April 30, 2025 • 32 mins
We explore how technology can be your best friend or worst enemy, and why managing your time intentionally is crucial for breaking generational curses and overcoming procrastination. The episode dives into practical strategies for taking control of your digital life while maintaining peace, clarity, and creativity.
• Understanding the "toxic tech trap" and its impact on mental health and productivity
• Research showing people check phones 46-85 times daily, linked to stress and decreased brain function
• How CEOs who unplug for just 48 hours experience better memory, sleep, and relationships
• Applying the 80-20 rule to email management and turning off non-essential notifications
• Doubling productivity through 90-minute focused work sessions with strategic breaks
• Ten practical challenges for digital detox including app deletion and creating a "self-care hour"
• The importance of silence and disconnection: "You can't hear your calling through constant noise"
• Oral cancer awareness: understanding the stages and importance of early detection
I challenge you to pick one digital detox habit to implement today. Whether turning off notifications, spending time in nature without your phone, or creating a phone-free morning routine—take back control of your time and mind. Peace, power and progress, Niji!
Thanks for listening and growing with me on this journey towards the ultimate level of success. #Hood2hooded #drshon #drshonconsistencyproject #consistencyproject
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dr Chieftess Sunflower coming to you live for
another episode of the Hood toHooded Podcast, where we are
breaking generational curses dayby day, inch by inch, cinch by
cinch.
Tonight's episode has threepowerful segments.
(00:21):
We are continuing on withchapters 15 to 17 of Eat that
Frog and we are talking abouttoxic tech trap how technology
can trap you if you do notcontrol it.
You have to manage your timewhile I'm on this journey so we
can grow together and learn howto overcome procrastination,
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because procrastination makes itso that you can't even level up
, because you always wait untiltomorrow.
Tomorrow it's not.
What about today.
What about today, my friend?
Are we getting it done today?
Are we procrastinating?
Are we eating that frog?
Eat that frog, chapters 15through 17.
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It says the main thing wastechnology.
It was about technology beingyour best friend or your worst
enemy.
Everything is about technologynowadays, especially in the
influencer space.
Obsessive need to communicatecontinually is what is going on
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in today's society.
Everybody has this obsessionwith just having the phone in
their hands, whether they'redriving, walking everywhere, on
vacation, at the dinner table.
It's a compulsive need to stayplugged in and it leaves us
psychologically breathless.
Now that's something that'slike kind of scary for something
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to leave you psychologicallybreathless because you never
have time to stop and smell theroses.
We live in a world where thecompulsion to stay plugged in is
costing us clarity, creativityand peace.
It's costing us a lot Our clearvision for the future, how we
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create and just peace.
That's the ultimate goal in mylife is just to have some peace,
like peace of mind.
Studies show that people whocheck their people check their
phones 46 to 85 times per dayand I'm sure it's probably a
little bit higher than when thisbook was written.
It's probably in the hundreds.
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Just picking it up, making it ahabit.
It says the habit is tied toincreased stress, memory loss,
adhd symptoms and evenalzheimer's risk.
It's definitely having sometype of impact on your brain
technology and that's why, again, our phones have monitors where
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you can know your watch time ondifferent apps and social
medias.
Because you get into the habitof just strolling and not
creating strolling and nothaving clarity about your life
or even peace, because we're toobusy watching other people and
what other people got going onall day.
It's okay to check in sometimes, but just all day.
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It's costing you a lot mentalhealth problems.
That's scary stress.
If you stressing out, try todetox digitally and see how that
changes your life.
I like try to consciously detoxevery day.
Like putting my phone down.
It's busy.
When you have a business oryou're an influencer, you
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technology is everything, butstill throughout the day or
throughout the week, it's soimportant to make time to detox
and clear your head.
They did a study and they foundthat CEOs who unplugged for
just 48 hours reported bettermemory, deeper relationships,
better sleep and clarity.
Memory, deeper relationships,better sleep and clarity.
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Just two days of just digitaldetox increases your brain's
performance.
So that way you can get backinto balance and in tune with
who you are.
You can get in tune with justfeeling better and having more
energy and being more positiveand optimistic.
We talked about optimisticpeople yesterday and how they
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accomplish more.
We're optimistic people need todetox in order to keep that
optimism at an ultimate level.
If you want to be successful,be optimistic and do things at a
high proficiency Meaning, learnhow to control your peace and
your mind and technology.
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That's why I says technology isa terrible master.
That's the name of this chaptertechnology being your best
friend or it can be your worstenemy, especially on a young
mind that is exposed to so muchtechnology nowadays.
Dce also participated in thisstudy.
They found that they have anincreased likelihood to make
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life transforming decisions whenyou have a clear head.
Clearing your mind, getting intoyour zen, is so important.
When you are too plugged in,it's a destructive addiction.
It's a destructive addiction.
It's a destructive addictionthat controls your time.
You wake up obsessively tryingto check your phone or just
leaving the bed, and it saysthat people are just always
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picking it up.
And I'm guilty of this too.
I'm guilty of getting into thathabit.
But being also aware, aware, aslong as we are aware, guys, and
we are growing and we readthese things, we're learning
these things, deciphering whatwe can use to help us have a
higher quality of life.
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Peace is everything we want tolevel up, but we also want to
protect our peace and our energy.
Okay, apply the 80-20 rule toyour email.
Unsubscribe from 80% of thethings that really don't have
anything to do with your goalsthey're not of important
significance and then respondimmediately to the 4% that are
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urgent and schedule time to dothe rest.
That way, you're notoverstimulating your brain.
It also mentions to turn offnon-essential notifications so
you're not obligated to beavailable 24-7.
You got to make time to getback to you, especially if you
deal with mental health problems.
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You don't want to beoverstimulated health problems.
