March 21, 2025 • 18 mins
Have you ever gotten roasted or teased for things you were kind of surprised about?
Or what about this…have you ever been teased for saying something that you didn’t know was unique to you?
I’ve recently been told multiple times that a certain word that I say is a “Marie-ism”, and I had no idea. In friend groups, family text threads, the Bloom Room and more I’ve had people say “As Marie would say…Wegotchu.” This got my attention, of course, and it made me think about this word and why I use it.
The answer I found is that I LOVE this word.
I say it because it’s my philosophy of life.
Because it’s my purpose in life to help as many people feel the meaning that the apparently made up word “Wegotchu” means to me. I want to feel that way myself, as much as I can in my life. I want YOU to feel that way as much as possible.
So this episode is all about Wegotchu, because it’s a total Mind Bloomer.
If you are a recipient of the Wegotchu vibe, your mind will bloom.
And if you treat yourself with the Wegotchu vibe, you will be OKAY. no matter what goes down.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why the Wegotchu experience is a word to describe an actually known phenomenon called “the connection web”
- How applying Wegotchu to your physical body will help it heal
- How applying Wegotchu to your own life will make you more resilient
- Why responding to other people’s low moments and challenges with this approach brings out the highest in others
- How acts of service are absolutely reciprocal
- Why responding to vulnerability with an assertion of connection heals and connects
Wegotchu communicates that you are seen.
You are understood.
You are accepted at your most vulnerable.
And it communicates that we’re in the web, and there’s no falling here; because we’re in it together.
Wegotchu.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Bloom your Mind podcast, where we take
all of your ideas for what youwant and we turn them into real
things.
I'm your host, certified coachMarie McDonald.
Let's Hello everyone andwelcome to episode 119 of the
(00:32):
Bloom your Mind podcast.
Have you ever gotten roasted forthings you knew you did but
didn't really know that?
Like we knew that you knew thatyou did.
Have you ever gotten teased forbeing you Like?
You thought it was more normalthan it was the thing that you
(00:53):
got teased about?
Or maybe you thought youweren't doing the thing in such
an extreme way, but then you gotroasted for it or teased for it
and you were like, oh, that'smaybe not as normal as I thought
.
I've been roasted multipletimes for my hugs, which are
apparently really good Okay, Ijust didn't know how good.
(01:15):
And for making eye contact withpeople.
Like I thought everybody madeeye contact until I got roasted
and then I realized that I amway more comfortable making eye
contact than most people.
Oops, have you had thatexperience?
Is there anything you've beenlike roasted for, teased for,
and you were like, oh, okay,what about this one?
(01:41):
Have you ever been teased forsaying something that you didn't
know you say, or maybe not eventeased, maybe just people
commented on something that'slike a you-ism.
Maybe someone said that's sucha you thing to say that's such a
you-ism and you thought, ohokay, I thought everybody says
that, or at least I didn'trealize it's unique thing to say
(02:05):
, but now I do.
Have you had one of those?
I'll let you think for a sec.
Pull one into your mind.
I've recently been toldmultiple times that there's a
word that I say that's a me wordand I had no idea.
I thought it was way morecommon than it is and honestly I
(02:27):
didn't really think about it atall.
But on multiple text threads inthe Bloom Room group community
that we have between sessionsthat everybody writes to each
other on, with my family oforigin, with my friends all over
, I've had people say in quotes,as Marie would say, we got you.
So, like one time when someonesaid that it was no big deal.
(02:50):
But after this happened likefive, six, seven times in
different settings, it of coursetook my notice and made me
think okay, I must say we gotyou.
I know I don't say it like allday, every day, but I definitely
say it because I don't say itthat often.
So I must say we got you.
I know I don't say it like allday, every day, but I definitely
say it because I don't say itthat often.
So I must say it in a way thatstands out, or maybe not
(03:10):
everybody says this.
Why do I say this word?
We got you W-E-G-O-T-C-H-U, wegot you H-U, we got you.
And I thought about it and I waslike, yeah, I freaking love
(03:31):
that word.
I love it, and I say it becauseit's like my philosophy of life
.
