Latest / Rock My Finances / Aftermath: How to Rebuild after religious cult experience by Regina Crosby
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- 1:00Speaker 2: about the zeros, So what is it all about? Let's
- 1:03Speaker 2: find out Now, here's your host and weekly friend, Jennifer jose.
- 1:10Speaker 1: S up back again. Hello, Okay, I am so excited
- 1:16Speaker 1: about today. So Regina actually is my beautiful guest, my
- 1:20Speaker 1: good friend, and she's just got me the voice Liberator.
- 1:23Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's so cool. I need to buy
- 1:25Speaker 1: that orl don't anybody buy that out there, because I'm
- 1:27Speaker 1: gonna try to buy that later today. Of course I
- 1:29Speaker 1: have to learn how to spell liberator. Anyways, I am
- 1:32Speaker 1: so excited today. I as y'all. If you don't know,
- 1:36Speaker 1: go listen to my other podcasts. But I've been through
- 1:38Speaker 1: hell and back, and so when I meet someone for
- 1:41Speaker 1: the heck of it, for God intervention, for the universe,
- 1:45Speaker 1: putting this beautiful woman in my path, I get so excited.
- 1:49Speaker 1: So let me just share with you. I was on
- 1:52Speaker 1: one of those online things when COVID hit, because you're
- 1:55Speaker 1: sitting at your desk and you go on online things
- 1:57Speaker 1: when COVID hits, and we were in this program and
- 2:02Speaker 1: Regina reached out to me and said, are you in finance?
- 2:05Speaker 1: I want to learn more about finance. I'm like, uh yeah,
- 2:08Speaker 1: and by the way, I'm badass at it. And the
- 2:10Speaker 1: guru and if you're a woman, I want to talk
- 2:12Speaker 1: to you. So we like totally connected through this online program.
- 2:17Speaker 1: I was in San Diego at the time, and so
- 2:20Speaker 1: Regina's like, let's meet I'm like, oh, not only do
- 2:23Speaker 1: I get to meet you, but we have drinks and
- 2:25Speaker 1: appetizers and cucktails. Right. So then we met at the
- 2:30Speaker 1: restaurant on the Water, which was amaze balls because it
- 2:33Speaker 1: got me out of my house and learning San Diego
- 2:36Speaker 1: a little bit. You were so real from the moment
- 2:40Speaker 1: that I freaking met you. I think you retired from
- 2:42Speaker 1: a shoot. She's also I'm gonna let her tell you
- 2:44Speaker 1: everything how bad she is. But it was so great
- 2:47Speaker 1: to meet her, and we just clicked immediately. We clicked
- 2:50Speaker 1: like we've been friends ever since, Like I've kidnapped her,
- 2:52Speaker 1: We've gone to Vegas, like like this is it? Like
- 2:56Speaker 1: it's just one of those people that you meet and
- 2:58Speaker 1: you're like, oh, we're gonna be friends for life. You
- 3:00Speaker 1: might hate me a few of the times, I might
- 3:01Speaker 1: hate you, We're gonna be friends for life. So I
- 3:03Speaker 1: want to share with you. She is being very vulnerable today.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Isn't she gorgeous? She's so gorgeous. If you guys are
- 3:11Speaker 1: listening to a podcast. Jump on YouTube for rock my
- 3:14Speaker 1: finances because she is absolutely stunning. So besides that, you're
- 3:19Speaker 1: going to get a great story, You're going to feel
- 3:21Speaker 1: really good, and this is going to be one of
- 3:25Speaker 1: those things that you're going to remember. So I'm looking
- 3:28Speaker 1: forward to it. And since I'm the voice, what am
- 3:31Speaker 1: I liberate? But right? Okay, awesome, Miss Regina diegad? Who
- 3:38Speaker 1: are you? What do you do? Where do you live?
- 3:40Speaker 1: Tell me a little about the basics.
- 3:42Speaker 3: My name is Regina, and i'd meet all you guys.
- 3:44Speaker 3: I recently moved up to North Hollywood became at LA person.
- 3:48Speaker 3: That was a dream that died a long time ago,
- 3:50Speaker 3: so and.
- 3:51Speaker 1: I sparked it. She sparked it. What I do?
- 3:54Speaker 4: I own a photography company and a corporate production company.
- 3:58Speaker 1: So I don't even know what that means you, but
- 4:00Speaker 1: that's okay.
- 4:00Speaker 3: So I make people look pretty and help people make
- 4:03Speaker 3: money off of looking pretty.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Oh, we like money. We like money businesses, that's what
- 4:08Speaker 1: I do, commercials, all that stuff. Like I can tell you.
- 4:13Speaker 1: She flies all over and does these shoots. I'm like,
- 4:15Speaker 1: where are you going? I don't know, I'm going to
- 4:16Speaker 1: what Arizona was one.
- 4:19Speaker 4: I've gone to Europe, I've gone Mexico, I've gone.
- 4:22Speaker 1: All over this, all over the place, and oh I'm
- 4:25Speaker 1: shooting this, I'm shooting that. I'm like, oh my god,
- 4:26Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Can I like just carry your tripod
- 4:29Speaker 1: or something, because I don't know what hell I'm doing,
- 4:31Speaker 1: but it's so great. So I just love hearing about
- 4:34Speaker 1: everything that she's doing and then the production company with
- 4:37Speaker 1: commercials and helping businesses and she's crazy busy, but it's
- 4:42Speaker 1: really fun to connect with her on a human level. Yes,
- 4:45Speaker 1: I love, love love it. So tell me a little
- 4:48Speaker 1: bit about We met around money because we like finance
- 4:53Speaker 1: and we like money, right, and so she's done a
- 4:55Speaker 1: lot of my coaching stuff. She's done a lot of
- 4:57Speaker 1: my mindset around money. Tell me one thing that you
- 5:00Speaker 1: learned maybe from me or the mindset around money, something
- 5:03Speaker 1: that maybe shifted you a little bit. And I know
- 5:05Speaker 1: I'm throwing you on the spot right here to think
- 5:08Speaker 1: I do that.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Connecting feelings with money, oh the bars, because yeah, I was.
- 5:14Speaker 4: Very all jacked up in that arena.
- 5:17Speaker 3: So just like little shows like feelings and the connection
- 5:20Speaker 3: to it and making sure you're bringing fun into the mix.
- 5:23Speaker 1: But also, yeah, like not just being as like rigid.
- 5:27Speaker 1: I love that, So I'm going to change those words
- 5:29Speaker 1: because that's what I do. The rigid means really masculine,
- 5:32Speaker 1: and jacked up means the masculine way as well. So
- 5:35Speaker 1: women step into this financial services industry and we think
- 5:39Speaker 1: that we're jacked up and we feel like we're crazy
- 5:42Speaker 1: because their mind works differently than we do. When we
- 5:46Speaker 1: look at something, we look at the spider web of
- 5:49Speaker 1: how if I do a how's it going to affect
- 5:53Speaker 1: everyone else in my life and me in the future.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Men don't do that. They're amazing. They're great at category categorizing.
- 5:59Speaker 1: They're great at just doing one thing at one time
- 6:02Speaker 1: and dealing with that one thing. We don't do that,
- 6:05Speaker 1: So we have to think about money differently. So I
- 6:08Speaker 1: love that you fell right into my little what's my
- 6:11Speaker 1: tagline is the F word baby feelings. That is what
- 6:15Speaker 1: we have to look at, is our feelings around money.
- 6:17Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Thank you so much, thank you. Hello come,
- 6:21Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love her. She's so awesome. So
- 6:23Speaker 1: now one more little secret. We went to this convention
- 6:27Speaker 1: a while back and they kind of had to drag
- 6:29Speaker 1: us off the dance floor because Regina and I were
- 6:31Speaker 1: like the last ones on the freaking dance floor without alcohol.
- 6:35Speaker 1: I might mind you, I don't need we don't need
- 6:37Speaker 1: the alcohol. We do need the music and the floor.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Like it was hilarious. Everybody's all in these couples and
- 6:42Speaker 1: they're all doing all this professional stuff and we're like, damn,
- 6:45Speaker 1: We're like out there like nope, we don't care. We
- 6:48Speaker 1: don't care. We're getting our groove on. It was so fun.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 6:51Speaker 1: So I just told her we have to go dancing again.
- 6:53Speaker 1: So she's got a spot here in La that We're
- 6:55Speaker 1: going to go to a speakeasy and go dancing. I
- 6:56Speaker 1: can't wait. I love it. Okay, tell me a little
- 7:00Speaker 1: bit about your childhood growing up, mom, dad, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about that.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Man, just a little so I'm going to make it
- 7:08Speaker 3: really short and simple, but you go. Growing up, I
- 7:12Speaker 3: had both parents home, Okay, However, I had like no
- 7:16Speaker 3: relationship with my dad.
