Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's episode is going to be a longer one part
Speaker 2: of the series where I interview fascinating people about how
Speaker 2: they take their days from great to awesome and any
Speaker 2: advice they have for the rest of us. So today,
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to welcome Cedric Thompson to the show. Cedric
Speaker 2: has pivoted from a career in professional football to content creation,
Speaker 2: sharing his videos on family life on social media with
Speaker 2: millions of people.
Speaker 1: So Cedric, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, Laura, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, why don't you tell our listeners just a
Speaker 2: little bit about you the quick bio?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, my name is Cedric. A lot of people
Speaker 3: call me said, I'm emerging from California and I moved
Speaker 3: out to Minnesota because they got a Flora scholarships. Played
Speaker 3: football out here. I met my then girlfriend freshman year,
Speaker 3: who is now my wife, and we have three daughters,
Speaker 3: three beautiful daughters. I was drafted to the NFL and
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen. Played for a few years, and now I
Speaker 3: transitioned over to doing full time content and I share.
Speaker 3: There's my perspective on fatherhood and family and marriage and
Speaker 3: self development, and I really enjoy what I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I love that you've made this career pivot.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have to make pivots in life.
Speaker 2: But obvious, say, football isn't the kind of thing that
Speaker 2: people can do forever. You know, our bodies won't won't
Speaker 2: allow that. But so I'm curious how you decided what
Speaker 2: you were going to pivot to and what that process
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting. That's a great question, and we can go.
Speaker 1: Man, we can talk for hours on that, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: So I'm from California, like I said, but I'm from
Speaker 3: the inner city. I was born in Englewood, raised in content,
Speaker 3: like moved around and like sports were something that we
Speaker 3: were put into, like essentially stay out of trouble. And
Speaker 3: I just happened to be athletic and I enjoyed being
Speaker 3: a captain, and I just kind of kept doing it
Speaker 3: and it worked. It obviously worked out for me, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't. My goal was never to go to the NFL.
Speaker 3: I didn't really understand what that really was. It was
Speaker 3: just to work hard and being around my teammates, and
Speaker 3: I loved the community aspect of being on a team.
Speaker 3: It wasn't until my junior year when I was in
Speaker 3: college where NFL scouts will come to see the juniors
Speaker 3: and they realized, oh, this guy has potential, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I got potential. Okay, cool, I guess
Speaker 3: the next thing is the NFL. So then I went
Speaker 3: to the NFL, worked really hard to got drafted. Only
Speaker 3: is like zero point one person that people get drafted.
Speaker 3: And when I got to the NFL, that's when I
Speaker 3: realized that, Oh, I did what I wanted to do.
Speaker 3: And when I got there, I was just like, ah,
Speaker 3: this doesn't feel like me, you know, like it just
Speaker 3: feels like I'm kind of living in a dream that
Speaker 3: a lot of my period growing up said that we
Speaker 3: were supposed to do. When I got there, I saw
Speaker 3: how political it was, how it was all about money
Speaker 3: and status and not really the camaraderie of being around
Speaker 3: the team a team, you know, And I kept playing
Speaker 3: for a couple of years when I didn't want to play,
Speaker 3: I just kept doing it because it was kind of
Speaker 3: all that I knew and part of pivoting from it
Speaker 3: was scary. My last team I was with was with
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals, and I ended up getting hurt. And
Speaker 3: when I got hurt, my first daughter was born too,
Speaker 3: got around two weeks before I was injured, and then
Speaker 3: I got hurt. Was able to come back to Minneapolis
Speaker 3: and raise her the first seven months of her life,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm done, Like, I just want
Speaker 3: to do this, so my daughter, long as you're gonna
Speaker 3: say my daughter, I was just like, I just wanted
Speaker 3: to be a dad and just raise my babies. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so then you decided to make videos.
