MICHAEL ESPOSITO SHOW - Michael Podcast - Verbal Journal 5 Gratitude will set you Free

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Episode Transcript

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Hey everyone, I'm Michael Sposito andthis is my verbal journal. I am
here in the iHeart Studio in Poughkeepsie, New York, and I'm grateful for
it. I was thinking about whatwill my verbal journal be today, and
the opportunity to be here in studio, the opportunity to interview amazing people on

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the michaelis Bosito Show podcast. Butit's not the michaels Posito Show podcast.
It's just called the michaels Posito Show. Well, you already know you're a
listener, right. The opportunity todo all of that, I'm grateful for.
So I'm bringing up I'm bringing thisup because I'm just thinking about gratitude.
I just had a really great guestand we spoke about childhood trauma,

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abuse, neglect, just amazing excuseme, awful things. I'm always speaking
about amazing things, sorry, butin this situation, we were talking about
awful things, awful things that happenedto her, awful things that happened to
others, awful things that happened topeople in the world, and she experienced

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childhood trauma. And I was tryingto understand, how do you get over
that? How do you move pasttraumatic situations? How do you move past
pain? In our experiences? Andwe didn't jump into gratitude. She spoke
about different things, and she focusedmore on education and learning and learning new

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new ways of living and transfer formingpeople's lives. That was really more of
the focus of the podcast. Butin the back of my mind, I
was thinking about gratitude. I wasthinking about my own experiences and trauma could
be defined in so many ways.It could be physical abuse, mental abuse,

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all different types of abuse. Buttrauma could also just be well,
I don't want to put the wordtrauma associate to this, but it could
just be going through bad or hardtimes of well, maybe it is trauma
going through depression and all that otherstuff. I mean, this is why
this is my verbal journal. Thisis just me thinking out loud everyone.
But where I'm going with this isjust thinking about my own experiences, thinking

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about the pitfalls that I've experienced,the challenges, the depression, the sadness,
the fear, and what moves meforward is gratitude. I'm grateful for
my grandmother. I'm grateful for mygrandmother Denise, who was there with me
when I was a kid, whenI was experiencing some really hard times.

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She was my rock. She wasthe person that was believing in me and
trusting in me and telling me Ican do it, telling me that I
have so much potential, just feedingmy mind with positive pivity. I'm grateful
for that. While I didn't alwayslisten to her and I didn't always be

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the kid that she wanted me tobe, I'm grateful for her sticking with
me. And when I think aboutthe hard times, I'm like, I
got something to be grateful for.I mean, I think about all of
my family and siblings and everything,but another thing that I think about in
this moment right now is grateful forthe positive reinforcement that my mother showed me

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of when I was having hard timeswritings papers for school, she would say,
you're a great writer, You're acreative writer, You're good at doing
this, you can do it.I don't know she'd really believe that,
but she made me believe it.She made me believe that I was a
really good writer. So I'm gratefulfor that, and that carries on into

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my life today of when I'm experiencinghard times, which I am. By
the way, everyone we're all Imean we all experienced hard times in different
ways in our lives. It doesn'tshow. It doesn't always show by you
know, the house we live in, or the cars we drive, or
the kids and the family and everythingthat we have. It doesn't always show

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in that way. We could experiencehard times and we doesn't see it.
So we're all experienced a hard time. So when I think about my hard
times today right now, the hardtimes I'm experiencing, I'm also grateful.
I'm just grateful for the opportunities thatI have and that I'm taking advantage of

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the opportunity to be right here recordingin a studio, Like I mean,
come on, this is amazing.Is this is a childhood dream to some
extent, Like yeah, being onthe big screen was more of the childhood
dream, that's for sure. ButI mean I graduated Maris College with a
radio, TV and film degree.I took classes on doing what I'm doing

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right now. How amazing is that? And I am in a professional studio.
I mean, this is the iHeartstudios. Like this is when people
are listening to their radio in thecar, this is where it's coming from.
If you're in the Hudson Valley,that is incredible. So I'm so

