May 10, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of Radical Joy with James Bullard, discover how gratitude and enthusiasm are more than just feel-good concepts—they're powerful tools for transforming your life. James unpacks the surprising connection between the two, shares personal stories (including a Beyoncé concert adventure), and reveals how to turn everyday challenges into moments of joy. If you’re ready to boost your mindset and embrace radical joy, this episode is for you.
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This podcast and CLW Studios content are not therapy or a substitute for it. Guest opinions are their own.
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Got something on your mind? James never runs out of things to say, so tell us what you want to discuss!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, welcome back.
If this is your first time with me, well I'm
glad you're here. Each week, i'm here with you talking
to myself about things that weigh on my mind and heart.
Hoping if you're dealing with something similar, we can adjust
our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if you're struggling with
(00:32):
something that needs immediate attention, please know that help is available.
Just disle nine eight eight nationwide in the US to
reach the Mental Health and Suicide Crisis Hotline. All of
us here at CLW Studios believe that mental health is
a vital part of our well being. The more people
I meet and the more places I go, the more
(00:53):
I realize how important it is to make people aware
of the fact that there is no shame in enjoying
the parts of our lives that are incredible. It's time
for some Radical Joy, and this week, the three fingers
pointing back at me are for gratitude and enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Twinsies. Yeah, I did. I just did that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I make no apology for it. None it I don't know.
Last minute, it just seemed like the right thing to do.
Whenever I was coming up with this idea, it to
me in the title. It seems first cousins work, But
I think that these two are even closer than cousins.
And I tell you cousins can be close, but I've
seen some twins that definitely rival that relationship enthusiasm and gratitude.
(01:40):
So often one can dovetail into the other. Sometimes I
feel enormous amounts of one and little bits of the other, okay,
meaning that if I should need one and I am
in a bun't supply of the other, it's a real
(02:02):
short trip to translate one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Into the other.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I love this because sometimes you just can't be asked
to be enthusiastic about something. You're back at the job,
You're in the middle of something you've done a million times,
and trying to find something enjoyable about it is just
not happening. It's a task, it's a chore.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I hate it, which is why we call it a job.
You know. That's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It can apply to many things too. It can be
a relationship, it can be any number of situations in
your life where you are beholden responsible and instead of
it being something like a blessing or something for which
we can be We tend to treat it sometimes as
(02:52):
the mundane, as the everyday, as something I've done a
thousand times before, So why get excited about it today.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, you don't have to be excited about it. I
promise you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's gonna be a lot less of a drudgery if
you can find a way too sort of adjust in
order to.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Do that gratitude.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I am so grateful that the things that I wanted
for so long finally came to fruition. Oh my god,
I'm so happy about this. Hallelujah, wonderful. Great. That high
that I'm feeling, that connectedness to the way things worked
out in my favor so incredibly, Well, that's the thing.
(03:34):
That's what I'm gonna lean on. That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna just sort of I'm gonna take that fullness
and I'm gonna try to bear hug it and sort
of lift it and sort of waddle over to my
enthusiasm tank and just sort of like stuck it down
in there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So that that high that I'm feeling.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
From my enthusiasm for my gratitude of really having that
now I can translate and put that over in the
tank for enthusiasm. It's like, okay, yeah, yes, because I
asked for this for so long, and because now I'm
doing it, and the thing that I used to aspire
to do, the thing that I used to have to
break myself in order to just get by, I am
(04:17):
now proficient or better yet.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'm an expert. I'm a master at.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Doing this, and that's really cool. I've covered a lot
of ground between where I started and where I am,
and now.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's so easy for me to do. I can get
bored doing it. I never thought i'd see the day
and look around, Papa, here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're crushing the game, brilliant. It's easy to translate that
from one end to the other. Right, yeah, exactly. Now
let's flip the script a little bit. Let's just do
this right quick, little story time. I'm gonna slide my
chair back it a little bit so I can get
on the edge of my chair because I'm feeling in
(05:05):
it now. You know, you're like, yeah, yeah, this, this
this right here perfect. I heard that on the national
calendar in the United States of America they took off
the holiday of Juneteenth, and that just pisss me off.
