December 16, 2024 • 32 mins
Embrace the power of starting now rather than waiting for the new year to transform your life. In today's episode, we're Danny Lee and Pierre, and we're celebrating our podcast's one-year relaunch anniversary with a message that consistency trumps perfection. We'll share how small, incremental changes can help you build deeper connections with God, others, and yourself, creating a life of purpose and meaning. Our cherished community means the world to us, and we invite you to join us on this journey—whether through a like, a comment, or even with a visit to Sanctuary Church in Orange County.
We'll uncover the keys to personal growth by setting realistic short-term and long-term goals that touch every aspect of your life, from relationships to finances. Think of us as your accountability partners, encouraging you to start working towards your dreams right now. Learn from those ahead of you, mentor those who look up to you, and build a supportive network that helps you realize your true potential. Waiting for a new month or year is unnecessary; the perfect time to refocus your vision and take action is always now.
Finally, discover how to embrace your gifts and talents, using them to bless others and fulfill the purpose God has placed within you. We'll reflect on the superficial nature of social media personas and emphasize the importance of authenticity. With a compelling "why" driving your goals, stay committed and avoid the pitfalls of abandoned ambitions. From starting our podcast with just a couple of microphones to growing a meaningful community, our journey is proof that great things can be achieved when you begin with what you have and trust in the gifts you've been given.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everybody?
Welcome to let's Dig thePodcast.
Yo listen, I have one questionfor you.
One question Stop what you'redoing, Stop scrolling, Stop
clicking around, Just listen tome.
I have one question for you.
The question is what are youdoing to prepare for the new
year?
I think most people don't thinkabout that until that last week
of the year and everybody'scoming 26 through 31st.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's the only time they think about it, bro.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Everyone's coming up with these whack, bogus
statements of like 30 pounds in30 days, new me detox.
Here we go.
January 1st, day one.
Oh my word, I'm like bro.
Day one out of 365 days.
Stop doing that.
I think the best.
I'm going to give you your bestadvice right now.
I'm going to give it to youright now.
Matter of fact, we got a bunchof stuff we're going to say, but
I'm going to tell you thisright now this will change your
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life.
I think for the new year,everybody needs to commit to
consistency over perfection.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Something is better than nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Something is better than nothing.
The goal is not okay.
I'm going to kill it this time.
I'm going to go perfect thistime.
I'm going to change everything.
I'm going to stop eating sweetJanuary 1st.
I'm going to stop eating bread.
You don't need to go extreme.
The first day of the year,matter of fact, start 10 days
before it start.
Seven days before it.
Tell yourself, you know whatI'm going to commit to, just
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something consistent versustrying to shoot for perfection.
But I think we're going to talkabout that in a little bit.
Let's, let's just introduceourselves real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What's up y'all?
Let's dig crew.
I'm Danny Lee, ldc baby LDC.
I'm Danny Lee.
This is my husband, pierre, andwe are here to help you grow a
deeper relationship with God,others and yourself.
So if you're ready, let's digso if you love the conversations
, link like give some love,comment, all the things.
Y'all know what to do.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let's not give them all the things.
Let's tell them one thing to do, because people get overwhelmed
.
They're like wait, wait what.
What do you want me to do?
I just told you what to do, butsome people they're just so
basic, they just look.
If you are liking theseconversations, if you're new to
the channel and you're lookingforward to this conversation, I
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like.
Why do you hit like?
First of all, it lets us knowthat we're on track.
It lets us know that you'reliking these conversations and
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If you're really liking it, youcan hit that heart button,
shout out to everyone that'sjoining us right here on YouTube
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We see you.
We love the comments, we lovethe feedback.
Talk back with us.
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But more importantly, man, wejust want to hear from you.
We want to know that if theseconversations have been a
blessing to y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know what I'm really loving right now, after
we're like 11 months in to thisrelaunching of the podcast.
Well, we're like 11 months into like this relaunching of the
podcast, but what I'm lovingright now is that we are getting
to a point where some of thepeople that are commenting are
just like regulars.
They're like oh, that'sso-and-so, oh, that's so-and-so,
and I'm loving that we'regetting to know people in our
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comments and people that justare consistently supporting us.
So thank you to y'all who writein the comments and that we're
writing back to you like, butthank you for just being the
crew, the let's take crew, theldc y'all are in the comments
and I love y'all.
Facts, facts.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I just wanted to say that I know some of you guys can
see this hat that I'm rockingright now on youtube.
If you're not watching onyoutube, shout out to everybody
that's listening to this onapple, spotify and all the other
uh media, um, platforms,platforms.
Well, like we love you guys,like seriously, man, it's been a
really cool year.
We're about to go in 12 monthsone year soon just since we
relaunched the page, and sowe've just really understood now
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our purpose, more now than everbefore.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And it really is.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That is, we want to be able to help everybody grow
deeper relationships with God,others and themselves man and so
I believe those relationshipsare the biggest things that we
need to make it through thislife.
And so if you guys are actuallyliking this hat right now, let
me know, because we haven'tprinted these hats out yet.
There's actually been twothat's been printed, but this is
the official one right here.
If you guys really like thishat, let me know and we will
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make it happen.
Matter of fact, we might printa few out, have them here and if
you want to meet us in person,I mean, pull up at our church
pull up at the church OrangeCounty.
Let's take a moment right now,Honestly, let's do a shout out.
If you guys don't even know, Idon't think we've actually ever
even invited people from theYouTube channel to church.
If you guys don't know we havethe awesome privilege to serve a
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really good, solid group ofpeople right here in Orange
County, california SanctuaryChurch.
That's our home.
I'm the associate pastor there.
I've just actually stepped intothat role this year.
I've been the music directorthere for the last few years.
God brought us there in 2020.
And that's where you can findus every single Sunday.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So don't say we've never invited you to our church.
Pull up, all right, it's inCosta Mesa St Juarez Church.
We're actually meeting at theHyatt right now, which has been
really cool.
But send us a DM, man, we'llsend you the info.
If you pull up, we'll give youone of these hats.
It's on us, okay, no-transcript.
(05:18):
Like what are you doing rightnow to prep yourself mentally to
go into this new year?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
right now to prep yourself mentally to go into
this new year.
Honestly, one of the thingsthat I am doing is I'm already
starting like little goals,little habits that I want to
implement for next year.
I am not waiting until January1st.
I think we talked about it inthe last episode of with the
holidays and here I said I'mactually working harder on my
nutrition on December 12th morethan I am any other month.
(05:48):
Um, and that's because I wantedto focus on my nutrition, uh,
before January 1st.
I don't want it to be a newyear's resolution no carbs, no
sugar not not for me.
No, thank you, I'm going tohave carbs, I'm going to have
sugar, but into the new yearinstead of waiting for day one
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like let the.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's no better time than right now.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Literally just start now even before the holidays and
your chances of continuing thathabit If you start before
January 1st is far greater Ifyou start it now as opposed to
if you started January 1st andalso too, for everyone that's
listening to this, even after wego live with this video like
this is honestly a mindset thatyou can take moving forward
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anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like if you get to a point where in the middle of the
year, right you're you'refrustrated with where you are
with like, with your life,you're frustrated with where you
are in your relationships,right In your mindset, you know
your spiritual goals, yourphysical goals, your financial
goals.
