September 18, 2025 • 40 mins
In this soft and soul-filled episode of Deeply Well, with Devi’s signature warmth and presence, she opens up about what’s been living in her heart lately: from precious moments with her seven-year-old son to the joy she finds in creating beauty through interior design, and the deep fulfillment of engaging in community with purpose.
She shares the richness of a recent trip to Martha’s Vineyard and invites listeners into her world from motherhood, creativity, to sacred service.
This episode is also a loving reminder that transformation doesn’t always happen in big leaps; sometimes it unfolds in small, intentional choices. Devi shares news on upcoming events and conversations where she’ll be speaking on healing, self-discovery, and the importance of tending to our inner world.
Concluding with the traditional soul-work, this week asks you to remain open to the guidance that shows up along your path of growth, and to trust that you, too, are being called to serve in ways that are meaningful, unique, and aligned.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Take a deep breath in through your nose. Holds it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now, release slowly again deep in helle hold release, repeating
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internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I
am deeply well. I am deeply well. I am deeply wow.
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I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast.
Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land in
your journey. A podcast for those that are curious, creative,
and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care.
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This right here, this is where we heal, This is
where we transcend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Welcome back to the show. I'm Debbie Brown.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This is deeply well, y'all. So much life has been happening.
I'm going to settle into this solow episode and give
you some thoughts and feelings, share some good information, things
that I'm excited about, and things I think that you'll
really really want to connect to. So first things first,
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All right, So life lately, it's September, so I've been
in the thick of back to school. My son is seven.
Oh my gosh, he is seven. He is in second grade.
I am so in love with this part of my life.
Like I mean, you know, my son's my world.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's clear.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
There is something about this age and the things that
we're getting to talk about the way we're getting to
spend time together. That's just so incredible for me. I
am loving my domestic life. I am such a house
tender naturally, Like let me give you all a little
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insight into like my personality. It's many many things, but
like I love. Since I was a little girl, I've
been obsessed with interior design and just moving things. Like
I literally was like six trying to push my bed
across the room to change it up, to feel new energy.
And when I started working at sixteen, I was working
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two jobs, and so with some of the money that
I made, I literally used to go to the hunt
the home depot, and I would buy paint and I
would buy you know, blinds, and I'd go other places
and get fabric and turn it into curtains and definitely
be hidden up the ross and get some decor. And
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so I like that's always been a core part of me,
like how does the space around me make me feel?
How does it nourish me? And that is definitely true
in adulthood. I find so many ways to make love
to my house, Like I am just always up in it.
I am finding little things to do, little projects, and
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it just feels so special. And I was hanging up
some of my son's art recently, and I just felt
so lucky and grateful that I could do that, Like
I've really been sinking into how it feels. Even as
a child, we moved around so much. We moved so much,
so many different parts of LA and Greater La. And
(05:44):
I realize that I've been in my house now that
i'm in for almost nine years, like eight and a
half years, and my son has been here, he's seven,
he's been here his whole life. I was here the
whole time I was pregnant. And I realized I was like, wow,
I think this is like the longest I've been in
one place ever.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And that just felt so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Cool, you know, to see the betina that starts to
take hold in your house, the places where there were
stains or in my case, like actual full size handprints
on the wall made of syrup, and you know where
I've where. I've just been able to like mark off
his height at different ages, and I'm just loving this
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age of me. I'm loving his age. I'm loving this
time of my life. I love that I feel like
as a family, he and I we have like such
a real system going with our lives and with each other,
and yeah, I was just really sweet yesterday. I got
to pick him up from school, and I don't always
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get to do that. I take him to school every day,
but I'm not usually the one who picks up, and
so I got to pick him up. And second grade
is different, y'all because there is a ton of homework, Like,
I mean, it's crazy. He got phonics, he got mad,
he got reading, he got writing and comprehension, and you know,
that's just a lot on a little brain and a
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little life. And to see, you know, at what age
this perfectionism desire starts, or when we start getting frustrated
with ourselves and how we talk to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And just to be a.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Part of this part of his journey, knowing that with
a gentleness, because I want him to have his own process,
but with a gentleness, I can be a positive influence,
always being able to shape his inner world, his inner confidence,
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his self esteem, you know what, the ways that he
feels worthy like it's just such an honor and a
pleasure to do that for your child, Like, oh my god,
So it took us like two hours to get through
all the whole work, because you know, if you have
a little one, and I know I certainly was like this.
They might be getting up from the table and like
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arguing with you about it, or crying about it, or
just wanting to move their bodies or getting distracted. And
yesterday I really had the time and the space and
the emotional regulation to just be so present with all
of it. So I felt like I was experiencing myself
outside of myself, like watching the both of us be
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mother and son, and it was just it. It was
one of the most simple, ordinary, mundane nights, and like
last night was really one of the best days of
my life, Like it was one of the best moments
I've ever had with my son, just helping him with
homework and helping him be patient. And by the time
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he went to sleep, like we were talking before bed,
and I like laid down with him and was like lounging,
and he just like rolled over and I could see
like the happiness on his face through like the darkness
of the room, and he just kept giving me like
a hundred kisses on the cheek, like Jess. It was
(09:09):
so urgent for him and like so strong, and he
grabbed my whole head and face and like just clutched
it to give me these kisses, and then like Jess
went and then rolled back over and like laid down
and I just sat there like smiling to myself like wow, wow, wow,
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oh my god, that was so special. So those are like,
you know, parenting is hard. It's a lot of things,
and especially if you've been through things, it's a lot
of things. But those simple beautiful moments, not the buying toys,
not the going to the big this or the movie
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or the but like those little tiny moments like helping
someone with their frustration as the learning how to learn,
and then being rewarded with like kisses, Like I'm just
like that. That's what it is. That's what it's about.
