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We built the system. We enforced the rules. We wrapped chains around you before you ever had a chance to fight back. Now, it’s time to tear them apart.
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Fatima Bey The MindShif (00:10):
Welcome to MindShift Power Podcast, the
world's only podcast built toempower the next generation.
I'm your host, fatima Bey theMindShifter, because shaping
tomorrow's world starts withconversations we have today,
because shaping tomorrow's worldstarts with conversations we
have today.
And welcome everyone.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter.
(00:30):
Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm doing another solo episodeand I'm going to talk about
something most of you probablyaren't fully thinking about.
Although this podcast is forthe next generation, which is
today's youth, teenagers andyoung adults, this episode is
for everyone youth adults allaround the world, and this is
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not just for people in Westerncivilizations.
So listen up.
One of the reasons I startedthis podcast is because I wanted
to do something to help ouryouth.
I wanted to bring togetheryouth and adults in a way that
is not usually done.
There's such a largedisconnection between youth and
adults, generally speaking, intoday's world, more than there
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probably has ever on earth.
There's always a degree of it,but never like today, because
we've never lived in the timesthat we live right now.
But one of the other reasons Istarted the podcast is because I
want to help youth.
I want to help them have abetter future.
That's why I talk about careerthings.
It's why I talk about college,it's why I talk about financial
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aid, etc.
It's about helping their future.
But today I want to talk aboutwhy there's a reason to talk
about the future of our youthand what we need to do about it.
I'm going to talk to adults andyouth in this conversation and
have different things to say toeach of you.
So, adults listening, we havefailed our youth.
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They're inheriting a world thatis broken and unsustainable,
and this is an undeniable fact.
I'm not going to sit here andsugarcoat shit and tell you it's
chocolate.
It is not.
This world is not in a goodplace right now and we're
leaving them with that.
They didn't create that.
We did.
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So what are we leaving them?
We're leaving them climatechange, which is a really bad
thing.
We're leaving them politicalunrest.
We're leaving them economicinstability.
That's their inheritance rightnow.
And again, I'm speaking ingeneral terms, across the globe.
I'm not talking about oneparticular country In this
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conversation.
I'm talking about global, thewhole earth.
There are pockets for whichsome of this is not true, but
they are the exception, not therule.
I'd like to put it like this wehave handed them a bowl of shit
and expecting them to bake acake with it Doesn't make any
damn sense, does it?
We have to stop telling ouryouth well, it was like this
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when we grew up.
They don't give a crap what itwas like when we grew up,
because that's not the worldthey're living in.
That is completely irrelevantto them.
It goes in one ear and out theother because it's not relevant
to them, because that's not thewhat they are experiencing.
And adults listening.
You need to understand thatwhat it was like when you grew
up is not the same for them.
So let me give you some factsand figures to back up what I'm
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saying, just so you don't thinkI'm just talking out of my ass.
Right now, the air that webreathe has more carbon dioxide
than any other time in humanhistory.
Do y'all know what a big dealthat is?
How long have humans been onthis earth?
There has never been.
Since we've been able tomeasure it, there has never been
more carbon dioxide in the airthan there is now.
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That is not a good thing, andfor y'all non-sciencey people,
that's bad.
That's bad air, let's put itthat way.
It's gone up over 50% sincefactories and machines started
running the world.
Again, our youth did not dothat.
We did.
Adults, we and our grandparents, we did that.
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And that extra pollution it isheating up the planet fast.
I don't even understand whyclimate crisis is a debatable
topic.
It's real, it's happening,period.
I really don't care what sideof the aisle you fall on.
That's the actual,scientifically proven truth.
2024 was the hottest year onrecord.
Global temperatures were 1.28Celsius warmer than the 20th
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century average, which meanswarmer than the average in the
1900s, following 15 consecutivemonths of record-breaking heat.
So we've had a record-breakingheat in general terms on this
earth right now.
That's not good.
And again, our youth did not dothat.
We did.
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3.6 billion people nearly halfthe world's population live in
areas that are highly vulnerableto climate change impacts like
drought, floods and extremeweather.
3.6 billion people, half theworld's population.
Do y'all hear that?
This is the world we're leavingthem?
I really want you to get thispicture.
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So cutting down trees is anissue too.
We've heard about this.
It's not just about losingforests.
It's pumping more pollutioninto the air than all the cars
in the world combined, and thisis why Because trees clean our
air, and the more we destroythem, the worse it gets.
This is an actual fact.
This is not opinions.
This is facts.
We're leaving them economicinstability.
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So let's talk about some facts.
With that, the world's moneysituation isn't as good as
everybody wants to make it seem.
China's like there's nothingwrong with our economy.
It's great Lies.
America, we're not in recession.
Everything's great Lies.
And a lot of other countriesJapan, a lot of other countries
are lying about their economybecause nobody wants to admit it
, nobody wants their citizens tofreak the hell out and nobody
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wants their stock numbers to godown because you admitted the
truth and you suck right now.
The truth is the world economyin general terms.
There are some countries thatare not doing bad, of course,
but in general terms, the worldeconomy is doing really, really
bad.
Prices keep rising, and this isnot just true in the US.
A lot of businesses arestruggling.
There are whole countriesfacing financial problems, not
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just the US.
A lot of people have beenfacing these problems for a
little while, but in the USwe're just starting to feel it.
I am recording this in May of2025.