Speaker 3: About it, yeah I did, oh so yeah. So when
Speaker 3: I was aimed. When I was playing, I was with
Speaker 3: the Patriots at one point and I got cut from
Speaker 3: the team. I was like, oh, this can be over
Speaker 3: with at any point. So I was let me just
Speaker 3: figure out what else I wanted to do, and because
Speaker 3: football was all I ever did, and I was like,
Speaker 3: let me just pick up a camera and start recording
Speaker 3: videos and to see what happens. That a lot of
Speaker 3: it was for me to just distract myself from not
Speaker 3: knowing that I wasn't playing outside of training, and I
Speaker 3: told myself when I got online, I'm here to be
Speaker 3: myself and tell my story from my perspective, because news
Speaker 3: blogs or sports analyst always told people and I never
Speaker 3: said it from my own perspective. And then I started
Speaker 3: making videos on YouTube and that just did really well
Speaker 3: in the beginning because I always was really authentic, which
Speaker 3: is like a rare thing online for whatever reason. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been doing it ever since.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, people definitely flock to these videos. They've been very,
Speaker 2: very popular. So we got to talk to each other
Speaker 2: a little bit before this. I got to do a
Speaker 2: Cedric's podcast. We talked about how when you were playing football,
Speaker 2: schedule was very very set. I wonder if you could
Speaker 2: just tell people, like what a day in the life
Speaker 2: of NFL.
Speaker 1: Training look.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So you wake up and it's around like,
Speaker 3: you know, six and nine every morning, and when you
Speaker 3: go in, you don't have to worry about anything because
Speaker 3: everything is taken care of. So you walk in and
Speaker 3: there's monitors everywhere and from you're there from you know, six,
Speaker 3: seven in the morning till about eight at night, and
Speaker 3: every single minute and I'm not over exaggerating, every single minute.
Speaker 3: And I told you on my pack on my podcast,
Speaker 3: you get in there, it's seven fifteen, seven thirty five,
Speaker 3: check in, seveno forty to eight fifteen, meeting one, eight
Speaker 3: twenty to eight to nine o'clock, Lift one. And it
Speaker 3: just goes like that the entire time. And that's really it.
Speaker 3: So you don't really have time. You don't have to
Speaker 3: worry about anything. That's the simplest way to put it.
Speaker 3: Somebody all the food's made for you. You walk in
Speaker 3: up to practice of smoothies right there they have but
Speaker 3: your your beat, juice, everything that's just done for you. You
Speaker 3: got to just show up and perform and be ready
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's different from your life now, I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So what is your schedule looking like now?
Speaker 1: They say, nobody's handing you a smoothie at a fifteen am.
Speaker 3: Nobody hands me a smoothie. Nobody likes making by meals
Speaker 3: for me. Nobody's telling me I need to work out.
Speaker 3: There's no consequences if I don't get I'm on time.
Speaker 3: Like everything is all on me. Everything is all on me.
Speaker 3: It's not on somebody else making a schedule or meal
Speaker 3: plan or smoothie or whatever.
Speaker 2: But you've had to figure out then a schedule that
Speaker 2: works for you and I one of the things I
Speaker 2: understand from your videos is you actually do get up
Speaker 2: pretty early in the morning. Is that right, Okay, tell
Speaker 2: us a little bit about your morning routine.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I get up early in the morning,
Speaker 3: and you know, depending on what I'm working on, I'm
Speaker 3: really into self development, and for me, self development means
Speaker 3: understanding like where I came from and the thing that
Speaker 3: I learned from my parents and the way that I
Speaker 3: was brought up and challenging those things to figure out
Speaker 3: what it is that I actually truly want to hold
Speaker 3: onto and something that to let go and like build
Speaker 3: new skills to be a better husband, to be a
Speaker 3: better father, and to be a better person. So most
Speaker 3: of the time, I get up early in the morning,
Speaker 3: and I had a set of questions that I ask myself,
Speaker 3: and I break it down by marriage, it's faith, self
Speaker 3: and relationships, and I separate family from that relationship with
Speaker 3: friends and stuff, and I write about it and I
Speaker 3: kind of have a goal in mind that I want
Speaker 3: to be thinking about actively doing in those relationships. Actually,
Speaker 3: I have a sauna in the could hub at my house,
Speaker 3: and depending on the day and the weather, I'll get
Speaker 3: in there if I'm feel like it I feel like
Speaker 3: and if I don't, I won't and then after that
Speaker 3: it's pretty much my well that's that's my morning routine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the rest of the day is sort
Speaker 2: of split with running your business. You're doing content creation,
Speaker 2: representing brands and and fatherhood. I'm curious how you sort
Speaker 2: of make those different pieces fit together.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll plan on Friday, that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is great. So what I do is like
Speaker 3: I think of my life kind of in pillars. So
Speaker 3: in every pillar there's X amount of things that I
Speaker 3: need to do, and some have more priorities, some that
Speaker 3: I don't have others and minds have a deadline. I
Speaker 3: will put that thing first, because typically if there's a deadline,
Speaker 3: something bad will happen if I don't get it done.
