 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:55.440 can't get off this ship. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.159 Yo. It's honestly like, I feel like there needs to 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.159 be a class action lost to it at some point, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.120 because it's like we didn't know what it was doing 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.640 to our brains when we all signed up, right like 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.720 now you knew, like you knew your neural pathways were 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.479 about to get, you know, harder. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.880 I kind of understood, like I said, when I did that, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.400 like little stuff like that, when I tweeted in the 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.760 club and saw everybody, I understood the power feel understood. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.080 Like if it's in the wrong hands, like it can 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.719 really be finessing the wrong ways on people. Because it's 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.719 like reading. When you read something, you reading it in 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.080 your brain, so you in your mind you're thinking you 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.279 really know what you're talking about. And that's the same 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.920 thing with social media. So if you read something, you 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.839 really thinking that you learning, but you're really learning maybe 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.080 learning wrong, you know, So so that's the algorithm. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.479 Will feed anything that's really inside of you. It's like 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:54.120 there's this old, this really beautiful old quote and wisdom traditions, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.160 which is like, you know, you, you are the beast 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.520 you choose to feed. You know, are you gonna feed 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.279 your ego or are you gonna feed your soul? And 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.960 I feel like that's how the algorithm on social works 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.560 like it will just further amplify kind of the truth 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.839 of the current version of who you are, like what 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.080 you what you're really thinking about the way you see 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.400 the world in yourself, and so you keep having it. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:23.159 That's why you have propercy. You have to jump in 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.480 front of the programming, because because if you don't program it, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.200 you're gonna it's gonna program you. And so what I 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.360 kind of do the little exercises I always did. I 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.280 try to I try to follow a ship that I 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:39.760 don't know shit about. You know what I'm saying. I did, Oh, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.040 I don't like certain ship, not because I don't think 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.200 it's pleased, because I know if I like that, that's 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.680 gonna bring all that shit over here, you see what 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.240 I'm saying. So I kind of look the dead when 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.800 you understand what you're playing, when you kind of even 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.720 though it's still gonna get your regardless, you know what 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.080 I'm saying, because sometimes you ever notice, sometimes you can, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.880 you know, you could think of some shit. Don't even 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:06.080 say that shit pop up? It's powerful. So but you're 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.040 the person to know how to detach way from it too, though, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.880 because you understand how to get away from it. So 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.520 what are some of the exercise do you do to 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.880 detach yourself from that type of shit? Man? 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.800 You know what, I really started looking at it very seriously, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.280 especially when I became a mom, because you start to 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.320 notice the mindless things that your body naturally does, and 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:37.040 then your child kind of really observing that, like what 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.840 is that? What are you doing? Or fighting for your attention? 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.240 And you're like, you know, I think for me, I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.960 was just like, oh, my child doesn't need to fight 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.480 for my attention. This isn't more important. But why do 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.720 I feel such a connection or why is it the 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.120 absent minded thing that I pick up? So I did 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.240 a few things from my social media, Like a couple 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.360 of years ago, I went on a big friend perge. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.800 I think I had to give very realistic about how 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.120 much time I actually had, Like first and foremost, I 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.400 want to be an excellent mother to my child, like 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.200 he and I both deserve that, and that requires you 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.320 to prioritize your life differently down like in the in 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.920 the depths of the nuance of it, you know, and 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.760 I think too, It's like I just feel so connected 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.480 to the way I'm serving right now in my purpose 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.400 that I don't I don't want to have other people's 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.160 thoughts or ideas on my brain. Like I'm curious about 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.120 the shit I'm curious about, and I have the brain 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.560 and the ability and the heart to manifest any and 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.360 all of it. So I don't want to be influenced 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.439 or too consumed with like truly the smallest details of 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.560 people's lives, like if I met you ten years ago 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.240 and we haven't talked or lived in the same state, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.080 I don't need to know what you're reading. I don't 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.520 need to know what you're eating, like God bless absolutely 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.079 no beef fond from Afar. But like, our brains can 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.120 only hold so much, and I'm here with work to do, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.080 and I have a lot of love to give and 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.640 a lot of support I'd like to give in the 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.800 ways that I'm able, And so I just had to 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.400 be clear about what feeds me and what leaps my energy. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.640 So I did like a big friend fast, I kind 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:24.959 of you know, I just looked out my life from 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.360 like acquaintances to casual relationships to deep relationships, to relationships 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.200 that are just rooted in nostalgia, and I thought, like, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.480 what are the ones that are really meaningful for me 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.200 to feed and pay attention to right now? I'd rather 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.840 give less more of me than spread myself on a 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.640 surface level for everybody. So I did like a mass 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.520 unfollow and then I just over two years slowly started 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.040 following people back, like I follow a handful of people, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.040 and it's just people that I really think about and 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.400 that you know, I want to be more actively engaged 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.400 or work stuff. And then I pretty much put everybody 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.000 on mute, no disrespect, but like I just want to 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.480 post some time, and I don't want to get caught 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.680 there looking at stories and all that stuff and liking 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.120 all this stuff. So I put people on mute, and 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.480 then I go check on people from time to time. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.560 And then I actually have a lock box at my house. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.320 It's this pretty cool like mindfulness tool that someone sent me, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.120 and it's a box that has a timer on it. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.600 It's called like mindful box. I think. I hope I'm 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.120 getting that right because I really do like it. And 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.280 usually at the end of my workday, like I'll shut 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.520 it down around four and then I want to give 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.320 my son time until it's bedtime, so I'll put it 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.800 in the box. I'll set the alarm for three four hours, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.840 and then that keeps my hands off it. So that's 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.040 what I'm working with right now, and it's made it better. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.400 You know what I've worked on. I think I found 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.160 piece where I think you really at piece where you 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.719 can be in the world around these crazy motherfuckers and 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.880 try and try to make a difference. You know what 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.840 I'm saying, Like because to me, I can cut off 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.960 a lot of people, but I don't really I don't 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.640 it would it would defeat my purpose on what I 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.600 think I should be here for. You know what I'm saying, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.160 Like I really don't need social media, but I think 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.439 the world needs me for social media. You know what 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.880 I'm saying. It's like the balance of it. So it's 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.640 like I have to be able to be strong enough 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.240 to go like if I showed y'all, Like me and 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.720 Charlamagne talk about this all the time when our social media, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.720 a lot of people couldn't handle a lot of shit 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.080 that I dies, and I wouldn't even like when I 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.199 see people fold on there, I don't even feel I mean, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.680 I understand why they fold, you know what I'm saying. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.240 I don't. I don't fold off of because I understand. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.040 I know how to separate, so I've always been able 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.120 to test it to because I guess I started before 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.160 before the social media, so I can I understand what 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.679 it is, but I can understand how I can break 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.480 especially a woman down. Like if you what they just 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.760 have to be you might be talk all day long, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.640 but that one day it just fucks you up, you 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.040 know what I'm saying. So I can understand it. But 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.560 for me, I just feel like I just have to 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.560 God damn like I have to. Like I'm a people's person. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.240 I feel like I'm here for the people, so I 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.840 have to be in tuned with them because I feel 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.480 like I've already got enough to where God has made 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.440 it to where I can handle all the bullshit things 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.120 that can fuck up my blurb, and he put people 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.440 around me enough, like people like you or Dolly or 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.120 people like that to balance it out, to keep me safe. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:38.880 You know what I'm saying. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.320 I mean, you have a medicine that you are meant 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.720 to give the masses. So like for you especially, that's important. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:51.120 It's why God built within your purpose the ability to entertain, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.960 to bring joy, to bring truth to like have you 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.920 know the type of stage presence that you have and 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.200 the creativity you have, like you're meant to display those 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.800 things as the way that you give your wisdom and 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:04.520 your medicine. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.520 He was one of the people when I got in 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.920 my accident that I had got messed up. I was 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.040 messed up one night. I didn't take no medicine. I 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.600 was trying to be tough and not take no medicine 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.480 and all that. And then and then I called you. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.719 I ain't called you one day, you missed the call. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.920 Then you called me back right at the right time 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.640 and set there and breathed me through the whole thing. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.840 I wouldn't have made it do that night without you 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.199 doing the breathing. What is the breathing patterns? You know 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.160 what I'm saying. So I want to thank you for 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.000 doing that for me because I couldn't have made it 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.240 through that night. And what is that you was doing? 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.520 Because I don't know. I was just following your league. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.200 What what what do you call that? What you do? 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:47.240 Yeah? Well, first, like I'm just so grateful for your life, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.640 like praise God, thank you God, Thank you God, Thank 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:59.000 you God, thank you God. Like you have done just 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.040 such a powerful job of wearing your testimony the way 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.080 that you have. But like what you went through was 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:11.800 so hard and so challenging. So like one just like 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.520 bless yeah, bless, bless. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.679 I'm blessed. But it made me see there's a lot 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.000 of people that cake that couldn't do this, you know 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.880 what I'm saying that that's one thing about being in 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.160 that wheelchair. You start looking at the world is not 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.200 built for people that's handicapped, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.960 Like I couldn't imagine, like I knew I was gonna 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.200 be able to eventually get back up. But it made 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.560 me even though I always had a had a saft 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.000 spot for people that was handicapp because I always show 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.400 love to them on social media. I even had a 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.200 couple of the most stage with me when I did 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.360 host the Hip Hop Awards. I do all always show 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.600 love to that. But when you sit in that chair, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.360 it's a totally different game, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.080 because you see how and it really the world don't 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.000 make time for them to care about the person that's handicapped, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.600 you know what I'm saying. So for me, it made 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.840 me even when I see people now handyicap, it just 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.760 makes me even see how strong they are because you 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.120 got to be mentally strong. Yeah, even that a couple 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.320 months I was in that wheelchair. You have to be 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.280 mentally strong every day, like damn, I got it. I'm 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.920 really in this gap damn wheelchair because I couldn't even 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.400 use my arms or nothing. You know, So it just 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.840 makes you realize how. But it made me too. I 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.160 was I was strong, but fain. Like I said, I 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:29.720 have people around me like y'all. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.280 Yeah, yeah, you know. I remember, like I remember that 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.120 day you called me, and it was so wild because 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.120 we're so you know, I'm based in La so we're 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:42.400 always kind of usually on opposite time zones. And I 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.560 was driving in the car and I remember I looked 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.160 down and it said miss FaceTime from Little Dumal and 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.360 it was like, I don't remember what time it was 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.040 for me. I think it was like kind of early 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:58.560 morning for me. And I looked and just like instantly, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.400 I was like this at weight. So I literally was 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.080 driving on the freeway when I called you, and I 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.000 drove to the shoulder of I think I was on 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.920 the one O one freeway in LA and I just 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.440 sat at the shoulder at like it was like rush 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.120 hour traffic. All these cars were filled next to me, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.800 and I was just like okay, and I pulled over 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.960 and I facetimed you back and you were you were 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.640 on the gurney and you were coming out of surgery 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.920 like you were literally like you were you still had 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.920 I might not have the right terminology for this, but 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.840 you still had your anesthesia on yea, And so you 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.520 were coming out of anesthesia, and I remember you were 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:46.680 just telling me that you were in pain and I 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.640 and I just, you know, the first thing, I was 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.640 just like, Okay, take a deep breath. And so we 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:57.600 ended up doing some breath work exercise and some distance reiki, and. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.440 That's what he was reky. I did. Thank the name 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.480 of it. I don't know the terminology is yet. I 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.480 just that's some job there for y'all. Help me with 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:11.000 that shit. But yeah, and I from people that's dumb. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:16.720 Like me, there's no dumb but this is I think 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.640 one of the easiest ways to express it for everyone 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.760 is but I definitely encourage people to spend some time 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.560 on Google or go on my page to kind of 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.679 get a deeper look at it. Uh. But reiki is 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:34.120 working with our human energy system and our spiritual energy 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:43.960 to send healing to another person, and so this I'm 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.760 a master level at reiki in a few different lineages, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.320 So Suey, Holy Fire, and Corona Reiki are systems that 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:55.479 I work with, and I believe that this energy is 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.879 channeled from source and it can really provide a lot 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.440 of support and comfort to people when they are in pain, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.600 when they're in crisis. If you spend time looking it up, 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.439 if this resonates, there's a lot deeper you could go 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.440 with this, But I think on a basic level, it's 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.720 important to understand that as human beings, we emit energy, 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.760 point blank period, scientifically proven. We have what is called 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.520 an orc field, which can extend in front of us 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.439 from like six to ten feet, and so you'll notice 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:29.520 people that you're really magnetized towards they typically like some 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.280 of those big figures like yourself, like Charlemagne, you think 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.080 of like an Oprah. They have this natural energy and 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.320 presence that pulls you to them. So in this field 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.200 of thought, you would know that you hold a big 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.480 energy field, that you have a lot of light within you, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:50.000 that you make good choices and integrity that add to 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.240 the beneficial life that you have. And you'll notice sometimes 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.760 when you maybe walk by someone on the street and 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.280 you're just like, oh, they got a bad energy. You 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.520 don't really know why you haven't engaged, but you know 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.080 that that's something that you may not want to get 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.320 close to. It would be seen as maybe they have 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.160 a lot smaller of an energetic field, and they might 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.359 have a lot of negative influences or negative behavior themselves. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.280 So that was that was I think an easy way 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.879 to express what the energy system that I was working 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.560 with was. But you could also look at it as 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.160 kind of in Christian thought like laying hands, sending light, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.840 you know, sending prayer out. And so that's that's what 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.560 we did, And and we did some breathwork sequences to 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.160 just kind of calm your nervous system, bring you back 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.399 into your body, hopefully bring like as soothing relaxed states 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:44.560 so you could get some sleep. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.639 Yeah, I wish see was they t was supposed to 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.600 come out to the Bahamas at my spot. She still 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.880 ain't made there yet. For all y'all that don't know, let. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.359 Me tell y'all about let me tell y'all about Duvall. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.240 This is how me and Duvall role. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.280 We will like text about something and we'll be like, yes, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.000 let's do it, let's do it, and then we'll disappear 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.960 and then randomly you'll FaceTime me one morning or I'll 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.480 FaceTime you one night, and. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.359 We'll be like, yeah, we need to do this. We 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.800 got okay, so here's what we're gonna do, and then 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.760 life takes over. Happen. You invited me to the Bahamas, 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:26.320 so we. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.680 Yeah, we both gym and us so we know understand, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.280 you know. So I know, I know you're gonna come 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:37.320 eventually whenever, whenever the the the ship of Lines or whatever. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.800 But I feel like if we both out that we 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.040 can and I gotta do your show too, you know, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.840 But I want you to tell me. I want you 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.040 to talk to me like my show is about therapy 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.240 for when people want to talk. You know what I'm saying. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.080 If they if they got questions, they can come to up, 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.639 So if you got questions, I'm not off to you. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.080 I'm like we like we like Bro and sus So 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.000 if you want to come to Bros. I'm way older 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.960 than you, way way old. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:10.200 Way old day, such a young little thing. 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:12.760 You know what. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.760 I have a question for you because I feel like 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.600