- 7:19Speaker 1: With my mom.
- 7:19Speaker 3: When I would try to speak up, it was like
- 7:22Speaker 3: not my child, and just really high extreme expectations, not extreme,
- 7:26Speaker 3: but just expectations for you know, someone being really young,
- 7:30Speaker 3: and I was made fun a lot of but I
- 7:33Speaker 3: would never ever let anyone know it hurt me.
- 7:36Speaker 4: I was like, we're going to go with the flu
- 7:37Speaker 4: with this whatever.
- 7:38Speaker 3: So you know, I felt like I kind of created
- 7:41Speaker 3: my own world because you know, at home, I couldn't
- 7:45Speaker 3: really show up in public.
- 7:48Speaker 1: I did, but it was like I was the weird one.
- 7:50Speaker 3: But then when I tried to acclimate to being the
- 7:52Speaker 3: cool one, you know, dating the jock and being the
- 7:54Speaker 3: cool kind of like this sucks, Like being cool like sucked.
- 7:57Speaker 1: It was so like you had.
- 7:58Speaker 3: To like be a certain I was like, this is
- 8:00Speaker 3: not me, and so yeah it was. I mean I
- 8:04Speaker 3: had fun in my own right. I also knew how
- 8:07Speaker 3: to just be intentional if I wanted to meet people,
- 8:10Speaker 3: wanted to build relationships, so I knew how to go
- 8:12Speaker 3: and get what I wanted. But I also there's just
- 8:15Speaker 3: a lot of like communication and like emotional aspects that
- 8:20Speaker 3: were just not nurtured. So it was just like, okay, whatever,
- 8:25Speaker 3: you figure it out and.
- 8:26Speaker 1: You just do what you do what you gotta do
- 8:28Speaker 1: and to get through.
- 8:29Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:30Speaker 1: So okay, so I'm hearing again my words. You tell
- 8:34Speaker 1: me if I'm crazy. So when you I love that.
- 8:38Speaker 1: You said that you created your own little world to
- 8:40Speaker 1: be able to survive. So that means patterns. Yeah, okay,
- 8:45Speaker 1: And so didn't know your dad?
- 8:51Speaker 3: Yeah, like my dad was like okay, literally, my dad
- 8:53Speaker 3: would just be like I'd wear a cute skirt and
- 8:54Speaker 3: I didn't know that I was an attractive young girl.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Like there was just no communication. She still doesn't know
- 8:59Speaker 1: how attractive.
- 9:00Speaker 3: There's like, you know, I was just developed and tall.
- 9:04Speaker 1: I didn't know.
- 9:04Speaker 4: I just like whatever.
- 9:06Speaker 3: And so whenever i'd like wear a cute skirt, my
- 9:08Speaker 3: dad would go nuts and I'm like, dude, chill out.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Like crazy, like what is wrong with you? And I'm like,
- 9:15Speaker 1: okay whatever, And that was his Did you get to
- 9:17Speaker 1: wear the skirt?
- 9:18Speaker 3: No?
- 9:19Speaker 1: Oh so you said, all right, I'm changing the skirt whatever.
- 9:22Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, yeah, anyways, it was just.
- 9:25Speaker 1: But you didn't communication. Well why Yeah, they didn't tell
- 9:30Speaker 1: me you love me, dammit. Okay they didn't do that
- 9:36Speaker 1: back then. No, yeah, anyways, yeah they did not do that.
- 9:38Speaker 1: But oh my god, I love that. Okay. So so
- 9:44Speaker 1: you look my words again, so you correct me. You
- 9:47Speaker 1: learned how to stifle your voice. Stifle is like a
- 9:51Speaker 1: old word, but you learned how to suppress it or
- 9:54Speaker 1: change it to fit into wherever you're at, or just
- 9:57Speaker 1: move on.
- 9:59Speaker 4: I learned and how to just figure stuff.
- 10:02Speaker 1: Out to make everyone happy, to be able to move
- 10:07Speaker 1: forward to.
- 10:10Speaker 4: I guess make people happy.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I don't know if I was trying to make people happy.
- 10:13Speaker 4: I think I was just trying to.
- 10:14Speaker 1: You're not a people pleaser.
- 10:17Speaker 3: I was people pleaser, but really, but like, I don't know,
- 10:22Speaker 3: I was just like, Okay, okay, if I'm not getting
- 10:24Speaker 3: my needs met, I have to figure out.
- 10:25Speaker 1: At least you knew you had needs. Yeah, so that's
- 10:28Speaker 1: pretty good for being young and knowing that you have
- 10:30Speaker 1: I'm not getting my ship met, and I'm gonna move
- 10:32Speaker 1: on and I'm gonna do something different to get that met. Yeah.
- 10:35Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Okay, So childhood parents
- 10:40Speaker 1: still together.
- 10:41Speaker 4: You're still married.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Okay, there's a whole nother story there another podcast. We'll
- 10:45Speaker 1: talk about that. Okay, So they're still married, and now
- 10:48Speaker 1: who are you inside the family? Do you have a
- 10:51Speaker 1: voice yet?
- 10:52Speaker 4: Do I have a voice?
- 10:54Speaker 1: I'm very I mean it was cool, so.
- 10:57Speaker 4: And call it now.
- 10:58Speaker 3: After college I was able to to talk to my
- 11:00Speaker 3: dad and just kind of shoot straight with him, like dude,
- 11:02Speaker 3: like you don't call me, you don't even ask how
- 11:04Speaker 3: I'm doing, Like you know, you say you want this,
- 11:07Speaker 3: you know I have like a Christian background, like you
- 11:09Speaker 3: want this godly life.
- 11:10Speaker 4: I'm like I don't want that. I was like your
- 11:12Speaker 4: example was horrible, you know.
- 11:13Speaker 3: So I just like we've just like I can be
- 11:16Speaker 3: very direct with him and it's like we can fight
- 11:18Speaker 3: and then like we're fine.
- 11:20Speaker 1: So I love that.
- 11:21Speaker 3: And then with my mom, it's more of like now
- 11:23Speaker 3: like oh, like loving yourself and like speak up and
- 11:25Speaker 3: great boundaries, like I'm the kid that's like confrontational, but
- 11:31Speaker 3: like I love them.
- 11:32Speaker 1: And then like they're just like that's just Regina. How
- 11:36Speaker 1: often do you talk to them?
- 11:37Speaker 3: I talk to my mom like every week, ok, couple
- 11:40Speaker 3: of times. My dad he's always in his own dad.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's okay, awesome. I love that. Great boundaries.
- 11:49Speaker 1: I remember doing that to my mom was like I
- 11:50Speaker 1: took her to alan On when I was in high school.
- 11:53Speaker 1: I'm like, I am over this. I took my home
- 11:54Speaker 1: to alan On. She started setting boundaries, shit started changing.
- 11:58Speaker 1: It was crazy. And then she's like, oh, you just
- 12:00Speaker 1: gotta get out because you were just creating a way
- 12:02Speaker 1: to trouble. You just gotta get out. So I moved
- 12:05Speaker 1: out as soon as I graduate seventeen. Like She's like
- 12:07Speaker 1: I did too.
- 12:09Speaker 4: I was like out, yeah, yeah, I love.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I was like, like I do have work. I love working. Yeah,
- 12:16Speaker 1: me too. I'm like with my own money, my own yeah.
- 12:19Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so Luna literally loves Regina,
- 12:24Speaker 1: like Luna has been bugging her this whole time since
- 12:26Speaker 1: she got in. I'm so sorry. So if I show
- 12:28Speaker 1: her in front of the camera, say hello, Luna, say hello, Okay,
- 12:31Speaker 1: now go pay my goodness. Okay, she's never done that
- 12:34Speaker 1: on a podcast. She loves you. Okay, So Luna's my cat,
- 12:39Speaker 1: y'all the podcasters. I just picked up my hairy gray
- 12:42Speaker 1: cat and showed her in front of the video because
- 12:45Speaker 1: she thinks she's on zoom. Okay. So now I love that.
- 12:49Speaker 1: I love that. So now you have your your your parents,
- 12:52Speaker 1: now speaking your voice. Now let's go back to high school.
- 12:55Speaker 1: You said you didn't fit in. How was that? So?
- 12:59Speaker 1: I was like my.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Own person, Like, I mean, I always had friends because
- 13:03Speaker 3: I love I love people like I always have. So
- 13:05Speaker 3: and I played sports so I had my softball sports.
- 13:08Speaker 3: I played softball and volleyball, so I had my softball girls.