Like just stop everythingyou're doing and write down your
goals and start right there.
Start right there.
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You don't have to wait toJanuary 1st, you don't have to
wait to the 1st of the month,you don't have to wait to the
middle of the month.
Those are nice, I like.
I personally like doing stufflike 1st of the month because
it's easier to really just countdays and actually benchmark, to
know, like yo, I started at thetop of February or it was March
1st when I made that decision.
Or I'm like preparing myselfmentally, knowing that in 12
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days is the first.
So, I'm going to go live with iton the first, but I start
setting my mind mentally,knowing that that's where I'm
going.
I think too many people have.
They don't have good long-termgoals and short-term goals.
That's that.
Advice that I want to give toas well is, when you're setting
up, like your resolutions right,when you're telling yourself,
okay, these are the things thatI want to do in this new year, I
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really do think that we evenmyself, need to get better at
really connecting the short-termgoal with the long-term goal.
So the short-term goal is like,for example yo, this is the
amount of money that I want tohave saved up.
Right, short-term goal, right,that's the goal.
Okay, it's going to happen insix months?
Okay, but why?
How's it going to benefit you?
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What do you want to do toinvest with that money years
from now?
A year from now?
What am I going to do with that?
When you hit that goal?
I think, too, it happens to alot of times.
People get these goals and it'skind of anticlimactic because
they hit it and they're likewell, now what?
So you see, people hit theirfitness goal and they hit it,
and then they're like all right,cool, I hit it and then they it
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all comes right back becauseit's like yo, where's the next
benchmark?
Also, where do you, how do youwant to feel, just mentally and
physically long-term Like?
You know what I mean.
So I really think we need toget better at connecting our
short-term goal with ourlong-term goal, even for me as a
leader.
Anytime I sit down with people,I always say, okay, short-term
and long-term.
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Always you do Like you know whatI mean.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What is something that you want to implement for
2025?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't want to implement nothing, okay I'm good
I'm just perfect.
I'm not perfect.
I'm just gonna stand right hereand just watch you do your
thing oh, okay, great I'm justgonna watch me, like dang she
working hard on this new yearwhat?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
no, the people want to know.
What is pierre gonna like?
What do you?
What is a goal that you've setfor yourself for 2025?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
um, whether, it's for you, for our family.
Like what do you?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
what is a goal that you've set for yourself for 2025
?
Whether it's for you, for ourfamily, like what, what's the
one for you Share?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
with the people.
Something that I really want toimplement for this new year is
I want to have people that areabove me in all of my categories
keep me accountable.
That's a really good so, forexample, as a podcaster like
right now I'm seeking forsomeone that I admire in the
podcast world.
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Yeah, to hold me accountablewith my benchmarks.
It's good like for me as apastor right right, I'm working
hard to make sure I have pastorsthat are ahead of me, like my
pastor.
Yeah, he just gave me a booklast week for me to start
reading yeah okay, he's gonnahold me accountable, and that I
have another pastor friend thatI reached out, that I reached
out to that's a musician, andthat I asked him.
I was like yo, how do youmaintain that gift of a musician
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and a songwriter and producerwhile you're still a pastor,
right, you know, um, and theneven as a music producer?
So I'm working right nowcurrently finding two producers
that I admire, that I look up toto hold me accountable, to help
me reach my goals, and sothat's really what I want to do
in 2025 is that's the biggestthing that I'm working on Find
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those people that I can actuallylike hitch to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And I can actually not just ride their coattail.
That's not the goal, no ofcourse not.
But it's really to hold meaccountable in my goals, yeah
that's a really good one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I would say I would even want that as well, like I
think everyone should alwaysit's what you used to say you
should always be in a positionwhere you are learning from
someone and you're teachingsomeone.
Like you should always havesomeone around you that you're
pouring into, that you'reteaching certain things that
you've already accumulated andthat you've already learned and
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that you've already added toyour life, and, at the same time
, you should always have someonein your life that you look up
to and that they're doing thesame to you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it's, there are three levels of.
Let me say that.
Well, let me say that.
Well, let me process that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, cause this is what I would say.
Did I say it wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, you said it right .
So there are three levels ofpeople that should be in our
lives.
There are those that are aboveus or ahead of us, meaning like
we admire them, we're inspiredby them, we're influenced by
them and we're learning fromthem.
They're smarter than us.
There's those that arealongside us.
They're our peers.
They're the ones that we mayhave healthy competitions with.
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They're the ones that we'relike yo, holding them
accountable and vice versa,because we're on the same path,
the same journey, at the samelevel.
And then there are those thatare under us.
They're the ones that we'repulling up.
They're the ones that we'rehelping.
They're the ones that we'rementoring.
I think sometimes in life,sometimes we are overloaded in
some categories.
I know for me, most of the time, that third category is where
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it's overloaded.
I spent most of my time withpeople that I'm mentoring or
pulling up or discipling, andthen I feel depleted, I feel
empty or I feel like no one'spouring into me.
Every time I get to that seasonin my life, I'm like I don't
have enough people in categorynumber one, basically those that
can pour into me.
And then also I got to look atcategory number two and say who
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are those people that arealongside me that I'm like yo,
we got this.
That we're actually comparingourselves to each other, holding
each other's.
Like yo, did you do that thing?
Oh, I'm working on that too.
Yo give me some tips, and soI'd really do think, if we can
all have those three categoriesfulfilled, we can actually walk
a really well solid, balancedlife, never lacking.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, you know what I mean, which goes to why we
believe that relationships areso, so important, because they
literally craft you to be whoyou are called to be, who you're
meant to be.
It literally pulls the best outof you and then sometimes it
those relationships that arereal nitty gritty will show the
flaws in you, like marriage,like it shows the flaws in you
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so that you have to grow throughthose weaknesses, that you have
to work on the soft spots orthe sore spots, and you have to
grow through that.
So like it just goes to ourpurpose of how we invaluable
relationships are in your life,and I will say this too, while
we're even here.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We can probably make a note of it.
I do want to do anotherconversation specifically on
that topic, that topic of thethree types of people that you
should have in your life.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That would be a really good conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, because I think I'd like to elaborate on that,
because even category one,people may have a misconception
on what that should look like.
Like you know what I mean.
I think some people have thesesuperficial mindsets or these,
or they're following people thatare actually living pretentious
lives, Like it was just likewait, you're trying to keep up
with someone that actually doesnot exist.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's so crazy.
You know what I'm saying.
You follow somebody deep, deep,deep.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That's what I'm saying, like, oh, I follow this
person on social media.
I love their life, I'm tryingto, I'm learning from them.
I'm like, hey, baby girl,they're not real, all that is
fake.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Bro, there's a legit person on YouTube that I watch
occasionally and her wholeYouTube page is debunking how
much social media people arefake.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, bro, it's crazy .
So let's pause on this.
Let's put a pin right here.
We're going to pin thisconversation Because I really do
want to talk about that.
