September 10, 2025 • 36 mins
We take a moment to pause, reflect, and hold a vibe as we transition from summer to fall. Join us as we discuss the personal transformations and memorable experiences from the summer, including family moments, new routines, and creative ventures. We'll also explore the lessons learned, the challenges faced, and the importance of giving ourselves grace. Dive into the 'Feel ah Away' series and discover how it amplifies Caribbean voices and navigates cultural conversations.
I touch on the significance of community and how to show up for it. Plus, get excited for fall TV and some reading recommendations to enrich your daily routine. Thank you for supporting 'How Do You Divine' and join us for weekly episodes as we continue this journey together.
- Youtube Creators mentioned: Peyton Charles, Allyiahsface, Tenickab
- Book Recommendations: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Hall
- Up From Nothing (John Hope Bryant),
- Kennedy Ryan's - Before I let go
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DJI_20250904102430_0001 (00:00):
Welcome back to this episode of How Do
You Divine Wagu.
Today we are gonna pause,reflect on ULA vibe and stick up
in, let's get into it.
Can you believe the summer iscoming to an end?
Although we've come.
To the end.
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It'll be back next year, it'sfine, but we'll get into what
the summer has meant.
The Feel Away series thatlaunched as well as fall TV
coming up, some daily readingand where we're going with this
season of how do you divine.
So let's get into it.
Stick up in.
Woo.
The summer was a ride for me.
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For me, it was about slowingdown in some areas of my life
and speeding up in others.
Really family moments, newcreative work.
And some deep reminders in why Ido what I do.
My girls are heading back toschool and this summer was
monumental.
I had the opportunity to spendtime with them, make great
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memories, and start to createnew routines because babes, when
it comes to these girls gettingolder.
Uh, every day I'm reminded ofthe quote that the days are
long, but the years are short.
I cannot believe that my oldestwill now be a senior in high
school and my youngest isentering middle school.
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'cause where we live, middleschool starts in seventh grade.
So, yeah, this summer has beenreally, really great.
Uh, we explored some newinterest.
We made memories.
There were so many conversationsthat happened this summer around
what it means to be aprofessional black woman, as
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well as what it means to be acreative and an entrepreneur.
I always feel like it is myresponsibility as their mom.
To have a sense of honesty abouteverything that I'm pursuing,
and transparency because I wantthem to dream big and free, but
also know that it's a grind,right?
And it comes with a balance anda lot of sacrifice.
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So I was so grateful for thissummer to be able to slow down a
little bit more and spend timewith them and help usher them
into this new stage of ourlives.
Next year.
This time we'll be talking abouthaving a college student.
Yikes.
It's nuts.
As someone who's been theresince day one, it still feels
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very awkward.
Whew.
New phases, new things.
Right.
But the end of the summer isjust not the end of a season.
It's a checkpoint, a reminderthat waits for no one.
What lessons do we carry forwardfrom the summer?
I think especially in the.
Here in the city, I know in thesummertime we get the
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opportunity to connect with ourfriends from different walks of
life.
Between the festivals and thebarbecues and the restaurant
week and everything going on, itis really amazing.
One of the lessons that I'mtaking forward from the
summertime is to continue to putyourself out there, to continue
to not just be in the space andnetwork, but send the emails and
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be open and transparent about mydreams and goals and aspirations
for life.
Inside and outside of mycorporate, life.
I think for a long time, andeven now, right?
The conversation is aroundniching down, who are you on
specific platforms, um, as wellas what are your career
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trajectories if you're incorporate, right?
If you're an entrepreneur.
The demand to find a lane andstick to that lane and just do
that one thing this summer,something that I'm taking
forward is that I can just beme.
And unfortunately, I don't fitin a box.
There isn't a lane thatnecessarily describes me and my
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ambitions, and that's finebecause guess what?
It opens the door for aconversation.
So in addition to that, I wannapose the same question to you.
What did the summer teach youthat you're gonna leave behind?
And what did the summer teachyou that you're gonna move
forward?
In terms of what the summertaught me in a good and bad way,
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is to be okay with not beingable to complete all the things
you would think at this stage ofmy motherhood journey, that I
would be over mom guilt, that Iwould've come to a place where I
managed it a lot better, where Ihave gained a real understanding
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of.
The sacrifices and the balances.
No girl.
No.
No.
I don't ever think mom guiltwill ever go away, but it's
giving myself grace.
So it's the one thing the summertaught me is that it's okay for
them not to go everywhere thatthey wanna go and be a part of
every single thing.
Um, but also focusing on thethings that really matter to us
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as a family and to each of mydaughters individually.
No one's gonna get it right allthe time.
So for me, one of the lessonsthat I'm also taking forward is
to give myself grace.
Grace on what I can deliverevery single day for my family,
what I can deliver for myfriends, as well as what I can
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deliver as an entrepreneur andsomeone existing in the
corporate spaces sitting at theintersection of technology,
communication, and culture for along time.
Like I mentioned earlier, I feltlike I needed to pick a lane
niche down per platform whichled to me focusing on wellness.
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'cause as I tend to say in allthings, be well, giving myself
the grace to respectfully say,no thank you.
I don't fit in a box.
I don't fit in a niche.
So wrapping up, asking yourself,what have you learned this
summer?
What does the summer offer you?
Both good and bad because weboth know there's some bad
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things.
Oh, topping on my bad thingbefore we wrap up is
consistency.
So during the year, I love agood system.
I love a schedule.
I love a structure.
That is how my life has alwaysbeen ran.
I just feel better beingprepared for the day and knowing
what's gonna happen the week andall those things.
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I don't really get thrown off byspontaneity.
Because listen, the girl love agood time, but in terms of the
structure, I call it thebookends of my life.
And the mornings I know what I'mdoing.
I know what time I'm waking up.
I'm working out and doing allthe things.
But in the summertime, babe.
In the summertime, the onlyworkout I get in the summertime
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is all of the steps.
When I dancing a festival, theonly workout that I typically
get in the summertime is thewalk to and from the restaurant
to the bar something that I amhappy fall is coming back
around, is for me to get back onmy system and get back on my
plan because babe, the other dayI was walking around and I heard
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my knees crackling.
They were crackling.
So, you know, you gotta stayready.
