May 8, 2023 • 13 mins
Dawn Dai speaks about visiting her FM listener Mr. Meredith at the hospital after having heart surgery and the fun-filled day she had with Ms. Marilyn.
Everything in life is finite. We're here for a good time not a long time, so we have to make it count. We're on loan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
about your life so that you can live life on
purpose and for a purpose. And this is your first
time tuning in. Welcome Vitamin D. It's a pun of
my name. My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin
D from the sun. So I'm here a shed light
into your life. And I do this with inspirational insights
(00:23):
and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me,
Because if you want to be better and you want
to do better, then you're going to have to be
able to see better. So join me on this journey
of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how
you are your greatest ass at get your vite in
Indy right with me, and get excited about your life.
(00:49):
It's so important for us to realize that we're all
alone right now. And that's why you'll hear me say
we're here for a good time, not a long time.
So let's make a count. Let's choose to live our
lives one purpose and for a purpose. And it really
instilled in me when I had a moment to spend
a day with Miss Maryland. I spoke about them previously
(01:12):
in an episode where I told you they were calling
the shootout and then mister Meridith had a heart attack.
Well he ended up having to get surgery multiple times.
And so one day Miss Maryland called me and we
said prayer, and then the following day I ended up
going to visit them. And I had spent a whole
day with Miss Maryland and it was amazing. We went
down and took a bad back to Walmart. We had lunch,
(01:37):
had fish, fried fish and filey a soul. We went
down to the alley. She got me some shoes like
and we really bonded and got a chance to know
each other. And I saw her interaction with so many
people everywhere. We went to love her light and how
it shined like Miss Maryland passes out these pantsas I
love Jesus, and when you would see people and how
(01:57):
they would light up when they saw these, when they
received these answar was amazing. And then she gives away
these bracelets and Miss Marilyn is not shy to talk
about her decorated past of being incarcerated and who what
she's done because she knows that the grace that God
has given her for what she has right now, and
therefore can walk in so much gratitude. That's why they
(02:18):
say gratitude is everything. The more grateful we are, the
more things we have to be grateful for, and being
able to live through it all and still persevere through
it all, and God keeps blessing through it all. She said,
we're all on loan, and we have to realize that
when we give blessings, they beget blessing. So it's kind
of like not it's kind of and it's like a
(02:40):
circle of blessings of life. How much you give, you
receive and it keeps flowing. And what you realize is
that you're not trying to just hold on to it
and hold so many things because it's a loan for you.
We only here for a finite time. And when we
can walk in that gratitude and no one that it's
not mine to hoard to myself and how to give
(03:03):
you realize how gratitude is everything. The more grateful we are,
the more things we have to be grateful for, and
how we'll never get this time ever again, and it's
so important for us to truly experience life and to
thank God for it all. And it's the thing where
(03:24):
you gotta try God to know God truly, truly, truly.
For someone that has never experienced a moment in their
life when there was nothing that they could do but
just staying and somehow they made it through, well, that's
a but God's situation. And that's why I always remind
myself constantly, I've survived one hundred percent of the worst
(03:49):
days of my life, and the same God that's right
now is the same guy back then. And there were
times where I felt like I wasn't gonna make it,
but I'm still here. Why Because you can't fail if
you don't quit. And when you realize that every day
you could have stopped but you didn't, you realize how
precious it is and how a smile on somebody's face
(04:09):
Because you don't know who fought to get up this morning.
You don't know who's still fighting to get up this morning.
You don't know what somebody has been through. Heck, what
are you going through? That's why we got to remember
we're all here on law, because it can just be
one situation one breakup, one loss that can change your
(04:32):
entire life, change the entire trajectory of your life, your dreams,
and your ambitions. So I want to remind you that
we're on long We here for a good time, not
a long time. That's why we got to make a count.
We have to choose to live our life on purpose
(04:54):
and for a purpose and not take it for granted
that it will be here the same as always. Time
is so precious. I felt myself getting emotional, and I
didn't feel I did get emotional speaking with my nephew,
tell Jane he's turning sixteen this year. He's so excited
(05:14):
about his birthday, and I'm reflecting. I said, oh my goodness,
I said, last time I saw you was back in
it was it July or August, September, one of than
three months. But it wasn't for a good reason. His
papa had transitioned and I was only in there for
a blip, and we were saying how it wasn't for
a good occasion. But I want to go out there again,
(05:36):
and you know, just trying to figure out the right
time because time is moving on and it's going fast.