That is the core memory. That is you know, I
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think sometimes as parents, and I'm not sure if everyone
else feels this way listening, but I've often felt or
you see, really not even that I felt, to be
quite honest, what I've seen is that it's like the
big stuff, right, like.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's Christmas, it's you know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The big trips or the surprises or the ice cream
or the you know, all the happiness. But like in
this season of my journey with my son, it's been
so special because we've been working through hard things like homework,
like disagreements with friends, Like you know, what was the
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other thing that we were doing. We had a moment
where he, you know, felt that he had done something
wrong and he came to tell me the truth about it,
and like holding space for that and still reflecting back
to him that like, Okay, well we definitely have to
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deal with this, and like you're still worthy. My love
for you is never in question, My like for you
was never in question, and like I still trust you,
I still think you're a good boy, a good person.
And just watching like such a private smile emerge on
his face, for having that mirroring of love and that
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deeper enforcement of how permanent my love is for him.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was just special.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was special to give it, it was special to
see it, it was special to be it. So I'm
savoring that deeply. That is what I'm savoring in my
life right now. I feel so grateful that I have
the opportunity to really participate in his school, in the
lives of his friends and their families, and it's just special,
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and it's it's rare, you know, at least to me.
It's not something I'm used to or have the chance
to experience because my mom worked so hard and that
was the only option, you know, And to be able
to have both right now, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Tired, y'all, I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She's been traveling, she's been working. But to have that,
it's just it's an honor. It's special. It is so
special to be able to really see your child for
who they are and give them what they need based
on that, you know, not just my ideas and desires
for him, not just you know, my thoughts of what
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I didn't have or whatever. No, what does he want
in need and his unique life that is his own.
I'm loving that. I've been reflecting about that a lot lately,
so I might have more things in that vein coming.
So I've been savoring that. I've been savoring just kind
of some house projects. So the studio that you're looking
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at right now, if you're watching us on YouTube, it's
going to look a little different. I'm actually like full
on creating a space. So there's painting going on, there's
building going on, there's all kinds of things happening. There's
a lot of movement towards future foundations right now and
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that's felt really good. Sos some places I've been, some
things I've been thinking. We've been doing it back to
school summer is Ova. I don't know if I ever
got a chance to share with you all about my
trip to Martha's Vineyard this year. Just one of the
most special places I've ever.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Been on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, And I just really recommend, like, if you've ever
heard of Martha's Vineyard and thought it wasn't for you,
or that you couldn't really see yourself there, or you
know it didn't look like your thing, I really challenge
you to take a risk and book a trip. I
used to think that I didn't know much about it.
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I'm from LA but it's on the east coast. But
I was like, I don't know, like an east coast
coastal town, y'all don't even be getting in the water
over there.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I don't know. And I went, and I've.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Gone back, and the beauty that's present there, the safety
that's present there, like there's no crime here on this
island with no crime and all beautiful things. And you know,
people were saying that everyone keeps their doors unlocked, and
you know, just you walk around the kids run free.
It's magnificent. It's like nothing I've ever felt or known.
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I'm really excited because my plan is I've gone the
last two years for both work and pleasure, but usually
in and out. Next year, I'm taking my kid, Me
and my baby boy are going. We are riding bikes,
we are doing the Polar Bear Plunge. We are taking
long walks and oaks bluff and eating fudge and ice
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cream and we're doing it and I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So I just yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now, more than ever, I think it's really special and
important to remind ourselves what the feeling of wholesomeness is,
with the feeling of safety and simplicity and beauty feel
like because you're not really doing nothing. You're just walking
around all day looking at flowers and truly eating ice
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cream and you know, just being But we need that,
and we deserve that, and we deserve to feel really
safe when we're out, especially when we're with our littles.
So that was magnificent. That was a big part of
my summer. That meant a lot to me. I had
a chance to go to the US Open recently in
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New York. Huge thank you to my friends at Chase
that was so fun. I went with my girlfriend Nina
Nina Parker, who just killed it at New York Fashion Week.
She is phenomenal. We have been friends for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My lord. Yeah wow.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And she's actually on an OG episode of my very
first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems,
So if you ever want to dig all the way back,
I think that episode is like maybe six years ago.
We talk a lot about our early journey and all
of you know, the work that she's done, and she's
just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line,
(16:57):
the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York
Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season
of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows,
and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she
and I went to the open Nina Parker, who just
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killed it at New York Fashion Week. She is phenomenal.
We have been friends for nearly twenty years, my.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Lord, yeah wow.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And she's actually on an OG episode of my very
first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems.
So if you ever want to dig all the way back.
I think that episode is like maybe six years ago.
We talk a lot about our early journey and all
of you know, the work that she's done, and she's
just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line,
(17:56):
the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York
Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season
of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows,
and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she
and I went to the open. We had a blast.
I was telling a friend a minute ago, like I'm
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not a poser, like in terms of like I just
want to be like my silly self in pictures, Like
I do not be posing. I don't be practicing. I
really should, honestly, I need to grow up and like
get into this day and age. But I just like
to have a big smile and look like myself and photos.
But she's like a professional, so she kept being like
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poking me in the back, like stand up straight, and
I'm like, okay, oh oh, put that out h head.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This way face, and it was just.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I was like, man, I am a hot mess. I
need so much practice, but it's great being with friends,
especially in other cities. Me and another girlfriend, one of
my best friends, April, we do that all the time,
like we both in LA. But if we have like
a free day, we'll be like.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
San Francisco, go to a museum or you know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Like pop up here, have food, drive here, do this
like just really I think, pushing ourselves to live, you know,
and again not in these like insanely big, grand instagrammable ways,
but just private smiles for us. That feels special. I
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loved again so Martha's Vineyard. I loved being with leading
women to find I cannot speak enough about how phenomenal
this huge group of women is and all that they
bring to the world, but definitely all that they bring
to me, the ways I feel supported when I do
this beautiful work of wellness with them. I loved heading
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out when I was in New York and supporting my girl,
Sloane Stevens, of course, the tennis beautiful champion. She's stunningly gorgeous.