That gets me right in the guts, and it makes
me angry. And you know why it makes me angry.
(05:26):
I have amazing people in my life that cared enough
about me to teach me what it was about what
it was for, and brought me up to speed. And
they are intelligent, and they are emotional, and they are
so good and because this is so important to them
that they took time out of their amazing lives to
(05:50):
bring me up to speed about what it is. And
then for it just to be dismissed out of hand,
just it roasts me. It makes my guts boil bullerd.
We don't need a national Holidays calibrat, No, you don't,
and thank you for bringing that up, Mildred. Sit down,
nobody ask you. I don't need your help. What I
(06:14):
did instead was I went online because Paris is just
down the street from me now, and I bought a
ticket to the Queen Bees Cowboy Carter concert, two of
them actually, and me and undisclosed guest are going to
(06:36):
said concert on Juneteenth, twenty twenty five. That's June nineteen
for anybody who doesn't know. And I'm gonna go out
there and I'm just gonna act the fool and it's
gonna be dedicated to that holiday that was so carelessly,
mindlessly removed from the calendar in the United States of America.
(06:56):
Now here's the thing. I can get very enthusiastic about that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, as Beyonce one of my favorite artists, not particular,
I think she's amazing. I think she's talented. I think
that she has turned her whole life and brand into
something that a lot of people can look to as
aspirational and I dig it and her stuff flipping rocks
like She's put some dance sings out there that just
melt your face.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And I would love.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
To be in the middle of a great, big crowd
that we're just jamming out something like that. For whatever reason,
I'm having the picture of me in Chaps going to
this with under like things under it. But still, for
whatever reason, Chaps come to my neither here nor there.
The enthusiasm that I have for being able to buy
the ticket, for going, for taking the euro Star from
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Amsterdam to Paris to spend one night in this enormous
venue celebrating life and art, and.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What when you just take a second to look at it,
like objectively look at it. If I were to take
a snapshot of this moment of the lights going and
the sound thumping and my lungs vibrating from the base,
you know, I'm gonna be having my earplugs in. Okay,
just so we're one hundred percent clear, because I got
to protect that. To be there among these people on
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this special day as part of a joyful protest of
sorts fills me with a sense of gratitude that I
would be hard to contain tears. Okay, So that enthusiasm
for that moment, that upper echelon of excitement. I can
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be a part of that moment and be really engaged
and present, and then all of a sudden, that switch
will flip and I think I had the money to
do this. I'm close enough to do this. I am
brave enough to wear this ridiculous costume or outfit or
whatever it is we want to call it. So many
(09:12):
things to be grateful for that came from this overwhelming
feeling of enthusiasm, and I think that applies to a
lot of things. Now, granted these are extreme examples, Okay,
I get that yes, yes, I do. You know, you
don't have to go that far out or play that
deep in the paint to get those feelings. You can
(09:37):
look at something like there were days I never thought
this would happen, and here I am living it, however,
many years deep in it, and now I'm feeling just
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Let me change that right quick.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let me focus on the parts of this where there
was a time, there was a day I was once
the person who and now I am and that is
so great that I'm so proud and I'm so strong,
I am so smart, I am so loving, caring, kind,
(10:17):
I am so good at this one particular skill. I
am so open to things that happen now because I
have been working at this this long. There's a million
things out there that we can put a whole lot
of gratitude on. And there's a million teeny tiny little
wonderfuls out there. We can do the exact same thing too.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We just have to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Continue to remember to do it. It's honestly, it's like
brushing your teeth. And I know some of you are like,
what what are you even.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's like brushing your teeth. It's one of those things
you're like, ugh, my breath tastes terrible, or I can't
believe I will a smell uugh like it. There are reminders,
there are signs, and then what do you do. You
take your happy self to the bathroom and you floss
and you swish and you brush and you swish, and
then you feel way better. Right, The reminders are there,
(11:19):
the signs are there. I feel bored in a thing
that I used to beg to have hope, beyond all hope,
that one day I would be the lucky participant in
recipient of and now here I stand square in the
middle of it. And there are days I need to
remind myself and really get up in it. And that
(11:41):
is okay too, Yes it is. And that's the thing, Like,
you can continue to give yourself permission for these kind