And I know when I called him he had this
de voice. I said, who is this? Because if I
just will go to what I said, all of this
space with my baby, yeah, he going into a grown hole. Man'
(06:01):
here for a good time, not a long time. So
let's make a count. Let's be present, Let's walk in gratitude,
Let's walk in peace because we deserve that. And I'm
just so grateful for Miss Maryland, for her opening up
her heart, her spirit. I mean even to the point
where when I went to the hospital, I had just
thrown some sweats because I'm just in and out, and
(06:25):
it reminded me of just grateful for the opportunity I
had on an FM out because when Miss Maryland came down,
I had another security officer, a woman and another woman
came back because they just wanted to meet me. They said,
we've been looking for you. Where have you been? And
I told them I said no, I'm no longer with
kJ LH. And it was lie. I was like, but
you can find me on Facebook live. I'm still on
(06:46):
there for tons and times and and Tunson and Tuesday
and tell miss something good Thursday. So I was telling
them that they can catch me then, and so we
go upstairs right before I go see Meredith and I'm
talking to it the I guess she's running the nurse's
(07:06):
station or a guess. I don't know what it is.
But on that floor, whoever you go to for the information,
are you trying to find out that woman? And I'm
talking to her and Miss Marilyn, like you know, she
was on KJLH and a girl looked at me. She said,
oh my gosh, I can hear it now, and she
was talking about how she enjoyed and the inspiration behind it.
And so I saw miss and Meredith and he was
(07:27):
so elated, and I hugged him and spoke life over him,
and he asked about Jeremiah and I told him, I said,
you know, he's no longer with the team or with
the show, but he wanted to wish to send him
well wishes. And it just really touched my heart, because
you know, we're here for a good time, not a
long time. Let's make it count. And no, we're not perfect,
(07:48):
Like I said, we all got some type of paths.
And who would we just say who got more decorated
or not because we didn't all did something. But when
we realized how precious it is and what that grace
can do. It's behavior that covers us. So Meridithech recounted
the situation, what happened with the shootout, how he could
(08:08):
have just went over one inch to the right or
left where his eye was and it could have went
through his head. But God, and I just got the news.
Miss Maryland just hit me and said he getting checked out,
So won't he do it? I'm telling you, you got to
try God to know God. So after we left and
(08:30):
I told you we had that fun filed day with
Mss Maryland. Right when we're leaving out of the hospital,
he was over checked in at Veterans. I passed by
these two housekeepers and I was telling him, you were
talking about the job opportunity. I'm telling about Facebook Live.
You gotta check it out. You got to check it out.
And I'm just grateful because I'm realizing, like the impact
(08:52):
I can have to inspire people and give resources an opportunity,
how people are waiting to receive it so much. So
as we're leaving out, as Miss Maryland and I were
about to have our fun feel day, because we were
out from like nine thirty to like five, the same
security guard that I told you when I first came
in and had recognized me and was like, oh, I
want to see if it was really you. I ended
(09:12):
up having her to take a selfie of us on
her phone because she said, I just told my husband
I met you, and I was like, I was just asking.
I was like, where is she? Where is she? And
I said really? And then she looked at me. She
was like, I don't even want to get emotional. She
was like, but we need you. She was like the
way you speak life over people. She was like, people
don't get that. And I said, oh my god. So
(09:33):
that's when I told her, I said, you gotta check
me y'all on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at five
thirty a m. I said, we ain't stopping the show.
On top of I told her, I reminded her, I said,
we ain't we taking calls. So I'm realizing that even
my gifts of being able to do it this same
for me. This is from God because that impact of
(09:58):
doing what I love and shut it, that's bigger. And
it's so important for us to realize the God within
ourselves and how we can inspire and really transform people's
lives because we realize we're here for a good time,
not a long time. We gotta make it count and
this time is on loan. This body is only a finite,
that car is only a finite. This hair you got that,
(10:20):
even this skin you got. Right now, I mean, can
we be honest with the eloticity elasticity? Yeah? I said,
they're right. Okay, So how are you living? Are you
walking in your gratitude? Do you realize that you can't
just hold and hold on to everything? How we gotta
share because the more we share, the more comes back
at us. Because it's the evolution of Carmo the cycle.
(10:43):
So I'm grateful. May I remind us not to get
too comfortable in life, to just get sitting there because
we're so used to waste something that's happened, because it
could just be one thing, one pivot in the entire
trajectory of your life can change. So then the question becomes,
are you living your life at your greatest potential? Are
you living your life how you want to live it?