She has a really amazing foundation called the Sloan Stevens Foundation,
and they are doing phenomenal work for the youth. They
work specifically in the city of Compton here in the
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LA area, and I had a chance to visit the
brand new Compton High School where her program is, and
I mean, they were teaching kids to swim that hadn't
been in the water before in a pool at the beach.
They're teaching tennis, like reading. Like I'm just and she's
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a young woman. I'm just blown away. I'm blown away
by her and her mother, her and her whole team.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Casey.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Just the things that they are doing for young people
in this city is so inspiring. And she also recently
launched a body care line, and so when I was
in New York, I went to check out that launch
and I led a meditation there and I had a
chance to actually when I led the metaation, we did
it on this rooftop in New York. So it's kind
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of cool because it was chaos and peace at the
same time. And when I teach in person, I actually
love that, like I love when noise enters the room,
because that's life. So we have to find a way
to bend our ear and bend kind of our nervous
system into a different place when something disruptive is present.
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And so we were on that rooftop in New York.
You're hearing horns, You're hearing all the things, and we're
still settling into peace. And while I was there, I
just ran into so many amazing women, Like I ran
into a friend, a beautiful young woman who was at
one of my retreats with Queen of Fua a couple
of years ago at Women who Heal shout out to
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all the women who Heal, And she was there and
we got to catch up on life, and I hear
about her world and all that she's doing and how
she's feeling since that retreat. It just filled me up.
I'm such an in person person, y'all. I got to
figure out a way how to enjoy social media so
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I can interact more. It's so hard for me, but
I'm really an in person person. Like I just love
talking in person. I love teaching in person. I love workshops.
I love being in front of someone and it's like,
oh my god, Like everything I can't do in a
DM or in a comment like if we're in person,
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oh my god. I just love to know people. I
love to feel the energy. I love to share and
hear and feel and do and so's it's just it's
the best when I run into people that listen to
this podcast in real life or have been to a
retreat and then I see them again like just it
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fills my soul.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Deeply well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I had the chance recently to have dinner at the
Mayor's house, the Mayor of La Karen Bass. Big shout
out to my girlfriend Mia Wright, who is doing I
didn't even know how much good work she was doing
in this city, and that's something I'm really aspiring to
(23:27):
right now. I used to do a lot of community
activism and community action work here in La especially in
my younger years at the start of my career, back
when I was in radio the first station I worked
at as an on air personality. I was twenty three
when I was taking news positions, but I had been there.
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But I was twenty three and I was juggling for
pretty much no money, so many important physicians. I was
the music director of the station, the youngest woman in
the country, but whatevers, I was an on air talent
and I took over being the director of community actions.
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It was a lot of work and it was hard.
The city needs a lot, but it was like the
best time of my life, like being able to work
with different offices within the city government and help bring
different projects to life for young people. I had a
community show that aired on Sundays and I had you know,
I've had like the chief of Police on it. I've
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worked with the Mayor's office. I've had different community figures.
And that is like my deepest passion. That is like
the PBS kid and me meets the then LA radio
hip hop personality. But so I've been in prayer with
God for the last couple of years, like how how
can I serve this city and how can I serve children.
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I don't know if they're going to be combined or
if these are separate ass but those are like the
call of my heart, and so it was just very synchronistic.
When my girl invited me. She brought together an awesome
group of people who were based in LA to talk
about the city with the mayor. And the Mayor's been
under a lot of scrutiny since the fires here in
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LA and a lot of it is just quite unfair
and quite unfounded. And I got to learn a lot
of the background and the behind the scenes, and a
lot about policy creation and what policies were ended that
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led us to be in this moment in time that
we're in in LA, which is a moment that has
mental health crisis. We have an unhoused crisis, so much crime.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's wild. It's wild. The thing's going on. And I
got to talk to her personally about something that had
happened recently. Where I live, on the very very end
of the long street that I live on, a couple
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my neighbors were murdered in their home. Happened last month.
The details that have come out is that it was
a mentally ill man who was walking. He was walking
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down my street and he chose that house for a reason,
I have no idea, and climbed the fence somehow got
into the house, stayed in the house. The couple came
home around five to six pm, as you do at
the end of the day, and he ended their lives.
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He was found immediately because he just walked out and
then walked home, just walked on the streets, just walked home.
After that, and eventually, the you know, very soon same day,
the police found him a few miles away. That's a lot.
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That's part of why I feel a little more inside.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
This summer, why I've really been clinging to safety and
wholeness and wholesomeness and beauty and savoring the innocence that's
present in my life, because so much isn't so. At
that dinner, I got to really have what I felt
(27:53):
was a very meaningful, powerful conversation with the mayor about
mental health in this city, about crime in my neighborhood
and area, and I felt so well treated by her
and so informed by her. I felt very heard by her,
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and I felt really grateful for that. So I don't
know what's to come, but I definitely feel very galvanized.
I feel a spark reignited and really shining brightly inside
of myself to deeply root and help and serve my community.
And yeah, we'll see how that takes form. We'll see
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how that takes shape. I also had this cool opportunity.