For sure.
It's my purpose in life to helpas many people feel the meaning
of that apparently made up wordwe got you.
I want as many people to feelthat feeling that that word
(03:53):
represents as possible, and Iwant to feel that way myself as
much as I can in my life too.
So I wanted to talk about it onthe podcast because it's a
total mind bloomer.
If you are a recipient of thewe got you vibe, your mind will
bloom, and if you treat yourselfwith the I got you vibe, we got
(04:15):
you vibe you will be okay, nomatter what goes down.
So I'm going to tell you astory to describe a very
visceral experience of the wegot you vibe that I had lately
to convey what it means to meno-transcript.
(04:44):
So here's the story.
I was on an airplane.
I love being on airplaneslooking down at clouds what the
heck we get to do that.
So I'm flying back from a tripwith my business partner, maggie
.
She and I laugh harder, godeeper and run a very successful
business together, supportingexecutives to communicate and
lead with their people and theirimpact as their first
(05:07):
priorities.
So we love our work and we alsolike interact in so many ways
as friends.
Maggie and I have thisfriendship that just exists like
on every level.
You know the deep level of thelaughing level, the business
level.
It's great.
I love her.
So we're talking and I'm tellingher about this experience that
I'd recently had.
(05:27):
I was telling her about how Ihad this photo shoot for the
bloom room and my business and Idon't know I needed some help
with it.
I was kind of feeling behindthe ball and I had one of my
good friends.
Her name is Becca.
We actually are leading the artof self love and very soon
together.
So you may have heard about heron the podcast, seen pictures
(05:49):
of her.
She's a stylist and she's oneof my sister friends.
I called her.
She comes to my house and spendsthe entire day with me.
She does my hair, she does mymakeup, she hangs out with me
all day long.
She wipes lipstick off my teeth, she brushes away strands of
hair, she cinches me intoclothes, she changes clothes out
(06:10):
.
She comes over, runs over andjust tweaks my outfit a little
bit.
She gives me water, she changesmy jewelry, she adjusts
everything All day long.
With this joyful feeling andthese little giggles, we would
look at each other and justgiggle because we get to do this
together.
Right, this look, this was like.
(06:30):
I love you so much.
Human.
We're having such a fun timeall day right.
And then my friends show up.
There's a group of Bloom Roomclients and past clients that
have worked with me and a couplefriends that are in the photo
shoot.
I just said, hey, do you guyswant to be in the shoot?
I would love it.
And they just come and they'reall dressed up.
Everybody's wearing theseamazing outfits, amazing outfits
(06:53):
.
They're on time with these hugesmiles.
We giggle, they pop champagnebottles.
They're popping champagne,we're having the best time, and
then they just take off.
Just total support.
A couple of days later, it's mybirthday.
I didn't really plan anything.
I was focused on, I didn't wantto hang out very much.
And then the couple of daysbefore my birthday, I was like,
(07:14):
dude, does anybody want to gosoak in the waters at Hakumba
with me?
And I texted some people andthese five women come and they
just show up.
One of them drives out with metogether it's Becca again and we
spend the entire day justtogether.
We soak in the water all day,we listen to each other, we
support each other and we gohome.
(07:35):
That same week I go out dancingwith another group of
girlfriends Actually, it was notthe same week, it was a couple
weeks later and I go to a musicvenue see a show with another
girlfriend.
Then I go on this field tripfor my daughter and we have to
dress up that day as thechaperones for the field trip
(07:59):
and we are supposed to bewearing medieval outfits and
y'all.
I did not have time.
That week I brought this pirateoutfit.
Oh my gosh, it was bad, but itwas all I had and I had been a
pirate for Halloween.
So I like bring this pirateoutfit.
And we had to leave at.
We had to get up at 3.30 in themorning.
(08:20):
We left at 4.50 in the morningto get to where we were going.
So we're all changing in thecar at like 6.30 in the morning
in our cars and all the sixthgraders are out in the parking
lot and we all change.
And then I get out and thesixth graders look at me and
they're like, okay, and I waslike what.