- 13:11Speaker 3: But then also some of those girls I went to
- 13:13Speaker 3: elementary school, so I already known them. I just went
- 13:16Speaker 3: to a private school for middle school, and then you know, I.
- 13:20Speaker 4: Would just meet everyone.
- 13:20Speaker 3: So I was friends with with people. But when it
- 13:23Speaker 3: came to like, you know how that's like the clique.
- 13:25Speaker 3: I am not a clique person, Like I don't like that, Like.
- 13:28Speaker 1: You did not know high school as cliques, No, I know, like, yeah,
- 13:31Speaker 1: high school is cliques. So yeah, so I'm like, you know,
- 13:34Speaker 1: I had friends.
- 13:34Speaker 3: You know, there are certain people like that would make
- 13:37Speaker 3: fun of me, which is so sad, like that perspect
- 13:39Speaker 3: end up dying. He would like sit across from me
- 13:42Speaker 3: in science and just talk so much crap like what like.
- 13:46Speaker 4: I don't remember, but it was just mean and cool.
- 13:48Speaker 1: What like what can I make fun of you about?
- 13:50Speaker 4: I don't know. I was a nerd too, so oh you.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Nerds, like you're smart, so jealousey actually really liked you
- 13:55Speaker 1: whatever anyways, Okay.
- 13:57Speaker 3: So it just was like okay, whatever, So I don't know,
- 13:59Speaker 3: I just like I just I did.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Me like I knew at a.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Pretty young age.
- 14:06Speaker 3: The whole cool crowd, cool crowd from like you know whatever.
- 14:09Speaker 3: I just was like, that's not me, Like I'm sorry,
- 14:12Speaker 3: but I'm not this like will be and okay, so
- 14:17Speaker 3: how do we just show up and navigate and so whatever.
- 14:21Speaker 4: That's how I did it.
- 14:22Speaker 1: All right, stepping into graduating high school. Any relationships in
- 14:27Speaker 1: your life, any love relationships?
- 14:29Speaker 3: I dated just throughout every year at a point, Oh,
- 14:33Speaker 3: She's like like that was quiet, y'all, but she had
- 14:36Speaker 3: a man every year.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Okay, yeah I did that.
- 14:39Speaker 4: What sports?
- 14:41Speaker 3: My mom always made sure it was doing good in school.
- 14:43Speaker 3: At one point I wasn't, so she pulled me out.
- 14:45Speaker 3: So I went to a smaller school where I finished
- 14:48Speaker 3: college at like high school. I was doing high school
- 14:50Speaker 3: and college at the same time.
- 14:51Speaker 1: So oh that was so smart. Yeah.
- 14:53Speaker 3: So like my mom was like, no, like you're this
- 14:56Speaker 3: is I was in a public school, so she took
- 14:57Speaker 3: me to a smaller one. So got you know, by
- 14:59Speaker 3: the I went to College of as sophomore.
- 15:01Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Yeah, like school nerd my own little
- 15:05Speaker 1: world whatever, did the dating thing and.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Just like did me had friends my mom knew and
- 15:13Speaker 3: stuff been and be like yeah, you don't need me
- 15:14Speaker 3: spending time with this girl.
- 15:15Speaker 1: So she she was she.
- 15:17Speaker 3: Was intentional, which I am grateful in that regard, because
- 15:20Speaker 3: there'd be people that I would get involved with that
- 15:22Speaker 3: just weren't like.
- 15:24Speaker 4: The path wasn't good.
- 15:25Speaker 1: So she did it in.
- 15:26Speaker 3: A very like, not like overbearing way, because she spent
- 15:30Speaker 3: a lot more of her energy on my sister, who
- 15:33Speaker 3: took a lot more work. So like with me, like
- 15:36Speaker 3: I wasn't as much work, but I still had needs.
- 15:40Speaker 1: And did she make decisions for you.
- 15:46Speaker 4: When it came to like basic stuff like school.
- 15:49Speaker 3: When I went to public school, that was my decision, okay,
- 15:51Speaker 3: but like school, basic things like that.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Yeah, So did you learn how to make decisions for
- 15:58Speaker 1: yourself and fall on your ass and pick yourself up?
- 16:04Speaker 1: I feel like going to high school, well that like
- 16:08Speaker 1: that was a part of that. I mean I played.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Sports, but there wasn't too much of that. It was
- 16:14Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, like I just I don't know.
- 16:18Speaker 3: I just did things.
- 16:20Speaker 1: We just did what you were tru to do or
- 16:22Speaker 1: got in trouble. What's the worst thing you did in
- 16:24Speaker 1: high school?
- 16:25Speaker 4: I would I like, I think I like ditch class
- 16:27Speaker 4: for like a month.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Well the teacher was like a jerk, and I like
- 16:32Speaker 3: threw it back in his space.
- 16:34Speaker 4: And then my mom found out.
- 16:35Speaker 1: She's like what is this?
- 16:36Speaker 4: And I was like I don't like him, and you
- 16:39Speaker 4: was just like not okay with it?
- 16:41Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 16:42Speaker 4: I mean that's as bad as.
- 16:43Speaker 1: That's a bad Okay, I love it. Okay. So now
- 16:45Speaker 1: moving on to college. You went to college.
- 16:47Speaker 4: Went to college?
- 16:47Speaker 1: Where'd you go? Okay? Oh okay, I didn't even know that. Okay, Yeah,
- 16:53Speaker 1: and how was that for you? Fun? It was great?
- 16:56Speaker 4: Like I had my girls, my roommates and call.
- 17:01Speaker 3: I joined a little bit of clubs. The only thing
- 17:04Speaker 3: is I was too young. I was seventeen. Yeah, so
- 17:07Speaker 3: I'm like I was a d D which I was
- 17:09Speaker 3: the Dedidard driver forever.
- 17:11Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, this saw. I mean, of course I could.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Drink, but like I just didn't like I was never
- 17:18Speaker 3: like this bad party person.
- 17:20Speaker 4: But I do like to have fun. But I just,
- 17:22Speaker 4: you know, whatever, So I was fair. I mean, I
- 17:24Speaker 4: went to school full time, probably worked full time at
- 17:27Speaker 4: the same time.
- 17:28Speaker 3: It's another relationship and just very much like this is
- 17:32Speaker 3: what I want to accomplish, do like very likely, so
- 17:35Speaker 3: very goal oriental, very goal orientistic, right, and then I
- 17:39Speaker 3: like met this woman that I was working with. But
- 17:42Speaker 3: before that, like I ran into this church because I
- 17:46Speaker 3: was like kind of visiting churches whatever. I don't think
- 17:47Speaker 3: churches are friendly, to be honest with you, but whatever.
- 17:50Speaker 1: So because they're cliquie. Yeah, high school just fine. So
- 17:54Speaker 1: the way you grew up and go back to religion,
- 17:57Speaker 1: you grew up as in religion in and growing up
- 18:01Speaker 1: and yeah we did church, okay, So you did church
- 18:03Speaker 1: on a regular basis growing up. Okay, So so you
- 18:05Speaker 1: were looking for churches. So I was looking for a church.
- 18:07Speaker 3: I was like I want to, you know, do this
- 18:09Speaker 3: goth thing whatever, like but for myself not you know whatever.
- 18:13Speaker 3: So I remember visiting one church and just like this
- 18:16Speaker 3: church is weird, like it just like like I was
- 18:19Speaker 3: not denominational, so all the other stuff don't really care about.
- 18:23Speaker 4: And so I was like, oh, this church is weird.
- 18:24Speaker 3: So I didn't go back, but I was working and
- 18:26Speaker 3: one of the goals went there, which I didn't make
- 18:28Speaker 3: the connection at the time, and she was at the time,
- 18:32Speaker 3: I was in a relationship and I kind of was,
- 18:35Speaker 3: you know, setting up boundaries and you know, he was
- 18:38Speaker 3: bucking and we had the opportunity to go on a
- 18:41Speaker 3: cruise and I.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Didn't want to go. No, I didn't want to go.
- 18:44Speaker 1: And she's like, you know, I had.
- 18:46Speaker 3: A child at seventeen and if you you know, I
- 18:49Speaker 3: really would advise you not to go, you know, you
- 18:52Speaker 3: know whatever. So I kind of was grateful, like, you know,
- 18:54Speaker 3: just sharing that.
- 18:55Speaker 4: You know.
- 18:56Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not going to go, and she
- 18:57Speaker 3: like invited me in her home. And then now she's like, oh,
- 19:00Speaker 3: come to my church. And she has like these weird interns.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Not like they're weird, but I'm like, okay, that's weird.
