May 6, 2025 • 41 mins
We explore the essential components of a crisis toolkit for millennials and middle adults who are feeling squeezed by life's challenges and uncertainties.
• Community is foundational—know who's around you and be aware of what gifts they bring to your life
• Being rooted in the same values is different from simply being bonded to others
• Financial preparation requires doing things you don't want to do—budget, save, and possibly reduce your lifestyle
• The YOLO mindset emphasizes living for the moment rather than building for the future
• Spiritual grounding means staying current with God, not relying on childhood faith
• Establishing intentional faith routines anchors you before crisis hits
• Creating a safe place doesn't always mean being comfortable—safety and comfort are different
• Being out of your God-assigned position puts you out of safety
• Self-awareness means understanding your strengths and potential pitfalls
• Crisis and extreme success both reveal who you really are
• Process your thoughts through talking, journaling, or even using voice notes and AI tools
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
welcome once again to the unalert podcast.
I'm your host, ruth abigail akara what's up, friends?
It's your girl, jaquita andthis is the podcast that is
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did okay, she fought for y'allyeah, this, this particular
topic wasn't wasn't my favorite,I'll be honest.
I was like well dang theyweren't something I was extra
excited about, but she convincedme.
All right.
So, because I think what we'regoing to talk about in this
little series is very relevant,yeah, for sure, and so the thing
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
So this is our, our, our topic series topic.
Today we're talking about whenyou're in crisis Right, and
specifically thinking aboutthose in the millennial
generation.
Right specifically thinkingabout those in the millennial
generation, right, but this isreally going to apply to
everybody, because everybody hasmoments where you are and my
(02:30):
father says this, right, and hesays this.
So, before the storm, duringthe storm, after the storm,
either yeah, what'd he say?
You're either just coming outof trouble, headed into in
trouble or headed to troubleWise words.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Wise words, pastor Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
wise words Right and so the reality is, you know, I
don't know, we don't know whereyou are today specifically, but
a lot of people that are in thisgeneration, and and the younger
generations in particular, feelvery squeezed right now.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Feel very much in crisis.
Feel like I don't know how I'mgoing to manage this life
because of a lot of differentthings.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah for sure, I definitely think you know we're
talking about millennials incrisis, but again, I think every
episode we do we might betalking to our middle adult
community, but I really thinkeverybody can grab something
from it.
But, I really feel like withmillennials, especially like we
30 and up now, all right, we, weout here in these streets, ok,
(03:35):
we, you've been through thingsbefore.
But I do think that when youget to a moment, if you've been
through like crisis after crisis, if you've been through like
crisis after crisis and you'vemanaged different shifts and
changes in your life, thatdoesn't necessarily make those
new things easier to navigate,but you can be really really
aware when something in yourlife is about to shift Right,
(04:01):
and because we've been throughthings before, we can start to
see the signs.
You know, I, in the role I hadpreviously, I worked with a lot
of 25 year olds.
Hey, y'all, you know what's upand you know who you are.
Okay, my 25 year old crew, okay, but they, I would be sitting
and I'd be watching and I couldsee when things were about to
shift.
I could see when people wereabout to make a new move or when
something was going to affectthe office and affect the team,
(04:22):
because I've been there before,right, right.
And so I think that millennials,especially in these middle
adult years, you're at a spaceand time where you're realizing,
especially if you're payingattention just to what's
happening in the earth.
We don't even have to look at,you know, I know everybody right
now is looking politically, butlooking at, look at what's
happening in the earth.
Yeah, it's earthquakes andfires, ok, it's all kind of
(04:46):
things indicating shift, yes,and change, yeah, you know, and
it's something that I think thatwe're having to prepare
ourselves for, correct, which iswhy I think this topic is so
important.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And so with that, you know, we're going to kind of
break down what some of thethings that we've had to unlearn
and it's helped us in each oneof these different stages, right
?
So today we're going to reallytalk about what it looks like if
you're not feeling, if yourshift is about to come, or you
know a change is about to come.
Shift is about to come, my Lord.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My, that didn't hit y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, I'm sorry go ahead, go ahead, it hit me me,
it just hit me all right, allright, we good, you good, I'm
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's fantastic okay , no, I'm sensitive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, when, whenever the change is about to come and
you kind of sense that, but it's, it hadn't happened yet.
Yeah, right, you're, you'reright before it.
Um, we want to.
What we're calling you knowthis, uh, these tools, yeah,
what, when you are, like yousaid, a weather emergency or a
medical emergency or things likethat, there is some sort of kit
, there's, there's somethingthat you have, that you, you
(05:54):
have to decide and make sure,like I have to have these things
in case something happens.
For sure.
And so these are some thingsthat we think are very important
to put in your crisis kit veryimportant to put in your crisis
kit For sure.
Okay, and so there's just a fewthings that have helped us
really manage and helped us tobe prepared before something
(06:14):
changes, but do it before thechange so that you're not thrown
off.
So we're going to go throughthem real quick and just talk a
little bit about what we have,some of the things that we've
unlearned about each one ofthese, for sure.
So, queda, why don don't you?
What's the first one?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right.
So the thing that I really wantto hone in and I think it's
kind of like the groundwork forwhat we're talking about here,
because when you think about atoolkit, you have to have that
stuff in place before you get tothe emergency.
That's the purpose of a toolkit, and I think one of the first
things that you really need tofocus on is community.
(06:49):
Right, you need to know who'saround you.
Right, you need to be aware notjust of what's in you, you need
to be aware of what's in thepeople that's around you.
Right?
Because I'm going to need tolean on the people that's around
me, right, but if I don't trustthe gift that's in you, if I
(07:11):
don't know, if I don't know whatyou, what you bring to the
table, what you bring to my life.
If I don't know the value addof the people that are around me
, I'm going to miss out on theopportunity of using them in my
crisis moment.
Right, and so you know the Biblesays that you have to know
those that you labor among, yeah, right, and you have to know
(07:33):
the people that.
Uh, you know, labor is not justkind of like, you know, we in
the field working or we at thejob working, but friendship is
work Relationship is work Right,and you have to be intentional
about getting to know the peoplethat you're surrounding
yourself with.
Yeah, we all know the quote,right, that you are the sum of
the five people.
(07:54):
Yeah, they are closest to you.
Yeah, right that you kind ofbecome that.
Yeah, right, you have to knowwhat am I allowing to feed into
me?
Because, ultimately, what youare allowing into your ears,
what you are allowing into your,into your spirit, those are the
things that will be echoingthrough your mind as you go
through a crisis moment.
(08:14):
So who are you surroundingyourself with and what are you
allowing them to speak to you inthe moments before the storm?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Exactly, and you know something I did a recent
Freedom Friday about the idea ofchecking out inventory.
Yeah, yeah, it's good.
I mean, it helped me even justtaking inventory as to what
things are you putting inside ofyou, because the reality is,
whatever's in you is coming out,it's not an option, right is
(08:45):
coming out, it's not an option,right?
Yeah, what's coming in you iscoming out.
That's also bible those voices,um, that you have that are
coming in your ear, in yourcommunity.
If they are not building you up, making you better, um,
allowing you to progress, or ifthey are not helping you to
reshape your mind, to unlearnsome things, to do all the
things that you need to dobefore you get to a point of
(09:06):
change, then you might need totake care of that.
You might need to figure outwho do I really need to be
listening to, and I think it'simportant One thing that I did
actually recently look on yourum, on your recent call list and
your phone, and see who you'vebeen talking to for real.
Ooh, you know what I'm saying.
(09:26):
Yeah, like, see who you've beentalking to.
Look at your text messages whohave you been communicating with
?
Who?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
you got pinned at the top Like who you got pinned
Like and like.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Are these people putting me in a position to win?
Are they draining me Right?
And so I think that is.
You got to know that before you, because that that is the
energy you're taking into thisnext, this next, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And I think it's important.
Darius Daniels has a really,really good book about
relational IQ, yeah Right, andhe names kind of like the
different positions that peoplecan take in your life.
You know, they can be a friend,right, they can be a.
I forget the other, ok Allright.
They can be a friend.
I think it's like friend,mentor and accomplice, sure, all
(10:13):
right, right, like you have.
Yeah, thank you, I actuallyhave the book.
Right, but they but you havepeople who are at different
stages of your life, yeah, butyou have people who are at
different stages of your life,and they don't always stay in
the same stage.
And a lot of times we don'tprepare ourselves for
relationships to shift Right.
You don't prepare that when,when God takes you from one
(10:34):
season to another that is notthat I lose that person is that
the nature of our relationshipwill shift Right.
