Latest / The Breakfast Club / Breakfast Club Classic: Dr. Cheyenne Bryant Talks New Book ‘Live Your Promise’, Healed Bonds & Marriages, Her Doctorate Degree, Ignoring Negativity + More
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Every day.
- 0:04Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club finish for y'all done.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Everybody is ej en Vy, Jesse, Hilarrys, Charlamagne the guy.
- 0:12Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club Law on the roasteres here
- 0:14Speaker 3: as well. We got a special guests in the building.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Her new book is out right now live your promise.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Cheyenne Briant, welcome back.
- 0:22Speaker 4: Listen Breakfast Club, fam I love I love being here.
- 0:25Speaker 4: I'd be seeing seeing you out at the Diddy Trial,
- 0:29Speaker 4: seeing you out at the boosy gz up. Let me
- 0:32Speaker 4: tell you there was music playing and then there was
- 0:36Speaker 4: music playing.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Can you tell the people he really be DJing?
- 0:39Speaker 4: No?
- 0:39Speaker 1: No, I go out when he go, chloices. I go
- 0:41Speaker 1: because I always have a good time. But they be
- 0:43Speaker 1: trying to play with him up here, like he don't
- 0:44Speaker 1: be doing what he's doing.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Ivy, did I not come behind that stage you to
- 0:47Speaker 4: say listen, the entire party concert was jumping because he
- 0:52Speaker 4: was on fire. At the DJ boo, I looked like
- 0:56Speaker 4: who is that? And I was like, ah, DJ, yeah,
- 0:59Speaker 4: you killed that.
- 1:00Speaker 3: I think you need a new name, right you Doctor
- 1:01Speaker 3: Shy and Brian here, but you need like a shy
- 1:03Speaker 3: shy because she was shy shy that weekend. No, no,
- 1:06Speaker 3: you don't understand every boosy verse and record she knew
- 1:10Speaker 3: from head to.
- 1:11Speaker 4: You talking too much.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Every Jesus, every yo, you have to stay just start
- 1:16Speaker 3: off there right, So you know, Jez, I'm the realist nigga.
- 1:20Speaker 3: She like, I'm the real doctor in here.
- 1:22Speaker 4: You're already see that's why you got to have everybody
- 1:29Speaker 4: sign of nda.
- 1:32Speaker 2: You know, I love that kind of hybrid.
- 1:34Speaker 4: I gotta be able to have a good time. I
- 1:36Speaker 4: gotta be able to be relatable to people.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Why do the people be mad when you are out
- 1:40Speaker 1: having a good time? Because that made me think of
- 1:41Speaker 1: when you went to Jez's concert and it was a
- 1:44Speaker 1: whole discourse about your outfit at the concert.
- 1:46Speaker 4: So, Jez, they weren't mad because the doc was having
- 1:49Speaker 4: a good time. They were mad because of what I wore.
- 1:53Speaker 4: It was black tied to me, it wasn't black tied
- 1:56Speaker 4: to some other people. And you know, this is the thing.
- 1:59Speaker 4: I have agents over a couple things. One of those
- 2:01Speaker 4: happened to be me and what I wear, And so
- 2:03Speaker 4: I'm gonna always wear what I want to wear. And again,
- 2:08Speaker 4: you know, my clients, my doc squad, my fan base,
- 2:12Speaker 4: those are my people, those are my village. My goal
- 2:15Speaker 4: is not to sit up here and try to convince
- 2:17Speaker 4: folks who have already made up their mind to either
- 2:20Speaker 4: misunderstand me or dislike me, to like me. I will
- 2:22Speaker 4: spend my entire life having to continuously convince them to
- 2:27Speaker 4: like understand. And that's just a responsibility that I'm not
- 2:30Speaker 4: going to take on. I don't think anybody should do that.
- 2:33Speaker 4: We all have our village, and our job is to cater, to,
- 2:35Speaker 4: love and nurture our village. Once you start going outside
- 2:39Speaker 4: of that, then you have to spend your whole life
- 2:41Speaker 4: trying to make sure these people continuously like you, and
- 2:44Speaker 4: then you live in dogma, and dogma will eat your
- 2:47Speaker 4: ass up alive. And it's just not worth it. It's
- 2:49Speaker 4: just it's a bill that you don't want to ever
- 2:52Speaker 4: have to pay.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Does it bother you at all?
- 2:54Speaker 2: Which part the way?
- 2:56Speaker 3: Do people attack you? Because you get attacked a lot,
- 3:00Speaker 3: you know, and you know you know it's crazy, you don't.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I don't realize the amount that you get attacked. And
- 3:05Speaker 3: we're gonna dive all into it until you come up
- 3:07Speaker 3: here about your book. And I'm started just doing research
- 3:09Speaker 3: in your book, and I'm like, God, damn, did they
- 3:11Speaker 3: not like doctor Cheyenne Bryant.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I'd be seeing it in real time, So.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Does it doesn't bother me. It comes with the territory.
- 3:20Speaker 4: And I think that any of us who are either
- 3:22Speaker 4: in the industry and media, a celebrity who has a
- 3:26Speaker 4: certain level of fame, or even just came from the
- 3:29Speaker 4: inner city right and knows what it is to be
- 3:32Speaker 4: an attractive woman in the hood. In the inner city,
- 3:35Speaker 4: you get a lot of rhetoric, and you understand that
- 3:36Speaker 4: the outside chatter is a part of being successful. And
- 3:40Speaker 4: then I said this with humility, but to truth. And
- 3:43Speaker 4: you add on beauty, you add on being articulated or educated,
- 3:46Speaker 4: and you know, beating a lot of the statistics and
- 3:48Speaker 4: the odds that come from being an inner city. You know,
- 3:51Speaker 4: little girl boy, it comes with the territory. So I
- 3:55Speaker 4: always say that, you know, Jesus served the church, died
- 4:00Speaker 4: for the church, and the church Judas his disciple, set
- 4:04Speaker 4: him up, the people he loved and he serves set
- 4:08Speaker 4: him up to be crucified. So why do we personalize
- 4:12Speaker 4: when people I eat our disciples are folks who are
- 4:15Speaker 4: never our disciples. And our people have an issue with us,
- 4:18Speaker 4: try to take us down or set us up for failure.
- 4:21Speaker 4: That is a part of being great. That is a
- 4:24Speaker 4: part of people witnessing you be in your lane and
- 4:29Speaker 4: do what you do and them saying I either don't
- 4:32Speaker 4: have the capacity to do so I would love to
- 4:34Speaker 4: do it. And what I've learned, y'all is that people
- 4:38Speaker 4: don't always want to occupy your space. They want your territory.
- 4:43Speaker 4: And if you understand that, then you occupy the territory
- 4:46Speaker 4: that God has given you because no one can take
- 4:47Speaker 4: what God has given. You can't miss what's yours. And
- 4:50Speaker 4: if your faith, which is an action word, stands on that,
- 4:53Speaker 4: then what are you personalizing when people have an issue
- 4:56Speaker 4: with you? One Number two literally pay for the kind
- 5:01Speaker 4: of Internet attention that I get. They create storylines for
- 5:07Speaker 4: the headlines and the blog attention and the virility that
- 5:11Speaker 4: I get. I don't pay for any of it. I
- 5:14Speaker 4: just show up and be me, and so no, it
- 5:18Speaker 4: doesn't bother me. What I will say is there's times
- 5:20Speaker 4: where doctor Brian has to check Cheyenne on some of
- 5:24Speaker 4: my clapbacks because some of my clapbacks be like, you know, well,
- 5:28Speaker 4: your mama and I said, you can't say that. But
- 5:31Speaker 4: then I'm like, you can't, but I'm like, don't. So
- 5:35Speaker 4: it has stretched my bandwidth. It has really shown me
- 5:39Speaker 4: how emotionally intelligent I am. And it also has shown
- 5:42Speaker 4: me where I have some growth in the emotional maturity space.
- 5:48Speaker 4: When I'm thinking of clapping back or or saying something
- 5:53Speaker 4: that could really gut people.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Well, how does it feel? You know, because a lot
- 5:57Speaker 3: of the backlash come from people in your field, right
- 6:00Speaker 3: the doctor's therapist, life coaches, And what I say is
- 6:03Speaker 3: they say, the reason that you don't get questioned or
- 6:05Speaker 3: tested as much is because of your quote unquote looks.
- 6:10Speaker 4: You know what ivy. I said this last time I
- 6:13Speaker 4: was on You might be my alter ego brother, because
- 6:16Speaker 4: some of the stuff you say is just right up
- 6:18Speaker 4: the alley of what needs to be addressed. So there's
- 6:20Speaker 4: pretty privilege, and I've learned that there's pretty punishment. And
- 6:25Speaker 4: I didn't really understand that term until I got into
- 6:29Speaker 4: my field. And I want to say this, I didn't
- 6:31Speaker 4: get it. I've been in my field for eighteen years.
