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September 11, 2025 24 mins

I was 13 when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated—and now, at 70, I feel the ache of history repeating itself.

Yesterday, Charlie Kirk was murdered. A man who stood boldly, unapologetically, and consistently for truth, for freedom, and for the values that made this country extraordinary.

In this deeply personal and passionate episode, I share my heartbreak, my outrage, and my hope. I compare what Charlie stood for to the same fierce, faith-rooted nonviolence that guided MLK and Gandhi. He was not perfect—but he was powerful. And he was willing to take the blows so others could stand taller in their truth.

If you’re someone who’s rejoicing in his death, I challenge you to listen anyway. Maybe this is your crack of light. Maybe it’s time to reflect on what it really means to be human, to evolve, and to build a country on love instead of division.

💔 This episode is a plea. For all of us. 🕊️ For truth. For unity. For radical responsibility. 🛑 For the end of political assassination disguised as karma.

Let’s reflect love back into the world instead of multiplying hate.

📍Recorded from the depths of grief—and the depths of hope.

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Here we share actionable insights, inviting you to turn inwards and design your life of purpose and abundance. 4 00:00:23,151.995464853 --> 00:00:28,611.995464853 Today I'm speaking through a heart that has been cracked wide open. 5 00:00:31,641.995464853 --> 00:00:41,211.995464853 I never imagined I'd be recording this episode this way, and it's, it's, believe me, it's not polished. 6 00:00:41,211.995464853 --> 00:00:46,251.995464853 It's not scripted in my usual way. 7 00:00:47,271.995464853 --> 00:00:53,61.995464853 But it's a raw aching cry to our world. 8 00:00:54,61.995464853 --> 00:00:56,671.995464853 It's a raw aching cry from my heart. 9 00:00:58,561.995464853 --> 00:01:01,561.995464853 I was 13 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. 10 00:01:01,561.995464853 --> 00:01:02,551.995464853 Was assassinated. 11 00:01:04,651.995464853 --> 00:01:07,171.995464853 I knew it was a huge deal back then. 12 00:01:07,231.995464853 --> 00:01:07,631.995464853 Everyone did. 13 00:01:08,746.995464853 --> 00:01:15,76.995464853 Growing up in Southern California, I wasn't deeply affected by discrimination. 14 00:01:16,76.995464853 --> 00:01:19,496.995464853 It felt distant, not part of my world. 15 00:01:20,276.995464853 --> 00:01:26,426.995464853 But a few weeks ago, I visited the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and everything shifted for me. 16 00:01:27,806.995464853 --> 00:01:30,656.995464853 I stood in front of the very balcony. 17 00:01:31,106.995464853 --> 00:01:31,736.995464853 Where Dr. 18 00:01:31,736.995464853 --> 00:01:41,106.99546485 King took his final breath, where he was assassinated, and something in that moment cracked me open. 19 00:01:41,766.99546485 --> 00:01:52,716.99546485 I had an epiphany and I realized that the driving force behind Martin Luther King Jr's activism wasn't just civil rights. 20 00:01:53,716.99546485 --> 00:01:54,706.99546485 It was his faith. 21 00:01:56,476.99546485 --> 00:02:05,776.99546485 It was his Christianity, his unshakable belief that every single human being was a child of God. 22 00:02:08,86.99546485 --> 00:02:13,736.99546485 Now, I knew he was a man of faith, but I didn't really, how know how deep it was that love. 23 00:02:14,231.99546485 --> 00:02:20,951.99546485 Not hate was the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. 