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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Doctor
Velma Talks Dating, Relationships and Marriage. It's a conversation with
me your host, Doctor velmac Bagbee. I am a media
personality podcast host of Doctor Velma Talks Finding Your Voice
podcast and I'm a co host of Words I Choose
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to Live By, which is returning next month. Tomorrow is
August first. Woo. I'm a best selling Christian author, I'm
a certified dating and relationship coach, and our dained minister.
I'm a professional speaker and a woman who's been blessed
to be married fifty plus years. So let's do a
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deep dive Season two. It's all about conducting a swat
swot swat analysis on four of the female characters in
the book, because these are relatable characters and the mistakes
they made are relatable as well. And this episode is
the last of the female swat analysis and guess what
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next Saturday begins the swat analysis of the men who
made wrown choices. So tell the guys and even the
women want to hear what we have to say concerning
some of the characters they dated. So this is exciting.
I've been enjoying all of this, So let me remind
you what the SWAT analysis is. Let me remind you
that these characters are coming from the nonfiction book, but
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in the nonfiction book the Catch series, they're all relatable
issues and challenges that men and women face every day.
Here's what we're doing in the SWAT analysis. You can
do this yourself, and I'm going to describe how you
can do this at the end of season two, so
you can try this as well. You can also do
a SWAT analysis on someone you're dating right now, and
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I'll tell you how at the end of this episode.
So SWAT stands for S, strengths, W, weaknesses, OWE, opportunities
T threats. The strengths are those positive attributes that you have,
your qualities, those are the things that we look at
in your strength weaknesses. The SWAT analysis looks at where
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you can improve, where your vulnerabilities are, where your challenges
are in your relationship decisions. Opportunities. These are areas where
you can improve factors that you can use to move
forward and move past really having not a not so
good experience. And then the threats these are the causes
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are the problems, and you definitely want to know what
those are and do a deep dive so that you
can see what negative influences are, conflicting issues are causing
you to have poor choices in your dates and your mates.
So swat analysis today, we're going back and we're looking
at one character that's called the puffer Fish, and we'll
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see why this woman chose him. And if you look
at the story, she was mesmerized the moment this guy
walked into the office, by his dress, the type of
suit he had on, the way he looked, he looks
like he had money. He walked money, he wore money,
and that was all she was concerned about, was that
financial stability. But you gotta be careful because there's a
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lot of narcissistic characters in the book, and you want
to be aware. And many of the guys who fit
the puffer fish are narcissistic, and that's what the puffer
fish is. So let's look here in the strengths in
this Wade analysis. This is the woman who only chooses
a mate based on his looks and financial status. And
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that's why in the book, Pastor Grayson, the main character
talks about looks as a condition, finances as a condition,
because many of those things can change and flip at
any moment. So if you put your emphasis on just that,
then you to be disappointed because that's those are not
I call them in the book, I call them conditions.
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But what you should be focused on are qualities of
that person. And that's beyond finances. Qualities of that person
is beyond their looks. So you can get caught up
in the wrong kind of fish to the wrong kind
of mate just looking at what they look like, because
that will always fool you. But you want to seek quality.
And let's go into detail. So the strength about this
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woman who sought only this person who are a person
who looked good and had money. So her strength she
has the desire for stability and attractiveness. Yeah, that may
be the fact, but is that the only thing she
should be looking for. Of course not. She valued material security.
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That will not last. I'm sorry, it will not last
because any of those things can flip in any time.
Those are conditions. She valued his physics, appeal And I
always encourage women not to fall in love with what
you see. Make sure you get a chance to fall
in love with what you discover. What is good about
the person, What are the qualities his love of God.
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He's a man of faith, he's a man of prayer.
He believes in covering, he believes in protecting all of
those qualities that you get to know over time. Stop
falling in love with what you see. You don't know
if he's if he's coming after you, or if he's
on the wanted list. You don't know. But make sure
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you take the time to discover the qualities of the person.