Yeah, that'd be a good.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Let's go back to 2025 .
It's coming so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I just a new year in general, a new year in general.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's true, whatever new year it is.
Um, I said that I'm going to,I'm starting things already,
like implementing small changesalready.
Um, you said that you have agoal of getting people around
you that can pour into you onall three levels.
I think another one for me thatI want to be intentional about
is planning and taking action,because I am really great at
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taking plans.
I am not great at taking action.
Um, I actually have even beenconsidering, um, there's like
these notebooks thatspecifically are checkbook, like
check mark books, and I thinkthat could work really well for
me.
Of like number one, I lovechecking things off and there
are so many times where Istruggle of like, oh, I wanted
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to post this more on socialmedia and maybe I take the
content and then I don't post it, don't finish it, don't edit it
, it's all in my phone but Ididn't do anything with it.
So, having that goal of like,okay, I'm going to post this
many times a week, but if I hadthat check mark to like, force
me of like, hey, you didn't dothis, yeah because Because I can
make the plan, but then it likefloats away somehow.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well, because normally I'm your check mark, I
know, and you just don't let medo my job.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Just yo matter of fact today, remember what you
was about said.
You better not finish thatsentence.
You better not say what I thinkyou're about to say.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I did.
I said what you said I wasgoing to say, because I haven't
done anything about it, but Iwas researching.
At least I was researching.
But yes, you're right.
So I want to emphasize notplanning.
I want to emphasize action, likeI want to put my feet to the
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ground and take steps and dothings Like I have so many
things that are sitting and likethere's just so many times I
get stuck or I get overwhelmedand then I don't do anything.
So I really, really like thisyear I'm going to take action so
y'all can hold me accountable.
Let's say crew, hold meaccountable, I'm going to take
action, so y'all can hold meaccountable.
Let's say crew, hold meaccountable, I'm going to take
action.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, there's a difference from talking the
goods and delivering the goods.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
True that, and I got goods to deliver.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know what I'm saying, well, you got a lot of
good.
You've been talking goods,ideas.
You have ideas for days.
I have ideas for days.
You know what I mean, and so I,I do.
Yeah, I do agree.
I think some like somethingelse.
That um, that um, people reallyneed to just get better at
doing, especially going to newyear, is, um, refocusing their
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vision.
So, refocusing your visiongoing into the new year, like
really processing and thinkingabout the vision.
What does it look like?
What does it feel like?
Is it realistic, is it bigenough?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think also, even just, is that what you want?
Like a lot of times, we kind ofdrift into certain things and
you have to like stop, wake upand be like wait, is this even
where I want to be?
So, like refocusing that visionof like, are the things that
I'm doing every day leading meto where I want to be, or is it
leading me to another direction,which may not be a bad
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direction?
Just, if that's not what youwant, then why are we working to
like refocus?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
all of that and I think I think the biggest
question, the biggest questionthat somebody should be asking
is why do I want this?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's a really heavy question.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Because if the why is massive, it will keep you up at
night to fulfill this vision.
If the why is little, you'lldump it overnight, you'll forget
about it, and I think so manypeople, even all I mean all of
us, even me.
I think sometimes we have toosmall of a vision or we have too
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big of a vision, but, moreimportantly, the why behind it
does not make sense, or the whybehind it might be for a selfish
reason or the why behind it mayhave an expiration.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, or it's just too shallow, it has no depth.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah.
So it's like why are you doingthis?
Well, like, I know a buddy ofmine and I don't know if he's a
listener of this, of of thischannel, but he's telling me all
the time he's like man, I wantto just make more music, I want
to write songs, I want toproduce things like that, and I
and I and I've.
I remember asking him.
I was like why?
And he said well, I won aGrammy and I'm like which is
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fair.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Like a lot of people, won a Grammy.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, but most people who win Grammys weren't looking
for Grammys, that's very true.
They just wanted to write songsor make music because that's
what's in them.
They wanted to write songsbecause they wanted to change
people's lives.
They wanted to write songsbecause they wanted to change
people's lives.
They wanted to write songsbecause they had a gift that
they were sitting on and thatthey felt a lot of guilt of
sitting on it.
They wanted to write songs forso many other fruitful reasons.
A reason like that, like yousaid, is very shallow, very
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shallow.
Because then you mature and yourealize, okay, I don't want, I
don't just want to chase thatanymore.
And now you realize, well, Idon't have a purpose anymore,
like like what I'm saying.
And so you dump the vision, youdump the goal.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I think a lot of times it.
It can be defined by whetherit's like if your vision is
about you or is it about others.
Right, like most of the time.
If your vision is just about Iwant a Grammy, it first of all,
if it starts off with I likemost of the time it's probably
selfish.
But if your vision it like forus, it is for others to grow a
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deeper relationship with God,others in themselves.
Like if it's outward focused,you're going to have so much
more depth because it ain'tabout you, it's not about us,
it's literally about helpingothers.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, the main reason why we keep showing up to this
recording every single week andwe put our conversations out
there, it's because we want tohelp other people.
Yeah, and that motivates us,that holds us accountable.
Yeah, and there's some times Idon't want to record.
Today, I didn't want to record.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, we've had a sick child all week.
I did not want to record today.
There's a lot of times where wedon't want to show up, but it
is the text messages that I getthroughout the week of like,
dude, that conversation waseverything I needed.
Wait, you talked about is, if Icalled you and you knew what I
needed to chat about, like thosethings.
And and we tell y'all all thetime, like the comments, the
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text messages, the DMs, the, thethank yous, like it really does
keep us going.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah For the new year.
I want to encourage everybodyto strengthen their
relationships with God.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, that's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Strengthen your relationship with God Like he's
the source, he's the foundation,and I know there's been some
years I've gone into some yearswhere I just thought my
relationship with God was justfine and I was okay with just
fine.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And then you hit rock bottom or you go through a
tough situation, or you havefinancial crisis, or you have
situation in your family orsomething going on at work you
know what I mean or somethinghappening at home, and then you
find yourself calling on God andyou're getting frustrated
because you don't like the paceor at the speed of which he's
responding back to you.
And if you realize he was thereall along, you just lost your
connection to him or you stoppedlistening to him or you became
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desensitized or you gotdistorted he was distorted with
all the things of the world andyou're not able to hear him.
And I realized, like man, goinginto this new year, I really do
think everybody should taketime to write down what they
want their relationship with Godto be like.
Going into a new year andtaking a moment Like I do think
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like if we're going to make anyvows or if we're going to make
any like decrees or anydeclarations or any promises,
like it should be to God.
Yeah, god should be the onlyone that we're like.
You know what, lord, this year Iwant to commit my life to you,
I want to devote myself to you,and here are the action steps
that I'm taking to do so andshow you how devoted I am to you
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.
These are the things that I'mno longer going to be listening
to.
These are the things that Iwill no longer be watching.
These are the people that I'mremoving from my life.
These are the places that I'mno longer going to.
I'm going to commit to church.
I'm going to commit to servingyou and serving your people.
Listen, your talk is cheap.
You know what I mean dead.