24 00:02:22,1.99546485 --> 00:02:22,961.99546485 It's as simple as that. 25 00:02:24,941.99546485 --> 00:02:31,246.99546485 And that nonviolence wasn't just a strategy for him, it was his way of being. 26 00:02:32,246.99546485 --> 00:02:36,986.99546485 And in that moment of clarity, it hit me like a lightning bolt. 27 00:02:39,176.99546485 --> 00:02:43,346.99546485 It was the one thing that I see today missing in our discourse. 28 00:02:44,546.99546485 --> 00:02:46,376.99546485 Over and over and over. 29 00:02:46,946.99546485 --> 00:02:50,51.99546485 We've lost the messaging that Dr. 30 00:02:50,51.99546485 --> 00:03:00,966.99546485 King shared with us, and in light of today's tragic news, it feels more important than ever for me to share what I'm about to say. 31 00:03:03,606.99546485 --> 00:03:14,496.99546485 The events of yesterday unfolded in real time in horror starting at 12:20 PM for some reason. 32 00:03:14,496.99546485 --> 00:03:22,836.99546485 I was aware of it immediately, and I was shocked as I learned that Charlie Kirk had been shocked. 33 00:03:23,836.99546485 --> 00:03:48,856.99546485 More than that, I was gutted because I knew, I, I just knew in my soul that it was fatal and this deep ache rose up in me echoing something from that 13-year-old girl who didn't understand the historical impact of what had just happened. 34 00:03:49,606.99546485 --> 00:03:52,6.99546485 But I do now as a 70-year-old woman. 35 00:03:53,341.99546485 --> 00:03:56,341.99546485 This visceral sense of history repeating itself. 36 00:03:57,341.99546485 --> 00:04:04,301.99546485 You see Charlie Kirk, no matter what you think of him, he was a man of bold truth. 37 00:04:04,601.99546485 --> 00:04:05,861.99546485 He told his truth. 38 00:04:07,1.99546485 --> 00:04:14,231.99546485 He was a man of fierce love and unapologetic devotion to this country. 39 00:04:16,31.99546485 --> 00:04:17,561.99546485 He was assassinated yesterday. 40 00:04:18,896.99546485 --> 00:04:22,856.99546485 I cannot just sit in silence at this point. 41 00:04:23,856.99546485 --> 00:04:32,706.99546485 So if you're listening to this and you're one of the many already online saying things like, he deserved it or, that's his karma. 42 00:04:33,426.99546485 --> 00:04:38,16.99546485 I, I, I, I saw those posts and I, I was, I was appalled. 43 00:04:39,246.99546485 --> 00:04:44,136.99546485 And you're probably already clicked off at this point because honestly. 44 00:04:44,841.99546485 --> 00:04:56,161.99546485 Therein lies the problem, the divisiveness, and the inability to listen to other views other than yours. 45 00:04:57,511.99546485 --> 00:04:59,341.99546485 And that's what Charlie did best. 46 00:04:59,671.99546485 --> 00:05:01,531.99546485 He listened to everybody. 47 00:05:02,371.99546485 --> 00:05:08,401.99546485 But if you haven't clicked off, if you're still here, maybe just, maybe this is a crack in the wall. 48 00:05:09,406.99546485 --> 00:05:20,636.99546485 A sliver of light trying to break through the ache we're all feeling as a country because this moment, it's bigger than politics. 49 00:05:21,326.99546485 --> 00:05:25,376.99546485 It's about who we choose to become in the face of heartbreak. 50 00:05:27,206.99546485 --> 00:05:34,976.99546485 Sitting here on the anniversary of nine 11, are we gonna multiply the hate or reflect back? Love. 51 00:05:35,976.99546485 --> 00:05:52,296.99546485 So today I offer this message not just as a tribute, but as a call to action to anyone that's listening a call for Unity, a call for light, a call for the kind of love that Martin Luther King Jr. 52 00:05:52,536.99546485 --> 00:05:55,566.99546485 And Charlie Kirk lived and died for. 53 00:05:56,566.99546485 --> 00:06:06,766.99546485 I can say unequivocally that Charlie Kirk is the Martin Luther King of this generation, and history will bear that out. 54 00:06:07,766.99546485 --> 00:06:16,511.99546485 When I heard the news yesterday, I, I literally, I was shocked and then I collapsed in tears because this is not just political violence. 