When this is listened to in thefuture, some of these facts may
have changed.
So I feel the need to say thatI can only give you what is true
right now.
So people are working harderbut getting less in return.
And again, this is not just aUS thing.
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This is across the globe and ifthis keeps up, this next
generation will have even feweropportunities.
And again, they did not createthe situation adults, my peers,
we did Escalating trade wars.
Now we all know that sheriffsare bad and they're doing bad
things right now, and I don'tknow what they're going to do in
the future, because I can onlytalk about what they are right
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now.
And currently Trump ispresident and he has messed a
lot of things up, buteverything's not his fault.
There was a lot of messed upstuff before he came on the
scene that he had nothing to dowith Trade wars.
He made things worse with histrade wars, but there were
always there were already someunstable issues before that.
But either way, regardless ofwhose fault it is or isn't, none
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of our youth asked for that yetthey're going to have to deal
with it.
40% of the world's populationlives in countries experiencing
economic decline, with risingunemployment and financial
instability.
How is anybody young supposedto feel hopeful about their
future if they know this.
I'm just being real with y'all.
And again, these aren'topinions or feelings, these are
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facts.
Political unrest and globalconflict has grown so much
recently and it's a shame.
So 19 consecutive years ofdecline.
Global freedom has beenshrieking for nearly two decades
.
Do you hear that?
Adults that means our teenagers, our young adults do not know a
world where global freedoms arenot declining.
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Adults some of us actually doknow that world, but our young
people don't know that world.
They didn't grow up in it.
That's not a minor detail.
That's not a minor detail atall.
And then you wonder why some ofour youth don't think it's a
certain things are a big dealthat we do.
It's because they're used to it.
They're used to the negativity.
They're used to people making abig deal about everything.
They're used to it.
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We didn't grow up that way.
Adults think about that.
Take that in your mind whenyou're dealing with youth and
when you're talking to them.
They are not growing up in theworld we did so.
Global freedom has beenshrinking for almost 20 years.
Political violence, electionmanipulation and armed conflicts
have always been around, butthey're increasing.
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I would say there was a lot ofthis back in the 80s and we're
starting to reach that levelagain and going beyond it, and
again, our youth did not ask forthat.
State-based armed conflict isthe number one global risk right
now.
Did y'all know that Wars, coupsand terrorism are escalating
worldwide, making 2025 one ofthe most volatile years in
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modern history?
This is what we're leaving them.
They didn't ask for that andI'm going to keep saying that
because I want y'all tounderstand what a big deal this
is.
And youth listening I want youto understand the world that you
are actually living in 102%increase in civil unrest since
2011.
That is about it's 2025.
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So in the past 14 years,protests, riots, strikes, et
cetera, and the like haveincreased by 102%.
Y'all hear that 102%.
What does that tell you?
That's not good, but hold ony'all.
This whole message is not goingto be hopeless.
I'm just giving you some factsand figures so you can put a dot
on the map and see where wereally are, because you really
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can't figure out where to go ifyou don't know where you are.
Worldwide, there's an increasein people being dissatisfied
with their leadership andgovernance.
There's legitimate reasons forthat, and I'm not talking about
one country, because this is aglobal issue right now.
There are many, many reasonsfor that and the details vary
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per country, but that's a wholenother conversation.
But the fact that it'sincreasing makes a lot of bad
things more likely.
So, as I said before, today'syouth didn't cause any of this.
Yet they're growing up in aworld where they're going to
have to deal with it.
How we got here is not theirfault.
It's our fault, my generationand the generations before us.
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We created the world that theyare now growing up in, but
that's not the conversation Iwant to focus on.
How we got here is how we gothere.
That's a whole anotherconversation, that plenty of the
podcasts that talk about that.
But I want to talk about whatdo we do from here?
Here is where we are, not afantasy of where we want to be,
not a hopeful future.
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Here is where we are.
So how do we get from here to abetter place?
I'm going to use this analogy weare in a ditch.
How we fell in the ditch, whosefault it was.
We fell in the ditch.
Does that really freakingmatter if you want to get out?
It doesn't.
Now examining how you fell inthe ditch and whose fault it is,
etc.
Who owns the ditch.
All of that after the factexamining will help you to not
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fall in a ditch again Great, butit doesn't help you get out of
the ditch.
So I want to focus on theconversation about how to get
out of the ditch.
I just sat here and explainedonly some facts about the ditch
that we're in.
How do we get out of the ditch?
And I want to let you know thatevery single listener.
Right now, you are part of thatsolution, so why does all of
this matters?
Right now, you are part of thatsolution, so why does all of
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this matters?
Well, why am I talking aboutthis?
Adults?
If we don't shift our thinkingand get rid and shed some of the
old bullshit that we weretaught, this generation is going
to suffer even more because, inorder for things to change,
they need our help.
They need our help and if wewant to get stuck in, this is
the way it's been done for thepast 45,000 years in my family.
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Well, guess what?
It ain't freaking working, isit?
Because we're in a ditch?
It's time to help them and usclimb out.
We're going to need your helpto do that.
Youth, I want to plant a seed inyour head today.
If you are a young adult or ateenager, I don't care what
country you're in A 17-year-oldboy in China, 13-year-old girl
in Zimbabwe, mongolia, guatemala, name a place.
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I don't care where you are inthe world.
I want you to rearrange yourthinking to this.