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So if you're not going to putin the work with your
relationship with God, biblealso says without faith, it's
impossible to please the Lord.
So what I'm saying is I thinkeverybody should make a
commitment before you enter intothe new year, not at January
1st, not at February 1st, march1st.
Before you enter into the newyear, you sit down and you think
about your relationship withGod.
Is it strong Like?
Has it been able to stand thetest of time?
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Where is your relationship now?
Do you want to go deeper?
Do you want to get closer withhim?
I do think that's one of thenumber one things actually
everybody should be doing.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I don't care if you're a pastor, I don't care if
you're a seasoned saint.
Yo, I don't care.
I don't care if you've beensaved your whole entire life.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's true, like you know what I mean, there's always
a deeper level.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jesus is God, was God himself when he walked on this
earth and he still stopped tosit with the Lord.
Yeah, he still stopped to talkwith the Father.
Yeah, like you know what I'msaying, yeah, and so I think
everybody needs to be doing that, all of us, even myself.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Like I'm preaching to myself right now.
Yeah, I think another reallygood thing to think about and to
make sure it's mindful of whenyou're going into the new year
is just like staying open tochange, knowing that life
changes every day, like thisweek we had our four-year-old
super sick, high fevers and Iwill say the first day that I
stayed home with her it was sohard for me as a self-employed
hairstylist to turn off my workbrain and just be mom and
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normally that comes very easy tome.
But that day I was supermotivated.
I had a long list of to dothings.
I had a meeting, I had this, Ihad that and I was like ready to
hit the gym and hit the groundrunning and with her waking up
with a fever, that all went outthe window and we were sitting
at the table.
I was trying to get my meetingon zoom and she was sitting at
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the table coloring and I wasfrustrated because the zoom
meeting wasn't working.
Some other things I couldn'tfigure out was trying to figure
out something else for work.
And she literally just looked upat me and she was like mommy,
I'm really happy to be spendingtime with you today.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And it like broke me, cause I was like man, I'm
frustrated, I want to get thiswork done, yeah, and my baby is
not feeling good and all she isis happy that she's sitting at
the table coloring with me.
And so just knowing that, like,plans will change, life will
change.
We don't know what's coming,but as we're talking about
setting up those habits already,start them now, because you
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don't know what's going tohappen on January 1st or 3rd or
April 17th or whatever day it is.
Like don't wait for then.
Start now and know that planswill change and you move with
them, like knowing that, okay,today was different, but
tomorrow I'm back to my routine.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, yeah.
So the very last thing that Iwant to share, man, I think this
really changed my life, um, asjust a young leader, um, even as
a parent, as a husband, um, Ithink everybody needs to really
know in their heart what God hasput in their heart and keep
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that close to their heart, likedon't forget that thing.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
But also along.
Equally as important is reallythink about what's been given to
you Like.
Use what you have.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think too often that people are always wishing
they had had, had, had, had.
And if they had had, had, had,had, they would do, do, do, do,
do Like you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, and I think you have whatyou have, so use what you have.
Yeah, it's all you have.
I know there's something inyour heart.
I know there's something thatyou see yourself doing down the
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road Step 10, step 12, step 20,step 100.
Yep, but the only thing that'sin front of you is step one.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
So true.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And if I could say something to anybody that's
listening right now that'sreally trying to think about how
do I take the next step?
You just take the very nextstep, yep, like it's what's in
your hand.
Whatever's in your hand isexactly what you need to take
the very next step.
Even for us launching thispodcast, relaunching a podcast
Like, we had access to YouTube,we had access to a few
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microphones, things like that,and we had some and we had funds
available at that time so thatwe're able to just purchase the
microphones and the cameras andthings like that, right, but we
were ready to go with just onecamera.
We was ready to go to just two,like just these two mics, yep
to go with just one camera?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Who's?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
ready to go to just two, like just these two mics.
Yep, you know, eventually wegot more lights, we got another
camera, things like that.
But you don't need all thatstuff to get started.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That was just a dream .
Even now, there's still someitems.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
There's still things yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, there's still some things that I want to get
right now.
I still need some more light,so if you want to help us out
with stuff, go ahead and donatewhat I'm saying is we had what
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we had and we use what we hadyeah and if I can say anything
to anybody, use whatever youhave to get started.
Yeah, the things that you havein your heart it's not in your
hands yet.
One day it will come.
Yeah, like jesus said, like ifyou're faithful with those who
are faithful with little, yeahwill become rulers over much
(28:06):
right.
like you know, I'm saying.
So, whatever's in your hand,you just use it and it will
multiply, like Like you knowwhat I'm saying, and so I don't
know.
If Jesus said that we're in theBible, I forget, like I was in
Proverbs.
People say aren't you a pastor?
The word of God.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The word of the Lord, the word of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The Bible says if you are faithful, those who are
faithful with little will berulers over much.
I do think it, but those whoare faithful with little will be
rulers over much.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But now, I'm just like wait.
Did Solomon say that?
Oh, that's true.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I don't know who said it, or did Jesus say it?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Or did Paul say it?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Can somebody fact check me right now?
And look, I'm just going totell you I didn't know.
Right now, I knew at a point intime and right now I just
forgot.
My mind is being fogged.
Right now I have nothing toprove, I just know it's in the
Bible.
I just forgot who said it.
I know it was words that wasinspired by God and saying the
word of God.
Forget who said it.
I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Why am I getting so frustrated with people?
I don't know You're fightingwith somebody, but I don't know
who you're fighting with.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm fighting with the religious people out there that
wants us to shut down ourYouTube channel.
Bible reference Like bro, relax, get a life.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I will say, though, as you were saying that and
encouraging them and we'll endwith this, as when you were
saying, like, just do somethingwith what you have A lot of us,
what we have, are our gifts.
A lot of what we have is whatGod has innately given us the
characteristics, the talentsthat are just inside of us, and
(29:31):
the challenging part is, most ofthose things that come so
natural to us are very hard forus to realize that they are
gifts.
And so, taking an inventory,taking a toll, and saying what
are the things that I don't evenhave to think about to do and
kill it?
Those are my gifts and that'swhat I have.
I may not have all the setup, Imay not have all the setup, I
(29:53):
may not have all the microphones, I may not have whatever I need
to get to step 10, like youwere saying, but what you do
have are the gifts that God hasalready planted inside of you,
and those are the things thatyou're going to be accountable
for.
Those are the things that, whenyou get to heaven, the Lord is
going to ask you what did you dowith what I gave you?
Because what I gave you aregifts and talents.
(30:13):
How did you use them?
How did you bless people aroundthem?
How did you develop them?
And so I would just encourageanyone to say, like sit down,
take some time and really thinkwhat are the things that I'm so
good at that I don't even haveto think about, because you
actually have to think aboutthose things towards yourself.
Like you can sit here and saywhat things I'm good at, and I
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can sit here and say what thingsyou are good at, but when they
come so easy to you, it's likeyou don't even think, like what
you can't do that easily.
And so those are the thingsthat you have.
So we hope that this has beenan encouraging conversation to
you.
It hopes to give you a lot ofexciting things to look forward
to, because this new year isgoing to be a great year.