But if you don't know and thereason why it shifts is and I
think you and I were justtalking about this the other day
that there is a differencebetween us being bonded because
we we have a bond and there's adifference in being bonded
(10:54):
because you're rooted in thesame thing.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Right, if you are rooted, if we're both rooted in
the same ideologies, the samevalues, the same faith, the same
, the same goals, the same.
If we're rooted in the samething, when the storm comes
right, we're both going to berooted.
If we're bonded together,though, and the storm comes,
that storm is coming to breakyou apart.
(11:18):
Yeah Right, because you're notgrounded in the same thing, and
a lot of times, when we'rebuilding communities, we focus
so much on how I'm bonding withthe person and not what that
person is rooted in.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's good, because if they're not rooted in the
same thing as you, it's notgoing to survive the crisis.
That's very real.
That's very real, ok.
So the next one, yeah, isunderstanding what your
financial situation is.
Take it away, ruth, okay, allright.
So so this is a reallyimportant thing in your, in your
preparedness kit.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right is get your finances together get your money
right and I think a lot ofpeople are feeling that right
now.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Right, I mean because you know you mentioned earlier
politics, the economy, all thesethings, it seems like it's.
So I mean these tariffs, youknow.
I mean my, which, you know,let's be honest.
I mean I don't know enough totalk about the unlearned podcast
.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You have no political affiliation.
Okay, you just want to makethat known, well yeah, that's
true as a podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
As a podcast okay, don't come for us.
You're not wrong and you know.
The terrorists are theterrorists are the crazy yeah, a
lot too, you know 100, 184,whatever it is.
I don't know all that stuff, Idon't know enough.
I don't know enough, but I doknow that it it's going to
impact us financially.
Yeah, it's going to impact ourpockets.
(12:36):
We do know that much yeah andso for for those.
We know that's coming, we knowit's very close to coming it
might be coming on Monday, Idon't know, right and so I think
that it's important if you, ifyou haven't started to go ahead
and get real practical aboutyour finances, right, you know,
(12:58):
do the things that you don'twant to do, and I think that is
it's it's really important to beOK doing things you don't want
to do, and I think that is it'sit's really important to be okay
doing things you don't want todo.
Uh, budget like saving, right,save, um, they'll reduce your
lifestyle, you know what I'msaying, like like all those
things that are going to beimportant for when it comes
right, and and I think that our,our generation, we coined the
(13:20):
phrase YOLO right, you only liveonce, which is true.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You're only broke once if you keep playing, Well
you be YOLO hobo, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You better stop playing.
Hey, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But I do think that we coined that phrase and it's
something that we really like.
Oh right, you live once.
I got it, I got it, I got tolive my best life now, and
that's like, that's notnecessary.
Not necessary If you believethat your life will be beyond
now and so that was good.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, sorry, because I think that YOLO emphasizes
living in the moment and livingfor the moment as if it's your
last moment, as if it is goingto be your most important moment
.
And so YOLO really emphasizesit's a 20s mindset, right, it's
a.
It's a I'm young, happy andfree.
Well, baby, let me tell youfrom the middle adult
(14:26):
perspective.
Okay, let me tell you something.
All right, them bills.
They don't get less, they getmore, okay.
The bills don't decline, yeah,okay.
They increase, yeah, right.
And if you start, there aresome so many areas of our lives
and I'm sure every middle adultwill tell you that there are
some things that they wish theyhad started in their twenties,
(14:48):
so that they wouldn't be fooledup with it now in their thirties
.
That's absolutely right.
I wish I had started running inmy twenties, okay, and maybe it
wouldn't be so difficult.
Well, that's true Right now.
Cause these stairs that that wehave to come, come out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It's kind of a lot, and so I mean I mean so you
ain't lying, you know like it's,it's, I think you're right and
so it really is.
Just like whatever that is,dave ramsey is my guy, okay we
know this.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I love dave ramsey, y'all know that and he says this
.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He says live like no one else, so later you can live
like no one else, right, it's?
It's self-explanatory what itmeans, but it's really profound.
I think the undertone of thatis living like no one else means
you will probably do thesethings by yourself and a lot of
times you know even thecommunity that you have yeah may
(15:44):
not be totally with the uh, thefinancial part of your, of your
, of your, of your journey.
That was the case with me, andnot in a bad way.
My community was verysupportive, but I was the only
one doing the thing I was doingat the time, they did think I
was crazy, and so I think thatwe have.
You just have to make decisionsthat are best for you Right
(16:05):
Right now, and pay attention, bereal about where you are
financially, pay attention to itand create a plan so that you
don't have you don't end up inreal crisis when stuff really
happens.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, I think that you have to spend some time
imagining the life that you want, right.
You have to spend some time,friends, right, take some time
Vision board Journal Right, seethe destination that you're
trying to get to.
So, because when you have thatvision in mind, you'll know that
you're building something.
So you won't try to, you won'ttry to have everything in the
(16:43):
moment you're having now,because you were able to do your
financial plan, because youbelieved in where you were going
.
A lot of times we don't makeplans because we don't know
where we're going Right, and soI got to enjoy that.
That's the whole premise ofYOLO is you only live once in
this moment, right now, right?
Right of YOLO is you only liveonce in this moment, right now,
right, because it emphasizes themoment you're in versus the
(17:08):
moment you're headed to, and youhave to unlearn that.
And for me, I was the oppositeof Ruth Abigail.
I was like how did I get mynails done?
You know I ain't got enough topay the electricity bill, but I
could spend $20.
And that's the other thing.
Millennials, I think that we'dbe like $20?
.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I got $20.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's nothing $20 until you spend it 10 times.
Now it's $200.
All right, don't that feeldifferent?
It had a gravity to it,gravitas, $200.
All right, you done spent inone week, because everything you
got cost $200.
All right, you just spent inone week because everything you
got cost $20.
Yeah, you know.
And so we have to be mindfulthat we're not real.
The moment you're building foris not the moment you're in.
(17:52):
That's right, right.
And so you have to cater yourlife to where you're going and
not to where you are.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, that's good, all right.
What's the next one?
Oh, oh, my spiritual groundingRight.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Let's let's get our faith right.
Here we go in the season andyou know, I think you will find
that once you get in the momentyou are going to, you are there
in the moment with what youprepared before you got to that
moment.
Right.
And I think that that's so trueabout our faith life, right,
that's so true about our faithlife, right, our commitment to
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growing deeper in ourrelationship with God, growing
deeper in community with otherbelievers, our commitment to
making sure that we are stayinggrounded with God.
And you know, I think it'ssomething really to be said
about staying current with God.
Right, like you are not, youcannot live off of the faith of
your childhood.
No, right, like you are not,you cannot live off of the faith
of your childhood.
No, okay, you cannot live offof the routine, the faith
routine of your parents, right,right, you have to bring
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yourself up current with whereGod is in your life right now
and really decide what am Igoing to be committed to?
Continuing to prepare not justfor the crisis moments, okay,
because he's your father.
Okay, not just the King, allright, he's your father.
Right, and you, you, you'rebuilding relationship so that it
(19:11):
can sustain you toward thatvision that God has put on the
inside of you.
And that's going to requireintentionality and it is going
to require, like, y'all got facecare routines, okay, y'all got,
you know, health routines.
You go to your job at a certaintime, you get that job.
Your 37.5 for me are 40 hours.
(19:32):
For somebody else, you'regiving your job that time.
You have to create a routine, afaith routine that will ground
you Because, again, where yourroots are is where you will be
after the storm.
So set your roots down so thatyou can be stable.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So for those, those, those of you that have children
like we, we have a 10 year oldand I was I had a routine, you
know we had a Sunday morningroutine.
We had Sundays yeah, that wasthe routine.
So and and and and it was greatand we, we were good, we were
in a rhythm and um.
(20:08):
But our son really started touh, love, uh, anything that
happened at the church.
Honestly, like wednesdays,anytime there was um, anytime
there was a uh event, children'sevent, he wanted to go family
night.
You know he would tell us, sowe go because of him.
Yeah, you know, if it was up tous, we do a strong sunday
(20:29):
morning.
You know what I'm saying like westrong and so, but but he, he,
he wanted to do more.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I love you, Tyson.
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good stuff, young man, goodstuff, young man.
And then we startedvolunteering because he was
there so much that they wouldsay, hey, do y'all want to come
up and help once a month?
Now, I wanted to pray about it,but my husband said yes,
immediately, all right.