You know, you don't gotta getready if you stay ready, so you
gotta stay ready.
So I'm excited about gettingback into.
My systems and my structure, I'mexcited into getting back into
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my schedule because in thesummertime, when the kids are
outta school, what system, whatstructure there is none.
So I'm really excited abouteveryone kind of falling back
into their schedules and theiractivities so that, you know, we
can maintain some sanity aroundhere because late nights,
sunglasses in Advil, babe.
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Last night was too real.
I wanna hear, how did yoursummer go?
Did you travel?
Did you do something new?
Let me know in the comments.
And I really, and truthfully, Iwanna hear the bad.
Traits and lessons that youlearned this summer?
'cause we all got a little vice,and I want to know, was it the
cakes of the cookies?
What was you getting into thissummer that you are like, all
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right, September one to December31st, we locking in and we
leaving that behind.
Let me know in the comments.
Right into the Feel Away seriesthat we premiered in August.
This series is so near and dearto my heart.
As you all know, I was born inJamaica, and came to the States
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when I was very young, three,four, but always returned back
to the island every summer.
Then I actually started highschool in Jamaica.
As someone who not is only fromthe Caribbean, but also exists
in the diaspora, I've always hadthe experience of the best of
both worlds, right?
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Someone from the Caribbean wholives in the States in foreign,
as we call it, who lives in NewYork and see the varying
differences in culture.
As well as someone who has livedon the island and attended
school and have a lot of familythat is still in the Caribbean.
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Launch and Feel Away was anextension of this podcast.
Amplifying the voices in theCaribbean.
Really the emotions of theCaribbean because I did not want
for us to continue to have theseconversations and not address
the elephant in the room enoughtimes.
A lot of times in the Caribbeanthere are things that are said
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and things that we've normalizedthat leave us.
Feeling some kind of way, right?
And for those who are not fromthe Caribbean, feel a way,
meaning that it leaves youfeeling uneasy, uncomfortable,
somewhat offended, but unsure.
And while this does happen inmany cultures across the world,
I felt it was my responsibilityto address it from my community,
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which is the Caribbean If you'renew and you did not get a chance
to go on both YouTube and ourInstagram platforms and check
out the Feel Away series, welaunched in Brooklyn, New York,
and we will continue sharingdifferent scenarios that happen
in the Caribbean, asking peoplein the streets how they would
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respond.
The two options that I pose was,would you either cuss as we
would say, which is aggressivelyaddressing it head on, or would
you nara, which is also known tobe passive, and just let it
sweep under the rug.
So go and check out that seriesand you can see different
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individuals across theCaribbean.
I think we almost coveredeveryone in the Caribbean, but
go take a look.
We presented the scenarios topeople across the Caribbean from
varying generations, which issomething that is very important
to me.
I think as a millennial, we are,we've become so open honest and
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transparent about emotionalwellness, mental health, and
trauma, right?
That we've experienced in ourlife, and now therapy and
wellness groups have become.
Normalized in our conversation.
I think it's also ourresponsibility as the
millennials to reach behind usand bring the generations that
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raised us along with us.
because sometimes theconversation in my perspective,
be very blame centric, removingyourself from responsibility or
just being on the receiving endof treatment from the
generations before you that didnot have the tools or the
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knowledge to become betterindividuals themselves because
the people who raised themdidn't have the tools or the
language.
So as a millennial, I feel likeit is our responsibility not
only to look.
Our past generations from thebaby boomers and everyone before
us and our grandparents to saythey were either right or wrong,
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but also to help them along theway.
And trust me, m miserable.
But it is not an easy task thatI'm asking you to be a part of,
but what I'm asking is for us tobe.
Open to the discussion to givethem the language, open
ourselves up to be moreempathetic to their experiences.
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So that was a bit long winded,but that is what we did in
Brooklyn, New York.
We went, around Flatbush,Brooklyn, you know, it's also
known as the mecca of Caribbeanculture.
And ask individuals how theywould respond to these
scenarios.
Some of the responses were trulyhysterical because of your newer
Caribbean people.
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They are.
Characters, you hear me?
W full of vibes.
it was wonderful for us tolaunch this series.
And one of the biggest takeawaysthat I had, was that older, that
older generations became moreaccepting and numb.
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To what we would consider badbehavior, right?
One of the men that I spoke towas in his seventies.
Another woman I spoke to was inher late sixties.
They basically said to me thatthis is normal behavior, so I'm
accustomed to it.
And part of that broke my heart.
I don't want us to normalize thethings that hurt us.
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Along our journey.
I want us to be able to have thetools and the space confidence
and courage to say, I didn'tlike the way you just said that,
or that comment was not calledfor.
Can we discuss that?
What did you mean by that?
Just giving us the ability toopen up the conversation more in
the Caribbean diaspora.
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In the Caribbean culture forsaid boy, and I really like the
way you move.
I don't like the way you talk, Idon't like the aggression.
I don't like that and for it notto be taken as a personal
crucifixion, like you're tryingto personally attacking that
person's character andintegrity.
It's just that the action thatthey're taking, we would prefer
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that they don't do it in thatmanner.
Right.
Or we would prefer that theydon't say these type of comments
or.
Create a space where those typeof discussions become normalized
'cause truly it's at someoneelse's expense.
Right.
Um, I'm not gonna share any ofthe scenarios here on the
podcast'cause I wanna honor thisseries for what it is.
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It's a in the street, real lifereal conversation.
The conversations were raw,there were laughter, there was
realness, as a culture, we needto be louder about the things
that we want to see exist inour, community.
We have to be louder about thethings that we wanna see in our
culture.
Oh, we are on this thing of,'cause we are in it.
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So if we don't want thesecomments or spaces or
conversations to exist in manyCaribbean households to come say
something about it.
And make spaces.
In your home, in yourfriendships, in your family,
where people can tell the truth,where culture gets louder and
not more offensive.
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It's not true.
Your word, like, you know, Ialways say people love play
dumb.
Forget wise.
Let's start to have aconversation around what it
looks like to be well in ourculture, what it means to honor
each other with conversation andthe way we go about speaking to
each other.
So that was, feel a way.
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I am so proud of the firstedition.
And where do you think we shouldgo next?
I'd love to come out and visitplaces that have a wide range of
different Caribbean cultures.