- 6:33Speaker 4: I didn't get into this field to become famous, to
- 6:35Speaker 4: become a celebrity. I got in this field because I
- 6:38Speaker 4: was a little girl from the inner city who was
- 6:39Speaker 4: tenations determined to make it out, and I had a
- 6:42Speaker 4: lot of broken pieces in abandonment. And when God provided
- 6:44Speaker 4: me tools that helped me take my broken pieces and
- 6:47Speaker 4: make peace from it, go from my wilderness into my
- 6:51Speaker 4: promised land, which I talk about in my book, Live
- 6:53Speaker 4: Your Promise, I thought, wait a minute, I got to
- 6:56Speaker 4: make sure I give everybody to come in contact with
- 6:58Speaker 4: these principles because everyone deserves that freedom and that healing
- 7:01Speaker 4: that I'm experiencing what I call God's peace, all right,
- 7:04Speaker 4: And so with that, people got a whiff of it,
- 7:08Speaker 4: and you know, the fam base, the folks made me famous,
- 7:14Speaker 4: made me a celebrity. I did not grow up and say, hey,
- 7:17Speaker 4: I want to just listen. I'm a good looking woman.
- 7:20Speaker 4: I've had access to the industry for my entire life.
- 7:25Speaker 4: If I wanted to be famous, I would have went
- 7:27Speaker 4: maybe the actress route or the modeling route. Easy, easy
- 7:32Speaker 4: call for me. It would have been so easy. I've
- 7:33Speaker 4: never had an agent, I've never had a manager. So
- 7:36Speaker 4: what I'm saying is this came to me and I
- 7:38Speaker 4: had to continuously remind people I'm in a field where
- 7:42Speaker 4: I am taking on people's luggage. I am unpacking it,
- 7:46Speaker 4: and I am helping them process through their stuff so
- 7:49Speaker 4: they can have a better quality of life, they can
- 7:50Speaker 4: have mental health, and they can actually have tools to
- 7:54Speaker 4: sustain their well being. So none of that. No one
- 7:59Speaker 4: goes to college and gets multiple degrees to say I
- 8:02Speaker 4: want to be famous. Now do I love it here? Yeah?
- 8:05Speaker 2: I love it.
- 8:05Speaker 4: I'm grateful for it. I appreciate it. So another thing is,
- 8:09Speaker 4: you know, I created my own lane as a psychology
- 8:13Speaker 4: xper life coach. So when people see that, they went
- 8:17Speaker 4: into a group that wasn't a lane. They just fell
- 8:23Speaker 4: into being a part of a group. And they're looking
- 8:25Speaker 4: at this other woman who they're like, wait a minute.
- 8:27Speaker 4: You know she created her own lane and she's totally
- 8:30Speaker 4: killing it. It's like, Yo, there's only room for me
- 8:34Speaker 4: in the lane that I created. And I would like
- 8:37Speaker 4: if y'all put your blinker on when you're trying to
- 8:38Speaker 4: get over, because a lot of times they're trying to
- 8:40Speaker 4: just get over my lane. It's like, but doesn't work
- 8:42Speaker 4: like that. If folks would concentrate on either asking, buying books,
- 8:49Speaker 4: looking at my videos, booking a session to say, doc,
- 8:52Speaker 4: how did you do it. I'm not a gatekeeper. I
- 8:55Speaker 4: love putting people on the quickest way to walk this
- 8:57Speaker 4: through serving people. I'm in a service position as a
- 9:02Speaker 4: psychologexter life coach. I am serving people all day long.
- 9:06Speaker 4: As president of NAACP, the biggest civil rights organization in
- 9:10Speaker 4: Los Angeles for fourteen years. That is a service position.
- 9:14Speaker 4: We don't get paid to run a civil rights organization.
- 9:17Speaker 4: That is volunteer work I've done for fourteen years. I
- 9:21Speaker 4: am in a service position. I'm a commissioner at home
- 9:24Speaker 4: for assemblyman. I have been a Democratic California state delegate.
- 9:28Speaker 4: Those are all elected official servant positions. And so if
- 9:34Speaker 4: folks would focus on doc, how did you create your
- 9:39Speaker 4: own lane? I don't want to be you but dad,
- 9:41Speaker 4: but I want my own lane to occupy. I would
- 9:44Speaker 4: give them the tools like I'm doing in my book,
- 9:46Speaker 4: Live your promise about how I did it, how I
- 9:49Speaker 4: went from the hood to the hills. Was it hard? Yeah?
- 9:52Speaker 4: Is it possible? Absolutely? Am I the only one that
- 9:55Speaker 4: can do it?
- 9:55Speaker 2: Hell?
- 9:56Speaker 4: No? The tools I use, if you apply it, you
- 9:59Speaker 4: would get this result, just like baking a cake.
- 10:02Speaker 3: Well, you don't I want to start off with because
- 10:04Speaker 3: doing research, I mean When I say the amount of
- 10:06Speaker 3: people attacking you, it just opened up a Pandora's box.
- 10:09Speaker 4: I like Jesus.
- 10:09Speaker 3: Though people didn't like me, they don't like you.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Even they don't like you either sometimes.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Well, you know, I wanted to start with what you do.
- 10:17Speaker 3: The thing I see online is she doesn't she doesn't
- 10:21Speaker 3: do this under her license. She's not a quote unquote
- 10:24Speaker 3: real doctor. She has an honorary degree. She didn't earn it.
- 10:27Speaker 3: So let's talk about what you do as far as
- 10:30Speaker 3: being a life coach and a doctor. Do you have
- 10:33Speaker 3: a license for for what you do?
- 10:35Speaker 4: So?
- 10:35Speaker 3: Well, what is a license needed?
- 10:37Speaker 4: I love that what I do a license is not required.
- 10:39Speaker 4: One number two one, I was in my undergrad which
- 10:43Speaker 4: is a degree in psychology. My master's is a degree
- 10:46Speaker 4: in marriage, Family and Child therapy. My doctorate is in
- 10:50Speaker 4: counseling psychology. Those are all academic. I have four academic degrees.
- 10:54Speaker 4: The other one is in Pan African studies. There's two
- 10:57Speaker 4: honorary doctorates. One is in behavioral science, so you have
- 10:59Speaker 4: an earned doctor, yes, and the other ones is in humanitaris.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Honorary doctorates are to praise you and give you your
- 11:08Speaker 4: flowers for your body of work. Okay, they're not academic,
- 11:12Speaker 4: but it shows your body of work is effective enough
- 11:14Speaker 4: for them to honor you with an honorary doctorate. Now,
- 11:16Speaker 4: going back when I said I worked under a license,
- 11:20Speaker 4: see all of this is terminology. People would open up
- 11:23Speaker 4: their ears and do what school teaches therapists to do.
- 11:28Speaker 4: I'm not a therapist, but the group of licensed professionals
- 11:31Speaker 4: who have an issue with this, they teach you all
- 11:33Speaker 4: something called active listening. None of y'all seem to be
- 11:37Speaker 4: actively listening. Working under a license means I'm working under
- 11:42Speaker 4: a supervisor's license. If anyone went to school for therapy, psychiatrists, psychologists,
- 11:51Speaker 4: you have to accumulate practicum. You have to accumulate hours
- 11:55Speaker 4: before you can graduate. It's not an option. So I
- 12:00Speaker 4: accumulated thousands of hours underneath the supervisor's license working as
- 12:06Speaker 4: a marriage, Family and Child therapists. So an MFT is
- 12:12Speaker 4: what I was not an l MFT. LMFT is licensed
- 12:16Speaker 4: Marriage and Family Therapists. MFT is marriage and family therapists.
- 12:20Speaker 4: As I worked under that license, I did diagnose, I
- 12:23Speaker 4: did treatment plans, and I see clients regularly. My goal
- 12:27Speaker 4: was never ever to obtain licensing ever, I did not
- 12:32Speaker 4: go to college and say I want to become a
- 12:34Speaker 4: licensed therapist. Let me put a disclaimer out there. A
- 12:38Speaker 4: licensed therapist, there's nothing wrong with that. There are absolutely effective,
- 12:44Speaker 4: amazing therapists, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and life coaches absolutely amazing.
- 12:51Speaker 4: It's all subjective. What works for where you are in
- 12:54Speaker 4: your life, what works best for the season you're in,
- 12:57Speaker 4: What is it that you need, and what clinician or
- 13:01Speaker 4: coach is best fit for what you have going on
- 13:04Speaker 4: the season you're in, and whose tools and principles will
- 13:07Speaker 4: most be effective for where you're trying to be and
- 13:09Speaker 4: for your healing. That's what it boils down to. Neither
- 13:12Speaker 4: is better. One's license and one's not. For me, I
- 13:17Speaker 4: have all of the training, and I have the academia,
- 13:20Speaker 4: and I have the education. I'm gonna say it one
- 13:23Speaker 4: last time, I had zero desire to ever become licensed.