Well, you know Ty going gonnasay yes regardless, if it's
(20:59):
helping anybody yeah he'll help,yeah, he okay, I'm gonna pray,
but he's gonna have and so andso, but we so we end up, we end
up.
We're at church sunday morningsevery sunday morning, sometimes
earlier, for you know, wevolunteer Wednesdays any kind of
(21:20):
uh event.
Through that we've builtrelationships with people deeper
relationships with people.
Um, our son is, uh, he, heliterally could go throughout
the entire church, it's he,everybody knows him, um, and so
I say I have to say I thinkthink, for those of us with kids
, they can.
They can actually anchor you ina way you don't even realize
(21:40):
you need to Because that,because you, you are, you think
you're doing it for them, butyou realize it's for you to yeah
, more than you, more than youthought you needed for that,
(22:02):
because I am very, I'm moresolid now in not just faith, but
community, through through ourfaith, community, yeah, that, if
any, if we needed anything,we're gonna be okay yeah, and we
have other people that we cansupport that know to call us
when they're about to go throughsomething yeah but I really I
credit Tyson for that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But I love because you know Tyson's 10, right, he's
10.
Right.
I love that it's creating afoundation in him, yes, so that
when he gets to his crisismoment, he has roots that are
dug down.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's correct.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's it and I think God is so intentional.
Which brings me back kind of tomy point about community right.
Community anchors you right andgetting in the right community,
getting in the right faithcommunity.
You know, I know a lot of ushave left church or we don't
attend church as regularlybecause you think church was
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what you grew up with.
Find a church that works foryou.
Find a church that teaches thatword now Get that word, make
sure you're.
Teaches that word, now get thatword, make sure you get that
word.
And I know some people wantthat praise and worship.
Okay, you like a little, like alittle worship music, like a
little a little praise andworship team, our choir, you
know whatever it is.
But find something that's goingto work for you because you
(23:12):
need that community.
Yeah, you know, and I don'tthink, and Tyson, tyson, leading
y'all there, carried y'allthrough the first year of your
marriage.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It did, and so it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It was necessary.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So I think the next thing that we want to, that we
think is really important toestablish right before the storm
is and your preparedness kitRight Is you need to have a safe
place.
My lord.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You need to have a safe place.
Uh, it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's like, there you go, okay, all right, uh, so you
know when you are in, um, uh, ifa tornado they tell you like,
oh, hunker down, find in a placethat's inside your house and
have windows.
It's insulated right and staythere yeah um.
But so you know, and in eachone of these situations you know
(24:06):
, at at um, at angel street,we're in a neighborhood that
experiences some crime, okay sothis is the neighborhood that
experiences too much too much.
I love you, memphis, thank youfor feeding me.
I appreciate you.
So we have protocols right.
When there are things in whichwe've had gunshots outside,
(24:26):
things like this, what do we do?
The first thing we do is getinto one place.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
The first thing we do is we make sure everybody is in
the right location, and so Ithink that that is a huge part
of being prepared.
Where can you go?
Wait a minute when your crisishits?
You need to know that before ithits.
We've experienced where we hada situation before we had a plan
and after a plan, and beforethe plan we had parents come.
(24:57):
We didn't have a plan.
My team was actually I was notin the building and I came back
um after they told me whathappened.
But there was some gunfireoutside and they were um, they
were figuring out.
There were kids, they werehearing the gunfire and this was
like ar-15 gunfire one just pop, pop, pop.
It was like machine gun allright so it was really scary and
(25:18):
so, you know, I had my team.
They knew enough to do somethings, yeah, but there were
also parents outside.
It was during pickup time, sothere were parents outside who
were panicking and coming to thedoor, banging on the door.
They're opening the door right,letting people in.
We didn't.
They were just trying to figureout how to keep people safe.
That is not smart.
You don't let people, you can't, you have to.
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One of the things that welearned afterwards, after being
trained and having a real planin place, is no one in, no one
out.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Because when, when there's a crisis, that's what
you do, right, because I don'tknow who's who's coming in and
out.
Yeah, and so you know.
That's one thing.
The kid like making sure thatthe kids lights are off, right,
making sure that the kids are,are all in one space or backed
into a corner, right.
Luckily, we didn't have anywindows in the room we were in,
but there were.
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There was just some differentthings we knew to do after we
had a plan.
And then, not too long ago, wehad another one, another
incident, a little different,but we had a little bit of a
plan, and even after thathappened, I was able to double
down on a plan, right.
So I say all that to say thelocation when are you, where can
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you go when there is a crisis?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
We need to figure that out today.
No, because I really.
I hope y'all are hearing what Iheard.
What I heard, because as soonas you started talking, all I
kept hearing was Adam, where areyou Right?
Because when you are out ofposition, you are out of safety.
Yeah, when you are out ofposition, when that crisis hits,
you are not going to be in theplace that will protect you,
that will feed you, that willnot going to be in the place
that will protect you, that willfeed you, that will preserve
you to make it through themoment and a lot of times.
(27:03):
I think, if we're honest withourselves, you have to evaluate
where am I?
Am I in the spot that the Lordtold me to be in?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Am I doing the things ?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
that I'm supposed to be doing, because the moment you
get out of position, you putyourself out of safety Right,
and so when that crisis momenthits, sometimes you have to ask
yourself did I experience thiscrisis?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
because I got out of position.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Right, because a lot of things that we are
experiencing is because we gotout of position.
That's right.
Right, there is safety andbeing in the place that God
assigned you to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Right when Adam was in the garden.
He put Adam in the garden in aspecific spot.
Everything he needed was in thespot.
Yeah Right, when you allow andwhat gets you out of position,
right, your own lust and desiresand the voice that you decided
to follow.
That was not the voice thatgave you the instruction to be
in that space.
Yeah, right, because a lot oftimes and I just I know we keep
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harping on community- and I'msorry to keep bringing it back,
but when you talk about safeplace, you also have to talk
about who are the people aroundyou and what kind of space are
they creating for you?
That's it Right.
Kind of space are they creatingfor you?
That's it Right.
And a lot of times, what makesthe space unsafe is what kind of
dependency have they createdinside of you, people who create
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like a system, where they'relike I need you to depend on me
and to depend on my voice and tolisten to my voice.
And if you go another way,that's wrong, that's dangerous.
That's dangerous.
Safe spaces are ones thatempower and strengthen you.
Know how do you?
How to maintain lifelongfriendships or how to build
those friendships?
And I think one of the thingsthat really helped us is that we
(29:06):
, when we started allowing eachother to be able to think
through and process throughthings independently, but with
the counsel of each other, itbecame, it became something that
strengthened me and that's whatmade that space safe, because
it was a space that I could goto be strengthened and not
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necessarily shifted Right.
People who only seek to push andpush you and and they make
their voice the prominent voicein your life, and they make
their voice the prominent voicein your life and they make their
aims and goals and visions.
They try to impose that on youwithout you being able to settle
in yourself and make thatdecision.
Not a safe space.
It's not a safe space, and youhave to evaluate your
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relationships to say, okay, isthis a relationship that is
coddling me?
Because that's coddling right,that's, you don't have to make
your own decisions, I'll makethe decisions for you.
You don't have to do thethinking, I'll do the thinking
for you right.
Are you being coddled or areyou being empowered?
And coddling can look a lot ofdifferent ways right.
(30:11):
It can be.
I'm being coddled, you know, tomake me feel like there's
nothing wrong with me.
You know, like you got thatfriend that's like, oh no, I
don't know why people keepsaying that about you.
There's nothing wrong with you,baby.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, tell me the truth .
Yeah, a safe place is atruthful place, and so, and to
that, I think that that issomething you know safe doesn't
mean soft, right.
It doesn't mean you're soft, itdoesn't mean that you're just.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, oh, look at you, let me tell you something
I ain't got a soft friend.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, okay, that's not what I have right here, and I
think that I think that that'ssomething we have to unlearn is
that safety doesn't does notalways mean comfortable yeah,
matter of fact the like in timesof of a literal storm.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Being safe one thousand percent won't mean
being comfortable you're usuallyin a place you don't really
want to be, yeah, but you'resafe yeah, right, if you think
about like, when people likethem, little bomb shelters
people are building or the likeyou know the little end of time
shelters, that's not.
You know futons and easy boysdown lazy boys down there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You know, right down the street from where Angel
Street is, is a is a house, it'scalled slave haven and it was
one of the uh places of theunderground railroad stop.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's like literally right down okay, okay, make it
make sense I was getting theretoo, um slave haven is that's
what it's called.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's called slave haven and it's a museum, but
underneath it is a bunker whereslaves would be hidden.