Stop being a trend settler andstart being a trend setter.
Settler and start being a trendsetter.
If you want a different worldthan the crappy one we're
leaving you, you're going tohave to rise up and do something
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about it, because, obviously,what we've been doing ain't
working.
This means adults and youthalike the systems, the
traditions, the cultural normsthat have left us fucked up as
we are right now.
They've left us messed up.
They need to be challenged,they need to change.
So what does this mean?
This means adults.
As difficult as it is, we'regoing to have to rearrange some
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of our thinking.
We're going to have to undosome of the bad things we've
been taught and some of thethings that maybe genuinely
worked for our grandparents'generation, our parents'
generation, doesn't work now.
We have to start recognizingwhat works and what doesn't.
We have to start picking apartand do some critical thinking.
If we don't take the time to dothat, we are doomed, and so are
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our youth, and I don't wantthat for them.
I would not bother to get hereon the air and have this whole
episode if I didn't care.
I don't want that for them.
I hope you don't either.
And, youth, I want to challengeyou today, right now, to rise up
and stop settling for whatyou're being taught.
I am not saying that you needto be a rebellious jerk and be
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disrespectful to the adultsaround you and you know
everything.
You ain't got to listen.
I'm not saying any of that.
What I'm saying is you need toquestion everything and stop
just accepting what's been,because what's been doesn't work
.
If it did, you'd be in a greatsituation right now, and we're
not.
I want you to start challengingeverything you're taught in
school, everything you're taughtin your culture, and I don't
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care where in the world you are.
Question everything in yourculture, and I don't care where
in the world you are.
Question everything.
Now.
You might arrive at some of thesame answers, because it's not
like everything is wrong.
It's not like all traditionsare bad.
You might arrive at some of thesame answers Beautiful, great
but question them first.
I want to challenge you to riseup and stop settling for
everything you're told.
Stop just believing everythingyou're told, because half of
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what you're being told is a lie.
And I don't care what countryyou're from, I don't care what
color you are, what cultureyou're from A lot of lies in
every culture in the world.
Stop just believing everythingyou're told.
Practice some critical thinking.
Try to figure it out.
Do some research.
Don't just settle foreverything you're told and take
it, because if you do, you'regoing to drown with everybody
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else.
The told and take it, becauseif you do, you're going to drown
with everybody else.
The change that needs to happenis going to have to come from
you.
You're the one that's going tohave to live in this world.
You're the one that's going tohave to navigate your adulthood
not being able to buy a house.
You're the one that's going tohave to navigate your adulthood
not being able to have a job orfind a way to make a living
because of the economic status.
Now, that's not true everywherein the world.
There's still some pockets inthe world where things are good,
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but I'm talking in generalterms.
There's a lot of you that aregoing to suffer because you're
not doing anything now andwithin this conversation, who I
really want to talk to?
My youth, my teenagers.
Some of you are undiscoveredleaders.
Some of you have the solutionsto our problems, but you're too
busy trying to fit in.
You're too busy trying to beaccepted, so you don't allow
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that big brain of yours to comeout your mouth.
You've got to stop doing that,please.
We need the great gifts thatare in you.
There's so many of you who areunder 24 right now who actually
have the answers that this worldneeds, or at least a piece of
the answer that this world needs, but we're not getting it
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because you're believingeverything you're told and
you're shutting up andconforming and falling in line
with the bullshit that yourculture is teaching you.
Stop it.
We need what's in you and, yes,as you can hear, I'm very
passionate about this because Isee what's happening and I see
where we're headed and I see thedamage that's been done and if
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we don't rise up and make somewaves right now, there's no way
it's going to get better.
I'm sorry, but there's no hopefor the future.
We leave things the way theyare.
That's just the truth, and I'mthe first person to speak hope,
but I'm also the first person.
To be honest, see, what I wantyou to understand is leadership
doesn't always have to mean aposition or title.
Some of you are undiscoveredleaders, because you don't
realize you're a leader yourself.
Your thinking is where thesolutions are.
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When I said that, it's becausesome of the scientific
discoveries that haven'thappened yet is because you keep
suppressing it.
Stop suppressing the real you.
We need you.
There are so many of you thatare so intelligent and so oh my
God, so amazing, but yousuppress the amazingness and you
become like this mannequindummy, just fitting in with
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everybody else.
And the truth is is yourgreatness needs to be revealed.
Everybody around you is notgoing to accept it.
So, the hell, what?
What do they know?
I want you to understand thatmany of you are put on this
earth to create change, and I'mencouraging you to make an
effort at manifesting the thingsthat are in your head, the
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solutions that you actuallythink about, but you think no
one will accept.
Those things need to be saidout loud and let me explain this
to you.
I don't know if most of yourealize this, but most
inventions that we use right now, that are vital in our lives,
were invented by someone whothought differently than
everybody around them at thetime, and that's why we have
them.
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Many of you are the nextinnovators, the next politicians
that are going to changecountries, the next leaders that
are going to help people to notstarve and have clean water or
whatever that are going to cureillnesses.
But you're not going to getthere unless you start rising up
now and stop acceptingeverything as well.
This is the way it has to bedone.
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No, it doesn't.
You are the one that needs torise up and make this world
better so that you can navigateit better, so that you and your
future children can have a placeto live in.
That's good, that's decent,that's at least better.
So again, question everythingand don't just accept everything
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that we adults just tell you aswell the way it is, so that no,
no, no.