From Jamaica to Trinidad, to St.
Kits, to St.
Vincent, to St.
Croix, to Haiti.
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So you know, my passport.
Always ready, put in thecomments.
Where do you think we shouldtake Phil away to for our next
edition?
Let me know where feel awayshould land.
Next.
What is community?
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Community is a word thrownaround a lot.
So let's pause, reflect, what isit really?
What does it even really mean?
And the beauty is community isnot just the person living next
door.
It's about who checks on you,who cares about you, who exists
in your ecosystem that you feelseen and belong to?
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Who celebrates you?
Who welcomes you in?
It's the accountability and thebelonging.
And here's the part aboutcommunity that I think we don't
talk about enough.
The lost ones.
In a previous episode, we satdown with Les Young and we
talked about redemption, andmany of the stories he talked
about in his time behind barsreminded me of the people in our
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community that I consider lostones, right?
The uncle, the brother, thesister, the friend that.
Let's just say have made poordecisions or have fallen on hard
times are no longer aligningwith the expectation.
Our family or friends have forthem.
What are we doing about the lostones and is it really a
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community if we disregard andturn our back to those that we
no longer?
Feel aligned with the way welive life?
It's a question I ask myself.
Honestly, I'm a person of strongboundaries, so I really have one
main rule.
If you disrespect me, Bess begsDarla.
There's no coming back.
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I have a strong belief arounddisrespect.
I feel like if there isdisrespect that exists in our
relationship, then there is nocommunity.
There's nothing that we can moveforward with here.
There is no alignment if thereis disrespect.
But really and truthfully, thereare moments that we will have
disagreements.
There will be moments wherepeople don't see eye to eye.
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But if you're not disrespectedor something hasn't occurred,
that has truly changed theentire trajectory of your life
or how you exist and yourfamily, what is the path to
recourse?
How do we usher people back intoour community?
For me.
I think it requires a lot ofpatience.
Well, if I'm honest, outside ofpatience, it requires a lot of
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accountability.
I am of the belief that if.
I need to look at myself everyday, I can tell you the things
that I think I need to work onin areas where I can prove.
But I think one of the thingsthat we need to start to address
in our community are theindividuals that exist among us
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that.
Lack accountability for theirbehavior that justify away
things that either harmthemselves or the people around
them.
Things that no longer serve themin their life.
I think as we start to evolve asa people, we need to do it
collectively, and the only wayto do so is not by placing
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judgment on others, but alsoholding people.
Right is right, wrong is wrong,and you can't operate in the
wrong.
And expect good things tofollow.
Right?
I've even, as a child, I'vealways felt like God will never
bless something that doesn'talign with His path for your
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life.
And ultimately that doesn'talign with wellness, right?
No one's telling you to be themost righteous person on the
planet.
No one's saying you must dothis, but right is right and
wrong is wrong.
You cannot walk aroundmistreating.
People and expect them towelcome you into their community
with open arms and in this worldtoday, I think we are suffering
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from a great deal of loneliness.
With all that the internet hasadvanced us with what it has
stolen, without a doubt, is theability for human beings to
connect on a real.
Personal level.
It's actually one of the reasonswhy I love to have in studio
guests for the podcast because Ithink the energy is different
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when we're in the same building.
Looking eye to eye, sharingstories and just holding a vibe
rather than virtually.
And while you consume this,podcast virtually, my goal
always is to build a communityfilled with.
Love and connection and you knowthat you resonate with my
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journey in some way or another,and with this sense of
loneliness that is plaguing usright now.
The real solution for it iscommunity, both online and
offline.
So I'll ask you, how are youshowing up for your community
right now?
Because the answer willstrengthen our future.
Okay.
Okay.
On a lighter note, fall tv.
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One thing I love aboutSeptember, if you're a parent,
if you're not a parent, listenhere, listen here in, we all
know September is the secondreal new year.
And fall TV is on its way back,and I'm excited as someone who
doesn't really love tv, I'llwatch YouTube.
I love my YouTube girls.
Um.
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Who keep, I feel like keep hold,who holds me down through the
fall TV hiatus.
Um, Peyton, Charles, Aaliyah,Jay, some of the veterans on
YouTube.
But those two are my go-to GirlsTanika, girl Tanika with the
fashion tips and she is.
Hysterical.
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I'm trying to get the girls onthe podcast.
So if you see'em and you hearthem out in the world put it in
their comments to come on overto how do you divine so we can
have a conversation.
I love to see women out in thespace growing and learning and
just giving us the opportunityto follow their lives in a real
way.
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Without oversharing, and one ofthe reasons I love these three
women is that they come fromthree different backgrounds,
three different areas of theworld, but bed.
They keep it a book, they keepit real.
They allow us to be a part oftheir sisterhood in a real way.
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And most of all, ladies got thefashion.
As my daughter was saying, clockit at the girls be looking good.
The girls be looking good.
Yeah, I'm here.
I'm here for the pretty things.
The girls be looking good.
They be killing it.
Love to see it.
Love to see it every time.
back to fall tv.
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I, I live on two extremes.
Okay.
Because I have to watch my girlson the vlog.
I have to watch my YouTubegirls, but then I need my
scripted tv.
And listen, there is somethingpowerful about watching stories
unfold week to week, theentertainment, the writing.
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It tugs on all of myheartstrings.
So I'm gonna talk about twoshows that I'm really looking
forward to coming back.
Number one is Paradise.
Paradise on Hulu, to me, was animmediate hit.
Sterling K Brown.
Come on.
Come on, Sterling.
I would say come on in, get ahug, Sterling.
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But I feel like all black womengive Sterling K.
Brown a hug and we all are likejust supporting Ryan in her head
every night when she's takingcare of the household.
Ryan, I just want you to knowpersonally from me.
I'm with you girl.
I'm with you holding down themboys we all with you.
We love us.
And Sterling K.
Brown, paradise was awell-written season.
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One.
Loved every bit about it.
So season two, I'm locking in.
I might start a live series todiscuss scripted tv.
You guys let me know what youthink.
I'm into it.
If you are so.
So in addition, Beyond tv, I amvery intentional about my daily
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reading.
My reading has two levels.
I call it my learning and mylavishing.