Wow, and if you take, you takethe tour, you can go down there
right.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And it.
I mean it's smaller than theroom we're in, it is crammed and
it's down below and you don'thave any.
You can't stand up Right.
It's the safest place for him,uncomfortable Uh, you're not.
You're not in, you're not in aplace that you want to stay long
, but you're safe, right, andyou and you, and it's important.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I think it's important to make that
distinction, because andunderstand where do I need to be
, not where do I want to be whenit's someplace, when something
happens, that's good, yeah,that's good, yeah, I think
that's so in, that's so uh,important, and it kind of leads
us into our next point, right,yeah, so we really need to talk
about and I think this issomething I harp on in every
(32:24):
class I teach every moment thatI get to be in front of young
adults, it's somewhere in thepresentation Self-awareness.
We are really in a time whereuniformity is broadcast.
You know, like everybody, Iused to say everybody's trying
so hard to be different thatwe're all the same.
You know, everybody is tryingso hard to be, you know,
(32:44):
alternative.
Or I got a little spice here,or I do a little bit of
different.
This and yes, you are unique,yeah, right.
And yes, you are fearfully andwonderfully made, if you will.
Ok, right, you are all of thosethings.
But you have to take a momentand say, ok, I got all this
uniqueness, but what am I hiding?
What's underneath the surface,right?
(33:07):
And that that does not comefrom looking in a mirror.
That comes from doing someintrospection.
You cannot just keep looking onthe outside of yourself and
trying to modify that.
You need to look inwardly andreflect on what is what's there
Right and take inventory notjust of your strengths but your
(33:29):
potential pitfalls as well.
That's correct, you know.
That's important because,ultimately, when, when the
crisis moment hits, let me tellyou something, okay, we're going
to talk about on the nextepisode.
Okay, because one thing that acrisis will do is expose.
The one thing a crisis is goingto do is it's going to lay all
your stuff out on the surface.
(33:49):
Nobody else may not see it, butyou will suddenly become aware
of everything you know, and soyou have to be mindful.
It would be so, it would be toyour benefit, right To be as
aware as possible of what thatcrisis is, of what, of what
those weaknesses are, of who youreally are.
(34:10):
And you know this goes intolike you know well, how am I
carrying things from mychildhood?
You may not have the fullunderstanding of it yet, you may
not have the revelation of ityet, but how have you been
affected by the things that havehappened?
You know, and we we talkedabout it before I that emotional
will.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh, yeah, listen, yeah, grab that.
It's important.
You know cause you need to knowyeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You need to know how I'm responding when things hit
me.
Yeah Right, what?
What's my go-to response?
Am I mad?
Am I angry?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that we I like what you
said Right the hold on What'dyou say?
What'd you say?
Middle adults, y'all, y'allalready know.
So, yeah, ok, you got it.
The you know who you really are.
Right, yeah, in a crisis and I,and I would say, just just as a
broader, even broader statementany extreme brings out who you
really are.
So it like, so the the crisiswill bring out who you really
(35:14):
are.
But also extreme greatnessbrings out who you really are yo
talk about that, talk aboutthat like, like, even though
we're talking about, but likethis idea of self-awareness,
those, those pitfalls don'tnecessarily, they're not just
limited to coming out whenthings are bad.
Pitfalls can come out whenthings are really good.
(35:35):
You know and you have, you findout who you really are.
I mean, you said it, when youknow people.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
People get revealed when you, when you got a lot of
when you got a little what youlisten.
But you know, I think that thatand that's one of the
foundations of why we startedthe podcast because Ruth Abigail
and I both got in leadershiproles.
You know where we were likeleader people and a leadership
role will show you yourdeficiency, mentorship and
guidance, and each one of themneed to be led differently, but
(36:08):
you're the person at the topthat people are looking to.
You know, I found myself in myquiet place being like Lord, am
I enough?
Yeah, and sometimes the answeris you can be enough if you
practice.
So, if you want surrender I'm abig fan of that word right now,
right, you have to surrenderthe things that you are learning
(36:30):
about yourself that don't workin the season that you're in.
Yeah, you have to surrenderthat and you have to allow God
and do it now, in the place ofpeace.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Do it now.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Don't wait.
You know, we, just as a humanrace, we like to wait until we
got no other options.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
We believe, believe, I think truly, we just don't
believe things can.
Actually, we, we live in these,in these bubbles where we think
it's not going to get bustedand it will, your bubble,
whatever bubble you're in rightnow, will be bused by something
and and, and you know, you livea few, a few years and you, you
know that you learn that right,and so I think that we don't
(37:09):
change, we don't move, we, we dothings slow.
I'll do it later, I'll do ittomorrow, um, when truly,
tomorrow's not promised, likethat's, that's, that's just,
that's just true, it's notpromised and you don't know what
tomorrow is.
And so we ought to do thingswhen you, when you learn them,
start putting them into practicenow yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And and for those of you who are wondering how can I
practice introspection, how canI evaluate kind of what we've
listed in this toolkit right now, I would suggest the first
thing you need to do is,whatever way you get your
thoughts out, right, if you needto start having more
intentional conversation withyour community members, let
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people know what you need fromthem, the people who love you,
the people who care about you.
Let them know.
Hey, I'm in this space of mylife where I'm trying to dig
deeper into this.
Can you support, can you be anaccountability partner?
Can you?
Can you walk with me throughthis?
Right, be intentional about one, identifying your needs, just
(38:12):
as a person, and then allowingyour community to come in and
support you as you walk throughthat.
So, build that community, butbe intentional about getting a
journal.
I cannot emphasize enough.
I know I'm a talker, right, Ilike to talk things out, because
the things inside of my head Idon't understand them until
they're outside of me and I canlook at it.
(38:32):
Right, I'm a talker, but I hadto learn how to be a writer,
right.
And so do both talk about itwith people, but also write down
.
Write down some bullet points.
Even if you have a greatconversation with somebody and
you're like know what, I realizeI need x, y and z.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Write it down yeah, write it down, and I think also
you don't you can voice note it,talk it out and record it.
You know so, because maybewriting isn't your thing and
that's okay.
But let me tell you somethingelse.
Pro tip, you put that junk on avoice note, upload to chat.
Gpt chat will write it for younow, now and he'll Chat.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
GPT is replacing me as Ruth Abigail's best friend.
Listen, let me just say this.
It's replacing all of us.
Let me say this as RuthAbigail's number one.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
He's dependable.
He'll be there for you in themidnight hour.
First of all, personifying AIis crazy.
But for real, though, for thosewho don't like, I get the jerk
like or you don't have timebecause a lot of times I have,
my thoughts are driving I thinkthat that is good, but if you
want it on paper and it's you,it's easy to transcribe it, you
(39:40):
can put it through any, any kindof.
I mean, these things areavailable and I think we use
them a lot of times for, like,being productive and work stuff,
but you can do it for yourpersonal life too.
It can be helpful, because, Iagree, I mean you got to get it
out, um, and you, you got to putit out there.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Liz, yeah, that's good stuff.
Yep, I think that we have givenyou guys a good start to your
toolkit, but I think thatthere's so much more that can be
expounded on, especially asyou're going through life let's
go over the toolkit.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right, go through it, all right.
So we got community for suremake sure your community's tight
.
Make sure you have a financialplan together.
Make sure you're good on yourspiritual grounding.
Make sure you have establisheda safe place and make sure
you're being thank you and makesure you're being self-aware
okay so, um, but there might beother things for you.
(40:26):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Right, listen, if you have something that you want to
add to the toolkit, we want toknow about it.
Drop it in the chat, send us adirect message, put it in a
story.
We want to know what are youputting in your crisis emergency
preparedness kit so that we canshare with the community?
Because, again, you all arepart of our family, you're part
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of our community, and what weshare together is what helps to
strengthen us as we move momentto moment in these millennial
streets.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
My Lord, all right.
That's it for now.
Yeah, all right, good times,y'all Good times.
So we will be with y'all laternext week or something.
All right, next week orsomething All right, but until
then, let's keep unlearningtogether so that we can all
experience more freedom, peace.
Thank you once again forlistening to the Unlearned
(41:18):
Podcast.
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We're looking forward to thenext time when we are able to
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See you then.
welcome once again to the unalert podcast.
I'm your host, ruth abigail akara what's up, friends?
It's your girl, jaquita andthis is the podcast that is
helping you gain the courage tochange your mind so that you can
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, it's here together we're here in a studio,
we can touch each other look atthis, this is real, this ain't
magic.
