July 22, 2025 • 43 mins
In this raw and vulnerable solo episode of The Q-Chat, host Shronda Armstrong invites listeners into a deeply personal space of reflection following the unexpected passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner. With heavy hearts and open minds, we explore the impact of sudden loss—not just of a beloved figure many of us grew up with, but of time, opportunity, and the unspoken words we often leave behind.
Shronda shares candid thoughts on mortality, grief, and how celebrity deaths can stir something profound within us. This conversation journeys through the importance of mending relationships, letting go of resentment, and choosing to live each day with intention. From her own challenges with forgiveness to the urgency of honoring our loved ones while they’re still here, this episode is an emotional reminder of how fragile life truly is.
As you listen, you’ll be encouraged to reevaluate your connections, cherish your time, walk in your purpose, and find joy in the present moment—even on the hard days. Because in the end, death reminds us of one simple truth: we must live while we’re still here.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Reflections on Mortality and Celebrity Deaths
11:31 – The Impact of Death on Personal Relationships
21:14 – Living with Purpose and Gratitude
31:32 – Embracing Life and Overcoming Fear
41:55 – Closing Message: Live, Love, and Geaux Love Ya’self
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Welcome to the Q Chat, the conversation for Queens who are
learning, healing and growing through it all.
I'm your host, Shronda Armstrong, self love advocate,
Finder of the Queen Media, and the proud voice for women who
refuse to shrink. Here on The Q Chat, we dive deep
into what it means to rise afterthe storm, to reclaim your
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crown, and to walk boldly in your truth.
This is a space for real talk. No filters and no fluff.
Just raw, honest dialogue to help you go love yourself.
Now let's get into it. Thank you for joining the Cute
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Chat today. We're just gathering again just
to have some heartfelt conversations.
Just some things we can reflect on and think about.
So I want to go ahead and just do another solo episode, of
course. And I want to just take it back
to some previous episodes that Iused to do when I first started
the platform between 2019 and 2020 when we did it on the Go
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series where we talked about current events.
And ironically, it all started with the death of Kobe Bryant.
It was just so sudden and so shocking is when we started to
do this off brand series called On the Go so that we can reflect
on current events that are happening right now.
I just had to go and grab these mic crap, this mic and just
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start to talk about the tragedy that happened yesterday in
losing Malcolm Jamal Warner. It's just such a shocking thing.
And I think since COVID and losing Kobe Bryant and just
sometimes, you know, celebrity deaths, they have been so, so
close together. Sometimes they're so shocking.
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And I don't know if it's just this current generation, maybe
because we're seeing a lot of people that we grew up watching
in our childhood passing away, that it just gives you another
reminder of mortality and how weall know that we are going to
leave this Earth. But of course, we just don't
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know when. But it is inevitable.
And I think it's just such a that is just something that is
just, it's just really somethingto process, you know, because
we're all gonna leave one day. We really truly will all leave
one day. But when things like this
happen, it just really makes youreflect on how we can live right
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now. So I just definitely want to
just talk about some different things about just what depth and
the real, the reality of it, just a reflection of what it
just, and what things we can think about when things like
this happen. And I know personally, I've
talked a lot about this sometimes that I personally, you
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know, this is a transparency moment.
I've just struggled with forgiveness with people, but
just seeing what happened yesterday or just learning of
the news yesterday, 'cause he passed away Sunday, it just
really makes you think, you know, him losing his life at 54
on vacation with his family thathe truly loved and he really
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seemed like a genuinely good person.
All the clips that I've seen of him over these past few hours,
he just really seemed like he had a true genuine light and
infectious energy. And to see somebody like that
leave like that at 54, it reallymakes you think.
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Another thing about just reflecting on his passing, it
makes you just think about what we can do to add value to the
lives that we have right now, right here and there.
And I know people talk about living each day like it's your
last. And it really, truly has weighed
on me over the past few hours. Just some things just aren't
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worth it. Some of the things that we
stress over are just just some of the things that we really
think are important. How important is it?
Because imagine if this was our last day.
It just really truly makes you think.
So as I said, you know, a lot ofI've been very transparent just
about how I have struggled with the notion of forgiveness with
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certain people are just how to how do you salvage relationships
with people who maybe have hurt you or I've just done things in
the past that it's just kinda hard to process or comprehend
certain instances. So again, just looking and
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thinking about this Malcolm Jamal Warner passing like this,
someone who I grew up watching, I mean, this is Theo.
And honestly, my youngest son's middle name is Theodore, 'cause
you know, for black families growing up watching a Cosby
show, it was like the staple of families.
So, you know, Theo, I named my baby, his middle name is
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Theodore. Because you know, Theo and black
families, we all knew what the name Theo represented that
character. He just represented that black
sun, you know, in that family that we all admired.
So this is just so hard to process.
So as I said, you know, I haven't having a transparent
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moment with you guys. I've definitely always just
thought about how do you move forward with people, you know,
And I just recently did an episode about the whole cut off
exercise. But you know, when you think
about somebody leaving this earth like this, it really has
made me reconsider honestly my thoughts on certain things.
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Now, mind you, life is extremelyshort.
So because of that, we really doneed to be mindful of the
relationships we have in our lives.
Again, some things are detrimental to our growth.
So I do stand on that. However, I just want to have a
reflection moment on just familyand friends.
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Some people are worth fighting for.
And so again, I as I said, yes, there are certain categories
where maybe we should put a period at the end of that
sentence. But on the flip side, how can
you put a period at that, at theend of that sentence and just
harbor no hard feelings so you can have peace?
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Because I feel like every negative interaction or any
emotion that we put towards maybe anger or resentment, it
depletes us of our energy. It takes away, it really removes
us from having a nice quality oflife.
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And again, we have to cherish every single day, every single
minute, every single moment because tomorrow really, truly
is not guaranteed. We, we don't know the day, the
time, or the hour that we're gonna leave this earth.
This man was on vacation, enjoying himself with his family
who he truly loved and adored. We don't know when that last day
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is coming. So if we sit back and reflect,
how do we want to be remembered?How do we want to leave this
earth? How do we want to make
connections? How do we want to make sure
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those connections have value? No.
