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Speaker 1: On this week's episode of Cultivating her Space.

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Speaker 2: Oftentimes there are things that we want, dreams that we have,

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is sure to provide you with motivation, inspiration,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cultivating her Space, a podcast dedicated to uplifting

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Speaker 2: women like you. We're your hosts, doctor Dominique Broussard, a

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Speaker 2: college professor and psychologist.

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Speaker 3: And Terry Lomax, a techie and motivational speaker. In a

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Speaker 3: world where black women are often misrepresented and misunderstood, please

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Speaker 3: join us as we initiate authentic conversations on everything from

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Speaker 2: Hey, lady, is doctor dom here from the Cultivating her

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Speaker 2: Space podcast? Are you currently a resident of the state

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Speaker 2: of California in contemplating starting your therapy journey? Well, if so,

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Speaker 2: please reach out to me at doctor Dominique Brussard dot com.

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Speaker 2: That's Dr d O M I N I q U

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Speaker 2: I'm not posting it for y'all. I'm gonna fare y'all ears,

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Speaker 2: but quote of the day. I thought what I wanted

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Speaker 2: just should have heated that quote. If you didn't already

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Speaker 2: I thought what I wanted was something I needed. When

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Speaker 3: Now, don't I feel like you are going to nail

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Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, So for those of you that are not

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Speaker 2: familiar with Lauren Hill, I'm not sure why that will be.

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Speaker 2: Love Him, And so clearly this song is about These

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So when I think about what my life was

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Speaker 2: My current reality is that I have the career right. So,

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Speaker 3: There were relationships I was just like, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I want this to work out. Oh my gosh, like

434
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Speaker 3: I want n't so bad. And it was like, baby,

435
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Speaker 3: God has saved you from a whole bunch of shit.

436
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Speaker 3: Vibe not letting that work out?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, down, listen, listen, Linda. It resonates so much.

438
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Speaker 2: And I think that's why the quote like the colde

439
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Speaker 2: of the day resonates so much. Right, is that there

440
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: have been guys that I've been at, like I've had

441
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: crushes on and just based on like what I initially see, right,

442
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Speaker 2: and like I remember even thinking back, like I'm even

443
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Speaker 2: thinking back to like high school, like and and guys

444
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 2: that I just thought like were like everything. And when

445
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Speaker 2: I look at where things are now, oh child, I'm grateful.

446
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Speaker 2: I'm grateful, grateful.

447
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Speaker 3: Praise the Lord. M Okay, It's like, oh hit looks.

448
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Speaker 2: Mm more than more than grateful, right that, like the

449
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 2: way these things turned out that would not have been

450
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Speaker 2: in my best interest, And so I am glad that

451
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 2: things did not the dream that I had did not

452
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Speaker 2: come to fruition. So then that takes us to the

453
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Speaker 2: third one. Even when you don't understand why things are

454
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: coming to fruition, it's all working out for your good. Right.

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Speaker 2: So if you like, if you are going through a

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Speaker 2: process and you're like, well, why is it happening in

457
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Speaker 2: this timing or why is it not happening in this timing?

458
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: It goes back to my favorite grace to trust the

459
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: process right that in the end it truly is working

460
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Speaker 2: out for your benefit. Because bring it back to that

461
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: first perspective that chances are things are being worked out

462
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: so that your reality is going to be better than

463
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Speaker 2: what you initially dreamed it would be. And so when

464
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Speaker 2: you trust the process, everything will work out for your good.

465
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Speaker 2: Even if in that process things don't seem like it

466
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Speaker 2: and you may have some mishaps along the way, everything

467
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: is truly working out for your good.