Question everything.
So this is not just a podcastepisode where we tell you all
the niceties and give youinformation.
This is a movement and it needsto start now.
Call it the mind shift movement.
It needs to start now.
Our, our youth.
I want you to have a betterfuture.
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I really do, but I want you towant that too.
Stop accepting everything, andI want you to also know, youth,
you have more power than yourealize.
If all y'all and we can, asadults say shut up, you don't
know nothing, you're just youngand stupid and all the other
dumb stuff that adults say, wecan say all that, but you have
more power than you realize.
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You can move past that and doanyway.
If all of you were to rise uptogether, us adults couldn't
hold you back.
Again, I'm not saying that youneed to be crazy, rebellious and
take over and try to kill allthe adults or go crazy or
whatever.
I am not saying to go that far.
What I'm saying is you need torise up and take a stand.
Become the next systems thatactually work instead of the
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broken ones we're handing you.
Create the next systems thatactually work instead of the
crumbling ones we're handing you.
That's how you rise up.
You rise up by taking a standand not just settling.
Demand better, demand better,and I don't mean spoiled brat.
Demand better, I mean demandbetter systems.
Demand better, and I don't meanspoiled brat.
Demand better, I mean demandbetter systems, demand better
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government, demand better jobs.
You don't just demand bywalking up and say gimme, gimme,
gimme.
You demand by accepting notaccepting less but at the same
time, creating a solution that'sbetter than what we have.
You want a better world.
Create the next solutioninstead of complaining about
today's mess.
The complaints about today'smess are very valid.
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However, don't just sit thereand whine and complain.
Stand up and create the systemsthat will do better than the
ones that are failing you now.
A global shift needs to starthappening, and you know how a
global shift will happen Oneperson at a time.
You think you're alone, but ifyou rise up, there's going to be
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two or three others that seeyou rise up and be like you know
what.
She's right, I'm going to riseup with her.
And then two or three peopleare watching those two or three
people and they start rising uptoo.
Next thing, you know, you gotthe whole room risen.
Change happens one person at atime, not a magical one-time
movement.
Change happens by you making adecision, one decision at a time
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.
You know the reason why a lot ofthings are tolerated in certain
societies, like domesticviolence.
I'll use that as an example.
It's because not enough peoplestand up and say uh-uh, we're
not allowing that.
Oh hell, no.
Because not enough people standup and say, uh-uh, we're not
allowing that.
Oh, hell, no.
So some of y'all need to have ahell no attitude when it comes
to how things are handled inyour school, in your church, in
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your mosque, in your government,at the job, at wherever.
Some of you need to have a hellno when it comes to things that
are actually wrong, not thingsthat are uncomfortable, not just
things that, well, I'm just, Idon't like that.
That's not good enough.
I mean, when things areactually wrong and damaging, you
need to have a hell no attitude.
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You know, where domesticviolence doesn't happen, in the
areas where the little cowardwho is the domestic abuser knows
that he'll get his ass beat, hechooses another way.
That's just a small example.
If you make a stand, if youdecide that you're going to take
a stand, even if it's onsomething small, it's hard to
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ignore that.
So, even though you might geton our nerves young adults and
youth you might get on ournerves when you take a stand
because you're not just makingit easy for us.
So the fuck, what?
So what Do it anyway?
Because you deserve a betterfuture than what we're handing
you.
So this is your future.
Don't let outdated systems andwrong ideas dictate it for you,
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my young adults, my teenagers,please don't let us keep fucking
it up for you.
This is your future.
Take a hold of it, because wehaven't.
And adults?
I've talked so bad about how weand our grandparents and our
great-grandparents have leftthis world, and it's true, but
it's not too late for us to makea difference.
I am making a difference bycreating a podcast and a space
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to have the conversations thatspark some of these things that
enhance what's already happening.
What can you do?
You don't have to have aplatform like me to be able to
do something.
I'm a public figure.
I'm all over the place.
You can Google me, you can see.
I'm all over the place.
I'm a public figure.
So I use my public vision, mypublic platform, to help.
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You don't have to be seen likeme.
You are just as important as Iam.
You can do something in yourneighborhood.
You can do something by helpingthe youth around you,
encouraging them to startbusinesses, encouraging them to
seek more and stop settling.
Encouraging them to be theirbest instead of being okay.
If you do that, you're doingjust as much as me.
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You are just as important.
You can do something too, andsome of the things whose fault
it is why we're here again.
I've stated some of that, butthat's not really the point, and
it's less important than thefact that our youth matter and
if you want them to have abetter future, start helping the
youth around you now, nottrying to bring them back to the
olden times that we don't livein, but helping them to adjust
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and be realistic for the worldthat they're headed for, not
just where we are, but where arewe headed, and how can you help
prepare them mentally to createa better world that they need?
The world needs minds that arechallenged and changed, and it
all starts with you.
You, listener.
I don't care what age you are,I don't care what country you're
in, what gender you are, whatyour economic status is.
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It starts with you, and I wantto also state this real leaders
don't wait for permission, theyjust take action, and some of
you need to start doing that,because if we all started doing
it, it would be hard to ignoreand things would actually get
done.
So I want to ask you what areyou willing to do today,
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listener?
I'm going to leave you with thisquote.
It's my own quote Today canchange tomorrow, but only if you
do something.
Thank you for listening.
