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The Truth About Growth Nobody Mentions · Groove with Portia

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Grow with Porsche, the podcast that uncovers the
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Speaker 1: hidden treasures within grief. I'm your host, Porsche the Producer,
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Speaker 1: and I'm inviting you to join me on a transformative
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Speaker 1: journey where we were exchange laughter, of course the best
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Speaker 1: medicine of them all, reflect on cherish memories, Remember that
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Speaker 1: time that the little boy grabbed my hand instead of
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Speaker 1: discover gratitude while navigating one of life's hardest challenges lost.
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Speaker 1: So get ready to grow with me, Porsche the Producer,
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Speaker 1: let's dive in. Hello everybody, and welcome back to Grew
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Speaker 1: One of the things that you guys know I talk
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Speaker 1: about often is grief. And one of the key component
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Speaker 1: of working with your grief is having that love, love, support,
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Speaker 1: because I think sometimes the right support is often not
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Speaker 1: around you when you really need that pick me up
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Speaker 1: as you're going through what you're going through. So today, everybody,
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Speaker 1: I have the honor of being joined by a woman
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Speaker 1: who is built on community. And what I mean by
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Speaker 1: built on community is empowering, especially communities of color, women
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Speaker 1: of color, because let's be honest, sometimes we aren't always
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Speaker 1: in the same room and on the same page, because
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of old wounds and limiting beliefs that
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Speaker 1: we have to work through. So I have the honor
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Speaker 1: of joining me today, miss Letitia Pearson. Letitia, welcome to
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Speaker 1: the show. How are you, my friend?
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Speaker 2: Hi? I am great. Thank you for having me. I
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, Letitia.
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Speaker 1: First of all, one of the things I love to
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Speaker 1: do is start off my conversations with gratitude. What are
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Speaker 1: you grateful for today today?
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Speaker 2: I'm grateful just being amongst the living. I am great, okay,
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Speaker 2: m very grateful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, not reading your name in the paper. And
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Speaker 1: she lived this kind of life. No, you're living it,
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Speaker 1: you know. Little sidebar me and me and you were
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Speaker 1: talking before we started, Me and my significant other. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I am taking y'all. I've been very quiet about it.
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Speaker 1: But we went on a road trip through the Finger
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Speaker 1: Lakes in New York. And one of the things I
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Speaker 1: love to do, Latitia's I'm a big concert junkie, so
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Speaker 1: I love going to shows all the time. And we
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Speaker 1: got to see Lindsay Sterling in concert and she's a
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Speaker 1: professional violinist who was on America's Got Talent and this
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Speaker 1: was my second time seeing her. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things that she said during her concert was a lot
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Speaker 1: of us are afraid to die because we're afraid to live.
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Speaker 2: Ooh that is powerful and powerful.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Never heard that like that, Okay, And I literally
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Speaker 1: was just frozen in that moment, like I literally let
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Speaker 1: that sit with me, like so many of us are
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Speaker 1: really stuck in the paralysis of oh my god, I'm
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Speaker 1: so afraid to die that you forget how to live.
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Speaker 1: Just go about life and be that inner kid that
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Speaker 1: you once were at nine. You can still incorporate that
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Speaker 1: into here every day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh wow, that is so I am like protesting. Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, that is so truth. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: sharing that. I love that, And that's what you're doing
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Speaker 2: with information we receive to share to empower someone else.