(11:04):
I'm just asking, hmm. They say gratitude is everything. The
more grateful we are, the more things we have to
be grateful for. What are you grateful for? All right,
chall I hope you all enjoyed that. I just want
to remind you that we're alone here and we gonna
(11:25):
make account. So can we start by making account by
telling somebody to tell somebody else to tell somebody else
that that dang on Dawn Day got a podcast and
it's entitled Vitamin Deed with Dawn Day, and it's available
wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And on top of it,
if you're still listen and that means you enjoyed it,
can you go ahead and raid it? Go ahead and
put nothings does up there and leave a little comment
(11:47):
so when somebody looks at it, they say, oh they
received that, or oh I met Dawn and yeah, she
gonna really pull up because I really will pull up
on you. So can you pull up on me? I'd
appreciate you. Also, if you'd like to be a guest,
go ahead and send me an email at Vitamin D
at don Daispace dot com. In fact, if you want
(12:07):
to write advice letter and you want some advice from me,
you know I'm gonna keep it real with you, because
what do we say, Vitamin D is all about Vitamin
D is all about shedding the light on the good
and the bad, because if you want to be better
and you want to do better, you have to be
able to see better and that starts with you. So
that means you may not always feel good, but knowing
(12:29):
that is coming from a good place, and take it
as a green of salt. What they say, eat the
meat to spit out the bones. It's just my opinion.
So if you value it, page shoo me an email.
On top of that, we're all social media at Vitamin
D Dawn Day. Check out some past interviews, conversations, highlights,
all that jazz and if you want the original source
(12:49):
of vitamin D, that be me Baby don Dai speaks. Also,
don't forget check me out on Facebook live Tuesdays and
Thursdays five thirty am Pacific time for deal with something
good Thursday and talk to him and talk to me,
(13:11):
talk to me Tuesday. I don't know why I said
that back, but I have to commit. Hey, that's what
you get when you get it live and direct coming correct. Oh,
I'm in my anyway, let me check out the here
okay anyway, So anyway, I love you, thank you so much.
Live your life on purpose and for a purpose. And
let me go Okay. Like I always say, I'm in
(13:31):
the business and making dreams come true. And I damn
sure we gonna forget about mind. So until next time,
always remember you are your greatest dis set, get your
right in, Mandy right with me. I get excited about
your life
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
about your life so that you can live life on
purpose and for a purpose. And this is your first
time tuning in. Welcome Vitamin D. It's a pun of
my name. My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin
D from the sun. So I'm here a shed light
into your life. And I do this with inspirational insights
(00:23):
and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me,
Because if you want to be better and you want
to do better, then you're going to have to be
able to see better. So join me on this journey
of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how
you are your greatest ass at get your vite in
Indy right with me, and get excited about your life.
(00:49):
It's so important for us to realize that we're all
alone right now. And that's why you'll hear me say
we're here for a good time, not a long time.
So let's make a count. Let's choose to live our
lives one purpose and for a purpose. And it really
instilled in me when I had a moment to spend
a day with Miss Maryland. I spoke about them previously
(01:12):
in an episode where I told you they were calling
the shootout and then mister Meridith had a heart attack.
Well he ended up having to get surgery multiple times.
And so one day Miss Maryland called me and we
said prayer, and then the following day I ended up
going to visit them. And I had spent a whole
day with Miss Maryland and it was amazing. We went
down and took a bad back to Walmart. We had lunch,
(01:37):
had fish, fried fish and filey a soul. We went
down to the alley. She got me some shoes like
and we really bonded and got a chance to know
each other. And I saw her interaction with so many
people everywhere. We went to love her light and how
it shined like Miss Maryland passes out these pantsas I
love Jesus, and when you would see people and how
(01:57):
they would light up when they saw these, when they
received these answar was amazing. And then she gives away
these bracelets and Miss Marilyn is not shy to talk
about her decorated past of being incarcerated and who what
she's done because she knows that the grace that God
has given her for what she has right now, and
therefore can walk in so much gratitude. That's why they
(02:18):
say gratitude is everything. The more grateful we are, the
more things we have to be grateful for, and being
able to live through it all and still persevere through
it all, and God keeps blessing through it all. She said,
we're all on loan, and we have to realize that
when we give blessings, they beget blessing. So it's kind
of like not it's kind of and it's like a
(02:40):
circle of blessings of life. How much you give, you
receive and it keeps flowing. And what you realize is
that you're not trying to just hold on to it
and hold so many things because it's a loan for you.
