I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED

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Your darkest moments are what will make you.

Spoken by:

Ed Mylett
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Mike Todd
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Eric Thomas
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Les Brown
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Music:

Secession Studios - The Void Rising

Secession Studios
thesecession.bandcamp.com

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
In this world, you’re gonna have trouble.
Life can be heavy.
There are moments when the weight of
the trials we go through,
it feels unbearable.
Pain can linger
and often times we wonder whether
we’re ever gonna feel whole again.
And the world would tell us
if we’re under something
like under pressure or undervalued
or we’re under different

(00:22):
areas in our life that are making us uncomfortable
and it feels isolated and dark,
that’s the place where you should give up.
That’s the place that you should stop.
You should go ahead and give up on that dream.
You should go ahead and not study for that no more.
You’re always gonna live in this community.
Your mama’s broke,
you broke,
and look at it,
the thing you thought was gonna make you wealthy,
it just died.

(00:44):
But know this,
the place that is dark,
that is lonely,
and sometimes where the pressure of life is on you,
that’s the place that is making you.
That’s where the growth takes place.
That’s where the work is.
That’s when life really reveals itself.
And that’s when you discover your true identity.

(01:05):
Under does not
mean
over.
And if you find yourself under,
under pressure,
undervalued,
under attack,
what it looks like
is not what it is.
This
failure,
this
catastrophe,
If you aren’t dead,
then it’s just psychological.

(01:25):
It’s in your head.
As long as you don’t
surrender,
as long as you don’t give up,
as long as you don’t
quit,
then you haven’t failed.
It just means you’ve made a
temporary tactical retreat.
It means you’ve made a
brief withdraw.
so that you can regroup
and re-attack.
As far as I’m concerned,

(01:45):
if you get beat,
unless you’re dead,
you are not defeated.
And you have not failed.
What you’ve done is you’ve learned.
You’ve gained
experience.
Sometimes you have to take two or three steps back
just to go forward again.
Sometimes you might have to get a part-time job

(02:05):
just to keep things going
until you get back on track again.
It’s okay.
It’s happened to the best of us.
It’s all right.
It won’t break you.
It’ll only introduce you to yourself.
But during those times,
there was something in me that said,
don’t stop.
Don’t give up.
Just keep on keeping on.

(02:29):
And I decided that I wouldn’t stop.
I want you to hold on.
It may not happen in the time
that you think it’s going to happen,
but I want you to know something.
If you quit, it’s never gonna happen.
If you quit,
if you give up,
if you stop,
if you do not persevere,
you will never see it.
I didn’t get here through academics.
I got here because I refused to quit.

(02:50):
What you gonna go through all this pain and quit?
You gonna go through all this suffering and stop?
You’ve come too far to quit now.
You should keep going.
You should keep going.
You already in enough pain,
get a reward for it.
Where you are is temporary.
You will not be there for the rest of your life.
There’s no guarantee that because somebody
is now down on their luck
they can never come back.
Who can guarantee that you can’t make it?

(03:11):
That you can’t have your dream?
Who can guarantee
that you can’t do what you want to do?
No one can predict that.
You don’t know what the possibilities are for your life.
You know the human spirit is powerful?
There’s nothing as powerful.
It’s hard to kill the human spirit.
Give yourself a chance.
Give yourself a fighting chance.
Whatever you go after,

(03:32):
whatever you say,
this is your stuff,
pursue it passionately.
Let there be a deep hunger in you
that you won’t be denied.
And that when things happen,
That they won’t immobilize you.
They won’t deplete your energy.
That you look at it and you observe it.
But you know there’s something in you
that’s going to take you to the top.
And that this is only a temporary

(03:54):
inconvenience.
That’s all it is.
Nothing more.
It can’t stop you.
Something as powerful as you
cannot be contained.
Don’t go through life feeling like you’re powerless.
Victims are people that are powerless.
You’re not powerless.
You are powerful.
You direct the power in your life.
Whatever your life is right now,
it is a duplication of your consciousness.

(04:15):
It’s a result of how you have decided
to use your power.
That’s all it is.
That’s not who you are.
That’s just a perverted use of your power
that you aren’t satisfied with.
And you’ve got the power to change that.
Wherever you are.
How?
I don’t know.
But I know you’ve got the power to do that.
But you don’t know what has happened to me.
It really doesn’t matter what has happened to you.

(04:37):
The only thing that really matters is
what are you going to do about it?
You can allow it to destroy you
or you can allow it to build you up.
You want something?
You make up your mind.
My life
is worth
whatever I have to do
to come back again.
And I know that it’s not going to be easy.
It’s going to be extremely challenging.

(04:58):
But I know I’ve got what it takes
to do this.
And yes, it’s going to be hard,
and it’s going to be difficult,
and you get more no’s than you do yes.
But when you hold out?
Things will begin to happen
you won’t even understand how.
When you don’t give up,
when you don’t let it break you,
it breaks you through
if you stay with it.