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269. Move in Faith, Not Fear · Your Enriched Self

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friends from all across the globe and Welcome
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Speaker 1: to the Your Enriched Self podcast. I am your host,
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Speaker 1: Mylene Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach.
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Speaker 1: And what that means is I am looking out for you.
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Speaker 1: I want you to become more of your enriched self.
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Speaker 1: And listen, it takes work. It takes activity. It takes intentionality.
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Speaker 1: And it starts with your thoughts. If you think about
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Speaker 1: Anything you have ever created in this life, be it
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Speaker 1: big or small, whatever it might be, it started with
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Speaker 1: an idea. It started with a thought, a planted seed,
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Speaker 1: a seed that got watered. So that's what we talk
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Speaker 1: about here. We talk about mindset fusion topics, self-care, soul care,
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Speaker 1: spiritual care. any care that's going to result in managing
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. And so if you are new here, I
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Speaker 1: want to welcome you. I want to thank you for
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Speaker 1: being here because I know that you were brought here
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Speaker 1: on purpose for a purpose. And if you are a
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Speaker 1: repeat listener, I want to thank you. Listen, we are
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Speaker 1: now on episode 269. And that is because of you,
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Speaker 1: your listenership, your participation, your engagement, you sharing, liking, commenting
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Speaker 1: on the podcast. I could not do this without you.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for this journey of five years, again,
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Speaker 1: almost 270 episodes, and it's because of you. So thank
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Speaker 1: you from the bottom of my heart. Now, if you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, before we get into the episode, I always
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Speaker 1: make a deposit into the bank of you. That's something
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Speaker 1: I do each and every week because it's so important
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Speaker 1: to walk out in the world and be filled. So
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Speaker 1: I want to fill up your cup with affirmations. Affirmations
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Speaker 1: are a great way to start your day and to
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Speaker 1: command your morning. And this week's affirmation is, I have
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Speaker 1: been given power, love, and a sound mind. I will
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Speaker 1: not be ruled by fear. I have been given power,
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Speaker 1: love and a sound mind. I will not be ruled
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Speaker 1: by fear. I have been given power, love and a
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Speaker 1: sound mind. I will not be ruled by fear. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your
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Speaker 1: Enriched Self podcast. You know what inspired me to run
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Speaker 1: this series up, not just back, but up a notch
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Speaker 1: is all of what we've managed this year. There's been
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Speaker 1: so much fear in society, at work, really in every
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Speaker 1: environment you have stepped into this year. There's been a
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Speaker 1: level of fear that has been and has seeped into
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Speaker 1: that environment. And as we approach the closing of this
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Speaker 1: month and moving into the final two legs of this year,
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Speaker 1: I really want you to be in control. And in
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Speaker 1: control doesn't mean that you know exactly what's going to happen,
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Speaker 1: when it's going to happen, but you are prepared. You're mentally,
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Speaker 1: you're spiritually, you're emotionally prepared. Those are a lot of
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Speaker 1: times the intangible things, right? We can stack up the accounts.
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Speaker 1: with the money you can save you can do all
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Speaker 1: the things you can stock up the things you need
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Speaker 1: in your home but it's the things in your internal
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Speaker 1: home in your mental home in your spiritual space that
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Speaker 1: really needs attention and that's what this series is all
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Speaker 1: about like i said there's been a year's worth of
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Speaker 1: weight the weight of life and fear has come into
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Speaker 1: that and it has crippled you It has prevented you
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Speaker 1: from being and doing and having the life, the dreams
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Speaker 1: that you have always wanted and aspired for. But you've
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Speaker 1: allowed this to change the trajectory of that. And that's
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Speaker 1: what this episode is all about. We want to move
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Speaker 1: in faith and not fear. And a lot of us,
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Speaker 1: a lot of you have been moving in fear. Because
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Speaker 1: that's what's been put in front of you. And so
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Speaker 1: it's natural that you would just walk right into it.
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Speaker 1: And so that's why I want to remind you. And
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Speaker 1: that's why scriptures, again, for me, right, as I have
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Speaker 1: navigated and still am, because when life is happening, fear
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Speaker 1: will exist. When you're trying to get to the next level,
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Speaker 1: it will exist. It exists because it's a challenge to
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Speaker 1: your psyche. It's a challenge to what you know to
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Speaker 1: be your comfort. And that's what fear is doing. It's
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Speaker 1: stepping you down. It's forcing you to step down to comfort.