In the mornings, if I getoverwhelmed, I usually try to
read right after my devotionalwhile I'm drinking my tea in the
morning.
That's my learning, so I amcurrently reading.
The Anxious Generation.
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The Anxious Generation, Ibelieve, by Jonathan Hall it's a
great book about how socialmedia is rewiring our brains and
how this generation willstruggle with mental wellness
while consuming this level ofsocial media.
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It's a really good book.
So in the morning, that's when Iread my learning book.
I like to get through at leastone, but mostly the goal is two
books a month.
I just started that book afterfinishing John Hope, Bryant's
book up from nothing.
Really, really enjoyed thatbook.
I think I'm also gonna get theaudible version to listen to it
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in my car.
It was very inspiring, but italso just talked about the road
to building legacy and acompany, and something that he
says often that I really admireis everyone should be a part of
the free market.
Yes.
He talks extensively about how,the American opportunity is not
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dead and the American economicsystem is built on small to
medium sized businesses.
So I really enjoyed that book.
And then we'll talk about mylavish book.
I know I am behind because thegirls were talking about this
for a while.
But listen, listen.
Listen.
I was busy.
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Okay, so I just, so I finishedthis book, curvy Girl a while
ago.
It was my lavish book, and whenI say my lavish reads, these are
fun books that help me wind downevery night because I wanna be
off.
Devices at a reasonable hourevery single day.
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I don't wanna go to bed with myphone in my hand.
I don't wanna wake up and touchmy phone.
I just really want to be presentand stay that way.
So for some time now, I chargemy phone away from my bed and
it's just me and my book.
So my lavish reading is alwayssomething a little fun,
sometimes a little juicy, if youknow what I'm saying.
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So I read Curvy Girl byDanielle.
I'm going to put the books in.
The podcast description, but Iremember reading Girl and that
book started off with a Bang.
Okay?
And I loved it.
And I read that book in twodays.
That's how juicy that book was.
So I picked up some books fromKennedy Ryan, and I know the
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girls love them some KennedyRyan.
So I said when my scheduleslowed down and I was able to
really get into it, I was gonnapick up some Kennedy Rye books.
And listen here.
I am almost done with before Ilet go, and I only started that
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last week and I only read it atnight.
So I tell myself I'm gonna readlike a chapter.
I ended up reading like two,three chapters'cause the book is
really good.
Shout out to Kennedy Ryan forjust being an awesome author.
Listen, details be detailing andshe just pulls you into a really
lovely story.
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Interweaves, these cultural relevant moments
and like, it was just, it wasreally sweet.
I am enjoying every single pageof that book.
I've already, I've alreadyordered the other books in the
series.
It's not necessarily a seriesbased on what I read on Barnes
and Nobles and Amazon.
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It's basically a, it's acontinuation of each character
that is in.
The books, so I'm loving beforeI let go.
I highly recommend if you're nota reader, start with a lavish
book, something that will pullyou in and have you laughing and
just having a really good time.
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I talked about it earlier, Ifeel like a few seasons ago when
Gabrielle Union's book came out.
There are books out here onthese shelves that will have you
cackling.
You hear me?
And one, I always refer toGabrielle Union's book when I
think about Laughing Out Loud.
Funny, there was a moment, andI'm not gonna spoil a book for
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you if you haven't gone and readher first book.
That wasn't, it wasn't in hersecond book.
Her second book was good too.
But in her first book.
I picked up the book, I wasreading it through.
There is a moment between herand one of her high school
bullies that when I said I headback laughing, I had to compose
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myself from that chapter alone.
It was too funny.
So.
As we enter the fall season andyou're getting into your fall
tv, both scripted and supportthe girls that are on YouTube,
the girls and the guys that areon YouTube with killing it, just
go in there.
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I just gave you three greatrecommendations, Tanika, Peyton,
Charles, Aaliyah, J.
I've given you tons ofrecommendations and I can.
Continue to give yourecommendations.
Feel free to put it in thecomments, and I'll share some
individuals, some creators thatare online and just really
building community in abeautiful way.
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I'm a part of their communityand I love it.
So shout out to them.
I encourage you to also pick upa little book.
You know, get away from the bluelights and consuming all, all
the content online.
Build some content of your ownin real life.
Season update now.
This is not a big announcementbecause we started the season
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with weekly episodes.
We tripped off to twice a month,but you guys have showed up and
showed out for August, and I amso grateful and I really, really
am.
Thank you so much for supportingthe podcast, and I know some
episodes are deeper than othersthe title is not meant to be
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intimidating.
It is meant to welcome you in tohow you define your life and how
your divine spirituality alignswith that life.
So I always like to bring alittle human conversation'cause
we're all just human beingstrying to live a good life
Moving forward, we're goingweekly until the end of the
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season.
You heard me, right?
Every single week we'll have anepisode of How Do You Divine.
I have learned so much over thissummer, both personally and
professionally, and I'm just soexcited.
For what is to come with thepodcast from the partners that
we are talking to, andpotentially we'll be onboarding
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and collaborating with to thenew season and the level of
guests that we're gonna have.
I am really excited and aboveall, truly grateful for all the
support and everyone that clicksto watch the likes, the
comments, the reviews.
Do not forget to review thepodcast wherever you are
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listening and watching I createdhow do you divine as a space for
us to see not only who we are,but how.
How we can be different in onecommunity, how our varying
definitions on how to live lifeby words that drive us is the
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thing that will bring ustogether.
It will bring unity, it willbring honesty, it will bring
empathy to the way we operatewith one another.
God is calling us all to beconsistent in some different
ways in our life, and I know forme this has been a
transformative experience andI'm really, really grateful for
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all of the support But in orderto show up in this season.
Expecting abundance and aligningwith God's calling over my life.
I need to be consistent.
And obedient I need to betransparent, um, and vulnerable.
'cause I really want us all togrow along this process of
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building a podcast and buildinga platform where emotional
intelligence is normal, where wetalk about.
The varying differences in howwe define the words that drive
our lives and find similaritiesin that journeys.
And if there are differences,which there will be, we can talk
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through it and allow everyone tofeel seen and heard.
Because when you live in adivine alignment, it is not
about perfection.
For the people in the back, it'snot about perfection.
It's about operating in with asense of love and persistence
and empathy and compassion forone another.