You don't want to be overstimulated and that's important
because just last year Irealized my phone was giving me
way too many notifications fromevery social media platform and
that's just too much.
So I turned all mynotifications off.
I was like you know what?
No, I'm too overstimulated.
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I'm always checking to see.
Now I control when the hell Iwant to go and check my
notifications and then I have itset to a certain time of day.
And now that I did that, Idon't even pay attention to the
certain time of day.
I think the issue now is tojust break the habit of going on
there myself, because itbecomes obsessive.
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You want to spend your timehaving clarity, peace and also
just focusing on creating.
Get back to your creativity.
Create a separate line foremergency only for your like
elders and for your kids.
You definitely want to have anemergency line for important
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people in your life so they canalways reach you and in your
calendar schedule, 90 minutefocus blocks followed by a 15
minute reset.
So an hour and a half to knockout your major task if you have
homework or if you have aproject due, or if you're trying
to start a business and youhave some tasks to knock off to
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get it done, or even in yourbusiness.
Not schedule an hour and a halfand just get it done.
Take a 15 minute break, doanother hour and a half and then
check your email and do thoseextracurricular online things.
Don't drown in a world of infoexchange.
Take your time back, and that'swhat I'm about like taking my
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time back.
Refuse to be a slave.
Don't allow emails to controlyour time.
Delete them accordingly.
If you have something important, guess what?
Somebody is going to let youknow.
When there's an emergency inthe family, somebody is going to
let you know.
And then we go to chapter 16,which is technology is a
wonderful servant.
It's supposed to make our lifeeasier.
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I am a fan of technology.
I love ai, I love in dentistry.
I just love updated scannersand photography.
I just love having access tomake things easier.
I'm all about technology, butyou don't want it to control you
.
You still want to be in yourown zen and detox from
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technology.
It's supposed to make our lifeeasier, not complex, confused or
stressful.
Take control of yourcommunications.
Clear your digital digitalworkspace.
Close every window not neededto do your tasks, block websites
that are distracting you anddisable smartphone notifications
when you are trying to sit downand do your work.
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Don't have all these tabs open.
When I'm in my doctor mode, Itend to have about 15 tabs open,
maybe 10, but I feel like I'musing them all and I don't know
it, just it's like I need toomany tabs.
This is saying have claritywhen you're doing work.
That's why you work from a tasklist and not things off in a
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list with order of importance.
Take control of your time whenyou're a calendar.
Make your calendar also yourservant and schedule large
blocks of time to complete atask, like a digital to-do list
will help you complete your task.
Take control of your emotionsusing technology.
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Take control of your emotionsusing technology, emotions using
technology, because many peoplefail to make technology their
servant, because they faillearning a new skill.
They avoid the phrase I can't,no matter your age, race or
gender.
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Focus your attention, and I feellike that's what this challenge
is all about.
And I feel like that's whatthis challenge is all about.
If you are doing a 365 daychallenge and you decide to do
something every day for 365 days, then that's so amazing that
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you can rewire your brain todeclutter and get back focused
with clarity, peace, disciplineand consistency.
I saw a video today of thislady lady I think she was in her
90s still stretching, doingyoga, very flexible.
That really motivated me toalso tap into the health portion
of this eating better,stretching, yoga, pilates and
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making time and stamping outtime for those activities as
well, because we want to stayhealthy.
Health is wealth period Healthof the mind and of the body and
of your spirits, all levels.
Focus attention is key to highperformance.
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Focusing your attention, whereyour attention goes.
That depends on how you perform.
Attraction of distraction.
You will always attract somedistraction.
Distractions are diffusedattention, wandering mind, lack
of focus, underachievement andfailure.
Underachievement and failure.
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Whenever you have attraction ofdistraction any of these things
your brain kind ofunderperforms.
It kind of inhibits you fromgrowing.
Current research shows that ifyou constantly, or if we
constantly, respond to email,phone calls and texts, it has a.
It decreases our attention spanand makes it difficult to
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complete tasks when we areconstantly stimulated.
This is how an addiction totechnology or emails or those
notifications hinder you fromgrowing and damage your brain.
For instance, checking youremail first thing in the morning
, you get that buzz of dopamine.
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You get to see what yournotifications are, it's all
stimulating you and it makes ithard for you to pay attention
for the rest of the day.
I did not know this.
And then it says themultitasking illusion People can
only focus on one task at atime.
I'm guilty of multitasking justbecause, if you can, if you,
your short staff, are juststarting the business.
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You got to do multiple tasks,so I get it.
Multitasking is an illusion,but sometimes that's the only
way.
But it says multitasking.
It's called task shifting,meaning you are shifting your
attention back and forth versuscompleting one task and then
moving on to the next task, andthen, after you get the next
task and then after you get aninternet interruption, such as a
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notification from your phone orfrom an app, it takes you 17
minutes to refocus your energy.
A proven solution is to checkyour email at 11am and then 3pm
and then turn your notificationsoff.
You can set your own time.
It could be 6 am and 6 pm orwhatever time you want, but just
basically twice per day, versusall day just checking all
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notifications.
You can even set your iphone todo this, to send you like a
summary of notifications at acertain time.
So just look into that when yougo to your settings in your
iPhone and customize yournotifications so that way you're
not just stimulated all day andnight with shit.
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Let's end this with finding outa way to double our productivity
.
Guys Because that's what we'reabout on this podcast is
doubling productivity, growingevery day, showing up and living
our best life, beingunapologetic.
So are you ready to double yourproductivity today?
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So double our productivity.
Plan your day in advance.
Number one.
Number two select the mostimportant task to do first.
Do it for 90 minutes, take a 15minute break and do it for 90
more minutes until it's done andcheck your emails only once
you're finished with doing yourmost important task.
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That's it for this little bookreview.
This second, this segment, isthe Niiji reset.
