Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.12.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh huh, I sure, well, good morning everybody
you're listening to the voice, come on digging now.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
One and only Steve Harley got a radio show.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I need everybody today, everybody that's listening. I need you
to catch fire today. I want you to catch fire today.
You want to phrase it another way, I want you
to catch on fire today. But I need you to
catch fire today. I need today to be today that

(00:36):
you stop complaining and you do something. Do you know
why a lot of people can't move forward in their
life because they complaining about their past? They always complaining
man about something? Is that explains the reason why they are.
Let me help you with this right here. If you
are steady complaining about the reason you are, you know,

(00:58):
if I hadn't met this man, if I hadn't have
been involved with this woman, if I hadn't have had
this baby, if I had never went down there, if
I hadn't have got arrested, if I hadn't it is,
if I hadn't it at, if I had a just
finished school, if I had to hey, hey, hey, hey,
stop stop all that stuff that you're complaining about. Everything

(01:20):
that you keep allowing to resonate with you as a
reason to justify and explain you not being successful. Can
I share something with you about all of that? Guess
what it is? You done got past all of it.
You didn't have the baby, you got arrested, they didn't
kill you, you didn't finish school, but you're still standing.

(01:42):
You met that man, he gone, He involved with two
other women. Right now, I got three other kids. Guess what?
You still here and the babies here. You got over
all the injustices that were done to you, You got
something happened to you when you as a kid. You're
an adult now. Somebody did something to you when you
was a little Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Boy, guess what. You're a man now.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Some things happen to you that you haven't found closure on.
The person that you're looking for closure from has moved on.
Can I tell you that everything that has happened to you?
Do you know you've gotten pasted it? So why are
you steady complaining about what has happened to you that

(02:23):
has caused you to be in this position?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
But do you understand that it's prohibiting you from moving forward?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Stop complaining today, catch fire, Let your pass be your past.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I've told this.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
To you one hundred times on this radio, but I'm
gonna say it again. Bishop Jakes told me something man
that helped me so greatly. You can't drive your car
if you gonna keep looking in the rear view mirror.
That's why the windshield is huge. The windshield is huge.
The rear view mirror is this tiny thing that sits

(02:56):
up there.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Now all is far. It's so you can say, see
stuff that's coming up on you.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
All the rearview mirror for is so you can assure yourself, oh,
listen to this. The realview mirror is imp there to
assure you that you've cleared something.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
See.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's what the rearview mirrors for. So when you pass
the can you want to switch lanes, you can glance
up there and it says, okay, you're clear. Now you
passed it, you can switch lanes. That's all the rearview
mirrors for.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
It ain't for you to stare at and dictate your
life with what you're tripping for. Man, catch fire today today, Man,
quit complaining about everything that did happened to you. Life
is ten percent. What happens to you is ninety percent.
What you do about what happens to you. What are
you going to do about it? So what I got

(03:48):
all this?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Look, man, your story ain't no deeper than nobody else's.
I can tell you I was homeless for three years.
It's people been homeless for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
How long I'm gonna ride that out?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well? You know I can't do nothing right now. I
fell on hard times and I lost my place to stay.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Where you staying? Now? See the majority of people are
staying somewhere right now.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I was out there. I didn't have nowhere to go.
I'm in a shelter now. You was under the bridge
a week ago. You int shelter.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now? Why you still crying about the bridge? You in
a shelter now? Man? You know how you find your purpose?
You get in.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Touch with who created you. Because when God made you,
he had a purpose in mind. Now we've ignored it
and we haven't tapped into it.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
But we all had a purpose.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
You don't, and it's sometimes it takes people longing to
discover the purpose. Colonel Sanders was frying chicken with a
recipe that he was telling people was.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
The best chicken in the world. Ain't nobody believe him
till he turned seventy?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why you think The dude that's on the Kentucky Fried
Chicken signs is old.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
That dude ain't twenty up there he oh he oh,
But you know.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
What, he had been frying that chicken for forty some years.
They just found out about it when he was seventy.
But he didn't give up his purpose in life. This
dude was just frying chicken. See, people keep looking for
their gifts in all kinds of places when it's right
there in you. You ain't got to go to school

(05:32):
to find your gift. You're born with the gift that
God got for you. You'll go to school to tack it
on to something else, But your gift was already.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Given to you.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
You were born with that. You don't have to go
to college to know your gift. Your college allows you
to enhance it and to find something to attach it to,
and hopefully you get a degree that attaches your gift
to a vehicle where.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
It can work.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
The problem with college is we go to college and
we attach it to what we like, what we might
be passionate about, if we ignore the gift we have.
You know how many people and graduating from college ain't
doing nothing. They went to college for Come on, man,
you know why because you discover in life your gift,
You discover what you was born to do.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I wasn't you know what I mean? You know what
my major was in college? It was advertising. I can't
be at no death, drawing, no picture for nobody.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
But now guess what I can wake up every day
and guess what I can tell you. I advertise. I've
been advertising my career. Come see me live.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Come see me live at Madison Square, guard Come see
me live at Phillips Erena.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Come see me live at Jokers Comedy Club. Come see
me live at Percy's. Come see me live at elisis Tabit.
Come see me live.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've been advertising the whole time, but I had a
different purpose in mind because I went and I talked
to God. And this is how you do it. You
go talk to God and say, hey God, look, okay,
this is the deal. I've been struggling here. I'm over forty.
I still haven't found my purpose in life. Okay, But so.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I can quit wasting any more time. Would you help
direct me and guide me to my purpose. I know
you created me to do something. I just haven't found
what it is and the reason I haven't found what
it is because I've been doing things my way. I
ain't been checking what you, conferring with you on anything.
I ain't locked in. I tried to settle it up
with you. I've been just doing my thing.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
My thing has gotten me as far as it can
get me. How about you take over and do your
thing now? Can you direct me in my path? I'm
an open book. Treat me like a piece of clay.
I'm telling you, man, if you go to God, he'll
give it to you. But see you have not because
you ask not. How many times have you asked God

(07:45):
for it? This ain't no magic trick, y'all. This is
the deal. You got to catch fire today. Catch fire today,
I am. I'm excited about today. I've got a lot
to do.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
You're listening, easy to see. Ebe Harvey Morning Show