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I'm your host, fatima Bey theMindShifter, because shaping
tomorrow's world starts withconversations we have today,
because shaping tomorrow's worldstarts with conversations we
have today.
And welcome everyone.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter.
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Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm doing another solo episodeand I'm going to talk about
something most of you probablyaren't fully thinking about.
Although this podcast is forthe next generation, which is
today's youth, teenagers andyoung adults, this episode is
for everyone youth adults allaround the world, and this is
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not just for people in Westerncivilizations.
So listen up.
One of the reasons I startedthis podcast is because I wanted
to do something to help ouryouth.
I wanted to bring togetheryouth and adults in a way that
is not usually done.
There's such a largedisconnection between youth and
adults, generally speaking, intoday's world, more than there
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probably has ever on earth.
There's always a degree of it,but never like today, because
we've never lived in the timesthat we live right now.
But one of the other reasons Istarted the podcast is because I
want to help youth.
I want to help them have abetter future.
That's why I talk about careerthings.
It's why I talk about college,it's why I talk about financial
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aid, etc.
It's about helping their future.
But today I want to talk aboutwhy there's a reason to talk
about the future of our youthand what we need to do about it.
I'm going to talk to adults andyouth in this conversation and
have different things to say toeach of you.
So, adults listening, we havefailed our youth.
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They're inheriting a world thatis broken and unsustainable,
and this is an undeniable fact.
I'm not going to sit here andsugarcoat shit and tell you it's
chocolate.
It is not.
This world is not in a goodplace right now and we're
leaving them with that.
They didn't create that.
We did.
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So what are we leaving them?
We're leaving them climatechange, which is a really bad
thing.
We're leaving them politicalunrest.
We're leaving them economicinstability.
That's their inheritance rightnow.
And again, I'm speaking ingeneral terms, across the globe.
I'm not talking about oneparticular country In this
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conversation.
I'm talking about global, thewhole earth.
There are pockets for whichsome of this is not true, but
they are the exception, not therule.
I'd like to put it like this wehave handed them a bowl of shit
and expecting them to bake acake with it Doesn't make any
damn sense, does it?
We have to stop telling ouryouth well, it was like this
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when we grew up.
They don't give a crap what itwas like when we grew up,
because that's not the worldthey're living in.
That is completely irrelevantto them.
It goes in one ear and out theother because it's not relevant
to them, because that's not thewhat they are experiencing.
And adults listening.
You need to understand thatwhat it was like when you grew
up is not the same for them.
So let me give you some factsand figures to back up what I'm
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saying, just so you don't thinkI'm just talking out of my ass.
Right now, the air that webreathe has more carbon dioxide
than any other time in humanhistory.
Do y'all know what a big dealthat is?
How long have humans been onthis earth?
There has never been.
Since we've been able tomeasure it, there has never been
more carbon dioxide in the airthan there is now.
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That is not a good thing, andfor y'all non-sciencey people,
that's bad.
That's bad air, let's put itthat way.
It's gone up over 50% sincefactories and machines started
running the world.
Again, our youth did not dothat.
We did.
Adults, we and our grandparents, we did that.
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And that extra pollution it isheating up the planet fast.
I don't even understand whyclimate crisis is a debatable
topic.
It's real, it's happening,period.
I really don't care what sideof the aisle you fall on.
That's the actual,scientifically proven truth.
2024 was the hottest year onrecord.
Global temperatures were 1.28Celsius warmer than the 20th
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century average, which meanswarmer than the average in the
1900s, following 15 consecutivemonths of record-breaking heat.
So we've had a record-breakingheat in general terms on this
earth right now.
That's not good.
And again, our youth did not dothat.
We did.
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3.6 billion people nearly halfthe world's population live in
areas that are highly vulnerableto climate change impacts like
drought, floods and extremeweather.
3.6 billion people, half theworld's population.
Do y'all hear that?
This is the world we're leavingthem?
I really want you to get thispicture.
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So cutting down trees is anissue too.
We've heard about this.
It's not just about losingforests.
It's pumping more pollutioninto the air than all the cars
in the world combined, and thisis why Because trees clean our
air, and the more we destroythem, the worse it gets.
This is an actual fact.
This is not opinions.
This is facts.
We're leaving them economicinstability.
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So let's talk about some facts.
With that, the world's moneysituation isn't as good as
everybody wants to make it seem.
China's like there's nothingwrong with our economy.
It's great Lies.
America, we're not in recession.
Everything's great Lies.
And a lot of other countriesJapan, a lot of other countries
are lying about their economybecause nobody wants to admit it
, nobody wants their citizens tofreak the hell out and nobody
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wants their stock numbers to godown because you admitted the
truth and you suck right now.
The truth is the world economyin general terms.
There are some countries thatare not doing bad, of course,
but in general terms, the worldeconomy is doing really, really
bad.
Prices keep rising, and this isnot just true in the US.
A lot of businesses arestruggling.
There are whole countriesfacing financial problems, not
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just the US.
A lot of people have beenfacing these problems for a
little while, but in the USwe're just starting to feel it.
I am recording this in May of2025.
When this is listened to in thefuture, some of these facts may
have changed.
So I feel the need to say thatI can only give you what is true
right now.
So people are working harderbut getting less in return.
And again, this is not just aUS thing.
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This is across the globe and ifthis keeps up, this next
generation will have even feweropportunities.