The Niiji reset stepping backfrom stimulation.
So Niiji, this world is overstimulating on purpose.
It is designed to keep usreacting and not reflecting, and
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I've been guilty too.
That's why I turned off all ofmy notifications.
I don't want the phone decidingwhat my brain should do.
I want to be present and onpurpose and continuing to learn
about my history, my genealogy,our indigenous status, our
melanin and just how powerful weare as indigenous copper-toned
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people of Turtle Island Feathersup my Niiji tonight.
This is a moment to step backand find many challenges to help
us with our spiritual growth.
Getting in my Dr Cheap, thissunflower mold.
We are not even in a rushtonight.
As we go into this second partof this live, I want us to take
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a moment, just to take a coupleof deep breaths.
Stretch your neck from side toside.
If you have any tension in yourbrain or in your mind or in
your body, in your spirit today,just wiggle it out.
Continue to breathe nice anddeep, rotate your shoulders and
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just stretch.
Guys, you need to have thesemoments of just releasing
everything at least once a day.
Detox your energy.
Okay, my Niiji, don't beoverstimulated, unless you
overstimulated with things thataren't keeping us in the matrix.
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We got to get out of the matrix.
We got to take back control ofthe things we learn,
understanding who we are anduncovering the truth, even
though it might be hard,especially on those holidays.
It's hard if your family has atradition of celebrating.
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It can be different for you,but just stand on business and
know who you are.
I'm rocking this florida statesweater.
This is Florida State Seminoles.
They had a tragedy last yearwith a shooter on campus.
This is a Seminole logo.
They changed this logo.
They added they made it a whiteman versus the real Seminoles
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copper tone.
So it's things like this is agift from my cousin, so I still
wear it as an alumni, but I amaware that the hijack my Niiji.
So this is why we have overstimulated with pseudo history
and just keep our marinesgrowing, flowing and detoxing on
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every level, not just withtechnology, but on pseudo
history.
We have to also detox on thatand step back from being over
stimulated with the news, withpolitics, fear tactics, with
just living in a state of alwaysstimulated from social media.
Everything is just on 10nowadays.
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So how about we just step back,get a good routine in, do some
yoga, elevate your life, get upin the morning, don't check your
phone so fast.
Don't get out of that addictionof getting on social media ASAP
.
Control your time, control yourmind, control your knowledge,
control your creativity.
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Go paint something, go and justsit and stare at the ocean.
Go, take some pictures.
Do something that you reallylove.
That gets you back in tune withwho you are my Niiji.
That's how we go from hood tohood and hood it to Niiji.
10 ways to detox from the worldtoday 10 ways.
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We already talked about one atthe beginning of this whole
podcast live.
The first way is to turn off allapp notifications for 24 hours,
but I challenge you to justturn them off period.
Be like me.
I just turned them suckers off.
I got tired of all the notice.
Leave me, let me have my peace.
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I'm in my chief.
This mode.
I need to have peace.
The ultimate peace is my goaland controlling my time.
Turning those notifications offfor at least 24 hours.
If you can't do without it,then I get it.
Just 24 hours.
Just try 24 hours of takingyour time back, just one day.
Number two delete three appsthat waste your time.
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Social media is a waste of timeperiod If you're not using it
for business or to level up orfollowing something positive, or
if you're following things thatpoison your brain and just keep
you strolling recklessly.
Delete those three apps.
Take control of your time back.
Number three go fall free forthe first hour of your morning.
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The first hour in the morning,do a stretch, drink some water,
make you a smoothie bowl, don'tcheck your phone.
Go use the bathroom, brush yourteeth, floss your teeth.
The first hour in the morningwe're going to get up and not
check the phone.
Like self-care hour, name thatthe self-care hour.
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I want to write that down theself-care hour baby.
Call that the self-care hour,the self-care hour, the
self-care hour.
Number four meditate for 10minutes.
Meditate for 10 minutes, just10 minutes.
10 minutes to take your mindback, take control in your
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thoughts, just sit by yourself.
You can do with music.
You can go on the apps and findmeditation music, or you can do
a silent meditation.
I'm a fan of the silentmeditation, but if you live in a
noisy environment, the musicmay help you get into your
peaceful mindset, but what youdo is when you meditate.
It can be any place, anywhere,anytime, when you just need to
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detox from the world.
It's recommended that you do itin the morning.
You have your hour of self-careno phone, no tablet, no,
nothing, just you in your ownzen and you just wake up 10
minutes of meditation, deepbreathing Eyes closed, clear
thoughts.
Deep breathing Eyes, closed,clear thoughts.
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Then you can stretch, drinksome water and get into your
positive energy, your positivevibes.
Number five Unfollow fiveaccounts that trigger negativity
.
If you have somebody on yourfollowers list that you're
following and every time youstroll past their name You're
like dang, they're just sonegative.
Their energy just always liketrigger me in a negative way,
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just go ahead and unfollow them.
It's not worth your mindset,it's not worth consuming that
negativity every single day.
It's just not worth it.
Number six journal your thoughtsinstead of tweeting them out.
Get you a little journal.
You see my little journal, mydream journal.
I just use this to take noteson when I'm reading a book like
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Eat that Frog, or make a list ofmy day, or just a journal.
You can journal digitally.
I have an app that I think iscalled Journal and you can
journal instead of time tojournal, instead of tweeting,
and you can journal and set atime to journal instead of
tweeting.
This will help you declutteryour thoughts versus putting it
out publicly, especially if youdeal with depression and all
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those mental health problems.
It'll be a great way for you tocontrol your thoughts and your
time.
Number seven go outside withoutyour phone.
Go take a walk on the beach,leave your phone in the car and
just go smell the roses, go lookat the flowers, go listen to
the birds, go fishing.
Go outside without your phone.
