1 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in through your nose. Holds it. 2 00:00:36,760 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: Now, release slowly again deep in helle hold release, repeating 3 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I 4 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: am deeply well. I am deeply well. I am deeply wow. 5 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast. 6 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land in 7 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: your journey. A podcast for those that are curious, creative, 8 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. 9 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: This right here, this is where we heal, This is 10 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: where we transcend. 11 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. I'm Debbie Brown. 12 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: This is deeply well, y'all. So much life has been happening. 13 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: I'm going to settle into this solow episode and give 14 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: you some thoughts and feelings, share some good information, things 15 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: that I'm excited about, and things I think that you'll 16 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: really really want to connect to. So first things first, 17 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 2: a little housekeeping. If you have gotten my book Living 18 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: in Wisdom, would you please consider going to wherever you 19 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: bought the book, maybe it's Amazon or Barnes and Noble 20 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: Books a million audible and leave a review. If you 21 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: would leave a review, and if you have time to 22 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: share a few thoughts from the book. I think I'm 23 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 2: really finding that that does, especially for avid readers, really 24 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 2: help people decide and understand and feel connected to what 25 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: they may read. And it's definitely an ask of authors. 26 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 2: So I would love to extend that ask to you. 27 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: If you have. 28 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: Bought Living in Wisdom, if it's been meaningful for you, 29 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 2: if you enjoyed it, if you threw it across the 30 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 2: room a couple times and then fell in love with it, please. 31 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: Take a moment to leave a. 32 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 2: Five star review if you feel that's what it deserves, 33 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: and also a written review. I'd really really appreciate it. 34 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: It definitely helps authors, and consider that for other books 35 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: that have been meaningful to you recently as well. Definitely, yeah, 36 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: heart feeling and helps people know what they're walking into. 37 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 2: All right, So life lately, it's September, so I've been 38 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: in the thick of back to school. My son is seven. 39 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he is seven. He is in second grade. 40 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: I am so in love with this part of my life. 41 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: Like I mean, you know, my son's my world. 42 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: That's clear. 43 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: There is something about this age and the things that 44 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: we're getting to talk about the way we're getting to 45 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: spend time together. That's just so incredible for me. I 46 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 2: am loving my domestic life. I am such a house 47 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: tender naturally, Like let me give you all a little 48 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: insight into like my personality. It's many many things, but 49 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 2: like I love. Since I was a little girl, I've 50 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 2: been obsessed with interior design and just moving things. Like 51 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: I literally was like six trying to push my bed 52 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: across the room to change it up, to feel new energy. 53 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 2: And when I started working at sixteen, I was working 54 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 2: two jobs, and so with some of the money that 55 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 2: I made, I literally used to go to the hunt 56 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: the home depot, and I would buy paint and I 57 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: would buy you know, blinds, and I'd go other places 58 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 2: and get fabric and turn it into curtains and definitely 59 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: be hidden up the ross and get some decor. And 60 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 2: so I like that's always been a core part of me, 61 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 2: like how does the space around me make me feel? 62 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 2: How does it nourish me? And that is definitely true 63 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: in adulthood. I find so many ways to make love 64 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: to my house, Like I am just always up in it. 65 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 2: I am finding little things to do, little projects, and 66 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: it just feels so special. And I was hanging up 67 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: some of my son's art recently, and I just felt 68 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 2: so lucky and grateful that I could do that, Like 69 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 2: I've really been sinking into how it feels. Even as 70 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: a child, we moved around so much. We moved so much, 71 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: so many different parts of LA and Greater La. And 72 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: I realize that I've been in my house now that 73 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: i'm in for almost nine years, like eight and a 74 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: half years, and my son has been here, he's seven, 75 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: he's been here his whole life. I was here the 76 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: whole time I was pregnant. And I