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Mental Health Awareness Month · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know how started. Y'all already know how started.
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Blairrupted. Oh hey, y'all, everybody, welcome back to another episode
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of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know who it is. It's your girl,
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Ashley bringing y'all another great episode on Black Girl Interrupted. So happy Thursday,
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everybody. I hope everyone has had an amazing week. Man, let
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me say this, I am like still flowing on cloud nine. Like the
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other Tuesday Night's episode was like nothing short of amazing. Like when I tell
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y'all, I'm still flowing on cloud nine from Atlanta. And baby, we've
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been back almost a week, but I'm still on cloud nine because it was
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such a beautiful yet amazing weekend. So again, thank y'all for everyone for
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the love to support. Again, I'm forever humbled. I will always be
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grateful for everyone that tunes in, that stays in and supports me weekend and
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week out like it's so appreciated. It does definitely does not go unnoticed.
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So tonight, tonight, tonight, y'all know, it is the month of
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May. Today is May second, and this does kick off Mental Health Awareness
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Month. A lot of you do know my story and how I struggle and
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deal with my depression as well as my anxiety. So this is why I
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do what I do, and that's why I start off every show doing a
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mental health check in, because it's like, I really don't think y'all understand
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the stigma that surrounds mental health, especially in the black community. We've always
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been told, we've never been pushed to go see therapists. We've always been
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taught to pray it away. Things are gonna get better. Yeah, and
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let me say this because I don't want anyone to feel like I don't believe
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in God, because I do. God has brought me through a mini storms.
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But sometimes when it comes to your mental health, sometimes you need that
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unbiased person to really give you the tools because you already have the foundation and
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you definitely need the tools to build to help you along your journey. Because
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I understand me, like I said, as a person that deals with depression
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and anxiety, you need the tools to help you maneuver yet navigate through life.
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So tonight again I kick off the month of May for mental health awareness.
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So for the month of May, I will be excuse me, discussing
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depression. I will be discussing anxiety, I will be discussing by polar disorder,
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I will be discussing schizophrenia, and I will be discussing suicide. Let
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me start off before we even jump into tonight's episode. Y'all already know I
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do my mental health check ins. For those that are not familiar or that
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are new to Black Girl, interrupt that podcast. I always play a video
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something that's encouraging, empowering, and uplifting, because, again, you never
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know where a person is at in their everyday life. Yes, we may
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walk around like we're happy, smiling, go lucky type people, but really
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on the inside, we may really truly be hurting. So I always,
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like I said, I always want to kick off with something inspirational, empowering,
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uplifting. So before we jump into some nice conversation, everyone that's tuned
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in, please don't forget drop in the comments. Let me know how you're
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feeling today. Again, I always do my mental health check ins because I
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want to know how you're feeling. I want to know what I could do
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to help you get over the hump. So here we go. We're gonna
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kick off with something beautiful yet amazing, empowering and uplifting, and then we're
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gonna get back into tonight's show. Some of you going to sleep, and
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you don't deserve to be. You don't deserve rest, You lazy. You
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don't deserve rest. Rest is for people who work. You ain't doing nothing
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every day, You chilling. You only go to sleep when you've done something.
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Your ego is a liar. Your ego is digging a grave, a
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grave of comfort, a grave of comfort that you're going to crawl into voluntarily,
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where you get buried and you can't move anymore. That's what happens.
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That's what happens when you don't accept that whatever's going on is your fault.
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It is your fault. You can lie to yourself and then you don't need
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discipline. You can tell yourself everything's okay, and then you don't need discipline.