Do we want to just make sure that we're living our lives so
that we really can make an impact?
And a impact doesn't have to be a you don't have to make an
impact with a whole mass of people.
Again, we live in a social mediaage where we look at quantity
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over quality. But how can we make sure that
our quality of life and the connection that we have and what
we pour into people and the the lasting feelings that people
have once we walk away, once we end that conversation, once we
say goodbye, once we move on, what are we doing to make sure
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that those impressions are valuable, that those connections
means something, that those connections are something that
have given joy or happiness or just value to the next person.
It really, truly when we when welose people like this,
especially someone who we grew up seeing that was a source,
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source of joy for us. Just seeing all the different
clips of The Cosby Show and Theoas we know, Theo and Cliff, you
know, that father and son dynamic throughout that entire
series was always a source of laughter, a source of joy.
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There was some memorable iconic moments that will go down in
history. And Malcolm Jamal Warner was the
light. He was the key to all of this.
And again, it's just so sad and heartbreaking to see someone
lose their life like this. But even beyond him, you know, I
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feel like just that in general is something that every day, if
you look online, I turn on the news or whatever, they're
reporting somebody who's passed away, you know, not famous, you
know, but I'm just saying in general, death is something that
the news reports a lot of because it's, it naturally gets
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a reaction. You know, it's to the point that
I feel like even after COVID, I don't know about you, but I
noticed a lot of outlets, they really harp on reporting death
as much as they can because again, it's a guaranteed
reaction from people. You know, there's a sense of
shock, there's a sense of emotion.
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You will generally get every action if you post someone who's
passed away. So just that in general, when we
see people leaving and, you know, I feel like as human
beings, we kind of have a slightsense of entitlement to time
'cause, you know, we're all famous for saying when we see
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someone pass away, Oh, well, this, this, this, this doesn't
seem like this was their time. They were, it's gone too.
They're gone too soon. You know, we get shocked over
this, you know, but with, in reality, we're all on borrowed
time. And I think that's the thing
that it's hard for some of us toprocess because death is the
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unknown and we don't like to be in control.
But it's just one of those things that we have no sense of
knowing what is on the other side.
This is a rather you're a spiritual person, whether you're
not, at the end of the day, there's no one that can come
back and tell us what that experience is.
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So we do not know what's on the other side.
So when things like this happen,it's a natural feeling to start
thinking and to start reflectingon life.
Are we wasting our time? Are there some things that we
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need to really take inventory of?
Are there some things that we need to really look over and be
like, you know what, man, I better change this?
Are there relationships with people who we really need to
make an effort to make amends with right now?
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Are there again some ties that maybe if this was your last day,
if you had a crystal ball and you knew when your last day was
coming, are some of these people, some people who you
should continue to walk with? There's so many thoughts that
come into mind when we think about just death and the just
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the final sentence of it. What are we doing?
There's so many things that you'd start to reflect on the
time that we spend with our families.
Are we making that time valuable?
Are the conversations we having with people are we make?
Are we making those conversations valuable?
Let's say it's the last conversation you have with a
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person. Was it valuable?
The last interactions we have with people?
Let's say it's truly going to bethe last interaction.
What have you never saw that friend again, or that parent
again, or your child again? Just whatever connection you may
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have with a person? What if you that that last
interaction you had with them? What if that really truly is the
last time you would see them? It really makes you think puts a
lot on your mind. Oh man, I swear, just seeing
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someone leave this earth like that.
And yes, of course, you know, and I, I know they'll, they're
all, they'll always be that person on this in the corner
that says, hey, people die everyday.
We know that famous line from the movie people die every day.
Be I get it. Yes, of course people die every
single day. But there's nothing like someone
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who you felt like you had a connection to, though believing
it makes you think a little differently.
And you do put yourself in thoseshoes, especially if it's
someone who you feel is, you know, at a pretty decent age.
I mean, he was only 54 years old.
That's that's young in my book. And especially when you look at
just his recent bodies of work, he looked really young.
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Of course, that melanin factor was working.
He looked fairly young for his age.
And also I think one of the things that hurts seeing just
knowing that he passed away is because we grew up watching him.
We watched him grow up. So I think of that kid passing
away, I think a little Theo passing away.
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And it's just really hard to process sometimes.
That's in any situation if you go to a funeral, which I
personally am not a fan of funerals.
I can't tell you the last time I've been to 1, but we all know,
like when you see a person's obituary, what do they generally
have in that obituary? Photographs of that person when
they were a child. And it's really heartbreaking.
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It's sad when you look over a person's whole life.
But there's also, there is also joy too, though, when you look
at a person who they seem happy,a person who it seems pretty
obvious that they were living intheir purpose, which I really
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truly feel like seeing Malcolm Jamal Warner and the things I've
seen of him, it really does looklike he was living in his
purpose. Seemed very happy.
He had his podcast, he was an active working actor.
He had his family that he loved and adored.
So that was someone that was living in that purpose.
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And maybe it really truly was his state to leave this earth at
age 54. Maybe that was already written
in the card since day one and that was just his time Sunday.
But from our human minds, the way we think in a logical
standpoint, it just gets very hard to just, you know, it gets
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really hard to just grasp the concept of death and leaving.
So again, when we see someone like that lead and someone who,
like I said, he seemed very happy and healthy and friends,
family, living his purpose, it does make it reflect on your
life. Am I living in my purpose?
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Do I have this happy relationships?
Am I making the most out of the time I have with my family and
my friends? I just my life in general?
Are we doing the work? Are we living our life?
Are we also making sure we're not living in vain?
What are we doing to pour into others, to give back?
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It makes you evaluate your purpose in life.
So again, this is just a reflection moment.
Just again, it just makes you think.
It really truly makes you think of time, what we can do with
that time, how we can make that time valuable in our lives, with
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our family, with our friends, even in our career goals to some
of us are living our lives with jobs or careers or goals that
really truly don't fulfill us. And some of us may be trying to
just really assess like, OK, is this a career I want?
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Is this the job I want? Am I making the funds that I
should be making? Is it all worth it?
Again, there's so many differentfeelings and thought processes
that comes to your mind when youreally, truly try to face
immortality and the reality of it.