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To be completely honest andtransparent building this
podcast has come with itssacrifices, both financially,
mentally, emotionally.
And if I'm gonna ask you to bebold and courageous in your
life, I gotta do the same.
So I will be here every singleweek exploring our divine
definitions, one word at a time.
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Thank you so much for listeningto this episode of How Do You
Divine?
Stick Up In.
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this episode of Stick Up inVibes.
See you on the next one.
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Welcome back to this episode of How Do
You Divine Wagu.
Today we are gonna pause,reflect on ULA vibe and stick up
in, let's get into it.
Can you believe the summer iscoming to an end?
Although we've come.
To the end.
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It'll be back next year, it'sfine, but we'll get into what
the summer has meant.
The Feel Away series thatlaunched as well as fall TV
coming up, some daily readingand where we're going with this
season of how do you divine.
So let's get into it.
Stick up in.
Woo.
The summer was a ride for me.
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For me, it was about slowingdown in some areas of my life
and speeding up in others.
Really family moments, newcreative work.
And some deep reminders in why Ido what I do.
My girls are heading back toschool and this summer was
monumental.
I had the opportunity to spendtime with them, make great
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memories, and start to createnew routines because babes, when
it comes to these girls gettingolder.
Uh, every day I'm reminded ofthe quote that the days are
long, but the years are short.
I cannot believe that my oldestwill now be a senior in high
school and my youngest isentering middle school.
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'cause where we live, middleschool starts in seventh grade.
So, yeah, this summer has beenreally, really great.
Uh, we explored some newinterest.
We made memories.
There were so many conversationsthat happened this summer around
what it means to be aprofessional black woman, as
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well as what it means to be acreative and an entrepreneur.
I always feel like it is myresponsibility as their mom.
To have a sense of honesty abouteverything that I'm pursuing,
and transparency because I wantthem to dream big and free, but
also know that it's a grind,right?
And it comes with a balance anda lot of sacrifice.
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So I was so grateful for thissummer to be able to slow down a
little bit more and spend timewith them and help usher them
into this new stage of ourlives.
Next year.
This time we'll be talking abouthaving a college student.
Yikes.
It's nuts.
As someone who's been theresince day one, it still feels
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very awkward.
Whew.
New phases, new things.
Right.
But the end of the summer isjust not the end of a season.
It's a checkpoint, a reminderthat waits for no one.
What lessons do we carry forwardfrom the summer?
I think especially in the.
Here in the city, I know in thesummertime we get the
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opportunity to connect with ourfriends from different walks of
life.
Between the festivals and thebarbecues and the restaurant
week and everything going on, itis really amazing.
One of the lessons that I'mtaking forward from the
summertime is to continue to putyourself out there, to continue
to not just be in the space andnetwork, but send the emails and
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be open and transparent about mydreams and goals and aspirations
for life.
Inside and outside of mycorporate, life.
I think for a long time, andeven now, right?
The conversation is aroundniching down, who are you on
specific platforms, um, as wellas what are your career
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trajectories if you're incorporate, right?
If you're an entrepreneur.
The demand to find a lane andstick to that lane and just do
that one thing this summer,something that I'm taking
forward is that I can just beme.
And unfortunately, I don't fitin a box.
There isn't a lane thatnecessarily describes me and my
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ambitions, and that's finebecause guess what?
It opens the door for aconversation.
So in addition to that, I wannapose the same question to you.
What did the summer teach youthat you're gonna leave behind?
And what did the summer teachyou that you're gonna move
forward?
In terms of what the summertaught me in a good and bad way,
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is to be okay with not beingable to complete all the things
you would think at this stage ofmy motherhood journey, that I
would be over mom guilt, that Iwould've come to a place where I
managed it a lot better, where Ihave gained a real understanding
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of.
The sacrifices and the balances.
No girl.
No.
No.
I don't ever think mom guiltwill ever go away, but it's
giving myself grace.
So it's the one thing the summertaught me is that it's okay for
them not to go everywhere thatthey wanna go and be a part of
every single thing.
Um, but also focusing on thethings that really matter to us
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as a family and to each of mydaughters individually.
No one's gonna get it right allthe time.
So for me, one of the lessonsthat I'm also taking forward is
to give myself grace.
Grace on what I can deliverevery single day for my family,
what I can deliver for myfriends, as well as what I can
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deliver as an entrepreneur andsomeone existing in the
corporate spaces sitting at theintersection of technology,
communication, and culture for along time.
Like I mentioned earlier, I feltlike I needed to pick a lane
niche down per platform whichled to me focusing on wellness.
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'cause as I tend to say in allthings, be well, giving myself
the grace to respectfully say,no thank you.
I don't fit in a box.
I don't fit in a niche.
So wrapping up, asking yourself,what have you learned this
summer?
What does the summer offer you?
Both good and bad because weboth know there's some bad
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things.
Oh, topping on my bad thingbefore we wrap up is
consistency.
So during the year, I love agood system.
I love a schedule.
I love a structure.
That is how my life has alwaysbeen ran.
I just feel better beingprepared for the day and knowing
what's gonna happen the week andall those things.
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I don't really get thrown off byspontaneity.
Because listen, the girl love agood time, but in terms of the
structure, I call it thebookends of my life.
And the mornings I know what I'mdoing.
I know what time I'm waking up.
I'm working out and doing allthe things.
But in the summertime, babe.
In the summertime, the onlyworkout I get in the summertime
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is all of the steps.
When I dancing a festival, theonly workout that I typically
get in the summertime is thewalk to and from the restaurant
to the bar something that I amhappy fall is coming back
around, is for me to get back onmy system and get back on my
plan because babe, the other dayI was walking around and I heard
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my knees crackling.
They were crackling.
So, you know, you gotta stayready.
You know, you don't gotta getready if you stay ready, so you
gotta stay ready.
So I'm excited about gettingback into.
My systems and my structure, I'mexcited into getting back into
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my schedule because in thesummertime, when the kids are
outta school, what system, whatstructure there is none.
So I'm really excited abouteveryone kind of falling back
into their schedules and theiractivities so that, you know, we
can maintain some sanity aroundhere because late nights,
sunglasses in Advil, babe.
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Last night was too real.
I wanna hear, how did yoursummer go?