realized I was like, wow, 77 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: I think this is like the longest I've been in 78 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 2: one place ever. 79 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: And that just felt so. 80 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: Cool, you know, to see the betina that starts to 81 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: take hold in your house, the places where there were 82 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 2: stains or in my case, like actual full size handprints 83 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: on the wall made of syrup, and you know where 84 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 2: I've where. I've just been able to like mark off 85 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: his height at different ages, and I'm just loving this 86 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: age of me. I'm loving his age. I'm loving this 87 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: time of my life. I love that I feel like 88 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 2: as a family, he and I we have like such 89 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: a real system going with our lives and with each other, 90 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: and yeah, I was just really sweet yesterday. I got 91 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 2: to pick him up from school, and I don't always 92 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: get to do that. I take him to school every day, 93 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,559 Speaker 2: but I'm not usually the one who picks up, and 94 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 2: so I got to pick him up. And second grade 95 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: is different, y'all because there is a ton of homework, Like, 96 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy. He got phonics, he got mad, 97 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 2: he got reading, he got writing and comprehension, and you know, 98 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: that's just a lot on a little brain and a 99 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: little life. And to see, you know, at what age 100 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: this perfectionism desire starts, or when we start getting frustrated 101 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 2: with ourselves and how we talk to ourselves. 102 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: And just to be a. 103 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 2: Part of this part of his journey, knowing that with 104 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: a gentleness, because I want him to have his own process, 105 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 2: but with a gentleness, I can be a positive influence, 106 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 2: always being able to shape his inner world, his inner confidence, 107 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: his self esteem, you know what, the ways that he 108 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: feels worthy like it's just such an honor and a 109 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: pleasure to do that for your child, Like, oh my god, 110 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: So it took us like two hours to get through 111 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 2: all the whole work, because you know, if you have 112 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 2: a little one, and I know I certainly was like this. 113 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 2: They might be getting up from the table and like 114 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: arguing with you about it, or crying about it, or 115 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 2: just wanting to move their bodies or getting distracted. And 116 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: yesterday I really had the time and the space and 117 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: the emotional regulation to just be so present with all 118 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: of it. So I felt like I was experiencing myself 119 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: outside of myself, like watching the both of us be 120 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 2: mother and son, and it was just it. It was 121 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: one of the most simple, ordinary, mundane nights, and like 122 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: last night was really one of the best days of 123 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 2: my life, Like it was one of the best moments 124 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: I've ever had with my son, just helping him with 125 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: homework and helping him be patient. And by the time 126 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: he went to sleep, like we were talking before bed, 127 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: and I like laid down with him and was like lounging, 128 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 2: and he just like rolled over and I could see 129 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 2: like the happiness on his face through like the darkness 130 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 2: of the room, and he just kept giving me like 131 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: a hundred kisses on the cheek, like Jess. It was 132 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 2: so urgent for him and like so strong, and he 133 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: grabbed my whole head and face and like just clutched 134 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: it to give me these kisses, and then like Jess 135 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 2: went and then rolled back over and like laid down 136 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 2: and I just sat there like smiling to myself like wow, wow, wow, 137 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: oh my god, that was so special. So those are like, 138 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: you know, parenting is hard. It's a lot of things, 139 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: and especially if you've been through things, it's a lot 140 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 2: of things. But those simple beautiful moments, not the buying toys, 141 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: not the going to the big this or the movie 142 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 2: or the but like those little tiny moments like helping 143 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: someone with their frustration as the learning how to learn, 144 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: and then being rewarded with like kisses, Like I'm just 145 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: like that. That's what it is. That's what it's about. 