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Da Visionary Queen Angela Thomas Smith - B.A.D.D. 2 BUSINESS SHYNEN SAFFRON & JAZZY _ 4TH SUNDAY & 2ND FRIDAY 8PM · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: you good, Hey, Yeah, I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. Technical difficulties happen all the time. That's what
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  Speaker 3: No, but I'm here, I'm here. Let's do that's a.
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  Speaker 2: Whole money right there. Like I said, technical difficulties happen
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  Speaker 2: all the time. But I was just introducing everybody to
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  Speaker 2: the show, waiting on some people to tap in, make
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to go ahead and reintroduce you. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for joining me tonight. I know you have a busy schedule.
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  Speaker 2: You got a lot going on with you. So how
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling tonight? I'm good, I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here, and I'm ready to rack
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do.
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  Speaker 2: Well. While we are waiting for everybody to tap in,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to go ahead and do this little
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  Speaker 2: side note that tonight we will have to interrupt our
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  Speaker 2: viewer's originally scheduled program, which was an actual entrepreneur panel.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay. We still have a great message for
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  Speaker 2: you tonight, and if you're still interested in joining the
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneurship panel, reach out to me. Still have some time
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  Speaker 2: to do that, so contact me, DM me all those things,
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  Speaker 2: to be a guest or just be part of the conversation. Okay. So,
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  Speaker 2: but while we are talking about not being able to
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  Speaker 2: do what we regularly scheduled to do, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about our subject tonight, which is moving forward, right Yay.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to move forward in life. We don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be stuck all those things. So so with that
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  Speaker 2: being said, let's get down to business first order operations.
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  Speaker 2: Jesse and I were discussing this topic for about a
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  Speaker 2: week now and just thinking about what we had to
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  Speaker 2: do to move forward. We got we both have things
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  Speaker 2: coming up and we just want to kind of stay
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  Speaker 2: on track. No U turning right, So what I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about first and foremost is wasting our energy
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  Speaker 2: on fixed fights. Fixed fights. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: know what that means. But I've come to learn that
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  Speaker 2: fixed fights in your life that you're really not destined
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  Speaker 2: or purpose to win, you know, not your battle kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. You get things to God, stuff that you
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  Speaker 2: just spin your wheel on. I've come to learn that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you you know, try to fight something or change
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  Speaker 2: something in your life, and you end up changing it
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  Speaker 2: and really messing it up from the plan. Gotta go
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  Speaker 2: with the plan. And then sometimes you attempt to try
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  Speaker 2: to do something and change something in your life and
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  Speaker 2: you don't change anything at all at all. But both
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  Speaker 2: times you end up just wasting energy right that you're
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  Speaker 2: not even supposed to be using on stuff. So despite
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, you gotta you pray on that discernment,
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  Speaker 2: and you gotta know when to give your energy to
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  Speaker 2: something and when not to. An example in my own
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  Speaker 2: life is I've worked for UH to different companies two
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  Speaker 2: different times, and there was a time where I had to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fight for my rights, if you will, all
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  Speaker 2: the way up to litigation, and with God's guidance and
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  Speaker 2: with the things that I knew were right, I was
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  Speaker 2: able to do what I needed to do. On another occasion,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't work out like that. Same situation, different application,
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  Speaker 2: and so I learned that, No, you follow the plan,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, you make sure that you are applying
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  Speaker 2: your energy when it needs to be, you know, not
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  Speaker 2: really getting into fixed fights. Have you ever been in
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  Speaker 2: a situation like that, Jeff, Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I mean, just trying to help someone battle
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  Speaker 3: something that they're not being completely honest with you or
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  Speaker 3: themselves about. That's almost a losing battle that I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I spent time in that area, and it sucks because
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  Speaker 3: you do all this to help a person and then
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  Speaker 3: you find out later that you weren't even really telling
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  Speaker 3: me everything. So I could have really helped you, I
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  Speaker 3: just kind of made it worse for you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it sometimes really doesn't end up helping that person
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  Speaker 3: at all. So it just you gotta you gotta choose
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  Speaker 3: your battles, and you gotta decide, like you said, discermine
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  Speaker 3: as everything. You gotta decide like or you gotta decide
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  Speaker 3: what you're going to deal with and what you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to what you're gonna waste your not waste your energy,
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  Speaker 3: but what you're going to put your energy into versus Okay,
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  Speaker 3: am I getting the same kind of energy back?