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You can tell yourself, you can lie to yourself and say that you're
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winning. You have to be cognizant. You have to be aware of how
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you are being influenced, because in this day and age, right now,
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if you aren't careful, you can slide down the path of least resistance,
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the path to weakness, the path to fragility, and the path to a
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lack of control as to what is happening in our lives. In your life,
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you got to be the master of your mind. You've got to exercise
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mind control. I'm the general, I'm the soldier. I am going to
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obey orders without question. And people say, like, what do you tell
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you, I'm telling yourself anything. I'm not allowed to talk. Immediate obedience
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to the orders. That's what we're doing with ourselves. You just can't do
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what you're in love with, what you're interested in. Sometimes you have to
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do what you don't want to do so you can live like you want to
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live. So if it's going to help you reach your goal, even if
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you don't like it, do it anyway. What's your why? You need
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a why? Why do you need a why? Because some days you're gonna
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look at that alarm clock and it's gonna say six and six is the time
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you wake up, and you're gonna look again, it's gonna say six,
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so five, and you're gonna say, I don't want to get up,
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But that why is gonna say? Push yourself, get up. Your mama
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needs you, your daddy needs you, your children need you, get up.
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Your wives gonna push you when you can't push yourself. When you wanna
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quit and give up, your wives gonna give you that edge. You need,
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that advantage you need to make you believe again, to make you get
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up when you got up three times and you say, I'm not getting up
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no more. Your why you don't get here by quitting when you tired.
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You get here by quitting when you're sentenced, when you're done. You don't
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stop when you tired. You'll stop when you're done. You'll stop when you
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complete it. When you're execute me. Execution is worship, and so I
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execute for my mom, I execute for my grandma, I execute for my
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sister. That's why I can't quit and give up, even though I get
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tired, just like everybody else. I need you to eat the dream.
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I need you to sleep the dream. I need you to talk to dream,
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because some days you're not gonna feel like get up. Some days you're
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not gonna feel like keep going, and the dream is gonna put you.
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You a beast until it's uncomfortable. You a beast when the weather is light,
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You a beast. When coach tell you to do something that you're comfortable
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with, you abeast When you play in your position, you a beast when
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everything is going right. But sometimes stuff starts happening where it's uncomfortable, and
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you start to break, you start to bid, you start to fold.
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You gotta learn to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. It ain't always gonna be
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the way you like it. It's not always gonna be comfortable. The conditions
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ain't always gonna be perfect. But if you go on this, if you
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really want this, you gotta learn to sacrifice. You gotta learn to give
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up, to go up, to be able at any moment, to sacrifice
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what you are for what you will become. I need you to get up,
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and I need you to work like your professor's raising your paper. I
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need you to work like you got an examination. I need you to work
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like you're trying to get credit. I need you to work like you're trying
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to graduate. I need you to put in that work and put in that
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time, and I need you to outwork everybody. Every single day. When
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I wake up, every minute of the day, every hour of the day,
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I have an opportunity, every opportunity of the last opportunity, every opportunity
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I have to reprove myself forget because the day you can come to jigs,
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the day you stop evaluating yourself, the day you stop growing, the day
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you stop getting better is the day you die. Is the day the person
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who's trying to catch you will get you. Ain't nobody stopping you, but
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you You not average? Stop acting like yous? You not average? Why
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you being a do not have it? Why are you being good when you're
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not good you're great, You're phenomenal. Way you won't step up to the
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play, and you have not given yourself enough credit to say I just need
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to get up by a half hour earlier and my whole life will change.
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I just need to get up one hour earlier. I just need to work
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one hour longer. I need to stop being that smooth button. If you
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want to make that one change, that one sacrifice, you would stop dreaming
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and start living it. I need you to dig, dig, and I
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need you to make the rest of your life the best of your life.
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exclusive videos. I really needed to hear it today. When I tell you,
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yesterday was definitely a day for me. So this conversation this month is
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absolutely much needed. It's very warranted when it comes to mental health, especially
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in the Black community. Why the stigma surrounds mental health in the black community,
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We'll never understand why. I do know that twenty five percent of Black
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people see seek mental health treatment when needed, compared to forty percent of white
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people. The lack of resources or mental health in the black community is slim
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to none. I go back in and I look at the episodes I did
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prior when I discuss mental health, suicide is the third leading cause of death.
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I believe it's a third or fourth leading cause of death amongst black men.
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Why is that? Why? Why are we not taking our mental health
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seriously? Why are we not creating safe spaces not only for black men,
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not only I'm so sorry. Let me back up. Why are we not
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creating safe spaces for black men, black women as well as black men?