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And the reality is that we are not going to live forever, that
the NA Yang is immortality versus mortality, that we truly
will leave this earth one day. So again, what can we do with
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the time that we have right now?So not to just be morbid and
bring people down, but again, I just want to put this out there
or just us reflecting on our lives, just thinking for a
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moment and just thinking, man, am I living in my purpose?
Am I really making the connections with people that I
have valuable? Am I being a good friend even as
parents? Are we doing what we really need
to do to connect with our children?
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I'll just make the time with them valuable.
If some of us are blessed us to have our parents here, what are
we doing to honor our parents? What are we doing to to salvage
certain relationships with people or even for some of us?
Who are in the opposite of that?Maybe.
Maybe you're in a transition period where you've had to let
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go of certain people in your life or certain situations.
Are you OK with those decisions?What's the next step?
So let's say that you were in a transition period where you
found yourself walking away froma lot of different things,
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people, places, things you just you started over.
Are you honoring those that start over?
Make sure you make the best of your life and make sure also
that the decisions that you're making it really we has been
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designed to add value to your life.
Again, when we see someone like this, someone who like I said at
my age book, he seems fairly young.
We talking 54. That's pretty young.
I know we were kids like that seemed like a old age, but you
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know, once you hit past age 4054, some people are really
just that being into themselves in their late 40s and 50s,
they're really starting to really, truly value the life at
that age, believe it or not. Oh, man, it just really makes
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you think a lot about life. Let's look at a lot of the clips
of Malcolm again. And he just seemed like he had
such amazing energy. All the people that were
connected to him, they're sayingso many beautiful, positive
things. Of course his connections are in
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shock and I keep thinking about his mother 'cause that's just
something I just knew just through history, how he was
raised by a single mother and that she was a vital part of
just him being such a well grounded person.
So my heart does go out to her and I just think about her and I
was her only child. And also recently I saw some
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clips of him speaking about his father and how when he would
visit his father during the summers, he would have him read
all these books, you know, by these prominent black figures.
And he have to write book reports.
And I know his father is still here.
So what a sad thing. And they really, truly clearly
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raised a well-rounded, solid person.
We know how child, the whole child actor thing.
He definitely didn't seem like he fell into any of those pits.
It's just something else just tosee someone who just seemed like
such a good person, such a lightleave like this and it just
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really makes you think and reflect about a lot again.
So just back to just us reflecting on how we can just
enrich our lives. And I know the common thread of
our platform of courses to talk about self love, how we value
ourselves, what we can do to just make sure that we're living
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in our purpose, that we're not settling and that we really,
truly are embracing self love and self worth and valuing
ourselves and living life unapologetically and not
compromising who we are. And just making sure that we
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truly value ourselves, that we don't compromise ourselves, that
we don't attach ourselves to anything that will disrespect
the essence of who we are. That we make sure that we move
forward, that we walk in a lightof healing, of purpose, a
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forward movement. That is the goal.
But again, when we look at somebody leaving this life like
this, it's a full circle. Not only just making sure that
we walk in purpose to love ourselves, but also how can we
truly love one another? How are we really truly valuing
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it does the people around us, our loved ones?
Life is just so fragile. No day is promised.
It just makes you just reflect so much on the people in our
lives whenever things like this happen, 'cause it's there, by
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the grace of God, it can be any one of us on a vacation with our
family and something happens. It can be us going behind the
wheel of our car just off to runerrands or go to work or
whatever. Something can happen, we wake up
in the morning, it really truly is a blessing that we have seen
another day. There is no day or moment that
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is guaranteed. Oh man, in times like this is
just a reminder of that. What can we do to just make sure
that we're honoring the gift that God gave us gave us, which
is called life. How can we honor that gift that
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we are on this earth? We have a purpose every day that
we are here. We have a purpose.
And I know like when people passaway, a common thing that we
hear is telling a when we speak of that person is saying well
done, well done servant. I think the thing that hurts us
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too, just with the whole then finality of death is we always
feel like, especially when someone dies at age 54 or
somebody who was happy living intheir purpose, we think, Oh my
God, it seemed like they weren'tdone yet.
They were still working on things.
Again, we have no knowledge or understanding of what God's plan
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is. So again, he was living in his
purpose and it who knows that timeline was already stamped in
stone. So that's the thing that makes
you reflect. Look at somebody like that who
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left living in that purpose happy.
We have to really be in the business of making sure that
every day that we have, we really, truly do live it like it
could potentially be our last day.
That we make sure that everything that we do has
purpose attached to it. But also, let's have the
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balance. Let's also reflect on have
purpose, but also have rest, Have fun.
Go ahead and do things that makeyou happy.
Go ahead and do something that'sgonna put a smile on your face.
Incorporate more things in your life where you find yourself
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laughing. Well, you know that you're
happy. Let's start making the days that
we have truly count. Let's have more days where we
are smiling, we are happy, we are living, we are loving, we
are experiencing joy. Let's have more days where we're
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putting joy in others, we're smiling, we're putting a smile
on other people's face. There's this clip, one of the
last clips that he posted, whichwas in May.
I think this was his final clip,my part, and that's not counting
his podcast. I know he did have a podcast he
started, but one of his personallast videos was him driving with
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a flower in his hair. It was his daughter's birthday.
He was just reflecting on. There's always a reason to
smile. And he said in his video as he
was driving. And if you are in a place, and
I'm paraphrasing, but if you arein a place where you feel that
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there's no reason to smile, go ahead and try to put a smile on
somebody else's face. Isn't that something else?
That is a way to live, That's a way to think every day.
We gotta have a reason to smile.And I know sometimes it's hard
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to push through and find that reason.
Trust me, I'd 100% understand. I'm a person who deals with on
and off again depression. It is so hard sometimes when you
feel like you are cracking or you feel like you're literally
mentally crumbling and you don'tknow what to do about it.
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Depression is like, it's like when you have the flu and you
have a fever, you have no, you have body aches, you have no
energy and you just want to get well.
That is what chronic depression feels like where it just hits
you out of nowhere and you are trying your best to find a
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reason to smile. So again, like I said, I get it.
But when we think of moments like this, I'm pressing you
guys. Please find a reason to smile
every single day. Try your best.