We only here for a finite time. And when we
can walk in that gratitude and no one that it's
not mine to hoard to myself and how to give
(03:03):
you realize how gratitude is everything. The more grateful we are,
the more things we have to be grateful for, and
how we'll never get this time ever again, and it's
so important for us to truly experience life and to
thank God for it all. And it's the thing where
(03:24):
you gotta try God to know God truly, truly, truly.
For someone that has never experienced a moment in their
life when there was nothing that they could do but
just staying and somehow they made it through, well, that's
a but God's situation. And that's why I always remind
myself constantly, I've survived one hundred percent of the worst
(03:49):
days of my life, and the same God that's right
now is the same guy back then. And there were
times where I felt like I wasn't gonna make it,
but I'm still here. Why Because you can't fail if
you don't quit. And when you realize that every day
you could have stopped but you didn't, you realize how
precious it is and how a smile on somebody's face
(04:09):
Because you don't know who fought to get up this morning.
You don't know who's still fighting to get up this morning.
You don't know what somebody has been through. Heck, what
are you going through? That's why we got to remember
we're all here on law, because it can just be
one situation one breakup, one loss that can change your
(04:32):
entire life, change the entire trajectory of your life, your dreams,
and your ambitions. So I want to remind you that
we're on long We here for a good time, not
a long time. That's why we got to make a count.
We have to choose to live our life on purpose
(04:54):
and for a purpose and not take it for granted
that it will be here the same as always. Time
is so precious. I felt myself getting emotional, and I
didn't feel I did get emotional speaking with my nephew,
tell Jane he's turning sixteen this year. He's so excited
(05:14):
about his birthday, and I'm reflecting. I said, oh my goodness,
I said, last time I saw you was back in
it was it July or August, September, one of than
three months. But it wasn't for a good reason. His
papa had transitioned and I was only in there for
a blip, and we were saying how it wasn't for
a good occasion. But I want to go out there again,
(05:36):
and you know, just trying to figure out the right
time because time is moving on and it's going fast.
And I know when I called him he had this
de voice. I said, who is this? Because if I
just will go to what I said, all of this
space with my baby, yeah, he going into a grown hole. Man'
(06:01):
here for a good time, not a long time. So
let's make a count. Let's be present, Let's walk in gratitude,
Let's walk in peace because we deserve that. And I'm
just so grateful for Miss Maryland, for her opening up
her heart, her spirit. I mean even to the point
where when I went to the hospital, I had just
thrown some sweats because I'm just in and out, and
(06:25):
it reminded me of just grateful for the opportunity I
had on an FM out because when Miss Maryland came down,
I had another security officer, a woman and another woman
came back because they just wanted to meet me. They said,
we've been looking for you. Where have you been? And
I told them I said no, I'm no longer with
kJ LH. And it was lie. I was like, but
you can find me on Facebook live. I'm still on
(06:46):
there for tons and times and and Tunson and Tuesday
and tell miss something good Thursday. So I was telling
them that they can catch me then, and so we
go upstairs right before I go see Meredith and I'm
talking to it the I guess she's running the nurse's
(07:06):
station or a guess. I don't know what it is.
But on that floor, whoever you go to for the information,
are you trying to find out that woman? And I'm
talking to her and Miss Marilyn, like you know, she
was on KJLH and a girl looked at me. She said,
oh my gosh, I can hear it now, and she
was talking about how she enjoyed and the inspiration behind it.
And so I saw miss and Meredith and he was
(07:27):
so elated, and I hugged him and spoke life over him,
and he asked about Jeremiah and I told him, I said,
you know, he's no longer with the team or with
the show, but he wanted to wish to send him
well wishes. And it just really touched my heart, because
you know, we're here for a good time, not a
long time. Let's make it count. And no, we're not perfect,
(07:48):
Like I said, we all got some type of paths.
And who would we just say who got more decorated
or not because we didn't all did something. But when
we realized how precious it is and what that grace
can do. It's behavior that covers us. So Meridithech recounted
the situation, what happened with the shootout, how he could
(08:08):
have just went over one inch to the right or
left where his eye was and it could have went
through his head. But God, and I just got the news.
Miss Maryland just hit me and said he getting checked out,
So won't he do it? I'm telling you, you got to
try God to know God. So after we left and
(08:30):
I told you we had that fun filed day with
Mss Maryland. Right when we're leaving out of the hospital,
he was over checked in at Veterans. I passed by
these two housekeepers and I was telling him, you were
talking about the job opportunity. I'm telling about Facebook Live.