And they're like, well, youlook good but you look like a
(08:40):
pirate.
I'm like they can tell theseother women come up to me, these
two women, and they just startfluffing me.
One of them literally takes oneof her skirts she had layered
skirts she takes one of them offof her body and puts it on me
over my pirate pants.
And another one takes this minkfaux mink stole out of her
(09:06):
trunk and wraps it around me andstyles it.
I put on this bright red wigand then all of a sudden I look
banging like a medieval.
I don't know, lady, but theyjust were adjusting me and
dressing me because I didn'thave what I needed.
And the next day, after allthese experiences, after having
(09:27):
these, I had this feeling, thatwas so visceral, of being held.
And so here I am on thisairplane where I feel very held
by my business partner.
We hold each other right andall of these relationships, of
course, are mutual andreciprocal.
But I was describing thefeeling that I had to Maggie.
It was multiple experienceswhere something didn't go quite
(09:48):
right.
I was late, I was feeling off.
I I had to Maggie.
It was multiple experienceswhere something didn't go quite
right.
I was late, I was feeling off,I didn't have my clothes, I
looked like a pirate, I neededsome help or some love, or it
was my birthday and I had achallenge or speed bump, and
people were just there and a lotof them were women.
And in this experience, as Ireflected, my body just felt
(10:10):
really light and tingly andglittery and I had this really
strong visual that just poppedinto my mind, but like in this
way that I could feel, of justbeing held up by this sparkling
web of blue light, that sort ofI could see like the top of the
(10:30):
earth, and I just popped into mymind and it just went out in
every direction, just held inthis way, where it would be
impossible to fall because theyhad me.
They had my back so hard.
They had me.
That is the we got you feeling.
That's what we got you means.
(10:52):
It's that web.
So I'm describing that web toMaggie and you know what she
says.
She says oh yeah, the firsttime I experienced the web was
and she started telling me thestory.
She knew exactly what I wastalking about and I got the
chills and I was like oh, thisis an actual thing.
This is the visceral, tangible,actual experience of being in a
(11:15):
community held by your peopleLike you are one entity that all
works together and I want tonever stop having this feeling.
And that's what the bloom roomis all about that we got you
feeling.
That's what all my work is allabout you being you
authentically, me being meauthentically and knowing that
(11:37):
we got you.
You don't have to be somebodyelse, you be you.
You make your ideas real, youdo you, you do your life and we
got you.
So why does this feel so good?
The we got you vibe.
And how can we apply it?
Well, first we can apply itwith ourselves.
I've had this experience overthe last year where, for the
(11:57):
first time, part of my body hadan injury.
That's been really challenging.
It just is not working rightand I've been working on it a
lot.
I've talked about it on thepodcast.
My body is not doing what I wantit to.
But instead of feeling old, orinstead of getting mad at my
body because it's breaking downin some way or feeling
(12:18):
unattractive no, that's a bighard no to all of those
reactions.
No, that's a big hard no to allof those reactions I can feel,
any of those that I've beensocialized to do to my body.
Come up and validate them, bewith them, be kind to those
reactions.
But then no.
Instead I give my body the wegot you.
(12:40):
I got you energy.
And when I respond to my bodylike that, it becomes a million
times lighter.
And instead of me treating itlike an enemy that I need to
control, that I expect to dowhat I want, I treat it like the
precious best friend that it isthis body that has carried me
through my entire life and thatsometimes I did not treat that
(13:05):
well and that I will always bewith.
And now I am gentle andrespectful with it, with my body
and with myself, and I lovemyself like no one else will
ever be able to love me Like noone else could ever know how to
love me, because I deserve thatand because I got you Right, the
(13:27):
more we love ourselves, themore depth we have to love other
people, and we can treatourselves first of all with that
.
We got you feeling day in andday out.
My friends, we will bloom whenwe do that.
(13:47):
Now, what about somebody else?
I have so many examples of this.
When someone doesn't have theright shoes for an event, or
recently my friend forgot theone thing he was responsible for
bringing to a party that I haddone everything else for and we
came up with a differentsolution and we said we, or my
dad, he showed up to an eventthat he really needed a card for
.