146 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: That is the core memory. That is you know, I 147 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 2: think sometimes as parents, and I'm not sure if everyone 148 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 2: else feels this way listening, but I've often felt or 149 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: you see, really not even that I felt, to be 150 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: quite honest, what I've seen is that it's like the 151 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 2: big stuff, right, like. 152 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: It's Christmas, it's you know. 153 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 2: The big trips or the surprises or the ice cream 154 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 2: or the you know, all the happiness. But like in 155 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 2: this season of my journey with my son, it's been 156 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 2: so special because we've been working through hard things like homework, 157 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 2: like disagreements with friends, Like you know, what was the 158 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 2: other thing that we were doing. We had a moment 159 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: where he, you know, felt that he had done something 160 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 2: wrong and he came to tell me the truth about it, 161 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 2: and like holding space for that and still reflecting back 162 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 2: to him that like, Okay, well we definitely have to 163 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: deal with this, and like you're still worthy. My love 164 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 2: for you is never in question, My like for you 165 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 2: was never in question, and like I still trust you, 166 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 2: I still think you're a good boy, a good person. 167 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 2: And just watching like such a private smile emerge on 168 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 2: his face, for having that mirroring of love and that 169 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 2: deeper enforcement of how permanent my love is for him. 170 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: It was just special. 171 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: It was special to give it, it was special to 172 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 2: see it, it was special to be it. So I'm 173 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 2: savoring that deeply. That is what I'm savoring in my 174 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 2: life right now. I feel so grateful that I have 175 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: the opportunity to really participate in his school, in the 176 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: lives of his friends and their families, and it's just special, 177 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 2: and it's it's rare, you know, at least to me. 178 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 2: It's not something I'm used to or have the chance 179 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 2: to experience because my mom worked so hard and that 180 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: was the only option, you know, And to be able 181 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 2: to have both right now, Like I'm. 182 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: Tired, y'all, I'm tired. 183 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: She's been traveling, she's been working. But to have that, 184 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 2: it's just it's an honor. It's special. It is so 185 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: special to be able to really see your child for 186 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 2: who they are and give them what they need based 187 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 2: on that, you know, not just my ideas and desires 188 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: for him, not just you know, my thoughts of what 189 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 2: I didn't have or whatever. No, what does he want 190 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 2: in need and his unique life that is his own. 191 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 2: I'm loving that. I've been reflecting about that a lot lately, 192 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: so I might have more things in that vein coming. 193 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: So I've been savoring that. I've been savoring just kind 194 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: of some house projects. So the studio that you're looking 195 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 2: at right now, if you're watching us on YouTube, it's 196 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: going to look a little different. I'm actually like full 197 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: on creating a space. So there's painting going on, there's 198 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 2: building going on, there's all kinds of things happening. There's 199 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 2: a lot of movement towards future foundations right now and 200 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 2: that's felt really good. Sos some places I've been, some 201 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 2: things I've been thinking. We've been doing it back to 202 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: school summer is Ova. I don't know if I ever 203 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 2: got a chance to share with you all about my 204 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 2: trip to Martha's Vineyard this year. Just one of the 205 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: most special places I've ever. 206 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: Been on Earth. 207 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 2: Yes, And I just really recommend, like, if you've ever 208 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 2: heard of Martha's Vineyard and thought it wasn't for you, 209 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: or that you couldn't really see yourself there, or you 210 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: know it didn't look like your thing, I really challenge 211 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 2: you to take a risk and book a trip. I 212 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: used to think that I didn't know much about it. 213 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: I'm from LA but it's on the east coast. But 214 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know, like an east coast 215 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 2: coastal town, y'all don't even be getting in the water 216 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 2: over there. 217 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. And I went, and I've. 218 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 2: Gone back, and the beauty that's present there, the safety 219 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 2: that's present there, like there's no crime here on this 220 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 2: island with no crime and all beautiful things. And you know, 221 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: people were saying that everyone keeps their doors unlocked, and 222 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: you know, just you walk around the kids run free. 223 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 2: It's magnificent. It's like nothing I've ever felt or known. 