Speaker 3: And to me, it's really that simple. It's like deadlines.
Speaker 3: Get those in there, what do I want to do?
Speaker 3: Put those in there, and then that's it. And it's
Speaker 3: so funny that I'm explaining it's so simply now. It
Speaker 3: was not like that in the beginning. It was really
Speaker 3: difficult in.
Speaker 1: The chaotic at the beginning. Yeah, yeah, well that's true.
Speaker 2: It could happen. We're going to take one quick ad
Speaker 2: break and then we will be back. Well, I am
Speaker 2: back with Cedric Thompson, who is sharing about his schedule,
Speaker 2: how he has pivoted from a career in football to
Speaker 2: an in content creation, talking about how he balances running
Speaker 2: his business with time with family.
Speaker 1: So I have to I'm very curious.
Speaker 2: You know, when you put lots of videos out in
Speaker 2: the world, sometimes you get reactions you thought you'd get.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get reactions you really didn't think you I'm
Speaker 2: curious if you have any videos you put out there
Speaker 2: that you were just like, I did not see that coming.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, what take your choice. Man. It's
Speaker 3: like when you like with my content, I'm sharing things
Speaker 3: that I'm really going through and doing my best to
Speaker 3: articulate it in sixty seconds. Nothing takes sixty seconds to
Speaker 3: really explain. So I might say something that comes off
Speaker 3: in a way that isn't necessarily what I mean, and
Speaker 3: I could have articulated better. But that's part of the reps.
Speaker 3: In the practice, I made a video about helping my
Speaker 3: wife like clean the house, right, and what I was
Speaker 3: trying to say was that we have a lot going
Speaker 3: on the house is a mess. I'm going to just
Speaker 3: clean the whole thing for the both of us, and
Speaker 3: people took it as if I were saying, like, my
Speaker 3: wife ain't doing nothing, I'm cleaning house. I'm like, that
Speaker 3: is not what I'm saying. What I'm saying, so yeah,
Speaker 3: and then people just said they just they just came
Speaker 3: after me. I was like, my bad, Like that was
Speaker 3: not what I was saying, and that happens a lot,
Speaker 3: and like, you know, I can't the message is going
Speaker 3: to be for everybody. In the fact of the matter
Speaker 3: is everybody couldn't say something. You know, what I mean
Speaker 3: is just the name of the game. But it happens
Speaker 3: more times than I was like.
Speaker 2: Well, I find I feel like people on the internet
Speaker 2: are looking to be offended about something. I like, I
Speaker 2: mean one of your videos that I was sort of
Speaker 2: amazed at the response. I guess you had been parenting
Speaker 2: solo for a week or something while your your wife
Speaker 2: was out of the country, and people there was a
Speaker 2: mix like some people.
Speaker 1: Were like, oh, this is great.
Speaker 2: You know, he's taking a nice video about how he's
Speaker 2: he could run the household while while his wife is away,
Speaker 2: and then others were like, why are you acting like you,
Speaker 2: you know, saved the world by taking care of your
Speaker 2: own kids for a week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that was another video that I
Speaker 3: was going to mention. It's like when I posted that.
Speaker 3: When I was making I was like, I know exactly
Speaker 3: what's going to happen. I was like, this video's going
Speaker 3: to do well because you know, you don't really see
Speaker 3: fathers doing this. But it's also be another of my
Speaker 3: wife's gone. I'm like, oh, I got no choice. I
Speaker 3: gotta do this, Whereas, like honest with you, I could
Speaker 3: have help, but I genuinely wanted to do this because
Speaker 3: my wife always expresses me mental load and I never
Speaker 3: could really understand it. So I was like, you know
Speaker 3: what you're going for ten days, I'm about to just
Speaker 3: do this for myself. I want to help you your mom.
Speaker 3: I don't want to help you nobody. I want to
Speaker 3: help with a schedule. I just want to do it
Speaker 3: by like day one and a half.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, because your mom busy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and then just like powering through to finish it.