We don't know how to do enoughto make it pretend yeah, we're
definitely actually in the sameroom.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I've made a whole trip to a whole other state just
for y'all, I did this for you.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Listen, we are excited about the chemistry and
really getting out some goodpoints to you guys today,
because we've been working onsomething We've been working on
a little segment for the saints.
Okay, we got a little somethingthat we want to give to you.
Okay, this is actuallybrainchild of producer joy.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, so I just feel like it's really necessary yes,
that we give her some creditbecause she fought for y'all she
did okay, she fought for y'allyeah, this, this particular
topic wasn't wasn't my favorite,I'll be honest.
I was like well dang theyweren't something I was extra
excited about, but she convincedme.
All right.
So, because I think what we'regoing to talk about in this
little series is very relevant,yeah, for sure, and so the thing
(01:28):
that we're really going to talkabout before we do, though,
before we do, oh, Lord, wealways forget.
We always, and you know this.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You know this.
Listen, we are building afamily here, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We're building a community.
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Take a moment before we giveyou this good good, before we
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Okay, take a moment, like shareand subscribe.
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You got to finish my sentenceBecause we're in the same room
now.
You think you can finish mysentences?
Yeah, I feel like it's slow.
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
So this is our, our, our topic series topic.
Today we're talking about whenyou're in crisis Right, and
specifically thinking aboutthose in the millennial
generation.
Right specifically thinkingabout those in the millennial
generation, right, but this isreally going to apply to
everybody, because everybody hasmoments where you are and my
(02:30):
father says this, right, and hesays this.
So, before the storm, duringthe storm, after the storm,
either yeah, what'd he say?
You're either just coming outof trouble, headed into in
trouble or headed to troubleWise words.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Wise words, pastor Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
wise words Right and so the reality is, you know, I
don't know, we don't know whereyou are today specifically, but
a lot of people that are in thisgeneration, and and the younger
generations in particular, feelvery squeezed right now.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Feel very much in crisis.
Feel like I don't know how I'mgoing to manage this life
because of a lot of differentthings.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah for sure, I definitely think you know we're
talking about millennials incrisis, but again, I think every
episode we do we might betalking to our middle adult
community, but I really thinkeverybody can grab something
from it.
But, I really feel like withmillennials, especially like we
30 and up now, all right, we, weout here in these streets, ok,
(03:35):
we, you've been through thingsbefore.
But I do think that when youget to a moment, if you've been
through like crisis after crisis, if you've been through like
crisis after crisis and you'vemanaged different shifts and
changes in your life, thatdoesn't necessarily make those
new things easier to navigate,but you can be really really
aware when something in yourlife is about to shift Right,
(04:01):
and because we've been throughthings before, we can start to
see the signs.
You know, I, in the role I hadpreviously, I worked with a lot
of 25 year olds.
Hey, y'all, you know what's upand you know who you are.
Okay, my 25 year old crew, okay, but they, I would be sitting
and I'd be watching and I couldsee when things were about to
shift.
I could see when people wereabout to make a new move or when
something was going to affectthe office and affect the team,
(04:22):
because I've been there before,right, right.
And so I think that millennials,especially in these middle
adult years, you're at a spaceand time where you're realizing,
especially if you're payingattention just to what's
happening in the earth.
We don't even have to look at,you know, I know everybody right
now is looking politically, butlooking at, look at what's
happening in the earth.
Yeah, it's earthquakes andfires, ok, it's all kind of
(04:46):
things indicating shift, yes,and change, yeah, you know, and
it's something that I think thatwe're having to prepare
ourselves for, correct, which iswhy I think this topic is so
important.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And so with that, you know, we're going to kind of
break down what some of thethings that we've had to unlearn
and it's helped us in each oneof these different stages, right
?
So today we're going to reallytalk about what it looks like if
you're not feeling, if yourshift is about to come, or you
know a change is about to come.
Shift is about to come, my Lord.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My, that didn't hit y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, I'm sorry go ahead, go ahead, it hit me me,
it just hit me all right, allright, we good, you good, I'm
all right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's fantastic okay , no, I'm sensitive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, when, whenever the change is about to come and
you kind of sense that, but it's, it hadn't happened yet.
Yeah, right, you're, you'reright before it.
Um, we want to.
What we're calling you knowthis, uh, these tools, yeah,
what, when you are, like yousaid, a weather emergency or a
medical emergency or things likethat, there is some sort of kit
, there's, there's somethingthat you have, that you, you
(05:54):
have to decide and make sure,like I have to have these things
in case something happens.
For sure.
And so these are some thingsthat we think are very important
to put in your crisis kit veryimportant to put in your crisis
kit For sure.
Okay, and so there's just a fewthings that have helped us
really manage and helped us tobe prepared before something
(06:14):
changes, but do it before thechange so that you're not thrown
off.
So we're going to go throughthem real quick and just talk a
little bit about what we have,some of the things that we've
unlearned about each one ofthese, for sure.
So, queda, why don don't you?
What's the first one?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right.
So the thing that I really wantto hone in and I think it's
kind of like the groundwork forwhat we're talking about here,
because when you think about atoolkit, you have to have that
stuff in place before you get tothe emergency.
That's the purpose of a toolkit, and I think one of the first
things that you really need tofocus on is community.
(06:49):
Right, you need to know who'saround you.
Right, you need to be aware notjust of what's in you, you need
to be aware of what's in thepeople that's around you.
Right?
Because I'm going to need tolean on the people that's around
me, right, but if I don't trustthe gift that's in you, if I
(07:11):
don't know, if I don't know whatyou, what you bring to the
table, what you bring to my life.
If I don't know the value addof the people that are around me
, I'm going to miss out on theopportunity of using them in my
crisis moment.
Right, and so you know the Biblesays that you have to know
those that you labor among, yeah, right, and you have to know
(07:33):
the people that.
Uh, you know, labor is not justkind of like, you know, we in
the field working or we at thejob working, but friendship is
work Relationship is work Right,and you have to be intentional
about getting to know the peoplethat you're surrounding
yourself with.
Yeah, we all know the quote,right, that you are the sum of
the five people.
(07:54):
Yeah, they are closest to you.
Yeah, right that you kind ofbecome that.
Yeah, right, you have to knowwhat am I allowing to feed into
me?
Because, ultimately, what youare allowing into your ears,
what you are allowing into your,into your spirit, those are the
things that will be echoingthrough your mind as you go
through a crisis moment.
(08:14):
So who are you surroundingyourself with and what are you
allowing them to speak to you inthe moments before the storm?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Exactly, and you know something I did a recent
Freedom Friday about the idea ofchecking out inventory.
Yeah, yeah, it's good.
I mean, it helped me even justtaking inventory as to what
things are you putting inside ofyou, because the reality is,
whatever's in you is coming out,it's not an option, right is
(08:45):
coming out, it's not an option,right?
Yeah, what's coming in you iscoming out.
That's also bible those voices,um, that you have that are
coming in your ear, in yourcommunity.
If they are not building you up, making you better, um,
allowing you to progress, or ifthey are not helping you to
reshape your mind, to unlearnsome things, to do all the
things that you need to dobefore you get to a point of
(09:06):
change, then you might need totake care of that.
You might need to figure outwho do I really need to be
listening to, and I think it'simportant One thing that I did
actually recently look on yourum, on your recent call list and
your phone, and see who you'vebeen talking to for real.
Ooh, you know what I'm saying.
(09:26):
Yeah, like, see who you've beentalking to.
Look at your text messages whohave you been communicating with
?
Who?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
you got pinned at the top Like who you got pinned
Like and like.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Are these people putting me in a position to win?
Are they draining me Right?
And so I think that is.
You got to know that before you, because that that is the
energy you're taking into thisnext, this next, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And I think it's important.
Darius Daniels has a really,really good book about
relational IQ, yeah Right, andhe names kind of like the
different positions that peoplecan take in your life.
You know, they can be a friend,right, they can be a.
I forget the other, ok Allright.
They can be a friend.
I think it's like friend,mentor and accomplice, sure, all
(10:13):
right, right, like you have.
Yeah, thank you, I actuallyhave the book.
Right, but they but you havepeople who are at different
stages of your life, yeah, butyou have people who are at
different stages of your life,and they don't always stay in
the same stage.
And a lot of times we don'tprepare ourselves for
relationships to shift Right.
You don't prepare that when,when God takes you from one
(10:34):
season to another that is notthat I lose that person is that
the nature of our relationshipwill shift Right.