- 19:04Speaker 3: They're like in their twenties. Why the hell are they like,
- 19:09Speaker 3: like this is weird, not necessarily following her around, but
- 19:11Speaker 3: like why aren't they working or why aren't they in
- 19:15Speaker 3: corporate or just in you know this is that was
- 19:18Speaker 3: just my thought. Okay, So that was like that connection
- 19:22Speaker 3: to then finding this church now that I found myself
- 19:26Speaker 3: back at And yeah.
- 19:29Speaker 1: So you started going to the church I did, and
- 19:35Speaker 1: working with the lady who introduced you to the church.
- 19:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I was working at a step at a company
- 19:39Speaker 3: with her. Yeah, so how often did you see the
- 19:41Speaker 3: lady at work?
- 19:42Speaker 1: Whenever we'd have ships. I don't know, okay. And then
- 19:45Speaker 1: how often did you go to the church, And was
- 19:48Speaker 1: it non denominational as well?
- 19:50Speaker 3: No, it was like some it was started by a
- 19:52Speaker 3: woman for square or whatever. So yeah, I'm like, okay, cool, whatever,
- 19:57Speaker 3: basics are down. So I didn't really think too much
- 19:59Speaker 3: into it. I still thought like some of the things
- 20:01Speaker 3: that were there were just weird, Like what the intern thing,
- 20:05Speaker 3: just the way they would speak on the stage. I
- 20:07Speaker 3: thought it was just weird. And I was like, okay,
- 20:10Speaker 3: like just weird. So yeah, she introduced me to some
- 20:13Speaker 3: of the other young adults there and just kind of
- 20:15Speaker 3: slowly like bought that community aspect.
- 20:19Speaker 1: And was it a lot of young people or was
- 20:21Speaker 1: it all ages when you would go to like I'm
- 20:24Speaker 1: thinking church Sunday service. Yeah, No, I feel like it
- 20:27Speaker 1: was a good about young people, okay. And was that weird?
- 20:31Speaker 1: I liked it. I was like, okay, cool, young your
- 20:34Speaker 1: vibe whatever. There.
- 20:36Speaker 3: There was not a big emphasis on higher education, and
- 20:40Speaker 3: that was something that when I look back, is very
- 20:45Speaker 3: important for Oh this doesn't sound mean, but like the
- 20:48Speaker 3: people I want to spend time with because it just
- 20:50Speaker 3: brings a different like dynamic to the table. Absolutely does
- 20:53Speaker 3: and that was something that I.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Noticed, but yeah, I just it didn't trigger your flag.
- 21:02Speaker 1: I didn't trigger yet, Okay. But when it came to.
- 21:05Speaker 3: Stuff from the pool pit and like the like be
- 21:09Speaker 3: like not having an education, was almost like you don't
- 21:12Speaker 3: need that, I'm.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Like, so it's actually opposite. Yeah, may me two things? Yeah,
- 21:16Speaker 1: the opposite. And I'm like that's kind of weird. Okay, okay,
- 21:21Speaker 1: And then why did you I want to go you
- 21:23Speaker 1: know my F word feelings, yep, I want to go
- 21:26Speaker 1: down to the feelings of you already had some flags
- 21:30Speaker 1: if this is weird, this is not the normal church
- 21:32Speaker 1: environment that you grew up with. They're saying different things
- 21:35Speaker 1: that your ideals are education and they're not what kept
- 21:39Speaker 1: you there or kept you going back? What was the
- 21:42Speaker 1: feeling that you were attracted to?
- 21:44Speaker 3: So one was I was I think I had broken
- 21:48Speaker 3: up what the guy I was with, and so I
- 21:50Speaker 3: was like wanting.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Vulnerable God and healing and like love, chickshit, chickshit. I
- 21:57Speaker 1: just want to be loved by someone. I always say,
- 21:59Speaker 1: I just want to and like so it was like,
- 22:02Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, okay, I need to be healed.
- 22:04Speaker 3: Okay, pause. Number one, I was fine for studying a boundary.
- 22:08Speaker 3: There was no healing that I needed. I just need
- 22:10Speaker 3: to keep going and moving on and knowing, Okay, someone
- 22:12Speaker 3: can't respect your boundaries, then you move on.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Yes, So that was not wrong. And then two, I think.
- 22:17Speaker 3: For me, having the community was like fun, Like I
- 22:20Speaker 3: had my college girls, which my college girls, like you
- 22:22Speaker 3: just disappeared.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I was like, girl, let me tell you what haven't.
- 22:25Speaker 3: But I think there was an element that I liked
- 22:29Speaker 3: with that in terms of the people, because.
- 22:32Speaker 1: They had things to do all the time. They were
- 22:33Speaker 1: keeping you guys busy. Yeah, so there was that.
- 22:35Speaker 3: And then with school, like I was always a gangster
- 22:37Speaker 3: at school, like I can, like I just know how
- 22:40Speaker 3: to get stuff done right.
- 22:41Speaker 1: So you could because your mom kept you on task,
- 22:45Speaker 1: and so you could study probably half the time that
- 22:47Speaker 1: everybody else had to in order to be a past class.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Do what I gotta do? Yeah, yeah, okay, which I
- 22:51Speaker 1: already know that she's extremely smart, y'all, So I already
- 22:54Speaker 1: know that. Okay, So what type of did you spend
- 23:00Speaker 1: with your college girls versus your church people? And that's
- 23:03Speaker 1: not I mean, that's my words. Again, I just feel
- 23:06Speaker 1: like it was oh my gosh, fifty to fifty, Like,
- 23:11Speaker 1: did you start pulling away and spending more time at church?
- 23:13Speaker 3: I feel like I started pulled. I started to pull
- 23:15Speaker 3: away and spend more time at church.
- 23:16Speaker 4: I found a way too. There was an internship I
- 23:19Speaker 4: did do for school credit, so I.
- 23:20Speaker 3: Found a way to couple that with one of the
- 23:24Speaker 3: church programs. So yeah, I started going in that direction more.
- 23:29Speaker 3: And then with the girls at school, like you know, one.
- 23:35Speaker 4: I wasn't dating.
- 23:36Speaker 3: I stopped dating, so like yeah, so I just was
- 23:38Speaker 3: like I started to kind of just separate and go
- 23:41Speaker 3: more towards the church vibe.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Do we know why if you look back at your
- 23:45Speaker 1: feelings at that time, because I think it was more
- 23:49Speaker 1: of like community, okay, And that's why we have gangs,
- 23:53Speaker 1: That's why we have marriages, that's why we have sports,
- 23:58Speaker 1: that's why, like we all create community. Okay, So going
- 24:02Speaker 1: to the community. So now leaving the and you didn't
- 24:05Speaker 1: want to party anyways, right, college girls are probably partying.
- 24:09Speaker 3: Yeah, Like we had parties that are placed, which that
- 24:11Speaker 3: was fine. And I was becoming more religious, so now
- 24:13Speaker 3: throw that crap in the mix, and now you're.
- 24:16Speaker 4: Like you have to be holy.
- 24:18Speaker 1: So it was just like like it was like I
- 24:20Speaker 1: was going.
- 24:21Speaker 3: This way, you know school, is that when I look back,
- 24:24Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with partying.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, don't think like that's a.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Part of like the process and like being in college
- 24:31Speaker 3: and having fun and building relationships and stories and memories
- 24:35Speaker 3: and so anyway.
- 24:37Speaker 1: So going to the church leaving that part behind, give
- 24:44Speaker 1: me an experience of anytime that you're there in that community.
- 24:49Speaker 1: What did you feel like, what maybe thoughts that maybe
- 24:55Speaker 1: have shifted for you compared to growing up in the church.
- 25:00Speaker 4: Okay, what do you mean?
- 25:01Speaker 1: Like you went to church your whole life, right, so
- 25:03Speaker 1: why is this different?
- 25:05Speaker 4: I think for me it was like my decision to
- 25:07Speaker 4: make it my own faith and not my parents because
- 25:09Speaker 4: I went because my parents would go like I like
- 25:12Speaker 4: care like it was glad you're a kid, right, And
- 25:15Speaker 4: so I was like, okay, this, so now you're making
- 25:17Speaker 4: your own choice, right, And I'm like trying to learn
- 25:19Speaker 4: about God?
- 25:20Speaker 1: And what did you learn differently than what you knew before?
- 25:24Speaker 3: I think I learned more of an authoritative God, but
- 25:27Speaker 3: even more so.
- 25:30Speaker 1: So authoritative meaning telling you exactly what to do, think, believe, eat, drink, sleep, judge, shame,
- 25:37Speaker 1: judge shame. Tell me more about that. What would they
- 25:40Speaker 1: judge someone on?