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That's a challenge I knownowadays.
Number eight spend one hour insilence.
How many of us can spend onehour just in silence?
I tend to do that in themorning when I wake up.
I like to just get up insilence and a lot of times your
best thoughts come when you justdetach from people for a moment
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, from technology for a moment,and you just take back control,
baby.
You take back control of whoyou are, of your time, and you
just sit in silence.
Number nine watch the sunrise orthe sunset.
Now, me, I love watching thesunrise.
I wish I could watch thesunrise every single day, like
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it would be an ultimate dreamfor me to live in san diego on
the coast, even though I wouldbe afraid of earthquakes.
But to be in san diego on thecoast, near sunset cliff, and
just to watch the sunrise, likeevery morning, drinking wine,
just even a couple times a year,that I would love, love, love
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to do that, and one day.
That may happen, but I have didthat for my birthday.
Probably three years ago, Iwent to San Diego, to Sunset
Cliff, and watched the sunriseon my birthday.
That was amazing, or even asunset nothing like a nice
sunset.
And number 10 read one chapterof a physical book.
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Now, if you've been in thisfollowing this podcast, that
means we've been reading morethan one chapter.
We've been.
We are almost done with thewhole book of eat that frog.
Just read one chapter to getyour brain back, focused on
something tangible other thanlike technology.
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Those are 10 mini challenges,my challenges, my niji, for us
to do so.
Let's break it down againwithout all the added response.
So, number one turn off all appnotifications for 24 hours.
Number two delete three appsthat waste your time.
Number three go phone free forthe first hour of your morning,
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which is our self-care hour.
Number four meditate for 10minutes.
Number five unfollow fiveaccounts that trigger negativity
.
Number six journal yourthoughts instead of tweeting
them.
Number seven go outside withoutyour phone.
Number eight spend one hour insilence.
Number nine watch the sunriseor sunset.
And number 10, read one chapterof a physical book.
Now here's a spiritual push.
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My Niiji, you can't hear yourcalling through constant noise.
You just can't.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
You just can't.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
So step back, recharge, realign.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
So step back, recharge, realign.
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And you are not behind.
You are being reminded of yourgreatness.
Okay, my Niiji, be remindedabout the greatness that lives
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within you so we can get back,realign and refocus and use
these jewels to go from hood tohooded to hooded.
I hope that segment reallyencourages us remember how
important peace of mind is andit gives us some tangible
challenges and I want you guysto pick one challenge to do to
detox and step back from theoverstimulation.
Take back our time and our mind.
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Yes, it's about learning who weare, doing your genealogy, just
staying on point with breakingthe generational curses, undoing
the reclassification that hasbeen done, undoing the
pseudo-history has been done andundoing the pseudo history that
is being forced down our throat.
Despite that fact, we stillmust control our peace because
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sometimes it can beoverstimulating.
When I first discovered all ofthis information about being
indigenous and how history hasbeen hijacked, it was
mind-boggling, but at the sametime, we still must learn this.
But it's okay to step backrecharge, realign.
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Let's get into our dentalsegments.
Shout out to all my Niiji, allmy beautiful people who are
brushing and flossing every day.
If you are not brushing andflossing every day, then let's
do a little bit better.
We've been focused on OralCancer Awareness Month.
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I want us to know the stages oforal cancer, so let's continue
to educate ourselves on thestages.
There are four, five stages,but one of them is stage zero.
Stage zero is carcinoma in situ, so this is pre-cancer and it's
highly treatable.
Stage zero Stage one is a tumorless than two centimeters and no
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spread.
It has an 80 to 90 survivalrate.
That's why, when you go todentists, we perform oral cancer
screenings just to see if youhave any lesions in your mouth
that may look like oral cancer.
Oral cancer is what puts you ata high risk is poor oral
hygiene, which is why you wantto brush and floss your teeth
and get your cleanings smoking,drinking alcohol and human
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papillomavirus.
Stage two is a tumor two tofour centimeters, with no spread
.
Of course, the longer it goes,the more chance you have to risk
it spreading and it decreasesyour survival rate.
Stage three is a tumor greaterthan four centimeters or spread
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to one of the lymph nodes.
When we do your oral cancerscreening, we're checking your
lymph nodes, your submandibularglands and your submandibular
lymph nodes to make sure they'renot swollen, because that could
be a sign of infection, oralcancer a lot of different things
.
They're like a check, like asafety check, and then stage
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four is the last stage, which isadvanced, spread to lymph nodes
and other organs, and this iswhen it becomes like almost
impossible to cure.
Oral cancer can develop quietlyover months or years.
This is why early detection iscritical, guys, for oral cancer
awareness.
But if you notice a lump, asore or patch in your mouth that
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doesn't heal after two weeks,two weeks now, go see your
dentist immediately.
Don't even play with it.
Catch it early, treat it fasterand raise your survival odds.
These are tumors that start inthe mouth.
Get back to living your bestlife and being unapologetic.
Be you regardless of people.
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Love you, they're gonna loveyou.
They're gonna hate you.
They're gonna talk about you.
They're like you, they gonna.
Don't even worry about it.
Just be you regardless.
Just be you.
Do you?
Be creative?
Have clarity about your life.
Stop playing with yourself.
Say it with me tonight.
Guys, I am not a slave toscreens.
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I am addicted to success.
We are not slaves to technology.
We are not slaves to pseudohistory.
We are not slaves topseudo-history, but we are
addicted to success and to thetruth and finding out who we are
.
All right, so day 13 is in thebag.
This is Dr Sean reporting.
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Live from hood to hood.
Let's keep breakinggenerational curses, building
habits and rising to the top.
It's about progress.
Niiji, peace, power andprogress.
Peace, power and progress.
This is Dr Chieftess sunflower.
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Make sure you guys follow meand let's continue to grow.