But if you don't know and thereason why it shifts is and I
think you and I were justtalking about this the other day
that there is a differencebetween us being bonded because
we we have a bond and there's adifference in being bonded
(10:54):
because you're rooted in thesame thing.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Right, if you are rooted, if we're both rooted in
the same ideologies, the samevalues, the same faith, the same
, the same goals, the same.
If we're rooted in the samething, when the storm comes
right, we're both going to berooted.
If we're bonded together,though, and the storm comes,
that storm is coming to breakyou apart.
(11:18):
Yeah Right, because you're notgrounded in the same thing, and
a lot of times, when we'rebuilding communities, we focus
so much on how I'm bonding withthe person and not what that
person is rooted in.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's good, because if they're not rooted in the
same thing as you, it's notgoing to survive the crisis.
That's very real.
That's very real, ok.
So the next one, yeah, isunderstanding what your
financial situation is.
Take it away, ruth, okay, allright.
So so this is a reallyimportant thing in your, in your
preparedness kit.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right is get your finances together get your money
right and I think a lot ofpeople are feeling that right
now.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Right, I mean because you know you mentioned earlier
politics, the economy, all thesethings, it seems like it's.
So I mean these tariffs, youknow.
I mean my, which, you know,let's be honest.
I mean I don't know enough totalk about the unlearned podcast
.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You have no political affiliation.
Okay, you just want to makethat known, well yeah, that's
true as a podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
As a podcast okay, don't come for us.
You're not wrong and you know.
The terrorists are theterrorists are the crazy yeah, a
lot too, you know 100, 184,whatever it is.
I don't know all that stuff, Idon't know enough.
I don't know enough, but I doknow that it it's going to
impact us financially.
Yeah, it's going to impact ourpockets.
(12:36):
We do know that much yeah andso for for those.
We know that's coming, we knowit's very close to coming it
might be coming on Monday, Idon't know, right and so I think
that it's important if you, ifyou haven't started to go ahead
and get real practical aboutyour finances, right, you know,
(12:58):
do the things that you don'twant to do, and I think that is
it's it's really important to beOK doing things you don't want
to do, and I think that is it'sit's really important to be okay
doing things you don't want todo.
Uh, budget like saving, right,save, um, they'll reduce your
lifestyle, you know what I'msaying, like like all those
things that are going to beimportant for when it comes
right, and and I think that our,our generation, we coined the
(13:20):
phrase YOLO right, you only liveonce, which is true.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You're only broke once if you keep playing, Well
you be YOLO hobo, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You better stop playing.
Hey, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But I do think that we coined that phrase and it's
something that we really like.
Oh right, you live once.
I got it, I got it, I got tolive my best life now, and
that's like, that's notnecessary.
Not necessary If you believethat your life will be beyond
now and so that was good.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, sorry, because I think that YOLO emphasizes
living in the moment and livingfor the moment as if it's your
last moment, as if it is goingto be your most important moment
.
And so YOLO really emphasizesit's a 20s mindset, right, it's
a.
It's a I'm young, happy andfree.
Well, baby, let me tell youfrom the middle adult
(14:26):
perspective.
Okay, let me tell you something.
All right, them bills.
They don't get less, they getmore, okay.
The bills don't decline, yeah,okay.
They increase, yeah, right.
And if you start, there aresome so many areas of our lives
and I'm sure every middle adultwill tell you that there are
some things that they wish theyhad started in their twenties,
(14:48):
so that they wouldn't be fooledup with it now in their thirties
.
That's absolutely right.
I wish I had started running inmy twenties, okay, and maybe it
wouldn't be so difficult.
Well, that's true Right now.
Cause these stairs that that wehave to come, come out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It's kind of a lot, and so I mean I mean so you
ain't lying, you know like it's,it's, I think you're right and
so it really is.
Just like whatever that is,dave ramsey is my guy, okay we
know this.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I love dave ramsey, y'all know that and he says this
.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He says live like no one else, so later you can live
like no one else, right, it's?
It's self-explanatory what itmeans, but it's really profound.
I think the undertone of thatis living like no one else means
you will probably do thesethings by yourself and a lot of
times you know even thecommunity that you have yeah may
(15:44):
not be totally with the uh, thefinancial part of your, of your
, of your, of your journey.
That was the case with me, andnot in a bad way.
My community was verysupportive, but I was the only
one doing the thing I was doingat the time, they did think I
was crazy, and so I think thatwe have.
You just have to make decisionsthat are best for you Right
(16:05):
Right now, and pay attention, bereal about where you are
financially, pay attention to itand create a plan so that you
don't have you don't end up inreal crisis when stuff really
happens.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, I think that you have to spend some time
imagining the life that you want, right.
You have to spend some time,friends, right, take some time
Vision board Journal Right, seethe destination that you're
trying to get to.
So, because when you have thatvision in mind, you'll know that
you're building something.
So you won't try to, you won'ttry to have everything in the
(16:43):
moment you're having now,because you were able to do your
financial plan, because youbelieved in where you were going
.
A lot of times we don't makeplans because we don't know
where we're going Right, and soI got to enjoy that.
That's the whole premise ofYOLO is you only live once in
this moment, right now, right?
Right of YOLO is you only liveonce in this moment, right now,
right, because it emphasizes themoment you're in versus the
(17:08):
moment you're headed to, and youhave to unlearn that.
And for me, I was the oppositeof Ruth Abigail.
I was like how did I get mynails done?
You know I ain't got enough topay the electricity bill, but I
could spend $20.
And that's the other thing.
Millennials, I think that we'dbe like $20?
.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I got $20.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's nothing $20 until you spend it 10 times.
Now it's $200.
All right, don't that feeldifferent?
It had a gravity to it,gravitas, $200.
All right, you done spent inone week, because everything you
got cost $200.
All right, you just spent inone week because everything you
got cost $20.
Yeah, you know.
And so we have to be mindfulthat we're not real.
The moment you're building foris not the moment you're in.
(17:52):
That's right, right.
And so you have to cater yourlife to where you're going and
not to where you are.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, that's good, all right.
What's the next one?
Oh, oh, my spiritual groundingRight.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Let's let's get our faith right.
Here we go in the season andyou know, I think you will find
that once you get in the momentyou are going to, you are there
in the moment with what youprepared before you got to that
moment.
Right.
And I think that that's so trueabout our faith life, right,
that's so true about our faithlife, right, our commitment to
(18:28):
growing deeper in ourrelationship with God, growing
deeper in community with otherbelievers, our commitment to
making sure that we are stayinggrounded with God.
And you know, I think it'ssomething really to be said
about staying current with God.
Right, like you are not, youcannot live off of the faith of
your childhood.
No, right, like you are not,you cannot live off of the faith
of your childhood.
No, okay, you cannot live offof the routine, the faith
routine of your parents, right,right, you have to bring
(18:51):
yourself up current with whereGod is in your life right now
and really decide what am Igoing to be committed to?
Continuing to prepare not justfor the crisis moments, okay,
because he's your father.
Okay, not just the King, allright, he's your father.
Right, and you, you, you'rebuilding relationship so that it
(19:11):
can sustain you toward thatvision that God has put on the
inside of you.
And that's going to requireintentionality and it is going
to require, like, y'all got facecare routines, okay, y'all got,
you know, health routines.
You go to your job at a certaintime, you get that job.
Your 37.5 for me are 40 hours.
(19:32):
For somebody else, you'regiving your job that time.
You have to create a routine, afaith routine that will ground
you Because, again, where yourroots are is where you will be
after the storm.
So set your roots down so thatyou can be stable.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So for those, those, those of you that have children
like we, we have a 10 year oldand I was I had a routine, you
know we had a Sunday morningroutine.
We had Sundays yeah, that wasthe routine.
So and and and and it was greatand we, we were good, we were
in a rhythm and um.
(20:08):
But our son really started touh, love, uh, anything that
happened at the church.
Honestly, like wednesdays,anytime there was um, anytime
there was a uh event, children'sevent, he wanted to go family
night.
You know he would tell us, sowe go because of him.
Yeah, you know, if it was up tous, we do a strong sunday
(20:29):
morning.
You know what I'm saying like westrong and so, but but he, he,
he wanted to do more.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I love you, Tyson.
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good stuff, young man, goodstuff, young man.
And then we startedvolunteering because he was
there so much that they wouldsay, hey, do y'all want to come
up and help once a month?
Now, I wanted to pray about it,but my husband said yes,
immediately, all right.