of things. I know I do, I absolutely do. I'll
sit there and I'll want to bitch and moan and
whine and complain, and then I just have to stop
myself because it often ramps up. That's another thing I've
got to be super careful about. It will escalate. I
(12:02):
am terrible about that. I am working on it. Here's
a fun little thing now that my nutrition is better
and my fitness is better, and I sleep more soundly
at night, and I don't feel so flipping stressed out
twenty four to seven. It is much much easier to
(12:23):
see when I'm getting unreasonably angry or upset, take a moment,
breathe through it, find out what it is I need
to focus on instead, so that I can feel grateful, enthusiastic, calm, centered, warm, wonderful, caring, kind,
all of these adjectives we've talked about one hundred thousand
(12:44):
times already. Yes, it's so important to continue to be
aware of what we're doing, of who we are in
that moment, because there are certain schools of thought. Well,
you know, behavior is who you are, okay, Yeah, and
(13:07):
behavior is modifiable. Whenever you know that you're getting off
into something that doesn't serve, that does nothing more than
just upset you or frustrate you, get your blood pressure up,
make you say unkind of things to people you love
so much, maybe we can take just a moment to
assess it, acknowledge it, recognize it for sure, and then
(13:31):
start working in our direction so that we can be
better about it to the people we love the most.
To appreciate situations we used to beg to be in,
to be so thankful for the circles we get to
run in now that we used to hope we could
be big enough to fill those shoes one day, And
now look at you, you're so big, the toes are pinsion.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well done you, So what are we gonna do? We're
gonna get even bigger shoes. What are we not gonna do?
Piss and moan about having shoes that are too tight?
I said what I said, and now I'm going to
take a sip of coffee. These things. Do you ever
talk to somebody? Okay, you're like, how you doing? I'm
(14:16):
doing fine? Great, love to hear that that's wonderful. Well, yeah,
I mean I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But you don't want to tell anybody because they wouldn't
care to listen anyway. Oh okay, I mean that's one
way of looking at it. I know we've all heard
somebody say that at one point or another. And the
thing is, instead of thinking that way and just going
ahead and cutting it off, maybe if you can't find
(14:42):
an audience for your grievance, maybe you can find a
way of thinking about it so that you can sort
of sublimate that kind of just blow that steam off
without having to make someone else an audience to your unhappiness.
I'm not saying you can't, It's not at all what
I'm saying. But there will be times when we can't
find somebody like that, where we're not around somebody like that,
(15:04):
or they're perhaps not available to be there for us,
whether it is geographical availability or they're just not emotional
available for that kind of unhappiness sharing at the moment. Okay,
I get it, and honestly, i'd rather know that. I'd
rather you tell me that you're not really a spot
where you can listen to that sort of thing, so
I don't put my burden on you. All I'm looking
(15:24):
to do is sort of er it and then get
rid of it. I don't want you to carry it.
I want you to listen to me talk about it
for a second, because once I understand that it's out
of my face and you know, out of my head,
I realize how silly and small it can be can be.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Not always. I'm not trying to.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Diminish anyone's problems here. Folks have real serious problems they're
dealing with daily and I send love, respect, and admiration
of folks out there that are dealing with these big things.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I have friends that are pregnant, and God love them.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They are loving it and they are laboring for the love, okay,
And I send them love and understanding and hopes for
relief and prayers for hell to that baby that they
have prayed to have, and space and grace to come out.
(16:20):
And whenever something is swollen that ain't supposed to be swollen,
or something that hurts ain't supposed to be hurt, or
forgetting to tie your.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Shoes because you've got some kind of mom brain thing happening. Great.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, we all have either been there or know someone
who has, And I am plenty strong enough to tote
that for you for a hot second at least until
we can both kind of throw it up into the world,
laugh at a little bit, and just let it turn
to dust great or better glitter sparkle. Mama, you're building
(16:52):
a whole other human being, and yes, I know it's hard. Ooh,
I give you honor and praise for the work you
are doing. Thank you, because I can tell already you're
gonna be an amazing parent and your partner is gonna
be an amazing parent. And I am over the moon
(17:13):
that this little one's.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Gonna show up and they're gonna be so loved.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And sometimes if you can't make your own enthusiasm, or
you can't make your own gratitude, you gotta lean on
somebody you love just a little, just a little trustfall it?
