June 12, 2025 • 17 mins
We explore the challenging reality of consistency that most motivational speakers don't address—showing up when your body is exhausted, your mind is cloudy, but your soul still wants to win.
• Only 3% of people write down their goals and dreams
• Most people quit around day 16 or week 2 when the initial excitement fades
• Winners distinguish themselves by continuing even when tired or struggling
• The book "Never Eat Alone" discusses networking and relationship-building for success, especially for those without established connections
• Oral cancer has an 84% five-year survival rate when caught early
• Dogs rarely get cavities because they consume less sugar than humans
• Electric toothbrushes are more effective than manual ones for removing plaque
• Consistency isn't about being perfect—it's about showing up even during difficult days
• Self-love means being honest about your feelings while still moving with intention
Stand on business about your goals and dreams, even when it's hard. Show up for yourself, even on your most difficult days.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Hood to Hooded podcast and I'm going to
keep it all the way real, allthe way.
I'm tired today.
This is the part that peopledon't talk about when they say
just be consistent, right.
They don't talk about thenights where your body is on E,
your mind is cloudy and yoursoul still wants you to win.
(00:20):
They don't talk about that.
I feel like my body is on ebecause it's been a long day
working as a doctor and runninga dental practice and jen just
feeling exhausted on top ofhomesick.
My mind is on cloud becausejust tired, but I still want to
win.
I still want to freaking showup.
So that's why I'm here tonight,because I ain't no quitter.
(00:45):
Our first segment of the nightis going to be called Don't Quit
Now.
This is a topic that I chosebecause why most people give up
at this point in consistencyjourney?
Why do most people give up?
This is the part where mostpeople tap out, not the
beginning, not when it's cuteand new.
(01:07):
It's the moment, right here,day 16, week 2, that first month
.
It's so easier when life hitsfor you to just tap out on your
goals, tap out on your dreams,all that excitement that you had
in the beginning, my Niji.
It kind of dissipates you like,dang, I'm tired, too tired to
(01:28):
accomplish my goals today.
Yep, this is when most peoplequit.
So that's why it's called don'tquit.
You too close to turn aroundnow.
Don't turn around now you canget your momentum.
Yesterday we talked aboutgetting over that inertia, all
the energy it takes to start,like tonight.
(01:49):
Do y'all know what separates thewinners from the wishers?
They keep going.
People who wish three percentof people write their goals and
dreams out.
We want to be in that mix.
I'm trying to tell you we don'twant to be in the mix of just
wishing and praying on a fantasy.
That's what separates thewinners from the wishers, those
(02:11):
3% of winners.
They keep going anyway, even ifit's messy, even if you have
low energy, even if you'rebarely holding it together,
because showing up tired isstill showing up too.
So to anybody out there intwitch world or around the world
(02:33):
, my message for this segment isdo not q u I t on yourself, do
not quit, not today, nottomorrow, not next week, not
next month, not ever in yourlife.
Quit on yourself and not onyour goals.
And yes, we must rest, butremember sometimes, when we make
(02:55):
goals, you got to eitheraccomplish your goals or get
rest.
And I'm not saying don't getrest, that's not what I'm saying
.
But if you pick a goal thatrequires you to go extra hard,
then you just got to do what yougot to do.
We always gonna throw in dentalschool, because dental school
is one of those experienceswhere you just got to go hard,
like even when you're tired, youjust got to wake up and go hard
(03:17):
and have that momentum and thatability to never quit, even
when your brain feel tired ashell.
The first, first paragraph ofNever Eat Alone the first
section of this book, never EatAlone is about the mindset.
We just finished Eat that Frogtalking about procrastination,
(03:40):
all the different jewels toovercome procrastination and to
keep that momentum for yourdreams and your goals.
So this book that we'retackling now is all about
networking for success andrelationship secrets.
This is important when you'regoing from hood to hood to
tackle those relationships andto learn how to get better at
(04:00):
them.
We all can get better atrelationships.
Section one, the mindsetmindset.
First chapter is becoming amember of the club.
Becoming a member of the club,becoming a member of the club
relationships are all there is.
Everything in the universe onlyexists because in relationships
to, in relationship toeverything else, nothing exists
(04:22):
in isolation.