That was an expected thing andhe didn't have one.
(14:11):
And he said who can help?
And we gave him ours.
And we said, even though wedidn't have one for ourself, we
said we got you.
Or maybe someone's late intraffic and they can't pick up
their kid for baseball or school, and we drive out of the way to
pick them up for baseballpractice or school, and we just
respond we got you.
(14:31):
Why do these examples feel sogood?
When you respond with the wegot you, vibe, it's because it
gives the person that needs helpthe visceral feeling that
they're held and it's not I gotyou, which kind of heroicizes
ourselves a little bit.
(14:51):
I got you.
I mean, I kind of love I gotyou, but we got you is a
different level.
You know, I got you isn't bad,but we got you is better because
it reminds the person that it'snot just one person being a
hero.
There are many of us out thereand we have their back.
We got you, we're a team.
Reminds them of the web.
(15:12):
It normalizes for other peopleon the same text thread or in
the community that are aroundthat hears you say we got you.
It normalizes that I know.
You know that they would stepin too, which makes them want to
step in more.
When we say we got you and wespeak for the group, we are
(15:33):
interacting with each other'shighest selves.
And when we interact with eachother's highest selves, that's
who shows up and it feels sogood because it communicates
that we enjoy helping, becausethat is the truth.
We love to be connected, welove to be of value, we love to
help and we got you tells thetruth of a moment like that.
We do have the other person, wehave their back and it's no big
(15:57):
deal.
It's actually, and truthfully,a huge honor and a huge joy.
It feels really good to helptruthfully a huge honor and a
huge joy.
It feels really good to help,to be there at the right time,
to be able to help them, and itfeels really good to us.
So they get to feel a littleless burdensome because they
know that they've given us achance to step in and be
(16:17):
valuable and serve.
We got you, communicates.
We got you and we like it.
We feel good having your backAll right.
One more application because Icould go on forever One of my
other favorite applications ofthe we got you, vibe.
Someone shares something hard.
They tell a vulnerable storywhich we all have, right, we
(16:41):
just bottle up, maybe they putthemselves out there and then
they have a little bit of avulnerability hangover.
Whether you see it or not, whenyou respond to some
vulnerability, some share thatsomeone gives, someone offers up
.
When you respond with somethoughtful words or reflections
and then thank them for trustingin you and you say we got you,
(17:06):
damn, does that feel good?
It communicates to that personwho has put themselves out there
and shared.
You are understood and you areaccepted at your most vulnerable
and we know that took a lot foryou to share.
But, sister, you are in the web.
We got you.
(17:27):
There's no falling here becausewe're together.
We got you.
That's what I have for you thisweek and I will see you next
(17:58):
week.
We take all of these conceptsand we apply them to real life.
In a community where we haveeach other's backs and we bring
out the best in each other.
We're all there to make ourideas real, one idea at a time.
I'll see you in the Bloom Room,thank you.
Welcome to the Bloom your Mind podcast, where we take
all of your ideas for what youwant and we turn them into real
things.
I'm your host, certified coachMarie McDonald.
Let's Hello everyone andwelcome to episode 119 of the
(00:32):
Bloom your Mind podcast.
Have you ever gotten roasted forthings you knew you did but
didn't really know that?
Like we knew that you knew thatyou did.
Have you ever gotten teased forbeing you Like?
You thought it was more normalthan it was the thing that you
(00:53):
got teased about?
Or maybe you thought youweren't doing the thing in such
an extreme way, but then you gotroasted for it or teased for it
and you were like, oh, that'smaybe not as normal as I thought
.
I've been roasted multipletimes for my hugs, which are
apparently really good Okay, Ijust didn't know how good.
(01:15):
And for making eye contact withpeople.
Like I thought everybody madeeye contact until I got roasted
and then I realized that I amway more comfortable making eye
contact than most people.
Oops, have you had thatexperience?
Is there anything you've beenlike roasted for, teased for,
and you were like, oh, okay,what about this one?
(01:41):
Have you ever been teased forsaying something that you didn't
know you say, or maybe not eventeased, maybe just people
commented on something that'slike a you-ism.