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah, yeah, or even someone if it's someone else involved, well,
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  Speaker 4: and I like you.
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  Speaker 3: Just gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, keep going, moving forward. And that's the topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: And like what you said as far as helping somebody
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  Speaker 2: else's battle, Uh that I my girls is even with
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  Speaker 2: their friends. Let them know and and stand on the
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  Speaker 2: standard of I will fight with you, not for you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So if you're not fighting a battle, what
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  Speaker 2: am I doing fighting it for you? So definitely an
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  Speaker 2: example of a fixed fight here you are jumping in
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  Speaker 2: and again not your battle to.
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  Speaker 3: Fight, Nope, not all but thank.
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  Speaker 2: God for people like you with a good heart and
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  Speaker 2: you know, continue to try to help people, but definitely
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  Speaker 2: preying on that discernment knowing when and when not to
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  Speaker 2: engage MM which brings me kind of to these second
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  Speaker 2: on the list of operations. Let's talk about like the
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  Speaker 2: signs you get to keep going, the signs you keep going.
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  Speaker 2: We get plenty of signs to give up, all right,
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  Speaker 2: we get plenty of signs to just go into depression,
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  Speaker 2: or the plenty of signs to just not keep on,
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  Speaker 2: not to move forward. We get plenty of those signs.
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  Speaker 2: But what signs do you get to keep going? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of signs do we need If you're praying
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  Speaker 2: and you're getting discernment and you're having a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: God or you're you know, just moving righteously, what signs
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  Speaker 2: do you really need to, like, you know, to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about what type of signs you
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  Speaker 2: may need to keep going? Again? We know plenty of
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  Speaker 2: signs to give up. Don't have enough of this. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen you know. What's the saying I've heard? And
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  Speaker 2: it's not funny, but it's real. I got more months
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  Speaker 2: than money, you know. Oh God, so you know I
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  Speaker 2: got thirty days worth of bills if you will, but
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  Speaker 2: I got like fifteen days worth money.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all those signs.
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  Speaker 2: To give up? But what signs do we have to
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  Speaker 2: keep going? I have a few that I say that.
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  Speaker 2: There's been times where I prayed and asked God to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just just show me drop a drop, just
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  Speaker 2: a bread crumb that I can keep following, show me
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  Speaker 2: that you are present. And there have been times I
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  Speaker 2: cannot lie. I shall not tell a lie. There has
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  Speaker 2: been times where I didn't see it for myself until
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  Speaker 2: I asked for God to drop me a sign. Now,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you know he drops the little sign, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a big bomb of distraction. And get me wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: that's what I mean, Like, what kind of signs do
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  Speaker 2: you need to actually keep going?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you see, you keep seeing open doors whatever whichever
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  Speaker 3: direction you're going in. I mean you, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: you see the little thing, the little breadcrumbs that let
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  Speaker 3: you know, hey, I'm on the right path, or I'm
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  Speaker 3: going in the right direction, or this is this may
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  Speaker 3: be a good decision for me, you know. And of
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  Speaker 3: course you know, you have your own relationship with God
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  Speaker 3: just like anybody else does. But you will know if
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  Speaker 3: it's really supposed to be where you're supposed to go,
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  Speaker 3: and you gotta just you really just gotta take that
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  Speaker 3: leap of faith sometimes, and like you said, sometimes when
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  Speaker 3: you do take that leap of faith and you stay
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  Speaker 3: in peace, you stay in prayer, you see those doors opening.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes, like you said, you may not see it
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  Speaker 3: at first, but then you start asking for hey, let
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  Speaker 3: me know that I'm going the right way, that I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing the right thing. And the next day or sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that next hour, you will see something that's like, hey, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing the right thing. I'm doing my part. So
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  Speaker 3: that he can do his part.
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  Speaker 2: And you gotta be able to see that.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be open to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seeing those signs and being able to obey that.