224 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 2: I'm really excited because my plan is I've gone the 225 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: last two years for both work and pleasure, but usually 226 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 2: in and out. Next year, I'm taking my kid, Me 227 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: and my baby boy are going. We are riding bikes, 228 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 2: we are doing the Polar Bear Plunge. We are taking 229 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: long walks and oaks bluff and eating fudge and ice 230 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 2: cream and we're doing it and I can't wait. 231 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: So I just yeah. 232 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 2: Now, more than ever, I think it's really special and 233 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: important to remind ourselves what the feeling of wholesomeness is, 234 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: with the feeling of safety and simplicity and beauty feel 235 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: like because you're not really doing nothing. You're just walking 236 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: around all day looking at flowers and truly eating ice 237 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: cream and you know, just being But we need that, 238 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 2: and we deserve that, and we deserve to feel really 239 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: safe when we're out, especially when we're with our littles. 240 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: So that was magnificent. That was a big part of 241 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: my summer. That meant a lot to me. I had 242 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 2: a chance to go to the US Open recently in 243 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 2: New York. Huge thank you to my friends at Chase 244 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 2: that was so fun. I went with my girlfriend Nina 245 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: Nina Parker, who just killed it at New York Fashion Week. 246 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 2: She is phenomenal. We have been friends for nearly twenty years. 247 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: My lord. Yeah wow. 248 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: And she's actually on an OG episode of my very 249 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems, 250 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 2: So if you ever want to dig all the way back, 251 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: I think that episode is like maybe six years ago. 252 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 2: We talk a lot about our early journey and all 253 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: of you know, the work that she's done, and she's 254 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 2: just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line, 255 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 2: the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York 256 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,719 Speaker 2: Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season 257 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 2: of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows, 258 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 2: and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she 259 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: and I went to the open Nina Parker, who just 260 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: killed it at New York Fashion Week. She is phenomenal. 261 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 2: We have been friends for nearly twenty years, my. 262 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Lord, yeah wow. 263 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: And she's actually on an OG episode of my very 264 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems. 265 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 2: So if you ever want to dig all the way back. 266 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 2: I think that episode is like maybe six years ago. 267 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 2: We talk a lot about our early journey and all 268 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: of you know, the work that she's done, and she's 269 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line, 270 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York 271 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 2: Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season 272 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows, 273 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 2: and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she 274 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 2: and I went to the open. We had a blast. 275 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 2: I was telling a friend a minute ago, like I'm 276 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 2: not a poser, like in terms of like I just 277 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 2: want to be like my silly self in pictures, Like 278 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 2: I do not be posing. I don't be practicing. I 279 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,959 Speaker 2: really should, honestly, I need to grow up and like 280 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 2: get into this day and age. But I just like 281 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 2: to have a big smile and look like myself and photos. 282 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 2: But she's like a professional, so she kept being like 283 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 2: poking me in the back, like stand up straight, and 284 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, oh oh, put that out h head. 285 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: This way face, and it was just. 286 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 2: I was like, man, I am a hot mess. I 287 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 2: need so much practice, but it's great being with friends, 288 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: especially in other cities. Me and another girlfriend, one of 289 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 2: my best friends, April, we do that all the time, 290 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: like we both in LA. But if we have like 291 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 2: a free day, we'll be like. 292 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: San Francisco, go to a museum or you know. 293 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: Like pop up here, have food, drive here, do this 294 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: like just really I think, pushing ourselves to live, you know, 295 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 2: and again not in these like insanely big, grand instagrammable ways, 296 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 2: but just private smiles for us. That feels special. I 297 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 2: loved again so Martha's Vineyard. I loved being with leading 298 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 2: women to find I cannot speak enough about how phenomenal 299 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 2: this huge group of women is and all that they 300 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 2: bring to the world, but definitely all that they bring 301 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 2: to me, the ways I feel supported when I do 302 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: this beautiful work of wellness with them. I loved heading 303 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 2: out when I was in New York and supporting my girl, 304 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 2: Sloane Stevens, of course, the tennis beautiful champion. She's stunningly gorgeous. 