We have to stop pretending weare individuals that can go its
alone.
And that's Margaret Wheatley.
And then the first.
I'll just read the first page.
I kept asking myself in thoseearly days as an overwhelmed
first year student at HarvardBusiness School.
The guy who wrote this bookwent to Harvard Business School.
We're getting a little insightfrom Harvard.
(04:44):
It said there wasn't a singleaccounting or finance class in
my background.
Looking around me, I sawruthlessly focused young men and
women who had undergraduatedegrees in business.
They'd gone on to crunchnumbers or analyze spreadsheets
in the finance firms on wallstreet.
(05:04):
Most were from wealthy familiesand had pedigrees and legacies
and roman numerals in theirnames.
Sure I was intimidated.
How was a guy like me from aworking class family with a
liberal arts degree, in a coupleyears of at a traditional
manufacturing company, going tocompete with per breads from
(05:25):
McKinsey and Goldman Sachs who,from my perspective, seem as if
they've been computing businessdata in their cribs?
It was a defining moment in mylife, in my career, in my life.
I was a country boy fromsouthwestern Pennsylvania,
raised in a small, hard-working,still in cold town outside of
(05:45):
Latrobe called Youngstown.
Our region was so rural youcouldn't see another house from
the porch of our modest home.
My father worked in the localsteel mill and on weekends he'd
do construction.
My mother cleaned the homes ofthe doctors and lawyers in the
nearby town.
My brother escaped small townlife by way of the army.
(06:06):
My sister got married in highschool and moved out when I was
a toddler, and we're gonna stopthere.
Just that first page alone givesus a lot of insight about this
guy who wrote this book and howhe came from not having those
relationships, not having legacy, which is like a lot of us
(06:26):
coming from hood to hood.
We don't have pedigree, wedon't have legacy.
I remember my first time evenhearing about legacy really was
when I was trying to get intodental school.
There's something called legacy.
If you have a father or motherwho has been in the dental
program and they groom you to gointo the program, that's called
Legacy because you're carryingon the legacy.
(06:47):
But one person has to make itthrough for the legacy to even
start.
For me, going through dentalschool, I had to make it through
for me to break thegenerational curse for my family
, for my legacy to even begin.
That first paragraph or thatfirst page really hits home.
Hopefully we can continue todive into this book and get some
(07:10):
more meat and potatoes.
I wanted to talk about how oralcancer is treated.
Is it deadly and what is thesurvival rate?
How is oral cancer treated?
One of the ways is surgery toremove the ulcers or the
cancerous tissue, which is whyyou want to catch it early,
before it spreads and it's, andthen you lose a lot of the
tissue because it does spread.
(07:30):
Number two is radiation therapyto kill the cancerous cells in
the area.
Number three, chemo.
And we all know chemo is likepoison to the body if it spreads
or if it's very aggressive.
Chemo is really tough and a lotof people struggle with that
and sometimes immunotherapy andtargeted drug therapy, just like
(07:52):
most cancers radiation, chemoand trying to stop it from
spreading.
That's the same way you treatoral cancer.
Is it deadly?
Like many cancers, earlydetection is important if If you
catch it early, it increasesyour chances of survival by 80
to 90%.
But if you don't, then thechances rapidly decline because
(08:14):
it's such an aggressive disease.
The five-year survival rate forearly stage oral cancer is 84%.
If it's caught late thosenumbers drop significantly and
most people ignore those earlysigns.
Awareness is everything.
If you get a sore in your mouththat does not heal, it lasts
(08:35):
for longer than two weeks,bleeds easily.
Yesterday we had some goodquestions from our tribe about
do dogs get cavities?
I told you, yes, but it is rarefor dogs to get cavities
because guess why?
That's why you really don'thear about it, unless the dog
has the same thing that causescavities in humans is just the
(08:58):
same as the cavities in dogs.
They don't eat as much sugar asus.
They don't eat a lot of candy.
You don't see dogs eatingsnickers.
You don't see dogs drinking redbull because they naturally eat
less sugar.
They rarely get cavities.
They bite and shoot.
Yes, they rarely get cavitiesand their mouths have more
(09:19):
natural bacteria balance thanours.