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  Speaker 2: I know you and I have talked about walking down
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  Speaker 2: hallways just to give a visual walking down the hallway
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  Speaker 2: and how we can see signs on a door that
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  Speaker 2: says keep closed, m m our darness to go in
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  Speaker 2: or see behind it or whatever. You know, why does
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  Speaker 2: it say keep closed? Just you know, that's glutton for
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  Speaker 2: punishment if you will. But but we'll we'll walk past
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  Speaker 2: a door that says inter here, you know, open open,
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  Speaker 2: which is crazy almost feel like it's a catch twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way that door will just say open. But
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  Speaker 2: but we want to believe that there's good behind keep
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  Speaker 2: closed top secret, you know, we want to believe that.
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  Speaker 2: So and I know you and I have talked about, well,
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  Speaker 2: when you walk with God, there is no trickery. Like
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  Speaker 2: if you're walking with him and and you see the
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  Speaker 2: door that says keep closed, you keep it closed. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be down there if he likes that.
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  Speaker 2: You see a door that says enter here, open, come
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  Speaker 2: on now, Like it's not that hard, it's not rocket science.
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  Speaker 2: But but it you know, it takes people time with
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  Speaker 2: lessons and blessings, it takes people time. So but one
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  Speaker 2: thing we don't want to do is try to open doors.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say keep closed, right, I mean, we is closed
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  Speaker 2: for a reason and again walk with God to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to keep those doors closed. But while we're talking about signs,
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  Speaker 2: so we get plenty of signs to give up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we uh probably have plenty of reasons to give
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  Speaker 2: up as far as how we feel, how we feel
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  Speaker 2: about things, and how we don't like the way things
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  Speaker 2: seem and look and stuff like that. I define definitely
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about moving forward, because that's what this
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  Speaker 2: conversation is about. Before we run out of time. I
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure that we touch on that. I
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  Speaker 2: know there's a lot of things that, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: could hold us back, and I've felt them myself, as
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  Speaker 2: far as lack of support or anything else like that.
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  Speaker 2: So how do we Let's talk about moving forward? First
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  Speaker 2: and foremost, we want to get to a point where
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  Speaker 2: we change our mindset. That's the first thing that comes
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  Speaker 2: to mind, is that it's all in our mind. We
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  Speaker 2: need to learn how to do that. And I was
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  Speaker 2: reading about changing your mindset and emotional well being. And
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  Speaker 2: the thing about that is while you are doing those things,
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  Speaker 2: first and foremost, be present, be present, be aware of
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. You know, one thing that I've said
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  Speaker 2: is most people, the first thing they contribute somebody not
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  Speaker 2: dealing with something is denial. That's not all the way true.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they are not in denial, they just choose not
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  Speaker 2: to deal. But one that can tell you that not
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  Speaker 2: dealing with something delays the inevitable. Most times, there are
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  Speaker 2: certain things that you just have to deal with. Like
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  Speaker 2: we said before, you can't even pray it away. Some
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  Speaker 2: things that just have to dealt with for you to
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  Speaker 2: be able to move on to the next level. Like
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  Speaker 2: on a video game, came past the next level unless
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  Speaker 2: you beat this level. And it's just that simple. So,
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  Speaker 2: but we do want to change our mindset and emotional
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  Speaker 2: well being by being present. Don't allow yourself to be
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  Speaker 2: zombified by your situation where you just become a drone.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really care about what's going to happen, there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing I can do about it. Well, you don't give
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  Speaker 2: up when you feel like there's nothing you can do
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  Speaker 2: about it, right, Yeah, First and foremost, Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's about dealing with it. You do want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: your feelings. You do want to know what place you're in.
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  Speaker 2: You and I've talked about you know how your feelings
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  Speaker 2: do not determine your person. You're feeling change, but your
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  Speaker 2: purpose doesn't. We doesn't want to acknowledge our feelings, but
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  Speaker 2: don't stay there. We had a discussion about sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: enter a place you know where you're going, you know
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  Speaker 2: where you're being, where you've been, it's time to go.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes you enter a place of not knowing some stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and that to move you back into wavering disbelief, doubt,
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  Speaker 2: all those negative things. Right, But we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: understanding what place you're in, So acknowledging those things and
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  Speaker 2: understanding dealing with meaning not denial, but and and not
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  Speaker 2: not dealing but dealing with is like, hey, I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: some unsurety. We want so much to not have to
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  Speaker 2: deal and not have to, you know, address the things
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  Speaker 2: that that are bothering us. But that's not.