468
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Speaker 3: That is such a beautiful mantra to lean into. And

469
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: the thing is, even when you don't believe it, sometimes

470
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 3: you just have to. You got to say that shit

471
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 3: out loud. You got to look in the mirror and

472
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 3: be like, everything is working out for my good even

473
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: if I don't understand it. Though, even if I don't

474
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 3: see it right now, it's working out for my good

475
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 3: because I can honestly say down That's why I'm like,

476
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: I'm trusting this financial journey because everything from losing a

477
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: parent to having the miscarriage, everything. I remember when I

478
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 3: was in the midst of process in the miscarriage, and

479
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 3: I was trying to find purpose and meaning from it,

480
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 3: and I created so many great pieces of content. We

481
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: created episodes on the podcast. I've been able to share

482
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 3: that story with other women. There are women, lady, you

483
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: may be tuning in and that miscarriage episode may have

484
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 3: helped you, And I'm like, okay, all right, God, there's

485
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 3: a bigger purpose. It's bigger than me. It's all about

486
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,959
Speaker 3: divine timing. And so because I know that there are

487
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Speaker 3: instances in the past where it was all working out

488
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: for my good, I'm also embracing the process and trusting

489
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 3: the process for this financial aspect. And y'all just wait

490
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: for the episode. And I'm like, y'all, I hit a MILLI,

491
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Speaker 3: I hit two MILLI, I hit ten MILLI just the

492
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 3: way it was coming. And we're going to replay this

493
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Speaker 3: episode and put the little excerpt excerpt in there and

494
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Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll be able to tell you. Oh, now,

495
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: I see why the millions came when it did, because

496
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: it was all because of divine timing.

497
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Speaker 2: So yes, yes, I love it. And so then that

498
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Speaker 2: takes us to our fourth perspective. Is there something you're

499
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Speaker 2: doing or not doing that's standing in the way of

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00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: your dream? Sometimes it does. Sometimes where the problem. There

501
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: may be times when you are in pursuit of a

502
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: dream and you're slacking off, you're procrastinating, you're avoiding, or

503
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: you are taking the wrong steps like intentionally, like just

504
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: out here, intentionally babotising yourself, right, because maybe you're not

505
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: ready for the success that's going to come when your

506
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Speaker 2: dream is realized. I'm gonna say that again for the

507
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Speaker 2: people in the back. Sometimes we are sabotaging ourselves because

508
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: we are not ready for our dream to be realized.

509
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Speaker 3: I think from the moment of silence after that word

510
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Speaker 3: pastor down, you're over there preaching that was good. That's

511
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: really powerful. I definitely remember being afraid of success, and

512
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 3: a lot of it had to do with being afraid

513
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Speaker 3: of how people would respond to it. The attention I

514
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: get people and their perspectives all that. Oh, that's a word. Wow.

515
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: It also makes me think about sometimes how in addition

516
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: to sabotaging, we lean into insanity. We're doing the same

517
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: shit over and over and you're expecting a different result.

518
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 3: You're really doing the same thing over and over and

519
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: you're expecting something different to happen. And then you're also

520
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 3: not coachable. You're not open to getting feed you're not

521
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 3: open to someone analyzing your process and providing constructive feedback

522
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 3: on what you can do to improve that process, because

523
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: you just want to do what you've always done to

524
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: be comfortable and you don't want to get outside of

525
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 3: your comfort zone. And lady, look, this is not us

526
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 3: preaching as you. I'm really talking to my damn self

527
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: because this is stuff that I undid. Okay, this is

528
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: stuff that I undid myself. Yeah, it's like that, but

529
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 3: this is it's a necessary conversation. Sometimes we do have

530
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 3: to check ourselves and say, hold up, what am I

531
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Speaker 3: doing or not doing? How am I participating in the

532
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 3: outcome of this story? What am I? What am I

533
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 3: doing here? Am I the victor? Am I the victim?

534
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: Am I sabotaging myself? Like asking yourself? Those serious, those

535
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Speaker 3: hard questions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and so then that takes up to the

537
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Speaker 2: fifth perspective. I don't know if y'all are ready for this.

538
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: You all ready done?

539
00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 3: Dun, dun.