305 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 2: She has a really amazing foundation called the Sloan Stevens Foundation, 306 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 2: and they are doing phenomenal work for the youth. They 307 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 2: work specifically in the city of Compton here in the 308 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: LA area, and I had a chance to visit the 309 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 2: brand new Compton High School where her program is, and 310 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 2: I mean, they were teaching kids to swim that hadn't 311 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 2: been in the water before in a pool at the beach. 312 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 2: They're teaching tennis, like reading. Like I'm just and she's 313 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 2: a young woman. I'm just blown away. I'm blown away 314 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: by her and her mother, her and her whole team. 315 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: Casey. 316 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 2: Just the things that they are doing for young people 317 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 2: in this city is so inspiring. And she also recently 318 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 2: launched a body care line, and so when I was 319 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: in New York, I went to check out that launch 320 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: and I led a meditation there and I had a 321 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 2: chance to actually when I led the metaation, we did 322 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 2: it on this rooftop in New York. So it's kind 323 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 2: of cool because it was chaos and peace at the 324 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: same time. And when I teach in person, I actually 325 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: love that, like I love when noise enters the room, 326 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 2: because that's life. So we have to find a way 327 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 2: to bend our ear and bend kind of our nervous 328 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 2: system into a different place when something disruptive is present. 329 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 2: And so we were on that rooftop in New York. 330 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 2: You're hearing horns, You're hearing all the things, and we're 331 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 2: still settling into peace. And while I was there, I 332 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 2: just ran into so many amazing women, Like I ran 333 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: into a friend, a beautiful young woman who was at 334 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 2: one of my retreats with Queen of Fua a couple 335 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: of years ago at Women who Heal shout out to 336 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 2: all the women who Heal, And she was there and 337 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: we got to catch up on life, and I hear 338 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 2: about her world and all that she's doing and how 339 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 2: she's feeling since that retreat. It just filled me up. 340 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 2: I'm such an in person person, y'all. I got to 341 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 2: figure out a way how to enjoy social media so 342 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 2: I can interact more. It's so hard for me, but 343 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 2: I'm really an in person person. Like I just love 344 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 2: talking in person. I love teaching in person. I love workshops. 345 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 2: I love being in front of someone and it's like, 346 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 2: oh my god, Like everything I can't do in a 347 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 2: DM or in a comment like if we're in person, 348 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: oh my god. I just love to know people. I 349 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 2: love to feel the energy. I love to share and 350 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: hear and feel and do and so's it's just it's 351 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 2: the best when I run into people that listen to 352 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 2: this podcast in real life or have been to a 353 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 2: retreat and then I see them again like just it 354 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 2: fills my soul. 355 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: Deeply well. 356 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: I had the chance recently to have dinner at the 357 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 2: Mayor's house, the Mayor of La Karen Bass. Big shout 358 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: out to my girlfriend Mia Wright, who is doing I 359 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 2: didn't even know how much good work she was doing 360 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: in this city, and that's something I'm really aspiring to 361 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: right now. I used to do a lot of community 362 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 2: activism and community action work here in La especially in 363 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 2: my younger years at the start of my career, back 364 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 2: when I was in radio the first station I worked 365 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 2: at as an on air personality. I was twenty three 366 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: when I was taking news positions, but I had been there. 367 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 2: But I was twenty three and I was juggling for 368 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: pretty much no money, so many important physicians. I was 369 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 2: the music director of the station, the youngest woman in 370 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 2: the country, but whatevers, I was an on air talent 371 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 2: and I took over being the director of community actions. 