And again, they did not createthe situation adults, my peers,
we did Escalating trade wars.
Now we all know that sheriffsare bad and they're doing bad
things right now, and I don'tknow what they're going to do in
the future, because I can onlytalk about what they are right
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now.
And currently Trump ispresident and he has messed a
lot of things up, buteverything's not his fault.
There was a lot of messed upstuff before he came on the
scene that he had nothing to dowith Trade wars.
He made things worse with histrade wars, but there were
always there were already someunstable issues before that.
But either way, regardless ofwhose fault it is or isn't, none
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of our youth asked for that yetthey're going to have to deal
with it.
40% of the world's populationlives in countries experiencing
economic decline, with risingunemployment and financial
instability.
How is anybody young supposedto feel hopeful about their
future if they know this.
I'm just being real with y'all.
And again, these aren'topinions or feelings, these are
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facts.
Political unrest and globalconflict has grown so much
recently and it's a shame.
So 19 consecutive years ofdecline.
Global freedom has beenshrieking for nearly two decades
.
Do you hear that?
Adults that means our teenagers, our young adults do not know a
world where global freedoms arenot declining.
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Adults some of us actually doknow that world, but our young
people don't know that world.
They didn't grow up in it.
That's not a minor detail.
That's not a minor detail atall.
And then you wonder why some ofour youth don't think it's a
certain things are a big dealthat we do.
It's because they're used to it.
They're used to the negativity.
They're used to people making abig deal about everything.
They're used to it.
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We didn't grow up that way.
Adults think about that.
Take that in your mind whenyou're dealing with youth and
when you're talking to them.
They are not growing up in theworld we did so.
Global freedom has beenshrinking for almost 20 years.
Political violence, electionmanipulation and armed conflicts
have always been around, butthey're increasing.
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I would say there was a lot ofthis back in the 80s and we're
starting to reach that levelagain and going beyond it, and
again, our youth did not ask forthat.
State-based armed conflict isthe number one global risk right
now.
Did y'all know that Wars, coupsand terrorism are escalating
worldwide, making 2025 one ofthe most volatile years in
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modern history?
This is what we're leaving them.
They didn't ask for that andI'm going to keep saying that
because I want y'all tounderstand what a big deal this
is.
And youth listening I want youto understand the world that you
are actually living in 102%increase in civil unrest since
2011.
That is about it's 2025.
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So in the past 14 years,protests, riots, strikes, et
cetera, and the like haveincreased by 102%.
Y'all hear that 102%.
What does that tell you?
That's not good, but hold ony'all.
This whole message is not goingto be hopeless.
I'm just giving you some factsand figures so you can put a dot
on the map and see where wereally are, because you really
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can't figure out where to go ifyou don't know where you are.
Worldwide, there's an increasein people being dissatisfied
with their leadership andgovernance.
There's legitimate reasons forthat, and I'm not talking about
one country, because this is aglobal issue right now.
There are many, many reasonsfor that and the details vary
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per country, but that's a wholenother conversation.
But the fact that it'sincreasing makes a lot of bad
things more likely.
So, as I said before, today'syouth didn't cause any of this.
Yet they're growing up in aworld where they're going to
have to deal with it.
How we got here is not theirfault.
It's our fault, my generationand the generations before us.
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We created the world that theyare now growing up in, but
that's not the conversation Iwant to focus on.
How we got here is how we gothere.
That's a whole anotherconversation, that plenty of the
podcasts that talk about that.
But I want to talk about whatdo we do from here?
Here is where we are, not afantasy of where we want to be,
not a hopeful future.
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Here is where we are.
So how do we get from here to abetter place?
I'm going to use this analogy weare in a ditch.
How we fell in the ditch, whosefault it was.
We fell in the ditch.
Does that really freakingmatter if you want to get out?
It doesn't.
Now examining how you fell inthe ditch and whose fault it is,
etc.
Who owns the ditch.
All of that after the factexamining will help you to not
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fall in a ditch again Great, butit doesn't help you get out of
the ditch.
So I want to focus on theconversation about how to get
out of the ditch.
I just sat here and explainedonly some facts about the ditch
that we're in.
How do we get out of the ditch?
And I want to let you know thatevery single listener.
Right now, you are part of thatsolution, so why does all of
this matters?
Right now, you are part of thatsolution, so why does all of
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this matters?
Well, why am I talking aboutthis?
Adults?
If we don't shift our thinkingand get rid and shed some of the
old bullshit that we weretaught, this generation is going
to suffer even more because, inorder for things to change,
they need our help.
They need our help and if wewant to get stuck in, this is
the way it's been done for thepast 45,000 years in my family.
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Well, guess what?
It ain't freaking working, isit?
Because we're in a ditch?
It's time to help them and usclimb out.
We're going to need your helpto do that.
Youth, I want to plant a seed inyour head today.
If you are a young adult or ateenager, I don't care what
country you're in A 17-year-oldboy in China, 13-year-old girl
in Zimbabwe, mongolia, guatemala, name a place.
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I don't care where you are inthe world.
I want you to rearrange yourthinking to this.
Stop being a trend settler andstart being a trend setter.
Settler and start being a trendsetter.
If you want a different worldthan the crappy one we're
leaving you, you're going tohave to rise up and do something
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about it, because, obviously,what we've been doing ain't
working.
This means adults and youthalike the systems, the
traditions, the cultural normsthat have left us fucked up as
we are right now.