- 13:27Speaker 4: As a young girl. I've always created my own lanes.
- 13:31Speaker 4: I'm a disruptor. Y'all can't see that by now. I've
- 13:34Speaker 4: always been the woman that said, Hey, if everyone's doing left,
- 13:37Speaker 4: then I want to go create right. If everyone's doing black,
- 13:41Speaker 4: I want to go create white. I'm doing it now.
- 13:44Speaker 4: It worked for me. So my goal was to be
- 13:46Speaker 4: able to create a huge platform and be able to
- 13:51Speaker 4: heal people, bless people at a large level, not to
- 13:56Speaker 4: be licensed or bill insurance, diagnosed, or tree or have patience.
- 14:01Speaker 4: I don't do or have any of those. I provide
- 14:03Speaker 4: effective tools, principles, and I have clients and I have sessions,
- 14:08Speaker 4: and that is exactly what I do.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Why did you start off not wanting to be licensed
- 14:12Speaker 1: where most people would be licensed in it. I have
- 14:14Speaker 1: friends who've gotten license, have experienced some things with what
- 14:17Speaker 1: you have to do want your license, and have said
- 14:18Speaker 1: I'm okay with not renew when you're not going forward
- 14:21Speaker 1: or whatever.
- 14:21Speaker 4: Right, but wait, say that again, I'll run that back.
- 14:23Speaker 1: So I have friends who've been licensed that have said,
- 14:26Speaker 1: you know what, I'd rather do it the other way
- 14:27Speaker 1: because their battle with insurances and how they're paid is
- 14:30Speaker 1: a conversation. But most people start off wanting to be licensed.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Why did you start off not wanting to be licensed?
- 14:37Speaker 4: Because I knew that it would create barriers for me
- 14:44Speaker 4: in the way that I want to be able to
- 14:47Speaker 4: approach my clients. I knew that, for example, when I
- 14:51Speaker 4: was working under a license a supervision license as an MFT,
- 14:56Speaker 4: not an LMFT. I had a client. They came in,
- 15:01Speaker 4: a young woman who experienced sexual abuse, and because I'm
- 15:07Speaker 4: working under a license, I had to make sure that
- 15:09Speaker 4: I followed those licenses, ethics and laws in the sense
- 15:12Speaker 4: of not confidentiality. I do that now as a as
- 15:16Speaker 4: a life coach and not as boundaries. But there were
- 15:20Speaker 4: moments where she needed a hug because she was having
- 15:25Speaker 4: a lot of triggers and she was experiencing a lot
- 15:29Speaker 4: of her sexual abuse in a way that she needed
- 15:34Speaker 4: to be supported. And of course I asked, you know,
- 15:37Speaker 4: is it okay if I hug you in this moment?
- 15:39Speaker 4: Is that okay? I would ask my clients now, And
- 15:42Speaker 4: she said, I'm not ready for that hug. No problem.
- 15:45Speaker 4: A few months went on and I asked her again, Hey,
- 15:47Speaker 4: you know it's Is it okay if I hug you?
- 15:50Speaker 4: Was our last session we were actually ending our term together,
- 15:54Speaker 4: and she was like, yeah, like I'm actually ready for
- 15:57Speaker 4: that hug. Now, as a licensed clinician, you are taught
- 16:05Speaker 4: in school ethically that you do not hug embrace your
- 16:08Speaker 4: clients at all. If y'all have ever experienced therapy, I
- 16:11Speaker 4: have that's something that's a no no. It's just something
- 16:14Speaker 4: you don't do unless you, of course acts, But it's
- 16:16Speaker 4: a very very thin line. My approach as a life coach.
- 16:20Speaker 4: I'm very loving, I'm very nurturing. I hug, I say
- 16:24Speaker 4: I love you, have a good day at the end
- 16:26Speaker 4: of our sessions. And those small things that I'm able
- 16:30Speaker 4: to do as a life coach have been life changing
- 16:32Speaker 4: for my clients. I've had clients, after giving them a hug,
- 16:35Speaker 4: stay in my office for twenty more minutes just crying
- 16:38Speaker 4: and bond their eyes out, saying, you have no idea
- 16:41Speaker 4: how much I needed that hug. Doc. I've had clients
- 16:44Speaker 4: that I've said I love you, I'm proud of you.
- 16:45Speaker 4: Well have said my mother my father has never said
- 16:48Speaker 4: those words to me, and that has been the catalyst
- 16:51Speaker 4: to their healing. Some folks don't need to just come
- 16:54Speaker 4: and just talk. Some people do. Some people that talk
- 16:57Speaker 4: therapy is their breakthrough, and I completely advocate for that
- 17:01Speaker 4: if that's what you need for some people, they do
- 17:04Speaker 4: just need to be nurtured and love through their pain.
- 17:07Speaker 4: Some folks trauma has completely broken them and has callous
- 17:10Speaker 4: them to where only love is what can break down
- 17:14Speaker 4: those barriers of callous of their heart being hardened because
- 17:18Speaker 4: they've never experienced that type of nurturing and love. And
- 17:21Speaker 4: so again, everybody has different things that they need. It's
- 17:25Speaker 4: about us not focusing on who is better or worse,
- 17:30Speaker 4: or titled or not titled. It's how can we serve
- 17:34Speaker 4: the people that we all are collectively trying to make
- 17:36Speaker 4: sure it gets tools, gets healing, gets therapy. If you're
- 17:39Speaker 4: a therapist, gets coaching, if you're a coach, how can
- 17:43Speaker 4: we make sure those people get what they need? And
- 17:45Speaker 4: let's take the focus away from the practitioners or the coaches.
- 17:50Speaker 4: Are you effective? Are you changing and healing lives? If so,
- 17:55Speaker 4: run those plays. If not, get more training, get more practice,
- 17:59Speaker 4: or get up under somebody who can teach you how
- 18:00Speaker 4: to do it effectively. Because really, at the end of
- 18:02Speaker 4: the day, that's all that we all are trying to do.
- 18:05Speaker 4: And I want people to know. I want them to
- 18:08Speaker 4: choose what works best for you, not just only as
- 18:12Speaker 4: the patient or the client, but as the clinician or
- 18:14Speaker 4: the coach, which lane works best for you. I don't
- 18:17Speaker 4: want my hands tied behind my back. I'll land on
- 18:20Speaker 4: this as a little girl. I didn't need to just talk, y'all.
- 18:22Speaker 4: I needed love. I needed someone to see me. I
- 18:26Speaker 4: needed someone to hold my hand. I needed someone to
- 18:28Speaker 4: pat me on the back. I wanted someone to sit
- 18:30Speaker 4: with me, grab my little cheeks and say, listen, I
- 18:33Speaker 4: love you with your hurt self, with your pain self,
- 18:35Speaker 4: which you traumaself, with your abandoned self. I got you,
- 18:39Speaker 4: so I can provide those same principles that work for me.
- 18:46Speaker 4: I'm able to do in my lane that I've created
- 18:48Speaker 4: and in my capacity, and I've been doing it eighteen
- 18:51Speaker 4: years and I'm effective and it has made me the
- 18:56Speaker 4: most sout out psychology expert life coach in the world today.
- 19:00Speaker 3: You say to those people one thing, What do you
- 19:01Speaker 3: say to those people like you told us what you
- 19:03Speaker 3: studied and what you did in the schooling that you
- 19:05Speaker 3: got and the classes that you take. But you know,
- 19:08Speaker 3: when I said I did a deep dive, some people
- 19:11Speaker 3: were like, well, how can she tell me about my
- 19:13Speaker 3: marriage when she hasn't been married, or how can she
- 19:15Speaker 3: tell me about my family or my kids when she
- 19:16Speaker 3: hasn't been through that even though you studied it and
- 19:19Speaker 3: you got your degree in it. So what do you
- 19:21Speaker 3: say to those people?
- 19:22Speaker 4: So you's gonna cook the whole the whole interview, just
- 19:24Speaker 4: gonna cook all your questions because you know what, because
- 19:28Speaker 4: tell them that we talked about this pre.
- 19:31Speaker 3: But when I say with like you know, and I
- 19:33Speaker 3: looked at it wasn't like, you know, two years ago.
- 19:34Speaker 3: This is like a week ago to like Jesus Christ,
- 19:36Speaker 3: y'all trying to stomp out the shin shine Bryan, like
- 19:38Speaker 3: my next did the Philly Sixers. But God, yeah, and
- 19:41Speaker 3: we know shout out the Philadelphia.
- 19:42Speaker 4: And we know that's not gonna happen. You know, that's
- 19:44Speaker 4: just not gonna You can't have what God has given me.