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  Speaker 3: Always, you know, no, exactly exactly. That's why you got
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  Speaker 3: to have fear of faith over fear man.
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  Speaker 2: All the time. Make sure that your your faith and
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  Speaker 2: gaining is outweighing your fear in failing. Right, Yeah, Easier
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  Speaker 2: said none.
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  Speaker 3: We know yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes so while we're talking about moving forward, there are
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  Speaker 2: some things that are necessary as being repetitious in your life.
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  Speaker 2: So faith over fear is definitely something that you want
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  Speaker 2: to practice as repetition. So but yes, know the place
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  Speaker 2: you're in, deal with the feelings, know that that it
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  Speaker 2: trouble don't last always. So I hope that everybody is
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  Speaker 2: able to get that, ja As. I know that you
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  Speaker 2: have been in places and situations and as long as
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  Speaker 2: I've known you, I've seen you just triumph through things
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  Speaker 2: where you've had to put your faith over fear and
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  Speaker 2: have to be What we've talked about is a thermostat
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  Speaker 2: over their mind.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Thermometer. What is that that you so?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Okay, So I mean me personally, I'm not the
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  Speaker 3: kind of person that deals with stress well pacunamatata all
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  Speaker 3: the way, like, no worries. I really am so chill.
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  Speaker 3: It's like scary almost to some people because everybody should
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  Speaker 3: be freaking out or everybody is freaking out. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: it's fine, it's fine, But I mean I personally, I
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  Speaker 3: cannot stress about stuff. It physically makes me ill to
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  Speaker 3: stress about most things. So I've had to just kind
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  Speaker 3: of let it everything go, if you will. It's in
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  Speaker 3: some cases some situations harder said than done, obviously, but.
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  Speaker 2: Once you.
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  Speaker 3: Realize that your faith is bigger than your fear, you
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  Speaker 3: can really do anything. And for example, like during COVID,
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  Speaker 3: everything was shut down, everything was shut down. I got
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  Speaker 3: laid off from my job of fifteen years. I took
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  Speaker 3: that as a sign of this is the best news ever.
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  Speaker 3: I had been wanting to move to Florida for like
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  Speaker 3: a last you know, the last six months before I
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  Speaker 3: got laid off, or before right before COVID hit. I
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  Speaker 3: went visited one time and I was like, hey, this
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  Speaker 3: is where I want to be. I took that and
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  Speaker 3: I literally leapt for whatever was out there. I knew nobody,
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  Speaker 3: I knew nothing, and I found a job, found a place,
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  Speaker 3: and stayed out there for five years. And then even now,
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  Speaker 3: like I live somewhere now that I decided I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be anymore and I'm going to a new
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  Speaker 3: place that I have also visited once, and I'm ready
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  Speaker 3: to just let it go and be gone. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say, I'm ready to go, like
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, as long as I keep my peace
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  Speaker 3: and keep everything in check, I'm doing my part. I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing what I need to do. I know he's going
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  Speaker 3: to show up. I know he's going to show up
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  Speaker 3: and show out. So it's just a matter of when
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  Speaker 3: it's going to happen, and you make and I'm ready
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 2: We make moving forward sounds so easy.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say you that, I mean, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's still other things involved. There's little you know,
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  Speaker 3: little bits and pieces, but all in all, it really
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  Speaker 3: is the best thing anyone can do if they can
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  Speaker 3: do it, you know, I mean, why stay in the
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  Speaker 3: past where you're uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Why we don't want to be in a comfort zone
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: where we're uncomfortable. That makes all the sense in the world, right,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: of course. But I like what you said too, in
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: that direction of you being a thermostat versus a thermometer.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: You saying that when you got laid off from your job,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: you took it as the word you said. I took
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: it as it was the best thing in the world.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So the way you were able to do that, you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: relating to thermostat versus thermometer is you set the temperature
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: for yourself. You didn't just take the cold, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: being in the cold or throwing out in COVID if
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you will. It was a detrimental time and I'm glad
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that a lot of people got through that and stuff
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: like that, and those who didn't not prepare the families
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that are still dealing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: But definitely you were.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Able to kind of set the temperature for yourself and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: what you needed to do next. So definitely I was
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: able to kind of witness that firsthand, some of the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: things that you share with me with your testimony, And
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I just want to say that you being the thermostat
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: versus the thermometer, you setting the temperature for no panic
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: around you. Hey, I'm moving forward, this is what I'm doing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: This what's going on? You having that already mindset. Hey,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I don't have time for you guys to tell me
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: what this feels like. I know what it feels like,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing, moving forward, this is what
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I'm doing.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: So this is what we're doing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And that's cool. And like I said, I watched you