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Speaker 2: So thank you for that. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up about just
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Speaker 1: being amongst the living, right and letitia for our audience, right,
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Speaker 1: you are the star of owns Bell Collective, And I'm curious, Letitia,
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Speaker 1: let's be realistic. When we're trying to pursue our dreams,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of pushback, right, and there's rejections of
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Speaker 1: any believes And I'm curious for our audience, what did
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Speaker 1: it take for you to get this idea that you
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Speaker 1: are the founder and creator of on the big screen
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Speaker 1: in front of the own network where so many of
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Speaker 1: us know we aspire, but there's often hurdles that we
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Speaker 1: have to work through to even get to the front door.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, First, thank you for that question, and I
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. But first and foremost, like I live in
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Speaker 2: a world of manifestation, you know, love attraction, and also
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Speaker 2: I believe that's just not my tagline on my email,
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Speaker 2: but I truly believe in becoming a change you wish
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Speaker 2: to see. So I just always have to create a
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Speaker 2: shout out to you know, the creator and Carlos King
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Speaker 2: and Kingdom Ragin Entertainment for just believing in Mississippi, for
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Speaker 2: hearing us out and hearing a pitch, you know, and
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Speaker 2: be willing to take a risk on Mississippi, you know,
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Speaker 2: And I don't even know if you know this, but
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Speaker 2: I didn't even pitch myself. I wanted to be more
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Speaker 2: of a production a system, you know, the PA or
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes. I wanted to be in it. But
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Speaker 2: Carlos King was able to see something in me that
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Speaker 2: I didn't even see in myself. So being on reality
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Speaker 2: television TV period was not on my vision board. But
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Speaker 2: I always have to credit, you know, give him credit
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Speaker 2: for that. And of course God, God allow him, God
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Speaker 2: using him as a vessel. So here we are going
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Speaker 2: to our sixth season with our premier date October third, right,
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Speaker 2: and I'm just like, whoa here is? It's always so unreal,
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Speaker 2: but it's real and I believe, you know, Portia, when
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Speaker 2: you move in good intentions, I say this all the time,
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Speaker 2: God will move you from the back of the line
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Speaker 2: to the front of the line. If you just believe
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Speaker 2: and have the desire to serve other people, to make
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Speaker 2: other people better, you will always be taken care of.
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Speaker 2: So I just I'm excited and tell all everybody tune
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Speaker 2: in October the third, okay, all new season of Bell Collective.
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Speaker 2: I have to plug it, but yeah, so and here
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Speaker 2: we are.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad that you talked about again. That
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Speaker 1: power of supporting community, right, Because I'm curious, Letitia, what
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Speaker 1: did it take for you to trust, because I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you've you know, experienced being.
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Speaker 2: Burned in the past.
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Speaker 1: What did it take for you to open up to
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Speaker 1: let me just see how God is gonna work for me?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're saying meaning being on being a
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Speaker 2: cast member on the show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or just trusting in the direction that things are
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Speaker 1: going right. You just wanted to be behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: and you have this person who's like, ah, you can't
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Speaker 1: be in the back of the line. You can't be
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Speaker 1: cast for the friendly Ghost when you're the one that
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Speaker 1: created the whole vision front.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, so basically it was so so many, so many
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Speaker 2: moving partis to that when I was on a call
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Speaker 2: with Jakobe McGee that's that's who actually has peaks of
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Speaker 2: show with me and he This is a long star
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Speaker 2: but to make a long story short, you know when
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Speaker 2: when Carlos was like, well what do you do, Letitia,
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Speaker 2: and I was telling them and this, that and the other,
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Speaker 2: and it was like, oh, okay, well that sounds interesting.
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Speaker 2: So when we got off and Carlos, you know, express
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Speaker 2: that he wanted you wanted me to be on the show.
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Speaker 2: I said, Jakobe, oh my goodness, with me being on
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Speaker 2: the show, I mean, with me being there, one of
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Speaker 2: the girls not going to be able to be there.
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Speaker 2: And he had to remind me that, you know what
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Speaker 2: you talk about manifestation, you talk about having faith in God.
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Speaker 2: You're talking you talk about and you you mentor other
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Speaker 2: people to become the best version of themselves. This is
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Speaker 2: your moment like law of attraction frequency. So he started
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Speaker 2: having that. He started reminding me that's why, Porsche, it's
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Speaker 2: so important to surround yourself around people that when you
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Speaker 2: forget who you are, they'll remind you. So that's what happened.