- 25:41Speaker 3: Well, I mean it was a very I mean you
- 25:44Speaker 3: had the pastor from the pool bit saying things like
- 25:47Speaker 3: I'm very controlling or like taking people's experiences and sharing
- 25:51Speaker 3: them from the stage and then saying because they didn't
- 25:54Speaker 3: follow God, left.
- 25:55Speaker 1: The will of God.
- 25:56Speaker 3: That left the will of God, this is why their
- 25:58Speaker 3: life has now been destroyed.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Right. So it was like a lot of like.
- 26:02Speaker 3: Reiterations from the stage happening that were being you know, shared, and.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I'm like here like trying to.
- 26:08Speaker 3: Learn and wanting to genuinely like follow God, and so
- 26:13Speaker 3: it just.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Like was the perfect brainwash. Yeah, I'm gonna say it, brainwash, y'all. Okay,
- 26:24Speaker 1: So how long? Oh my god, I'm like, oh my god,
- 26:28Speaker 1: he actually said that. Are you kidding me? Yeah? Okay,
- 26:32Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's much more that they said, Okay,
- 26:34Speaker 1: and we want to hear it, like because we want
- 26:37Speaker 1: to understand. So you're doing that for how long? Like
- 26:40Speaker 1: every Sunday? I mean I grew up in church too
- 26:43Speaker 1: with my friend Sherry, and we did Wednesday Night Missionet's,
- 26:48Speaker 1: Friday Night Youth group, Saturday night church Sunday morning, all
- 26:52Speaker 1: day church, come back for Sunday evening.
- 26:54Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so oh there's a little best operation. So
- 26:57Speaker 3: there was me finishing up college, and then there was
- 26:59Speaker 3: after college, right, So after college, I was going to
- 27:04Speaker 3: do their more professional one because I'm like, okay, college degree,
- 27:07Speaker 3: it's time to like step into that that place.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Right.
- 27:10Speaker 4: I was like nineteen when I finished collegey what about
- 27:16Speaker 4: I'm like time to keep going.
- 27:18Speaker 3: Like I'm like, I've always wanted to be an adult
- 27:20Speaker 3: as well, Well, y'are now problem and so okay, so
- 27:25Speaker 3: that's happening. And you know, the leaders wanted me to
- 27:29Speaker 3: do this program that was full time, so I mean
- 27:32Speaker 3: Monday through Sunday, the program at the church that intern
- 27:36Speaker 3: the internship.
- 27:37Speaker 1: This is nothing. They're weird, yes, okay, and so you
- 27:41Speaker 1: have rent right.
- 27:42Speaker 4: Oh that's their story.
- 27:44Speaker 3: So okay, So I'm doing this program and I originally
- 27:51Speaker 3: told them I didn't apply for it, and then you
- 27:54Speaker 3: had like other women leaders, this is what you're supposed
- 27:58Speaker 3: to do.
- 27:58Speaker 4: This is God's will for you. And I'm like, I don't.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Want to do this, like like I didn't want to
- 28:04Speaker 1: do it.
- 28:04Speaker 3: I'm like, I like, I'm an adultg I need to
- 28:08Speaker 3: do this, you know. And so I get a call
- 28:10Speaker 3: You've been accepted, and.
- 28:11Speaker 1: I'm like, I by right, and I'm like they did
- 28:16Speaker 1: for you. This is you know, God trying to get
- 28:19Speaker 1: me to do this.
- 28:20Speaker 4: So like now I'm like going back and forth.
- 28:23Speaker 3: Can flipping inside, you know, because if you miss the
- 28:25Speaker 3: will of God, like it can ruin your life.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Of course, he just said the other guy.
- 28:30Speaker 3: So I'm over here like conflicted because I want to
- 28:33Speaker 3: but I don't want to do this for I'm just
- 28:35Speaker 3: like it's full time. I'm out of college, Like these
- 28:39Speaker 3: are kids that are applying for it.
- 28:41Speaker 4: Anyways, I go back and I tell them, Okay, I'll
- 28:43Speaker 4: do it.
- 28:44Speaker 3: Why I'm like, I think this is what God wants
- 28:47Speaker 3: me to do, but I don't want to do it.
- 28:50Speaker 1: And that was kind of like.
- 28:51Speaker 3: A part of a consistent feeling I'd have where I
- 28:53Speaker 3: don't want to do something, and then it's like you
- 28:56Speaker 3: have these feelings that God wants you to do it
- 28:58Speaker 3: and you want to obey, and it's like, bitch.
- 29:02Speaker 1: If you don't want to do something, you don't have
- 29:03Speaker 1: to do anything. Now, Okay, So back then, were you okay,
- 29:09Speaker 1: let me equate God wants you to do it by
- 29:12Speaker 1: fitting in with the community as well, Like you're gonna write,
- 29:16Speaker 1: you're gonna disappoint the entire community, You're gonna get scorched
- 29:19Speaker 1: from the pulpit, and all of that's gonna happen if
- 29:23Speaker 1: you don't follow what you think or what they're telling you.
- 29:26Speaker 1: God wants you to do, right.
- 29:27Speaker 3: But okay, all that part is more of a psychological
- 29:31Speaker 3: total process at that point.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have no idea, you're thinking this. Yeah,
- 29:35Speaker 1: I have no idea, you're thinking this. So so here
- 29:37Speaker 1: I go.
- 29:38Speaker 3: They're on retreat crying because you're talking about submission, like
- 29:42Speaker 3: anyways submission.
- 29:44Speaker 1: No, no, no, there's no anyways submission meaning I need
- 29:47Speaker 1: to submit to your will.
- 29:48Speaker 4: God's will.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Oh fuck? Oh all right God, okay, okay, okay, good y'all.
- 29:56Speaker 3: So now like I'm in this world, everyone's like super young.
- 29:59Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, so I still had like student loans,
- 30:02Speaker 3: I had a car, no, and I had to pay
- 30:05Speaker 3: I had to raise money to do this, So I
- 30:08Speaker 3: learned how to fund raise. I mean, I was providing
- 30:12Speaker 3: media services like so you're like marketing advertising pieces are
- 30:17Speaker 3: cleaning full like cleaning like buildings, watching kids like all
- 30:23Speaker 3: the physical stuff.
- 30:24Speaker 4: But having to pay them.
- 30:26Speaker 1: And it wasn't just me, it's all the people of course.
- 30:28Speaker 4: So I'm like, okay, you know this is for God.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Meanwhile, I'm like like I don't want to do this,
- 30:34Speaker 3: like it was so you're battling yourself. Yeah, So it
- 30:36Speaker 3: was like I'm cleaning windows and I'm like blow like
- 30:40Speaker 3: trying to put myself out of my misery by like
- 30:42Speaker 3: listening to music or dancing because that's how much I
- 30:45Speaker 3: like did not.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Want to do this.
- 30:47Speaker 3: And then it's like, well, you need to get in
- 30:49Speaker 3: shape because if you're like, like, if you want to
- 30:51Speaker 3: be here, get your shit together. If you don't like
- 30:53Speaker 3: get your shit together, if you're going to be here
- 30:54Speaker 3: not whatever. So I'm like okay, like I'm here whatever.
- 30:57Speaker 3: So God wants whatever, right, So I'm you know, raising
- 31:01Speaker 3: raising funds whatever at whatever.
- 31:04Speaker 1: So I did that for like two to three three years.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Okay, so doing that picking up people using my car
- 31:14Speaker 3: sometimes I'm like the early one up, so I had
- 31:17Speaker 3: multiple people to pick up.
- 31:19Speaker 4: Blast went home because I had people to drop off.
- 31:21Speaker 3: Meanwhile, I'm doing you know, working physically, doing my media
- 31:25Speaker 3: duties stuff like that.
- 31:26Speaker 1: And getting paid nothing but paying them and giving them
- 31:28Speaker 1: all the I need.
- 31:30Speaker 3: It in that, and then we're not you know, if
- 31:32Speaker 3: we don't have our money and we're not right, we
- 31:34Speaker 3: don't get fed.
- 31:35Speaker 4: So I'm going to the homeless ministry to get us
- 31:37Speaker 4: food to make sure that we have.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Something anyways, So that and then you know, the next
- 31:43Speaker 3: couple of years is just it changes a little bit different,
- 31:45Speaker 3: but you're still you know, doing all the physical work
- 31:48Speaker 3: of everything, making sure that you know, I'm doing my
- 31:52Speaker 3: media stuff, marketing advertising content every week, filming once a week,
- 31:57Speaker 3: uh whatever, other serve duties, oh ball, watching kids. A ah, yeah,
- 32:06Speaker 3: I was a doormat.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Well and like you said, you weren't the only one, right,
- 32:11Speaker 1: So how many kids, because you guys are littly kids.