Thank you for supporting and Iwill see you guys later.
This is Dr Chieftess Sunflower coming to you live for
another episode of the Hood toHooded Podcast, where we are
breaking generational curses dayby day, inch by inch, cinch by
cinch.
Tonight's episode has threepowerful segments.
(00:21):
We are continuing on withchapters 15 to 17 of Eat that
Frog and we are talking abouttoxic tech trap how technology
can trap you if you do notcontrol it.
You have to manage your timewhile I'm on this journey so we
can grow together and learn howto overcome procrastination,
(00:45):
because procrastination makes itso that you can't even level up
, because you always wait untiltomorrow.
Tomorrow it's not.
What about today.
What about today, my friend?
Are we getting it done today?
Are we procrastinating?
Are we eating that frog?
Eat that frog, chapters 15through 17.
(01:09):
It says the main thing wastechnology.
It was about technology beingyour best friend or your worst
enemy.
Everything is about technologynowadays, especially in the
influencer space.
Obsessive need to communicatecontinually is what is going on
(01:30):
in today's society.
Everybody has this obsessionwith just having the phone in
their hands, whether they'redriving, walking everywhere, on
vacation, at the dinner table.
It's a compulsive need to stayplugged in and it leaves us
psychologically breathless.
Now that's something that'slike kind of scary for something
(01:51):
to leave you psychologicallybreathless because you never
have time to stop and smell theroses.
We live in a world where thecompulsion to stay plugged in is
costing us clarity, creativityand peace.
It's costing us a lot Our clearvision for the future, how we
(02:13):
create and just peace.
That's the ultimate goal in mylife is just to have some peace,
like peace of mind.
Studies show that people whocheck their people check their
phones 46 to 85 times per dayand I'm sure it's probably a
little bit higher than when thisbook was written.
It's probably in the hundreds.
(02:35):
Just picking it up, making it ahabit.
It says the habit is tied toincreased stress, memory loss,
adhd symptoms and evenalzheimer's risk.
It's definitely having sometype of impact on your brain
technology and that's why, again, our phones have monitors where
(02:56):
you can know your watch time ondifferent apps and social
medias.
Because you get into the habitof just strolling and not
creating strolling and nothaving clarity about your life
or even peace, because we're toobusy watching other people and
what other people got going onall day.
It's okay to check in sometimes, but just all day.
(03:18):
It's costing you a lot mentalhealth problems.
That's scary stress.
If you stressing out, try todetox digitally and see how that
changes your life.
I like try to consciously detoxevery day.
Like putting my phone down.
It's busy.
When you have a business oryou're an influencer, you
(03:40):
technology is everything, butstill throughout the day or
throughout the week, it's soimportant to make time to detox
and clear your head.
They did a study and they foundthat CEOs who unplugged for
just 48 hours reported bettermemory, deeper relationships,
better sleep and clarity.
Memory, deeper relationships,better sleep and clarity.
(04:04):
Just two days of just digitaldetox increases your brain's
performance.
So that way you can get backinto balance and in tune with
who you are.
You can get in tune with justfeeling better and having more
energy and being more positiveand optimistic.
We talked about optimisticpeople yesterday and how they
(04:27):
accomplish more.
We're optimistic people need todetox in order to keep that
optimism at an ultimate level.
If you want to be successful,be optimistic and do things at a
high proficiency Meaning, learnhow to control your peace and
your mind and technology.
(04:48):
That's why I says technology isa terrible master.
That's the name of this chaptertechnology being your best
friend or it can be your worstenemy, especially on a young
mind that is exposed to so muchtechnology nowadays.
Dce also participated in thisstudy.
They found that they have anincreased likelihood to make
(05:13):
life transforming decisions whenyou have a clear head.
Clearing your mind, getting intoyour zen, is so important.
When you are too plugged in,it's a destructive addiction.
It's a destructive addiction.
It's a destructive addictionthat controls your time.
You wake up obsessively tryingto check your phone or just
leaving the bed, and it saysthat people are just always
(05:36):
picking it up.
And I'm guilty of this too.
I'm guilty of getting into thathabit.
But being also aware, aware, aslong as we are aware, guys, and
we are growing and we readthese things, we're learning
these things, deciphering whatwe can use to help us have a
higher quality of life.
(05:57):
Peace is everything we want tolevel up, but we also want to
protect our peace and our energy.
Okay, apply the 80-20 rule toyour email.
Unsubscribe from 80% of thethings that really don't have
anything to do with your goalsthey're not of important
significance and then respondimmediately to the 4% that are
(06:19):
urgent and schedule time to dothe rest.
That way, you're notoverstimulating your brain.
It also mentions to turn offnon-essential notifications so
you're not obligated to beavailable 24-7.
You got to make time to getback to you, especially if you
deal with mental health problems.
(06:40):
You don't want to beoverstimulated health problems.
You don't want to be overstimulated and that's important
because just last year Irealized my phone was giving me
way too many notifications fromevery social media platform and
that's just too much.
So I turned all mynotifications off.
I was like you know what?
No, I'm too overstimulated.
(07:02):
I'm always checking to see.
Now I control when the hell Iwant to go and check my
notifications and then I have itset to a certain time of day.
And now that I did that, Idon't even pay attention to the
certain time of day.
I think the issue now is tojust break the habit of going on
there myself, because itbecomes obsessive.
(07:24):
You want to spend your timehaving clarity, peace and also
just focusing on creating.
Get back to your creativity.
Create a separate line foremergency only for your like
elders and for your kids.
You definitely want to have anemergency line for important
(07:45):
people in your life so they canalways reach you and in your
calendar schedule, 90 minutefocus blocks followed by a 15
minute reset.