Do that? Hey, tap tap tap, I'm about to fall.
I'm gonna need you to catch me. Okay, could you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Do me that? Solid?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I promise it's not gonna be full body weight, but
right now, all of this is just too much. So
I'm gonna ask you to take about and it's falling
in three two one. I got you, and I'll hold
on to you and you can tell me about it,
(17:58):
or you can just sit there and you can just
sort of be okay that someone has taken forty two
pounds off you for just a minute. And then eventually
you're gonna have to stand back up full weight, you
little bit, whatever it is you're carrying, and you're gonna
have to go back out there. Why Because that's who
(18:19):
you are, that's what you do. You ask, you received,
and now it's time for you to go out there
like the warrior you are and own it and show
the rest of the world just how good.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You are at owning it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Wow, Because you may not know it, you're probably somebody's inspiration.
I let's not forget about that. We talk about it occasionally.
What you're going through right now, you look to somebody
for an inspiration, there's a good chance they don't know
that they pattern some of their successes off what they've
seen you accomplish. And what uh joy, what an honor?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Whow what gift?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
If you think there are people out there that are
doing the exact same thing to your life, trying to
reach the goals you've reached, to accomplish what you've already
done and probably looked real good doing it, you would
be mistaken. Somebody out there is watching your life and
they are walking in your footsteps wherever you have stepped before,
(19:25):
whether it's mud, snow, concrete, whatever it is, they are
putting their feet where you have tried in order to
be get what you have, what you are, or what
you have received. And that's huge, and we always want
(19:47):
to live for ourselves always. It's not always easy. So
whenever we need one of those, fake it till you
make it moments that I hate. Just haven't come up
with any better terminology for it anyway, because they't faking.
It is pre recognition. It is the before the good
stuff hits. Sometimes you just got to put on just
(20:11):
a little bit because you've got to do something for
somebody else, because they're watching, And it's not performative. What
it is is just Okay, I honor the fact that
somebody else is here watching me and what I have
they want, and I don't want to whine about that.
Whenever I am living someone else's dream life. I don't
(20:31):
think that's selfish and I don't think that is artificial.
What I think that is is respectful, and I think
that is paying homage to what you've already done and
accomplished and what others would love to do with their
own lives. And sometimes it's hard to do it for yourself.
Whenever you live inside the circle, it's hard to see
what's going.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
On in there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Sometimes it just is. So we rely on the people
in our lives that we love and respect and trust
to tell us the truth or facilitate that next step
in getting out of our funk and getting back into
our power.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What is different? What is wrong, though I don't love
the word wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
What's off? What are you seeing in my behavior? In
whatever it is it's going on right now that you
see is not typical? What is.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Just not my flava? What do you see that's off? Brand?
With me? Right now? And they can approach you. Now
here's the thing too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You gotta be ready for it, okay, because some people
really love you a lot and they tell you really
really straightforwardly.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And sometimes I'm gonna be a little munch great super
The Dutch are very direct, and I love that about
them because it is so efficient.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Until you learn how to deal with it, it can
be a little painful, it is very efficient, and once
you understand that, they honor you by telling you the
truth instead of trying to beat around a bush or
cushion it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They want you to know so you can be better.