Maybe someone said that's sucha you thing to say that's such a
you-ism and you thought, ohokay, I thought everybody says
that, or at least I didn'trealize it's unique thing to say
(02:05):
, but now I do.
Have you had one of those?
I'll let you think for a sec.
Pull one into your mind.
I've recently been toldmultiple times that there's a
word that I say that's a me wordand I had no idea.
I thought it was way morecommon than it is and honestly I
(02:27):
didn't really think about it atall.
But on multiple text threads inthe Bloom Room group community
that we have between sessionsthat everybody writes to each
other on, with my family oforigin, with my friends all over
, I've had people say in quotes,as Marie would say, we got you.
So, like one time when someonesaid that it was no big deal.
(02:50):
But after this happened likefive, six, seven times in
different settings, it of coursetook my notice and made me
think okay, I must say we gotyou.
I know I don't say it like allday, every day, but I definitely
say it because I don't say itthat often.
So I must say we got you.
I know I don't say it like allday, every day, but I definitely
say it because I don't say itthat often.
So I must say it in a way thatstands out, or maybe not
(03:10):
everybody says this.
Why do I say this word?
We got you W-E-G-O-T-C-H-U, wegot you H-U, we got you.
And I thought about it and I waslike, yeah, I freaking love
(03:31):
that word.
I love it, and I say it becauseit's like my philosophy of life
.
For sure.
It's my purpose in life to helpas many people feel the meaning
of that apparently made up wordwe got you.
I want as many people to feelthat feeling that that word
(03:53):
represents as possible, and Iwant to feel that way myself as
much as I can in my life too.
So I wanted to talk about it onthe podcast because it's a
total mind bloomer.
If you are a recipient of thewe got you vibe, your mind will
bloom, and if you treat yourselfwith the I got you vibe, we got
(04:15):
you vibe you will be okay, nomatter what goes down.
So I'm going to tell you astory to describe a very
visceral experience of the wegot you vibe that I had lately
to convey what it means to meno-transcript.
(04:44):
So here's the story.
I was on an airplane.
I love being on airplaneslooking down at clouds what the
heck we get to do that.
So I'm flying back from a tripwith my business partner, maggie
.
She and I laugh harder, godeeper and run a very successful
business together, supportingexecutives to communicate and
lead with their people and theirimpact as their first
(05:07):
priorities.
So we love our work and we alsolike interact in so many ways
as friends.
Maggie and I have thisfriendship that just exists like
on every level.
You know the deep level of thelaughing level, the business
level.
It's great.
I love her.
So we're talking and I'm tellingher about this experience that
I'd recently had.
(05:27):
I was telling her about how Ihad this photo shoot for the
bloom room and my business and Idon't know I needed some help
with it.
I was kind of feeling behindthe ball and I had one of my
good friends.
Her name is Becca.
We actually are leading the artof self love and very soon
together.
So you may have heard about heron the podcast, seen pictures
(05:49):
of her.
She's a stylist and she's oneof my sister friends.
I called her.
She comes to my house and spendsthe entire day with me.
She does my hair, she does mymakeup, she hangs out with me
all day long.
She wipes lipstick off my teeth, she brushes away strands of
hair, she cinches me intoclothes, she changes clothes out
(06:10):
.
She comes over, runs over andjust tweaks my outfit a little
bit.
She gives me water, she changesmy jewelry, she adjusts
everything All day long.
With this joyful feeling andthese little giggles, we would
look at each other and justgiggle because we get to do this
together.
Right, this look, this was like.
(06:30):
I love you so much.
Human.
We're having such a fun timeall day right.
And then my friends show up.
There's a group of Bloom Roomclients and past clients that
have worked with me and a couplefriends that are in the photo
shoot.
I just said, hey, do you guyswant to be in the shoot?
I would love it.
And they just come and they'reall dressed up.
Everybody's wearing theseamazing outfits, amazing outfits
(06:53):
.
They're on time with these hugesmiles.
We giggle, they pop champagnebottles.
They're popping champagne,we're having the best time, and
then they just take off.