Did you travel?
Did you do something new?
Let me know in the comments.
And I really, and truthfully, Iwanna hear the bad.
Traits and lessons that youlearned this summer?
'cause we all got a little vice,and I want to know, was it the
cakes of the cookies?
What was you getting into thissummer that you are like, all
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right, September one to December31st, we locking in and we
leaving that behind.
Let me know in the comments.
Right into the Feel Away seriesthat we premiered in August.
This series is so near and dearto my heart.
As you all know, I was born inJamaica, and came to the States
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when I was very young, three,four, but always returned back
to the island every summer.
Then I actually started highschool in Jamaica.
As someone who not is only fromthe Caribbean, but also exists
in the diaspora, I've always hadthe experience of the best of
both worlds, right?
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Someone from the Caribbean wholives in the States in foreign,
as we call it, who lives in NewYork and see the varying
differences in culture.
As well as someone who has livedon the island and attended
school and have a lot of familythat is still in the Caribbean.
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Launch and Feel Away was anextension of this podcast.
Amplifying the voices in theCaribbean.
Really the emotions of theCaribbean because I did not want
for us to continue to have theseconversations and not address
the elephant in the room enoughtimes.
A lot of times in the Caribbeanthere are things that are said
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and things that we've normalizedthat leave us.
Feeling some kind of way, right?
And for those who are not fromthe Caribbean, feel a way,
meaning that it leaves youfeeling uneasy, uncomfortable,
somewhat offended, but unsure.
And while this does happen inmany cultures across the world,
I felt it was my responsibilityto address it from my community,
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which is the Caribbean If you'renew and you did not get a chance
to go on both YouTube and ourInstagram platforms and check
out the Feel Away series, welaunched in Brooklyn, New York,
and we will continue sharingdifferent scenarios that happen
in the Caribbean, asking peoplein the streets how they would
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respond.
The two options that I pose was,would you either cuss as we
would say, which is aggressivelyaddressing it head on, or would
you nara, which is also known tobe passive, and just let it
sweep under the rug.
So go and check out that seriesand you can see different
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individuals across theCaribbean.
I think we almost coveredeveryone in the Caribbean, but
go take a look.
We presented the scenarios topeople across the Caribbean from
varying generations, which issomething that is very important
to me.
I think as a millennial, we are,we've become so open honest and
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transparent about emotionalwellness, mental health, and
trauma, right?
That we've experienced in ourlife, and now therapy and
wellness groups have become.
Normalized in our conversation.
I think it's also ourresponsibility as the
millennials to reach behind usand bring the generations that
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raised us along with us.
because sometimes theconversation in my perspective,
be very blame centric, removingyourself from responsibility or
just being on the receiving endof treatment from the
generations before you that didnot have the tools or the
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knowledge to become betterindividuals themselves because
the people who raised themdidn't have the tools or the
language.
So as a millennial, I feel likeit is our responsibility not
only to look.
Our past generations from thebaby boomers and everyone before
us and our grandparents to saythey were either right or wrong,
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but also to help them along theway.
And trust me, m miserable.
But it is not an easy task thatI'm asking you to be a part of,
but what I'm asking is for us tobe.
Open to the discussion to givethem the language, open
ourselves up to be moreempathetic to their experiences.
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So that was a bit long winded,but that is what we did in
Brooklyn, New York.
We went, around Flatbush,Brooklyn, you know, it's also
known as the mecca of Caribbeanculture.
And ask individuals how theywould respond to these
scenarios.
Some of the responses were trulyhysterical because of your newer
Caribbean people.
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They are.
Characters, you hear me?
W full of vibes.
it was wonderful for us tolaunch this series.
And one of the biggest takeawaysthat I had, was that older, that
older generations became moreaccepting and numb.
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To what we would consider badbehavior, right?
One of the men that I spoke towas in his seventies.
Another woman I spoke to was inher late sixties.
They basically said to me thatthis is normal behavior, so I'm
accustomed to it.
And part of that broke my heart.
I don't want us to normalize thethings that hurt us.
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Along our journey.
I want us to be able to have thetools and the space confidence
and courage to say, I didn'tlike the way you just said that,
or that comment was not calledfor.
Can we discuss that?
What did you mean by that?
Just giving us the ability toopen up the conversation more in
the Caribbean diaspora.
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In the Caribbean culture forsaid boy, and I really like the
way you move.
I don't like the way you talk, Idon't like the aggression.
I don't like that and for it notto be taken as a personal
crucifixion, like you're tryingto personally attacking that
person's character andintegrity.
It's just that the action thatthey're taking, we would prefer
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that they don't do it in thatmanner.
Right.
Or we would prefer that theydon't say these type of comments
or.
Create a space where those typeof discussions become normalized
'cause truly it's at someoneelse's expense.
Right.
Um, I'm not gonna share any ofthe scenarios here on the
podcast'cause I wanna honor thisseries for what it is.
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It's a in the street, real lifereal conversation.
The conversations were raw,there were laughter, there was
realness, as a culture, we needto be louder about the things
that we want to see exist inour, community.
We have to be louder about thethings that we wanna see in our
culture.
Oh, we are on this thing of,'cause we are in it.
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So if we don't want thesecomments or spaces or
conversations to exist in manyCaribbean households to come say
something about it.
And make spaces.
In your home, in yourfriendships, in your family,
where people can tell the truth,where culture gets louder and
not more offensive.
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It's not true.
Your word, like, you know, Ialways say people love play
dumb.
Forget wise.
Let's start to have aconversation around what it
looks like to be well in ourculture, what it means to honor
each other with conversation andthe way we go about speaking to
each other.
So that was, feel a way.
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I am so proud of the firstedition.
And where do you think we shouldgo next?
I'd love to come out and visitplaces that have a wide range of
different Caribbean cultures.
From Jamaica to Trinidad, to St.
Kits, to St.
Vincent, to St.
Croix, to Haiti.
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So you know, my passport.
Always ready, put in thecomments.
Where do you think we shouldtake Phil away to for our next
edition?
Let me know where feel awayshould land.
Next.
What is community?
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Community is a word thrownaround a lot.
So let's pause, reflect, what isit really?
What does it even really mean?
And the beauty is community isnot just the person living next
door.