So an hour and a half to knockout your major task if you have
homework or if you have aproject due, or if you're trying
to start a business and youhave some tasks to knock off to
(08:06):
get it done, or even in yourbusiness.
Not schedule an hour and a halfand just get it done.
Take a 15 minute break, doanother hour and a half and then
check your email and do thoseextracurricular online things.
Don't drown in a world of infoexchange.
Take your time back, and that'swhat I'm about like taking my
(08:29):
time back.
Refuse to be a slave.
Don't allow emails to controlyour time.
Delete them accordingly.
If you have something important, guess what?
Somebody is going to let youknow.
When there's an emergency inthe family, somebody is going to
let you know.
And then we go to chapter 16,which is technology is a
wonderful servant.
It's supposed to make our lifeeasier.
(08:51):
I am a fan of technology.
I love ai, I love in dentistry.
I just love updated scannersand photography.
I just love having access tomake things easier.
I'm all about technology, butyou don't want it to control you
.
You still want to be in yourown zen and detox from
(09:13):
technology.
It's supposed to make our lifeeasier, not complex, confused or
stressful.
Take control of yourcommunications.
Clear your digital digitalworkspace.
Close every window not neededto do your tasks, block websites
that are distracting you anddisable smartphone notifications
when you are trying to sit downand do your work.
(09:35):
Don't have all these tabs open.
When I'm in my doctor mode, Itend to have about 15 tabs open,
maybe 10, but I feel like I'musing them all and I don't know
it, just it's like I need toomany tabs.
This is saying have claritywhen you're doing work.
That's why you work from a tasklist and not things off in a
(09:57):
list with order of importance.
Take control of your time whenyou're a calendar.
Make your calendar also yourservant and schedule large
blocks of time to complete atask, like a digital to-do list
will help you complete your task.
Take control of your emotionsusing technology.
(10:18):
Take control of your emotionsusing technology, emotions using
technology, because many peoplefail to make technology their
servant, because they faillearning a new skill.
They avoid the phrase I can't,no matter your age, race or
gender.
(10:39):
Focus your attention, and I feellike that's what this challenge
is all about.
And I feel like that's whatthis challenge is all about.
If you are doing a 365 daychallenge and you decide to do
something every day for 365 days, then that's so amazing that
(10:59):
you can rewire your brain todeclutter and get back focused
with clarity, peace, disciplineand consistency.
I saw a video today of thislady lady I think she was in her
90s still stretching, doingyoga, very flexible.
That really motivated me toalso tap into the health portion
of this eating better,stretching, yoga, pilates and
(11:21):
making time and stamping outtime for those activities as
well, because we want to stayhealthy.
Health is wealth period Healthof the mind and of the body and
of your spirits, all levels.
Focus attention is key to highperformance.
(11:43):
Focusing your attention, whereyour attention goes.
That depends on how you perform.
Attraction of distraction.
You will always attract somedistraction.
Distractions are diffusedattention, wandering mind, lack
of focus, underachievement andfailure.
Underachievement and failure.
(12:07):
Whenever you have attraction ofdistraction any of these things
your brain kind ofunderperforms.
It kind of inhibits you fromgrowing.
Current research shows that ifyou constantly, or if we
constantly, respond to email,phone calls and texts, it has a.
It decreases our attention spanand makes it difficult to
(12:31):
complete tasks when we areconstantly stimulated.
This is how an addiction totechnology or emails or those
notifications hinder you fromgrowing and damage your brain.
For instance, checking youremail first thing in the morning
, you get that buzz of dopamine.
(12:52):
You get to see what yournotifications are, it's all
stimulating you and it makes ithard for you to pay attention
for the rest of the day.
I did not know this.
And then it says themultitasking illusion People can
only focus on one task at atime.
I'm guilty of multitasking justbecause, if you can, if you,
your short staff, are juststarting the business.
(13:14):
You got to do multiple tasks,so I get it.
Multitasking is an illusion,but sometimes that's the only
way.
But it says multitasking.
It's called task shifting,meaning you are shifting your
attention back and forth versuscompleting one task and then
moving on to the next task, andthen, after you get the next
task and then after you get aninternet interruption, such as a
(13:35):
notification from your phone orfrom an app, it takes you 17
minutes to refocus your energy.
A proven solution is to checkyour email at 11am and then 3pm
and then turn your notificationsoff.
You can set your own time.
It could be 6 am and 6 pm orwhatever time you want, but just
basically twice per day, versusall day just checking all
(14:00):
notifications.
You can even set your iphone todo this, to send you like a
summary of notifications at acertain time.
So just look into that when yougo to your settings in your
iPhone and customize yournotifications so that way you're
not just stimulated all day andnight with shit.
(14:20):
Let's end this with finding outa way to double our productivity
.
Guys Because that's what we'reabout on this podcast is
doubling productivity, growingevery day, showing up and living
our best life, beingunapologetic.
So are you ready to double yourproductivity today?
(14:42):
So double our productivity.
Plan your day in advance.
Number one.
Number two select the mostimportant task to do first.
Do it for 90 minutes, take a 15minute break and do it for 90
more minutes until it's done andcheck your emails only once
you're finished with doing yourmost important task.
(15:05):
That's it for this little bookreview.
This second, this segment, isthe Niiji reset.
The Niiji reset stepping backfrom stimulation.
So Niiji, this world is overstimulating on purpose.
It is designed to keep usreacting and not reflecting, and
(15:29):
I've been guilty too.
That's why I turned off all ofmy notifications.
I don't want the phone decidingwhat my brain should do.
I want to be present and onpurpose and continuing to learn
about my history, my genealogy,our indigenous status, our
melanin and just how powerful weare as indigenous copper-toned
(15:53):
people of Turtle Island Feathersup my Niiji tonight.
This is a moment to step backand find many challenges to help
us with our spiritual growth.
Getting in my Dr Cheap, thissunflower mold.