Well, you know Ty going gonnasay yes regardless, if it's
(20:59):
helping anybody yeah he'll help,yeah, he okay, I'm gonna pray,
but he's gonna have and so andso, but we so we end up, we end
up.
We're at church sunday morningsevery sunday morning, sometimes
earlier, for you know, wevolunteer Wednesdays any kind of
(21:20):
uh event.
Through that we've builtrelationships with people deeper
relationships with people.
Um, our son is, uh, he, heliterally could go throughout
the entire church, it's he,everybody knows him, um, and so
I say I have to say I thinkthink, for those of us with kids
, they can.
They can actually anchor you ina way you don't even realize
(21:40):
you need to Because that,because you, you are, you think
you're doing it for them, butyou realize it's for you to yeah
, more than you, more than youthought you needed for that,
(22:02):
because I am very, I'm moresolid now in not just faith, but
community, through through ourfaith, community, yeah, that, if
any, if we needed anything,we're gonna be okay yeah, and we
have other people that we cansupport that know to call us
when they're about to go throughsomething yeah but I really I
credit Tyson for that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But I love because you know Tyson's 10, right, he's
10.
Right.
I love that it's creating afoundation in him, yes, so that
when he gets to his crisismoment, he has roots that are
dug down.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
That's correct.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's it and I think God is so intentional.
Which brings me back kind of tomy point about community right.
Community anchors you right andgetting in the right community,
getting in the right faithcommunity.
You know, I know a lot of ushave left church or we don't
attend church as regularlybecause you think church was
(22:51):
what you grew up with.
Find a church that works foryou.
Find a church that teaches thatword now Get that word, make
sure you're.
Teaches that word, now get thatword, make sure you get that
word.
And I know some people wantthat praise and worship.
Okay, you like a little, like alittle worship music, like a
little a little praise andworship team, our choir, you
know whatever it is.
But find something that's goingto work for you because you
(23:12):
need that community.
Yeah, you know, and I don'tthink, and Tyson, tyson, leading
y'all there, carried y'allthrough the first year of your
marriage.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It did, and so it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It was necessary.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So I think the next thing that we want to, that we
think is really important toestablish right before the storm
is and your preparedness kitRight Is you need to have a safe
place.
My lord.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You need to have a safe place.
Uh, it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's like, there you go, okay, all right, uh, so you
know when you are in, um, uh, ifa tornado they tell you like,
oh, hunker down, find in a placethat's inside your house and
have windows.
It's insulated right and staythere yeah um.
But so you know, and in eachone of these situations you know
(24:06):
, at at um, at angel street,we're in a neighborhood that
experiences some crime, okay sothis is the neighborhood that
experiences too much too much.
I love you, memphis, thank youfor feeding me.
I appreciate you.
So we have protocols right.
When there are things in whichwe've had gunshots outside,
(24:26):
things like this, what do we do?
The first thing we do is getinto one place.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
The first thing we do is we make sure everybody is in
the right location, and so Ithink that that is a huge part
of being prepared.
Where can you go?
Wait a minute when your crisishits?
You need to know that before ithits.
We've experienced where we hada situation before we had a plan
and after a plan, and beforethe plan we had parents come.
(24:57):
We didn't have a plan.
My team was actually I was notin the building and I came back
um after they told me whathappened.
But there was some gunfireoutside and they were um, they
were figuring out.
There were kids, they werehearing the gunfire and this was
like ar-15 gunfire one just pop, pop, pop.
It was like machine gun allright so it was really scary and
(25:18):
so, you know, I had my team.
They knew enough to do somethings, yeah, but there were
also parents outside.
It was during pickup time, sothere were parents outside who
were panicking and coming to thedoor, banging on the door.
They're opening the door right,letting people in.
We didn't.
They were just trying to figureout how to keep people safe.
That is not smart.
You don't let people, you can't, you have to.
(25:39):
One of the things that welearned afterwards, after being
trained and having a real planin place, is no one in, no one
out.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Because when, when there's a crisis, that's what
you do, right, because I don'tknow who's who's coming in and
out.
Yeah, and so you know.
That's one thing.
The kid like making sure thatthe kids lights are off, right,
making sure that the kids are,are all in one space or backed
into a corner, right.
Luckily, we didn't have anywindows in the room we were in,
but there were.
(26:07):
There was just some differentthings we knew to do after we
had a plan.
And then, not too long ago, wehad another one, another
incident, a little different,but we had a little bit of a
plan, and even after thathappened, I was able to double
down on a plan, right.
So I say all that to say thelocation when are you, where can
(26:31):
you go when there is a crisis?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
We need to figure that out today.
No, because I really.
I hope y'all are hearing what Iheard.
What I heard, because as soonas you started talking, all I
kept hearing was Adam, where areyou Right?
Because when you are out ofposition, you are out of safety.
Yeah, when you are out ofposition, when that crisis hits,
you are not going to be in theplace that will protect you,
that will feed you, that willnot going to be in the place
that will protect you, that willfeed you, that will preserve
you to make it through themoment and a lot of times.
(27:03):
I think, if we're honest withourselves, you have to evaluate
where am I?
Am I in the spot that the Lordtold me to be in?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Am I doing the things ?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
that I'm supposed to be doing, because the moment you
get out of position, you putyourself out of safety Right,
and so when that crisis momenthits, sometimes you have to ask
yourself did I experience thiscrisis?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
because I got out of position.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Right, because a lot of things that we are
experiencing is because we gotout of position.
That's right.
Right, there is safety andbeing in the place that God
assigned you to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Right when Adam was in the garden.
He put Adam in the garden in aspecific spot.
Everything he needed was in thespot.
Yeah Right, when you allow andwhat gets you out of position,
right, your own lust and desiresand the voice that you decided
to follow.
That was not the voice thatgave you the instruction to be
in that space.
Yeah, right, because a lot oftimes and I just I know we keep
(28:04):
harping on community- and I'msorry to keep bringing it back,
but when you talk about safeplace, you also have to talk
about who are the people aroundyou and what kind of space are
they creating for you?
That's it Right.
Kind of space are they creatingfor you?
That's it Right.
And a lot of times, what makesthe space unsafe is what kind of
dependency have they createdinside of you, people who create
(28:25):
like a system, where they'relike I need you to depend on me
and to depend on my voice and tolisten to my voice.
And if you go another way,that's wrong, that's dangerous.
That's dangerous.
Safe spaces are ones thatempower and strengthen you.
Know how do you?
How to maintain lifelongfriendships or how to build
those friendships?
And I think one of the thingsthat really helped us is that we
(29:06):
, when we started allowing eachother to be able to think
through and process throughthings independently, but with
the counsel of each other, itbecame, it became something that
strengthened me and that's whatmade that space safe, because
it was a space that I could goto be strengthened and not
(29:27):
necessarily shifted Right.
People who only seek to push andpush you and and they make
their voice the prominent voicein your life, and they make
their voice the prominent voicein your life and they make their
aims and goals and visions.
They try to impose that on youwithout you being able to settle
in yourself and make thatdecision.
Not a safe space.
It's not a safe space, and youhave to evaluate your
(29:51):
relationships to say, okay, isthis a relationship that is
coddling me?
Because that's coddling right,that's, you don't have to make
your own decisions, I'll makethe decisions for you.
You don't have to do thethinking, I'll do the thinking
for you right.
Are you being coddled or areyou being empowered?
And coddling can look a lot ofdifferent ways right.
(30:11):
It can be.
I'm being coddled, you know, tomake me feel like there's
nothing wrong with me.
You know, like you got thatfriend that's like, oh no, I
don't know why people keepsaying that about you.
There's nothing wrong with you,baby.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, tell me the truth .
Yeah, a safe place is atruthful place, and so, and to
that, I think that that issomething you know safe doesn't
mean soft, right.
It doesn't mean you're soft, itdoesn't mean that you're just.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, oh, look at you, let me tell you something
I ain't got a soft friend.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, okay, that's not what I have right here, and I
think that I think that that'ssomething we have to unlearn is
that safety doesn't does notalways mean comfortable yeah,
matter of fact the like in timesof of a literal storm.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Being safe one thousand percent won't mean
being comfortable you're usuallyin a place you don't really
want to be, yeah, but you'resafe yeah, right, if you think
about like, when people likethem, little bomb shelters
people are building or the likeyou know the little end of time
shelters, that's not.
You know futons and easy boysdown lazy boys down there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You know, right down the street from where Angel
Street is, is a is a house, it'scalled slave haven and it was
one of the uh places of theunderground railroad stop.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's like literally right down okay, okay, make it
make sense I was getting theretoo, um slave haven is that's
what it's called.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's called slave haven and it's a museum, but
underneath it is a bunker whereslaves would be hidden.