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Speaker 2: I went to Glenn at the time. I was like,
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Speaker 2: we're not doing this, We're not doing that, and Glenn's like, oh,
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Speaker 2: yes we are. You remember you, you know you've been
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Speaker 2: hearing manifesting. So somewhere along the line, I subconsciously, you know,
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Speaker 2: a consciously manifested this. And I trust the process. I
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Speaker 2: trust the process and all you know, I believe that
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Speaker 2: even with us talking, I don't believe that we people
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Speaker 2: you meet just by accident. I always look deeper into
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Speaker 2: it to figure out what is this because I understand alignment.
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Speaker 2: I understand again trust in the process. I understand that
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Speaker 2: I'm the power of my mind. So whatever I'm praying
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Speaker 2: about or meditate or manifesting or writing about, it's going
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Speaker 2: to come. So I'm always open because I know that
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Speaker 2: I am a magnet just like you are. And anything
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Speaker 2: that we want or anything we desire, anything we don't
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Speaker 2: want that we think about, we attracted until ourselves. So
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Speaker 2: that's just that's just where it is. Basically just trusting
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Speaker 2: God and trusting the process, and trusting the team that
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Speaker 2: God put around me that part.
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Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of times it can
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Speaker 1: be hard if you're not open. Yeah, right when you
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Speaker 1: talk about manifesting right, being in alignment right, right, really
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Speaker 1: just giving yourself permission to do something different, yes, right,
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Speaker 1: because oftentimes, let's be realistic, trauma hinders a lot of us, true,
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Speaker 1: and some of us don't do the deep work, so
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Speaker 1: we keep ending up in the same spiral. You know,
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Speaker 1: my soul dad said this to me, I think ten
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Speaker 1: years ago, if I do what I always did, I'll
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Speaker 1: get what I always got.
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Speaker 2: That's powerful. That's powerful, that's powerful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think so many of us subconsciously are
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Speaker 1: prisoner of that because we're so used to things being
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Speaker 1: in a certain order instead of us just saying, you
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Speaker 1: know what, let me give myself permission to do it differently.
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Speaker 2: I love that. Let me give myself permission. I love that.
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Speaker 2: And trust yourself, you know, trust yourself, like trust yourself,
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Speaker 2: trust yourself, And I live by Hey, I'm a visionary
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Speaker 2: at hard so I'm like, hey, if something something that
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Speaker 2: work out, try again. Like, I'm not one of those
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Speaker 2: peop people who are afraid to like start over. I'm
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Speaker 2: not one of those who I believe like I believe that,
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Speaker 2: I believe I can fly if I wanted to get
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Speaker 2: up there, I want to lie and don't surround don't
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Speaker 2: come around me because I don't be like girl, you
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Speaker 2: can fly too. But no, seriously, you said something that
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Speaker 2: was very, very powerful. A lot of times we don't
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Speaker 2: give our salf permission. We don't give our sales permission
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Speaker 2: because we feel like we're not worthy. We don't give
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Speaker 2: our sales permission because we are afraid that other people
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Speaker 2: won't support our vision. They don't suppose to. We're just
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Speaker 2: afraid of failure. We don't give our sales permission. Because
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Speaker 2: we feel like we don't fit what society has told
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Speaker 2: us we're supposed to fit, like you know, and so
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Speaker 2: you that was very powerful. It is important to give
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Speaker 2: your sale permission and speak affirmations and speak into your
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Speaker 2: life and say I am worthy, I do deserve this opportunity.
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Speaker 2: I do deserve the best, you know, and then things
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Speaker 2: will start to shift in your life. But I love that,
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Speaker 2: and I love that you shared that with your audience.
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Speaker 2: That's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had to do a lot of mindset shift, Latitia,
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Speaker 1: because even for me, just giving myself permission to love again, right,
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Speaker 1: those of you who know my story of losing both
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Speaker 1: my parents in the last three years, I shut myself down, right,
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Speaker 1: like I shut down from allowing the openness of love
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Speaker 1: because I felt like that love pool had closed, right.