I said it to you today.
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I said next year is going to bea good year, and he was like it
is.
How can you not go into a newyear not knowing?
I have no other choice but topray and hope that it is going
to be a good year.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I was just joking.
I know it's going to be a goodyear.
It's going to be a good year,so we love y'all.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thank you for digging with us, keep digging into
these conversations and keepdigging into the gifts that
God's given you, because he hasput wonderful talents and gifts
inside of you and a purposeinside of you and you are
responsible for what you have.
Don't go dig it into the ground, like the people did with their
talents, and they put it in theground and did nothing with it.
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What are you doing with thetalents that God has given you?
And if you have that in yourhand and God will bless it, you
could do a lot for him.
So we love y'all.
Hope this bless y'all, peace.
What's up everybody?
Welcome to let's Dig thePodcast.
Yo listen, I have one questionfor you.
One question Stop what you'redoing, Stop scrolling, Stop
clicking around, Just listen tome.
I have one question for you.
The question is what are youdoing to prepare for the new
year?
I think most people don't thinkabout that until that last week
of the year and everybody'scoming 26 through 31st.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's the only time they think about it, bro.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Everyone's coming up with these whack, bogus
statements of like 30 pounds in30 days, new me detox.
Here we go.
January 1st, day one.
Oh my word, I'm like bro.
Day one out of 365 days.
Stop doing that.
I think the best.
I'm going to give you your bestadvice right now.
I'm going to give it to youright now.
Matter of fact, we got a bunchof stuff we're going to say, but
I'm going to tell you thisright now this will change your
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life.
I think for the new year,everybody needs to commit to
consistency over perfection.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Something is better than nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Something is better than nothing.
The goal is not okay.
I'm going to kill it this time.
I'm going to go perfect thistime.
I'm going to change everything.
I'm going to stop eating sweetJanuary 1st.
I'm going to stop eating bread.
You don't need to go extreme.
The first day of the year,matter of fact, start 10 days
before it start.
Seven days before it.
Tell yourself, you know whatI'm going to commit to, just
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something consistent versustrying to shoot for perfection.
But I think we're going to talkabout that in a little bit.
Let's, let's just introduceourselves real quick.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What's up y'all?
Let's dig crew.
I'm Danny Lee, ldc baby LDC.
I'm Danny Lee.
This is my husband, pierre, andwe are here to help you grow a
deeper relationship with God,others and yourself.
So if you're ready, let's digso if you love the conversations
, link like give some love,comment, all the things.
Y'all know what to do.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let's not give them all the things.
Let's tell them one thing to do, because people get overwhelmed
.
They're like wait, wait what.
What do you want me to do?
I just told you what to do, butsome people they're just so
basic, they just look.
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We want to know that if theseconversations have been a
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Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know what I'm really loving right now, after
we're like 11 months in to thisrelaunching of the podcast.
Well, we're like 11 months into like this relaunching of the
podcast, but what I'm lovingright now is that we are getting
to a point where some of thepeople that are commenting are
just like regulars.
They're like oh, that'sso-and-so, oh, that's so-and-so,
and I'm loving that we'regetting to know people in our
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So thank you to y'all who writein the comments and that we're
writing back to you like, butthank you for just being the
crew, the let's take crew, theldc y'all are in the comments
and I love y'all.
Facts, facts.
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I just wanted to say that I know some of you guys can
see this hat that I'm rockingright now on youtube.
If you're not watching onyoutube, shout out to everybody
that's listening to this onapple, spotify and all the other
uh media, um, platforms,platforms.
Well, like we love you guys,like seriously, man, it's been a
really cool year.
We're about to go in 12 monthsone year soon just since we
relaunched the page, and sowe've just really understood now
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our purpose, more now than everbefore.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And it really is.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That is, we want to be able to help everybody grow
deeper relationships with God,others and themselves man and so
I believe those relationshipsare the biggest things that we
need to make it through thislife.
And so if you guys are actuallyliking this hat right now, let
me know, because we haven'tprinted these hats out yet.
There's actually been twothat's been printed, but this is
the official one right here.
If you guys really like thishat, let me know and we will
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Matter of fact, we might printa few out, have them here and if
you want to meet us in person,I mean, pull up at our church
pull up at the church OrangeCounty.
Let's take a moment right now,Honestly, let's do a shout out.
If you guys don't even know, Idon't think we've actually ever
even invited people from theYouTube channel to church.
If you guys don't know we havethe awesome privilege to serve a
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really good, solid group ofpeople right here in Orange
County, california SanctuaryChurch.
That's our home.
I'm the associate pastor there.
I've just actually stepped intothat role this year.
I've been the music directorthere for the last few years.
God brought us there in 2020.
And that's where you can findus every single Sunday.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So don't say we've never invited you to our church.
Pull up, all right, it's inCosta Mesa St Juarez Church.
We're actually meeting at theHyatt right now, which has been
really cool.
But send us a DM, man, we'llsend you the info.
If you pull up, we'll give youone of these hats.
It's on us, okay, no-transcript.
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Like what are you doing rightnow to prep yourself mentally to
go into this new year?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
right now to prep yourself mentally to go into
this new year.
Honestly, one of the thingsthat I am doing is I'm already
starting like little goals,little habits that I want to
implement for next year.
I am not waiting until January1st.
I think we talked about it inthe last episode of with the
holidays and here I said I'mactually working harder on my
nutrition on December 12th morethan I am any other month.
(05:48):
Um, and that's because I wantedto focus on my nutrition, uh,
before January 1st.
I don't want it to be a newyear's resolution no carbs, no
sugar not not for me.
No, thank you, I'm going tohave carbs, I'm going to have
sugar, but into the new yearinstead of waiting for day one
(06:27):
like let the.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's no better time than right now.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Literally just start now even before the holidays and
your chances of continuing thathabit If you start before
January 1st is far greater Ifyou start it now as opposed to
if you started January 1st andalso too, for everyone that's
listening to this, even after wego live with this video like
this is honestly a mindset thatyou can take moving forward
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anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like if you get to a point where in the middle of the
year, right you're you'refrustrated with where you are
with like, with your life,you're frustrated with where you
are in your relationships,right In your mindset, you know
your spiritual goals, yourphysical goals, your financial
goals.
Like just stop everythingyou're doing and write down your
goals and start right there.
Start right there.
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You don't have to wait toJanuary 1st, you don't have to
wait to the 1st of the month,you don't have to wait to the
middle of the month.
Those are nice, I like.
I personally like doing stufflike 1st of the month because
it's easier to really just countdays and actually benchmark, to
know, like yo, I started at thetop of February or it was March
1st when I made that decision.
Or I'm like preparing myselfmentally, knowing that in 12
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days is the first.
So, I'm going to go live with iton the first, but I start
setting my mind mentally,knowing that that's where I'm
going.
I think too many people have.
They don't have good long-termgoals and short-term goals.
That's that.
Advice that I want to give toas well is, when you're setting
up, like your resolutions right,when you're telling yourself,
okay, these are the things thatI want to do in this new year, I
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really do think that we evenmyself, need to get better at
really connecting the short-termgoal with the long-term goal.