55 00:06:17,681.99546485 --> 00:06:22,121.99546485 This, my friends, is spiritual violence. 56 00:06:24,431.99546485 --> 00:06:36,251.99546485 A man who stood for truth, for dialogue, for holding the line on values in a time when our culture is spinning was murdered for. 57 00:06:37,251.99546485 --> 00:06:38,661.99546485 Charlie Kirk wasn't perfect. 58 00:06:40,461.99546485 --> 00:06:41,691.99546485 Neither was Martin Luther King. 59 00:06:42,471.99546485 --> 00:06:43,671.99546485 Neither was JFK. 60 00:06:44,811.99546485 --> 00:06:45,831.99546485 Neither was Bill Clinton. 61 00:06:46,521.99546485 --> 00:06:47,961.99546485 Neither am I, neither are you. 62 00:06:48,891.99546485 --> 00:06:53,211.99546485 But these men were vessels of something bigger than themselves. 63 00:06:54,211.99546485 --> 00:06:57,856.99546485 Both of them became lightning rods of radical love. 64 00:06:58,846.99546485 --> 00:07:02,926.99546485 Lightning rods always attract the storm. 65 00:07:03,926.99546485 --> 00:07:10,256.99546485 So they were both dreamers and at first glance, they may seem like opposites. 66 00:07:11,641.99546485 --> 00:07:11,909.49546485 Dr. 67 00:07:11,909.49546485 --> 00:07:14,216.99546485 King in the sixties marching for civil rights. 68 00:07:14,546.99546485 --> 00:07:19,821.99546485 Charlie Kirk in beginning in 2012, founding Turning Point USA. 69 00:07:20,821.99546485 --> 00:07:30,51.99546485 Standing in college auditoriums speaking truth to Gen Z, but listen deeper and you'll hear the same heartbeat. 70 00:07:31,51.99546485 --> 00:07:34,981.99546485 Martin Luther King said, hate cannot drive out. 71 00:07:35,131.99546485 --> 00:07:35,461.99546485 Hate. 72 00:07:36,241.99546485 --> 00:07:37,296.99546485 Only love can do that. 73 00:07:38,401.99546485 --> 00:07:44,161.99546485 Which is absolutely 100% the truth of this planet that we live on. 74 00:07:44,581.99546485 --> 00:07:45,991.99546485 Hate cannot drive out hate. 75 00:07:46,831.99546485 --> 00:07:48,211.99546485 Only love can do that. 76 00:07:49,211.99546485 --> 00:08:00,971.99546485 And Charlie said, we must be bold in truth, but humble in spirit, which is a very similar quote to Martin Luther King in his book, strength to Love. 77 00:08:02,231.99546485 --> 00:08:04,601.99546485 Charlie said, we don't cancel our opponents. 78 00:08:05,111.99546485 --> 00:08:11,681.99546485 We invite them into dialogue, which is what he did every single day of his life. 79 00:08:12,681.99546485 --> 00:08:24,921.99546485 Both these men were prophetic, both called for personal responsibility, both believed in the power of faith and family, and both were hated for it. 80 00:08:27,801.99546485 --> 00:08:31,131.99546485 Hate will never solve our problems. 81 00:08:32,131.99546485 --> 00:08:41,336.99546485 I created a podcast called Radical Responsibility Revolution because being radically responsible is hard. 82 00:08:43,36.99546485 --> 00:08:45,396.99546485 Standing in your truth is hard. 83 00:08:46,666.99546485 --> 00:08:58,376.99546485 When someone is willing to do it in the face of death, threats on a daily basis, as both of these men did, in my opinion, is heroic. 