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Speaker 1: But I had to give myself permission to open up
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Speaker 1: to that new love language from both of my parents,
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Speaker 1: right in the form of the signs such as the butterflies,
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Speaker 1: the hawks, the numbers, the eleven eleven, ten ten, whatever, right,
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Speaker 1: finding the keys on the ground or the pennies whatever
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Speaker 1: you're yeah, you know, but given myself that permission and
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Speaker 1: seeing the return on investment allowing right, allowing it to
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Speaker 1: unfold organically instead of trying to control what this looks like.
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Speaker 2: Yes, control what you can control and let the rest
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Speaker 2: just handle itself. I'm so proud of you. I'm so
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Speaker 2: proud of you, and you're happy, you're glowing. Just came
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Speaker 2: off of vacation. You allowed love to find you. You
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Speaker 2: were open to receive it, and that's beautiful. Like we can't,
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Speaker 2: we can't control everything. Control what you can't control, and
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Speaker 2: focus on what you what you want, your desires, and
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Speaker 2: where you're going, and let everything else just happen like God,
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Speaker 2: got it?
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, I mean talk about when you talk
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Speaker 1: about manifestation. I'll say this really quick. I manifested my partner.
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Speaker 1: I did. I mean I wrote, Yeah, I wrote everything
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Speaker 1: I wanted from personality, hobbies, ethnicity, everything, and then subconsciously
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Speaker 1: already knew some of the things that are non negotiable. Right.
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Speaker 2: I love music.
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Speaker 1: I love chows, so I'm like, this has to be
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Speaker 1: a part of our relationship is music of some sort
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Speaker 1: and word of the odds. We ended up meeting at
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Speaker 1: a concert that Wow, I believe.
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Speaker 2: I love stories like this is my favorite. I love
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Speaker 2: hearing it because you would think your people who don't
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Speaker 2: understand the power of you know, manifestation, the power of
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Speaker 2: you know, the law. People who don't understand that you
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Speaker 2: they'll think you crazy. Right, I really really think you crazy.
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Speaker 2: So I love hearing stories and I love meeting people
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Speaker 2: who are in on the same frequency. So congratulations for you,
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Speaker 2: Congratulations for believing in you, Congratulations were giving yourself permission.
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Speaker 2: And congratulations girl for your man. Honey, Yeah, you wrote
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Speaker 2: it down, you made it flying. I love it.
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Speaker 1: You're right and sigh sealed and delivery.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations. I am here for a honey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean when I tell you, Letitia, him coming
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Speaker 1: into my life and our love story is like a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. I'm not been kidding. Like the whole thing
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Speaker 1: is like a Hallmark movie. You know. I could write
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Speaker 1: a whole script about us and our journey together, from
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Speaker 1: us going on vacation, the mini shows that we've been
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Speaker 1: to already, the different events. I mean literally, it's like
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Speaker 1: it's own Hallmark movie and it keeps evolving every time.
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Speaker 2: I love that. I'm happy for you. Thank you. I
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Speaker 2: am happy for you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean talk about allowing right, because I've seen
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Speaker 1: my darkest days no, and you know, to kind of
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Speaker 1: like segue Letitia for our audience who's tuning in if
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Speaker 1: they're interested in connecting with you, obviously tuning in to
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Speaker 1: the new season of The Bell Collective. How can they
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Speaker 1: connect with you and also tune in?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm Latisia Pearson everywhere, so l A t E
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Speaker 2: s h I A Latitia Pearson own everything I am dibbling.
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Speaker 2: Not hard to find for sure, so please do connect
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Speaker 2: to watched the show, I mean every Friday night starting
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Speaker 2: October third on the own network, So week seven pm Central,
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 1: It's eight a pm Eastern, Yes.
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Speaker 2: Eastern, So definitely just tune in, I mean, and support
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Speaker 2: and show your love and you know, follow me on Instagram?