It's about who checks on you,who cares about you, who exists
in your ecosystem that you feelseen and belong to?
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Who celebrates you?
Who welcomes you in?
It's the accountability and thebelonging.
And here's the part aboutcommunity that I think we don't
talk about enough.
The lost ones.
In a previous episode, we satdown with Les Young and we
talked about redemption, andmany of the stories he talked
about in his time behind barsreminded me of the people in our
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community that I consider lostones, right?
The uncle, the brother, thesister, the friend that.
Let's just say have made poordecisions or have fallen on hard
times are no longer aligningwith the expectation.
Our family or friends have forthem.
What are we doing about the lostones and is it really a
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community if we disregard andturn our back to those that we
no longer?
Feel aligned with the way welive life?
It's a question I ask myself.
Honestly, I'm a person of strongboundaries, so I really have one
main rule.
If you disrespect me, Bess begsDarla.
There's no coming back.
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I have a strong belief arounddisrespect.
I feel like if there isdisrespect that exists in our
relationship, then there is nocommunity.
There's nothing that we can moveforward with here.
There is no alignment if thereis disrespect.
But really and truthfully, thereare moments that we will have
disagreements.
There will be moments wherepeople don't see eye to eye.
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But if you're not disrespectedor something hasn't occurred,
that has truly changed theentire trajectory of your life
or how you exist and yourfamily, what is the path to
recourse?
How do we usher people back intoour community?
For me.
I think it requires a lot ofpatience.
Well, if I'm honest, outside ofpatience, it requires a lot of
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accountability.
I am of the belief that if.
I need to look at myself everyday, I can tell you the things
that I think I need to work onin areas where I can prove.
But I think one of the thingsthat we need to start to address
in our community are theindividuals that exist among us
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that.
Lack accountability for theirbehavior that justify away
things that either harmthemselves or the people around
them.
Things that no longer serve themin their life.
I think as we start to evolve asa people, we need to do it
collectively, and the only wayto do so is not by placing
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judgment on others, but alsoholding people.
Right is right, wrong is wrong,and you can't operate in the
wrong.
And expect good things tofollow.
Right?
I've even, as a child, I'vealways felt like God will never
bless something that doesn'talign with His path for your
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life.
And ultimately that doesn'talign with wellness, right?
No one's telling you to be themost righteous person on the
planet.
No one's saying you must dothis, but right is right and
wrong is wrong.
You cannot walk aroundmistreating.
People and expect them towelcome you into their community
with open arms and in this worldtoday, I think we are suffering
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from a great deal of loneliness.
With all that the internet hasadvanced us with what it has
stolen, without a doubt, is theability for human beings to
connect on a real.
Personal level.
It's actually one of the reasonswhy I love to have in studio
guests for the podcast because Ithink the energy is different
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when we're in the same building.
Looking eye to eye, sharingstories and just holding a vibe
rather than virtually.
And while you consume this,podcast virtually, my goal
always is to build a communityfilled with.
Love and connection and you knowthat you resonate with my
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journey in some way or another,and with this sense of
loneliness that is plaguing usright now.
The real solution for it iscommunity, both online and
offline.
So I'll ask you, how are youshowing up for your community
right now?
Because the answer willstrengthen our future.
Okay.
Okay.
On a lighter note, fall tv.
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One thing I love aboutSeptember, if you're a parent,
if you're not a parent, listenhere, listen here in, we all
know September is the secondreal new year.
And fall TV is on its way back,and I'm excited as someone who
doesn't really love tv, I'llwatch YouTube.
I love my YouTube girls.
Um.
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Who keep, I feel like keep hold,who holds me down through the
fall TV hiatus.
Um, Peyton, Charles, Aaliyah,Jay, some of the veterans on
YouTube.
But those two are my go-to GirlsTanika, girl Tanika with the
fashion tips and she is.
Hysterical.
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I'm trying to get the girls onthe podcast.
So if you see'em and you hearthem out in the world put it in
their comments to come on overto how do you divine so we can
have a conversation.
I love to see women out in thespace growing and learning and
just giving us the opportunityto follow their lives in a real
way.
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Without oversharing, and one ofthe reasons I love these three
women is that they come fromthree different backgrounds,
three different areas of theworld, but bed.
They keep it a book, they keepit real.
They allow us to be a part oftheir sisterhood in a real way.
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And most of all, ladies got thefashion.
As my daughter was saying, clockit at the girls be looking good.
The girls be looking good.
Yeah, I'm here.
I'm here for the pretty things.
The girls be looking good.
They be killing it.
Love to see it.
Love to see it every time.
back to fall tv.
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I, I live on two extremes.
Okay.
Because I have to watch my girlson the vlog.
I have to watch my YouTubegirls, but then I need my
scripted tv.
And listen, there is somethingpowerful about watching stories
unfold week to week, theentertainment, the writing.
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It tugs on all of myheartstrings.
So I'm gonna talk about twoshows that I'm really looking
forward to coming back.
Number one is Paradise.
Paradise on Hulu, to me, was animmediate hit.
Sterling K Brown.
Come on.
Come on, Sterling.
I would say come on in, get ahug, Sterling.
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But I feel like all black womengive Sterling K.
Brown a hug and we all are likejust supporting Ryan in her head
every night when she's takingcare of the household.
Ryan, I just want you to knowpersonally from me.
I'm with you girl.
I'm with you holding down themboys we all with you.
We love us.
And Sterling K.
Brown, paradise was awell-written season.
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One.
Loved every bit about it.
So season two, I'm locking in.
I might start a live series todiscuss scripted tv.
You guys let me know what youthink.
I'm into it.
If you are so.
So in addition, Beyond tv, I amvery intentional about my daily
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reading.
My reading has two levels.
I call it my learning and mylavishing.
In the mornings, if I getoverwhelmed, I usually try to
read right after my devotionalwhile I'm drinking my tea in the
morning.
That's my learning, so I amcurrently reading.
The Anxious Generation.
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The Anxious Generation, Ibelieve, by Jonathan Hall it's a
great book about how socialmedia is rewiring our brains and
how this generation willstruggle with mental wellness
while consuming this level ofsocial media.
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It's a really good book.
So in the morning, that's when Iread my learning book.
I like to get through at leastone, but mostly the goal is two
books a month.