- 32:15Speaker 1: A lot is twenty thirty, forty fifty at one point,
- 32:18Speaker 1: probably more. Oh my gosh, So you're all in this
- 32:22Speaker 1: community being brainwashed by this whole community. It's not even
- 32:26Speaker 1: is it. Would you say it's one person?
- 32:29Speaker 3: I mean I think everyone was kind of like everyone
- 32:31Speaker 3: was kind of like, I mean, there is us, and
- 32:33Speaker 3: then I feel like there were also people that were
- 32:35Speaker 3: still like, I mean, there's there's.
- 32:37Speaker 4: A lot more that like even happened but yeah.
- 32:40Speaker 1: No, it's just yeah, it was how much time we
- 32:43Speaker 1: have left?
- 32:43Speaker 4: My gosh, you're funny.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Uh we have keep going ten minutes, eleven minutes, okay,
- 32:51Speaker 1: phill it. Yeah no.
- 32:52Speaker 4: So I mean that was like, that was the world
- 32:56Speaker 4: I was in.
- 32:57Speaker 1: And now that sounds to me like you're is he
- 33:00Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, seven days a week. Absolutely, did
- 33:02Speaker 1: you see your family? You don't see your family? Ah, Okay,
- 33:09Speaker 1: we can take that in so many ways, but we're
- 33:13Speaker 1: not going to do that. Okay, we just had a
- 33:14Speaker 1: little technical sitch. We'll talk about that later. Yeah, So
- 33:18Speaker 1: going back to where was your family in this? What
- 33:21Speaker 1: did they say? How did you tell them that you
- 33:23Speaker 1: were so busy?
- 33:24Speaker 4: So my dad was like, praise God, you're like serving
- 33:27Speaker 4: for God.
- 33:28Speaker 1: I mean till this day.
- 33:29Speaker 3: My dad's like, get over it, like he doesn't care.
- 33:32Speaker 3: My dad doesn't care about it, but it is what
- 33:33Speaker 3: it is. And then my mom's just like, I thought
- 33:35Speaker 3: you were just trying to not come back home. And
- 33:37Speaker 3: I'm like, mom, no, like this is what was going on.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Like she's like I'm so sorry, and I.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Was like, there's nothing she could have done if you
- 33:43Speaker 1: didn't even know what was happening psychologically right, and so
- 33:46Speaker 1: it just was very.
- 33:49Speaker 3: At the time, I didn't like, you think this is
- 33:52Speaker 3: for the Lord, like for the keynote God, and then
- 33:56Speaker 3: you get into the real world and you're like you
- 33:58Speaker 3: just got.
- 34:01Speaker 4: Oh so yeah.
- 34:02Speaker 1: And then there's also like the psychological aspect.
- 34:04Speaker 4: There was a lot of psychological stuff that I was
- 34:09Speaker 4: you didn't know it was getting wired in there.
- 34:11Speaker 3: But now you're trying to live life and you're like
- 34:14Speaker 3: implementing like you know, pastors saying God promoting you, don't
- 34:17Speaker 3: promote yourself like God promote you.
- 34:19Speaker 1: So I'm like eventually started working for myself and I'm like, well, God,
- 34:24Speaker 1: where are you promoting me at? Because I need clients
- 34:26Speaker 1: right right.
- 34:27Speaker 3: So it was just like all these like weird like
- 34:29Speaker 3: there's just so many weird things like not dating and
- 34:32Speaker 3: like let God tell you who your spouse is or like.
- 34:36Speaker 4: I told you the whole thing with college.
- 34:38Speaker 3: So there was just all the or like when people
- 34:40Speaker 3: would actually stand up for what they thought they were
- 34:41Speaker 3: supposed to do and they would say no, I mean
- 34:44Speaker 3: it would be reinforced to everyone like they're not you know,
- 34:47Speaker 3: they're not following God. This is what happens when you
- 34:49Speaker 3: don't follow God, or like they would be made to
- 34:50Speaker 3: be a spectacle, which would.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Everybody else in submission.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Right communicate whatever, you know, or someone genuinely saying Regina
- 34:58Speaker 3: like hey, this is kind of weird.
- 34:58Speaker 4: I'm like yeah, like I think so.
- 35:00Speaker 3: And then you know, a leader coming don't talk about
- 35:03Speaker 3: leaders like you like you know what the Lord.
- 35:07Speaker 4: Says, and I'm like okay, but like she had.
- 35:09Speaker 1: A really good point, like it made and actually.
- 35:13Speaker 3: And so it just there was a lot of things
- 35:16Speaker 3: like that, and yeah, like I just had no.
- 35:19Speaker 4: Clue what it took towards the end of.
- 35:23Speaker 3: Feeling like I was being courced with one you know,
- 35:28Speaker 3: it was a demand that I find someone replace my
- 35:30Speaker 3: role and I'm like, I'm an intern.
- 35:31Speaker 4: I am it's not my job.
- 35:33Speaker 3: And then too just kind of like wanting the wanting
- 35:36Speaker 3: me to create like some type of like ad content.
- 35:40Speaker 3: And I just felt like, okay, well we didn't we
- 35:41Speaker 3: didn't have the real structure to support what we're trying
- 35:44Speaker 3: to offer.
- 35:45Speaker 1: And I didn't like that.
- 35:46Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that's not cool, Like we're like lying, right,
- 35:49Speaker 3: And so like when I felt like they were getting forceful,
- 35:52Speaker 3: that's when like I kind of like was like hell no,
- 35:56Speaker 3: and then.
- 35:56Speaker 1: That's kind of like I'm out of here. So it clicks,
- 35:59Speaker 1: had you not clicked?
- 36:00Speaker 3: And I was like yeah, So I was like okay,
- 36:02Speaker 3: like I'm out of here. And it just was like
- 36:05Speaker 3: I didn't know what fully happened, but I be leaving
- 36:08Speaker 3: and being like you lost yourself? Yeah, and then from
- 36:12Speaker 3: there I just didn't really want to be involved with
- 36:14Speaker 3: church for a.
- 36:14Speaker 4: Really long time.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Did they let you leave? I just was like, I'm
- 36:19Speaker 1: done doing this and you walked out.
- 36:21Speaker 4: My time was done?
- 36:22Speaker 1: Yeah, your time was done. They didn't harass you, try
- 36:25Speaker 1: to keep you in and nope.
- 36:27Speaker 4: I had some guy take over.
- 36:28Speaker 1: And I was like, do they do this all the time?
- 36:30Speaker 1: Did they bring an interns and just use them for
- 36:32Speaker 1: three or four years and then let them go?
- 36:34Speaker 4: I don't know a lot to changed?
- 36:36Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so now you came out of them. Went
- 36:41Speaker 1: holy crap, where Regina go? Now I'm in like real
- 36:44Speaker 1: life and I'm an adult and I'm out of college
- 36:47Speaker 1: and I have no opinions, no brain. Where'd your brain go?
- 36:55Speaker 1: Where'd your opinions go? Okay, so now you're learning to
- 36:59Speaker 1: buy yourself, which you didn't even know yourself when you
- 37:03Speaker 1: went in. So now you have to get to know
- 37:06Speaker 1: yourself that they created and let go of that self
- 37:08Speaker 1: and then get to know yourself as an adult now
- 37:10Speaker 1: and create your like you have like a lot of like.
- 37:14Speaker 1: I applaud the hell out of you because you're doing
- 37:16Speaker 1: so much. Oh and then you met a man and
- 37:19Speaker 1: got married.
- 37:20Speaker 4: I got married.
- 37:21Speaker 1: So now who I am as a wife? Who I
- 37:23Speaker 1: am as the daughter?
- 37:24Speaker 3: Now?
- 37:24Speaker 1: Who am I as a business owner? Who am I
- 37:27Speaker 1: as just Regina? Oh? And then COVID hits and now
- 37:32Speaker 1: like family dynamics with in laws and your family and
- 37:38Speaker 1: adult grown ass woman doing well? Like, there's so much
- 37:42Speaker 1: there now. I've known her for a couple of years now,
- 37:44Speaker 1: and I've seen that this old stuff creeps in. Right,
- 37:49Speaker 1: So with six minutes left, let's talk about because it
- 37:58Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a religious cult. It can just
- 37:59Speaker 1: be a functional freaking childhood and you lose your voice
- 38:03Speaker 1: for whatever reason. You have a traumatic event. I have
- 38:07Speaker 1: a client who was who was molested. I have another
- 38:09Speaker 1: one that was raped. I have another one that was
- 38:11Speaker 1: you know, parents lost, you know, violence, Like it doesn't
- 38:14Speaker 1: matter with any of that traumatic psychological thing happening. How
- 38:21Speaker 1: do you find yourself right.