Speaker 3: It gave me this new respect for my wife and
Speaker 3: the things he tried to explain to me to give
Speaker 3: me to understand for a long time, and for me,
Speaker 3: I'm somebody I want to kind of like put myself
Speaker 3: in people's shoes so I can't have empathy and understand
Speaker 3: that like that's what happens. I mean, I've been doing
Speaker 3: that about my life is through sports, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's talk a little bit about that about
Speaker 2: you know, empathy and communication because one of the things
Speaker 2: you do talk a lot about it is about trying
Speaker 2: to communicate well yeah, with the people in your life.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious, you know how how that's been as
Speaker 2: it's developed in your life, Like where you think you've
Speaker 2: learned communication skills?
Speaker 1: Are the ones you're still working on?
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's a really good question. I had a
Speaker 3: really long talk with about managers today this about communication
Speaker 3: because it's so it's so fascinating because I have this
Speaker 3: idea that like I realized that, you know, there's one word, right,
Speaker 3: let's call the word love. People kind of have their
Speaker 3: own definition of love than the one that's in the
Speaker 3: Webster's dictionary. And when you realize that, it's like, that's
Speaker 3: why communicating is so important to understand. Okay, where are
Speaker 3: we at? Like what are we saying? You know what
Speaker 3: I mean, and you almost have to come up with
Speaker 3: your own definitions within this word or this topic or
Speaker 3: this whatever. And what I've learned is that you have
Speaker 3: to really become a good listener one and you kind
Speaker 3: of I mean not kind of. You have to take
Speaker 3: emotion out of it most of the time, and just
Speaker 3: being able to listen for words, listen and take words
Speaker 3: for what they are and almost try to understand each
Speaker 3: word that your partner, or your child, or your friend
Speaker 3: or the person down the street who's upset because you
Speaker 3: cut them off or whatever are saying. And from that
Speaker 3: not being emotional, you're able to really understand the root
Speaker 3: of what people actually want and then you get to
Speaker 3: choose if you want to give that to them or
Speaker 3: Now that's the that's like the and that's for every relationship,
Speaker 3: me and my wife, me and my kids, my friends,
Speaker 3: people online, it's like, oh, I understand what they're saying,
Speaker 3: but it's okay, Well, but how do you.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's easier said than done, because how
Speaker 2: do you take I mean, it is very hard to
Speaker 2: take the emotion out of it. Of your your neighbors mad,
Speaker 2: like you're you're you don't want to jump in to defend.
Speaker 1: Yourself for something, you know.
Speaker 2: How is there a process you have for kind of
Speaker 2: calming yourself down in these moments.
Speaker 3: So I've tried, Like I've read a book called non
Speaker 3: Violent Communication, and it talked about how you basically have
Speaker 3: to become a good listener and understand what people actually
Speaker 3: want to be honest with you. The only way that
Speaker 3: you really get good at it is by putting yourself
Speaker 3: out there to have conversations. Because my problem was I'll
Speaker 3: be somebody who just shut down, and I had to
Speaker 3: learn how to not shut it down and give myself
Speaker 3: the chance to be able to give myself the opportunity
Speaker 3: to communicate with someone. Like I said, in the morning,
Speaker 3: I get up and I write questions. I'm focusing on
Speaker 3: how to be a better communicator in those questions, and
Speaker 3: I'm being intentional about I want to be warmer towards
Speaker 3: my wife today, and that in itself supposed to me
Speaker 3: look at her through a different lens, and I can
Speaker 3: ignore that the house is dirty or that like we're
Speaker 3: tired or whatever, because I'm choosing to look at her
Speaker 3: and a lens of warmth and she's my wife and
Speaker 3: I love her. Et cetera, et cetera. I really feel,
Speaker 3: just from my experience that you don't It's easier said
Speaker 3: than done, but you really get good at it by
Speaker 3: giving yourself the opportunity to have those tough conversations or
Speaker 3: to even just start a conversation about something I have
Speaker 3: no idea that made Yeah, it did it.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. And I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I mean, your kids are still pretty little, right, They're
Speaker 2: they're into yes, but I'm kind of curious, like how
Speaker 2: you think about spending time with your kids and like
Speaker 2: what are your favorite things you like to do with
Speaker 2: your kids in the course of your regular schedule.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I'm such like, like, what do
Speaker 3: you guys want to do? And like, let's try to
Speaker 3: make it happen. But my kids are in a lot
Speaker 3: of sports, they are in a lot of activities, so
Speaker 3: they are always are busy, and most of the time
Speaker 3: I know that they kind of have like, you know,
Speaker 3: busy lives because we keep them busy. Most of the time.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to wind down with them and figure
Speaker 3: out what they want to do. Like anytime, like we
Speaker 3: went to California last week, I'm like, what do you
Speaker 3: want to do? What's going on? We want to do nothing? Okay,
Speaker 3: like let's not let's not do anything. So for me,
Speaker 3: it's more about like what what do they want to do?