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Why are we look down upon when we say we need some type of help.
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So again, I'm kicking off the month of May discussing mental health awareness.
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This is not going to be a really long episode because this is just
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to get your guys ready for the episodes to come for the month of May.
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So today is my day to vent again. This is mental health Awareness
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Month, so let me let y'all know. So yesterday was a really hard
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day for me. I got very overwhelmed with my job to the point where
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I was like, you know what, I'm done. I can't do this
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anymore. And I felt myself slipping and I said, no, how am
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I going to keep encouraging and uplifting people if my mental is not straight?
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And again, this is why I do these mental health checkings. It's because,
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again, you never know what a person is going through. You may
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see them laughing, smiling, joking, playing, when really they could be
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one pill away from ending their lives, for taking their lives. They could
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be one bullet away, one drive away from taking their lives. So when
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I go and I look at everything that I've dealt with with regards to my
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mental health, and I look at how my therapists have helped me along the
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way, and then I say, I know I'm not going to always have
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it together, but I also need the tools to keep it together, you
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know what I'm saying, to be able to navigate and maneuver when I feel
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those wicked yet crazy thoughts slip into my mind, and so I say,
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what can I do to help this? What can I do? So that
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brings me to having our Mental Health Awareness month, having these mental health check
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ins, making sure that you're good, making sure that I'm able to help
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you over that little hump. Regardless if I'm in the slumps, I still
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want to be able to be the light of somebody. I still want to
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be able to push. I still want to be able to encourage. They
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want to be able to empower any person that I can. But do remember
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that I will keep my boundaries up, okay, So let's not never forget
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that, okay. But I'm also learning to be selfish with myself. Also,
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you know, I'm also learning to step away and regroup when I feel
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myself slipping back down. So I say all of that to say, is
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it's okay to set those boundaries. It's okay to pull yourself away to regroup.
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Don't never let any person tell you, oh girl, it's gonna be
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all right, just get up and just pray or whatever you know people tell
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you. I'm not saying prayer does not worry because I know it does,
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but again, there's nothing wrong with seeking an outside person to help you awlong
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on your journey. So I'm here tonight and throughout the month and and every
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episode after this is to help remove the stigma around mental health issues in the
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black community, because we do see that, we do see where black people
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have been taught in condition or we gotta be strong. We can't be weak
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all the time. Yeah, you can, because you're human. If you're
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sad, it's okay for you to cry, if you're angry, it's okay
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for you to be mad. You're human. And I really wish people would
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stop saying just keep your head up, girl, just keep going. It's
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easy to tell a person that if you're not in that person's shoes. It's
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easy for me to say, girl, get up a man, get up,
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keep going, keep pushing, and I'm not walking in your shoes because
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I don't know what your day to day life is, but I can tell
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you what my day to day life is. And yesterday was a rough day
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for me. Yesterday was real hard, not to the point where I wanted
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to do any harm to myself, but to the point where I say,
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you know what, I'm done I can't do this anymore. I'm ready to
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quit my job. I'm ready to walk away. But I know, like
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BB told me yesterday, because we had a conversation and she said, Ashley,
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she said, you know that's the devil testing you are. You're gonna
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pass, You're gonna fail. And so I had some time to just really
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pull back and I had some time to really regroup and talk about it.
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And that's what I encourage everyone to do. If you feel like you're having
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a moment, reach out to somebody. There's phone numbers that you could call.
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It. Matter of fact, let me post this one up here really
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quick for you. If you ever feel like you're having a moment and you
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don't have anybody to talk to. Here's the suicide Prevention lifeline. If you
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aren't a crisis, call nine one one. Let me move this banner out
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of the way. But there's a phone number right here at the bottom of
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your screen, and that phone number for the listeners, it's one eight hundred
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two seven three A two five five, and that's the suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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And that number is available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
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three hundred and sixty five days a year three sixty six if his leap
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year, I encourage you. Please don't suffer alone. Please don't suffer by
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yourself. Please don't suffer in silence. And as I said yesterday, I
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would rather you send me a message than for me to see rip behind your
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knee, because I know what it's like. I know what it feels like
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to be in the dark. I know what it feels like when you see
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the light and you can't get to it. I know what that feels like.