84 00:08:59,576.99546485 --> 00:09:01,376.99546485 I don't know many people that will do that. 85 00:09:02,336.99546485 --> 00:09:10,121.99546485 And during my trip to the Civil Rights Museum, I was struck by the foundational Christian faith of Dr. 86 00:09:10,121.99546485 --> 00:09:10,316.99546485 King. 87 00:09:11,966.99546485 --> 00:09:17,406.99546485 It was his core, and frankly, parallels Charlie. 88 00:09:18,276.99546485 --> 00:09:19,56.99546485 Exactly. 89 00:09:20,676.99546485 --> 00:09:23,106.99546485 Martin Luther King was about nonviolence. 90 00:09:23,646.99546485 --> 00:09:24,696.99546485 He was about love. 91 00:09:26,286.99546485 --> 00:09:32,716.99546485 He was about the knowingness that God is in everyone, God is in. 92 00:09:32,716.99546485 --> 00:09:33,196.99546485 Everyone. 93 00:09:33,781.99546485 --> 00:09:34,471.99546485 Period. 94 00:09:34,741.99546485 --> 00:09:35,971.99546485 Full stop. 95 00:09:36,751.99546485 --> 00:09:46,201.99546485 He was willing to talk with anyone, share ideas with anyone, and came from that place of We are all one. 96 00:09:47,201.99546485 --> 00:09:48,606.99546485 Charlie was that voice as well. 97 00:09:50,531.99546485 --> 00:10:04,46.99546485 So I ask, when did we decide that people who think differently are our enemies? If we are all one with one another? Because you stand in your truth, that makes you evil. 98 00:10:04,646.99546485 --> 00:10:05,546.99546485 I don't think so. 99 00:10:06,546.99546485 --> 00:10:14,376.99546485 When did we forget that we are one nation under God? I suppose there are voices that have always professed this. 100 00:10:16,86.99546485 --> 00:10:16,896.99546485 I don't. 101 00:10:17,896.99546485 --> 00:10:19,396.99546485 Charlie was a fierce advocate. 102 00:10:20,881.99546485 --> 00:10:21,871.99546485 Yes, he was loud. 103 00:10:22,231.99546485 --> 00:10:23,191.99546485 Yes, he was bold. 104 00:10:23,371.99546485 --> 00:10:24,721.99546485 So was Martin Luther King. 105 00:10:25,321.99546485 --> 00:10:39,221.99546485 But he was also deeply loving, deeply faithful, and he was willing to share that message to young people to know what America was built on. 106 00:10:39,821.99546485 --> 00:10:45,101.99546485 He wanted to share the values that made this country worth fighting for. 107 00:10:46,211.99546485 --> 00:11:06,911.99546485 In the same way that Martin Luther King was an advocate for the human rights of those whose voices were squashed, which was the foundation of this constitution and Bill of Rights that are the governing light of this country. 108 00:11:07,911.99546485 --> 00:11:08,751.99546485 And for that. 109 00:11:09,306.99546485 --> 00:11:10,596.99546485 For speaking truth. 110 00:11:10,656.99546485 --> 00:11:16,476.99546485 In a time of manufactured narratives, both were murdered. 111 00:11:17,796.99546485 --> 00:11:18,876.99546485 Let that land. 112 00:11:19,876.99546485 --> 00:11:28,36.99546485 This wasn't just an attack on a man, it was an attack on free speech to foster fear. 113 00:11:28,36.99546485 --> 00:11:31,996.99546485 It was an attack on love and truth and legacy. 114 00:11:32,776.99546485 --> 00:11:34,156.99546485 And here's what I wanna say. 115 00:11:34,906.99546485 --> 00:11:38,146.99546485 We don't fight hate with more hate. 116 00:11:39,146.99546485 --> 00:11:42,26.99546485 We cannot meet violence with vengeance. 117 00:11:42,686.99546485 --> 00:11:54,91.99546485 We must reflect love back into the world just like Martin Luther King did and his legacy lives on, and Charlie's legacy will live on. 118 00:11:55,91.99546485 --> 00:12:06,71.99546485 So just like Martin Luther King and Gandhi, Charlie tried to do exactly that by standing up for something higher than himself. 