I did a lot of stuff this month, which this
is not always the case. I had a chance to
go to New York for the kickoff of New York
Fashion Week, and I did this experience with this brand
that I have come to who love so much. Oh
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my gosh, it's like really helping my skin. This incredible,
incredible skincare brand that I'm in partnership with called Allies
of Skin. It's I really don't say this kind of
thing about products or stuff, but it's like life changing skincare,
like it is. You know, I have very vain needs
(29:27):
like anti aging, right, but this kind of skincare I'm
watching and I've been seeing videos on TikTok that they're
using these products and people who have had really severe
burns or have been disfigured are i mean, able to
heal their faces in like really miraculous ways. So I'm
just really inspired by it. I'm so inspired by like
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intentional like innovation, like the hard stuff, you know, and
their founder, Nicholas Travis is his story is so mind
blowing and so inspiring, and I'm like, it's just it's
really what I've needed in this season that I've really
been asking God a lot. How do you want me
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to serve? Now?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Who am I supposed to serve right now? Who? And how? Who?
And how? Who and how? Who and how and when? When?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
When? That's what I've been asking, And you know, I
think having this opportunity in the last few weeks to
be inspired by a lifelong community leader servant leader in
Karen Bass, and then to be inspired by Nick and
where his life's journey has taken him and how that
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led him to create this brand, Allies of Skin, And
I'm just like it's the fire I've needed, Like I
needed to be inspired in this way by peopleeople who
are really like doing a lot for people in a
way that's like touching their center and core. So it's
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been nice to feel so inspired and creative and innovative.
So it's been a lot, a lot moving the last month,
a lot of things, but my main thing has been
really sinking in as much as I can to the
present moment and the creation of exactly what's in front
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of me now, which is my son, which is my home,
and which.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Is my own heart.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I have one to three amazing things that I'd
love to share if it's in your area. I really
hope to see you in the LA area at the
end of this month. On September thirtieth, I'm going to
be having what I know is going to be, oh,
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a transcendent conversation with one of my favorite human beings
that has ever lived, Shaka Senor. He is a friend
of this show. We have an amazing episode from two
seasons ago that we've recorded, please look for it. He
has an amazing new book out called How to Be Free.
His story, his life, his mastery, his teaching is profound.
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He's an incredible person, an amazing writer. So his new
book How to Be Free is out, and he and
I will be in conversation and in community at Hilltop
Coffee and Kitchen, the slosson location Tuesday, September thirtieth. It's
a conversation on freedom, on personal transformation and healing and community.
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So if you'd like to go to that in the
LA area, Shaka Sanor and myself at Hilltop. Link in
my bio on Instagram can get you to tickets and
also my website so at Debbie Brown Ordebie Brown dot com.
Also if you are in Greenville, South Carolina, in that area,
I am going to be at the church of two
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of my very dear friends, John and Aventer Gray Love
Story Church for the Relish Conference. My sister Aventer, she
has put together this beautiful women's conference again. It's in
South Carolina, Greenville Love Story Church, and I will be
there to speak and to be in community. I'll be
there all day. I hope to be filled. I hope
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to pour. There's gonna be a lot of dynamic sessions.
There's going to be intimate prayer circles, fellowship. This is
really just about empowering our hearts, especially in a time
like this, and an opportunity to deepen our faith and
to be in community with other people who love deeply,
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who lead in love with compassion, and are looking to
build into deepen the relationship with God. So that's where
I'll be in October second through fifth, link again in
my bio on on the website, and then if you
are in the New York area, I'll be at my
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brother Charlottamage the Gods Mental Wealth Expo. I believe this
is the fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo. It gets bigger
every year it is, and by bigger, I mean like
the community. I'm so excited this year. It's at an arena.
It's going to be taking place in New Jersey Saturday,
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October eleventh. It's a full half day, so eleven am
to four pm. There's gonna be panels. We're gonna have
panels on emotional regulation. We're gonna have conversations there on
religious trauma. I'm curating two panels. Danee Logan will be there,
Teddy Reeves will be there, Minoj Dayis will be there.
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There's so many amazing teachers and truly embodied practitioners in
this work that are going to be there, and there
will also be breakout sessions, so there's also going to
be discussions, panels, resources to connect you to mental health services,
self care and well being. This is really really in
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service to the communities of New York, of New Jersey
of all of those close surrounding areas. So excited to
be there and to do that again. I'm on the
board of the Mental Health Expo, and the work that
Charlemagne is doing and that he's committed to the amount
of money they've been able to move to help people
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is just again really inspiring. Excited to be a part
of that and would love to be in community there
with you as well. So all of those things you
can link to the bio if you can attend LA
New Jerseys, No Carolina, and New York will be my
next few areas I'll be hitting in the coming weeks.
So I'm excited to connect. I'm asto excited to just
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love and to share. Uh yeah, all right, soul work
for this episode, y'all. I've shared on this episode and
I've shared maybe in a couple episodes recently, that my
question of this moment, what I'm in prayer with, what
I'm talking to God about, what I'm searching my heart
and my life for, is God, how do you want
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me to serve?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Now? Who do you want me to serve?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Now? What do you want me to do now? I
would love for every person to spend some time doing
soul work, either asking that question if it feels resonant,
or finding your question. What is your question of the moment?
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What is this exact moment bringing forward for you to
inquire about? We're all on the verge of something else.
No one is finished right now. We're all on the
verge of becoming something else right now in this moment.
Just like I asked this question at the top of
twenty twenty, who are you being called to become? I
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really sit with that question now, who are each of
us being called to become?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
But it doesn't mean that you have to be something
else because what you are now isn't enough now. It's
an inquiry of like, how am I going to be used?
Who am I becoming for? How I need to be used?