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I just I've been in that space before. I'm on medication for my
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depression and my anxiety. Have I been taking it. I'm gonna be honest
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with y'all, no, because I feel like I could do it on my
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own. But yesterday's breakdown was a prime example of I need to get back
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on this medication. I need something to keep me balanced, I need something
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to keep me focused. Let me just take a deep breath, let me
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regroup, because I feel myself getting a little emotional as I do this show.
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Because again, I want everyone that's in a dark space to be able
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to come out of that. I want every person that is suffering by themselves
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to come out of that. I pray for your mental. I pray for
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your overall well being. I pray for your physical, your spiritual, your
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emotional health. And again I'm a double back, I pray for your mental.
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I pray that whoever's in standing in the midst of the storm, I
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pray you come through it. I pray you seek the help that you so
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righteously deserve to get over that hump, because darkness doesn't last always. And
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again, I know it's easier said than done. I know it's easy for
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me to tell you this, but you gotta get up. You can't lay
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down in it. You can't keep wallowing in the dog because you can't be
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celebrated in the dark. I know it's familiar, I know it's safe.
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But I want to love you in the light. I want to pull you
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back into the light. I want to pull you out of that rut.
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I want to show you and encourage you and tell you it's gonna get better.
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You just have to keep believing and know that it's gonna get better.
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It's gonna get easier for you. And this is why I do what I
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do. This is why Black Girl Interrupted is where it is today. This
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is how Black Girl Interrupted came be was on the premise of It started when
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I was in the darkest pace of my life and I knew what I wanted
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to do. I knew I wanted to encourage people. I knew I wanted
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to help someone that was struggling. I knew I wanted to help someone that
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whose story was similar to mine, who was familiar, whose story was familiar
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to me. So this is why I do these mental health check ins.
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This is why I push you, this is why I encourage you, this
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is why I love on you because I know you can do it. I
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know. I know you wake up some days and and you're like, I'm
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done. I can't do this. I know it. I've had those days.
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But I want you to know it's it's not forever. It's not long
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term, it's not your final destination. So again, as we continue on
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through the month of May, again we're gonna talk about anxiety, We're gonna
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speak about depression, we're gonna talk about bipolar disorder, we're gonna talk about
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schizophrenia, and most importantly, we're gonna talk about suicide. I will throughout
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the month of May, I will do my mental mondays. I will do
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my wellness Wednesdays. I will actually be live doing my mental Mondays. I
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will actually be live doing my wellness Wednesdays from here on out. Because somebody
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needs to be encouraged. Somebody needs to be loved on. Someone needs to
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be told they're doing a great job. Someone needs to be told that you
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could do it. Someone needs the reassurance. And that's what we're gonna do
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on Black Girl Interrupted. You're gonna get their reassurance. You're gonna get the
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love, you're gonna get the support, you're gonna get the resources to make
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it through. So again, y'all, welcome back to Black Girl Interrupt their
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podcast. Again. This was just a brief episode, just a brief episode
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of what is to come for the month of May again, this is Mental
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Health Awareness Month. Again. I will be doing my mental Mondays. I
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will be doing my wellness Wednesdays. I will still continue to post on my
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Facebook page with the mental health check ins because I want to know how you're
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doing. If there anything, if there's anything that I could do to assist
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to help you get to where you're trying to go, please do not hesitate
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to send me a message. I do have access to some resources that I
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can provide to you if need be. So I'm gonna close out. Like
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I said, this was not gonna be a very long episode, just thirty
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forty minutes. I want to close out the episode with something empowering, something
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encouraging, something uplifting. So again, don't forget Tuesdays and Thursdays with stream
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live to Facebook as well as to YouTube. Excuse me a thirty pm Central
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time, nine thirty Eastern time. For those that do just like to listen
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at aren't with a visual, you could catch me streaming live on every major
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streaming platform Spotify, Google, Apple, iHeart. Just type in black Girl,
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interrupt the podcast and it will pull up for you again. If just
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know that I love you and I will be here in any time you need
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me. So We're just gonna go ahead and wrap up, and I'm gonna
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close with this and I again, we'll see you Tuesday. Don't forget check
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in with your girl, let me know how you're feeling, let me know
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what I could do to help you get over that hump. But just know
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those storms won't last forever. So here we go. It's very very simple
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to get what you want, but it's not easy it's your job to make
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yourself do the crap you don't want to do so you can be everything that
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you're supposed to be. And you're so damn busy waiting to feel like it,
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and you're never going to ever. No one's coming, no one.