119 00:12:07,91.99546485 --> 00:12:12,581.99546485 How many of us are willing to say, I'm gonna stand and hold the higher ground for love. 120 00:12:13,581.99546485 --> 00:12:15,921.99546485 You know, this hurts so much. 121 00:12:17,511.99546485 --> 00:12:24,591.99546485 And it reveals to me that Charlie Kirk was the Martin Luther King of this generation, and I do not say that lightly. 122 00:12:25,881.99546485 --> 00:12:35,721.99546485 I believe that I was meant to go to that civil rights museum to see the parallels in these two amazing men. 123 00:12:36,201.99546485 --> 00:12:42,351.99546485 He was a builder, a unifier, a truth teller, a spark. 124 00:12:43,351.99546485 --> 00:12:52,831.99546485 I've had the privilege to train leaders my entire life, and what I know that makes a true leader is not charisma or eloquence. 125 00:12:53,461.99546485 --> 00:12:54,541.99546485 It's alignment. 126 00:12:56,41.99546485 --> 00:13:04,81.99546485 Alignment with your values, with truth, with your truth with something greater than self preservation. 127 00:13:05,581.99546485 --> 00:13:17,671.99546485 And I can say unequivocally, Charlie was aligned with his values, his faith, his trust in his God fully, and the culture couldn't take it. 128 00:13:20,431.99546485 --> 00:13:29,171.99546485 He was aligned with his faith and his family and his values, particularly the value of freedom. 129 00:13:29,876.99546485 --> 00:13:30,716.99546485 He died. 130 00:13:32,961.99546485 --> 00:13:38,366.99546485 Died wearing a shirt, t-shirt, a plain t-shirt with the word freedom on it. 131 00:13:41,246.99546485 --> 00:13:57,26.99546485 And whether you agree with his policies, he just, as Martin Luther King was unwavering in his love of this freedom and the message that it belongs to all. 132 00:13:57,576.99546485 --> 00:14:03,726.99546485 It belongs to all as an unalienable, right? Given by God, not by the government. 133 00:14:05,226.99546485 --> 00:14:11,736.99546485 What we're seeing now is not just political polarization, it's spiritual warfare. 134 00:14:12,286.99546485 --> 00:14:17,866.99546485 We've lost the capacity to disagree without dehumanizing each other. 135 00:14:19,546.99546485 --> 00:14:32,446.99546485 There is no place in a civilized society, no place in a civilized society to celebrate the assassination of someone who does not agree with you. 136 00:14:33,496.99546485 --> 00:14:39,676.99546485 There is no place to debate without destruction, to speak without being silenced. 137 00:14:40,486.99546485 --> 00:14:47,776.99546485 And if we don't interrupt this pattern with love, the darkness will consume us all. 138 00:14:48,776.99546485 --> 00:14:49,886.99546485 It consumed Charlie. 139 00:14:50,906.99546485 --> 00:14:54,506.99546485 It consumed Martin Luther King and so many before them. 140 00:14:54,926.99546485 --> 00:15:02,336.99546485 And along the way, it is time now to take stock of who we have become. 141 00:15:02,886.99546485 --> 00:15:08,496.99546485 What did they die for? Martin Luther King died with his dream unfinished. 142 00:15:10,611.99546485 --> 00:15:13,701.99546485 Charlie Kirk died with his dream under assault. 143 00:15:14,331.99546485 --> 00:15:29,1.99546485 They both said they had a dream and they both lived their dreams fully full out loud, and I pray that neither one of their dreams is unfinished. 144 00:15:30,1.99546485 --> 00:15:31,51.99546485 They both died. 145 00:15:31,51.99546485 --> 00:15:39,421.99546485 Sowing seeds of love over hate, faith over fear, responsibility over victimhood. 146 00:15:40,231.99546485 --> 00:15:42,991.99546485 And now it's our turn to water. 