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: grow and do so many great things, so that's really awesome.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And going into that letting go of the past. That's
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: a big thing for a lot of people. And this
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: is still under your mindset and emotional wellbeing, you know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So we've we really got to know when we've been
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: delivered from something so you don't go back to it,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: right and deliverance from something, And what I've come to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: learn is that it's something that you couldn't do on
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: your own. You have prayed about it, cried about it,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you know, even tried about it. But it's not something
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: that comes easy. It's not something that you may even
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: have the knowledge of doing. But miraculously there is support
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: or there is guidance that gets you out of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: situation that you know you needed to be out of.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: They're in my personal life, you know, trying to get
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: out of a situation that I really didn't try to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: get out of. I don't know how to explain that,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: but you know, those who know, if you get it,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you got it. If you don't, you won't.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: You already know, okay, I get it, get it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: But knowing when you've been delivered so that you don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: go back to stuff like that, and just getting away
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: from stuff like that, and getting away from things that
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: hold you you know, you don't hold anything against yourself
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: for actually getting away from stuff and actually growing away
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: from stuff, and you don't let anybody else hold that
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: against you. You don't, you know, plain and simple. You
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: don't hold it against yourself, and you don't let anybody
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: else do it. Why would you do that, that very
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: thing that God, even God doesn't hold against you. Your
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: mercies are renewed, wipe a clean slate, which you know
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: can even go into something like forgiveness, normalizing forgiveness so
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you can be at peace. And that's what we were
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: talking about, moving forward and freeing your own spirit, not
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: just for somebody else, but free in your own spirit,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: you know, being delivered. I know that. Like I said,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you've been through some things yourself being delivered from some situations.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And one thing I know about you I've come to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: learn about you and grow with you, is that you
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: do not look back. You give it all you got
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: right then, and that's enough.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm done moving.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Forward, you know. And you know you might cry, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: have all those emotions during the situation. Yeah, yeah, it's time.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: When it's time, the dog is unalive as surely I can.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I can't remember a name, but it's okay, But so
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: moving on forward, like I said, just really changing our mindset,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: learning how to move forward from things, getting our focus back.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: So we just talked about your mindset and emotional well
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: being and what we can do acknowledging your feelings but
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: not staying there speaking over yourself. Yeah. We talked about
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: knowing what place you're in and and moving forward from that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: We talked about being a thermostat in your situation, not
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a thermometer, setting the temperature and saying this is what
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna feel about this, and be okay with that,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and then move forward from that. Don't go back and forth.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Wavering can honestly kill you. We know that. Yeah, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: then let go the past knowing when you've been delivered
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: from something. If you delivered, then there's no re and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: on even thinking back to why you were there when
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you were there. I know I've prayed the prayer myself
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: of Lord, help me forget something so I can forgive
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: some people, and it works. Maybe it'll work for you,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: maybe it doesn't. But like I said, I had to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: forget some things to forgive some people. So let's go
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: on to something like prioritizing your well being with your connections, Okay,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: outside of yourself. So we've talked about things that you
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: need to do within yourself. So let's talk about prioritizing
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the well being with your connections outside of yourself, Earning
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the importance of connecting with people and seeking support rather
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: than just keeping everything in I myself personal experience. I
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: am a soldier, and I am a warrior, and sometimes
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I am a machine, right, and I just keep things
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: inside and I keep going. But as I've learned and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: have been told by a wise person that even machines
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: need breakdown for repairing, even machines and paring any maintenance.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: You can't just keep going like that. And Jazz and I,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: if you caught us in a previous episode of Family
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Matters that we touched on a generational setback is keeping
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: everything to yourself. You learn from your family that you
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: keep your business your business, you keep it on the inside.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: But what happens when you are an adult and you
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: keep on carrying that, and but you need the support
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: and you need the connection. Yeah, you know, you find
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: that sometimes keeping to yourself actually breaks you down more
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: than it strengthens you.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you don't even know how to ask for
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the support. When you're in that state, you don't know