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Speaker 2: Was Heisha Pearson? So yeah, I'm everywhere.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Everybody. You can follow her on
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Speaker 1: all social media platforms. You know, Google has become our
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Speaker 1: greatest friend and asset. You can just Google somebody's name
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Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, definitely mark your calendars for October
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Speaker 1: the third. So Letitia, when we were talking before we
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Speaker 1: started this conversation, one of the things that I know
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Speaker 1: both of us struggle with is pcos. And for those
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Speaker 1: of you who don't know. PCOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome,
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Speaker 1: which is a hormonal imbalance that causes your ovaries to
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Speaker 1: be in large and have cysts on them. You also
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Speaker 1: have these weird little side effects such as excess hair,
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Speaker 1: and you know, irregular or menstrual cycles and all the things.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into all of it. The teacher,
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Speaker 1: I'm curious, what did it take for you to become
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Speaker 1: vulnerable about PCOS? Considering that it's so personal and it's
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Speaker 1: invisible to people.
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Speaker 2: So I was dignosed in two thousand and eleven. I
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Speaker 2: had no idea what was going on at this time.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was telling my mom, you know, something
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Speaker 2: is not right. I had to go to the doctor
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Speaker 2: to turn my cycle on. I had to go to
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Speaker 2: the doctor to term my cycle. All things were just
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Speaker 2: like all over the place. I had like facial hair
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Speaker 2: at that time, and I'm like, I'm waxing. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: what's going on? You know what is happening? And I
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Speaker 2: got tested. I went to a black doctor here in
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Speaker 2: Mississippi and she was like, have you ever been tested
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Speaker 2: for PCOS? I'm like, what is that? And she was
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Speaker 2: just looking in all of my symptoms that I was
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Speaker 2: having anxiety, like things I should not have be having
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Speaker 2: as a woman. So she immediately tested me and came
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Speaker 2: out that I have you know, PCOS. And as I
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Speaker 2: started to progress and I end up trying birth control
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Speaker 2: did not work for me. And you know, if you
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Speaker 2: go to some doctors, they'll just say lose weight, you know,
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Speaker 2: lose weight. I'm like, it's deeper than that. So I
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Speaker 2: was I was just want to say, I was put
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Speaker 2: on met foreman, you know. And then after that I
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Speaker 2: started having cycles. And then my baby came. Josh came
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Speaker 2: was ten now, so I got pregnant and all the
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Speaker 2: time before I wasn't even able to have a child.
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Speaker 2: So while I was trying to regulate my PCOS, then
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Speaker 2: I ended you know, ended up getting getting you know,
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Speaker 2: getting pregnant. So after the baby, you know, the way
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Speaker 2: just started to come and come. I started becoming like
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Speaker 2: in flying inflammation was the thing that hit me. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I have inflammation. Mine is in my belly.
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Speaker 2: Some people you know have agne, some people have facial hair.
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Speaker 2: The depression, the painful cycles, all of that, infertility, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's so much that comes with PCOS. The mood swings,
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Speaker 2: you know, oppression, a lot of mental issues that we
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Speaker 2: don't talk about, you know, with women who are dealing
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Speaker 2: with VCOs. So I'm just like, hey, I believe everything
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Speaker 2: that I go through is to inspire someone else, is
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Speaker 2: to you know, bring awareness to This month is PCOS
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Speaker 2: Awareness month, you know. So I was like, you know, what,
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Speaker 2: if I'm on this platform, or even prior to the platform,
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Speaker 2: it's connecting with sisters, see why as ters. So I
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Speaker 2: was connecting with sisters like you you know, and just
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Speaker 2: talking to them, trying to figure out how can we
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Speaker 2: support each other. There are so many Facebook groups out
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Speaker 2: there that I've joined PCOS for Black women. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's just so many that I'm in and I'm learning
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Speaker 2: we're really you know, helping each other. So again, to
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Speaker 2: make to answer your question, what made me be vulnerable,
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Speaker 2: I'm okay, I've never in my entire life not had
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Speaker 2: I've never had a problem with being vulnerable or just
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Speaker 2: being my authentic self or really sharing what's going on
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Speaker 2: with me. So that was kind of easy for me.