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Speaker 1: And what I say to you, no, is you tell fear,
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Speaker 1: not today. I'm moving differently now. And now you get
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Speaker 1: to choose. And so for me, scripture is Isaiah 41
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Speaker 1: and 10. And I mentioned the scripture in the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the series. And I'm going to repeat the scripture.
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Speaker 1: I'm for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for
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Speaker 1: I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous
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Speaker 1: right hand. There's so much about this that is affirmative.
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Speaker 1: It is the affirmation that you need to know that
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Speaker 1: you covered and if you think about your season of
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Speaker 1: fear those seasons where you're stepping into a new thing
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Speaker 1: and you're there's so much unknowns right those are often
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Speaker 1: those heavy fear seasons where you feel ill-equipped and all
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Speaker 1: the things oftentimes when you're navigating that season you're doing
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Speaker 1: it alone you're doing it by yourself you're literally suffering
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Speaker 1: in silence And that's when fear, a bully, yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to call it a bully. That's when the bully
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Speaker 1: knows this is the perfect opportunity to pounce because you're
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Speaker 1: not equipped with scriptures. You haven't shared your trial with anyone.
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Speaker 1: You're just walking through that trial alone. And sometimes there
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Speaker 1: are people that you need to share that trial with
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Speaker 1: because they can pour into you. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: wanted to pour the scripture into you because you need that.
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Speaker 1: I promise you, It's going to be really tough to
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Speaker 1: go out there. And you probably have tried. I know
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Speaker 1: I have. To go out there in the world and
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Speaker 1: not have anything on my side. Just good vibes and
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Speaker 1: good luck. And that feels good to walk out when
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Speaker 1: the sun is shining and the breeze is blowing and
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Speaker 1: the temperatures are perfect. But that's not how life goes.
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Speaker 1: The sun doesn't always shine. Sometimes it's rainy. Sometimes it's sleet.
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Speaker 1: It's snowing. It depends on where you are. Life is lifing.
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Speaker 1: And those are the times you're going to have to
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Speaker 1: lean not on your own understanding and lean into the word.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I did. It is a beautiful verse
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Speaker 1: to help you understand God's presence, his strength and the
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Speaker 1: help that you need through difficult circumstances. And that's the
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Speaker 1: thing about life. There will be difficult circumstances. No one,
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Speaker 1: not even God told us life was going to be easy.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where we got that from. But some
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Speaker 1: of us believe that if we do right and we
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Speaker 1: act right and we are in the right places, everything
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Speaker 1: right will happen. And that's not how it works. And
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Speaker 1: so that's why this series is so important. Because I
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Speaker 1: want you, unlike what I did, is I allowed fear
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Speaker 1: to take the wheel of my life. And I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: fear doesn't get to take the wheel. After this series,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't get to take the wheel. Faith is now
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Speaker 1: going to set your direction. And knowing that God is
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Speaker 1: with me wherever I may go, I know I'm not alone.
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Speaker 1: And that is part of this that has often plagued
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Speaker 1: me and it has plagued you is believing the false
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Speaker 1: narrative that this is a thing that you must do
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Speaker 1: alone and you don't have to. I'm going to start
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Speaker 1: by saying to you to guard your mind. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: Fear seeps in and it seeps in because we don't
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Speaker 1: have our guardrails up. We've allowed any and everything to
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Speaker 1: infiltrate our lives, our conversations, what we listen to, what
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Speaker 1: we watch. And so our mind is fixed. with a
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Speaker 1: lot of junk, a lot of muck. Just like if
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Speaker 1: you're trying to work out and get all the benefits
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Speaker 1: of the workout, you have to fill your body with
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Speaker 1: the nutrients you need to build a muscle and all
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Speaker 1: the things that you need so that you can become
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Speaker 1: healthy from the inside out. And that's what Guard Your
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Speaker 1: Mind is doing. It's helping you become healthy from the
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Speaker 1: inside out, starting with your mind. Like I said, every thought,
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Speaker 1: every action, every life, part of life that you're living,
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Speaker 1: start with the thought, which is a seed in your mind.