What am I called to do? How am I called
to serve?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
So if any of those questions feel resonant to fit
within your life and your process right now, use one
of those. If there is another natural question that is arising,
like it's coming to this surface, it's clear for you,
trust that one and ask yourself that question. You can
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try to spend some time journaling to it if that
feels resonant. But I'd also say some of these questions
were waiting to receive the answer, so there might not
be much to write about. So consider in meditation or
just in a heartfelt prayer, closing your eyes, taking some
deep breaths, asking those questions loud and silently, and then
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giving it the space to arise, and trusting that it
will in the coming days, weeks, months, years. All right,
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This is deeply well, y'all. So much life has been happening.
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All right, So life lately, it's September, so I've been
in the thick of back to school. My son is seven.
Oh my gosh, he is seven. He is in second grade.
I am so in love with this part of my life.
Like I mean, you know, my son's my world.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's clear.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
There is something about this age and the things that
we're getting to talk about the way we're getting to
spend time together. That's just so incredible for me. I
am loving my domestic life. I am such a house
tender naturally, Like let me give you all a little
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insight into like my personality. It's many many things, but
like I love. Since I was a little girl, I've
been obsessed with interior design and just moving things. Like
I literally was like six trying to push my bed
across the room to change it up, to feel new energy.
And when I started working at sixteen, I was working
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two jobs, and so with some of the money that
I made, I literally used to go to the hunt
the home depot, and I would buy paint and I
would buy you know, blinds, and I'd go other places
and get fabric and turn it into curtains and definitely
be hidden up the ross and get some decor. And
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so I like that's always been a core part of me,
like how does the space around me make me feel?
How does it nourish me? And that is definitely true
in adulthood. I find so many ways to make love
to my house, Like I am just always up in it.
I am finding little things to do, little projects, and
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it just feels so special. And I was hanging up
some of my son's art recently, and I just felt
so lucky and grateful that I could do that, Like
I've really been sinking into how it feels. Even as
a child, we moved around so much. We moved so much,
so many different parts of LA and Greater La. And
(05:44):
I realize that I've been in my house now that
i'm in for almost nine years, like eight and a
half years, and my son has been here, he's seven,
he's been here his whole life. I was here the
whole time I was pregnant. And I realized I was like, wow,
I think this is like the longest I've been in
one place ever.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And that just felt so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Cool, you know, to see the betina that starts to
take hold in your house, the places where there were
stains or in my case, like actual full size handprints
on the wall made of syrup, and you know where
I've where. I've just been able to like mark off
his height at different ages, and I'm just loving this
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age of me. I'm loving his age. I'm loving this
time of my life. I love that I feel like
as a family, he and I we have like such
a real system going with our lives and with each other,
and yeah, I was just really sweet yesterday. I got
to pick him up from school, and I don't always
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get to do that. I take him to school every day,
but I'm not usually the one who picks up, and
so I got to pick him up. And second grade
is different, y'all because there is a ton of homework, Like,
I mean, it's crazy. He got phonics, he got mad,
he got reading, he got writing and comprehension, and you know,
that's just a lot on a little brain and a
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little life. And to see, you know, at what age
this perfectionism desire starts, or when we start getting frustrated
with ourselves and how we talk to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And just to be a.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Part of this part of his journey, knowing that with
a gentleness, because I want him to have his own process,
but with a gentleness, I can be a positive influence,
always being able to shape his inner world, his inner confidence,
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his self esteem, you know what, the ways that he
feels worthy like it's just such an honor and a
pleasure to do that for your child, Like, oh my god,
So it took us like two hours to get through
all the whole work, because you know, if you have
a little one, and I know I certainly was like this.
They might be getting up from the table and like
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arguing with you about it, or crying about it, or
just wanting to move their bodies or getting distracted. And
yesterday I really had the time and the space and
the emotional regulation to just be so present with all
of it. So I felt like I was experiencing myself
outside of myself, like watching the both of us be
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mother and son, and it was just it. It was
one of the most simple, ordinary, mundane nights, and like
last night was really one of the best days of
my life, Like it was one of the best moments
I've ever had with my son, just helping him with
homework and helping him be patient. And by the time
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he went to sleep, like we were talking before bed,
and I like laid down with him and was like lounging,
and he just like rolled over and I could see
like the happiness on his face through like the darkness
of the room, and he just kept giving me like
a hundred kisses on the cheek, like Jess. It was
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so urgent for him and like so strong, and he
grabbed my whole head and face and like just clutched
it to give me these kisses, and then like Jess
went and then rolled back over and like laid down
and I just sat there like smiling to myself like wow, wow, wow,
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oh my god, that was so special. So those are like,
you know, parenting is hard. It's a lot of things,
and especially if you've been through things, it's a lot
of things. But those simple beautiful moments, not the buying toys,
not the going to the big this or the movie
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or the but like those little tiny moments like helping
someone with their frustration as the learning how to learn,
and then being rewarded with like kisses, Like I'm just
like that. That's what it is. That's what it's about.
That is the core memory. That is you know, I
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think sometimes as parents, and I'm not sure if everyone
else feels this way listening, but I've often felt or
you see, really not even that I felt, to be
quite honest, what I've seen is that it's like the
big stuff, right, like.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's Christmas, it's you know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The big trips or the surprises or the ice cream
or the you know, all the happiness. But like in
this season of my journey with my son, it's been
so special because we've been working through hard things like homework,
like disagreements with friends, Like you know, what was the
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other thing that we were doing. We had a moment
where he, you know, felt that he had done something
wrong and he came to tell me the truth about it,
and like holding space for that and still reflecting back
to him that like, Okay, well we definitely have to
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deal with this, and like you're still worthy. My love
for you is never in question, My like for you
was never in question, and like I still trust you,
I still think you're a good boy, a good person.