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No one's coming to push you. No one's coming to tell you to turn
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the TV off. No one's coming to tell you to get out the door
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and exercise. Nobody's coming to tell you to apply for that job that you've
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always dreamt about. Nobody's coming to write the business plan for you. It's
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up to you. And because you're only ever going to do the things that
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you feel like doing right now or that feel good right now, unless you
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understand that, you've got to parent yourself. You got to push yourself.
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You're not going to make your dreams come true if you want to live your
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best life, your absolutely best life. God do a huge fraper. God
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wants it choices to make people make bad choices. They wake up another making
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not bad choice. They make it that bad choice. Now they gotta happy
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to bad choices right, and they like, how did I get year?
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Choices? How do I get year? You trying to get to certain places.
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But you ain't making the choices that's gonna get you there. You are
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your feelings. The problem is that most people they like they can't get up
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in the morning. They ain't got no energy. They don't got the energy
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to keep up with me. I'm like, boll ain't nothing wrong with you.
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You just ain't got the stablin up. You just ain't got the energy.
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You can't slaught everything, you can't out think everything. Some stuff is
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just you gotta be powerful. It's just some stuff that you gotta have stablin
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afore. You just too slow. It just take you too long. You
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wake up. Take you three weeks to do what it can take twenty four
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hours to do. It gonna make you a bad person. But you're gonna
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have to be average because to be great, you got to keep up.
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No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up. My drive wakes me
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off. My determination, my ability to be is doing app whatever I want.
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It wakes me up. What wake you up? What drives you?
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Why are you playing this game? You gotta begin with the end in mind.
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So whatever your dream, where your goal lives, you gotta wake up
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every day to witch you gotta go to bed Wig, Are you hearing what
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I'm telling you? You gotta read stuff, the music you listen to.
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Everything you do gotta pour into that dream. I didn't get you where I
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have. I didn't get here being lazy. I didn't get here at vins
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watching TV. I didn't get here taking days off. I personally know what
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it takes. One day, I made a decision that enough is enough.
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I'm tired of being average. I'm tired. I'm tired of being good.
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I'm tired. I made a defission. Enough is enohing. They show time.
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In order for you to go from one level to the next level,
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In order for any woman to transition, for any man to transition, the
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thing that they want must be greater than the thing they girly ask. You
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only transition from one level to the next when you tired of the level you
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off. You don't belong at the bottom, and it's time for you to
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get your butt from down there. It's time for you to stop being talk
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the boy at the buck, get your butt up and get your where you're
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supposed to be. Get you where you ball, do what you're supposed to
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do, Live like you're supposed to live. You gotta kill every single day
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of my life. I feel like giving a hunt of the bud every single
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day. I don't have days where I don't feel like it. Why Because
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I'm counting on me, My wife's counting on me, my son's counting on
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me. I don't have days to wait. And your grind has to match
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your dream. You can't play as much as you used to play. You
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can't go where you needs to go. You can't do what you used to
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do. And now you got to pick your grind up. And I need
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you to wake up every single day. I need to use your twenty four
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hours like you've never used to be. For y'all know, I'm always always
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starting in with something motivational, something empowering, something uplifting. But again,
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y'all, thank y'all for tuning in tonight, two black girls interrupt the podcast
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again. This is the month I made, so I am kicking off Mental
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health Awareness a month again, although just now tuning in. I will be
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discussing depression, I will be discussing anxiety. I will be discussing bipolar disorder,
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schizophrenia, and most importantly suicide. I will also be bringing y'all some
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resources that I have found that are available if you do need the help.