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: how to ask for the help because you're already like,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not telling anybody anyway, And it's like there could
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: be any any somebody could always have a story that
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: can help you in your situation, you know, just like
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: if you tell somebody something that's going on, and you
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: don't know what kind of testimony you could be given
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: somebody just by telling them your experience. So but if
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: you're if you're taught to not seek help from anybody
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: outside of inside of your four walls, how how do
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: you break that habit? You know, it's hard to do that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: But as we talked about in the Family Matters episode,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: you got to start somewhere. And especially if we have children,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: are you teaching them the same thing? And you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: determining a family tradition versus a generational setback, knowing that, hey,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: this has to change, this can't keep going on the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: same way like this. So definitely that. But we learn,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: we live, and we learn, and we got some lessons learned.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: We have some things that we have to do again
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: outside of ourselves, Uh, making those connections, knowing when when
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: to make those connections. One of the things that are
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: alway said is sometimes I have to disconnect totally mm hmm,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: so that I can know where to reconnect. You know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: sometimes I'm connected to so many things. Yeah, and you
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: get so involved in so many things. I know. I'm
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: a starter of a lot, finisher of not a lot. Okay,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: So I am definitely trying to make sure that I
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: do follow through and I'm sure that I'm able to
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: do the things that I have committed to. So, you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: we have to learn how to how to coordinate ourselves
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: with other people, right. We can't just keep going. Can't
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: just keep going. I know that you and I have
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: talked about set boundaries. Uh lately here you've had to
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: do some things here to share.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I guess the boundaries that I've had
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: to set from myself is learning to prioritize me. The
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: biggest lesson that I could say during the situation that
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I'm in and am getting out of and letting go of,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: is learning how to say no and not feel bad
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: about it. I'm always that person that's like, oh my god,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: what if they get mad that I, you know, can't
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: help them, or what if they get mad about anything?
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: And I've learned that if I stand on it and
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: feel that way, I have to be okay with it,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: and I have to It prevents me from over committing
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: to something that I don't want to do in the
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: first thing, and it protects my energy from what I
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: might not be dealing with as well.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've allowed people to manage my time and
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: prolonged and inevitable, and I committed time and energy to
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: people and things that I really should not have and
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: now I'm at a place where I need to protect
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: my peace. And like I said, I'm saying no, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I don't care if you feel any kind of way
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: about it, because here's the thing. I've been saying yes,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: and like I said, it's only hindered me as a
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: person or where whatever I'm doing, like it's basically kind
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: of halted me a little bit. And I can't I
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: can't do that. I gotta let it go and I
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: gotta keep moving and I'm going I'm out of here.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: So prolonging the inevitable. We know what's what it is,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: and you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, you know what's done it is.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: You know exactly you said what you said. Whatever the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: case may be, we know that it is it is that,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about how you know, people we allow
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: people to put a you know, a dot that dot,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: et cetera, where we yep, you've already put a period there,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: and you still allow somebody to put two more after you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: But wait, there's more. No, there's not more. They're going, really,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: what's what's more? Nothing like what's happening?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know how did we get here?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, right, I don't. I don't know what
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: to do with I don't know what to do with
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: my life. Okay, right, that help you on what to
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: do with your life? With all those things, like I said,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: recognizing the faults that we have and recognizing the feelings
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: we have, and yeah, how to move forward. Yeah, all
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: those recognitions, acknowledgements within ourselves and how to disconnect and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: learn how to reconnect. Now we need to start moving
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: forward to make these changes. Yeah, we have separate testimonies.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: You know, as we could talk all day a girl
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: talk about girl. Let me tell you, Okay, let me
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: tell you, Like right now, I am going through something
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: that I know not everybody can understand. But even as
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: my own just struggles, I am having trouble, just kind
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: of grasping the fact that I know I have to
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: move forward and I have had visions pro visions of
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: how to do so. Mm hmm. Right. So even in
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: my own life, the the changes that I know I
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: need to make and do apply to me personally is
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: that I need to take action. I need to set
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: goals and take action. Yeah, I need to. It has
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to be in real life. I need to set clear