They've left us messed up.
They need to be challenged,they need to change.
So what does this mean?
This means adults.
As difficult as it is, we'regoing to have to rearrange some
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of our thinking.
We're going to have to undosome of the bad things we've
been taught and some of thethings that maybe genuinely
worked for our grandparents'generation, our parents'
generation, doesn't work now.
We have to start recognizingwhat works and what doesn't.
We have to start picking apartand do some critical thinking.
If we don't take the time to dothat, we are doomed, and so are
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our youth, and I don't wantthat for them.
I would not bother to get hereon the air and have this whole
episode if I didn't care.
I don't want that for them.
I hope you don't either.
And, youth, I want to challengeyou today, right now, to rise up
and stop settling for whatyou're being taught.
I am not saying that you needto be a rebellious jerk and be
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disrespectful to the adultsaround you and you know
everything.
You ain't got to listen.
I'm not saying any of that.
What I'm saying is you need toquestion everything and stop
just accepting what's been,because what's been doesn't work
.
If it did, you'd be in a greatsituation right now, and we're
not.
I want you to start challengingeverything you're taught in
school, everything you're taughtin your culture, and I don't
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care where in the world you are.
Question everything in yourculture, and I don't care where
in the world you are.
Question everything.
Now.
You might arrive at some of thesame answers, because it's not
like everything is wrong.
It's not like all traditionsare bad.
You might arrive at some of thesame answers Beautiful, great
but question them first.
I want to challenge you to riseup and stop settling for
everything you're told.
Stop just believing everythingyou're told, because half of
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what you're being told is a lie.
And I don't care what countryyou're from, I don't care what
color you are, what cultureyou're from A lot of lies in
every culture in the world.
Stop just believing everythingyou're told.
Practice some critical thinking.
Try to figure it out.
Do some research.
Don't just settle foreverything you're told and take
it, because if you do, you'regoing to drown with everybody
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else.
The told and take it, becauseif you do, you're going to drown
with everybody else.
The change that needs to happenis going to have to come from
you.
You're the one that's going tohave to live in this world.
You're the one that's going tohave to navigate your adulthood
not being able to buy a house.
You're the one that's going tohave to navigate your adulthood
not being able to have a job orfind a way to make a living
because of the economic status.
Now, that's not true everywherein the world.
There's still some pockets inthe world where things are good,
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but I'm talking in generalterms.
There's a lot of you that aregoing to suffer because you're
not doing anything now andwithin this conversation, who I
really want to talk to?
My youth, my teenagers.
Some of you are undiscoveredleaders.
Some of you have the solutionsto our problems, but you're too
busy trying to fit in.
You're too busy trying to beaccepted, so you don't allow
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that big brain of yours to comeout your mouth.
You've got to stop doing that,please.
We need the great gifts thatare in you.
There's so many of you who areunder 24 right now who actually
have the answers that this worldneeds, or at least a piece of
the answer that this world needs, but we're not getting it
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because you're believingeverything you're told and
you're shutting up andconforming and falling in line
with the bullshit that yourculture is teaching you.
Stop it.
We need what's in you and, yes,as you can hear, I'm very
passionate about this because Isee what's happening and I see
where we're headed and I see thedamage that's been done and if
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we don't rise up and make somewaves right now, there's no way
it's going to get better.
I'm sorry, but there's no hopefor the future.
We leave things the way theyare.
That's just the truth, and I'mthe first person to speak hope,
but I'm also the first person.
To be honest, see, what I wantyou to understand is leadership
doesn't always have to mean aposition or title.
Some of you are undiscoveredleaders, because you don't
realize you're a leader yourself.
Your thinking is where thesolutions are.
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When I said that, it's becausesome of the scientific
discoveries that haven'thappened yet is because you keep
suppressing it.
Stop suppressing the real you.
We need you.
There are so many of you thatare so intelligent and so oh my
God, so amazing, but yousuppress the amazingness and you
become like this mannequindummy, just fitting in with
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everybody else.
And the truth is is yourgreatness needs to be revealed.
Everybody around you is notgoing to accept it.
So, the hell, what?
What do they know?
I want you to understand thatmany of you are put on this
earth to create change, and I'mencouraging you to make an
effort at manifesting the thingsthat are in your head, the
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solutions that you actuallythink about, but you think no
one will accept.
Those things need to be saidout loud and let me explain this
to you.
I don't know if most of yourealize this, but most
inventions that we use right now, that are vital in our lives,
were invented by someone whothought differently than
everybody around them at thetime, and that's why we have
them.
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Many of you are the nextinnovators, the next politicians
that are going to changecountries, the next leaders that
are going to help people to notstarve and have clean water or
whatever that are going to cureillnesses.
But you're not going to getthere unless you start rising up
now and stop acceptingeverything as well.
This is the way it has to bedone.
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No, it doesn't.
You are the one that needs torise up and make this world
better so that you can navigateit better, so that you and your
future children can have a placeto live in.
That's good, that's decent,that's at least better.
So again, question everythingand don't just accept everything
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that we adults just tell you aswell the way it is, so that no,
no, no.
Question everything.
So this is not just a podcastepisode where we tell you all
the niceties and give youinformation.
This is a movement and it needsto start now.
Call it the mind shift movement.
It needs to start now.
Our, our youth.
I want you to have a betterfuture.