Even on the days that is hard, even on the days where it's so
dark outside, please find some light.
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Find a reason to smile. Whatever you can do.
Please find a reason to smile. And just like he said, if you
can't find that reason to smile,do something that makes somebody
else smile or make them laugh. And I promise you, you're gonna
feel that reciprocal energy is gonna come back to you.
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Find that reason to smile. Live your life.
Do whatever it takes to have some fun in your life, to have
some peace, to have some balance.
If you're walking in a purpose right now, you may find yourself
overworked. Put that word to the side today.
Relax, breathe, reflect, balance.
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If you're having some moments right now where you're like, you
know what? I wanna go spend time with my
family. I wanna go out, I wanna do this
thing. But you have all these things
that's pulling you back because,you know, like life.
I'm telling you, take some time today and rearrange that
schedule. Figure out how you can meet that
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friend that you've been pushing off for a while for lunch
because you've just been busy. You just can't figure out your
schedule. Please go ahead and figure out
that schedule anyway. Go ahead and meet with them for
lunch. If there's some things you need
to do with your children, with your family and you just been
pushing it off 'cause you're busy, go ahead and schedule it.
Please go spend that time with your children.
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Go spend that time with your loved one.
Go spend that time with your your spouse, but that person
your relationship with. Go call your parents today.
Go spend some time with your friends.
Or let's say it's the opposite. Let's say you're that person
who's always there for your family.
You're always there for your friends.
You're that person people call when they need somebody to talk
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to and you make sure you drop everything and be there for
them, but you haven't really been doing much for yourself.
Today is the day. Go ahead, go get that spy day
alone. Go get your nails done alone.
Just go to the park by yourself.Reflect, relax, go get that
extra me time. Go ahead and make it happen.
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Life is short, so go ahead and do what you have to do to make
the most out of today. Go ahead and make the most out
of tomorrow. It's not promised.
The time that we think we have is not promised.
And that's the sadness. And when you see somebody living
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their life to be taken like thator just to go that quickly, it's
a reminder that man, we have an arrogance in us.
So we think we have that next week or that next month or that
next year, or even when some of us talk about our plans and
we'll be like, oh, you know whatI'm going to do this next year
or no, start doing it now. We don't know.
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We have that next year. And it's not to be morbid.
It's not to instill fear in anybody.
It's just to remind you to reflect on the time that you
have. And also I want to remind you
all to not live in fear. Imagine if he lived his whole
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life in fear. Could go at 54.
Imagine if he lived his whole life afraid to do things to have
that short timeline. It's another reminder on the
flip side that we also need to not live in fear.
As humans it's natural to live our lives and a preventative
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mindset sometimes. Well you know what?
I want to play it safe. I kid it.
We also have to be fearless in some aspects of our lives too.
We have to really make sure thatwe go out there and we live,
man. We gotta make sure that we find
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a way to make it happen. That we find a way to be
unapologetic, but do not hold onto that nasty, ugly, filthy F
word of fear. We got to remove that out of our
lives too. Be fearless.
Go ahead and do the unthinkable.Again, you don't have the time
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that you think you have. And it's again, I'm not trying
to instill fear at all, but we don't have the time that we
think we have. So all that being said, we have
to be fearless. We just really, truly don't know
how time will work in our favor.So again, we really have to be
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very mindful of not being in fear.
We have to be very mindful of embracing our lives.
Going that trip that you may have been putting on, there may
be some things in your life thatyou still may think in the back
of your mind that it's impossible.
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You may think it's impossible togo on that trip to Paris.
You may think it's impossible togo ahead and lose those last 20
lbs. You may think it's impossible to
have a career change over age 40or over age 50 and above.
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You may think, you know what? I can't do that.
You may think it's impossible tosalvage certain relationships in
your life. You may have had a fallen out
with some people in your life, family members or friends, and
you think it's impossible to salvage that relationship.
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You may have some dead end relationships in your life.
You may think it's impossible tojust move on.
It's not impossible. You have to embrace the unknown
and go ahead and embrace like, my God, I really can do
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something different. Do it while you can.
If you're sitting here listeningto this message, that means you
do have time right now. Oh man, for me, when I see just
death is something that just, I just will never grasp the
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concept of it. And I know that sounds crazy,
but it's just hard for me personally to just understand it
sometimes because again, it's not unknown.
And for overthinkers like me, I'm overthinkers.
So I'm always thinking about when I hear somebody pass away,
like just how why? Just like when we find out
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somebody passes away. And sometimes as humans, we have
that natural inclination. We want to know what happened.
And some people always say, well, that's so rude when you
want to know what happened to a person, but it's just a human
thing because again, death is unknown.
And if you're over thinker, whenwe the more details we have,
sometimes it gives us something to think about to give us some
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type of peace or something if wecould try and have some
understanding of it. But again, like I said, death is
a reminder. It's a time to reflect.
It's a time to make amends. It's a time to go ahead and to
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just start living. That's the yin and Yang of it.
Death is a reminder to live. Again, this isn't a message to
be morbid or to and still any sadness even though for me
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personally this is a sad moment.A lot of us 70s and 80s babies,
we are sad right now just to seethis young man leave.
I know in chat with both men pass away.
That's it just was so gut wrenching like Hobie now Malcolm
to me, it's right up there. No shocking moments where it's
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like, man, I just can't believe this.
So again, I just really wanted to take time to just talk about
this and it just encourage people right now again to live.
We're only here for a short amount of time.
The time that we have is borrowed.
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We have to live our lives. We have to make sure that we are
walking in a path of purpose, ofhealing, of happiness, of
gratitude. Some of the things right now
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that may be bothering you. If you reflect on your life,
some of those issues may not be as big as you thought they were.
And that's where gratitude kicksin.
We have to be grateful for the time that we are blessed with.
So let's please also incorporategratitude in our lives as well.
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Thank you God, for the time thatwe have.
Thank you for the loved ones that we have that are still
here. When we incorporate that
gratitude as well, it really, truly makes you appreciate life.
Lord, thank you for me getting home safely.
Thank you for going on vacation with my family and coming home
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safely. It really makes you reflect and
as they say, have an attitude ofgratitude.
And we really, truly think aboutpeople leaving this earth.