And just watching like such a private smile emerge on
his face, for having that mirroring of love and that
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deeper enforcement of how permanent my love is for him.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was just special.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was special to give it, it was special to
see it, it was special to be it. So I'm
savoring that deeply. That is what I'm savoring in my
life right now. I feel so grateful that I have
the opportunity to really participate in his school, in the
lives of his friends and their families, and it's just special,
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and it's it's rare, you know, at least to me.
It's not something I'm used to or have the chance
to experience because my mom worked so hard and that
was the only option, you know, And to be able
to have both right now, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Tired, y'all, I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She's been traveling, she's been working. But to have that,
it's just it's an honor. It's special. It is so
special to be able to really see your child for
who they are and give them what they need based
on that, you know, not just my ideas and desires
for him, not just you know, my thoughts of what
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I didn't have or whatever. No, what does he want
in need and his unique life that is his own.
I'm loving that. I've been reflecting about that a lot lately,
so I might have more things in that vein coming.
So I've been savoring that. I've been savoring just kind
of some house projects. So the studio that you're looking
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at right now, if you're watching us on YouTube, it's
going to look a little different. I'm actually like full
on creating a space. So there's painting going on, there's
building going on, there's all kinds of things happening. There's
a lot of movement towards future foundations right now and
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that's felt really good. Sos some places I've been, some
things I've been thinking. We've been doing it back to
school summer is Ova. I don't know if I ever
got a chance to share with you all about my
trip to Martha's Vineyard this year. Just one of the
most special places I've ever.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Been on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, And I just really recommend, like, if you've ever
heard of Martha's Vineyard and thought it wasn't for you,
or that you couldn't really see yourself there, or you
know it didn't look like your thing, I really challenge
you to take a risk and book a trip. I
used to think that I didn't know much about it.
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I'm from LA but it's on the east coast. But
I was like, I don't know, like an east coast
coastal town, y'all don't even be getting in the water
over there.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I don't know. And I went, and I've.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Gone back, and the beauty that's present there, the safety
that's present there, like there's no crime here on this
island with no crime and all beautiful things. And you know,
people were saying that everyone keeps their doors unlocked, and
you know, just you walk around the kids run free.
It's magnificent. It's like nothing I've ever felt or known.
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I'm really excited because my plan is I've gone the
last two years for both work and pleasure, but usually
in and out. Next year, I'm taking my kid, Me
and my baby boy are going. We are riding bikes,
we are doing the Polar Bear Plunge. We are taking
long walks and oaks bluff and eating fudge and ice
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cream and we're doing it and I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So I just yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now, more than ever, I think it's really special and
important to remind ourselves what the feeling of wholesomeness is,
with the feeling of safety and simplicity and beauty feel
like because you're not really doing nothing. You're just walking
around all day looking at flowers and truly eating ice
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cream and you know, just being But we need that,
and we deserve that, and we deserve to feel really
safe when we're out, especially when we're with our littles.
So that was magnificent. That was a big part of
my summer. That meant a lot to me. I had
a chance to go to the US Open recently in
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New York. Huge thank you to my friends at Chase
that was so fun. I went with my girlfriend Nina
Nina Parker, who just killed it at New York Fashion Week.
She is phenomenal. We have been friends for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My lord. Yeah wow.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And she's actually on an OG episode of my very
first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems,
So if you ever want to dig all the way back,
I think that episode is like maybe six years ago.
We talk a lot about our early journey and all
of you know, the work that she's done, and she's
just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line,
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the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York
Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season
of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows,
and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she
and I went to the open Nina Parker, who just
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killed it at New York Fashion Week. She is phenomenal.
We have been friends for nearly twenty years, my.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Lord, yeah wow.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And she's actually on an OG episode of my very
first season of this podcast when it was called Dropping Gems.
So if you ever want to dig all the way back.
I think that episode is like maybe six years ago.
We talk a lot about our early journey and all
of you know, the work that she's done, and she's
just doing tremendous, amazing, very rare and special things. Her line,
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the Nina Parker collection that just debuted at New York
Fashion Week. Of course it's in all Macy's new season
of clothes will be out soon. Looks amazing hosting television shows,
and yeah, just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful woman. So she
and I went to the open. We had a blast.
I was telling a friend a minute ago, like I'm
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not a poser, like in terms of like I just
want to be like my silly self in pictures, Like
I do not be posing. I don't be practicing. I
really should, honestly, I need to grow up and like
get into this day and age. But I just like
to have a big smile and look like myself and photos.
But she's like a professional, so she kept being like
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poking me in the back, like stand up straight, and
I'm like, okay, oh oh, put that out h head.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This way face, and it was just.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I was like, man, I am a hot mess. I
need so much practice, but it's great being with friends,
especially in other cities. Me and another girlfriend, one of
my best friends, April, we do that all the time,
like we both in LA. But if we have like
a free day, we'll be like.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
San Francisco, go to a museum or you know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Like pop up here, have food, drive here, do this
like just really I think, pushing ourselves to live, you know,
and again not in these like insanely big, grand instagrammable ways,
but just private smiles for us. That feels special. I
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loved again so Martha's Vineyard. I loved being with leading
women to find I cannot speak enough about how phenomenal
this huge group of women is and all that they
bring to the world, but definitely all that they bring
to me, the ways I feel supported when I do
this beautiful work of wellness with them. I loved heading
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out when I was in New York and supporting my girl,
Sloane Stevens, of course, the tennis beautiful champion. She's stunningly gorgeous.
She has a really amazing foundation called the Sloan Stevens Foundation,
and they are doing phenomenal work for the youth. They
work specifically in the city of Compton here in the
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LA area, and I had a chance to visit the
brand new Compton High School where her program is, and
I mean, they were teaching kids to swim that hadn't
been in the water before in a pool at the beach.