Just total support.
A couple of days later, it's mybirthday.
I didn't really plan anything.
I was focused on, I didn't wantto hang out very much.
And then the couple of daysbefore my birthday, I was like,
(07:14):
dude, does anybody want to gosoak in the waters at Hakumba
with me?
And I texted some people andthese five women come and they
just show up.
One of them drives out with metogether it's Becca again and we
spend the entire day justtogether.
We soak in the water all day,we listen to each other, we
support each other and we gohome.
(07:35):
That same week I go out dancingwith another group of
girlfriends Actually, it was notthe same week, it was a couple
weeks later and I go to a musicvenue see a show with another
girlfriend.
Then I go on this field tripfor my daughter and we have to
dress up that day as thechaperones for the field trip
(07:59):
and we are supposed to bewearing medieval outfits and
y'all.
I did not have time.
That week I brought this pirateoutfit.
Oh my gosh, it was bad, but itwas all I had and I had been a
pirate for Halloween.
So I like bring this pirateoutfit.
And we had to leave at.
We had to get up at 3.30 in themorning.
(08:20):
We left at 4.50 in the morningto get to where we were going.
So we're all changing in thecar at like 6.30 in the morning
in our cars and all the sixthgraders are out in the parking
lot and we all change.
And then I get out and thesixth graders look at me and
they're like, okay, and I waslike what.
And they're like, well, youlook good but you look like a
(08:40):
pirate.
I'm like they can tell theseother women come up to me, these
two women, and they just startfluffing me.
One of them literally takes oneof her skirts she had layered
skirts she takes one of them offof her body and puts it on me
over my pirate pants.
And another one takes this minkfaux mink stole out of her
(09:06):
trunk and wraps it around me andstyles it.
I put on this bright red wigand then all of a sudden I look
banging like a medieval.
I don't know, lady, but theyjust were adjusting me and
dressing me because I didn'thave what I needed.
And the next day, after allthese experiences, after having
(09:27):
these, I had this feeling, thatwas so visceral, of being held.
And so here I am on thisairplane where I feel very held
by my business partner.
We hold each other right andall of these relationships, of
course, are mutual andreciprocal.
But I was describing thefeeling that I had to Maggie.
It was multiple experienceswhere something didn't go quite
(09:48):
right.
I was late, I was feeling off.
I I had to Maggie.
It was multiple experienceswhere something didn't go quite
right.
I was late, I was feeling off,I didn't have my clothes, I
looked like a pirate, I neededsome help or some love, or it
was my birthday and I had achallenge or speed bump, and
people were just there and a lotof them were women.
And in this experience, as Ireflected, my body just felt
(10:10):
really light and tingly andglittery and I had this really
strong visual that just poppedinto my mind, but like in this
way that I could feel, of justbeing held up by this sparkling
web of blue light, that sort ofI could see like the top of the
(10:30):
earth, and I just popped into mymind and it just went out in
every direction, just held inthis way, where it would be
impossible to fall because theyhad me.
They had my back so hard.
They had me.
That is the we got you feeling.
That's what we got you means.
(10:52):
It's that web.
So I'm describing that web toMaggie and you know what she
says.
She says oh yeah, the firsttime I experienced the web was
and she started telling me thestory.
She knew exactly what I wastalking about and I got the
chills and I was like oh, thisis an actual thing.
This is the visceral, tangible,actual experience of being in a
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community held by your peopleLike you are one entity that all
works together and I want tonever stop having this feeling.
And that's what the bloom roomis all about that we got you
feeling.
That's what all my work is allabout you being you
authentically, me being meauthentically and knowing that
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we got you.
You don't have to be somebodyelse, you be you.
You make your ideas real, youdo you, you do your life and we
got you.
So why does this feel so good?
The we got you vibe.
And how can we apply it?
Well, first we can apply itwith ourselves.
I've had this experience overthe last year where, for the
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first time, part of my body hadan injury.
That's been really challenging.
It just is not working rightand I've been working on it a
lot.
I've talked about it on thepodcast.
My body is not doing what I wantit to.