It makes you be grateful. It makes you be grateful that
some of our loved ones are stillhere.
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So I just want to leave you again with this message to
please live your life, live, enjoy your life, make the best
of your life. Please.
Whatever you do, make sure that you live in love and living
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purpose and a beautiful rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner.
You made us laugh, you made us smile, you entertained us, you
made us think, and you spread love and joy to the people
around you and knowledge. Rest in peace to him and prayers
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to his family and friends. And for everyone that listened
to this message, I do pray that this message made you think and
reflect. And again, my message to you
today is to please live your life.
So thank you for tuning into this episode.
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This is a space for real talk. No filters and no fluff.
Just raw, honest dialogue to help you go love yourself.
Now let's get into it. Thank you for joining the Cute
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Chat today. We're just gathering again just
to have some heartfelt conversations.
Just some things we can reflect on and think about.
So I want to go ahead and just do another solo episode, of
course. And I want to just take it back
to some previous episodes that Iused to do when I first started
the platform between 2019 and 2020 when we did it on the Go
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series where we talked about current events.
And ironically, it all started with the death of Kobe Bryant.
It was just so sudden and so shocking is when we started to
do this off brand series called On the Go so that we can reflect
on current events that are happening right now.
I just had to go and grab these mic crap, this mic and just
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start to talk about the tragedy that happened yesterday in
losing Malcolm Jamal Warner. It's just such a shocking thing.
And I think since COVID and losing Kobe Bryant and just
sometimes, you know, celebrity deaths, they have been so, so
close together. Sometimes they're so shocking.
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And I don't know if it's just this current generation, maybe
because we're seeing a lot of people that we grew up watching
in our childhood passing away, that it just gives you another
reminder of mortality and how weall know that we are going to
leave this Earth. But of course, we just don't
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know when. But it is inevitable.
And I think it's just such a that is just something that is
just, it's just really somethingto process, you know, because
we're all gonna leave one day. We really truly will all leave
one day. But when things like this
happen, it just really makes youreflect on how we can live right
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now. So I just definitely want to
just talk about some different things about just what depth and
the real, the reality of it, just a reflection of what it
just, and what things we can think about when things like
this happen. And I know personally, I've
talked a lot about this sometimes that I personally, you
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know, this is a transparency moment.
I've just struggled with forgiveness with people, but
just seeing what happened yesterday or just learning of
the news yesterday, 'cause he passed away Sunday, it just
really makes you think, you know, him losing his life at 54
on vacation with his family thathe truly loved and he really
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seemed like a genuinely good person.
All the clips that I've seen of him over these past few hours,
he just really seemed like he had a true genuine light and
infectious energy. And to see somebody like that
leave like that at 54, it reallymakes you think.
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Another thing about just reflecting on his passing, it
makes you just think about what we can do to add value to the
lives that we have right now, right here and there.
And I know people talk about living each day like it's your
last. And it really, truly has weighed
on me over the past few hours. Just some things just aren't
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worth it. Some of the things that we
stress over are just just some of the things that we really
think are important. How important is it?
Because imagine if this was our last day.
It just really truly makes you think.
So as I said, you know, a lot ofI've been very transparent just
about how I have struggled with the notion of forgiveness with
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certain people are just how to how do you salvage relationships
with people who maybe have hurt you or I've just done things in
the past that it's just kinda hard to process or comprehend
certain instances. So again, just looking and
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thinking about this Malcolm Jamal Warner passing like this,
someone who I grew up watching, I mean, this is Theo.
And honestly, my youngest son's middle name is Theodore, 'cause
you know, for black families growing up watching a Cosby
show, it was like the staple of families.
So, you know, Theo, I named my baby, his middle name is
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Theodore. Because you know, Theo and black
families, we all knew what the name Theo represented that
character. He just represented that black
sun, you know, in that family that we all admired.
So this is just so hard to process.
So as I said, you know, I haven't having a transparent
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moment with you guys. I've definitely always just
thought about how do you move forward with people, you know,
And I just recently did an episode about the whole cut off
exercise. But you know, when you think
about somebody leaving this earth like this, it really has
made me reconsider honestly my thoughts on certain things.
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Now, mind you, life is extremelyshort.
So because of that, we really doneed to be mindful of the
relationships we have in our lives.
Again, some things are detrimental to our growth.
So I do stand on that. However, I just want to have a
reflection moment on just familyand friends.
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Some people are worth fighting for.
And so again, I as I said, yes, there are certain categories
where maybe we should put a period at the end of that
sentence. But on the flip side, how can
you put a period at that, at theend of that sentence and just
harbor no hard feelings so you can have peace?
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Because I feel like every negative interaction or any
emotion that we put towards maybe anger or resentment, it
depletes us of our energy. It takes away, it really removes
us from having a nice quality oflife.
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And again, we have to cherish every single day, every single
minute, every single moment because tomorrow really, truly
is not guaranteed. We, we don't know the day, the
time, or the hour that we're gonna leave this earth.
This man was on vacation, enjoying himself with his family
who he truly loved and adored. We don't know when that last day
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is coming. So if we sit back and reflect,
how do we want to be remembered?How do we want to leave this
earth? How do we want to make
connections? How do we want to make sure
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those connections have value? No.
Do we want to just make sure that we're living our lives so
that we really can make an impact?
And a impact doesn't have to be a you don't have to make an
impact with a whole mass of people.
Again, we live in a social mediaage where we look at quantity
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over quality. But how can we make sure that
our quality of life and the connection that we have and what
we pour into people and the the lasting feelings that people
have once we walk away, once we end that conversation, once we
say goodbye, once we move on, what are we doing to make sure
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that those impressions are valuable, that those connections
means something, that those connections are something that
have given joy or happiness or just value to the next person.
It really, truly when we when welose people like this,
especially someone who we grew up seeing that was a source,
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source of joy for us. Just seeing all the different
clips of The Cosby Show and Theoas we know, Theo and Cliff, you
know, that father and son dynamic throughout that entire
series was always a source of laughter, a source of joy.
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There was some memorable iconic moments that will go down in
history. And Malcolm Jamal Warner was the
light. He was the key to all of this.