- 38:26Speaker 3: So I think for me it was when I when
- 38:29Speaker 3: I when I first left that program, the color pink
- 38:33Speaker 3: was like I didn't know it, but it was like
- 38:35Speaker 3: therapeutic for me.
- 38:38Speaker 1: So it was like therapeutic for me.
- 38:41Speaker 3: And then you know, I started hang out with girlfriends,
- 38:46Speaker 3: started dancing, little things like that.
- 38:50Speaker 1: There was still a lot to be undone because I said,
- 38:52Speaker 1: did you feel guilty? Did you feel scared?
- 38:54Speaker 3: I think sometimes there was guilt because there was so much,
- 38:57Speaker 3: you know, it was so much, so much guilt and
- 38:59Speaker 3: shame in your head. I think for me it took
- 39:03Speaker 3: me moving out of California to know Regina know like
- 39:06Speaker 3: something like you're not okay. And uh, that's when I
- 39:10Speaker 3: just started buying and reading books to help undo what
- 39:13Speaker 3: I had, what was done.
- 39:16Speaker 1: And then just knowing.
- 39:17Speaker 3: That like cause I kind of felt like I was
- 39:18Speaker 3: prostituted out, like I was only good for as if
- 39:21Speaker 3: I was cheap or free.
- 39:24Speaker 1: So now bring that into a skill set that.
- 39:26Speaker 3: You you know have, yeah, your money exactly, and you
- 39:30Speaker 3: feel like you're worth nothing. And so for me, I
- 39:34Speaker 3: was like, you know what, I am committed to Regina
- 39:36Speaker 3: and making sure she's okay. So that was something personally.
- 39:38Speaker 3: I was like, I will like, I'm going to bat
- 39:40Speaker 3: for myself and I'm not going to give up on myself.
- 39:42Speaker 1: Where did you get that strength?
- 39:44Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 39:45Speaker 3: Maybe that's my my normal old Regina. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
- 39:49Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm going to bat.
- 39:52Speaker 1: You know.
- 39:52Speaker 3: When I did try to speak out, they threw one
- 39:55Speaker 3: of the pastors at me cause I was gonna meet.
- 39:57Speaker 1: With a lawyer.
- 39:57Speaker 3: I love the law, by the way, and and they
- 40:01Speaker 3: were like, well, you're eighteen, you knew what you were doing,
- 40:03Speaker 3: the decision you made, and like basically get over it.
- 40:08Speaker 1: And yeah, I.
- 40:09Speaker 4: Just kept fighting for myself.
- 40:12Speaker 3: Reading, I did therapy, cut people out of my life.
- 40:17Speaker 1: I do a lot that I did slowly but surely.
- 40:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 40:22Speaker 1: And how long has it been since you've been on
- 40:24Speaker 1: your own?
- 40:25Speaker 4: A long time?
- 40:27Speaker 1: A long time and it's still coming up? Yeah?
- 40:31Speaker 4: Well I'm fine now I've resolved it.
- 40:33Speaker 3: I'm good, like I have al Yeah, yeah, good like
- 40:36Speaker 3: I know I know who I am. I know people
- 40:40Speaker 3: of manipulation and control. I understand God like that is
- 40:43Speaker 3: not like that.
- 40:44Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you like God?
- 40:45Speaker 4: I love God. I think he's awesome.
- 40:47Speaker 1: I was gonna say, does God love you. Yeah, that's awesome.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Do you have to go to church every Sunday for
- 40:52Speaker 1: God to love you? I do, And I still don't
- 40:54Speaker 1: like going to church.
- 40:55Speaker 4: I hate church.
- 40:57Speaker 3: And I say that in the most like honest way,
- 41:00Speaker 3: and I still will go, Like I have a really
- 41:02Speaker 3: cool trips.
- 41:02Speaker 1: I do, but when you want to when I want
- 41:05Speaker 1: to go here? And do you talk to God daily? Sure?
- 41:09Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 41:09Speaker 1: Because it's wherever. Yeah, Yeah, okay, awesome, I love that.
- 41:13Speaker 1: So what has helped you bridge that craziness feeling of
- 41:20Speaker 1: oh my god, i have all the shame and blame,
- 41:21Speaker 1: I'm leaving this community. They're not doing things right. And
- 41:24Speaker 1: then come to the terms that I spent how many
- 41:27Speaker 1: years ever in that? Yeah? Did you feel like you
- 41:30Speaker 1: wasted years? Did you feel bad about that? Yeah?
- 41:33Speaker 3: I did for a while, for a really long time.
- 41:34Speaker 3: I did it lingered for a long time. And it's like, okay,
- 41:37Speaker 3: you just you know I used the pull yourself up
- 41:39Speaker 3: by your bootstrap strategy, which is toxic.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Yeah, very much so.
- 41:43Speaker 3: And I did a lot, traveled the world, started my businesses, whatever.
- 41:47Speaker 3: But like I feel like twenty twenty made me just like,
- 41:49Speaker 3: you need to go to therapy and you need to
- 41:51Speaker 3: talk about it, and you need to get it out
- 41:52Speaker 3: of your system because you need to heal.
- 41:55Speaker 4: And that's what really.
- 42:00Speaker 3: Was really helped me to be able to like resolve it,
- 42:02Speaker 3: make peace with it, and be able just to like
- 42:04Speaker 3: live my life like now I can work and it's
- 42:07Speaker 3: not I don't have all this in my head because there,
- 42:10Speaker 3: like I said, there's a lot like psychologically that lingers
- 42:12Speaker 3: when you're in a culture and environment like that authoritative hierarchy, be.
- 42:17Speaker 1: Quiet, shame, don't talk.
- 42:19Speaker 3: Yeah, controlling, manipulative, like just saying no, I don't want
- 42:24Speaker 3: to do this, and it's like, well, you must be offended.
- 42:26Speaker 1: It's like no, I have a life of a family.
- 42:29Speaker 4: Here's my boundary.
- 42:30Speaker 1: I'm not offended. I'm you know, and so yeah, and
- 42:33Speaker 1: then they keep talking around it until you submit. Okay,
- 42:38Speaker 1: So here's a good one. When was the last time
- 42:44Speaker 1: or whatever time you want to share that maybe somebody
- 42:49Speaker 1: said something or you felt something. You're like, oh, wait
- 42:52Speaker 1: a minute, that just triggered, because it's going to trigger. Okay, sorry,
- 42:56Speaker 1: I love you, but it's going to trigger. I mean
- 42:57Speaker 1: I get triggered. Yeah, years later, I get triggered. I
- 42:59Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, all right, So give me something that triggered.
- 43:02Speaker 1: How long? How long does it take you to know
- 43:05Speaker 1: that you were triggered? And how do you get out
- 43:07Speaker 1: of that?
- 43:09Speaker 3: Well? Okay, So when I was in therapy a couple
- 43:11Speaker 3: of years ago, I had like I would have triggers
- 43:13Speaker 3: come up constantly a lot. Again, it's on my it's
- 43:17Speaker 3: my responsibility to fix it. I was working with a
- 43:19Speaker 3: potential new business partner. My body could instantly pick up
- 43:24Speaker 3: on just like that energy, I guess you could say.
- 43:29Speaker 1: And my husband like, he's like, oh, she's just.
- 43:31Speaker 4: You know, she's just communicating.
- 43:33Speaker 3: And I was like, oh no, this is trying to
- 43:35Speaker 3: insert control, trying to this and that, and I just
- 43:39Speaker 3: knew it. And like the way she'd talked it was weird.
- 43:42Speaker 3: I was like, my body is just leaning out. And
- 43:44Speaker 3: I was like, okay, let's just get this job done.
- 43:46Speaker 3: And I don't want to do business with her anymore.
- 43:48Speaker 3: Or recently, I had a delayed one, but I picked
- 43:51Speaker 3: up on it and I'm like, okay, Like okay, this
- 43:54Speaker 3: is what I'm good. I'm getting intimidation, I'm getting a crash.
- 43:57Speaker 3: I'm getting it's still a form of control. I'm like, Okay,
- 43:59Speaker 3: my body's picked up on it. It was the lake because
- 44:01Speaker 3: I'm healing, like I'm doing, I'm doing great, but it's
- 44:05Speaker 3: it's time exactly.
- 44:06Speaker 4: So I'm like, okay, like this is just a part
- 44:08Speaker 4: of the process, and I'm like, just be gentle and to.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Know that it takes time. It's okay, it takes years.