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grateful for this, and that's whatdrives me. That's what drives me to
do the things that I'm doing isrecognizing and realizing all of the greatness,
all of the opportunities that are infront of me, all of the things
that are around me, and beinggrateful for them. And I want to

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also acknowledge that sometimes I don't showup my best self. Sometimes I'm not
grateful. Sometimes I am kicking thecan and we all go there, right,
But what gets me out of thatfunk, which usually doesn't last long.
By the way, it doesn't lastlong anymore, and I'll tell you
the reasons why in a second.But what gets me out of that funk

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is when I started thinking about howgrateful I am, When I started thinking
about, wow, you know what, I Am lucky to have the sneakers
I have on. I'm lucky tohave the genes I have on. I'm
lucky to have the life and thebody and the experiences I have. And
I'm grateful for them, the badones too, because they taught me something.

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My bad experiences, my feelings ofresentment, of pain, of whatever
they were, I learned from thoseexperiences I chose to learn from those experiences.
So I'm grateful for them because they'vegotten me in this chair today to
record this episode. Those experiences gotme right here, So I'm grateful for

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every one of them. And I'llshare with you why I'm able to or
I guess what strategies or techniques Iuse to get out of that funk so
quickly now, which we're always availableto me, I just didn't choose to
use them. One are the peoplearound me. I have surrounded myself with

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a support system that whenever I'm ina funk, I know I can count
on somebody. I know I canreach out to somebody. I can text
them, I can call them,I can email them, I can do
whatever I need to do to reachout to somebody to support me in that
moment. And sometimes I don't evenneed to tell them that I'm feeling in
a funk. I don't even needto tell them that I'm feeling low or

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down. Just by communicating with themand them sharing their positivity and wisdom with
me brings me out of my funk. It's amazing. And I always had
that available to me, So I'mgrateful for that too. Another thing that
helps me get out of a funkis just listening to a positive podcast like

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this, a positive podcast like myshow, but in all seriousness, which
by the way, that's serious too, but in all seriousness. But yeah,
but listening to positive influencers, positivespeakers, positive messages has helped me
get out of a funk. DoctorWayne Dyer helped me get out of a

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funk. Listening to his books,listening to his stories. Tony Robbins helped
me get out of a funk.Going through his audio books, going through
his audio consents helped me get outof a funk. Those were always available
to me, reading positive messages.This is all stuff that we all have

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available to us, and I'm gratefulfor it all. But like if you're
feeling down, if you're feeling depressed, if you're feeling hurt, a couple
of things. Give yourself time,like don't put a time limit to it,
don't say I need to feel betterby just allow whatever is happening to

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you to take its course. Butdon't feed it with morning and negativity.
Don't feed it with more self doubt. Feed it with positive thoughts, feed
it with with positive reinforcement, likewith what my mother used to do for
me, of you're you're a goodwriter, Michael. That's what she would
say to me, Michael, you'rea really good writer. I was like,

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really, I am, I swear, I don't. I don't know
what. I don't think I hadgiven her any reason to say that to
me, but she said it andI believed it. So give yourself the
positive reinforcement. Like you know,um, you know the old whether this
works for you or not, butyou know, when you're sick, you

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drink chicken soup. Right when you'resick, you drink tea. When you're
sick, you take medicine. Whenyou're sick, you take things to try
to make you better. Right whenyou are physically sick, sneezing, coughing,
in bed with a fever, youare taking medicine to make you feel
better. And of course there's ahomeopathic ways to do it as well,
and and you're following those you're orwhatever it is, herbal teas and herbal

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everything, whatever it is that you'redoing. But my point is is that
when you're physically sick, you aretaking things to make you feel better.
And just to give some contrast tothat, you are not taking things that
will make you feel worse. Right, Like, if you're laying sick in
bed, you're not eating McDonald's.If you're laying sick in bed, you're
more than likely not drinking a bunchof alcohol unless you obviously have a problem.