And again, it's just so sad and heartbreaking to see someone
lose their life like this. But even beyond him, you know, I
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feel like just that in general is something that every day, if
you look online, I turn on the news or whatever, they're
reporting somebody who's passed away, you know, not famous, you
know, but I'm just saying in general, death is something that
the news reports a lot of because it's, it naturally gets
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a reaction. You know, it's to the point that
I feel like even after COVID, I don't know about you, but I
noticed a lot of outlets, they really harp on reporting death
as much as they can because again, it's a guaranteed
reaction from people. You know, there's a sense of
shock, there's a sense of emotion.
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You will generally get every action if you post someone who's
passed away. So just that in general, when we
see people leaving and, you know, I feel like as human
beings, we kind of have a slightsense of entitlement to time
'cause, you know, we're all famous for saying when we see
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someone pass away, Oh, well, this, this, this, this doesn't
seem like this was their time. They were, it's gone too.
They're gone too soon. You know, we get shocked over
this, you know, but with, in reality, we're all on borrowed
time. And I think that's the thing
that it's hard for some of us toprocess because death is the
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unknown and we don't like to be in control.
But it's just one of those things that we have no sense of
knowing what is on the other side.
This is a rather you're a spiritual person, whether you're
not, at the end of the day, there's no one that can come
back and tell us what that experience is.
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So we do not know what's on the other side.
So when things like this happen,it's a natural feeling to start
thinking and to start reflectingon life.
Are we wasting our time? Are there some things that we
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need to really take inventory of?
Are there some things that we need to really look over and be
like, you know what, man, I better change this?
Are there relationships with people who we really need to
make an effort to make amends with right now?
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Are there again some ties that maybe if this was your last day,
if you had a crystal ball and you knew when your last day was
coming, are some of these people, some people who you
should continue to walk with? There's so many thoughts that
come into mind when we think about just death and the just
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the final sentence of it. What are we doing?
There's so many things that you'd start to reflect on the
time that we spend with our families.
Are we making that time valuable?
Are the conversations we having with people are we make?
Are we making those conversations valuable?
Let's say it's the last conversation you have with a
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person. Was it valuable?
The last interactions we have with people?
Let's say it's truly going to bethe last interaction.
What have you never saw that friend again, or that parent
again, or your child again? Just whatever connection you may
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have with a person? What if you that that last
interaction you had with them? What if that really truly is the
last time you would see them? It really makes you think puts a
lot on your mind. Oh man, I swear, just seeing
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someone leave this earth like that.
And yes, of course, you know, and I, I know they'll, they're
all, they'll always be that person on this in the corner
that says, hey, people die everyday.
We know that famous line from the movie people die every day.
Be I get it. Yes, of course people die every
single day. But there's nothing like someone
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who you felt like you had a connection to, though believing
it makes you think a little differently.
And you do put yourself in thoseshoes, especially if it's
someone who you feel is, you know, at a pretty decent age.
I mean, he was only 54 years old.
That's that's young in my book. And especially when you look at
just his recent bodies of work, he looked really young.
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Of course, that melanin factor was working.
He looked fairly young for his age.
And also I think one of the things that hurts seeing just
knowing that he passed away is because we grew up watching him.
We watched him grow up. So I think of that kid passing
away, I think a little Theo passing away.
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And it's just really hard to process sometimes.
That's in any situation if you go to a funeral, which I
personally am not a fan of funerals.
I can't tell you the last time I've been to 1, but we all know,
like when you see a person's obituary, what do they generally
have in that obituary? Photographs of that person when
they were a child. And it's really heartbreaking.
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It's sad when you look over a person's whole life.
But there's also, there is also joy too, though, when you look
at a person who they seem happy,a person who it seems pretty
obvious that they were living intheir purpose, which I really
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truly feel like seeing Malcolm Jamal Warner and the things I've
seen of him, it really does looklike he was living in his
purpose. Seemed very happy.
He had his podcast, he was an active working actor.
He had his family that he loved and adored.
So that was someone that was living in that purpose.
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And maybe it really truly was his state to leave this earth at
age 54. Maybe that was already written
in the card since day one and that was just his time Sunday.
But from our human minds, the way we think in a logical
standpoint, it just gets very hard to just, you know, it gets
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really hard to just grasp the concept of death and leaving.
So again, when we see someone like that lead and someone who,
like I said, he seemed very happy and healthy and friends,
family, living his purpose, it does make it reflect on your
life. Am I living in my purpose?
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Do I have this happy relationships?
Am I making the most out of the time I have with my family and
my friends? I just my life in general?
Are we doing the work? Are we living our life?
Are we also making sure we're not living in vain?
What are we doing to pour into others, to give back?
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It makes you evaluate your purpose in life.
So again, this is just a reflection moment.
Just again, it just makes you think.
It really truly makes you think of time, what we can do with
that time, how we can make that time valuable in our lives, with
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our family, with our friends, even in our career goals to some
of us are living our lives with jobs or careers or goals that
really truly don't fulfill us. And some of us may be trying to
just really assess like, OK, is this a career I want?
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Is this the job I want? Am I making the funds that I
should be making? Is it all worth it?
Again, there's so many differentfeelings and thought processes
that comes to your mind when youreally, truly try to face
immortality and the reality of it.
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And the reality is that we are not going to live forever, that
the NA Yang is immortality versus mortality, that we truly
will leave this earth one day. So again, what can we do with
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the time that we have right now?So not to just be morbid and
bring people down, but again, I just want to put this out there
or just us reflecting on our lives, just thinking for a
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moment and just thinking, man, am I living in my purpose?
Am I really making the connections with people that I
have valuable? Am I being a good friend even as
parents? Are we doing what we really need
to do to connect with our children?
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I'll just make the time with them valuable.
If some of us are blessed us to have our parents here, what are
we doing to honor our parents? What are we doing to to salvage
certain relationships with people or even for some of us?
Who are in the opposite of that?Maybe.
Maybe you're in a transition period where you've had to let
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go of certain people in your life or certain situations.
Are you OK with those decisions?What's the next step?
So let's say that you were in a transition period where you
found yourself walking away froma lot of different things,
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people, places, things you just you started over.
Are you honoring those that start over?