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Speaker 2: I look at things from the perspective of if I'm
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Speaker 2: going through this, maybe someone else's going this. So let
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Speaker 2: me talk about it, and I'm glad I did it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because I'm wondering too, Letitia, how did
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Speaker 1: you make light of it? I always tell people when
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Speaker 1: I've got to use a Gilent razor to shave my
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Speaker 1: sideburns and get rid of the whisker clans or you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the fact that I have tweezers to
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Speaker 1: get rid of these little if you want to call
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Speaker 1: it little groundhogs in my face.
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Speaker 2: You know, I would say make light of it. It's
19:30
Speaker 2: just that more so, like again, control what you can
19:32
Speaker 2: control and change your perspective. So I started turning my
19:36
Speaker 2: wax days. I put my wax days on, like my
19:39
Speaker 2: petticare or just things that make me feel good. So
19:42
Speaker 2: I hardly ever go in there. Maybe once or twice
19:44
Speaker 2: to go into the salon where I go to get
19:48
Speaker 2: my wax, and I'm like, oh, I'm just give me
19:50
Speaker 2: a petticare or I'll get my my nail polish changed.
19:53
Speaker 2: Like I do things to make me feel good. So
19:56
Speaker 2: it's just it's just one of those things I hate.
19:59
Speaker 2: I've never used a I'm so scared to use a
20:01
Speaker 2: razor because I read if you use a razor the
20:04
Speaker 2: bumps gonna come, so I go pay that money for
20:07
Speaker 2: the wax. I'm so scared to use a razor. I
20:10
Speaker 2: am scared so but your skin looks amazing, so I'm
20:13
Speaker 2: sure you're you're good on that. But I don't make
20:16
Speaker 2: light of it. It's just one of those things. It comes.
20:19
Speaker 2: This is life. Life is life, and I just take
20:23
Speaker 2: I just I just take whatever punches and try to,
20:26
Speaker 2: you know, bring bring the best out of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I make my humor risk. Like my
20:31
Speaker 1: friends know my sarcasm. I always tell people when I
20:34
Speaker 1: don't want to do something, I'd rather smoke toothpicks with
20:37
Speaker 1: my butt cheeks. That's often what.
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Speaker 2: I love that, and I love that. I'll start, I listen,
20:42
Speaker 2: I'm steal all your little ones, not the one line
20:45
Speaker 2: of Okay.
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Speaker 1: Really, people tell me I need a book of all
20:49
Speaker 1: of your sayings.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I need. I need the
20:53
Speaker 2: one liners for the girls. I need to read trying
20:56
Speaker 2: to give me the reds porsch with the reeds, give
20:58
Speaker 2: them tothing, give me the red.
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Speaker 1: Right, I mean, because that that's literally what helps me
21:03
Speaker 1: through is humor right with everything, just like when it's
21:07
Speaker 1: my menstr cycle time. I always tell people, look, I've
21:10
Speaker 1: got little red riding hood and the big bad wolf
21:14
Speaker 1: taking me through the forest beating me up. That's literally
21:16
Speaker 1: what my you know.
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Speaker 2: One like hell. Like my Day one is like the worst.
21:24
Speaker 2: It's not throughout, but it's that Day one. I mean
21:29
Speaker 2: I can't move. I literally cannot move. Day one for
21:32
Speaker 2: me is like the worst. I feel like I feel
21:35
Speaker 2: like my ovaries like they're having like some type of
21:38
Speaker 2: wrestling match. Like Day one is terrible for me. You know,
21:44
Speaker 2: I'm Tyson all over.
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Speaker 1: Again, all over, Yes, you know, it depends. I know
21:51
Speaker 1: often when I've got a lot of emotional stress or
21:55
Speaker 1: emotional baggage that I've taken on than my cycle, gonna
22:00
Speaker 1: normally replicate that. If I've been on a clean slate
22:05
Speaker 1: where I've been doing my journaling, getting you know, not
22:08
Speaker 1: having a mind that's full of all the business stuff, yeah,
22:13
Speaker 1: events or upcoming things, then I'm good. But I often walk.