So the short-term goal is like,for example yo, this is the
amount of money that I want tohave saved up.
Right, short-term goal, right,that's the goal.
Okay, it's going to happen insix months?
Okay, but why?
How's it going to benefit you?
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What do you want to do toinvest with that money years
from now?
A year from now?
What am I going to do with that?
When you hit that goal?
I think, too, it happens to alot of times.
People get these goals and it'skind of anticlimactic because
they hit it and they're likewell, now what?
So you see, people hit theirfitness goal and they hit it,
and then they're like all right,cool, I hit it and then they it
(08:38):
all comes right back becauseit's like yo, where's the next
benchmark?
Also, where do you, how do youwant to feel, just mentally and
physically long-term Like?
You know what I mean.
So I really think we need toget better at connecting our
short-term goal with ourlong-term goal, even for me as a
leader.
Anytime I sit down with people,I always say, okay, short-term
and long-term.
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Always you do Like you know whatI mean.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What is something that you want to implement for
2025?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't want to implement nothing, okay I'm good
I'm just perfect.
I'm not perfect.
I'm just gonna stand right hereand just watch you do your
thing oh, okay, great I'm justgonna watch me, like dang she
working hard on this new yearwhat?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
no, the people want to know.
What is pierre gonna like?
What do you?
What is a goal that you've setfor yourself for 2025?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
um, whether, it's for you, for our family.
Like what do you?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
what is a goal that you've set for yourself for 2025
?
Whether it's for you, for ourfamily, like what, what's the
one for you Share?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
with the people.
Something that I really want toimplement for this new year is
I want to have people that areabove me in all of my categories
keep me accountable.
That's a really good so, forexample, as a podcaster like
right now I'm seeking forsomeone that I admire in the
podcast world.
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Yeah, to hold me accountablewith my benchmarks.
It's good like for me as apastor right right, I'm working
hard to make sure I have pastorsthat are ahead of me, like my
pastor.
Yeah, he just gave me a booklast week for me to start
reading yeah okay, he's gonnahold me accountable, and that I
have another pastor friend thatI reached out, that I reached
out to that's a musician, andthat I asked him.
I was like yo, how do youmaintain that gift of a musician
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and a songwriter and producerwhile you're still a pastor,
right, you know, um, and theneven as a music producer?
So I'm working right nowcurrently finding two producers
that I admire, that I look up toto hold me accountable, to help
me reach my goals, and sothat's really what I want to do
in 2025 is that's the biggestthing that I'm working on Find
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those people that I can actuallylike hitch to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And I can actually not just ride their coattail.
That's not the goal, no ofcourse not.
But it's really to hold meaccountable in my goals, yeah
that's a really good one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I would say I would even want that as well, like I
think everyone should alwaysit's what you used to say you
should always be in a positionwhere you are learning from
someone and you're teachingsomeone.
Like you should always havesomeone around you that you're
pouring into, that you'reteaching certain things that
you've already accumulated andthat you've already learned and
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that you've already added toyour life, and, at the same time
, you should always have someonein your life that you look up
to and that they're doing thesame to you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, it's, there are three levels of.
Let me say that.
Well, let me say that.
Well, let me process that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, cause this is what I would say.
Did I say it wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, you said it right .
So there are three levels ofpeople that should be in our
lives.
There are those that are aboveus or ahead of us, meaning like
we admire them, we're inspiredby them, we're influenced by
them and we're learning fromthem.
They're smarter than us.
There's those that arealongside us.
They're our peers.
They're the ones that we mayhave healthy competitions with.
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They're the ones that we'relike yo, holding them
accountable and vice versa,because we're on the same path,
the same journey, at the samelevel.
And then there are those thatare under us.
They're the ones that we'repulling up.
They're the ones that we'rehelping.
They're the ones that we'rementoring.
I think sometimes in life,sometimes we are overloaded in
some categories.
I know for me, most of the time, that third category is where
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it's overloaded.
I spent most of my time withpeople that I'm mentoring or
pulling up or discipling, andthen I feel depleted, I feel
empty or I feel like no one'spouring into me.
Every time I get to that seasonin my life, I'm like I don't
have enough people in categorynumber one, basically those that
can pour into me.
And then also I got to look atcategory number two and say who
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are those people that arealongside me that I'm like yo,
we got this.
That we're actually comparingourselves to each other, holding
each other's.
Like yo, did you do that thing?
Oh, I'm working on that too.
Yo give me some tips, and soI'd really do think, if we can
all have those three categoriesfulfilled, we can actually walk
a really well solid, balancedlife, never lacking.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, you know what I mean, which goes to why we
believe that relationships areso, so important, because they
literally craft you to be whoyou are called to be, who you're
meant to be.
It literally pulls the best outof you and then sometimes it
those relationships that arereal nitty gritty will show the
flaws in you, like marriage,like it shows the flaws in you
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so that you have to grow throughthose weaknesses, that you have
to work on the soft spots orthe sore spots, and you have to
grow through that.
So like it just goes to ourpurpose of how we invaluable
relationships are in your life,and I will say this too, while
we're even here.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We can probably make a note of it.
I do want to do anotherconversation specifically on
that topic, that topic of thethree types of people that you
should have in your life.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That would be a really good conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, because I think I'd like to elaborate on that,
because even category one,people may have a misconception
on what that should look like.
Like you know what I mean.
I think some people have thesesuperficial mindsets or these,
or they're following people thatare actually living pretentious
lives, Like it was just likewait, you're trying to keep up
with someone that actually doesnot exist.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's so crazy.
You know what I'm saying.
You follow somebody deep, deep,deep.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
That's what I'm saying, like, oh, I follow this
person on social media.
I love their life, I'm tryingto, I'm learning from them.
I'm like, hey, baby girl,they're not real, all that is
fake.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Bro, there's a legit person on YouTube that I watch
occasionally and her wholeYouTube page is debunking how
much social media people arefake.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, bro, it's crazy .
So let's pause on this.
Let's put a pin right here.
We're going to pin thisconversation Because I really do
want to talk about that.
Yeah, that'd be a good.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Let's go back to 2025 .
It's coming so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I just a new year in general, a new year in general.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's true, whatever new year it is.
Um, I said that I'm going to,I'm starting things already,
like implementing small changesalready.
Um, you said that you have agoal of getting people around
you that can pour into you onall three levels.
I think another one for me thatI want to be intentional about
is planning and taking action,because I am really great at
(14:51):
taking plans.
I am not great at taking action.
Um, I actually have even beenconsidering, um, there's like
these notebooks thatspecifically are checkbook, like
check mark books, and I thinkthat could work really well for
me.
Of like number one, I lovechecking things off and there
are so many times where Istruggle of like, oh, I wanted
(15:12):
to post this more on socialmedia and maybe I take the
content and then I don't post it, don't finish it, don't edit it
, it's all in my phone but Ididn't do anything with it.
So, having that goal of like,okay, I'm going to post this
many times a week, but if I hadthat check mark to like, force
me of like, hey, you didn't dothis, yeah because Because I can
make the plan, but then it likefloats away somehow.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well, because normally I'm your check mark, I
know, and you just don't let medo my job.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Just yo matter of fact today, remember what you
was about said.