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Speaker 1: It's in Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 10, and it says, take
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Speaker 1: thoughts captive and bring them into the obedience of Christ.
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Speaker 1: What I love about this is that there are going
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Speaker 1: to be thoughts that run through your mind that you
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Speaker 1: don't want there. You don't want that thought planting a seed.
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Speaker 1: And these thoughts can plague you. They can literally control
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Speaker 1: your path forward. There are going to be times when
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Speaker 1: you will tell yourself, I'm going to fail at this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to do well at this.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an example. I had a
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Speaker 1: conversation with a coworker today. And she's in a space
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Speaker 1: of uncertainty. Quite frankly, a lot of people in the
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Speaker 1: workspace today are in a space of uncertainty. And she
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Speaker 1: was advised that she would be landing in a new space.
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Speaker 1: And she thought immediately, I've never done anything like that before.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I can be good at it.
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Speaker 1: And I had to remind her in that conversation that
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Speaker 1: think back, as I'm reminding you, think back to scenarios
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Speaker 1: in your life where you had never done a thing before. Yes,
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Speaker 1: were you fearful when it came up, when the idea
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Speaker 1: came up, or the conversation? Absolutely. But you found a
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Speaker 1: way to push through. I remember when I was putting
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Speaker 1: on my very first event. I had never ran an
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Speaker 1: event and been the keynote speaker for an event. I
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Speaker 1: had to run this event from scratch. I had never
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Speaker 1: done anything like, I was absolutely terrified. fearful of the
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Speaker 1: entire process but I kept going with faith I kept
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Speaker 1: going because in those moments I need you to pause
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Speaker 1: and examine the thought and choose to accept the truth
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Speaker 1: a lot of times you accept what is automatically being
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Speaker 1: said those thoughts I want you to re-examine them and
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Speaker 1: determine if those thoughts are true or not I turn
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Speaker 1: to 2 Timothy 1 and 7. God did not give
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Speaker 1: you a spirit of fear. He gave you power, love,
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Speaker 1: and a sound mind. He did not give you a
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Speaker 1: spirit of fear. So what I love about this is
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Speaker 1: to remember what you were given. You were given power.
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Speaker 1: You were given love. And you were given sound mind.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to not... Lean into the fear,
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Speaker 1: which we have been. That's been where we've normally gone
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Speaker 1: to because it has seeped into our, the community of
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Speaker 1: your mind, the community of your home. It's all over
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Speaker 1: the place. So you must be intentional. You are going
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Speaker 1: to lean into this power, the love, the sound mind,
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Speaker 1: the wisdom, the self-control. That's what you want to lean into.
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Speaker 1: When I have been in the face of fear, I've
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Speaker 1: literally said, I don't have that spirit. Whatever is trying
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Speaker 1: to consume me right now and tell me I can't
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Speaker 1: tell me I'm not enough. Tell me I've never done it.
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Speaker 1: So it's probably not going to work. I tell it
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Speaker 1: face to face. That is not my message. I have power.
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Speaker 1: I have love. I have soundness of mind. I have
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to choose a path of wisdom. I'm choosing that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not choosing this path of fear in the past.
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Speaker 1: I would simply just go for the ride. Not anymore.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I want you to do. This is the
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Speaker 1: way you combat fear. This is the way you do it.
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Speaker 1: And this is going to be a tough one because
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Speaker 1: I know I've been talking to you about scripture and
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Speaker 1: I've been talking to you about like how to think
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Speaker 1: about it and how your mind processes it and take
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Speaker 1: those thoughts captive. Yes, yes, yes. To all those things.
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Speaker 1: But this is what I'm going to tell you. This
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Speaker 1: is where the rubber meets the road. What you now
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Speaker 1: must do is you need to take the next step
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Speaker 1: before you can see the path. And that, my friends,
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Speaker 1: is one of the hardest things for many of us
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Speaker 1: to do. Whether you are standing on the word or not,
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Speaker 1: even now with me understanding the word and the power
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Speaker 1: and all the things, I must remind myself Go ahead
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Speaker 1: and take that step. I know you can't see everything.
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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of uncertainty. But in order
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Speaker 1: for you to overcome, almost think about it like you're
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Speaker 1: taking a step over fear to get to the other side.