22:19
Speaker 1: I do a lot of walking when my cycle is,
22:22
Speaker 1: you know, pulling an upper cut on me twenty four
22:25
Speaker 1: to seven good for stand lot.
22:27
Speaker 2: Are you very strong? Yes? Yes, grouding a wheelchair so
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Speaker 2: you are very very strong.
22:35
Speaker 1: That's all right, you look, your wheelchair is your companion. Okay,
22:38
Speaker 1: that is your personal companion. It got a nickname, and
22:41
Speaker 1: it's there for support. Like what we talked about the beginning.
22:45
Speaker 2: Like I'm over here taking care of her. Here we go,
22:47
Speaker 2: she's she's having another baby. I'm like exactly, this is
22:51
Speaker 2: day one. So okay, well good and thank you for
22:54
Speaker 2: bringing awareness. It is like we need we need more
22:57
Speaker 2: of that, you know, we need more of that. We
22:59
Speaker 2: need to continue to advocate and you know, our legislators
23:05
Speaker 2: like get out here. We need to start, you know,
23:07
Speaker 2: just coming together that our doctors will actually start checking,
23:11
Speaker 2: like listen to us, because there are so many people,
23:14
Speaker 2: so many women walking around with PCOS and they think,
23:17
Speaker 2: what is wrong with me? They don't know, they don't know.
23:20
Speaker 2: The doctors are not checking, you know, they're saying, lose
23:23
Speaker 2: weight or walk or here's Matt Foreman or here's some
23:28
Speaker 2: birth control pills, like just you know, patching things up.
23:32
Speaker 2: We need to get in there and really advocate and
23:34
Speaker 2: become that change. Right. I do that a lot. I
23:38
Speaker 2: do that a lot. PCOS Challenge is an amazing organization
23:42
Speaker 2: to really work with. They are super super being in
23:45
Speaker 2: a community and they really they are. They're all for
23:49
Speaker 2: making sure that doctors start checking.
23:52
Speaker 1: Us forward, right, because it seems to me that because
23:56
Speaker 1: of all of the symptoms of pco as, they can
24:00
Speaker 1: be masked as possibly menopause, pre menopause.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be so many things, so many things,
24:06
Speaker 2: I mean, so many things.
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Speaker 1: Yep, you're right, Yeah, So definitely, everybody, you know, make
24:11
Speaker 1: sure that you're being that advocate that you know that
24:14
Speaker 1: you need and take somebody with you. Don't be afraid
24:18
Speaker 1: that powerful take with you, because you need that sometimes,
24:22
Speaker 1: you know, especially if it's somebody who may have had
24:25
Speaker 1: a history in the medical field, maybe they're a retired
24:27
Speaker 1: nurse or position assistant or whatever, because you never know
24:31
Speaker 1: how having that second set of eyes can really help
24:35
Speaker 1: save your life in some circumstances.
24:38
Speaker 2: You know, good stuff. That's good stuff.
24:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Leticia, first of all, I extend so much
24:44
Speaker 1: gratitude to you for coming on the show and sharing
24:47
Speaker 1: just your story of you know, that resilience, right of
24:52
Speaker 1: being open manifesting, changing your perspective and really calling in
24:59
Speaker 1: what you really want want and allowing it to unfold
25:02
Speaker 1: organically instead of trying to control it, right, and also
25:05
Speaker 1: taking control of your health, being that advocate that you
25:08
Speaker 1: know that you need it in the room and not
25:10
Speaker 1: just letting time go by sitting around or I'm afraid, No,
25:14
Speaker 1: you took action.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, thank you, thank you so yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Letitia for our audience. Before we conclude today, we
25:23
Speaker 1: talked about community right and I know often that there's
25:27
Speaker 1: a lot of women of color that are still on
25:29
Speaker 1: the fence about working with each other and building real community,
25:33
Speaker 1: real sisterhood. What words of wisdom, Letitia, can you lead
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Speaker 1: with them today to give themselves permission to open their
25:41
Speaker 1: hearts up to be amongst their sisters, be the helping him,
25:45
Speaker 1: be the change they wished to see. Because teamwork makes
25:49
Speaker 1: the dream work.