You better not finish thatsentence.
You better not say what I thinkyou're about to say.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I did.
I said what you said I wasgoing to say, because I haven't
done anything about it, but Iwas researching.
At least I was researching.
But yes, you're right.
So I want to emphasize notplanning.
I want to emphasize action, likeI want to put my feet to the
(16:13):
ground and take steps and dothings Like I have so many
things that are sitting and likethere's just so many times I
get stuck or I get overwhelmedand then I don't do anything.
So I really, really like thisyear I'm going to take action so
y'all can hold me accountable.
Let's say crew, hold meaccountable, I'm going to take
action, so y'all can hold meaccountable.
Let's say crew, hold meaccountable, I'm going to take
action.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, there's a difference from talking the
goods and delivering the goods.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
True that, and I got goods to deliver.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know what I'm saying, well, you got a lot of
good.
You've been talking goods,ideas.
You have ideas for days.
I have ideas for days.
You know what I mean, and so I,I do.
Yeah, I do agree.
I think some like somethingelse.
That um, that um, people reallyneed to just get better at
doing, especially going to newyear, is, um, refocusing their
(16:59):
vision.
So, refocusing your visiongoing into the new year, like
really processing and thinkingabout the vision.
What does it look like?
What does it feel like?
Is it realistic, is it bigenough?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think also, even just, is that what you want?
Like a lot of times, we kind ofdrift into certain things and
you have to like stop, wake upand be like wait, is this even
where I want to be?
So, like refocusing that visionof like, are the things that
I'm doing every day leading meto where I want to be, or is it
leading me to another direction,which may not be a bad
(17:37):
direction?
Just, if that's not what youwant, then why are we working to
like refocus?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
all of that and I think I think the biggest
question, the biggest questionthat somebody should be asking
is why do I want this?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's a really heavy question.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Because if the why is massive, it will keep you up at
night to fulfill this vision.
If the why is little, you'lldump it overnight, you'll forget
about it, and I think so manypeople, even all I mean all of
us, even me.
I think sometimes we have toosmall of a vision or we have too
(18:15):
big of a vision, but, moreimportantly, the why behind it
does not make sense, or the whybehind it might be for a selfish
reason or the why behind it mayhave an expiration.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, or it's just too shallow, it has no depth.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah.
So it's like why are you doingthis?
Well, like, I know a buddy ofmine and I don't know if he's a
listener of this, of of thischannel, but he's telling me all
the time he's like man, I wantto just make more music, I want
to write songs, I want toproduce things like that, and I
and I and I've.
I remember asking him.
I was like why?
And he said well, I won aGrammy and I'm like which is
(18:51):
fair.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Like a lot of people, won a Grammy.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, but most people who win Grammys weren't looking
for Grammys, that's very true.
They just wanted to write songsor make music because that's
what's in them.
They wanted to write songsbecause they wanted to change
people's lives.
They wanted to write songsbecause they wanted to change
people's lives.
They wanted to write songsbecause they had a gift that
they were sitting on and thatthey felt a lot of guilt of
sitting on it.
They wanted to write songs forso many other fruitful reasons.
A reason like that, like yousaid, is very shallow, very
(19:18):
shallow.
Because then you mature and yourealize, okay, I don't want, I
don't just want to chase thatanymore.
And now you realize, well, Idon't have a purpose anymore,
like like what I'm saying.
And so you dump the vision, youdump the goal.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I think a lot of times it.
It can be defined by whetherit's like if your vision is
about you or is it about others.
Right, like most of the time.
If your vision is just about Iwant a Grammy, it first of all,
if it starts off with I likemost of the time it's probably
selfish.
But if your vision it like forus, it is for others to grow a
(19:52):
deeper relationship with God,others in themselves.
Like if it's outward focused,you're going to have so much
more depth because it ain'tabout you, it's not about us,
it's literally about helpingothers.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, the main reason why we keep showing up to this
recording every single week andwe put our conversations out
there, it's because we want tohelp other people.
Yeah, and that motivates us,that holds us accountable.
Yeah, and there's some times Idon't want to record.
Today, I didn't want to record.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, we've had a sick child all week.
I did not want to record today.
There's a lot of times where wedon't want to show up, but it
is the text messages that I getthroughout the week of like,
dude, that conversation waseverything I needed.
Wait, you talked about is, if Icalled you and you knew what I
needed to chat about, like thosethings.
And and we tell y'all all thetime, like the comments, the
(20:42):
text messages, the DMs, the, thethank yous, like it really does
keep us going.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah For the new year.
I want to encourage everybodyto strengthen their
relationships with God.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, that's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Strengthen your relationship with God Like he's
the source, he's the foundation,and I know there's been some
years I've gone into some yearswhere I just thought my
relationship with God was justfine and I was okay with just
fine.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And then you hit rock bottom or you go through a
tough situation, or you havefinancial crisis, or you have
situation in your family orsomething going on at work you
know what I mean or somethinghappening at home, and then you
find yourself calling on God andyou're getting frustrated
because you don't like the paceor at the speed of which he's
responding back to you.
And if you realize he was thereall along, you just lost your
connection to him or you stoppedlistening to him or you became
(21:32):
desensitized or you gotdistorted he was distorted with
all the things of the world andyou're not able to hear him.
And I realized, like man, goinginto this new year, I really do
think everybody should taketime to write down what they
want their relationship with Godto be like.
Going into a new year andtaking a moment Like I do think
(21:54):
like if we're going to make anyvows or if we're going to make
any like decrees or anydeclarations or any promises,
like it should be to God.
Yeah, god should be the onlyone that we're like.
You know what, lord, this year Iwant to commit my life to you,
I want to devote myself to you,and here are the action steps
that I'm taking to do so andshow you how devoted I am to you
(22:19):
.
These are the things that I'mno longer going to be listening
to.
These are the things that Iwill no longer be watching.
These are the people that I'mremoving from my life.
These are the places that I'mno longer going to.
I'm going to commit to church.
I'm going to commit to servingyou and serving your people.
Listen, your talk is cheap.
You know what I mean dead.
(22:47):
So if you're not going to putin the work with your
relationship with God, biblealso says without faith, it's
impossible to please the Lord.
So what I'm saying is I thinkeverybody should make a
commitment before you enter intothe new year, not at January
1st, not at February 1st, march1st.
Before you enter into the newyear, you sit down and you think
about your relationship withGod.
Is it strong Like?
Has it been able to stand thetest of time?
(23:07):
Where is your relationship now?
Do you want to go deeper?
Do you want to get closer withhim?
I do think that's one of thenumber one things actually
everybody should be doing.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I don't care if you're a pastor, I don't care if
you're a seasoned saint.
Yo, I don't care.
I don't care if you've beensaved your whole entire life.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's true, like you know what I mean, there's always
a deeper level.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jesus is God, was God himself when he walked on this
earth and he still stopped tosit with the Lord.
Yeah, he still stopped to talkwith the Father.