They're teaching tennis, like reading. Like I'm just and she's
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a young woman. I'm just blown away. I'm blown away
by her and her mother, her and her whole team.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Casey.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Just the things that they are doing for young people
in this city is so inspiring. And she also recently
launched a body care line, and so when I was
in New York, I went to check out that launch
and I led a meditation there and I had a
chance to actually when I led the metaation, we did
it on this rooftop in New York. So it's kind
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of cool because it was chaos and peace at the
same time. And when I teach in person, I actually
love that, like I love when noise enters the room,
because that's life. So we have to find a way
to bend our ear and bend kind of our nervous
system into a different place when something disruptive is present.
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And so we were on that rooftop in New York.
You're hearing horns, You're hearing all the things, and we're
still settling into peace. And while I was there, I
just ran into so many amazing women, Like I ran
into a friend, a beautiful young woman who was at
one of my retreats with Queen of Fua a couple
of years ago at Women who Heal shout out to
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all the women who Heal, And she was there and
we got to catch up on life, and I hear
about her world and all that she's doing and how
she's feeling since that retreat. It just filled me up.
I'm such an in person person, y'all. I got to
figure out a way how to enjoy social media so
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I can interact more. It's so hard for me, but
I'm really an in person person. Like I just love
talking in person. I love teaching in person. I love workshops.
I love being in front of someone and it's like,
oh my god, Like everything I can't do in a
DM or in a comment like if we're in person,
(22:33):
oh my god. I just love to know people. I
love to feel the energy. I love to share and
hear and feel and do and so's it's just it's
the best when I run into people that listen to
this podcast in real life or have been to a
retreat and then I see them again like just it
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fills my soul.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Deeply well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I had the chance recently to have dinner at the
Mayor's house, the Mayor of La Karen Bass. Big shout
out to my girlfriend Mia Wright, who is doing I
didn't even know how much good work she was doing
in this city, and that's something I'm really aspiring to
(23:27):
right now. I used to do a lot of community
activism and community action work here in La especially in
my younger years at the start of my career, back
when I was in radio the first station I worked
at as an on air personality. I was twenty three
when I was taking news positions, but I had been there.
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But I was twenty three and I was juggling for
pretty much no money, so many important physicians. I was
the music director of the station, the youngest woman in
the country, but whatevers, I was an on air talent
and I took over being the director of community actions.
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It was a lot of work and it was hard.
The city needs a lot, but it was like the
best time of my life, like being able to work
with different offices within the city government and help bring
different projects to life for young people. I had a
community show that aired on Sundays and I had you know,
I've had like the chief of Police on it. I've
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worked with the Mayor's office. I've had different community figures.
And that is like my deepest passion. That is like
the PBS kid and me meets the then LA radio
hip hop personality. But so I've been in prayer with
God for the last couple of years, like how how
can I serve this city and how can I serve children.
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I don't know if they're going to be combined or
if these are separate ass but those are like the
call of my heart, and so it was just very synchronistic.
When my girl invited me. She brought together an awesome
group of people who were based in LA to talk
about the city with the mayor. And the Mayor's been
under a lot of scrutiny since the fires here in
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LA and a lot of it is just quite unfair
and quite unfounded. And I got to learn a lot
of the background and the behind the scenes, and a
lot about policy creation and what policies were ended that
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led us to be in this moment in time that
we're in in LA, which is a moment that has
mental health crisis. We have an unhoused crisis, so much crime.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's wild. It's wild. The thing's going on. And I
got to talk to her personally about something that had
happened recently. Where I live, on the very very end
of the long street that I live on, a couple
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my neighbors were murdered in their home. Happened last month.
The details that have come out is that it was
a mentally ill man who was walking. He was walking
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down my street and he chose that house for a reason,
I have no idea, and climbed the fence somehow got
into the house, stayed in the house. The couple came
home around five to six pm, as you do at
the end of the day, and he ended their lives.
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He was found immediately because he just walked out and
then walked home, just walked on the streets, just walked home.
After that, and eventually, the you know, very soon same day,
the police found him a few miles away. That's a lot.
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That's part of why I feel a little more inside.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
This summer, why I've really been clinging to safety and
wholeness and wholesomeness and beauty and savoring the innocence that's
present in my life, because so much isn't so. At
that dinner, I got to really have what I felt
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was a very meaningful, powerful conversation with the mayor about
mental health in this city, about crime in my neighborhood
and area, and I felt so well treated by her
and so informed by her. I felt very heard by her,
(28:17):
and I felt really grateful for that. So I don't
know what's to come, but I definitely feel very galvanized.
I feel a spark reignited and really shining brightly inside
of myself to deeply root and help and serve my community.
And yeah, we'll see how that takes form. We'll see
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how that takes shape. I also had this cool opportunity.
I did a lot of stuff this month, which this
is not always the case. I had a chance to
go to New York for the kickoff of New York
Fashion Week, and I did this experience with this brand
that I have come to who love so much. Oh
(29:03):
my gosh, it's like really helping my skin. This incredible,
incredible skincare brand that I'm in partnership with called Allies
of Skin. It's I really don't say this kind of
thing about products or stuff, but it's like life changing skincare,
like it is. You know, I have very vain needs
(29:27):
like anti aging, right, but this kind of skincare I'm
watching and I've been seeing videos on TikTok that they're
using these products and people who have had really severe
burns or have been disfigured are i mean, able to
heal their faces in like really miraculous ways. So I'm
just really inspired by it. I'm so inspired by like
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intentional like innovation, like the hard stuff, you know, and
their founder, Nicholas Travis is his story is so mind
blowing and so inspiring, and I'm like, it's just it's
really what I've needed in this season that I've really
been asking God a lot. How do you want me
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to serve? Now?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Who am I supposed to serve right now? Who? And how? Who?