540
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Speaker 2: There does not have to be a time limit on

541
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Speaker 2: achieving your dreams. So what does that mean? That means

542
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 2: that you always dreamed of having your college degree, But

543
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 2: here you are at forty five years old, and you've

544
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: lived the whole life at multiple jobs, changed careers. It

545
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 2: is not too late for you to go back to

546
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: school and earn that degree. Maybe you always dreamed of

547
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 2: owning some property. Nobody said that if you reach thirty

548
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: five and you don't own property, you can't ever own property.

549
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: It is not too late. You might be approaching seventy.

550
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Speaker 2: They've never been married, but that's always been your dream.

551
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Speaker 2: It is never too late to find love.

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Speaker 3: Dome dim over air preaching today, y'all. Okay, Dimd's over

553
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: air preaching. I feel like we need to pass the offering,

554
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 3: don't you pass the offering? Played around? So we'll give

555
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 3: us some put some coin in there real quick. There

556
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: we go, right there, y'all go to a hearspace podcast

557
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 3: dot com and click on Patreon to join our Patreon.

558
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 3: So you can get video content see us on video,

559
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 3: but also get the after show and also connect with

560
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 3: us in our slack community. I just want to do

561
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Speaker 3: a quick shout out, don before we dive more into

562
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Speaker 3: this particular perspective. I want to shout out Angela McCree

563
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Speaker 3: a Angela. Angela is one of our sister friend patrons. Hey, girls,

564
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: we appreciate you supporting Angela. And also shout out to

565
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 3: Rachel Jennings. Rachel has been a longtime Patreon supporter and

566
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Speaker 3: Angela joined us recently as a sister friend. So we

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Speaker 3: just want to shout you out real quick. And going

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Speaker 3: back to point number five here, Dom about not having

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Speaker 3: a time limit, I just also want to say, like,

570
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Speaker 3: it's never too late. It's never too late to be

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Speaker 3: what you might have become. So once you stop dreaming

572
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 3: and stop taking action, it's likely not going to happen

573
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 3: because you're not in motion, but it's never too late

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Speaker 3: to do it. I'm looking at this article. I was

575
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Speaker 3: looking at this as you were talking, Dom. Samuel L.

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Speaker 3: Jackson's first big role was in pulp fiction at age

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Speaker 3: forty five, y'all, and I'm sure you've seen some of

578
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Speaker 3: these on social media, forty five, Lucille Ball, I love Lucy.

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Speaker 3: She's starting.

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Speaker 2: I love Lucy at age forty listen. Just because it

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Speaker 2: didn't happen in your twenty yes, I mean that your

582
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: chances are done.

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Speaker 3: In age any age. And I'm so grateful that certain

584
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Speaker 3: things did not happen when I wanted them to happen.

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00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 3: I used to I thought that at eighteen, I wanted

586
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: to have my best selling book and my writing at eighteen, baby,

587
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 3: I would have been calling people today, take that goddamn

588
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 3: book down, take it down, burn it like I just

589
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 3: I didn't have the life experience or the perspective or

590
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Speaker 3: the value that I would have wanted to give in

591
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: a book, right, And so it's never too late. And

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00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: that takes us to number six, y'all. Number six is

593
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Speaker 3: the answers are in the journey and not in the destination.

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Speaker 3: The journey is here for us. The journey is here

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Speaker 3: to show us what we need, the lessons that we

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Speaker 3: need to learn.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: And it kind of makes me think, Dom, if I

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Speaker 3: were to if we were to begin our high school

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Speaker 3: career right you're a freshman, and someone was like, okay, Dom, here,

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Speaker 3: actually I'm going to just give you your your high

602
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 3: school diploma, and you can just you can be ready

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00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 3: to go out into the world. You would, but not

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Speaker 3: you would not be prepared.

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Speaker 6: You need the.

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Speaker 3: Journey, Yes, you need that. Four years. If someone would

607
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 3: have handed you your your doctorate, you wouldn't have been prepared.

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Speaker 3: If someone would have handed me my master's degree without

609
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: doing the work, I wouldn't have been prepared. I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: have been able to show up and offer the value,

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00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 3: offer the expertise, offer the value that this degree and

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Speaker 3: the experience would have given me to sit on the

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Speaker 3: stages that I or stand on the stages that I

614
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Speaker 3: spoke on like I just wouldn't be prepared for it.