Isn't that crazy.
But if they eat a lot ofprocessed foods, treats or have
poor oral hygiene, yes, they candevelop decay.
They can, and dogs can havedental extractions, cleanings,
root canals done with anesthesia.
If you have a pet out there,just buy them treats that clean
(09:44):
their teeth naturally.
But if anything, just don't buythem a lot of processed treats.
I don't own a dog.
I imagine they do have somesweet treats for dogs.
I went to the dentist when I wasa kid and it was a fun memory.
It should be a fun memory, like.
A lot of people have terribleexperiences at the dentist and
I'm trying to figure out why thedentist is turning out mean.
(10:08):
I actually work with a dentistmy second job as an associate
with this guy.
He was one of the meanestdentists I have ever experienced
in my life.
I couldn't even work there thatlong.
So there are some mean dentistsbut there are also some very
pleasant denses and if you go tothe denses as a kid, you're
(10:28):
probably getting the pediatricdenses and they are extra.
Enamel doesn't regenerate, butearly stage demineralization can
be reversed.
It doesn't like regenerate onceyour enamel is formed but you
can stop it from demineralizingby using fluoride to help
strengthen the enamel andsupport remineralization.
The last thing we talked aboutyesterday that I wanted to hit
(10:51):
on is the electric toothbrushversus the manual toothbrush.
Both work pretty good as longas you're brushing properly, but
electric toothbrushes arealways going to be more
effective at removing the plaque.
You can't spin as fast as anelectric toothbrush.
You can't move the toothbrushas fast.
(11:12):
Timers also help you brush theproper time.
Most toothbrushes will tell youhey, you didn't do the two
minutes and then it'll give youa sad face.
And electric toothbrushes aregood for people who have
mobility issues, braces or poortechnique, which is a lot of us
have poor oral hygiene technique.
Manual brushes work fine butrequire perfect technique and
(11:35):
more effort.
If you can afford an electrictoothbrush, definitely try to
get one.
But if you can't, make sure youstill brush twice per day.
Circular motions, 45 degreeangle at the gum line Make sure
you brush at the gum line.
Soft bristle toothbrush this isdiscipline at its finest.
(11:56):
It was my idea to do thischallenge because, number one, I
really want to be a streamer.
But as a dental professional,that's a hard task, especially
running a dental practice.
That's a hard task, especiallyrunning a dental practice.
That makes it even harderbecause at the end of the day, I
still have a lot of paperworkto do, a lot of things going on,
but I didn't want to get intothe mindset of just not doing
(12:18):
what I want to do.
I like streaming.
I enjoy streaming, even thoughsometimes it gets difficult.
I know that in order to be astreamer, you got to show up
every day, or at least a lot.
So I say, you know what?
I'm going to challenge myselfto see if I could do one hour a
day something that I really like, without quitting and not
letting dentistry overtake everypart of me, because dentistry
(12:40):
has a way of just consumingevery part of you and, as a
dentist, you have to beconsuming your work.
I want to do somethingdifferent.
As a dentist, you have to beconsuming your work.
I want to do somethingdifferent.
Step outside of the box, getonline, use my oral hygiene
education, reach people aroundthe world, save teeth globally.
Build my community, a communitythat shows up for me and where
(13:02):
I can show up.
I read something where it saidhow do you want to build an
audience or a community ofsupporters or a tribe when you
don't even show up?
You can't take days off fromyour tribe, like you can't take
days off from communication.
So that hit home for me.
So I said you know what I'mshowing up, regardless Whenever
my tribe, get here, I will behere.
I have to really develop myconsistency muscle, guys,
(13:22):
because yes, I'm a doctor, butwhat is a doctor if you can't be
consistent.
I can't let my consistencymuscle atrophy.
We cannot let our consistencymuscle atrophy.
That means get weak, lose allthe nutrients and the minerals
and just drift away.
A lot of people just let theirconsistency, their discipline,
(13:44):
their self-esteem, theirself-love all the things that
build character, just disappear.
Because it's sometimes it'shard.
Sometimes it is hard.
Showing up here ain't easy and Iwant y'all to know that it's
not easy to show up every day.
