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Life-Changing Conversations · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our mama's. Dear mamas, have you ever had
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  a single conversation that changed your life? Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Mama, Mama, she said, and joining is now our American mama's
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  Terry Netteville and Kimberly Burlison. It might be this one. You ever had
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  a single conversation that changed your life. I've actually had a couple, but
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  there's one that was probably the most profound in my life. Was the last
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  conversation I had with my dad. And this was five days before he died.
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  And We're having a conversation and I'm talking about he and his best friend
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  was Terry Bradshaw. I'm asking about his friendship with him, And I said,
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  Dad, did you always dream of playing in the NFL? Because he
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  and Terry did. I love this story and my dad said, to my
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  surprise, no, He said that it was Terry's dream and dreams are contagious,
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  and so I just caught his dream and that opened up a whole noother
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  realm for me. And he said, it's so important for people to have
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  multiple dreams in their lives, and it's okay to attach your dream to someone
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  else's dream and make it your own as well. And for the first time
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  it made me feel like I was free. Wow. Yes, to have
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  someone else's dream, to share a dream with somebody, and to work towards
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  a common dream. It doesn't have to be my idea, my thing,
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  my whatever, because dreams are contagious. Well, and you know that this
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  show is a perfect example of that for you, because this was not your
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  dream to be on American Ground Radio, right, and yet you are and
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  you've totally bought in and this is now my dream. We're going forward.
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  But Terry, this wasn't even your dream. I know. This was something
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  that Lewis and I, well mostly Lewis, but Louis and I kind of
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  came up with as we were publishing our book, bright Spot's Big Country,
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  and we came to you with it, and you said, but then now
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  you've caught in the stream. And then after after Denise passed, you've shared
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  the stream with with Kimberly, and so now all of us are It's dreams
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  are contagious, yes, and and really the goal is to understand and recognize
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  that dreams are amazing, but it's more fun when you bring here people along
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  the way. Yeah, that can that can help it. Yes, that
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  make you better. Yeah. When they have that same dream and you all
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  reach it together, it's just pretty fascinating. And it's no surprise that my
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  conversation that was altered also from our father. You know, he was great
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  about talking to all four of us kids. He just was one of those
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  amazing souls. And but fourth grade, I remember coming to him. I
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  was I was crying. I came home from school and he was like,
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  what's wrong, Terry? And I just started crying, you know when they
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  can tell. And he was like, what is it? Come here and
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  sit right here. So I sat on his lap and he said, what
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  is it? I said, Miss Fridge in front of the whole class.
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  Fourth grade, we were starting fractions, and she sat in front of the
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  whole class, Miss Susan shephard, I need you to scoot your desk by
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  Miss Terry Spinx because she's gonna need help with this. This is before she
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  even introduced what practice was. Yeah, so I thought, wait, am
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  I wait? Am I dumb? I mean, well, I'm not good
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  in math. I'm still not good in math, but I for the first
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  time got very because I was a good student but I did struggle in math.
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  It just stunned me that I was called out and I thought, oh
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  my gosh, she looks at me like I'm dumb and I need a little
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  help. And this girl was one of my best friends. Is gonna help
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  me get through this math? And I remember, I don't remember anything from
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  that day. I think I went blank. I went home, got you
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  know, sat there with dad, and Dad kind of smiled. My dad
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  was very handsome, kind of looked like Michael Land, and he laughed a
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  little bit and he said, Terry, let me tell you something. He
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  said, you have something that that lady will never have. Not all the
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  math problems in the world could give her. What you have. What you
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  have inside of your heart? Is it ability to warm people? People are
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  They warm up to you, They gravitate towards you. You've got this thing
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  about you. You've got a light inside of you. And he said this
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  to all of us. You've got a light inside of you that is so
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  far much greater than IQ. It's greater than whatever grade you get. You're
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  gonna do great in life because you are smart, you're funny, you're fun
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  People trust you and they count on you. He said, you've got that.
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  She doesn't. He said, I feel sorry for her. Don't even
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  worry about this. If you struggle in fractions, we'll get your tutor,
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  we'll get you through math. But what the other thing that you have that's
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  just God given. She didn't have that, and it stuck with me forever.
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  And yes, I still struggle in math. But it was so powerful
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  and coming from a father to a daughter to even let's just say that,
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  he truly like, let's just say that. He didn't believe that, but
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  he said those words. With those words just penetrated inside of my soul.
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  He's pouring into you. Yes, and I from that point on, I
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  thought I felt when I walked into a room, it elevated you. I
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  felt like that people were seeing a light around me because our father made us
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  feel that way. We would walk into church. It was my dad,
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  my mom, and the four of us little ducklings falling behind us. He
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  would tell us in the car, I love when we walk into church together
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  because I know that there's a light. When we walk in, You'll see
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  everybody looking at us. It's because they see our light. That's what he
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  said to us. So as little kids, you picture that you picture yourself
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  and people with you know, you just automatically look to see who's coming through
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  the doors. But in our little minds, oh, they're seeing our lights.
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  That's who we had as our father. Those are pretty good conversations.
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  Yeah, that's very cool. If you like to ask our American Mama's a
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  question, go to our website American ground Radio dot com slash Mama's and click
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  on the ask of the Mama's button. Turn out of Kimberly Brothers and thank
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  you so much. Thank you,