147 00:15:42,991.99546485 --> 00:15:43,836.99546485 Those seeds. 148 00:15:44,386.99546485 --> 00:15:45,796.99546485 Martin Luther King said. 149 00:15:46,771.99546485 --> 00:15:51,181.99546485 Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. 150 00:15:54,1.99546485 --> 00:15:57,61.99546485 Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. 151 00:15:59,101.99546485 --> 00:16:03,841.99546485 And Charlie said, even in the face of lies, we will speak truth. 152 00:16:04,231.99546485 --> 00:16:08,401.99546485 Even in the face of hatred, we will reflect love. 153 00:16:09,401.99546485 --> 00:16:10,811.99546485 These aren't just nice quotes. 154 00:16:11,501.99546485 --> 00:16:17,531.99546485 These are blueprints for our humanity and this place called America. 155 00:16:18,531.99546485 --> 00:16:19,761.99546485 So we have a choice. 156 00:16:21,171.99546485 --> 00:16:25,251.99546485 Where do we go from here? First, we have to stop reacting. 157 00:16:25,551.99546485 --> 00:16:27,51.99546485 We have to start reflecting. 158 00:16:28,641.99546485 --> 00:16:39,351.99546485 Reflecting on where we've been, who we are, what this country was founded on, the unalienable right to our soul. 159 00:16:39,891.99546485 --> 00:16:46,401.9954649 We have to stop virtue signaling and start virtue embodying. 160 00:16:46,881.9954649 --> 00:16:51,51.9954649 We have to embody these virtues every single day, every single minute. 161 00:16:52,51.9954649 --> 00:16:58,441.9954649 We have to stop looking at people as threats and start seeing everyone as sacred. 162 00:16:59,851.9954649 --> 00:17:02,851.9954649 We do not answer this atrocity with more rage. 163 00:17:03,751.9954649 --> 00:17:07,381.9954649 We cannot, we cannot use hate. 164 00:17:08,381.9954649 --> 00:17:15,881.9954649 We have to answer this call with clarity, courage, and a renewed commitment to walk like they walked. 165 00:17:17,981.9954649 --> 00:17:20,111.9954649 I know some of you are listening. 166 00:17:20,831.9954649 --> 00:17:26,201.9954649 If you've gotten this far and you don't agree with Charlie Kirk, I am absolutely amazed. 167 00:17:26,741.9954649 --> 00:17:33,521.9954649 But the fact is, is it doesn't matter whether you agreed with Charlie or Morton, Luther King or anybody else. 168 00:17:34,391.9954649 --> 00:17:35,711.9954649 We have to begin to. 169 00:17:36,711.9954649 --> 00:17:37,851.9954649 Say that that's okay. 170 00:17:38,661.9954649 --> 00:17:42,351.9954649 You know, Martin Luther King wasn't universally loved in his day either, I promise you. 171 00:17:42,351.9954649 --> 00:17:43,191.9954649 He's a legend now. 172 00:17:43,191.9954649 --> 00:17:59,216.9954649 But the fact of the matter is, is that they both loved you, both of them, and they both believed in the possibility of this country to grow through inner transformation, through self-responsibility. 173 00:18:00,526.9954649 --> 00:18:05,536.9954649 Through this thing called radical, inconvenient love. 174 00:18:05,896.9954649 --> 00:18:10,696.9954649 It is so inconvenient to love somebody that you don't agree with, but that's where we have to begin. 175 00:18:11,696.9954649 --> 00:18:14,726.9954649 I'm weeping today because I feel like we've lost the plot. 176 00:18:15,476.9954649 --> 00:18:27,606.9954649 We're tearing each other apart, over politics, over beliefs, over things that should be debated with respect, not settled with bloodshed. 177 00:18:29,676.9954649 --> 00:18:41,616.9954649 This is one of the reasons I wrote this book called Your Inner Billionaire, because we have forgotten that our real currency is connection with one another. 