But anything easy may not beworth having.
Sometimes you got to do somethings that aren't too easy.
(14:05):
Get you out of your comfortzone, and that's what it's all.
Get you out of your comfortzone, and that's what it's all
about.
Getting out of that comfortzone.
I didn't have all the energy,but guess what you got?
To have heart.
That's all I need to go live isto have heart and have fun.
All these other requirements.
That's why I honestly also didthe consistency project, because
I didn't want to get in my ownhead like, okay, but what am I
(14:26):
going to say?
Am I consistency project?
Because I didn't want to get inmy own head like, okay, but
what am I gonna say?
Am I gonna have the perfectwords to say?
Am I gonna have the perfectback.
I just wanted to show up.
That's what consistency isshowing up, and sometimes that's
the hardest thing to do.
It's weird when you overcome oneof your hard days and I imagine
I'll have more hard days andhonestly I was missing my mom a
(14:47):
lot today because I can't justpick up the phone and call her.
I can't just like bask in hermomminess and, being eight years
old losing her, I don't thinkI'll ever heal that part of me.
So some days that depressiontries to sneak back in, that
sadness tries to sneak back inon my hard days and I just start
(15:10):
to miss my mom.
So I'm a work in progress forthe rest of my life when it
comes to that.
If anybody out there has everlost a mom or ever lost a parent
or somebody that you reallylove, especially at such a young
age, then you can feel my pain.
That's another reason why todaywas hard and bittersweet.
(15:30):
That's why being consistentisn't about being perfect, it's
about showing up, and it meansloving yourself enough to show
up even when you are struggling.
And self-love is being honestwith how you feel and still
moving with intentions.
Today I'm honest with how Ifeel, but I'm still moving with
intention and still not lettingit rob me of my peace, my
(15:50):
happiness or my joy.
Don't let your mood todaydictate your destiny.
Every day is a new day.
So tomorrow it will be a newday and you can just show up for
yourself, tired, but just don'tghost yourself.
Don't ghost your audience.
This is Dr yourself.
Don't ghost your audience.
(16:10):
This is Dr Cheetah's Sunflower.
I see you to all my out thereon Turtle Island.
I hope you guys have awonderful night.
I send you positive vibes andif you can't show up for
yourself, just let me be areminder that you can do
anything you put your mind to.
Shift your mindset today.
Show up for yourself, even whenit's hard, even when you have
those difficult days.
Stand on business about yourgoals, your dreams, your
(16:31):
business, whatever you want todo in life.
Stand on business about it.
Thank you for joining me and Iwill see you guys tomorrow.
Peace out, guys.
This is the Hood to Hooded podcast and I'm going to
keep it all the way real, allthe way.
I'm tired today.
This is the part that peopledon't talk about when they say
just be consistent, right.
They don't talk about thenights where your body is on E,
your mind is cloudy and yoursoul still wants you to win.
(00:20):
They don't talk about that.
I feel like my body is on ebecause it's been a long day
working as a doctor and runninga dental practice and jen just
feeling exhausted on top ofhomesick.
My mind is on cloud becausejust tired, but I still want to
win.
I still want to freaking showup.
So that's why I'm here tonight,because I ain't no quitter.
(00:45):
Our first segment of the nightis going to be called Don't Quit
Now.
This is a topic that I chosebecause why most people give up
at this point in consistencyjourney?
Why do most people give up?
This is the part where mostpeople tap out, not the
beginning, not when it's cuteand new.
(01:07):
It's the moment, right here,day 16, week 2, that first month
.
It's so easier when life hitsfor you to just tap out on your
goals, tap out on your dreams,all that excitement that you had
in the beginning, my Niji.
It kind of dissipates you like,dang, I'm tired, too tired to
(01:28):
accomplish my goals today.
Yep, this is when most peoplequit.
So that's why it's called don'tquit.
You too close to turn aroundnow.
Don't turn around now you canget your momentum.
Yesterday we talked aboutgetting over that inertia, all
the energy it takes to start,like tonight.
(01:49):
Do y'all know what separates thewinners from the wishers?
They keep going.
People who wish three percentof people write their goals and
dreams out.
We want to be in that mix.