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Again, if you are in a rut, I would rather for you to
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mess me, if you have my phone number, call me and let's talk
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through this. Let's work through this, because I don't want to see another
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rip behind someone's knee. I understand life gets hard. I understand life,
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Life's situations happen, finances aren't going how you want them to go. I
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definitely understand. But again, I want to be the person that helps you
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get over that hump. So on that note, I just want to send
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out some love to everybody. I will see y'all Tuesday night, a thirty
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pm Central time, nine thirty Eastern time. We will be talking about depression.
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I will have trigger warnings and things of that nature. I will be
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sharing a little bit about my journey, my story and everything that I've been
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going through to how I am today, because I do have rough days.
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I do have those highs, those lows, the ups, the down I
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do have that Hey, my love, he says, hey beautiful, he
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says, great show as usual. I know, thank you, my love,
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Thank you, Bait. I really appreciate you. But again, I
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will be back Tuesday night eight thirty pm Central time, nine thirty Eastern time.
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I may it may be a little delayed because my daughter does have a
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band performance Tuesday night, so I'm hoping to start on time. I'm hoping
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it's not a long performance, so I'm hoping to start on time Tuesday night,
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and then i will see you guys Thursday night again a thirty pm Central
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time, nine thirty Eastern time. Javera says hey, he says, thank
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you for your platform. Absolutely no problem, That's exactly why I'm here and
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I love you back. I finally figured out how to do it. I
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love your bag. But yes, definitely mental health Mental Health Awareness Month,
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and I will be speaking to the black community. No, it's not a
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race thing, but I want to fight to remove the stigma in the black
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community when it comes to mental health. So m y'all bear with me.
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Like I said, yesterday was a day for me. So I'm trying to
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regroup. I'm trying to get back. My energy levels are going back up,
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so that's a beautiful thing. So again, those were the upcoming episodes
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for Black Girl Interrupt the podcast. Again, mental Health Awareness, I will
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be doing. I will be going live doing my mental Mondays as well as
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my mental my wellness Wednesdays. So anyone that wants to tune in, anyone
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that would like to be a guest, here is my email down. Well,
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I do apologize. Here's the email down at the bottom of the screen.
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It is Black Girl Interrupt that podcast at gmail dot com. If you
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want to come on, share your story and you're not embarrassed or you're not
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ashamed because you know this is a judgment free zone. I'll show me an
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email and I can bring you on a we could talk and whatever it is
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we have to do to get you over the hump, because again that is
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my purpose here. My purpose is to continue to spread awareness in the black
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community when it comes to mental health. Excuse me. Also, here is
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the website the screen. The link is down at the bottom of the screen
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for those that cannot see it is www dot b like baby gipodcast dot org.
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You could also sign up to be notified of the new episodes and all
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the upcoming events for a Black Girl Interrupted, as well as when the merchandise
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is gonna drop. That is actually in production. So I'm very excited about
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dropping the BGI merchandise. So y'all stay tuned for that. But on that
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note again, I love you guys. Happy Thursday. I wish you guys
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a beautiful and safe weekend. I will see you guys Tuesday. Until then,
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like I say, if you need to talk, if you have my
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phone number, call me, shoot mean message, let's talk. Whatever it
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is that we gotta do, if we need to laugh together, if we
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need to cry together, whatever it is that we need to do, it
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is imperative that we fight together to remove the stigma around mental health in the
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black community. So on that note, I love you guys. I will
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see you Tuesday night again eight thirty pm Central Time non thirty Eastern time.
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Don't forget our stream live to YouTube as well as the Facebook, and again
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go to YouTube. Don't forget to like, comm and share, subscribe,
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catch up on all the past updates where a Black Girl interrupted so can bring
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you up to speed on where we are to day. But I love you
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guys again, have a beautiful weekend, and I will see y'all Tuesday.
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