So again, her strengths. She's ambitious and goal oriented. She's
got that kind of mindset. But does that matter when
choosing to make That's why she's prior toizing financial status
as an important part of her decision. Her strengths awareness
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of her personal preferences. She knows what she wants, she
knows what she's a true but it's an important it's
not a priority. So those although maybe seeing as strengths
on one hand, and when it comes to a relationship,
they're not strengths at all. Here are the weaknesses, superficial judgments. Solely,
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she made a decision solely based on his appearance and
his wealth. She did she did not seek to look
at his qualities at all. She overlooked important qualities such
as what about his character, what about his values? Compatibility?
Aren't those important? That's what you fall in love with,
not what you see on the outside. Because look, over time,
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conditions change. The man's physical appearance will change in ten
to twenty years. So if you count on that as
a factor, what happens when that's gone or maybe he
becomes disabled? Are you and you don't see those anymore?
Those are no longer important important things that you should pursue.
Here are others weaknesses. Her lack of emotional connection. She
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won't have it with this guy. Most narcissists don't know
anything about being emotional, So the relationship is based on
mainly external factors. And we can see this many times
over and over. We've seen it on the news over
and over. We've seen it on people and other people
we've witnessed who fall for these kind of relationships, and
they're not based on solid criteria. And I want you
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to understand that in all of these cases, what Pastor
Grayson in the story wanted the women to see is
none of them saw God. They just based their decisions
based on some really loose criteria. And that's not what
we want to do. You're talking about building a lifelong
marriage with this person. So you don't want to spend
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a lot of time wasting your time on someone who
doesn't feat the meet the criteria. So you must analyze,
You must look at you must examine the heart of
that person and stop falling in love with what you see,
wait to fall in love with the characteristics and qualities
of that person. So she had a lack of emotional connection,
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that's a weakness. She looked at external factors, nothing in death,
nothing she can trust, no genuine intimacy at all. She
had a short term focus. That's a weakness. She looked
at what's short term. Money can be here today and
gone tomorrow. Then what no longer married? So again, those
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are things that are fluid and can move and change
over time. And not only that, going down this road
will set her up for potential disappointment because those external
factors change constantly. Finances change conditions, They fluctuate, leading to instability.
So what she thought was stable and for sure won't happen.
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Not with finances, those are conditions. Then there's the opportunities
self reflection and growth. There's an opportunity for her to
really kind of assess why she's making these decisions and
learn why she values these things over character and an
integrity of the person. There's no emotional capability and it
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can lead to healthier and more fulfilling relationships as you
just take a look at why she's doing what she's doing.
She wants to grow from this, and self reflection is
important her own personal development. She can focus on that
as well. Being aware self awareness determine why is her
love tank empty? Is there a shortcoming there in terms
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of what she sees should be true love and so
building of self awareness and what truly matters and a
partner can improve her relationship satisfaction. Therapy or coaching. Although
I'm a dating and relationship coach, I know some wonderful
therapist who would be happy to talk to individuals so
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to explore underlying beliefs about worth and success and the
beauty of faith and connectibility and understanding your worth and
knowing what poor choices can do, but improve upon that
so that you can begin to make better choices. So
sometimes it may mean you have to sit down with
a counselor or a therapist to get past some of
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these shortcomings. Expanding your relationship criteria that's an opportunity, and
that's called And basically, what you're doing is developing a
more holistic view of what is the best match for you.
What things should you be considering Its character Man of faith,
man of prayer mentioned some of them. These are things
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she never even looked at. She just wanted to capture
this guy and marry him because of his financial status.
Do you have shared values? Do you both believe in God?