And how? Who and how? Who and how and when? When?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
When? That's what I've been asking, And you know, I
think having this opportunity in the last few weeks to
be inspired by a lifelong community leader servant leader in
Karen Bass, and then to be inspired by Nick and
where his life's journey has taken him and how that
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led him to create this brand, Allies of Skin, And
I'm just like it's the fire I've needed, Like I
needed to be inspired in this way by peopleeople who
are really like doing a lot for people in a
way that's like touching their center and core. So it's
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been nice to feel so inspired and creative and innovative.
So it's been a lot, a lot moving the last month,
a lot of things, but my main thing has been
really sinking in as much as I can to the
present moment and the creation of exactly what's in front
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of me now, which is my son, which is my home,
and which.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Is my own heart.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I have one to three amazing things that I'd
love to share if it's in your area. I really
hope to see you in the LA area at the
end of this month. On September thirtieth, I'm going to
be having what I know is going to be, oh,
(31:58):
a transcendent conversation with one of my favorite human beings
that has ever lived, Shaka Senor. He is a friend
of this show. We have an amazing episode from two
seasons ago that we've recorded, please look for it. He
has an amazing new book out called How to Be Free.
His story, his life, his mastery, his teaching is profound.
(32:24):
He's an incredible person, an amazing writer. So his new
book How to Be Free is out, and he and
I will be in conversation and in community at Hilltop
Coffee and Kitchen, the slosson location Tuesday, September thirtieth. It's
a conversation on freedom, on personal transformation and healing and community.
(32:47):
So if you'd like to go to that in the
LA area, Shaka Sanor and myself at Hilltop. Link in
my bio on Instagram can get you to tickets and
also my website so at Debbie Brown Ordebie Brown dot com.
Also if you are in Greenville, South Carolina, in that area,
I am going to be at the church of two
(33:08):
of my very dear friends, John and Aventer Gray Love
Story Church for the Relish Conference. My sister Aventer, she
has put together this beautiful women's conference again. It's in
South Carolina, Greenville Love Story Church, and I will be
there to speak and to be in community. I'll be
there all day. I hope to be filled. I hope
(33:30):
to pour. There's gonna be a lot of dynamic sessions.
There's going to be intimate prayer circles, fellowship. This is
really just about empowering our hearts, especially in a time
like this, and an opportunity to deepen our faith and
to be in community with other people who love deeply,
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who lead in love with compassion, and are looking to
build into deepen the relationship with God. So that's where
I'll be in October second through fifth, link again in
my bio on on the website, and then if you
are in the New York area, I'll be at my
(34:16):
brother Charlottamage the Gods Mental Wealth Expo. I believe this
is the fifth annual Mental Wealth Expo. It gets bigger
every year it is, and by bigger, I mean like
the community. I'm so excited this year. It's at an arena.
It's going to be taking place in New Jersey Saturday,
(34:37):
October eleventh. It's a full half day, so eleven am
to four pm. There's gonna be panels. We're gonna have
panels on emotional regulation. We're gonna have conversations there on
religious trauma. I'm curating two panels. Danee Logan will be there,
Teddy Reeves will be there, Minoj Dayis will be there.
(34:59):
There's so many amazing teachers and truly embodied practitioners in
this work that are going to be there, and there
will also be breakout sessions, so there's also going to
be discussions, panels, resources to connect you to mental health services,
self care and well being. This is really really in
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service to the communities of New York, of New Jersey
of all of those close surrounding areas. So excited to
be there and to do that again. I'm on the
board of the Mental Health Expo, and the work that
Charlemagne is doing and that he's committed to the amount
of money they've been able to move to help people
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is just again really inspiring. Excited to be a part
of that and would love to be in community there
with you as well. So all of those things you
can link to the bio if you can attend LA
New Jerseys, No Carolina, and New York will be my
next few areas I'll be hitting in the coming weeks.
So I'm excited to connect. I'm asto excited to just
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love and to share. Uh yeah, all right, soul work
for this episode, y'all. I've shared on this episode and
I've shared maybe in a couple episodes recently, that my
question of this moment, what I'm in prayer with, what
I'm talking to God about, what I'm searching my heart
and my life for, is God, how do you want
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me to serve?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Now? Who do you want me to serve?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Now? What do you want me to do now? I
would love for every person to spend some time doing
soul work, either asking that question if it feels resonant,
or finding your question. What is your question of the moment?
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What is this exact moment bringing forward for you to
inquire about? We're all on the verge of something else.
No one is finished right now. We're all on the
verge of becoming something else right now in this moment.
Just like I asked this question at the top of
twenty twenty, who are you being called to become? I
(37:22):
really sit with that question now, who are each of
us being called to become?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
But it doesn't mean that you have to be something
else because what you are now isn't enough now. It's
an inquiry of like, how am I going to be used?
Who am I becoming for? How I need to be used?
What am I called to do? How am I called
to serve?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
So if any of those questions feel resonant to fit
within your life and your process right now, use one
of those. If there is another natural question that is arising,
like it's coming to this surface, it's clear for you,
trust that one and ask yourself that question. You can
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try to spend some time journaling to it if that
feels resonant. But I'd also say some of these questions
were waiting to receive the answer, so there might not
be much to write about. So consider in meditation or
just in a heartfelt prayer, closing your eyes, taking some
deep breaths, asking those questions loud and silently, and then
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giving it the space to arise, and trusting that it
will in the coming days, weeks, months, years. All right,
thank you for joining another episode of Deeply Well share
it with a friend, Please rate and review this podcast
wherever you like to listen to it. And so much, big, big, big, big,
big big love gratitude.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thank you. I must.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
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