25:51
Speaker 2: Oh that is beautiful. I would tell everyoneman out there,
25:55
Speaker 2: don't be afraid to shoot your shot, meaning if you
26:00
Speaker 2: see another woman doing something that's amazing, congratulate her. See
26:06
Speaker 2: if it's a possible, if she's doing something that you
26:09
Speaker 2: want to do. See if you guys can collaborate. I'm
26:11
Speaker 2: for a collaboration over competition or not even that, to
26:15
Speaker 2: see maybe she can mentor you like. We have to
26:18
Speaker 2: change that stereotype that women, especially Black women, cannot work
26:21
Speaker 2: together because we can and if we believe, and we
26:25
Speaker 2: believe that wholeheartedly and look at each other as you're
26:29
Speaker 2: my sister, you're not my competition. We have so much
26:33
Speaker 2: in common. We can help each other in so many
26:35
Speaker 2: ways that no one else would even probably want to.
26:39
Speaker 2: So once we understand the power and unity, the power
26:44
Speaker 2: in us really connecting and collaborate, not just talking about it,
26:47
Speaker 2: not just because it's a trending thing, but to really
26:50
Speaker 2: build a sisterhood, shoot your shot because that person may
26:54
Speaker 2: be waiting too, and we just want to become the
26:58
Speaker 2: change you wish to see, you know, become, You'll never
27:01
Speaker 2: know unless you shoot your shot, So go ahead. I
27:04
Speaker 2: would encourage any woman out there if you want to
27:07
Speaker 2: work with another woman, if you want to collaborate, if
27:09
Speaker 2: you want advice, if you need whatever, or even if
27:11
Speaker 2: you just want to say, girl, you on your you
27:14
Speaker 2: doing your thing, don't be afraid to do that. Life.
27:17
Speaker 2: It's a boomerang. Whatever we put out there is coming back.
27:20
Speaker 2: So if you want to see that in your life
27:22
Speaker 2: and you want to see the change, and you want
27:24
Speaker 2: to work with other women, don't be afraid. And hey,
27:27
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, if they shoot you down,
27:29
Speaker 2: it's okay. You shot your shot, and just know that
27:32
Speaker 2: that's not that's not your tribe. But don't give up
27:34
Speaker 2: and keep moving that part.
27:37
Speaker 1: Don't give up, keep moving and give yourself permission to
27:41
Speaker 1: put your hat in the arena. Yeah, you never know
27:44
Speaker 1: what kind of return you're gonna get from giving yourself that.
27:49
Speaker 1: Betting on you, right, betting on.
27:51
Speaker 2: You, betting on you, betting on you, and believe in you,
27:55
Speaker 2: believe in you, believe in you, and believe in you,
27:59
Speaker 2: and again, colle operation over competition. I cannot stress that
28:02
Speaker 2: enough because can't nobody do me like I do me?
28:05
Speaker 2: Can't nobody do you like you do you? We all
28:08
Speaker 2: have these special, unique gifts and talents. So don't be
28:10
Speaker 2: afraid if someone's gonna take your dream. But you should
28:13
Speaker 2: be afraid that if you don't move in your purpose
28:16
Speaker 2: and your God given talents, you should be afraid to
28:18
Speaker 2: see it manifesting somebody else. Because whatever is meant to
28:21
Speaker 2: get out in this world is gonna get out get
28:23
Speaker 2: out anyway. So if you're not courageous enough to do it,
28:26
Speaker 2: you better believe somebody else will. Your dreams only move
28:30
Speaker 2: when you do a dream, it is that's a dream honey,
28:33
Speaker 2: you better wake up.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, everybody, that was miss Letitia Pearson that you
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Speaker 1: heard from on grew a Portie. And that concludes another
28:44
Speaker 1: episode here and thanks for tuning until next time. Everybody,
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Speaker 1: piece and hair grease.
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Speaker 2: A piece and agories. Thank you for having me. This
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Speaker 2: was beautiful. I appreciate you