372 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 2: It was a lot of work and it was hard. 373 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: The city needs a lot, but it was like the 374 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 2: best time of my life, like being able to work 375 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 2: with different offices within the city government and help bring 376 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 2: different projects to life for young people. I had a 377 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 2: community show that aired on Sundays and I had you know, 378 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 2: I've had like the chief of Police on it. I've 379 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 2: worked with the Mayor's office. I've had different community figures. 380 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 2: And that is like my deepest passion. That is like 381 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 2: the PBS kid and me meets the then LA radio 382 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 2: hip hop personality. But so I've been in prayer with 383 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: God for the last couple of years, like how how 384 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 2: can I serve this city and how can I serve children. 385 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to be combined or 386 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: if these are separate ass but those are like the 387 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 2: call of my heart, and so it was just very synchronistic. 388 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 2: When my girl invited me. She brought together an awesome 389 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: group of people who were based in LA to talk 390 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 2: about the city with the mayor. And the Mayor's been 391 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 2: under a lot of scrutiny since the fires here in 392 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 2: LA and a lot of it is just quite unfair 393 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 2: and quite unfounded. And I got to learn a lot 394 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: of the background and the behind the scenes, and a 395 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 2: lot about policy creation and what policies were ended that 396 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 2: led us to be in this moment in time that 397 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: we're in in LA, which is a moment that has 398 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: mental health crisis. We have an unhoused crisis, so much crime. 399 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: It's just. 400 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 2: It's wild. It's wild. The thing's going on. And I 401 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: got to talk to her personally about something that had 402 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 2: happened recently. Where I live, on the very very end 403 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: of the long street that I live on, a couple 404 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: my neighbors were murdered in their home. Happened last month. 405 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 2: The details that have come out is that it was 406 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 2: a mentally ill man who was walking. He was walking 407 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: down my street and he chose that house for a reason, 408 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 2: I have no idea, and climbed the fence somehow got 409 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 2: into the house, stayed in the house. The couple came 410 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 2: home around five to six pm, as you do at 411 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 2: the end of the day, and he ended their lives. 412 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 2: He was found immediately because he just walked out and 413 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 2: then walked home, just walked on the streets, just walked home. 414 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,360 Speaker 2: After that, and eventually, the you know, very soon same day, 415 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 2: the police found him a few miles away. That's a lot. 416 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 2: That's part of why I feel a little more inside. 417 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: I think. 418 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 2: This summer, why I've really been clinging to safety and 419 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: wholeness and wholesomeness and beauty and savoring the innocence that's 420 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 2: present in my life, because so much isn't so. At 421 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: that dinner, I got to really have what I felt 422 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: was a very meaningful, powerful conversation with the mayor about 423 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: mental health in this city, about crime in my neighborhood 424 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: and area, and I felt so well treated by her 425 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 2: and so informed by her. I felt very heard by her, 426 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 2: and I felt really grateful for that. So I don't 427 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 2: know what's to come, but I definitely feel very galvanized. 428 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 2: I feel a spark reignited and really shining brightly inside 429 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 2: of myself to deeply root and help and serve my community. 430 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 2: And yeah, we'll see how that takes form. We'll see 431 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: how that takes shape. I also had this cool opportunity. 432 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: I did a lot of stuff this month, which this 433 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: is not always the case. I had a chance to 434 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 2: go to New York for the kickoff of New York 435 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 2: Fashion Week, and I did this experience with this brand 436 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: that I have come to who love so much. Oh 437 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: my gosh, it's like really helping my skin. This incredible, 438 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 2: incredible skincare brand that I'm in partnership with called Allies 439 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 2: of Skin. It's I really don't say this kind of 440 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 2: thing about products or stuff, but it's like life changing skincare, 441 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 2: like it is. You know, I have very vain needs 442 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: like anti aging, right, but this kind of skincare I'm 443 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 2: watching and I've been seeing videos on TikTok that they're 444 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: using these products and people who have had really severe 445 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 2: burns or have been disfigured are i mean, able to 446 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 2: heal their faces in like really miraculous ways. So I'm 447 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 2: just really inspired by it. I'm so inspired by like 448 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: intentional like innovation, like the hard stuff, you know, and 449 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 2: their founder, Nicholas Travis is his story is so mind 450 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 2: blowing and so inspiring, and I'm like, it's just it's 451 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 2: really what I've needed in this season that I've really 452 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 2: been asking God a lot. How do you want me 453 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,479 Speaker 2: to serve? Now? 454 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: Who am I supposed to serve right now? Who? And how? Who? 455 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: And how? Who and how? Who and how and when? When? 456 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: When? That's what I've been asking, And you know, I 457 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 2: think having this opportunity in the last few weeks to 458 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 2: be inspired by a lifelong community leader servant leader in 459 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, and then to be inspired by Nick and 460 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 2: where his life's journey has taken him and how that 461 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: led him to create this brand, Allies of Skin, And 462 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 2: I'm just like it's the fire I've needed, Like I 463 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 2: needed to be inspired in this way by peopleeople who 464 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 2: are really like doing a lot for people in a 465 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: way that's like touching their center and core. So it's 466 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 2: been nice to feel so inspired and creative and innovative. 467 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 2: So it's been a lot, a lot moving the last month, 468 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 2: a lot of things, but my main thing has been 469 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 2: really sinking in as much as I can to the 470 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 2: present moment and the creation of exactly what's in front 471 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 2: of me now, which is my son, which is my home, 472 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 2: and which. 473 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: Is my own heart. 474 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 2: So I have one to three amazing things that I'd 475 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 2: love to share if it's in your area. I really 476 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 2: hope to see you in the LA area at the 477 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 2: end of this month. On September thirtieth, I'm going to 478 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 2: be having what I know is going to be, oh, 479 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 2: a transcendent conversation with one of my favorite human beings 480 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 2: that has ever lived, Shaka Senor. He is a friend 481 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 2: of this show. We have an amazing episode from two 482 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 2: seasons ago that we've recorded, please look for it. He 483 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 2: has an amazing new book out called How to Be Free. 484 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 2: His story, his life, his mastery, his teaching is profound. 485 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: He's an incredible person, an amazing writer. So his new 486 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 2: book How to Be Free is out, and he and 487 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 2: I will be in conversation and in community at Hilltop 488 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 2: Coffee and Kitchen, the slosson location Tuesday, September thirtieth. It's 489 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 2: a conversation on freedom, on personal transformation and healing and community. 490 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: So if you'd like to go to that in the 491 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 2: LA area, Shaka Sanor and myself at Hilltop. Link in 492 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 2: my bio on Instagram can get you to tickets and 493 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 2: also my website so at Debbie Brown Ordebie Brown dot com. 494 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 2: Also if you are in Greenville, South Carolina, in that area, 495 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 2: I am going to be at the church of two 496 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 2: of my very dear friends, John and Aventer Gray Love 497 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 2: Story Church for the Relish Conference. My sister Aventer, she 498 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 2: has put together this beautiful women's conference again. It's in 499 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: South Carolina, Greenville Love Story Church, and I will be 500 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 2: there to speak and to be in community. I'll be 501 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 2: there all day. I hope to be filled. I hope 502 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 2: to pour. There's gonna be a lot of dynamic sessions. 503 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 2: There's going to be intimate prayer circles, fellowship. This is 504 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 2: really just about empowering our hearts, especially in a time 505 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 2: like this, and an opportunity to deepen our faith and 506 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 2: to be in community with other people who love deeply, 507 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 2: who lead in love with compassion, and are looking to 508 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: build into deepen the relationship with God. So that's where 509 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 2: I'll be in October second through fifth, link again in 510 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,839 Speaker 2: my bio on on the website, and then if you 511 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 2: are in the New York area, I'll be at my 512 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 2: brother Charlottamage the Gods Mental Wealth Expo. I believe this 513 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 2: is the fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo. It gets bigger 514 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 2: every year it is, and by bigger, I mean like 515 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 2: the community. I'm so excited this year. It's at an arena. 