Almost everything in this.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Culture is so fun like that, because the Dutch are
known to complain, especially about the weather. The difference being
whenever I hear someone loves to complain, I think they
are a complainer. That is not what this is in
this land, in this land, in this country, and in
this culture. They complain about something so that they can
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get a consensus on what it is someone doesn't like
about said topic, and if there is something to be
improved or repaired, they figure out what it is that
is probably the least enjoyed and that is the thing
they work on improving.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm sorry, what it's just not sit around in bitch
all day and nothing gets changed or fixed. Correct it is.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We see it here and we talk about the things
that could be improved or better served. We get a
feel of the room, you know, get the temperature, and
then we spitball ideas on how to change that so
that it will be less of a topic of complaint.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
What exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's wonderful and it's helpful because it's one of those
things too where to be fair, sometimes it's really hard
to get people to contribute. Whenever you're in a discussion
or conversation about positive things about what you like about something,
it can be a little surface, it can be a
little elementary. It doesn't really go on a deep dive. However,
(23:38):
you start putting on the moan about something and here
comes every body with tiny, teeny details about everything that
isn't just a one hundred percent utopian in any and
all situations. Great, Now we've got a list. Which of
these things are just little gripes a little like, man,
(23:59):
I don't love it. It doesn't like affect me in
any way. I just don't love it. It could be different, Okay,
super What of these things are a whole other game changer?
Which of these things, if implemented, would make this better?
Would make for a safer, calmer, more productive, more profitable
(24:19):
working environment. Which of these things wouldn't make our relationship closer, deeper, stronger,
less fragile. Which of these parenting techniques would build a safer, stronger,
more confident child, one who is who feels so safe
(24:42):
and so confident that they can spend time around anyone
of any age and feel safe and loved and accepted.
These are the things complaining here gets you, and I
want to apply that to a lot more of our
our lives in general. When I start to complain, I
(25:03):
want to realize that this is a tool for improvement.
It's not something to be avoided, because this is not
a positive ViBe's only space. Absolutely not. Some days are shitty.
I acknowledge that they're shitty. No one's going to tell
you any differently on this channel, so you might as
well just be okay with that. Sometimes some days it's
just going to roll up and stink. Got it noted?
(25:29):
What it is now, in my renewed perspective, is an
opportunity to get better. Whenever I say something like that,
and I'm the only person in the room with this complaint,
this is clearly a me problem. When I bring this
up and everyone literal unanimous decision that this is BS
and we need to fix it adjusted however, improve it perfect.
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We have our square one, ladies and gentlemen. I the
floor is now open for suggestions on how to improve.
And that's when the rubber meets the road. And that's
whenever it becomes more and more readily available those two
ideas of enthusiasm and gratitude, because now we are working
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to be better. And though we have all of these
things that we wanted for so long and it's so nice,
it can at some point become a little tiresome. It
can become annoying. And that's okay why because we see
it every day. If you see something every day, it
should come as no surprise that occasionally it will be
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a little boring, okay. And what we do then is
we take a moment and we focus on the things
that we love, the things that make us the happiest
about whatever the situation is, where we find ourselves and
we fill that whole chest cavity with the gratitude that
where we are is where we always.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Hoped we would be.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And then we take that over, we bear, hug it,
we pull it up out of that throw it in
this other container over here of enthusiasm, and then we
start to feel our juice flowing again.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Got a little shitmy, get that up?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Been there?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Right? Yeah, I'm a badass. That's right. Look at all
I've accomplished. Look at all these lives I've touched, Look
at all of these situations I've made better just by
showing up in my full power, strength and brightness, and
people acknowledge it. It is a help, And I am
so proud of that. How wonderful to be that person? Right? Yes,
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I agree?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
How wonderful. How lucky am I that the things I
wanted I accomplished, that I did it, and now I'm
grateful for doing it, And now I get to use
those skills to make my life better as well as.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
The people around me. That I really enjoy those who
want it, those who ask me for it, and continue
work alongside me so that they can have the joy
in the accomplishment that I've already attained. How about that?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yes, it's exactly what I want for all of us,
because I think all of these good feelings they have
a flip side, which can be complaint to find improvement,
and then they have the headside, which is basically just
two twins holding hands. One is enthusiasm and the other
his gratitude, and they're both beautiful, and that coin is
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Only have a great one and we will see you
next week for another dose of Radical Joy Love y'all
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, welcome back.
If this is your first time with me, well I'm
glad you're here. Each week, i'm here with you talking
to myself about things that weigh on my mind and heart.