- 44:15Speaker 1: I couldn't talk about my kids passing for fifteen years.
- 44:19Speaker 1: It took me forever to become a certified grief counselor.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Like a trauma literally takes a long time. Now it
- 44:26Speaker 1: can take quicker. So I don't want to, you know,
- 44:29Speaker 1: scare anyone out there. Yeah, I mean we're still giving
- 44:31Speaker 1: on with getting on with life and having a really
- 44:33Speaker 1: good time and enjoying life. But there is just some
- 44:37Speaker 1: things that when they hit you, you don't realize that
- 44:40Speaker 1: that's triggering the past traumas. Until you do that, it's like, oh, okay,
- 44:45Speaker 1: I can let that go.
- 44:46Speaker 4: Now that's not me yep.
- 44:48Speaker 1: And I get better and better and better. I'm still like,
- 44:50Speaker 1: I'm still have things that come up and then I'm like, okay,
- 44:53Speaker 1: I'm so better this year than I was last year.
- 44:56Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got to be sixty shot.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Now, Okay. I love that Okay, is there any advice
- 45:03Speaker 1: you would have to And I don't even want to
- 45:07Speaker 1: say like you are a victim or you were wounded
- 45:10Speaker 1: or any of that stuff. You kind of just accidentally
- 45:13Speaker 1: fell into this control. So is there anything that you
- 45:17Speaker 1: would say to the college graduate or wherever wherever you
- 45:22Speaker 1: were when you got introduced to this community. How do
- 45:27Speaker 1: we see that going in? How do we see it?
- 45:31Speaker 3: I think just if you feel weird about something, honor it.
- 45:35Speaker 3: There you go, like I think, for I didn't even
- 45:38Speaker 3: know about feeling weird. I didn't understand boundaries.
- 45:40Speaker 1: I didn't understand you weren't even allowed to have feelings because.
- 45:43Speaker 3: Exact your boundaries. So I'm like, now it's just like, Okay,
- 45:47Speaker 3: if you feel weird about a place or person, honor
- 45:51Speaker 3: that and keep going like you don't. You don't owe
- 45:53Speaker 3: anyone an explanation. You don't have to be nice, make
- 45:56Speaker 3: someone feel happy and comfortable like you're not comfortable.
- 46:00Speaker 1: It's more than enough to just keep going. And you
- 46:02Speaker 1: don't have.
- 46:02Speaker 3: To figure it out because you don't want to figure
- 46:05Speaker 3: it out, and you just keep going and so and.
- 46:09Speaker 1: You probably can't figure it out unless you are on
- 46:11Speaker 1: the end with your people like you really don't want
- 46:14Speaker 1: to figure it out.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Yeah, no is a completely answer. Yeah, and so just
- 46:17Speaker 3: really honor yourself. You don't have to dismiss yourself or
- 46:21Speaker 3: get rid of yourself to fit in, like do you
- 46:24Speaker 3: and trust that the right people, opportunities, and resources will
- 46:28Speaker 3: come to you and that you are enough. I think so,
- 46:31Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 46:31Speaker 4: That was probably a lot.
- 46:32Speaker 1: Oh well, no, that was really good. I'm hearing Trust
- 46:36Speaker 1: your intuition. When you hear yourself say this isn't right
- 46:44Speaker 1: or this is weird, trust that, and you don't need
- 46:49Speaker 1: to figure out why, which we do in California anyways.
- 46:53Speaker 1: We try to psychoanalyze every fricking thing possible that happens
- 46:57Speaker 1: to try to figure it out. Don't even try to
- 47:00Speaker 1: figure it out because we can't from that that realm
- 47:02Speaker 1: of things. We're not in that realm, so we can't
- 47:05Speaker 1: figure it out. So just know to trust yourself and
- 47:08Speaker 1: move on to next. If you go look back at anything,
- 47:12Speaker 1: when would you have made a change.
- 47:16Speaker 4: When I think it would have been.
- 47:21Speaker 1: I wish it would have.
- 47:22Speaker 4: Been like right at the end of college to.
- 47:25Speaker 1: Where you would have no internship here, I'm not doing it.
- 47:27Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. This is not for me.
- 47:29Speaker 3: I'm not doing it, and maybe even a little bit
- 47:31Speaker 3: more because I was on my corporate track, like girl,
- 47:33Speaker 3: I was like, I was ready. I was like, I'm
- 47:36Speaker 3: an adult, like you know my next you know, I
- 47:39Speaker 3: had my next corporate job. And I feel like, yeah,
- 47:45Speaker 3: like even if I took it back a little bit more,
- 47:46Speaker 3: I would have just stayed that track. I mean, I
- 47:49Speaker 3: had one girl try to say, let's like ditch college
- 47:51Speaker 3: and go intern in Michigan and my mom was like,
- 47:53Speaker 3: absolutely not. And I'm like, I'm so thankful she did that, right,
- 47:56Speaker 3: So thankful, you know.
- 47:58Speaker 4: And yeah, I love that.
- 48:02Speaker 1: I love that. And well, we're always healing, we're always
- 48:05Speaker 1: growing and learning and loving, and I love it. I
- 48:08Speaker 1: just want to tell you that I so appreciate you
- 48:13Speaker 1: sharing this. I know it was hard for you. I
- 48:17Speaker 1: know this is one of your first times that you've
- 48:18Speaker 1: shared all this crap and what you've gone through and
- 48:24Speaker 1: realizing how much it does affect in all areas of
- 48:27Speaker 1: your life down the road is the scary thing because
- 48:31Speaker 1: we don't know that over here, being emotionally abused, being
- 48:34Speaker 1: physically abused, being grown up in a dysfunctional household. Guess
- 48:38Speaker 1: what y'all. It all shows up in your money world,
- 48:40Speaker 1: which is why we talk about it all. Everyone says,
- 48:43Speaker 1: what does Jennifer do? Oh my gosh, she talks about
- 48:45Speaker 1: everything because it's not about the money, it's about your
- 48:47Speaker 1: relationship with yourself. And if you're not trusting yourself, you're
- 48:51Speaker 1: not going to trust trust your financial advisor, You're not
- 48:54Speaker 1: going to trust money it's going to come in, You're
- 48:56Speaker 1: not going to trust any of that. So we do
- 48:58Speaker 1: have to address the past crap in order to step
- 49:01Speaker 1: into the true wealth and abundance that you desire, deserve.
- 49:06Speaker 1: And we have so much fun with so thank you
- 49:09Speaker 1: so much for sharing, absolutely sharing your life. And she
- 49:13Speaker 1: is amazing, you know all, she's doing so good. And
- 49:15Speaker 1: we're never I mean again, we're never all way all
- 49:18Speaker 1: the way healed. So just know that that's the next
- 49:20Speaker 1: thing and like, oh is that coming back up again?
- 49:22Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we can let that go now because we're
- 49:25Speaker 1: not that person. Awesome. Biggest takeaway from the whole call today,
- 49:30Speaker 1: what do you think?
- 49:31Speaker 4: I Trust yourself and speak up.
- 49:34Speaker 1: I love it. Trust yourself and speak up. Thank you
- 49:36Speaker 1: so much. Check out all the other episodes. We have
- 49:38Speaker 1: a really good time here. At Rock my Finances. I
- 49:40Speaker 1: want you to be able to say that. I want
- 49:42Speaker 1: you to be able to know the F word, fall
- 49:44Speaker 1: your feelings, fall in love with money, and enjoy your life. Retina,
- 49:48Speaker 1: I love you, oh my love, I love you so much. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
- 49:53Speaker 1: Check out her scrolling if you need. If you have
- 49:56Speaker 1: a business and you want to step forward a little
- 49:58Speaker 1: bit more, you can us my girl here.
- 50:01Speaker 4: I will take care of you.
- 50:02Speaker 1: She will take care of you in all areas. Thank
- 50:04Speaker 1: you all so much. Please check out the next episode
- 50:07Speaker 1: of Rock my Finances and where we see you next week. Bye.
- 50:12Speaker 2: We appreciate you joining us today, and don't forget to
- 50:15Speaker 2: subscribe to the rock my Finances YouTube channel for more
- 50:18Speaker 2: engagement and bonus content. Tell me what is your money story?
- 50:23Speaker 2: Let's find out with Jennifer four pm Eastern one pm
- 50:26Speaker 2: Pacific every Thursday right here on K four HD Radio
- 50:30Speaker 2: and Talk for TV. It's not about the zeros, It's
- 50:34Speaker 2: about the F word, feelings, feelings. Jennifer can't wait to
- 50:38Speaker 2: explore with you next week. Until then, let's all say
- 50:42Speaker 2: I rock my Finances.