Make sure you make the best of your life and make sure also
that the decisions that you're making it really we has been
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designed to add value to your life.
Again, when we see someone like this, someone who like I said at
my age book, he seems fairly young.
We talking 54. That's pretty young.
I know we were kids like that seemed like a old age, but you
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know, once you hit past age 4054, some people are really
just that being into themselves in their late 40s and 50s,
they're really starting to really, truly value the life at
that age, believe it or not. Oh, man, it just really makes
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you think a lot about life. Let's look at a lot of the clips
of Malcolm again. And he just seemed like he had
such amazing energy. All the people that were
connected to him, they're sayingso many beautiful, positive
things. Of course his connections are in
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shock and I keep thinking about his mother 'cause that's just
something I just knew just through history, how he was
raised by a single mother and that she was a vital part of
just him being such a well grounded person.
So my heart does go out to her and I just think about her and I
was her only child. And also recently I saw some
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clips of him speaking about his father and how when he would
visit his father during the summers, he would have him read
all these books, you know, by these prominent black figures.
And he have to write book reports.
And I know his father is still here.
So what a sad thing. And they really, truly clearly
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raised a well-rounded, solid person.
We know how child, the whole child actor thing.
He definitely didn't seem like he fell into any of those pits.
It's just something else just tosee someone who just seemed like
such a good person, such a lightleave like this and it just
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really makes you think and reflect about a lot again.
So just back to just us reflecting on how we can just
enrich our lives. And I know the common thread of
our platform of courses to talk about self love, how we value
ourselves, what we can do to just make sure that we're living
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in our purpose, that we're not settling and that we really,
truly are embracing self love and self worth and valuing
ourselves and living life unapologetically and not
compromising who we are. And just making sure that we
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truly value ourselves, that we don't compromise ourselves, that
we don't attach ourselves to anything that will disrespect
the essence of who we are. That we make sure that we move
forward, that we walk in a lightof healing, of purpose, a
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forward movement. That is the goal.
But again, when we look at somebody leaving this life like
this, it's a full circle. Not only just making sure that
we walk in purpose to love ourselves, but also how can we
truly love one another? How are we really truly valuing
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it does the people around us, our loved ones?
Life is just so fragile. No day is promised.
It just makes you just reflect so much on the people in our
lives whenever things like this happen, 'cause it's there, by
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the grace of God, it can be any one of us on a vacation with our
family and something happens. It can be us going behind the
wheel of our car just off to runerrands or go to work or
whatever. Something can happen, we wake up
in the morning, it really truly is a blessing that we have seen
another day. There is no day or moment that
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is guaranteed. Oh man, in times like this is
just a reminder of that. What can we do to just make sure
that we're honoring the gift that God gave us gave us, which
is called life. How can we honor that gift that
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we are on this earth? We have a purpose every day that
we are here. We have a purpose.
And I know like when people passaway, a common thing that we
hear is telling a when we speak of that person is saying well
done, well done servant. I think the thing that hurts us
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too, just with the whole then finality of death is we always
feel like, especially when someone dies at age 54 or
somebody who was happy living intheir purpose, we think, Oh my
God, it seemed like they weren'tdone yet.
They were still working on things.
Again, we have no knowledge or understanding of what God's plan
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is. So again, he was living in his
purpose and it who knows that timeline was already stamped in
stone. So that's the thing that makes
you reflect. Look at somebody like that who
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left living in that purpose happy.
We have to really be in the business of making sure that
every day that we have, we really, truly do live it like it
could potentially be our last day.
That we make sure that everything that we do has
purpose attached to it. But also, let's have the
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balance. Let's also reflect on have
purpose, but also have rest, Have fun.
Go ahead and do things that makeyou happy.
Go ahead and do something that'sgonna put a smile on your face.
Incorporate more things in your life where you find yourself
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laughing. Well, you know that you're
happy. Let's start making the days that
we have truly count. Let's have more days where we
are smiling, we are happy, we are living, we are loving, we
are experiencing joy. Let's have more days where we're
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putting joy in others, we're smiling, we're putting a smile
on other people's face. There's this clip, one of the
last clips that he posted, whichwas in May.
I think this was his final clip,my part, and that's not counting
his podcast. I know he did have a podcast he
started, but one of his personallast videos was him driving with
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a flower in his hair. It was his daughter's birthday.
He was just reflecting on. There's always a reason to
smile. And he said in his video as he
was driving. And if you are in a place, and
I'm paraphrasing, but if you arein a place where you feel that
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there's no reason to smile, go ahead and try to put a smile on
somebody else's face. Isn't that something else?
That is a way to live, That's a way to think every day.
We gotta have a reason to smile.And I know sometimes it's hard
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to push through and find that reason.
Trust me, I'd 100% understand. I'm a person who deals with on
and off again depression. It is so hard sometimes when you
feel like you are cracking or you feel like you're literally
mentally crumbling and you don'tknow what to do about it.
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Depression is like, it's like when you have the flu and you
have a fever, you have no, you have body aches, you have no
energy and you just want to get well.
That is what chronic depression feels like where it just hits
you out of nowhere and you are trying your best to find a
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reason to smile. So again, like I said, I get it.
But when we think of moments like this, I'm pressing you
guys. Please find a reason to smile
every single day. Try your best.
Even on the days that is hard, even on the days where it's so
dark outside, please find some light.
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Find a reason to smile. Whatever you can do.
Please find a reason to smile. And just like he said, if you
can't find that reason to smile,do something that makes somebody
else smile or make them laugh. And I promise you, you're gonna
feel that reciprocal energy is gonna come back to you.
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Find that reason to smile. Live your life.
Do whatever it takes to have some fun in your life, to have
some peace, to have some balance.
If you're walking in a purpose right now, you may find yourself
overworked. Put that word to the side today.
Relax, breathe, reflect, balance.
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If you're having some moments right now where you're like, you
know what? I wanna go spend time with my
family. I wanna go out, I wanna do this
thing. But you have all these things
that's pulling you back because,you know, like life.
I'm telling you, take some time today and rearrange that
schedule. Figure out how you can meet that
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friend that you've been pushing off for a while for lunch
because you've just been busy. You just can't figure out your
schedule. Please go ahead and figure out
that schedule anyway. Go ahead and meet with them for
lunch. If there's some things you need
to do with your children, with your family and you just been
pushing it off 'cause you're busy, go ahead and schedule it.