I'm trying to tell you we don'twant to be in the mix of just
wishing and praying on a fantasy.
That's what separates thewinners from the wishers, those
(02:11):
3% of winners.
They keep going anyway, even ifit's messy, even if you have
low energy, even if you'rebarely holding it together,
because showing up tired isstill showing up too.
So to anybody out there intwitch world or around the world
(02:33):
, my message for this segment isdo not q u I t on yourself, do
not quit, not today, nottomorrow, not next week, not
next month, not ever in yourlife.
Quit on yourself and not onyour goals.
And yes, we must rest, butremember sometimes, when we make
(02:55):
goals, you got to eitheraccomplish your goals or get
rest.
And I'm not saying don't getrest, that's not what I'm saying
.
But if you pick a goal thatrequires you to go extra hard,
then you just got to do what yougot to do.
We always gonna throw in dentalschool, because dental school
is one of those experienceswhere you just got to go hard,
like even when you're tired, youjust got to wake up and go hard
(03:17):
and have that momentum and thatability to never quit, even
when your brain feel tired ashell.
The first, first paragraph ofNever Eat Alone the first
section of this book, never EatAlone is about the mindset.
We just finished Eat that Frogtalking about procrastination,
(03:40):
all the different jewels toovercome procrastination and to
keep that momentum for yourdreams and your goals.
So this book that we'retackling now is all about
networking for success andrelationship secrets.
This is important when you'regoing from hood to hood to
tackle those relationships andto learn how to get better at
(04:00):
them.
We all can get better atrelationships.
Section one, the mindsetmindset.
First chapter is becoming amember of the club.
Becoming a member of the club,becoming a member of the club
relationships are all there is.
Everything in the universe onlyexists because in relationships
to, in relationship toeverything else, nothing exists
(04:22):
in isolation.
We have to stop pretending weare individuals that can go its
alone.
And that's Margaret Wheatley.
And then the first.
I'll just read the first page.
I kept asking myself in thoseearly days as an overwhelmed
first year student at HarvardBusiness School.
The guy who wrote this bookwent to Harvard Business School.
We're getting a little insightfrom Harvard.
(04:44):
It said there wasn't a singleaccounting or finance class in
my background.
Looking around me, I sawruthlessly focused young men and
women who had undergraduatedegrees in business.
They'd gone on to crunchnumbers or analyze spreadsheets
in the finance firms on wallstreet.
(05:04):
Most were from wealthy familiesand had pedigrees and legacies
and roman numerals in theirnames.
Sure I was intimidated.
How was a guy like me from aworking class family with a
liberal arts degree, in a coupleyears of at a traditional
manufacturing company, going tocompete with per breads from
(05:25):
McKinsey and Goldman Sachs who,from my perspective, seem as if
they've been computing businessdata in their cribs?
It was a defining moment in mylife, in my career, in my life.
I was a country boy fromsouthwestern Pennsylvania,
raised in a small, hard-working,still in cold town outside of
(05:45):
Latrobe called Youngstown.
Our region was so rural youcouldn't see another house from
the porch of our modest home.
My father worked in the localsteel mill and on weekends he'd
do construction.
My mother cleaned the homes ofthe doctors and lawyers in the
nearby town.
My brother escaped small townlife by way of the army.
(06:06):
My sister got married in highschool and moved out when I was
a toddler, and we're gonna stopthere.
Just that first page alone givesus a lot of insight about this
guy who wrote this book and howhe came from not having those
relationships, not having legacy, which is like a lot of us
(06:26):
coming from hood to hood.
We don't have pedigree, wedon't have legacy.
I remember my first time evenhearing about legacy really was
when I was trying to get intodental school.
There's something called legacy.
If you have a father or motherwho has been in the dental
program and they groom you to gointo the program, that's called
Legacy because you're carryingon the legacy.
(06:47):
But one person has to make itthrough for the legacy to even
start.
For me, going through dentalschool, I had to make it through
for me to break thegenerational curse for my family
, for my legacy to even begin.
That first paragraph or thatfirst page really hits home.
Hopefully we can continue todive into this book and get some
(07:10):
more meat and potatoes.
I wanted to talk about how oralcancer is treated.