Yeah, like you know what I'msaying, yeah, and so I think
everybody needs to be doing that, all of us, even myself.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Like I'm preaching to myself right now.
Yeah, I think another reallygood thing to think about and to
make sure it's mindful of whenyou're going into the new year
is just like staying open tochange, knowing that life
changes every day, like thisweek we had our four-year-old
super sick, high fevers and Iwill say the first day that I
stayed home with her it was sohard for me as a self-employed
hairstylist to turn off my workbrain and just be mom and
(24:15):
normally that comes very easy tome.
But that day I was supermotivated.
I had a long list of to dothings.
I had a meeting, I had this, Ihad that and I was like ready to
hit the gym and hit the groundrunning and with her waking up
with a fever, that all went outthe window and we were sitting
at the table.
I was trying to get my meetingon zoom and she was sitting at
(24:36):
the table coloring and I wasfrustrated because the zoom
meeting wasn't working.
Some other things I couldn'tfigure out was trying to figure
out something else for work.
And she literally just looked upat me and she was like mommy,
I'm really happy to be spendingtime with you today.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And it like broke me, cause I was like man, I'm
frustrated, I want to get thiswork done, yeah, and my baby is
not feeling good and all she isis happy that she's sitting at
the table coloring with me.
And so just knowing that, like,plans will change, life will
change.
We don't know what's coming,but as we're talking about
setting up those habits already,start them now, because you
(25:16):
don't know what's going tohappen on January 1st or 3rd or
April 17th or whatever day it is.
Like don't wait for then.
Start now and know that planswill change and you move with
them, like knowing that, okay,today was different, but
tomorrow I'm back to my routine.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, yeah.
So the very last thing that Iwant to share, man, I think this
really changed my life, um, asjust a young leader, um, even as
a parent, as a husband, um, Ithink everybody needs to really
know in their heart what God hasput in their heart and keep
(25:52):
that close to their heart, likedon't forget that thing.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
But also along.
Equally as important is reallythink about what's been given to
you Like.
Use what you have.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think too often that people are always wishing
they had had, had, had, had.
And if they had had, had, had,had, they would do, do, do, do,
do Like you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, and I think you have whatyou have, so use what you have.
Yeah, it's all you have.
I know there's something inyour heart.
I know there's something thatyou see yourself doing down the
(26:27):
road Step 10, step 12, step 20,step 100.
Yep, but the only thing that'sin front of you is step one.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
So true.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And if I could say something to anybody that's
listening right now that'sreally trying to think about how
do I take the next step?
You just take the very nextstep, yep, like it's what's in
your hand.
Whatever's in your hand isexactly what you need to take
the very next step.
Even for us launching thispodcast, relaunching a podcast
Like, we had access to YouTube,we had access to a few
(26:58):
microphones, things like that,and we had some and we had funds
available at that time so thatwe're able to just purchase the
microphones and the cameras andthings like that, right, but we
were ready to go with just onecamera.
We was ready to go to just two,like just these two mics, yep
to go with just one camera?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Who's?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
ready to go to just two, like just these two mics.
Yep, you know, eventually wegot more lights, we got another
camera, things like that.
But you don't need all thatstuff to get started.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That was just a dream .
Even now, there's still someitems.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
There's still things yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, there's still some things that I want to get
right now.
I still need some more light,so if you want to help us out
with stuff, go ahead and donatewhat I'm saying is we had what
(27:44):
we had and we use what we hadyeah and if I can say anything
to anybody, use whatever youhave to get started.
Yeah, the things that you havein your heart it's not in your
hands yet.
One day it will come.
Yeah, like jesus said, like ifyou're faithful with those who
are faithful with little, yeahwill become rulers over much
(28:06):
right.
like you know, I'm saying.
So, whatever's in your hand,you just use it and it will
multiply, like Like you knowwhat I'm saying, and so I don't
know.
If Jesus said that we're in theBible, I forget, like I was in
Proverbs.
People say aren't you a pastor?
The word of God.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The word of the Lord, the word of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The Bible says if you are faithful, those who are
faithful with little will berulers over much.
I do think it, but those whoare faithful with little will be
rulers over much.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But now, I'm just like wait.
Did Solomon say that?
Oh, that's true.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I don't know who said it, or did Jesus say it?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Or did Paul say it?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Can somebody fact check me right now?
And look, I'm just going totell you I didn't know.
Right now, I knew at a point intime and right now I just
forgot.
My mind is being fogged.
Right now I have nothing toprove, I just know it's in the
Bible.
I just forgot who said it.
I know it was words that wasinspired by God and saying the
word of God.
Forget who said it.
I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Why am I getting so frustrated with people?
I don't know You're fightingwith somebody, but I don't know
who you're fighting with.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm fighting with the religious people out there that
wants us to shut down ourYouTube channel.
Bible reference Like bro, relax, get a life.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I will say, though, as you were saying that and
encouraging them and we'll endwith this, as when you were
saying, like, just do somethingwith what you have A lot of us,
what we have, are our gifts.
A lot of what we have is whatGod has innately given us the
characteristics, the talentsthat are just inside of us, and
(29:31):
the challenging part is, most ofthose things that come so
natural to us are very hard forus to realize that they are
gifts.
And so, taking an inventory,taking a toll, and saying what
are the things that I don't evenhave to think about to do and
kill it?
Those are my gifts and that'swhat I have.
I may not have all the setup, Imay not have all the setup, I
(29:53):
may not have all the microphones, I may not have whatever I need
to get to step 10, like youwere saying, but what you do
have are the gifts that God hasalready planted inside of you,
and those are the things thatyou're going to be accountable
for.
Those are the things that, whenyou get to heaven, the Lord is
going to ask you what did you dowith what I gave you?
Because what I gave you aregifts and talents.
(30:13):
How did you use them?
How did you bless people aroundthem?
How did you develop them?
And so I would just encourageanyone to say, like sit down,
take some time and really thinkwhat are the things that I'm so
good at that I don't even haveto think about, because you
actually have to think aboutthose things towards yourself.
Like you can sit here and saywhat things I'm good at, and I
(30:34):
can sit here and say what thingsyou are good at, but when they
come so easy to you, it's likeyou don't even think, like what
you can't do that easily.
And so those are the thingsthat you have.
So we hope that this has beenan encouraging conversation to
you.
It hopes to give you a lot ofexciting things to look forward
to, because this new year isgoing to be a great year.
I said it to you today.
(30:55):
I said next year is going to bea good year, and he was like it
is.
How can you not go into a newyear not knowing?
I have no other choice but topray and hope that it is going
to be a good year.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I was just joking.
I know it's going to be a goodyear.
It's going to be a good year,so we love y'all.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thank you for digging with us, keep digging into
these conversations and keepdigging into the gifts that
God's given you, because he hasput wonderful talents and gifts
inside of you and a purposeinside of you and you are
responsible for what you have.
Don't go dig it into the ground, like the people did with their
talents, and they put it in theground and did nothing with it.
(31:31):
What are you doing with thetalents that God has given you?
And if you have that in yourhand and God will bless it, you
could do a lot for him.
So we love y'all.
Hope this bless y'all, peace.
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