Hoping if you're dealing with something similar, we can adjust
our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if you're struggling with
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Just disle nine eight eight nationwide in the US to
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us here at CLW Studios believe that mental health is
a vital part of our well being. The more people
I meet and the more places I go, the more
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I realize how important it is to make people aware
of the fact that there is no shame in enjoying
the parts of our lives that are incredible. It's time
for some Radical Joy, and this week, the three fingers
pointing back at me are for gratitude and enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Twinsies. Yeah, I did. I just did that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I make no apology for it. None it I don't know.
Last minute, it just seemed like the right thing to do.
Whenever I was coming up with this idea, it to
me in the title. It seems first cousins work, But
I think that these two are even closer than cousins.
And I tell you cousins can be close, but I've
seen some twins that definitely rival that relationship enthusiasm and gratitude.
(01:40):
So often one can dovetail into the other. Sometimes I
feel enormous amounts of one and little bits of the other, okay,
meaning that if I should need one and I am
in a bun't supply of the other, it's a real
(02:02):
short trip to translate one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Into the other.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I love this because sometimes you just can't be asked
to be enthusiastic about something. You're back at the job,
You're in the middle of something you've done a million times,
and trying to find something enjoyable about it is just
not happening. It's a task, it's a chore.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I hate it, which is why we call it a job.
You know. That's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It can apply to many things too. It can be
a relationship, it can be any number of situations in
your life where you are beholden responsible and instead of
it being something like a blessing or something for which
we can be We tend to treat it sometimes as
(02:52):
the mundane, as the everyday, as something I've done a
thousand times before, So why get excited about it today.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, you don't have to be excited about it. I
promise you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's gonna be a lot less of a drudgery if
you can find a way too sort of adjust in
order to.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Do that gratitude.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I am so grateful that the things that I wanted
for so long finally came to fruition. Oh my god,
I'm so happy about this. Hallelujah, wonderful. Great. That high
that I'm feeling, that connectedness to the way things worked
out in my favor so incredibly, Well, that's the thing.
(03:34):
That's what I'm gonna lean on. That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna just sort of I'm gonna take that fullness
and I'm gonna try to bear hug it and sort
of lift it and sort of waddle over to my
enthusiasm tank and just sort of like stuck it down
in there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So that that high that I'm feeling.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
From my enthusiasm for my gratitude of really having that
now I can translate and put that over in the
tank for enthusiasm. It's like, okay, yeah, yes, because I
asked for this for so long, and because now I'm
doing it, and the thing that I used to aspire
to do, the thing that I used to have to
break myself in order to just get by, I am
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now proficient or better yet.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'm an expert. I'm a master at.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Doing this, and that's really cool. I've covered a lot
of ground between where I started and where I am,
and now.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's so easy for me to do. I can get
bored doing it. I never thought i'd see the day
and look around, Papa, here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're crushing the game, brilliant. It's easy to translate that
from one end to the other. Right, yeah, exactly. Now
let's flip the script a little bit. Let's just do
this right quick, little story time. I'm gonna slide my
chair back it a little bit so I can get
on the edge of my chair because I'm feeling in
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it now. You know, you're like, yeah, yeah, this, this
this right here perfect. I heard that on the national
calendar in the United States of America they took off
the holiday of Juneteenth, and that just pisss me off.
That gets me right in the guts, and it makes
me angry. And you know why it makes me angry.
(05:26):
I have amazing people in my life that cared enough
about me to teach me what it was about what
it was for, and brought me up to speed. And
they are intelligent, and they are emotional, and they are
so good and because this is so important to them
that they took time out of their amazing lives to
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bring me up to speed about what it is. And
then for it just to be dismissed out of hand,
just it roasts me. It makes my guts boil bullerd.
We don't need a national Holidays calibrat, No, you don't,
and thank you for bringing that up, Mildred. Sit down,
nobody ask you. I don't need your help. What I
(06:14):
did instead was I went online because Paris is just
down the street from me now, and I bought a
ticket to the Queen Bees Cowboy Carter concert, two of
them actually, and me and undisclosed guest are going to
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said concert on Juneteenth, twenty twenty five. That's June nineteen
for anybody who doesn't know. And I'm gonna go out
there and I'm just gonna act the fool and it's
gonna be dedicated to that holiday that was so carelessly,
mindlessly removed from the calendar in the United States of America.
