Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.11.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
You are listening to the voice now, come on, digny
one and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show one
more time partner, Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man.
How amazing is that? How good has God been to me?

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How good has he been to you? Just check yourself sometimes,
just sit up and just just run a survey. Just
look at your life where it's at. That might not
be where you want it to be, but that's probably
some decisions you made. But really though, in spite of
all the crazy mistakes I don't made. I mean, man,

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I I I look back at some of the decisions
I done came up with and and man, it's it's
it's just amazing. He let me live. I mean, it's
it's and and and to exist the way I exist,
it does nothing but grace, mercy, favor all that is.
That's what my mama praying for me when I wasn't
praying for myself. That had to be it, because man,

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I can truly tell you I have made enough mistakes man,
stuff you would never even know about, and recovered from
them all you can too. And I don't care what
you've done. Marvin Sap has a song out that says
he saw the best in me when everyone else around

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me could only see the worst in me. You know,
that's an important song man especially. You know. I want
to talk to men today because man, being a man
is so so difficult. Please know it has been my

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quest ever since I was a little boy. My father
had one ambition, son, I don't care what you do,
but when I get through raising you, you will be
a man. That's all I want you to be. And
he never cared what I did for a living. It
never made a difference to him. You're going to be
a man. Manhood is difficult. Now, ladies just listening to this,

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I'm not saying womanhood ain't. I don't know what it
takes to be a woman, so you know, but I
do know exactly what it takes to be a man.
So you know, sometimes when you talk to people on
the radio, you have to preface things because people are
just going he trying to make it look like womanhood ain't. No,
That's not what I'm doing. I'm just talking to men

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today to explain to them that they by theyself and
struggling trying to figure this thing out that you are
not alone in your quest for manhood. That is difficult,
I gotta tell you, man manhood is that kind of difficult,
and it becomes even more compounded if a young boy

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does not have a male role model. I've said it
a thousand times. I'll say it again. A young boy
without a male role model is like an explorer without
a map. Well, I have a suggestion for everybody that's
struggling with manhood and all of the men out there
that are men. This messages for all of us, and
it's for me too. You know. I was listening to

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George Myers the other day and she made a statement.
She said, sometimes you got to do the right thing,
even when it feels wrong. You know. One of the
difficulties of manhood is peer pressure and the misguided principles
of manhood. See what God wants us to be as

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men and what we believe manhood is. It is sometimes
two different things. I'll give you an example. I wrote
this book for women, right and I was telling them
the three ways that a man shows his love, and
I called them three p's. We profess, we protect, and
we provide every man who is a man. That's how

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he exhibits love. We're not talkie talkie comforting. Were not
great nurturists. But when it comes down to it, what
we all want to do, what is in our DNA,
is to profess our love for something you as a woman,
to protect you as a woman, and to provide for
you as a woman. That's in our DNA. Now, sometimes
that gets messed up, and I'll give you an example.

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Sometimes when a boy doesn't have the proper, real role
model in his life, he takes that principle of love
that we all possessing us every man, the professing part,
the protecting, and the providing part, and we misplay it.
That's why gangs exist. Gangs exist off those three principles.
What's the first thing a gang member do? He professed,

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He claim a hood. That's the first thing you do.
This is my neighborhood. I'm deuce Trey, I'm triple hh,
I'm doop de doop, I'm purple, I'm red, I'm blue.
The first thing they do is claim. That's professing. That's
how we show our love. But it's misguided. Now we're
professing something that ain't even good for us. Your hood,

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your gang, your click now Guess what now, we got
to protect it. So now as a protection part of
our love, here we go. You come down here, we're
gonna do this to you. You go over there, they
gonna do that to you. You protect your hood, this
your turf, this all you got. Ain't nobody coming down

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here with blue on? Can't nobody come over here with
red on? You can't come over here with purple on.
You can't come over here with black and gold on.
And we protect that because that's in our DNA. And
then what's the third thing we provide? So guess what
the gang need money? Guess what we do? We selling drugs,
were selling women, we're selling guns. It go back to

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the same thing. Man. I don't know how God gave
it to me that way when I was writing a book,
but he showed it to me along the way. That's
how men love well when you don't have a role
model in your life. Guess what now? That love is misplaced,
is misguided, is off track. Ain't no man told you that?
Really you're supposed to take this love and give it
to a woman. You're really supposed to profess, protect and

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provide for a woman, not your gang. Set. Now you
professing your hood, repping the color you, protecting your territory,
shooting people driving by coming over you on your street,
and then you provide. Now you're out here selling drugs
and guns for the same thing. When a boy does
not have a male role model, he has a misguided
way of looking at manhood. Here's the deal. See, God

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created all of us in his image. That means He's
put some of our DNA in him. That's why it's
in your DNA to profess, protect, and provide because guess what,
that's what God do for us, because we His children.
I'm just talking to men right now. I'm just telling
you man, I had to wake up about five years ago.

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I wasn't doing what God wanted me to do, and
then he shook me. He said, Man, I'm gonna bring
about some changes in your life. I'm gonna cause some
things to happen that's gonna put you in a position.
And this time you're gonna listen to me, because if
you don't, you're gonna keep living in this pain you've
been in. But you put yourself in this pain. I
owe no blame to no one else but myself. Please

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know I know that, and that's how you really get
to manhood, when you figure out what you have been
done wrong. You can't blame this on none of your
exes because you a man. You can't go my xd this. No, No,
you a man, partner. You got to take responsibility for
yours and yours alone. If you got kids, you got
to get to them some kind of way. Write them

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a letter, send them the money. If she won't let
you see it, for the money, whatever, send the money
to a mama. Do what you're supposed to do as
a man. Do what God wants you to do, man,
because he's not letting us off the hook for what
we're supposed to be just because you ain't doing it.
And if you do it, you turn your life around.
Just hollering that to fellas today, that's all sorry about that.

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