- 19:47Speaker 4: It don't work like that. And you can't be in
- 19:49Speaker 4: my lane. You couldn't ride in this lane if I
- 19:50Speaker 4: gave it the opportunity to. So whatever star you wishing on, baby,
- 19:54Speaker 4: wish a little bigger, because that's not going to happen.
- 19:58Speaker 4: But your question was, what what do I think about
- 20:00Speaker 4: people who say I'm not married? So how can I
- 20:02Speaker 4: teach folks? So this is the thing I do not
- 20:04Speaker 4: teach people how to be married. Marriage is between you
- 20:07Speaker 4: and your partner. That's your agreement, that's your covenant, and
- 20:10Speaker 4: however you to decide to create and curate your marriage.
- 20:15Speaker 4: I can't teach you that. What I teach people is
- 20:17Speaker 4: how to get out of their own way. Because happy,
- 20:19Speaker 4: healed people make happy healed marriages. Miserable. Unhappy people create
- 20:25Speaker 4: miserable marriages. Trauma out folks create trauma bonds. Healed people
- 20:29Speaker 4: create healed bonds. I teach you, Envy, how do you
- 20:32Speaker 4: process through your trauma so you don't bleed on your wife?
- 20:36Speaker 4: I teach you, Lauren, how do you get out of
- 20:38Speaker 4: your daddy issues? Not saying you have them, your daddy issues,
- 20:40Speaker 4: cruential issues. Okay, well your dob I'm on point today,
- 20:43Speaker 4: out of your daddy issues, right, so that you don't
- 20:45Speaker 4: point and project your pain onto this man who is
- 20:49Speaker 4: loving the hell out of you and doesn't deserve that.
- 20:52Speaker 4: If I could teach you how to heal those and
- 20:53Speaker 4: how to get out of your way with that, then
- 20:56Speaker 4: I have helped you become a better woman for yourself,
- 20:59Speaker 4: which in return, it's going to do what benefit the
- 21:01Speaker 4: collective of that marriage. No one can teach people how
- 21:05Speaker 4: to be married. We teach you how to get out
- 21:07Speaker 4: of your own way so you and your partner can
- 21:09Speaker 4: be healthy. That's it, Because no matter how much we
- 21:12Speaker 4: teach you. The proper too is a marriage. If you
- 21:16Speaker 4: are traumaed out and your abandoned and a sabotage in
- 21:18Speaker 4: this thing, those tools will not be effective until I
- 21:22Speaker 4: help you get out of your way.
- 21:23Speaker 1: So I want to ask this question, and I want
- 21:25Speaker 1: to go back to the degree thing because I have
- 21:27Speaker 1: something to ask before we move from that. So on
- 21:29Speaker 1: that right, on that self sabotage. There. Another conversation in
- 21:33Speaker 1: your community of work is with people from like you
- 21:36Speaker 1: don't have the educational background that they're like out here
- 21:39Speaker 1: searching for or whatever.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Right, wait, say that again.
- 21:41Speaker 1: So with people debating whether you have your degrees and
- 21:44Speaker 1: all this stuff, right, the biggest thing is is like,
- 21:46Speaker 1: in a normal situation, if because I've heard you say
- 21:49Speaker 1: that you're dealing with your own like wounds of like
- 21:51Speaker 1: being abandoned, and like, how you will self sabotage in
- 21:54Speaker 1: certain situations?
- 21:55Speaker 4: How I have I used to?
- 21:57Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So a lot of people who in
- 22:00Speaker 1: your lane, they're like, okay, if I know that personally
- 22:02Speaker 1: about myself, I depend on my education to be able
- 22:05Speaker 1: to put that to the side and give you the tools.
- 22:08Speaker 1: And I know some people are upset because they're like, well,
- 22:11Speaker 1: they're trying to say you don't have the education, but
- 22:13Speaker 1: then you also have your own issues in your real life.
- 22:15Speaker 1: So how are you separating the two of one thing?
- 22:17Speaker 1: Is their legend is not there?
- 22:19Speaker 4: Yeah, I got you. I hear the question. So the
- 22:22Speaker 4: work that I've done on my abandonment that has created
- 22:26Speaker 4: a healing in me and really allowed me to identify
- 22:29Speaker 4: my pain pockets right so to where I don't sabotage anymore.
- 22:34Speaker 4: I'm able to have emotional intelligence, high functionality and communicate
- 22:38Speaker 4: with you even as a friend, to say, look, you
- 22:40Speaker 4: know how you show up in this relationship, Lauren. It's
- 22:44Speaker 4: triggering me. And in the past I would have sabotage,
- 22:47Speaker 4: are just left or not even had a conversation. But
- 22:50Speaker 4: I want to talk about this because I honor and
- 22:52Speaker 4: I love our friendship. And so when you do X,
- 22:54Speaker 4: Y and Z, this is how it makes me feel
- 22:57Speaker 4: identifying my emotion and these are the things that I
- 23:00Speaker 4: need from you as my best friend. Can you commit
- 23:03Speaker 4: to those things? That's a healing person who's talking. That
- 23:06Speaker 4: is where I am now. Okay. Sabotaging was something I
- 23:09Speaker 4: did as a young girl because I didn't even understand
- 23:12Speaker 4: that I was sabotaging because I was still trying to
- 23:14Speaker 4: get in contact with my pain. I was still trying
- 23:16Speaker 4: to figure out how abandon it was impacting me. So
- 23:19Speaker 4: the tools that I used to be able to get
- 23:20Speaker 4: myself from self sabotaging to communicating and being high functioning
- 23:25Speaker 4: and having emotional intelligence and mending this relationship and letting
- 23:30Speaker 4: you know what I need because now I have awareness
- 23:32Speaker 4: of who I am as a woman. I'm aware of
- 23:35Speaker 4: my pain pockets, I'm aware of my triggers. Those are
- 23:38Speaker 4: all the tools that I teach. Those are all the
- 23:40Speaker 4: tools that are in my book, Live Your Promise. And
- 23:42Speaker 4: so I'm teaching folks how to get out of their
- 23:45Speaker 4: own way because there was a time where I was
- 23:47Speaker 4: in my way. And what made it challenging for me
- 23:50Speaker 4: to heal, y'all, was I was in relationships with people
- 23:53Speaker 4: who enabled it because they weren't leaving me. It didn't
- 23:58Speaker 4: matter what I did. They weren't going nowhere. They were
- 24:00Speaker 4: still putting rings on my finger, they were still wanting
- 24:02Speaker 4: to marry me, they were still loving the hell out
- 24:04Speaker 4: of me. And that enabling mechanism doesn't give folks an
- 24:09Speaker 4: excuse to show up trauma out to still show up
- 24:12Speaker 4: in your dysfunction. You still have a responsibility to love
- 24:16Speaker 4: yourself enough, respect yourself enough to say, let me identify
- 24:19Speaker 4: what is going on in me, even though this person's
- 24:22Speaker 4: allowing it that I know is not effective for the
- 24:25Speaker 4: collective of the relationship or myself.
- 24:27Speaker 2: You think that that was like them still coming back.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Was that their ego of like, you know, men want
- 24:32Speaker 1: to be able to conquer, to be able to change
- 24:34Speaker 1: and sit you down and you know all those things
- 24:36Speaker 1: that come with like when you're strong.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Or could it be because he was just trying to
- 24:40Speaker 3: love you through your problems.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I mean I was gonna say, or was it the opposite?
- 24:43Speaker 2: Like what did you discover?
- 24:44Speaker 4: More? You know what? I think that God just really
- 24:47Speaker 4: blessed me with amazing people in my life. Like I've
- 24:51Speaker 4: had some amazing parents, I've had amazing partners who I've
- 24:56Speaker 4: been in relationship with. I've had friends that just love
- 25:00Speaker 4: me down. And I'd like to say that that's the
- 25:03Speaker 4: reflection of who I am and how I love. I
- 25:05Speaker 4: love deep, I love hard. I will love you out
- 25:08Speaker 4: of your shit. I will love you out of your shit.
- 25:11Speaker 4: I'm like that with my clients. And so I just
- 25:14Speaker 4: had men who they just had the bandwidth to love
- 25:18Speaker 4: me through my shit. And that taught me that you
- 25:23Speaker 4: can have all the tools, you can have the best therapist,
- 25:26Speaker 4: the best coach, but if you don't have love, healing
- 25:32Speaker 4: is nearly impossible. I don't care what anyone says. You
- 25:35Speaker 4: would be a highly functioning transactional person with like an encyclopedia,
- 25:42Speaker 4: with all the tools and the effectiveness and this is
- 25:44Speaker 4: how it works and the principles, but internally homeless as hell,
- 25:49Speaker 4: because you won't have the ability to attach to love
- 25:53Speaker 4: to securely attached, not anxiously attached or avoidantly attached. You
- 25:57Speaker 4: would be a matchin as homeless. And so you know,
- 26:01Speaker 4: people just really loved me through my trauma and that
- 26:06Speaker 4: was amazing.