We are not even in a rushtonight.
As we go into this second partof this live, I want us to take
(16:19):
a moment, just to take a coupleof deep breaths.
Stretch your neck from side toside.
If you have any tension in yourbrain or in your mind or in
your body, in your spirit today,just wiggle it out.
Continue to breathe nice anddeep, rotate your shoulders and
(16:45):
just stretch.
Guys, you need to have thesemoments of just releasing
everything at least once a day.
Detox your energy.
Okay, my Niiji, don't beoverstimulated, unless you
overstimulated with things thataren't keeping us in the matrix.
(17:06):
We got to get out of the matrix.
We got to take back control ofthe things we learn,
understanding who we are anduncovering the truth, even
though it might be hard,especially on those holidays.
It's hard if your family has atradition of celebrating.
(17:26):
It can be different for you,but just stand on business and
know who you are.
I'm rocking this florida statesweater.
This is Florida State Seminoles.
They had a tragedy last yearwith a shooter on campus.
This is a Seminole logo.
They changed this logo.
They added they made it a whiteman versus the real Seminoles
(17:51):
copper tone.
So it's things like this is agift from my cousin, so I still
wear it as an alumni, but I amaware that the hijack my Niiji.
So this is why we have overstimulated with pseudo history
and just keep our marinesgrowing, flowing and detoxing on
(18:19):
every level, not just withtechnology, but on pseudo
history.
We have to also detox on thatand step back from being over
stimulated with the news, withpolitics, fear tactics, with
just living in a state of alwaysstimulated from social media.
Everything is just on 10nowadays.
(18:42):
So how about we just step back,get a good routine in, do some
yoga, elevate your life, get upin the morning, don't check your
phone so fast.
Don't get out of that addictionof getting on social media ASAP
.
Control your time, control yourmind, control your knowledge,
control your creativity.
(19:03):
Go paint something, go and justsit and stare at the ocean.
Go, take some pictures.
Do something that you reallylove.
That gets you back in tune withwho you are my Niiji.
That's how we go from hood tohood and hood it to Niiji.
10 ways to detox from the worldtoday 10 ways.
(19:24):
We already talked about one atthe beginning of this whole
podcast live.
The first way is to turn off allapp notifications for 24 hours,
but I challenge you to justturn them off period.
Be like me.
I just turned them suckers off.
I got tired of all the notice.
Leave me, let me have my peace.
(19:45):
I'm in my chief.
This mode.
I need to have peace.
The ultimate peace is my goaland controlling my time.
Turning those notifications offfor at least 24 hours.
If you can't do without it,then I get it.
Just 24 hours.
Just try 24 hours of takingyour time back, just one day.
Number two delete three appsthat waste your time.
(20:08):
Social media is a waste of timeperiod If you're not using it
for business or to level up orfollowing something positive, or
if you're following things thatpoison your brain and just keep
you strolling recklessly.
Delete those three apps.
Take control of your time back.
Number three go fall free forthe first hour of your morning.
(20:30):
The first hour in the morning,do a stretch, drink some water,
make you a smoothie bowl, don'tcheck your phone.
Go use the bathroom, brush yourteeth, floss your teeth.
The first hour in the morningwe're going to get up and not
check the phone.
Like self-care hour, name thatthe self-care hour.
(20:52):
I want to write that down theself-care hour baby.
Call that the self-care hour,the self-care hour, the
self-care hour.
Number four meditate for 10minutes.
Meditate for 10 minutes, just10 minutes.
10 minutes to take your mindback, take control in your
(21:15):
thoughts, just sit by yourself.
You can do with music.
You can go on the apps and findmeditation music, or you can do
a silent meditation.
I'm a fan of the silentmeditation, but if you live in a
noisy environment, the musicmay help you get into your
peaceful mindset, but what youdo is when you meditate.
It can be any place, anywhere,anytime, when you just need to
(21:38):
detox from the world.
It's recommended that you do itin the morning.
You have your hour of self-careno phone, no tablet, no,
nothing, just you in your ownzen and you just wake up 10
minutes of meditation, deepbreathing Eyes closed, clear
thoughts.
Deep breathing Eyes, closed,clear thoughts.
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Then you can stretch, drinksome water and get into your
positive energy, your positivevibes.
Number five Unfollow fiveaccounts that trigger negativity
.
If you have somebody on yourfollowers list that you're
following and every time youstroll past their name You're
like dang, they're just sonegative.
Their energy just always liketrigger me in a negative way,
(22:24):
just go ahead and unfollow them.
It's not worth your mindset,it's not worth consuming that
negativity every single day.
It's just not worth it.
Number six journal your thoughtsinstead of tweeting them out.
Get you a little journal.
You see my little journal, mydream journal.
I just use this to take noteson when I'm reading a book like
(22:45):
Eat that Frog, or make a list ofmy day, or just a journal.
You can journal digitally.
I have an app that I think iscalled Journal and you can
journal instead of time tojournal, instead of tweeting,
and you can journal and set atime to journal instead of
tweeting.
This will help you declutteryour thoughts versus putting it
out publicly, especially if youdeal with depression and all
(23:08):
those mental health problems.
It'll be a great way for you tocontrol your thoughts and your
time.
Number seven go outside withoutyour phone.
Go take a walk on the beach,leave your phone in the car and
just go smell the roses, go lookat the flowers, go listen to
the birds, go fishing.
Go outside without your phone.
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That's a challenge I knownowadays.
Number eight spend one hour insilence.
How many of us can spend onehour just in silence?
I tend to do that in themorning when I wake up.
I like to just get up insilence and a lot of times your
best thoughts come when you justdetach from people for a moment
(23:52):
, from technology for a moment,and you just take back control,
baby.
You take back control of whoyou are, of your time, and you
just sit in silence.