I just started that book afterfinishing John Hope, Bryant's
book up from nothing.
Really, really enjoyed thatbook.
I think I'm also gonna get theaudible version to listen to it
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in my car.
It was very inspiring, but italso just talked about the road
to building legacy and acompany, and something that he
says often that I really admireis everyone should be a part of
the free market.
Yes.
He talks extensively about how,the American opportunity is not
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dead and the American economicsystem is built on small to
medium sized businesses.
So I really enjoyed that book.
And then we'll talk about mylavish book.
I know I am behind because thegirls were talking about this
for a while.
But listen, listen.
Listen.
I was busy.
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Okay, so I just, so I finishedthis book, curvy Girl a while
ago.
It was my lavish book, and whenI say my lavish reads, these are
fun books that help me wind downevery night because I wanna be
off.
Devices at a reasonable hourevery single day.
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I don't wanna go to bed with myphone in my hand.
I don't wanna wake up and touchmy phone.
I just really want to be presentand stay that way.
So for some time now, I chargemy phone away from my bed and
it's just me and my book.
So my lavish reading is alwayssomething a little fun,
sometimes a little juicy, if youknow what I'm saying.
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So I read Curvy Girl byDanielle.
I'm going to put the books in.
The podcast description, but Iremember reading Girl and that
book started off with a Bang.
Okay?
And I loved it.
And I read that book in twodays.
That's how juicy that book was.
So I picked up some books fromKennedy Ryan, and I know the
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girls love them some KennedyRyan.
So I said when my scheduleslowed down and I was able to
really get into it, I was gonnapick up some Kennedy Rye books.
And listen here.
I am almost done with before Ilet go, and I only started that
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last week and I only read it atnight.
So I tell myself I'm gonna readlike a chapter.
I ended up reading like two,three chapters'cause the book is
really good.
Shout out to Kennedy Ryan forjust being an awesome author.
Listen, details be detailing andshe just pulls you into a really
lovely story.
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Interweaves, these cultural relevant moments
and like, it was just, it wasreally sweet.
I am enjoying every single pageof that book.
I've already, I've alreadyordered the other books in the
series.
It's not necessarily a seriesbased on what I read on Barnes
and Nobles and Amazon.
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It's basically a, it's acontinuation of each character
that is in.
The books, so I'm loving beforeI let go.
I highly recommend if you're nota reader, start with a lavish
book, something that will pullyou in and have you laughing and
just having a really good time.
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I talked about it earlier, Ifeel like a few seasons ago when
Gabrielle Union's book came out.
There are books out here onthese shelves that will have you
cackling.
You hear me?
And one, I always refer toGabrielle Union's book when I
think about Laughing Out Loud.
Funny, there was a moment, andI'm not gonna spoil a book for
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you if you haven't gone and readher first book.
That wasn't, it wasn't in hersecond book.
Her second book was good too.
But in her first book.
I picked up the book, I wasreading it through.
There is a moment between herand one of her high school
bullies that when I said I headback laughing, I had to compose
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myself from that chapter alone.
It was too funny.
So.
As we enter the fall season andyou're getting into your fall
tv, both scripted and supportthe girls that are on YouTube,
the girls and the guys that areon YouTube with killing it, just
go in there.
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I just gave you three greatrecommendations, Tanika, Peyton,
Charles, Aaliyah, J.
I've given you tons ofrecommendations and I can.
Continue to give yourecommendations.
Feel free to put it in thecomments, and I'll share some
individuals, some creators thatare online and just really
building community in abeautiful way.
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I'm a part of their communityand I love it.
So shout out to them.
I encourage you to also pick upa little book.
You know, get away from the bluelights and consuming all, all
the content online.
Build some content of your ownin real life.
Season update now.
This is not a big announcementbecause we started the season
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with weekly episodes.
We tripped off to twice a month,but you guys have showed up and
showed out for August, and I amso grateful and I really, really
am.
Thank you so much for supportingthe podcast, and I know some
episodes are deeper than othersthe title is not meant to be
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intimidating.
It is meant to welcome you in tohow you define your life and how
your divine spirituality alignswith that life.
So I always like to bring alittle human conversation'cause
we're all just human beingstrying to live a good life
Moving forward, we're goingweekly until the end of the
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season.
You heard me, right?
Every single week we'll have anepisode of How Do You Divine.
I have learned so much over thissummer, both personally and
professionally, and I'm just soexcited.
For what is to come with thepodcast from the partners that
we are talking to, andpotentially we'll be onboarding
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and collaborating with to thenew season and the level of
guests that we're gonna have.
I am really excited and aboveall, truly grateful for all the
support and everyone that clicksto watch the likes, the
comments, the reviews.
Do not forget to review thepodcast wherever you are
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listening and watching I createdhow do you divine as a space for
us to see not only who we are,but how.
How we can be different in onecommunity, how our varying
definitions on how to live lifeby words that drive us is the
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thing that will bring ustogether.
It will bring unity, it willbring honesty, it will bring
empathy to the way we operatewith one another.
God is calling us all to beconsistent in some different
ways in our life, and I know forme this has been a
transformative experience andI'm really, really grateful for
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all of the support But in orderto show up in this season.
Expecting abundance and aligningwith God's calling over my life.
I need to be consistent.
And obedient I need to betransparent, um, and vulnerable.
'cause I really want us all togrow along this process of
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building a podcast and buildinga platform where emotional
intelligence is normal, where wetalk about.
The varying differences in howwe define the words that drive
our lives and find similaritiesin that journeys.
And if there are differences,which there will be, we can talk
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through it and allow everyone tofeel seen and heard.
Because when you live in adivine alignment, it is not
about perfection.
For the people in the back, it'snot about perfection.
It's about operating in with asense of love and persistence
and empathy and compassion forone another.
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To be completely honest andtransparent building this
podcast has come with itssacrifices, both financially,
mentally, emotionally.
And if I'm gonna ask you to bebold and courageous in your
life, I gotta do the same.
So I will be here every singleweek exploring our divine
definitions, one word at a time.
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Thank you so much for listeningto this episode of How Do You
Divine?
Stick Up In.
Thank you for listening to ThankYou for listening and watching
this episode of Stick Up inVibes.
See you on the next one.
Bye.
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