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: goals for myself, you know, make sure that I know
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: what I want to do and how I want to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: do it. Make sure it's within me. Because I think
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: you and I have talked about how you can be
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: anointed and not yet appointed. It doesn't mean that it's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: time for you to go. You know, I am about
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: always showing up. I'm learning that I should say and
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: go time and showtime are one and the same.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you want to.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Set clear goals for yourself, maybe steps. You definitely want
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: to take small steps. So set clear goals and set
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: them as one, two, three. You don't want to do
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: them as let me do the hardest first. That ain't
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: gonna work. I've tried it. Let's knock out the hardest
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: so I can get to the easiest that ain't. You
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: want to set the clear goals on the steps. And
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: we've talked about being in order. There is even something
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: that I have heard called chaotic, something that even though
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: it's in chaos, they're still in order to it. So
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: just understand that no matter what you do, there's always
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: going to be an order to it. So, yeah, set
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: clear goals for myself. Take these baby steps to accomplish
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: these clear goals. Step one, accomplish it step two not
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: step one. Cool, let me start that. I can do
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: step two too. You know, I can work simultaneously. You know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: working like that, as we learned, does not always fan
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: out to be the best, because you need to be
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: able to be focused. If you're everywhere, you're nowhere. So
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: if you're focused on everything, you're not focused on anything. Yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: take that with you, Okay. And one of the biggest
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: things for me as far as UH setting goals and
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: taking action is stop procrastinating. I sometimes will see something
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: as the biggest obstacle and it's not. There was an
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: old saying that says, it don't take all day to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: do nothing. Some of the things that you gotta do
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: ain't really nothing. Yeah, you're taking all this time and
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: procrastinating and waiting to get there and waiting to do stuff.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Why why you still don't have to do it?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: But and cases where I've procrastinated to do something thinking
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: it was going to be overwhelming, and by the time
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I got to it, I was like, oh, this is
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: all I gotta do. I just got to touch it,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: touched yep. As soon as I clicked, I was done right.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: So definitely those are some of the changes I want
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: to make for myself moving forward. What about you? What
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: kind of changes you're working on?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I mean mainly changing my mindset and sometimes my attitude,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: because yeah, I do have a cool accutomatata mode, but
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: my mind sometimes gets the better of me. I sometimes
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: will think about stuff that might be worrisome or would
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: worry me or has worried me, and it I have
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to snap myself out of it. So I got to
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: challenge the negative thoughts that I sometimes have and get
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: because I am normal, my flush sometimes feels be decisive.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Like like I said, learning to say no and being
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: okay with that was one of the biggest things that
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I had issues with. So I'm practicing doing that and
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to embrace the new. Like like I said,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I'm moving, I'm taking a leap of faith. I'm going
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: somewhere where nobody knows my name and I'm good, right,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I'm going to see what I can get into and
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: see what's going on. So I would say the biggest
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: thing is go for it. If you're scared. That means
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I feel like you should go for it more.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I fear, you know, false evidence appearing real.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in this life.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: And you and I have learned that we are going
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to succeed. You know, we are just the home run
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: has already been hit, y'all. We just running the bases.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: We just got to get there.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so just touch it. You'll learn that. And I
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: have learned too that even right now we are in
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the season. Yeah, so that atmosphere shifting. We're definitely in
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: those seasons. So with that being said, like I said,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: this episode of Moving Forward, we did not get to
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: do our regularly scheduled program, but we will continue that
• 38:13
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• 38:16
  Speaker 2: We will be promoting that, uh the entrepreneur panel. We
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: would love to have difference of opinions and different entrepreneurs
• 38:23
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• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I know you got a busy schedule, like you said,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: between working and moving, and I know how tedious that
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: stuff can be, but I thank you for joining me
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: and one of my biggest supporters in helping me to
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: embrace moving forward and not staying where I am. And
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: one thing about Jazzy is she is one of those
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: pieces of iron where iron sharpens iron. She's definitely that.
• 38:58
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• 39:03
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  Speaker 2: sooner than later. So again, Jazz, thank you for joining me.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: The show was about moving forward, and I hope that
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: you guys caught something that you that can help you
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: move forward as well. So love y'all, Love you Jazz,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: thank you so much, Thank you Bye
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: Assass