Number nine watch the sunrise orthe sunset.
Now, me, I love watching thesunrise.
I wish I could watch thesunrise every single day, like
(24:16):
it would be an ultimate dreamfor me to live in san diego on
the coast, even though I wouldbe afraid of earthquakes.
But to be in san diego on thecoast, near sunset cliff, and
just to watch the sunrise, likeevery morning, drinking wine,
just even a couple times a year,that I would love, love, love
(24:38):
to do that, and one day.
That may happen, but I have didthat for my birthday.
Probably three years ago, Iwent to San Diego, to Sunset
Cliff, and watched the sunriseon my birthday.
That was amazing, or even asunset nothing like a nice
sunset.
And number 10 read one chapterof a physical book.
(24:59):
Now, if you've been in thisfollowing this podcast, that
means we've been reading morethan one chapter.
We've been.
We are almost done with thewhole book of eat that frog.
Just read one chapter to getyour brain back, focused on
something tangible other thanlike technology.
(25:21):
Those are 10 mini challenges,my challenges, my niji, for us
to do so.
Let's break it down againwithout all the added response.
So, number one turn off all appnotifications for 24 hours.
Number two delete three appsthat waste your time.
Number three go phone free forthe first hour of your morning,
(25:42):
which is our self-care hour.
Number four meditate for 10minutes.
Number five unfollow fiveaccounts that trigger negativity
.
Number six journal yourthoughts instead of tweeting
them.
Number seven go outside withoutyour phone.
Number eight spend one hour insilence.
Number nine watch the sunriseor sunset.
And number 10, read one chapterof a physical book.
Now here's a spiritual push.
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My Niiji, you can't hear yourcalling through constant noise.
You just can't.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
You just can't.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
So step back, recharge, realign.
You can't hear your callingthrough constant noise.
So step back, recharge, realign.
(26:23):
And you are not behind.
You are being reminded of yourgreatness.
Okay, my Niiji, be remindedabout the greatness that lives
(26:44):
within you so we can get back,realign and refocus and use
these jewels to go from hood tohooded to hooded.
I hope that segment reallyencourages us remember how
important peace of mind is andit gives us some tangible
challenges and I want you guysto pick one challenge to do to
detox and step back from theoverstimulation.
Take back our time and our mind.
(27:06):
Yes, it's about learning who weare, doing your genealogy, just
staying on point with breakingthe generational curses, undoing
the reclassification that hasbeen done, undoing the
pseudo-history has been done andundoing the pseudo history that
is being forced down our throat.
Despite that fact, we stillmust control our peace because
(27:28):
sometimes it can beoverstimulating.
When I first discovered all ofthis information about being
indigenous and how history hasbeen hijacked, it was
mind-boggling, but at the sametime, we still must learn this.
But it's okay to step backrecharge, realign.
(27:51):
Let's get into our dentalsegments.
Shout out to all my Niiji, allmy beautiful people who are
brushing and flossing every day.
If you are not brushing andflossing every day, then let's
do a little bit better.
We've been focused on OralCancer Awareness Month.
(28:14):
I want us to know the stages oforal cancer, so let's continue
to educate ourselves on thestages.
There are four, five stages,but one of them is stage zero.
Stage zero is carcinoma in situ, so this is pre-cancer and it's
highly treatable.
Stage zero Stage one is a tumorless than two centimeters and no
(28:38):
spread.
It has an 80 to 90 survivalrate.
That's why, when you go todentists, we perform oral cancer
screenings just to see if youhave any lesions in your mouth
that may look like oral cancer.
Oral cancer is what puts you ata high risk is poor oral
hygiene, which is why you wantto brush and floss your teeth
and get your cleanings smoking,drinking alcohol and human
(29:01):
papillomavirus.
Stage two is a tumor two tofour centimeters, with no spread
.
Of course, the longer it goes,the more chance you have to risk
it spreading and it decreasesyour survival rate.
Stage three is a tumor greaterthan four centimeters or spread
(29:23):
to one of the lymph nodes.
When we do your oral cancerscreening, we're checking your
lymph nodes, your submandibularglands and your submandibular
lymph nodes to make sure they'renot swollen, because that could
be a sign of infection, oralcancer a lot of different things
.
They're like a check, like asafety check, and then stage
(29:47):
four is the last stage, which isadvanced, spread to lymph nodes
and other organs, and this iswhen it becomes like almost
impossible to cure.
Oral cancer can develop quietlyover months or years.
This is why early detection iscritical, guys, for oral cancer
awareness.
But if you notice a lump, asore or patch in your mouth that
(30:11):
doesn't heal after two weeks,two weeks now, go see your
dentist immediately.
Don't even play with it.
Catch it early, treat it fasterand raise your survival odds.
These are tumors that start inthe mouth.
Get back to living your bestlife and being unapologetic.
Be you regardless of people.
(30:33):
Love you, they're gonna loveyou.
They're gonna hate you.
They're gonna talk about you.
They're like you, they gonna.
Don't even worry about it.
Just be you regardless.
Just be you.
Do you?
Be creative?
Have clarity about your life.
Stop playing with yourself.
Say it with me tonight.
Guys, I am not a slave toscreens.
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I am addicted to success.
We are not slaves to technology.
We are not slaves to pseudohistory.
We are not slaves topseudo-history, but we are
addicted to success and to thetruth and finding out who we are
.
All right, so day 13 is in thebag.
This is Dr Sean reporting.
(31:14):
Live from hood to hood.
Let's keep breakinggenerational curses, building
habits and rising to the top.
It's about progress.
Niiji, peace, power andprogress.
Peace, power and progress.
This is Dr Chieftess sunflower.
(31:35):
Make sure you guys follow meand let's continue to grow.
Thank you for supporting and Iwill see you guys later.
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