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I really do, but I want you towant that too.
Stop accepting everything, andI want you to also know, youth,
you have more power than yourealize.
If all y'all and we can, asadults say shut up, you don't
know nothing, you're just youngand stupid and all the other
dumb stuff that adults say, wecan say all that, but you have
more power than you realize.
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You can move past that and doanyway.
If all of you were to rise uptogether, us adults couldn't
hold you back.
Again, I'm not saying that youneed to be crazy, rebellious and
take over and try to kill allthe adults or go crazy or
whatever.
I am not saying to go that far.
What I'm saying is you need torise up and take a stand.
Become the next systems thatactually work instead of the
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broken ones we're handing you.
Create the next systems thatactually work instead of the
crumbling ones we're handing you.
That's how you rise up.
You rise up by taking a standand not just settling.
Demand better, demand better,and I don't mean spoiled brat.
Demand better, I mean demandbetter systems.
Demand better, and I don't meanspoiled brat.
Demand better, I mean demandbetter systems, demand better
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government, demand better jobs.
You don't just demand bywalking up and say gimme, gimme,
gimme.
You demand by accepting notaccepting less but at the same
time, creating a solution that'sbetter than what we have.
You want a better world.
Create the next solutioninstead of complaining about
today's mess.
The complaints about today'smess are very valid.
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However, don't just sit thereand whine and complain.
Stand up and create the systemsthat will do better than the
ones that are failing you now.
A global shift needs to starthappening, and you know how a
global shift will happen Oneperson at a time.
You think you're alone, but ifyou rise up, there's going to be
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two or three others that seeyou rise up and be like you know
what.
She's right, I'm going to riseup with her.
And then two or three peopleare watching those two or three
people and they start rising uptoo.
Next thing, you know, you gotthe whole room risen.
Change happens one person at atime, not a magical one-time
movement.
Change happens by you making adecision, one decision at a time
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.
You know the reason why a lot ofthings are tolerated in certain
societies, like domesticviolence.
I'll use that as an example.
It's because not enough peoplestand up and say uh-uh, we're
not allowing that.
Oh hell, no.
Because not enough people standup and say, uh-uh, we're not
allowing that.
Oh, hell, no.
So some of y'all need to have ahell no attitude when it comes
to how things are handled inyour school, in your church, in
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your mosque, in your government,at the job, at wherever.
Some of you need to have a hellno when it comes to things that
are actually wrong, not thingsthat are uncomfortable, not just
things that, well, I'm just, Idon't like that.
That's not good enough.
I mean, when things areactually wrong and damaging, you
need to have a hell no attitude.
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You know, where domesticviolence doesn't happen, in the
areas where the little cowardwho is the domestic abuser knows
that he'll get his ass beat, hechooses another way.
That's just a small example.
If you make a stand, if youdecide that you're going to take
a stand, even if it's onsomething small, it's hard to
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ignore that.
So, even though you might geton our nerves young adults and
youth you might get on ournerves when you take a stand
because you're not just makingit easy for us.
So the fuck, what?
So what Do it anyway?
Because you deserve a betterfuture than what we're handing
you.
So this is your future.
Don't let outdated systems andwrong ideas dictate it for you,
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my young adults, my teenagers,please don't let us keep fucking
it up for you.
This is your future.
Take a hold of it, because wehaven't.
And adults?
I've talked so bad about how weand our grandparents and our
great-grandparents have leftthis world, and it's true, but
it's not too late for us to makea difference.
I am making a difference bycreating a podcast and a space
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to have the conversations thatspark some of these things that
enhance what's already happening.
What can you do?
You don't have to have aplatform like me to be able to
do something.
I'm a public figure.
I'm all over the place.
You can Google me, you can see.
I'm all over the place.
I'm a public figure.
So I use my public vision, mypublic platform, to help.
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You don't have to be seen likeme.
You are just as important as Iam.
You can do something in yourneighborhood.
You can do something by helpingthe youth around you,
encouraging them to startbusinesses, encouraging them to
seek more and stop settling.
Encouraging them to be theirbest instead of being okay.
If you do that, you're doingjust as much as me.
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You are just as important.
You can do something too, andsome of the things whose fault
it is why we're here again.
I've stated some of that, butthat's not really the point, and
it's less important than thefact that our youth matter and
if you want them to have abetter future, start helping the
youth around you now, nottrying to bring them back to the
olden times that we don't livein, but helping them to adjust
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and be realistic for the worldthat they're headed for, not
just where we are, but where arewe headed, and how can you help
prepare them mentally to createa better world that they need?
The world needs minds that arechallenged and changed, and it
all starts with you.
You, listener.
I don't care what age you are,I don't care what country you're
in, what gender you are, whatyour economic status is.
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It starts with you, and I wantto also state this real leaders
don't wait for permission, theyjust take action, and some of
you need to start doing that,because if we all started doing
it, it would be hard to ignoreand things would actually get
done.
So I want to ask you what areyou willing to do today,
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listener?
I'm going to leave you with thisquote.
It's my own quote Today canchange tomorrow, but only if you
do something.
Thank you for listening.
Be sure to follow and subscribeto MindShift Power Podcast on
any of our worldwide platformsand be a part of the
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conversations shaping tomorrow'sworld.
This podcast is just one branchof the MindShift universe.
Explore more at FatimaBaycomand always remember there's
power in shifting your thinking.
See you next week.
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