But instead of feeling old, orinstead of getting mad at my
body because it's breaking downin some way or feeling
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unattractive no, that's a bighard no to all of those
reactions.
No, that's a big hard no to allof those reactions I can feel,
any of those that I've beensocialized to do to my body.
Come up and validate them, bewith them, be kind to those
reactions.
But then no.
Instead I give my body the wegot you.
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I got you energy.
And when I respond to my bodylike that, it becomes a million
times lighter.
And instead of me treating itlike an enemy that I need to
control, that I expect to dowhat I want, I treat it like the
precious best friend that it isthis body that has carried me
through my entire life and thatsometimes I did not treat that
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well and that I will always bewith.
And now I am gentle andrespectful with it, with my body
and with myself, and I lovemyself like no one else will
ever be able to love me Like noone else could ever know how to
love me, because I deserve thatand because I got you Right, the
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more we love ourselves, themore depth we have to love other
people, and we can treatourselves first of all with that
.
We got you feeling day in andday out.
My friends, we will bloom whenwe do that.
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Now, what about somebody else?
I have so many examples of this.
When someone doesn't have theright shoes for an event, or
recently my friend forgot theone thing he was responsible for
bringing to a party that I haddone everything else for and we
came up with a differentsolution and we said we, or my
dad, he showed up to an eventthat he really needed a card for
.
That was an expected thing andhe didn't have one.
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And he said who can help?
And we gave him ours.
And we said, even though wedidn't have one for ourself, we
said we got you.
Or maybe someone's late intraffic and they can't pick up
their kid for baseball or school, and we drive out of the way to
pick them up for baseballpractice or school, and we just
respond we got you.
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Why do these examples feel sogood?
When you respond with the wegot you, vibe, it's because it
gives the person that needs helpthe visceral feeling that
they're held and it's not I gotyou, which kind of heroicizes
ourselves a little bit.
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I got you.
I mean, I kind of love I gotyou, but we got you is a
different level.
You know, I got you isn't bad,but we got you is better because
it reminds the person that it'snot just one person being a
hero.
There are many of us out thereand we have their back.
We got you, we're a team.
Reminds them of the web.
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It normalizes for other peopleon the same text thread or in
the community that are aroundthat hears you say we got you.
It normalizes that I know.
You know that they would stepin too, which makes them want to
step in more.
When we say we got you and wespeak for the group, we are
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interacting with each other'shighest selves.
And when we interact with eachother's highest selves, that's
who shows up and it feels sogood because it communicates
that we enjoy helping, becausethat is the truth.
We love to be connected, welove to be of value, we love to
help and we got you tells thetruth of a moment like that.
We do have the other person, wehave their back and it's no big
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deal.
It's actually, and truthfully,a huge honor and a huge joy.
It feels really good to helptruthfully a huge honor and a
huge joy.
It feels really good to help,to be there at the right time,
to be able to help them, and itfeels really good to us.
So they get to feel a littleless burdensome because they
know that they've given us achance to step in and be
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valuable and serve.
We got you, communicates.
We got you and we like it.
We feel good having your backAll right.
One more application because Icould go on forever One of my
other favorite applications ofthe we got you, vibe.
Someone shares something hard.
They tell a vulnerable storywhich we all have, right, we
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just bottle up, maybe they putthemselves out there and then
they have a little bit of avulnerability hangover.
Whether you see it or not, whenyou respond to some
vulnerability, some share thatsomeone gives, someone offers up
.
When you respond with somethoughtful words or reflections
and then thank them for trustingin you and you say we got you,
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damn, does that feel good?
It communicates to that personwho has put themselves out there
and shared.
You are understood and you areaccepted at your most vulnerable
and we know that took a lot foryou to share.
But, sister, you are in the web.
We got you.
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There's no falling here becausewe're together.
We got you.
That's what I have for you thisweek and I will see you next
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week.
We take all of these conceptsand we apply them to real life.
In a community where we haveeach other's backs and we bring
out the best in each other.
We're all there to make ourideas real, one idea at a time.
I'll see you in the Bloom Room,thank you.
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