Do you believe you have the same faith. You've got
to make sure you're doing the work to ensure that
this is a compatible match. And if it isn't need
to move on. So stop wasting time on things like
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this that do not matter. That's even in the book
what Pastor Grayson tells the women stop wasting time. It
doesn't take and he uses the forty day rule. It
doesn't take two in three years for you to realize
this unless you're just mesmerized like this woman is on
what you see. The external factors here are the threats
superficial relationships, that's what she's gonna have. Superficial the increased
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risk of forming relationships that are unfulfilling. And guess what,
It's called a transactional relationship. This is a transact, not
a covenant. Were making a transaction chick ching okay done
so vulnerability and manipulation. So she could be vulnerable to
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being manipulated by this person, which in the story this
woman was, and so her partners with financial motives are
superficial qualities can be taken advantage of relationship and stability.
External factors, looks or wealth can change. I said that
earlier these are conditions. Conditions change over time. Remember, ladies,
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your list of who you would what you would like
to find in a man should not be a condition.
There should be qualities u in his characteristics, quality, characteristics,
what you find about him, what you discover about him.
Those are the things you wanna fall in love with,
not what he looks like, not the type of job
he has, not even his age. What are the qualities?
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Fall in love with what you discover and so emotional
dissatisfaction over time. External qualities or conditions will not provide
emotional support. They will not provide you with the connection
you need. And notice there's nothing about love and anything
concerning this list. Love does not even exist in this
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and nothing about God. So swat analysis shows about this
particular character that valuing looks and looking at money or
financial status can have some practical benefits, but they're superficial qualities.
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We're not looking for superficial qualities. We're looking for sincere
qualities that matter, and so this will hinder forming a
deep and meaningful relationship. The opportunities we discuss lye in
developing a broader view in her faith, the character and
shared values in that person, and then giving yourself the
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ability to establish a genuine relationship. Then there's the threats
those involved, the risk of superficial and unstable relationship, contractual
relationships that might not meet and will not meet your
emotional needs long term. You're gonna feel like a dry
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tunea turn up. I was gonna say tuna, but a
turn up, dry turn up, because you won't be getting
any and so eventually it would deplete what you thought
you could receive. So using this framework, the individual can
reflect on truly what matters and a partner and look
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towards establishing a balance, fulfilling relationship in their choices. That's
the Pufferficies analysis. Now here's what I want to tell you.
I want you to take the time and come up
with what you feel are some of the things that
you've developed you've found out about yourself in the first
four episodes of Doctor Velma Talks, if you were able
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to pick out some things that stood out to you,
but conduct your own squat analysis. Just use chat GPT,
put in what the things are that you've discovered, and
ask it to do a squad analysis on you, or
do a swad analysis on the person you're dating, list
of things that you've discovered about them and find out
if it's quality or not. You have tools available to you,
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but you can always talk to a coach or sign
up to talk with psychologists. Any one of those things
will work, but make sure you have conversation around this.
These are sincere and very serious situation. So although my
swat analysis sound fun and I'm enjoying every bit of it,
but you want to make sure that you take the series.
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Some people assume that just because these stories are in
a fiction book, they don't realize that many of these
stories are real and many of them have happened over
and over and over and again. But take the time
to discover what you need to see in it. So
any one of the books in the SWAT series will
help you at least the first three books the last
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two or non fiction the first three of fiction. So
in closing, for those of you who are watching, I
hope you post your comments when you hear or see
this or even I'll go back to replay at once
it airs, make sure you address them. If you're listening
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love to hear from you. Let me know how you
enjoyed these first four episodes, the SWAT analysis on the
wrong men to date and the challenges the women had
and because the SWAT analysis were not on the actual
men she dated, but really it was why she did
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what she did, So make sure you make make sure
you leave your comments and let me know. You can
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podcast airs. I will be doing a few additional Finding
your Voice episodes as special editions, so make sure you
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tune in for that. But this is a segment four
so I I promised you for swad analysis of female
characters in the book next week. Next Saturday will begin
with the male characters. Woo, that's the blue book blue
Book number three. Why did the man choose incorrectly? I
thank you for listening and I appreciate your time. This
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