- 26:07Speaker 3: I was enabling you, Like, what were you doing because
- 26:10Speaker 3: the first.
- 26:10Speaker 4: Time they weren't setting boundaries, They weren't saying bound they
- 26:13Speaker 4: weren't saying but at what point?
- 26:14Speaker 3: Because you know when people think of enabling, you think
- 26:17Speaker 3: of drugs, right, you thinking enable them to use drugs
- 26:20Speaker 3: and enabling them to gamble, enabling them to do something
- 26:22Speaker 3: that you feel like will be hurtful to their life.
- 26:26Speaker 3: So what was your.
- 26:26Speaker 4: Enabling them, not setting boundaries with me. You know, folks,
- 26:30Speaker 4: some people bless you. Some people fall so deep and
- 26:35Speaker 4: love envy that they start loving the person more than themselves,
- 26:40Speaker 4: which Puzzny clips up from them realizing that there needs
- 26:44Speaker 4: to be a boundary set right now.
- 26:46Speaker 3: Most women want that, don't. Most women want somebody that's
- 26:48Speaker 3: going to love them, damn there, more than themselves.
- 26:50Speaker 4: Absolutely I do. I do, so let me speak for myself.
- 26:52Speaker 4: I do. But I want, let me say this, as
- 26:58Speaker 4: that man is loving me more than he loves himself,
- 27:01Speaker 4: I want there to be a healthy balance of him
- 27:03Speaker 4: loving himself enough to say, baby, I'm not going to
- 27:06Speaker 4: leave you, but this shit right here, there's gonna be
- 27:10Speaker 4: a boundary put up here, because see, I do respect myself.
- 27:14Speaker 4: Even though I love you, I love myself too as
- 27:16Speaker 4: a man, and you just can't talk to me like
- 27:19Speaker 4: that because that emasculates me. And I'm vertical and who
- 27:24Speaker 4: I am, And the reason why you love me so
- 27:26Speaker 4: much and the reason why I can carry you is
- 27:29Speaker 4: because of the fact that I respect myself and that
- 27:31Speaker 4: I'm vertical, and so you cannot emasculate me, meaning shrink
- 27:37Speaker 4: me and expect me to be big enough to carry you.
- 27:40Speaker 4: That is a man who has boundaries. He's not sabotage
- 27:44Speaker 4: and he's not abandoning you. But it takes a heel
- 27:47Speaker 4: to woman to say, you know what, you're right, let
- 27:51Speaker 4: me work on this. Show me how to work on this,
- 27:55Speaker 4: Teach me what that looks like, because maybe I've never
- 27:58Speaker 4: done that, maybe I've never had a father. It takes
- 28:01Speaker 4: a certain woman, women who don't have the bandwidth, the
- 28:05Speaker 4: awareness to healing, to respect that kind of man should
- 28:10Speaker 4: have enough respect for themself to leave, not sabotage, but
- 28:14Speaker 4: leave that relationship because she will emasculate him. But a
- 28:18Speaker 4: man who was functioning at that high level won't tolerate that,
- 28:22Speaker 4: at least for not long. And you shouldn't want to
- 28:25Speaker 4: a man who's loving the hell out of you. I mean,
- 28:27Speaker 4: you've got to learn that. That is what made me
- 28:30Speaker 4: want to be better. I wonder what made me want
- 28:33Speaker 4: to be better.
- 28:33Speaker 1: It'd be that right there, Because a lot of people
- 28:35Speaker 1: will not do like the therapy stuff and all of that.
- 28:38Speaker 1: But like, if you get with the right person where
- 28:40Speaker 1: you're like, it makes you really face your own stuff,
- 28:42Speaker 1: you're like hold on, Like then you start kind of
- 28:45Speaker 1: working backwards off of lif Yes, Oh so wait, and
- 28:49Speaker 1: you talked about mother wounds too, because a lot of
- 28:52Speaker 1: people talk about daddy issues, and I think that definitely
- 28:54Speaker 1: is a thing. But I don't think people talk enough,
- 28:56Speaker 1: especially with black girls, about mother wombs and how that
- 28:59Speaker 1: transit and sense of how you deal with your relationships
- 29:01Speaker 1: friends and you like your marital relationships too.
- 29:04Speaker 4: Absolutely, we talk about men with mommy issues and women
- 29:08Speaker 4: with daddy issues, right, we always cross section and we
- 29:11Speaker 4: don't talk about women who have mommy issues and how
- 29:14Speaker 4: that shows up and impacts friendships, how it also shows
- 29:18Speaker 4: up and plays a role.
- 29:19Speaker 3: In how.
- 29:21Speaker 4: You know. Some women are okay with dealing with merry men.
- 29:24Speaker 4: Some women are okay with being the side chick. Sometimes
- 29:27Speaker 4: it's not because daddy went there. Sometimes it's because mommy
- 29:31Speaker 4: was competing with you at a young age. Sometimes because
- 29:34Speaker 4: mom abandoned you and you have an internal dislike or
- 29:39Speaker 4: hatred towards women because of the wounds that your mother created.
- 29:43Speaker 4: So sometimes women are saying, if I could be with
- 29:47Speaker 4: this married man and hurt his wife, then it's my
- 29:51Speaker 4: way of saying f all women, because my mother is
- 29:54Speaker 4: a woman who I despise. We have to look at
- 29:57Speaker 4: all moving parts when we are helping our when people
- 30:00Speaker 4: unpack their stuff. We can't just say, because you know
- 30:04Speaker 4: you're a womanizer, automatically mommy issues, because you process your
- 30:09Speaker 4: emotions in a certain way, Automatically, daddy issues, Daddy wasn't there.
- 30:12Speaker 4: I have to be able to say, all right, Envy,
- 30:14Speaker 4: who was in the house. And I always say this,
- 30:17Speaker 4: just because a parent is present doesn't mean they don't
- 30:19Speaker 4: present more. Trauma sometimes learn behavior of learning how to
- 30:24Speaker 4: become a womanizer is what creates a womanizer and a man.
- 30:29Speaker 4: Seeing your father womanize your mother teaches you that that
- 30:33Speaker 4: is a normalcy of being a man. It glamorizes it
- 30:37Speaker 4: for a lot of little boys, and they grow up
- 30:39Speaker 4: loving and admiring their father, showing up in the admiration
- 30:42Speaker 4: of what they see, never being told, nah son, this
- 30:47Speaker 4: is what I'm doing, but this is not the right
- 30:49Speaker 4: way to do it. Well, let me ask you.
- 30:51Speaker 3: So you know, we were talking about it earlier. We
- 30:53Speaker 3: were talking about Neo and his relationships. Right, what is
- 30:56Speaker 3: three or four women? How do you look at that
- 30:59Speaker 3: relationship for those individual women?
- 31:02Speaker 4: So polyamorous to me is a lifestyle. So it's a
- 31:07Speaker 4: choice right, it's nothing in secrecy. It's not woman saying hey,
- 31:12Speaker 4: I'm dating a man who has a woman or a wife,
- 31:15Speaker 4: and I'm doing it in secrecy. And so this is feeding,
- 31:19Speaker 4: you know, my trauma of being able to be hidden
- 31:21Speaker 4: because I've always been hidden as a little girl, nobody
- 31:24Speaker 4: ever seen me. So this allows me to be in
- 31:27Speaker 4: my norm of never being seen. Right, that's one reason
- 31:31Speaker 4: why women will become the side check. Polyamorous is a lifestyle,
- 31:34Speaker 4: So it's not for me, but I don't see anything
- 31:37Speaker 4: wrong with it for the folks who are choosing it
- 31:40Speaker 4: at all, if that makes sense. I don't think polyamorous
- 31:43Speaker 4: is a lifestyle that is deemed bad. I think it
- 31:46Speaker 4: is only bad when things are deceptive. When there's lies
- 31:51Speaker 4: and there's deception, then it's totally totally out of pocket.
- 31:53Speaker 4: It's completely unhealthy. But if this is an open relationship
- 31:56Speaker 4: and we are all happy, here, are y'all happy? Are
- 31:58Speaker 4: you healthy? Day? My thing? I'm territorial. I want all
- 32:02Speaker 4: minds to myself, and I want you territory over me.
- 32:05Speaker 4: You would be unhappy with me in a house full
- 32:08Speaker 4: of anybody outside of me, everybody being happy.