Is it deadly and what is thesurvival rate?
How is oral cancer treated?
One of the ways is surgery toremove the ulcers or the
cancerous tissue, which is whyyou want to catch it early,
before it spreads and it's, andthen you lose a lot of the
tissue because it does spread.
(07:30):
Number two is radiation therapyto kill the cancerous cells in
the area.
Number three, chemo.
And we all know chemo is likepoison to the body if it spreads
or if it's very aggressive.
Chemo is really tough and a lotof people struggle with that
and sometimes immunotherapy andtargeted drug therapy, just like
(07:52):
most cancers radiation, chemoand trying to stop it from
spreading.
That's the same way you treatoral cancer.
Is it deadly?
Like many cancers, earlydetection is important if If you
catch it early, it increasesyour chances of survival by 80
to 90%.
But if you don't, then thechances rapidly decline because
(08:14):
it's such an aggressive disease.
The five-year survival rate forearly stage oral cancer is 84%.
If it's caught late thosenumbers drop significantly and
most people ignore those earlysigns.
Awareness is everything.
If you get a sore in your mouththat does not heal, it lasts
(08:35):
for longer than two weeks,bleeds easily.
Yesterday we had some goodquestions from our tribe about
do dogs get cavities?
I told you, yes, but it is rarefor dogs to get cavities
because guess why?
That's why you really don'thear about it, unless the dog
has the same thing that causescavities in humans is just the
(08:58):
same as the cavities in dogs.
They don't eat as much sugar asus.
They don't eat a lot of candy.
You don't see dogs eatingsnickers.
You don't see dogs drinking redbull because they naturally eat
less sugar.
They rarely get cavities.
They bite and shoot.
Yes, they rarely get cavitiesand their mouths have more
(09:19):
natural bacteria balance thanours.
Isn't that crazy.
But if they eat a lot ofprocessed foods, treats or have
poor oral hygiene, yes, they candevelop decay.
They can, and dogs can havedental extractions, cleanings,
root canals done with anesthesia.
If you have a pet out there,just buy them treats that clean
(09:44):
their teeth naturally.
But if anything, just don't buythem a lot of processed treats.
I don't own a dog.
I imagine they do have somesweet treats for dogs.
I went to the dentist when I wasa kid and it was a fun memory.
It should be a fun memory, like.
A lot of people have terribleexperiences at the dentist and
I'm trying to figure out why thedentist is turning out mean.
(10:08):
I actually work with a dentistmy second job as an associate
with this guy.
He was one of the meanestdentists I have ever experienced
in my life.
I couldn't even work there thatlong.
So there are some mean dentistsbut there are also some very
pleasant denses and if you go tothe denses as a kid, you're
(10:28):
probably getting the pediatricdenses and they are extra.
Enamel doesn't regenerate, butearly stage demineralization can
be reversed.
It doesn't like regenerate onceyour enamel is formed but you
can stop it from demineralizingby using fluoride to help
strengthen the enamel andsupport remineralization.
The last thing we talked aboutyesterday that I wanted to hit
(10:51):
on is the electric toothbrushversus the manual toothbrush.
Both work pretty good as longas you're brushing properly, but
electric toothbrushes arealways going to be more
effective at removing the plaque.
You can't spin as fast as anelectric toothbrush.
You can't move the toothbrushas fast.
(11:12):
Timers also help you brush theproper time.
Most toothbrushes will tell youhey, you didn't do the two
minutes and then it'll give youa sad face.
And electric toothbrushes aregood for people who have
mobility issues, braces or poortechnique, which is a lot of us
have poor oral hygiene technique.
Manual brushes work fine butrequire perfect technique and
(11:35):
more effort.
If you can afford an electrictoothbrush, definitely try to
get one.
But if you can't, make sure youstill brush twice per day.
Circular motions, 45 degreeangle at the gum line Make sure
you brush at the gum line.
Soft bristle toothbrush this isdiscipline at its finest.
(11:56):
It was my idea to do thischallenge because, number one, I
really want to be a streamer.
But as a dental professional,that's a hard task, especially
running a dental practice.
That's a hard task, especiallyrunning a dental practice.