Speaker 3: And then if I've had like if I have things
Speaker 3: that I want them to do, then we'll make plans
Speaker 3: to make it happen. Like uh yeah, That's how I
Speaker 3: approach parentsing with my kids. Because to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: my wife is really big on like camp ten minute soccer, softball,
Speaker 3: rock camp.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you're the chill parent. You're like
Speaker 1: the sit around on the couch par Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's like I want to go outside and
Speaker 3: go to the park. All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're going to take one more quick
Speaker 2: ad break and then we'll be back with more with
Speaker 2: Cedric Thompson. So I am curious obviously, you know anyone
Speaker 2: who's had a career in professional athletics that's been a
Speaker 2: major part of their life obviously their physical fitness, and
Speaker 2: then you're adjusting to life afterwards where where no one's
Speaker 2: requiring you to do anything. What is your exercise routine
Speaker 2: looking like now? And where do where do you make
Speaker 2: space for that? In your life.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the first thing is realizing that I
Speaker 3: did not have to work out howard I want to play.
Speaker 3: That was the first thing, is like I was out
Speaker 3: like running crazy sprints, like I'm going to like go
Speaker 3: out there and like tackle people again. So it was
Speaker 3: for so for a long time. I had to learn like, hey,
Speaker 3: you can just jaw like it's all right, you don't
Speaker 3: have to like sprint around the lake, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So that was the first thing, and now
Speaker 3: it's really it took it took a lot of research
Speaker 3: for me to realize what it actually takes to just
Speaker 3: live have a healthy life and a healthy body, you know.
Speaker 3: So now it's gone to two to three times a
Speaker 3: week of like I would say, like string you with things,
Speaker 3: you know, like lift like I don't wait anyone. I
Speaker 3: didn't want to such a waiting my life again because
Speaker 3: that's all I ever did. So like I'll do like
Speaker 3: calistemics where it's like pull ups, push ups and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. Not a runner don't like running, so I
Speaker 3: don't run. So my cardiovasplas evers like sauna. It's like
Speaker 3: the closest that I'll get and I'll try to jog.
Speaker 3: We have a I'll ride by a lake. I'll try
Speaker 3: to drag around the lake sometimes if only I'm invited,
Speaker 3: I won't go out there by myself.
Speaker 2: You're putting it in a different a different place in
Speaker 2: your life. You spend a lot of time on it earlier.
Speaker 2: If you spend a little less time on it now,
Speaker 2: how do you I'm curious how you see your business
Speaker 2: developing over the next few years? Is your you know,
Speaker 2: get all these people watching your videos? Where do you
Speaker 2: see this this going?
Speaker 3: Well? Now, you know, for a long time, I've just
Speaker 3: been expressing how I felt, and I knew people resonated
Speaker 3: with it, and through that, you know, I've gotten a
Speaker 3: lot of reason. It's giving me great opportunities to work
Speaker 3: with like really big brands, and that's been that's been awesome.
Speaker 3: But now I feel like I have something that I
Speaker 3: want to get to the world that I've always felt
Speaker 3: in my core and in my being, and it's I
Speaker 3: call it harmony. That we're all looking for harmony out
Speaker 3: in our lives. When you think about an orchestra, all
Speaker 3: the people who are doing everything that they can and
Speaker 3: leaning in their strengths to make these beautiful sounds and
Speaker 3: I think about my life and how many things are
Speaker 3: constantly moving around. All I'm ever trying to do is
Speaker 3: just find harmony for myself. So I can find harmony
Speaker 3: from out, give the best, give myself the best opportunity
Speaker 3: find to have harmony with my wife and my kids
Speaker 3: and my friends. And it's so reassuring to me because
Speaker 3: it's something that you always have to work on. So
Speaker 3: now these ideas and these philosophies of like how I
Speaker 3: get up in the morning, or how I think about fitness,
Speaker 3: how I think about time, all goes back to like
Speaker 3: this idea of having harmony and always working to have
Speaker 3: that harmony. So now I'm finding myself wanting to speak
Speaker 3: like I'm doing the podcast and I'm starting a clothing
Speaker 3: brand that's called Harmony to bring people back to this
Speaker 3: way of thinking about our lives. So that's why you
Speaker 3: see myself focusing on.