178 00:18:42,96.9954649 --> 00:18:46,236.9954649 Our real wealth is truth, integrity. 179 00:18:46,926.9954649 --> 00:18:51,6.9954649 Courage, courage, not hate, not violence. 180 00:18:52,6.9954649 --> 00:18:59,416.9954649 Charlie lived those things and whether you agreed with his politics or not, his mission was clear. 181 00:19:00,106.9954649 --> 00:19:01,846.9954649 He knew it and he lived it. 182 00:19:04,516.9954649 --> 00:19:06,106.9954649 He wanted to wake people up. 183 00:19:07,36.9954649 --> 00:19:12,46.9954649 He wanted to unite people under something real, and he wanted to call them back to God. 184 00:19:12,616.9954649 --> 00:19:14,326.9954649 To country and conscience. 185 00:19:16,576.9954649 --> 00:19:18,526.9954649 I don't know how you can find fault in that. 186 00:19:19,6.9954649 --> 00:19:30,466.9954649 You may disagree with his policies, but the idea that we're people of faith and spirituality, not just religion, but spirituality. 187 00:19:31,336.9954649 --> 00:19:35,956.9954649 And I know that some of you listening certainly don't share his political views, but that's okay. 188 00:19:37,81.9954649 --> 00:19:43,21.9954649 But if your first response to his death is good riddance, he deserved it. 189 00:19:43,501.9954649 --> 00:19:44,701.9954649 That was his karma. 190 00:19:45,571.9954649 --> 00:19:45,991.9954649 Hmm. 191 00:19:46,991.9954649 --> 00:19:53,51.9954649 Then I say, you've abandoned your soul, your own spiritual soul. 192 00:19:54,161.9954649 --> 00:20:00,491.9954649 If you can't see the tragedy in this, and if you can't fill the rip in our collective heart. 193 00:20:01,901.9954649 --> 00:20:04,571.9954649 Over this incredible injustice. 194 00:20:05,571.9954649 --> 00:20:07,191.9954649 Then it's time to sit with that. 195 00:20:08,331.9954649 --> 00:20:11,31.9954649 This isn't about right versus left anymore. 196 00:20:12,591.9954649 --> 00:20:15,711.9954649 This is a spiritual reckoning. 197 00:20:16,101.9954649 --> 00:20:17,841.9954649 This is good versus evil. 198 00:20:19,41.9954649 --> 00:20:21,471.9954649 This is love versus fear. 199 00:20:21,971.9954649 --> 00:20:36,511.9954649 Take a breath, as I said, I've been privileged to train leaders for decades, and real leadership requires courage, humility, and vision. 200 00:20:37,531.9954649 --> 00:20:38,761.9954649 And Charlie had that. 201 00:20:40,501.9954649 --> 00:20:41,881.9954649 He's not a perfect human. 202 00:20:42,181.9954649 --> 00:20:45,391.9954649 He's a spiritual being, having a human experience. 203 00:20:46,171.9954649 --> 00:20:47,191.9954649 He was evolving. 204 00:20:47,341.9954649 --> 00:20:49,291.9954649 He was coming into his own. 205 00:20:49,711.9954649 --> 00:21:02,571.9954649 He was a 30-year-old husband and father of young girls taken away like that, but he showed up every day with a fire in his belly and God in his heart. 206 00:21:03,726.9954649 --> 00:21:05,796.9954649 And now his voice has been silenced. 207 00:21:06,796.9954649 --> 00:21:12,286.9954649 He joins the ranks of JFK, Robert F. 208 00:21:12,286.9954649 --> 00:21:13,156.9954649 Kennedy Jr. 209 00:21:13,426.9954649 --> 00:21:15,106.9954649 Martin Luther King, Jr. 210 00:21:16,246.9954649 --> 00:21:26,836.9954649 And so many others that had attempted assassinations, including our own president, but too many others who have dared to speak from the soul. 211 00:21:27,841.9954649 --> 00:21:29,131.9954649 Have been silenced. 212 00:21:30,131.9954649 --> 00:21:31,541.9954649 I don't wanna just mourn. 