- 32:11Speaker 1: And by the way, all this stuff that we're talking about,
- 32:13Speaker 1: even though it's not like directly mentioned in your book,
- 32:15Speaker 1: your book Live Your Purpose, the way that you set
- 32:17Speaker 1: up part promise, I'm sorry, part one, two and three
- 32:20Speaker 1: with like the building of your house. Yes, all of
- 32:22Speaker 1: this kind of goes into it because you spend a
- 32:24Speaker 1: lot of time on like accountability, understanding what's actually happened
- 32:27Speaker 1: versus It's not so like I don't want people to
- 32:30Speaker 1: be like, oh she there for the book, then they
- 32:31Speaker 1: going into all the stuff. No, the book gives you
- 32:33Speaker 1: like a very good foundation of when the stuff is happening.
- 32:35Speaker 3: To break down parts of the book, thinking, feeling, and behavior.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Right now, how does this make up someone's personality?
- 32:42Speaker 4: Yeah, so your three part house is exactly you know
- 32:45Speaker 4: who you are, how you think, how you feel, how
- 32:47Speaker 4: you behave. When it's in alignment, you are healthy, you
- 32:50Speaker 4: are a whole, and you are manifesting. You're in alignment.
- 32:53Speaker 4: Manifestation happens at the point of alignment. So how you
- 32:57Speaker 4: think I talk about the first part is as a
- 32:59Speaker 4: man thinking in his heart? So is he right? And
- 33:01Speaker 4: the Bible also says think only on the thoughts that
- 33:03Speaker 4: are prosperous, positive, and praiseworthy. If you wouldn't pray for it,
- 33:07Speaker 4: why would you think it? Because we do become our thoughts.
- 33:12Speaker 4: Our thoughts then create an emotion. Right. And so if
- 33:16Speaker 4: I always say if a person can't govern their emotions,
- 33:18Speaker 4: they can't govern anything. Because your emotions is what creates
- 33:21Speaker 4: your appetite. So womanizing, cheating, those are all appetites. Those
- 33:28Speaker 4: are our emotionally driven behaviors. If you can't govern how
- 33:32Speaker 4: you feel or regulate your emotions, you will always be reactory.
- 33:36Speaker 4: They did a study where it shows that folks who
- 33:39Speaker 4: are in jail right or in prison or will have
- 33:41Speaker 4: committed crimes, have less ability to regulate their emotions. That
- 33:46Speaker 4: means that their decision making at that time was emotionally reactory.
- 33:52Speaker 4: It wasn't something that they processed before they produce. It
- 33:55Speaker 4: wasn't any emotion that they regulated and then said, let
- 33:57Speaker 4: me respond in this way because I calculate the So
- 34:01Speaker 4: emotions is something we have to learn to identify, regulate
- 34:05Speaker 4: so that our appetite and how we show up could
- 34:07Speaker 4: be in alignment with what we want to do, who
- 34:09Speaker 4: we want to be in our goals, and both of
- 34:11Speaker 4: those create our behaviors. Our behaviors are the only thing
- 34:14Speaker 4: that creates results if we can get them thoughts and
- 34:16Speaker 4: those emotions in alignment, how we behave will create the
- 34:20Speaker 4: result that we want. And so I teach you not
- 34:23Speaker 4: only the tools on this is what you do, but
- 34:26Speaker 4: I have a toolkit at the end of every chapter
- 34:28Speaker 4: that says, this is how you use the tool. You
- 34:30Speaker 4: use this hammer to build this house, use this hammer
- 34:33Speaker 4: to destroy this one if it's not serving you. And
- 34:36Speaker 4: I use the Moses journey as a metaphor in the book, how.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Many times you have to open your own book and
- 34:41Speaker 2: work through it again?
- 34:42Speaker 1: Because the claim the conversations online in the last couple
- 34:46Speaker 1: of weeks, are you actively like going back to your
- 34:50Speaker 1: own practices for yourself?
- 34:51Speaker 2: Though in our real.
- 34:51Speaker 4: Line, I stand on these principles. I don't even have
- 34:55Speaker 4: to go back because these principles are my principles every day.
- 34:58Speaker 4: I'm always reprogramming, meditate every day for twenty minutes. I'm definitely,
- 35:03Speaker 4: you know, scripture inclined. I mean, I stand on faith.
- 35:07Speaker 4: Faith is an action word. I'm always making sure that
- 35:10Speaker 4: my thoughts are the thoughts that I want to create.
- 35:12Speaker 4: I'm always reminding myself that everything is working for me.
- 35:15Speaker 4: That you know, to call a thing that isn't as
- 35:18Speaker 4: though I wanted to be. I'm always making sure that
- 35:21Speaker 4: I'm obedient to what God is telling me to do.
- 35:26Speaker 4: I even look, listen, I've had to pray a couple
- 35:28Speaker 4: of times this week. I said, God, So what I
- 35:30Speaker 4: want to say I'm being honest, I said, God, what
- 35:32Speaker 4: I want to say is this. I'm going to pray
- 35:34Speaker 4: on it, and in about thirty minutes, I'm going to
- 35:37Speaker 4: check in with with my decision, making, my emotions, my
- 35:41Speaker 4: appetite to see if this is I prayed on it,
- 35:44Speaker 4: and God gave me three or four people's names, and
- 35:48Speaker 4: he said would they respond like this?
- 35:50Speaker 2: And I said, damn it no, Because.
- 35:52Speaker 4: Said, so, what is your answer? I said, but God?
- 35:55Speaker 4: He said, remember Moses. I told Moses to speak to
- 35:58Speaker 4: the rock and he hit it, and because Moses wasn't obedient,
- 36:02Speaker 4: he got to the Promised Land and didn't make it
- 36:04Speaker 4: into the Promised Land. Do you want to be in
- 36:07Speaker 4: your wilderness for forty more years or do you want
- 36:08Speaker 4: to get into your promise land? I said, I kind
- 36:10Speaker 4: of want both. I want to rip them a new
- 36:12Speaker 4: fucking tale and I want to get in the Promised Land.
- 36:15Speaker 4: He said, you can't have both because you can't be Luke.
- 36:17Speaker 4: Warn't make a choice. So I willed back. I use
- 36:21Speaker 4: the tools that I provided. My book gave your promise.
- 36:24Speaker 4: I emotionally regulated, I govern myself, and I said I'm
- 36:27Speaker 4: not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.
- 36:29Speaker 2: Okay.
- 36:29Speaker 1: So this brings me to the question I was trying
- 36:31Speaker 1: to ask a bit back the conversation about your doctorate.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Because people can't find your dissertation online. How are you
- 36:39Speaker 1: responding to that in this new era of your life?
- 36:41Speaker 1: Like what is the answer to number one? Like why
- 36:44Speaker 1: isn't in online? I've also seen cleians of like there's
- 36:47Speaker 1: an alleged like chairman from your university saying that you
- 36:49Speaker 1: didn't finish things whatever, Like can you clear that up
- 36:54Speaker 1: for the people who are hearing it from one side?
- 36:56Speaker 4: But now we have to So I'm going to say this.
- 36:57Speaker 4: I'm going to clear it up once on here, I'm
- 37:00Speaker 4: not doing it again, And I'm clearing it up for
- 37:02Speaker 4: my doc squad, for my fan base, from my audience
- 37:05Speaker 4: who deserve to hear me address it, for the folks
- 37:08Speaker 4: who have already made up their mind to not like
- 37:11Speaker 4: me or not understand me. Listen, I don't give a
- 37:14Speaker 4: fuck what your narrative is. I would like you to
- 37:16Speaker 4: recreate it, double down on it, and run that shit,
- 37:20Speaker 4: because I don't give a fuck about it. Now to
- 37:22Speaker 4: my doc squad, my fan base, my folks. You know,
- 37:25Speaker 4: my village is very simple. I went to a school
- 37:28Speaker 4: Augusa University, completed an entire program. I went back online
- 37:35Speaker 4: to get my official transcripts because I was applying to
- 37:40Speaker 4: a law school many years ago to be a professor there,
- 37:43Speaker 4: and I had to provide my transcripts right to get hired.
- 37:47Speaker 4: And I went to contact the school and say, hey,
- 37:49Speaker 4: I need my fenicial transcripts. I need my entire thing.
- 37:52Speaker 4: And there was no school. I was like, okay, I'm confused.
- 37:56Speaker 4: I google it says this school has been shut down.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Oh well, they got to have records. I mean they
- 38:02Speaker 4: were accredited when I attended the school. They were accredited
- 38:05Speaker 4: when I finished a program. I go and look, there
- 38:08Speaker 4: is a third party that has the records. Where I
- 38:10Speaker 4: contact the third party, that third party only holds records
- 38:14Speaker 4: for two years. I was past my two years, so
- 38:17Speaker 4: that means that I had no access to records to anything. Now,
- 38:22Speaker 4: whatever the school did with the transcripts for us, all
- 38:26Speaker 4: of us students. Whatever they did with dissertations, we don't know.