Please go spend that time with your children.
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Go spend that time with your loved one.
Go spend that time with your your spouse, but that person
your relationship with. Go call your parents today.
Go spend some time with your friends.
Or let's say it's the opposite. Let's say you're that person
who's always there for your family.
You're always there for your friends.
You're that person people call when they need somebody to talk
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to and you make sure you drop everything and be there for
them, but you haven't really been doing much for yourself.
Today is the day. Go ahead, go get that spy day
alone. Go get your nails done alone.
Just go to the park by yourself.Reflect, relax, go get that
extra me time. Go ahead and make it happen.
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Life is short, so go ahead and do what you have to do to make
the most out of today. Go ahead and make the most out
of tomorrow. It's not promised.
The time that we think we have is not promised.
And that's the sadness. And when you see somebody living
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their life to be taken like thator just to go that quickly, it's
a reminder that man, we have an arrogance in us.
So we think we have that next week or that next month or that
next year, or even when some of us talk about our plans and
we'll be like, oh, you know whatI'm going to do this next year
or no, start doing it now. We don't know.
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We have that next year. And it's not to be morbid.
It's not to instill fear in anybody.
It's just to remind you to reflect on the time that you
have. And also I want to remind you
all to not live in fear. Imagine if he lived his whole
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life in fear. Could go at 54.
Imagine if he lived his whole life afraid to do things to have
that short timeline. It's another reminder on the
flip side that we also need to not live in fear.
As humans it's natural to live our lives and a preventative
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mindset sometimes. Well you know what?
I want to play it safe. I kid it.
We also have to be fearless in some aspects of our lives too.
We have to really make sure thatwe go out there and we live,
man. We gotta make sure that we find
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a way to make it happen. That we find a way to be
unapologetic, but do not hold onto that nasty, ugly, filthy F
word of fear. We got to remove that out of our
lives too. Be fearless.
Go ahead and do the unthinkable.Again, you don't have the time
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that you think you have. And it's again, I'm not trying
to instill fear at all, but we don't have the time that we
think we have. So all that being said, we have
to be fearless. We just really, truly don't know
how time will work in our favor.So again, we really have to be
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very mindful of not being in fear.
We have to be very mindful of embracing our lives.
Going that trip that you may have been putting on, there may
be some things in your life thatyou still may think in the back
of your mind that it's impossible.
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You may think it's impossible togo on that trip to Paris.
You may think it's impossible togo ahead and lose those last 20
lbs. You may think it's impossible to
have a career change over age 40or over age 50 and above.
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You may think, you know what? I can't do that.
You may think it's impossible tosalvage certain relationships in
your life. You may have had a fallen out
with some people in your life, family members or friends, and
you think it's impossible to salvage that relationship.
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You may have some dead end relationships in your life.
You may think it's impossible tojust move on.
It's not impossible. You have to embrace the unknown
and go ahead and embrace like, my God, I really can do
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something different. Do it while you can.
If you're sitting here listeningto this message, that means you
do have time right now. Oh man, for me, when I see just
death is something that just, I just will never grasp the
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concept of it. And I know that sounds crazy,
but it's just hard for me personally to just understand it
sometimes because again, it's not unknown.
And for overthinkers like me, I'm overthinkers.
So I'm always thinking about when I hear somebody pass away,
like just how why? Just like when we find out
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somebody passes away. And sometimes as humans, we have
that natural inclination. We want to know what happened.
And some people always say, well, that's so rude when you
want to know what happened to a person, but it's just a human
thing because again, death is unknown.
And if you're over thinker, whenwe the more details we have,
sometimes it gives us something to think about to give us some
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type of peace or something if wecould try and have some
understanding of it. But again, like I said, death is
a reminder. It's a time to reflect.
It's a time to make amends. It's a time to go ahead and to
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just start living. That's the yin and Yang of it.
Death is a reminder to live. Again, this isn't a message to
be morbid or to and still any sadness even though for me
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personally this is a sad moment.A lot of us 70s and 80s babies,
we are sad right now just to seethis young man leave.
I know in chat with both men pass away.
That's it just was so gut wrenching like Hobie now Malcolm
to me, it's right up there. No shocking moments where it's
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like, man, I just can't believe this.
So again, I just really wanted to take time to just talk about
this and it just encourage people right now again to live.
We're only here for a short amount of time.
The time that we have is borrowed.
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We have to live our lives. We have to make sure that we are
walking in a path of purpose, ofhealing, of happiness, of
gratitude. Some of the things right now
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that may be bothering you. If you reflect on your life,
some of those issues may not be as big as you thought they were.
And that's where gratitude kicksin.
We have to be grateful for the time that we are blessed with.
So let's please also incorporategratitude in our lives as well.
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Thank you God, for the time thatwe have.
Thank you for the loved ones that we have that are still
here. When we incorporate that
gratitude as well, it really, truly makes you appreciate life.
Lord, thank you for me getting home safely.
Thank you for going on vacation with my family and coming home
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safely. It really makes you reflect and
as they say, have an attitude ofgratitude.
And we really, truly think aboutpeople leaving this earth.
It makes you be grateful. It makes you be grateful that
some of our loved ones are stillhere.
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So I just want to leave you again with this message to
please live your life, live, enjoy your life, make the best
of your life. Please.
Whatever you do, make sure that you live in love and living
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purpose and a beautiful rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner.
You made us laugh, you made us smile, you entertained us, you
made us think, and you spread love and joy to the people
around you and knowledge. Rest in peace to him and prayers
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to his family and friends. And for everyone that listened
to this message, I do pray that this message made you think and
reflect. And again, my message to you
today is to please live your life.
So thank you for tuning into this episode.
You definitely can't catch more episodes like this and more.
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Just go ahead to www.goqueen.com.
Make sure you live in purpose. Make sure you walk in life, be
safe and go love yourself. She's.
A queen about a business workinghard on a mission.
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She's a queen about a business, working hard on a mission, had
high purpose driven. Crown on.
Never tilted. Go queen, go queen, go queen,
go, go queen.
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