516 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 2: It's going to be taking place in New Jersey Saturday, 517 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 2: October eleventh. It's a full half day, so eleven am 518 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 2: to four pm. There's gonna be panels. We're gonna have 519 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 2: panels on emotional regulation. We're gonna have conversations there on 520 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 2: religious trauma. I'm curating two panels. Danee Logan will be there, 521 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 2: Teddy Reeves will be there, Minoj Dayis will be there. 522 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 2: There's so many amazing teachers and truly embodied practitioners in 523 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 2: this work that are going to be there, and there 524 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 2: will also be breakout sessions, so there's also going to 525 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 2: be discussions, panels, resources to connect you to mental health services, 526 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 2: self care and well being. This is really really in 527 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 2: service to the communities of New York, of New Jersey 528 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 2: of all of those close surrounding areas. So excited to 529 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 2: be there and to do that again. I'm on the 530 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 2: board of the Mental Health Expo, and the work that 531 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 2: Charlemagne is doing and that he's committed to the amount 532 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,240 Speaker 2: of money they've been able to move to help people 533 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 2: is just again really inspiring. Excited to be a part 534 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,919 Speaker 2: of that and would love to be in community there 535 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 2: with you as well. So all of those things you 536 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 2: can link to the bio if you can attend LA 537 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 2: New Jerseys, No Carolina, and New York will be my 538 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 2: next few areas I'll be hitting in the coming weeks. 539 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 2: So I'm excited to connect. I'm asto excited to just 540 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 2: love and to share. Uh yeah, all right, soul work 541 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 2: for this episode, y'all. I've shared on this episode and 542 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 2: I've shared maybe in a couple episodes recently, that my 543 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 2: question of this moment, what I'm in prayer with, what 544 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 2: I'm talking to God about, what I'm searching my heart 545 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 2: and my life for, is God, how do you want 546 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 2: me to serve? 547 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 1: Now? Who do you want me to serve? 548 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 2: Now? What do you want me to do now? I 549 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:49,280 Speaker 2: would love for every person to spend some time doing 550 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 2: soul work, either asking that question if it feels resonant, 551 00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 2: or finding your question. What is your question of the moment? 552 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 2: What is this exact moment bringing forward for you to 553 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,760 Speaker 2: inquire about? We're all on the verge of something else. 554 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 2: No one is finished right now. We're all on the 555 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 2: verge of becoming something else right now in this moment. 556 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 2: Just like I asked this question at the top of 557 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 2: twenty twenty, who are you being called to become? I 558 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 2: really sit with that question now, who are each of 559 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 2: us being called to become? 560 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: Right now? 561 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 2: But it doesn't mean that you have to be something 562 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 2: else because what you are now isn't enough now. It's 563 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 2: an inquiry of like, how am I going to be used? 564 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 2: Who am I becoming for? How I need to be used? 565 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 2: What am I called to do? How am I called 566 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,240 Speaker 2: to serve? 567 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: Right now? 568 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 2: So if any of those questions feel resonant to fit 569 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 2: within your life and your process right now, use one 570 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,319 Speaker 2: of those. If there is another natural question that is arising, 571 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 2: like it's coming to this surface, it's clear for you, 572 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 2: trust that one and ask yourself that question. You can 573 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 2: try to spend some time journaling to it if that 574 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 2: feels resonant. But I'd also say some of these questions 575 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 2: were waiting to receive the answer, so there might not 576 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 2: be much to write about. So consider in meditation or 577 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 2: just in a heartfelt prayer, closing your eyes, taking some 578 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 2: deep breaths, asking those questions loud and silently, and then 579 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 2: giving it the space to arise, and trusting that it 580 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 2: will in the coming days, weeks, months, years. All right, 581 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 2: thank you for joining another episode of Deeply Well share 582 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 2: it with a friend, Please rate and review this podcast 583 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 2: wherever you like to listen to it. And so much, big, big, big, big, 584 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,839 Speaker 2: big big love gratitude. 585 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: Thank you. I must. 586 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 2: The content presented on Deeply. 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