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00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 3: So the journey really does have everything we need. And

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Speaker 3: that's something I never mind myself of.

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Speaker 2: I can't even lie if somebody handed me, if somebody

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Speaker 2: had handed me my doctorate then said you had to

619
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Speaker 2: go through that shit, I was taking it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Let me be clear. You can be clearar Let's be clear.

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Speaker 2: While I probably would have specially taken that piece of

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Speaker 2: paper that said you are not officially doctor down mm hm,

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Speaker 2: I would not be doctor down. Yes, somebody probably would have.

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Speaker 2: After years, somebody probably would have called me and said, nope, nope, nope, nope,

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Speaker 2: give it back, give it back. You ain't ready. This

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00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 2: ain't it good? Ain't it?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And so even though the journey was hard mm hmm,

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Speaker 2: and there are times post journey that I feel in

630
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Speaker 2: like I could have skipped all that, the reality is

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Speaker 2: the reality is that I needed that to be where

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Speaker 2: I am now.

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Speaker 3: And dim it gives us a greater appreciation, you know,

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00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 3: like it gives us a greater appreciation for what we've done.

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Speaker 3: But I'm with you. I appreciate the honesty because honestly,

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Speaker 3: my freshman year, if someone would have handed it to me,

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00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 3: I would have been like, oh word, I get to

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Speaker 3: be done with the school shit. Okay back, but what

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00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: I have been prepared? No, I wouldn't have had the

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Speaker 3: tools or I wouldn't have had the knowledge. I think

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Speaker 3: about how you would have shown up, shown up on

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Speaker 3: the podcast as doctor don but not having actually right, like, yes,

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Speaker 3: I got to go through the process. The process is

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Speaker 3: important and the answers that we need are in the journey.

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Speaker 3: And so, lady, wherever you are in life right now,

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Speaker 3: if you was feeling how I was talking about early

647
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Speaker 3: feeling little salty. Could you're like, oh my gosh, these

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Speaker 3: dreams and goals I haven't achieved them. You're not alone.

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Speaker 3: We're in the journey with you.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think people sometimes put podcasters or people they admire

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Speaker 3: or people that you might listen to on a pedal store.

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Speaker 3: But we all have our unique ture is. We all

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Speaker 3: are struggling with something right, we all have something that

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Speaker 3: we're hoping for desiring, and we're all in this together.

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Speaker 3: Don't put, don't put, don't put me on our pedalstal lady,

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Speaker 3: let me tell you because siss be struggling sometimes, sorry

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Speaker 3: to be struggling, just be going through the struggle. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, lady, we are together. We're gonna go ahead

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Speaker 3: and sign off and go hang out with Angela and

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Speaker 3: Rachel on the after show and all of our other patrons.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to all our other patriots as well. We

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Speaker 3: are going to go hang out on the after Show,

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Speaker 3: and so we will see you next week, same time,

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Speaker 3: same place, and every cast.

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Speaker 2: And before before we sign off, let's give you these

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Speaker 2: top these six perspectives that we want you to consider.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes your reality is better than what you dream Sometimes

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Speaker 2: what you thought you wanted isn't in your best interest?

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Speaker 2: Even when you don't understand why things are coming to

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Speaker 2: fruition or not, it's all working out for your good.

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Speaker 2: Is there something you're doing or not doing that's standing

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Speaker 2: in the way of your dreams? There doesn't have to

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Speaker 2: be a time limit on achieving your dreams. And finally,

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Speaker 2: the answers are in the journey and not the destination. Lady,

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Speaker 2: We will see you over in the after show or

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us today. Please note that our show

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Speaker 7: may contain conversations about self help, advice, self empowerment, and

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Speaker 7: a substitute for an ongoing formal relationship with a trained

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Speaker 3: show and before we meet again, repeat after me, I

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Speaker 3: am worthy of what I desire period