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And that's a whole different conversation,and we're not going there right now.
You are taking things to feel better. Well. The same works with
our minds, The same works withour brains. Give yourself thoughts, feed
your mind positivity when you are feelingsick, when you are not feeling well,

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when you are feeling depressed, feelingdown, feeling down on yourself,
feeling in a funk, find positivethoughts, find positive books, podcasts,
quotes, people, and just startfeeding it. And just like with that
cold, you can't tell, youcan't you can't tell your immune system,

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immune system. I want this coldout of my body by X time.
We want to. I'm not sayingwe don't, like, Yeah, we
want I want that cold gone,right. I want to get through this.
I want to get to work tomorrow. I want to play with the
kids, whatever it is. Iwant to get through this cold. Right.
We want to give it a time, but we can't. It's our
immune system. It's got to runits course. It's got to run through

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us, and we got to feedit all of the medicines and herbs and
positive things that we can to getrid of it. It's the same with
our minds. It's got to runits course. But while it's running its
course, I believe it'll happen alot faster if you feed it positive energy,
feed it positive thoughts, and begrateful, be grateful for what you

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have. And as you start beinggrateful, write it down. Journal it
somehow. I journal through doing this. By the way, this is Michael's
verbal journal. This is my journalingright now, you know. So find
a way to journal it, video, audio, writing it, telling someone,
but start showing gratitude and it willhelp you get out of any funk

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you're in. And I gotta tellyou, we are all just we all
have something to be grateful for.We are all fortunate. No matter where
we are in our lives, thereis something to be grateful for, and
we just sometimes have to search alittle harder, sometimes have to look a
little deeper. But it's there,and there's people. There's so many people

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who want to help there's so manypeople who want to be that person for
you to offer you the opportunity tofind your gratitude, to be that positive
reinforcement. Seek those people out there, there, there, they're everywhere.
I'm here, right here. Ifyou're listening to this, if you're feeling

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in a funk and you're like Michael, you don't get it. There's nobody
in my circle. Michael, youdon't get it. There's nobody out there
like you or whatever it is,listen. If you're listening to this right
now, then you know me.You know me, and I'm here for
you. I'm your resource if youdon't have anybody, if you feel first
of all, because that's not true, but if you feel like you don't

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have anybody, I'm right here.I'm your resource. Reach out to me,
DM me whatever you need to do. I will help you find a
way to get that positive reinforcement tohelp you find gratitude in your life.
Because once you find that gratitude,oh my goodness, you will overcome everything
you're experiencing. It'll take time,but you will. So if you do

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want to DM me, just findme on any social platform. I'm typically
more on Instagram. Just go toMichael Esposito Inc. Michael Esposito Inc.
On Instagram. That's my handle onall platforms dm me. I'd be more
than happy to be a resource foryou, put some time together and try
to help you out as best asI possibly can. I also do an

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Instagram live every single morning, thatincludes Saturday and Sundays. Every single morning
before eight am, I do anInstagram Live. And I do that in
order to inspire, inspire you togrow together and to give back to everyone.
And so in that community, youcould drop something right there in the
message. If you join me live, you could just drop something boom,
just put it in there, justsay, hey, Michael, I'm having

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a tough time finding gratitude. I'llbe more than happy to help you right
then and there. So if youdon't think you have a resource, you
have one. If you're hearing thisright now, you have one. I'm
right here for you. Anyway,I went down a path I wasn't expecting,
but listen, I am grateful foryou. I'm grateful for all of
you out there, my listeners,my audience, my followers, my subscribe

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my call them, whatever you wantto call them. I'm grateful for you
as a person. I'm just grateful. I'm just grateful to have this opportunity
to speak to you. I'm talkingto you and I'm grateful for you.
Thank you. All right, goout there, go be grateful for something,
Stay happy, and stay healthy,and I'll see you next time. Bye.