Speaker 2: Now son any different extension that you can come up
Speaker 2: from this concept of harmony basically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We'll keep it sharing it with a broader audience for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I always ask people, what is something you have
Speaker 2: done recently to take a day from great to awesome?
Speaker 3: You know, I think a lot of like my shift
Speaker 3: from going from great to awesome, it's all based on
Speaker 3: like how I look at something more than like something
Speaker 3: that I put in my planner to do and it
Speaker 3: changed and I it was a better day for me,
Speaker 3: like the more like deep thinking and writing that I do.
Speaker 3: It's all about how I look at things more so
Speaker 3: than like something drastically changing for me to have an
Speaker 3: awesome day, because you know, I used to hear people say,
Speaker 3: like you every day was great every day. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: that's really hard for me to like to accept. But
Speaker 3: when I changed my mindset, it was easy for me
Speaker 3: to realize, you know, like life is good and like
Speaker 3: everything's okay. So for me, it's more of a mindset
Speaker 3: shift to have more consistent awesome days by the way
Speaker 3: that I just view, I guess being appreciative of doing
Speaker 3: things that I enjoy.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm curious, was there any time recently that you know, objectively,
Speaker 2: the day wasn't looking all that great and you were
Speaker 2: able to to shift your mindset about it?
Speaker 3: Hm? I mean it's like, what kid, do I want
Speaker 3: to choose? Yeah, well, actually this is you. This morning,
Speaker 3: So my youngest daughter, Quincy came in here, and you know,
Speaker 3: when I'm in the morning, it's like, I don't know me.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to answer these questions like I want my time,
Speaker 3: and she came in here, and she came in here
Speaker 3: to talk to me, and typically it'll be really easy
Speaker 3: for me to be like Quincy like that leave daddy alone,
Speaker 3: like it kind of knocks me off. And then I
Speaker 3: was able to like be patient with her and like
Speaker 3: sit with her and still do my thing. And right
Speaker 3: then it clicked to me, like, oh, like I still
Speaker 3: can't get the writing done. It's just about shifting a
Speaker 3: little bit and making sure that she's commed. If I
Speaker 3: don't give her the love that she's looking for, it's
Speaker 3: just it's going to be more tough. She's too, she's
Speaker 3: gonna keep coming back. She's understanding I'm sitting there writing,
Speaker 3: so I would say, and for me, if I have
Speaker 3: a bad morning, it's really hard for me to have
Speaker 3: a bad day. So that's little shift in mindset there.
Speaker 3: I would say, too, not even a great day, like
Speaker 3: it could have been a bad day to an awesome day,
Speaker 3: just by realizing what was going on with my two
Speaker 3: year old.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you can't really push off a two year
Speaker 2: old and expect them to understand like, oh, oh, I
Speaker 2: see you had something else you were doing. Go yeah,
Speaker 2: pardon me, Yeah, it's all good, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to right now?
Speaker 3: I think building out harmony for me, like now that
Speaker 3: I understand like all the things that I've been going
Speaker 3: through all these years, that I have a way to
Speaker 3: conceptualize it and give it to the world, it really
Speaker 3: excites me. And I feel like I'm really at a
Speaker 3: point in my life where I'm getting up and I'm
Speaker 3: doing something that doesn't feel like work. It's just like
Speaker 3: I'm doing something that I want to like give to
Speaker 3: the world because I really know how much has helped me,
Speaker 3: and I think it can help other people because just
Speaker 3: like with you do, there's it's practical, but it takes
Speaker 3: work and I think that is the magic formula and
Speaker 3: that's just really exciting for me.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome. Well where can people find you?
Speaker 3: They can find me on Instagram That's where I'm mainly
Speaker 3: has just said CEB and then on my podcast or
Speaker 3: just conversations with said and YouTube take talking soolow is
Speaker 3: my name's well said.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. For joining us. Thank you to
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Speaker 2: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most.
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