You gotta check it out. You got to check it out.
And I'm just grateful because I'm realizing, like the impact
(08:52):
I can have to inspire people and give resources an opportunity,
how people are waiting to receive it so much. So
as we're leaving out, as Miss Maryland and I were
about to have our fun feel day, because we were
out from like nine thirty to like five, the same
security guard that I told you when I first came
in and had recognized me and was like, oh, I
want to see if it was really you. I ended
(09:12):
up having her to take a selfie of us on
her phone because she said, I just told my husband
I met you, and I was like, I was just asking.
I was like, where is she? Where is she? And
I said really? And then she looked at me. She
was like, I don't even want to get emotional. She
was like, but we need you. She was like the
way you speak life over people. She was like, people
don't get that. And I said, oh my god. So
(09:33):
that's when I told her, I said, you gotta check
me y'all on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at five
thirty a m. I said, we ain't stopping the show.
On top of I told her, I reminded her, I said,
we ain't we taking calls. So I'm realizing that even
my gifts of being able to do it this same
for me. This is from God because that impact of
(09:58):
doing what I love and shut it, that's bigger. And
it's so important for us to realize the God within
ourselves and how we can inspire and really transform people's
lives because we realize we're here for a good time,
not a long time. We gotta make it count and
this time is on loan. This body is only a finite,
that car is only a finite. This hair you got that,
(10:20):
even this skin you got. Right now, I mean, can
we be honest with the eloticity elasticity? Yeah? I said,
they're right. Okay, So how are you living? Are you
walking in your gratitude? Do you realize that you can't
just hold and hold on to everything? How we gotta
share because the more we share, the more comes back
at us. Because it's the evolution of Carmo the cycle.
(10:43):
So I'm grateful. May I remind us not to get
too comfortable in life, to just get sitting there because
we're so used to waste something that's happened, because it
could just be one thing, one pivot in the entire
trajectory of your life can change. So then the question becomes,
are you living your life at your greatest potential? Are
you living your life how you want to live it?
(11:04):
I'm just asking, hmm. They say gratitude is everything. The
more grateful we are, the more things we have to
be grateful for. What are you grateful for? All right,
chall I hope you all enjoyed that. I just want
to remind you that we're alone here and we gonna
(11:25):
make account. So can we start by making account by
telling somebody to tell somebody else to tell somebody else
that that dang on Dawn Day got a podcast and
it's entitled Vitamin Deed with Dawn Day, and it's available
wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And on top of it,
if you're still listen and that means you enjoyed it,
can you go ahead and raid it? Go ahead and
put nothings does up there and leave a little comment
(11:47):
so when somebody looks at it, they say, oh they
received that, or oh I met Dawn and yeah, she
gonna really pull up because I really will pull up
on you. So can you pull up on me? I'd
appreciate you. Also, if you'd like to be a guest,
go ahead and send me an email at Vitamin D
at don Daispace dot com. In fact, if you want
(12:07):
to write advice letter and you want some advice from me,
you know I'm gonna keep it real with you, because
what do we say, Vitamin D is all about Vitamin
D is all about shedding the light on the good
and the bad, because if you want to be better
and you want to do better, you have to be
able to see better and that starts with you. So
that means you may not always feel good, but knowing
(12:29):
that is coming from a good place, and take it
as a green of salt. What they say, eat the
meat to spit out the bones. It's just my opinion.
So if you value it, page shoo me an email.
On top of that, we're all social media at Vitamin
D Dawn Day. Check out some past interviews, conversations, highlights,
all that jazz and if you want the original source
(12:49):
of vitamin D, that be me Baby don Dai speaks. Also,
don't forget check me out on Facebook live Tuesdays and
Thursdays five thirty am Pacific time for deal with something
good Thursday and talk to him and talk to me,
(13:11):
talk to me Tuesday. I don't know why I said
that back, but I have to commit. Hey, that's what
you get when you get it live and direct coming correct. Oh,
I'm in my anyway, let me check out the here
okay anyway, So anyway, I love you, thank you so much.
Live your life on purpose and for a purpose. And
let me go Okay. Like I always say, I'm in
(13:31):
the business and making dreams come true. And I damn
sure we gonna forget about mind. So until next time,
always remember you are your greatest dis set, get your
right in, Mandy right with me. I get excited about
your life
Host
Dawn Dai
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!