213 00:21:32,411.9954649 --> 00:21:35,411.9954649 I wanna honor him by doing what he did. 214 00:21:36,411.9954649 --> 00:21:41,571.9954649 He spoke boldly, he lived fully, and he led with love. 215 00:21:42,591.9954649 --> 00:21:47,541.9954649 And I wanna challenge you wherever you are on the political spectrum. 216 00:21:48,541.9954649 --> 00:22:01,441.9954649 To reflect love back into your conversations, to stop reposting this horrific garbage on the internet that fuels the algorithm of hate. 217 00:22:02,341.9954649 --> 00:22:06,451.9954649 You do realize that you're fueling an algorithm of hate. 218 00:22:07,621.9954649 --> 00:22:09,331.9954649 Oh, we have to stop. 219 00:22:09,721.9954649 --> 00:22:13,291.9954649 We have to begin to share love and shift that algorithm. 220 00:22:14,291.9954649 --> 00:22:19,901.9954649 We have to actually listen when someone says, I see the world differently than you. 221 00:22:21,971.9954649 --> 00:22:26,201.9954649 I want us to stop playing small spiritual games. 222 00:22:27,201.9954649 --> 00:22:30,201.9954649 Stop pretending that politics and prayer don't mix. 223 00:22:30,831.9954649 --> 00:22:31,971.9954649 They do. 224 00:22:32,971.9954649 --> 00:22:34,171.9954649 Your silence. 225 00:22:34,176.9954649 --> 00:22:35,311.9954649 Silence is complicity. 226 00:22:38,191.9954649 --> 00:22:41,371.9954649 So, Charlie, I wish you could hear this. 227 00:22:41,731.9954649 --> 00:22:44,311.9954649 You cracked me wide open today. 228 00:22:45,961.9954649 --> 00:22:49,501.9954649 I promise I will not let your message die. 229 00:22:50,501.9954649 --> 00:22:54,341.9954649 I will not shrink in the face of cancel culture or cowardice. 230 00:22:54,671.9954649 --> 00:22:55,871.9954649 I will be louder. 231 00:22:56,321.9954649 --> 00:22:57,461.9954649 I will be more loving. 232 00:22:58,1.9954649 --> 00:22:59,501.9954649 I will be more courageous. 233 00:22:59,501.9954649 --> 00:23:05,841.9954649 Because you were, and to anyone who hears this, let's be builders now. 234 00:23:06,471.9954649 --> 00:23:11,631.9954649 Not just talkers, not just critics, but builders of a new dream. 235 00:23:13,296.9954649 --> 00:23:16,86.9954649 Martin Luther King gave us a dream. 236 00:23:17,586.9954649 --> 00:23:21,216.9954649 Charlie Kirk had a dream and gave us the microphone. 237 00:23:22,216.9954649 --> 00:23:23,26.9954649 Rest in peace. 238 00:23:23,26.9954649 --> 00:23:29,716.9954649 Charlie Kirk, you awaken something in us and now it's up to us to keep it lit. 239 00:23:30,716.9954649 --> 00:23:32,6.9954649 Thank you for your voice. 240 00:23:32,426.9954649 --> 00:23:33,926.9954649 Thank you for your courage. 241 00:23:34,106.9954649 --> 00:23:35,186.9954649 Thank you for your light. 242 00:23:36,186.9954649 --> 00:23:38,856.9954649 And I wanna leave you with a quote out of my book. 243 00:23:39,636.9954649 --> 00:23:41,736.9954649 We are not the creators of the light. 244 00:23:42,726.9954649 --> 00:23:44,616.9954649 We are the reflectors of it. 245 00:23:45,981.9954649 --> 00:23:50,301.9954649 You are reflecting the light or the hate within you. 246 00:23:50,601.9954649 --> 00:23:56,871.9954649 So let's reflect the light, shine, reflect, stand tall. 247 00:23:57,871.9954649 --> 00:24:00,871.9954649 We need you now more than ever. 248 00:24:01,871.9954649 --> 00:24:03,931.9954649 If you feel this too, don't just cry. 249 00:24:05,61.9954649 --> 00:24:08,61.9954649 Don't just comment, commit. 250 00:24:10,371.9954649 --> 00:24:11,541.9954649 Commit to being a light. 251 00:24:12,51.9954649 --> 00:24:14,241.9954649 Commit to raising your voice for what matters. 252 00:24:14,241.9954649 --> 00:24:17,661.9954649 Commit to love even when it hurts.
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