That makes it even harderbecause at the end of the day, I
still have a lot of paperworkto do, a lot of things going on,
but I didn't want to get intothe mindset of just not doing
(12:18):
what I want to do.
I like streaming.
I enjoy streaming, even thoughsometimes it gets difficult.
I know that in order to be astreamer, you got to show up
every day, or at least a lot.
So I say, you know what?
I'm going to challenge myselfto see if I could do one hour a
day something that I really like, without quitting and not
letting dentistry overtake everypart of me, because dentistry
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has a way of just consumingevery part of you and, as a
dentist, you have to beconsuming your work.
I want to do somethingdifferent.
As a dentist, you have to beconsuming your work.
I want to do somethingdifferent.
Step outside of the box, getonline, use my oral hygiene
education, reach people aroundthe world, save teeth globally.
Build my community, a communitythat shows up for me and where
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I can show up.
I read something where it saidhow do you want to build an
audience or a community ofsupporters or a tribe when you
don't even show up?
You can't take days off fromyour tribe, like you can't take
days off from communication.
So that hit home for me.
So I said you know what I'mshowing up, regardless Whenever
my tribe, get here, I will behere.
I have to really develop myconsistency muscle, guys,
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because yes, I'm a doctor, butwhat is a doctor if you can't be
consistent.
I can't let my consistencymuscle atrophy.
We cannot let our consistencymuscle atrophy.
That means get weak, lose allthe nutrients and the minerals
and just drift away.
A lot of people just let theirconsistency, their discipline,
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their self-esteem, theirself-love all the things that
build character, just disappear.
Because it's sometimes it'shard.
Sometimes it is hard.
Showing up here ain't easy and Iwant y'all to know that it's
not easy to show up every day.
But anything easy may not beworth having.
Sometimes you got to do somethings that aren't too easy.
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Get you out of your comfortzone, and that's what it's all.
Get you out of your comfortzone, and that's what it's all
about.
Getting out of that comfortzone.
I didn't have all the energy,but guess what you got?
To have heart.
That's all I need to go live isto have heart and have fun.
All these other requirements.
That's why I honestly also didthe consistency project, because
I didn't want to get in my ownhead like, okay, but what am I
(14:26):
going to say?
Am I consistency project?
Because I didn't want to get inmy own head like, okay, but
what am I gonna say?
Am I gonna have the perfectwords to say?
Am I gonna have the perfectback.
I just wanted to show up.
That's what consistency isshowing up, and sometimes that's
the hardest thing to do.
It's weird when you overcome oneof your hard days and I imagine
I'll have more hard days andhonestly I was missing my mom a
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lot today because I can't justpick up the phone and call her.
I can't just like bask in hermomminess and, being eight years
old losing her, I don't thinkI'll ever heal that part of me.
So some days that depressiontries to sneak back in, that
sadness tries to sneak back inon my hard days and I just start
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to miss my mom.
So I'm a work in progress forthe rest of my life when it
comes to that.
If anybody out there has everlost a mom or ever lost a parent
or somebody that you reallylove, especially at such a young
age, then you can feel my pain.
That's another reason why todaywas hard and bittersweet.
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That's why being consistentisn't about being perfect, it's
about showing up, and it meansloving yourself enough to show
up even when you are struggling.
And self-love is being honestwith how you feel and still
moving with intentions.
Today I'm honest with how Ifeel, but I'm still moving with
intention and still not lettingit rob me of my peace, my
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happiness or my joy.
Don't let your mood todaydictate your destiny.
Every day is a new day.
So tomorrow it will be a newday and you can just show up for
yourself, tired, but just don'tghost yourself.
Don't ghost your audience.
This is Dr yourself.
Don't ghost your audience.
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This is Dr Cheetah's Sunflower.
I see you to all my out thereon Turtle Island.
I hope you guys have awonderful night.
I send you positive vibes andif you can't show up for
yourself, just let me be areminder that you can do
anything you put your mind to.
Shift your mindset today.
Show up for yourself, even whenit's hard, even when you have
those difficult days.
Stand on business about yourgoals, your dreams, your
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business, whatever you want todo in life.
Stand on business about it.
Thank you for joining me and Iwill see you guys tomorrow.
Peace out, guys.
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