- 38:31Speaker 4: I even went as far as, you know, contacting my
- 38:33Speaker 4: cohorts other students, and they said, look, you know, we're
- 38:37Speaker 4: running too the same issue. We're trying to get our transcripts,
- 38:39Speaker 4: we're trying to get our information. And then I contacted
- 38:45Speaker 4: you know, financial aid. You can't make up financial aid.
- 38:49Speaker 4: It shows that I paid for a doctoral program alongside
- 38:52Speaker 4: my master's program and my undergrad program. And they said,
- 38:55Speaker 4: we can fully refund you your money. Under one circumstance.
- 39:01Speaker 4: We giving your money back. You don't get credit for
- 39:05Speaker 4: not a class, a course, a program you took in
- 39:08Speaker 4: this university, at this this institute. So do you want
- 39:13Speaker 4: us to rEFInd you or do you want us not?
- 39:16Speaker 4: I said no because I didn't want to risk the
- 39:21Speaker 4: chance of them saying, well, we're going to give you
- 39:23Speaker 4: back your money and it wipes out your entire program.
- 39:27Speaker 4: And so that's just as simple as it is. Luckily,
- 39:30Speaker 4: I had, you know, do this with all of the schools.
- 39:33Speaker 4: I had downloaded from the actual student portal my transcripts
- 39:38Speaker 4: at that time, and I was able to get all
- 39:41Speaker 4: just about all of my transcripts, including up to like dissertation,
- 39:45Speaker 4: but everything else, there's no there's just no holding take
- 39:50Speaker 4: for any of our records, which I think is completely
- 39:54Speaker 4: completely effed up.
- 39:56Speaker 3: You're this week, Like I said, she has no records.
- 40:01Speaker 3: They just want to hate you regardless.
- 40:03Speaker 4: Now that's fine, And it's not even that there's no
- 40:04Speaker 4: records that I don't. The school had a third party
- 40:08Speaker 4: that carry their records only for a limit of two years.
- 40:12Speaker 4: So it's not me, it's any student that attended Argus,
- 40:16Speaker 4: whether they say they say student was halfway through the
- 40:20Speaker 4: program and they just want to take those units in
- 40:23Speaker 4: transfer them because you can the school was accredited. They
- 40:27Speaker 4: don't have records for that unless that student was smart
- 40:30Speaker 4: enough like myself to print out records from an online
- 40:34Speaker 4: student portal and say, look it, I have this and
- 40:36Speaker 4: only that. I also kept all of my syllabus. When
- 40:39Speaker 4: you keep your syllabus from any course you've taken, then
- 40:43Speaker 4: you are due credit for each syllabus. It has a
- 40:45Speaker 4: date on there. It gives you the whole curriculum of
- 40:47Speaker 4: what you've studied and what it was about and the course.
- 40:50Speaker 4: And so I just happen to be smart enough to
- 40:52Speaker 4: keep all of my syllabus to be able to print
- 40:54Speaker 4: out my own records. The only concern is, you know,
- 40:58Speaker 4: the official ones would need to come from, like my
- 41:02Speaker 4: degree from Calsey University Northeast. Does my psychology degree come
- 41:05Speaker 4: from that? Are my masters? Right? Those schools are still operating,
- 41:08Speaker 4: so I can go in and say, hey, how you doing, Lauren?
- 41:10Speaker 4: I need to print out my official transcripts. But again,
- 41:14Speaker 4: it doesn't How can I say it doesn't affect me?
- 41:18Speaker 4: Because if I chose to go get a license as
- 41:21Speaker 4: an LMFT, I have my master's and marriage and child therapists,
- 41:25Speaker 4: I have my hours. I can just take that and say, hey,
- 41:28Speaker 4: let me submit these for license ear and I want
- 41:31Speaker 4: to go sit for my exam and I'll have to
- 41:33Speaker 4: do a study. I don't need a doctorate in counseling
- 41:37Speaker 4: psychology to go get licensed as a therapist. That's what
- 41:40Speaker 4: we're all missing. So if I just want to go
- 41:43Speaker 4: get licensed, and we said, hey, the school shut down,
- 41:45Speaker 4: so they're not gonna let you sit for licensing because
- 41:47Speaker 4: of that doctorate program school. While I have a master's
- 41:52Speaker 4: at a at an institute that is not shut down,
- 41:54Speaker 4: that is a credit out of meditation.
- 41:56Speaker 3: This week, they're gonna be on your as I didn't.
- 41:58Speaker 1: Do everything on you. They do that it was like
- 42:00Speaker 1: a plagiarism conversation. They were trying to say that. It
- 42:03Speaker 1: was like you were discussed from the universe.
- 42:04Speaker 2: It's a lot.
- 42:05Speaker 4: It's been a lot. It's been a lot of false narrative.
- 42:08Speaker 4: And again, I you know, I my thing is, I
- 42:12Speaker 4: don't address any narrative. I like people to have whatever
- 42:15Speaker 4: narrative that they like.
- 42:16Speaker 2: Does that happen?
- 42:17Speaker 4: I don't.
- 42:18Speaker 2: Business Wise though, it hasn't.
- 42:21Speaker 4: I mean, I'm I'm booked and busy. I'm still on
- 42:25Speaker 4: my speaking tour. I'm on my book tour. Book my book. Yeah,
- 42:29Speaker 4: this is my second book. I got a double book deal.
- 42:33Speaker 4: I you know, want to thank Charlet Migne, Charlemagne from
- 42:35Speaker 4: when he's not here, Charlotte.
- 42:37Speaker 2: Magne, thank you.
- 42:39Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Huh, I'm published now published
- 42:42Speaker 4: a house Random House. I want to thank him because
- 42:45Speaker 4: when folks were putting in their bid to give me
- 42:48Speaker 4: a book deal, Charlemagne what his publishing company was one
- 42:52Speaker 4: that was in the bidding war, and I'm grateful for that.
- 42:54Speaker 4: I want to thank him because you know, I appreciate that,
- 42:57Speaker 4: So no, it doesn't my clients. I still have a
- 42:59Speaker 4: four caselow. I actually have a waiting list. Since the
- 43:03Speaker 4: rhetoric online has inflamed, I actually have people who have
- 43:07Speaker 4: just been booking sessions even more because now they have
- 43:10Speaker 4: an interest in seeing what my approaches and seeing how
- 43:13Speaker 4: my sessions go. And so I've had to have other
- 43:16Speaker 4: coaches that I have that work for the Doctor Bran
- 43:18Speaker 4: Institute take on some of those clients. Some of those
- 43:21Speaker 4: clients don't want to see other folks. They want to
- 43:23Speaker 4: see me when I leave this interview, I was just
- 43:27Speaker 4: telling my team that I have a couple of sessions
- 43:29Speaker 4: that I have to do in between y'all at my
- 43:31Speaker 4: next interview. So I'm booked and busy. And what people
- 43:35Speaker 4: don't understand is this, listen, I'm grateful for the free marketing.
- 43:42Speaker 4: I'm just keeping it real because most people knew who
- 43:45Speaker 4: I were, who I am, and who I was. But
- 43:47Speaker 4: for the ones who didn't, they now know. And if
- 43:51Speaker 4: anybody who has made it very far in this industry knows,
- 43:56Speaker 4: good or bad, attention is still good attention when you
- 43:59Speaker 4: have a brand, And so again it's about how you
- 44:03Speaker 4: use it. It's about you know, if you choose to
- 44:07Speaker 4: address it, how are you going to address it? It's
- 44:10Speaker 4: also about you know, when you have folks who are
- 44:14Speaker 4: keeping your face and name recognition extremely large, where are
- 44:18Speaker 4: you driving those people too? Are you driving them to
- 44:22Speaker 4: you just responding to these people, which does nothing for
- 44:25Speaker 4: your clients, for your brand and for your name, or
- 44:28Speaker 4: are you driving them to your purpose, which is healing, speaking,
- 44:32Speaker 4: my sessions, my book and all the things that I do.
- 44:35Speaker 3: Did it bother you when you had and I don't
- 44:37Speaker 3: maybe maybe you didn't have it when you had friends
- 44:39Speaker 3: in this industry that were on your side and you
- 44:41Speaker 3: see them changing. Did that happen to you with everything
- 44:45Speaker 3: that's going on? Did you see people that you you
- 44:46Speaker 3: thought you were cool with changing, whether they're you know,
- 44:49Speaker 3: people on TV or just friends in the industry?
- 44:51Speaker 4: You mean with this situation? Absolutely? I love that because
- 44:55Speaker 4: it actually showed how many people really were ten toes
- 44:59Speaker 4: down for me. I'm serious. I was like, Yo, you
- 45:02Speaker 4: know what, I knew people rock with me. I'm like,
- 45:05Speaker 4: but people are rocking with me. You know? There were
- 45:08Speaker 4: you know, people who went and did live responses on
- 45:12Speaker 4: social media and was like, Doc, I need you to
- 45:14Speaker 4: address this I'm like, I'm not addressing shit.