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Speaker 1: You're taking a step in faith to get to the
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Speaker 1: other side. What I want you to recall is repeatedly
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Speaker 1: is that you are in the presence of God and
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Speaker 1: he is with you on this journey for me what
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Speaker 1: that translates to is I don't know how things will
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Speaker 1: work out I really honestly don't know when I was
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Speaker 1: planning my event a few years ago I had no
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Speaker 1: idea how things would work out. I had to keep
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Speaker 1: stepping so much. So one day I decided I was
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Speaker 1: going to make a post. I mean, I was posting
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Speaker 1: all the time and it was so interesting that me
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Speaker 1: taking my steps and leaps out there and just sharing
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Speaker 1: it with social media and opening up myself in a
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Speaker 1: way I had never done. Like I do post things
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Speaker 1: on social media, but I was posting very, very frequently.
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Speaker 1: And out of the woodwork came a high school friend
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Speaker 1: of mine that decided, you know what? I love what
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Speaker 1: you're doing. This is a great opportunity for any person
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Speaker 1: in your city that's going to attend. I'd like to
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Speaker 1: buy two tickets that you can give away as free
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Speaker 1: tickets for your event. Just by me posting. Just by
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Speaker 1: me sharing what I'm doing, why I'm doing it. This
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Speaker 1: person was compelled to do something special. I had another person,
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Speaker 1: actually a mentor of mine, who saw me taking this leap.
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Speaker 1: We had talked about so many things I had planned
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Speaker 1: to do years in the past. And she said, listen, Mylene,
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Speaker 1: if this is something you are going to do, I
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Speaker 1: am going to give you a videographer and a photographer
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Speaker 1: to make sure all this goodness is captured. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: the day of the event, I had a videographer and
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Speaker 1: a photographer ready, free of charge, Because I was taken
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Speaker 1: to sleep. I promise you, I didn't know the path.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know what was before me. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: everything that would be entailed. I knew there was going
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Speaker 1: to be costs and all the things, but I was
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Speaker 1: still willing to go. And I'm telling you right now,
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Speaker 1: take the steps. Know that things will work out. You
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Speaker 1: may not know how they will work out, but they
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Speaker 1: will work out. You can start to act on courage.
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Speaker 1: That's what I did. You can start to act on wisdom.
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Speaker 1: know what you know, and go to people that know
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Speaker 1: something that you may not know, right? So now you're
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Speaker 1: acting on wisdom because you recognize, I don't know something,
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Speaker 1: but I can step over here to somebody that does.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, move with faith. The thing about faith
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Speaker 1: is not saying that uncertainty is absent. Faith is saying,
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Speaker 1: I'm choosing to move forward while trusting God, while trusting
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Speaker 1: the promises which Oftentimes you'll hear people refer to scripture
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Speaker 1: as promises because they are, right? It's important to take
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Speaker 1: those thoughts captive that have no authority, no right to
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Speaker 1: consume your space, to take, you have every right as
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Speaker 1: of this moment, that any thought that does not represent you,
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Speaker 1: represent where you're going, has clouded your judgment, has immobilized you.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, you need to refuse fear.
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Speaker 1: You need to refuse that fear will no longer dictate
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Speaker 1: your actions and take those thoughts captive. Take them captive.
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Speaker 1: Take them captive so that you can choose With all uncertainty,
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Speaker 1: not certainty, but with all uncertainty to move forward. Listen, faith.
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Speaker 1: it sets the direction. Fear no longer gets to set
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Speaker 1: the direction or take the wheel. Faith is so important
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Speaker 1: to your journey. I know we've been talking about fear,
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Speaker 1: but faith has a very important, a very critical role
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Speaker 1: part of your journey because it's not just what you believe.
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Speaker 1: Your faith, just like your fear, but your faith will
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Speaker 1: shape how you think. It will shape how you speak.
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Speaker 1: It will shape how you move. It will shape where
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Speaker 1: you go. And that's what I want you to know.
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Speaker 1: That's what I want you to know today. I know
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Speaker 1: you may not know exactly the road that's ahead, But
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Speaker 1: now you know that your next best step is one
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Speaker 1: filled with faith. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode
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