Wow, and if you take, you takethe tour, you can go down there
right.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And it.
I mean it's smaller than theroom we're in, it is crammed and
it's down below and you don'thave any.
You can't stand up Right.
It's the safest place for him,uncomfortable Uh, you're not.
You're not in, you're not in aplace that you want to stay long
, but you're safe, right, andyou and you, and it's important.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I think it's important to make that
distinction, because andunderstand where do I need to be
, not where do I want to be whenit's someplace, when something
happens, that's good, yeah,that's good, yeah, I think
that's so in, that's so uh,important, and it kind of leads
us into our next point, right,yeah, so we really need to talk
about and I think this issomething I harp on in every
(32:24):
class I teach every moment thatI get to be in front of young
adults, it's somewhere in thepresentation Self-awareness.
We are really in a time whereuniformity is broadcast.
You know, like everybody, Iused to say everybody's trying
so hard to be different thatwe're all the same.
You know, everybody is tryingso hard to be, you know,
(32:44):
alternative.
Or I got a little spice here,or I do a little bit of
different.
This and yes, you are unique,yeah, right.
And yes, you are fearfully andwonderfully made, if you will.
Ok, right, you are all of thosethings.
But you have to take a momentand say, ok, I got all this
uniqueness, but what am I hiding?
What's underneath the surface,right?
(33:07):
And that that does not comefrom looking in a mirror.
That comes from doing someintrospection.
You cannot just keep looking onthe outside of yourself and
trying to modify that.
You need to look inwardly andreflect on what is what's there
Right and take inventory notjust of your strengths but your
(33:29):
potential pitfalls as well.
That's correct, you know.
That's important because,ultimately, when, when the
crisis moment hits, let me tellyou something, okay, we're going
to talk about on the nextepisode.
Okay, because one thing that acrisis will do is expose.
The one thing a crisis is goingto do is it's going to lay all
your stuff out on the surface.
(33:49):
Nobody else may not see it, butyou will suddenly become aware
of everything you know, and soyou have to be mindful.
It would be so, it would be toyour benefit, right To be as
aware as possible of what thatcrisis is, of what, of what
those weaknesses are, of who youreally are.
(34:10):
And you know this goes intolike you know well, how am I
carrying things from mychildhood?
You may not have the fullunderstanding of it yet, you may
not have the revelation of ityet, but how have you been
affected by the things that havehappened?
You know, and we we talkedabout it before I that emotional
will.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh, yeah, listen, yeah, grab that.
It's important.
You know cause you need to knowyeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You need to know how I'm responding when things hit
me.
Yeah Right, what?
What's my go-to response?
Am I mad?
Am I angry?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that we I like what you
said Right the hold on What'dyou say?
What'd you say?
Middle adults, y'all, y'allalready know.
So, yeah, ok, you got it.
The you know who you really are.
Right, yeah, in a crisis and I,and I would say, just just as a
broader, even broader statementany extreme brings out who you
really are.
So it like, so the the crisiswill bring out who you really
(35:14):
are.
But also extreme greatnessbrings out who you really are yo
talk about that, talk aboutthat like, like, even though
we're talking about, but likethis idea of self-awareness,
those, those pitfalls don'tnecessarily, they're not just
limited to coming out whenthings are bad.
Pitfalls can come out whenthings are really good.
(35:35):
You know and you have, you findout who you really are.
I mean, you said it, when youknow people.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
People get revealed when you, when you got a lot of
when you got a little what youlisten.
But you know, I think that thatand that's one of the
foundations of why we startedthe podcast because Ruth Abigail
and I both got in leadershiproles.
You know where we were likeleader people and a leadership
role will show you yourdeficiency, mentorship and
guidance, and each one of themneed to be led differently, but
(36:08):
you're the person at the topthat people are looking to.
You know, I found myself in myquiet place being like Lord, am
I enough?
Yeah, and sometimes the answeris you can be enough if you
practice.
So, if you want surrender I'm abig fan of that word right now,
right, you have to surrenderthe things that you are learning
(36:30):
about yourself that don't workin the season that you're in.
Yeah, you have to surrenderthat and you have to allow God
and do it now, in the place ofpeace.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Do it now.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Don't wait.
You know, we, just as a humanrace, we like to wait until we
got no other options.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
We believe, believe, I think truly, we just don't
believe things can.
Actually, we, we live in these,in these bubbles where we think
it's not going to get bustedand it will, your bubble,
whatever bubble you're in rightnow, will be bused by something
and and, and you know, you livea few, a few years and you, you
know that you learn that right,and so I think that we don't
(37:09):
change, we don't move, we, we dothings slow.
I'll do it later, I'll do ittomorrow, um, when truly,
tomorrow's not promised, likethat's, that's, that's just,
that's just true, it's notpromised and you don't know what
tomorrow is.
And so we ought to do thingswhen you, when you learn them,
start putting them into practicenow yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And and for those of you who are wondering how can I
practice introspection, how canI evaluate kind of what we've
listed in this toolkit right now, I would suggest the first
thing you need to do is,whatever way you get your
thoughts out, right, if you needto start having more
intentional conversation withyour community members, let
(37:50):
people know what you need fromthem, the people who love you,
the people who care about you.
Let them know.
Hey, I'm in this space of mylife where I'm trying to dig
deeper into this.
Can you support, can you be anaccountability partner?
Can you?
Can you walk with me throughthis?
Right, be intentional about one, identifying your needs, just
(38:12):
as a person, and then allowingyour community to come in and
support you as you walk throughthat.
So, build that community, butbe intentional about getting a
journal.
I cannot emphasize enough.
I know I'm a talker, right, Ilike to talk things out, because
the things inside of my head Idon't understand them until
they're outside of me and I canlook at it.
(38:32):
Right, I'm a talker, but I hadto learn how to be a writer,
right.
And so do both talk about itwith people, but also write down
.
Write down some bullet points.
Even if you have a greatconversation with somebody and
you're like know what, I realizeI need x, y and z.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Write it down yeah, write it down, and I think also
you don't you can voice note it,talk it out and record it.
You know so, because maybewriting isn't your thing and
that's okay.
But let me tell you somethingelse.
Pro tip, you put that junk on avoice note, upload to chat.
Gpt chat will write it for younow, now and he'll Chat.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
GPT is replacing me as Ruth Abigail's best friend.
Listen, let me just say this.
It's replacing all of us.
Let me say this as RuthAbigail's number one.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
He's dependable.
He'll be there for you in themidnight hour.
First of all, personifying AIis crazy.
But for real, though, for thosewho don't like, I get the jerk
like or you don't have timebecause a lot of times I have,
my thoughts are driving I thinkthat that is good, but if you
want it on paper and it's you,it's easy to transcribe it, you
(39:40):
can put it through any, any kindof.
I mean, these things areavailable and I think we use
them a lot of times for, like,being productive and work stuff,
but you can do it for yourpersonal life too.
It can be helpful, because, Iagree, I mean you got to get it
out, um, and you, you got to putit out there.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Liz, yeah, that's good stuff.
Yep, I think that we have givenyou guys a good start to your
toolkit, but I think thatthere's so much more that can be
expounded on, especially asyou're going through life let's
go over the toolkit.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right, go through it, all right.
So we got community for suremake sure your community's tight
.
Make sure you have a financialplan together.
Make sure you're good on yourspiritual grounding.
Make sure you have establisheda safe place and make sure
you're being thank you and makesure you're being self-aware
okay so, um, but there might beother things for you.
(40:26):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Right, listen, if you have something that you want to
add to the toolkit, we want toknow about it.
Drop it in the chat, send us adirect message, put it in a
story.
We want to know what are youputting in your crisis emergency
preparedness kit so that we canshare with the community?
Because, again, you all arepart of our family, you're part
(40:47):
of our community, and what weshare together is what helps to
strengthen us as we move momentto moment in these millennial
streets.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
My Lord, all right.
That's it for now.
Yeah, all right, good times,y'all Good times.
So we will be with y'all laternext week or something.
All right, next week orsomething All right, but until
then, let's keep unlearningtogether so that we can all
experience more freedom, peace.
Thank you once again forlistening to the Unlearned
(41:18):
Podcast.
We would love to hear yourcomments and your feedback about
the episode.
Feel free to follow us onFacebook and Instagram and to
let us know what you think.
We're looking forward to thenext time when we are able to
unlearn together to move forwardtowards freedom.
See you then.
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