- 45:17Speaker 3: I'm not.
- 45:18Speaker 4: You know, maybe if someone asks me on an interview
- 45:20Speaker 4: and I decide to, I will, but it would be
- 45:22Speaker 4: for my people, not for the small group of folks
- 45:26Speaker 4: who are extremely low functioning because they're not reading terminology,
- 45:30Speaker 4: they're not doing their research, and they're showing their card
- 45:34Speaker 4: that this is a jealousy envy thing because someone created
- 45:37Speaker 4: their own lane and you're in a lane that has
- 45:42Speaker 4: you stuck in what you've decided. I'm not in a
- 45:44Speaker 4: box and I'm not going to be. And so a
- 45:48Speaker 4: lot of folks did that. And then I have a
- 45:50Speaker 4: lot of friends who are you know, A listers and
- 45:54Speaker 4: clients who are a listeners who do have a brand
- 45:57Speaker 4: and I understand that, who have reached out and said
- 46:00Speaker 4: I want to make a statement. How can I do
- 46:03Speaker 4: it so it doesn't hurt you?
- 46:04Speaker 2: Right?
- 46:05Speaker 4: I love that doc? What do you need from me?
- 46:08Speaker 4: Do you need me to say this? Do you need
- 46:09Speaker 4: me to vouch for you? And usually I say no,
- 46:12Speaker 4: you know, I'm okay, I just you reaching out is enough,
- 46:15Speaker 4: But these times, like you just said, MB show you
- 46:20Speaker 4: you know who who solid? And I really I really
- 46:23Speaker 4: just had folks that showed up and showed out, and
- 46:26Speaker 4: I had a team. I mean, I got to say
- 46:28Speaker 4: listen as soon as all this hit my team, hey house,
- 46:33Speaker 4: you know, my my publicist, Lakeisha. I mean, everybody texts
- 46:37Speaker 4: like hop on a call, and it wasn't hop on
- 46:40Speaker 4: a call? What's going on? Is this true? Is it not?
- 46:46Speaker 4: It was? How are you doing? Because you're on stages
- 46:50Speaker 4: every other day, you're on your book tour. You are
- 46:54Speaker 4: you know, booked and busy? How are you doing? How
- 46:57Speaker 4: can we help you continue to process through this? And
- 47:00Speaker 4: so again? You know, I know this sounds bananas, but
- 47:05Speaker 4: people who are successful understand this. This is free marketing.
- 47:11Speaker 4: I get attention online that people pay for. And I
- 47:17Speaker 4: tell God all the time, I said, God, whatever you did,
- 47:21Speaker 4: whatever it fascinate and never turned. I said, if I
- 47:26Speaker 4: wear something, if I put a bobby pin in my hair,
- 47:30Speaker 4: if my you know, if my eyelashes is at three
- 47:33Speaker 4: o'clock and out of four o'clock. Baby, they are going
- 47:36Speaker 4: crazy in online. And I made a joke this morning
- 47:40Speaker 4: with my assistant head of hair. He mentioned posting or
- 47:44Speaker 4: doing something. I said no, I said no, I said,
- 47:47Speaker 4: we own the internet. And he started dying laughing and
- 47:49Speaker 4: he said, yes you do.
- 47:51Speaker 2: And so I'm great.
- 47:52Speaker 4: I'm really I'm grateful. I'm really grateful for it. And
- 47:55Speaker 4: you know, like Shaquille O'Neil shocks one of my good friends,
- 47:58Speaker 4: and I remember a couple of years back, there was
- 48:01Speaker 4: some it been NonStop, it was something else going on,
- 48:04Speaker 4: and he called me to check on me and said,
- 48:05Speaker 4: what's up, Champ. You're good. I said, yeah, I'm good.
- 48:07Speaker 4: He said, listen, good or bad attention? Good or bad attention? Dog,
- 48:13Speaker 4: it's good attention. You want it all? You want it all?
- 48:17Speaker 4: I said, I know, you know, but but it is
- 48:21Speaker 4: a slight adjustment because you know, you do have I
- 48:25Speaker 4: have to work on more controlling my snap back, you know,
- 48:29Speaker 4: because my because you know, my mouthpiece and the way
- 48:32Speaker 4: I'm set up, I could say things that I have business.
- 48:36Speaker 1: Sometimes I think you do it in a way that
- 48:39Speaker 1: you know, it's it's very it fits who you are
- 48:41Speaker 1: and kind of what you're putting out at this point
- 48:43Speaker 1: a little elevated, you know, every now and then. But
- 48:46Speaker 1: I think for me, I'm glad to hear you say
- 48:48Speaker 1: people are actually calling your real life and being like,
- 48:50Speaker 1: are you okay? Because when I'm reading the book and
- 48:52Speaker 1: you're going from you're thinking to your feelings to like
- 48:54Speaker 1: behaving and how you have to act in real life,
- 48:57Speaker 1: and then in real life you're experiencing this.
- 48:59Speaker 2: I'm like, I know she's human though.
- 49:01Speaker 4: One hundred percent, but let's be realistic. Let's talk about
- 49:05Speaker 4: the big, big, big dogs. Let's talk about the Oprahs.
- 49:10Speaker 4: Majority of black folks for some reason, don't like her.
- 49:15Speaker 4: You think oh is sitting there thinking about how she's
- 49:17Speaker 4: gonna clap back at somebody.
- 49:18Speaker 2: She'd be in her guarden with baby baby.
- 49:21Speaker 4: I just seen her and gel in Fashion Week. Mama
- 49:23Speaker 4: Olden lost about thirty pounds. She is killing it. You
- 49:27Speaker 4: think that Tyler Perry claps back at everybody online. He
- 49:31Speaker 4: was at Cardi b concert two nights in a row, Honey,
- 49:35Speaker 4: He's he's courtside at the game, he's writing, creating a movie.
- 49:41Speaker 4: He has Tyler Perry's studios. Really, and I'm gonna go
- 49:44Speaker 4: to another name that people absolutely hate, but they are
- 49:48Speaker 4: one of the most richest famous families out there, the Kardashians.
- 49:52Speaker 4: You think that family sits around the dinner table and
- 49:54Speaker 4: has meetings about how these how many folks don't like them.
- 49:58Speaker 4: They're planning their next deal. They're playing their next partnership.
- 50:03Speaker 4: Kim's trying to figure out how she can get another
- 50:05Speaker 4: partnership with skims Kylie's talking about makeup and cosmetics. Chris
- 50:10Speaker 4: Jenner is on a private jet somewhere in freaking Mikono's
- 50:14Speaker 4: with her. I don't want to say why am but
- 50:17Speaker 4: her young man, But so what I'm saying is when
- 50:21Speaker 4: you look at the people Obama, how many black folks
- 50:24Speaker 4: love and then hate him because he didn't do enough.
- 50:27Speaker 4: But he did do And I mean, so you got
- 50:30Speaker 4: all the most successful, affluent, influential people who are hated
- 50:37Speaker 4: the most. And if God said to me loud and clear, baby,
- 50:43Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you much territory. And if you think
- 50:46Speaker 4: you're gonna occupy this level of territory and that people
- 50:49Speaker 4: are not gonna attempt to possess it, you have lost
- 50:51Speaker 4: your mind. Then you're just not ready for that level
- 50:55Speaker 4: of bigness. Because all the folks who are moving in
- 50:57Speaker 4: that space, being in that space, they've had to learn
- 51:01Speaker 4: what I'm teaching and live your promise, how to think
- 51:04Speaker 4: a certain way, feel a certain way, and behave a
- 51:08Speaker 4: certain way so that the outside chatter doesn't affect how
- 51:12Speaker 4: they live, because you don't put in all this work
- 51:15Speaker 4: to get here and then live in fucking dogma. I don't,
- 51:19Speaker 4: not at all. I'm gonna still run my place the
- 51:22Speaker 4: way I want to do them, the way that I've
- 51:24Speaker 4: created them, in my lane that I've created.
- 51:28Speaker 2: That's it. There you have it.
- 51:30Speaker 3: The new book is out right. Now live your promise.
- 51:33Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us, being so open, of course,
- 51:36Speaker 3: so much. Anytime you see up here or out and about,
- 51:39Speaker 3: we appreciate love definitely.
- 51:40Speaker 4: Do you know I'm gonna come here and bring the truth.
- 51:42Speaker 2: Congratulations on the book. It's good.
- 51:43Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
- 51:44Speaker 3: Thank you, Doctor Cheyenne Bryant. And she's coming back at all.
- 51:51Speaker 3: Good morning, every day, breakfast.
- 51:56Speaker 4: Club, finish for y'all. Done,