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Now here's the thing. I can get very enthusiastic about that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, as Beyonce one of my favorite artists, not particular,
I think she's amazing. I think she's talented. I think
that she has turned her whole life and brand into
something that a lot of people can look to as
aspirational and I dig it and her stuff flipping rocks
like She's put some dance sings out there that just
melt your face.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And I would love.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
To be in the middle of a great, big crowd
that we're just jamming out something like that. For whatever reason,
I'm having the picture of me in Chaps going to
this with under like things under it. But still, for
whatever reason, Chaps come to my neither here nor there.
The enthusiasm that I have for being able to buy
the ticket, for going, for taking the euro Star from
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Amsterdam to Paris to spend one night in this enormous
venue celebrating life and art, and.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What when you just take a second to look at it,
like objectively look at it. If I were to take
a snapshot of this moment of the lights going and
the sound thumping and my lungs vibrating from the base,
you know, I'm gonna be having my earplugs in. Okay,
just so we're one hundred percent clear, because I got
to protect that. To be there among these people on
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this special day as part of a joyful protest of
sorts fills me with a sense of gratitude that I
would be hard to contain tears. Okay, So that enthusiasm
for that moment, that upper echelon of excitement. I can
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be a part of that moment and be really engaged
and present, and then all of a sudden, that switch
will flip and I think I had the money to
do this. I'm close enough to do this. I am
brave enough to wear this ridiculous costume or outfit or
whatever it is we want to call it. So many
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things to be grateful for that came from this overwhelming
feeling of enthusiasm, and I think that applies to a
lot of things. Now, granted these are extreme examples, Okay,
I get that yes, yes, I do. You know, you
don't have to go that far out or play that
deep in the paint to get those feelings. You can
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look at something like there were days I never thought
this would happen, and here I am living it, however,
many years deep in it, and now I'm feeling just
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Let me change that right quick.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let me focus on the parts of this where there
was a time, there was a day I was once
the person who and now I am and that is
so great that I'm so proud and I'm so strong,
I am so smart, I am so loving, caring, kind,
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I am so good at this one particular skill. I
am so open to things that happen now because I
have been working at this this long. There's a million
things out there that we can put a whole lot
of gratitude on. And there's a million teeny tiny little
wonderfuls out there. We can do the exact same thing too.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We just have to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Continue to remember to do it. It's honestly, it's like
brushing your teeth. And I know some of you are like,
what what are you even.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It's like brushing your teeth. It's one of those things
you're like, ugh, my breath tastes terrible, or I can't
believe I will a smell uugh like it. There are reminders,
there are signs, and then what do you do. You
take your happy self to the bathroom and you floss
and you swish and you brush and you swish, and
then you feel way better. Right, The reminders are there,
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the signs are there. I feel bored in a thing
that I used to beg to have hope, beyond all hope,
that one day I would be the lucky participant in
recipient of and now here I stand square in the
middle of it. And there are days I need to
remind myself and really get up in it. And that
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is okay too, Yes it is. And that's the thing, Like,
you can continue to give yourself permission for these kind
of things. I know I do, I absolutely do. I'll
sit there and I'll want to bitch and moan and
whine and complain, and then I just have to stop
myself because it often ramps up. That's another thing I've
got to be super careful about. It will escalate. I
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am terrible about that. I am working on it. Here's
a fun little thing now that my nutrition is better
and my fitness is better, and I sleep more soundly
at night, and I don't feel so flipping stressed out
twenty four to seven. It is much much easier to
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see when I'm getting unreasonably angry or upset, take a moment,
breathe through it, find out what it is I need
to focus on instead, so that I can feel grateful, enthusiastic, calm, centered, warm, wonderful, caring, kind,
all of these adjectives we've talked about one hundred thousand
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times already. Yes, it's so important to continue to be
aware of what we're doing, of who we are in
that moment, because there are certain schools of thought. Well,
you know, behavior is who you are, okay, Yeah, and
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behavior is modifiable. Whenever you know that you're getting off
into something that doesn't serve, that does nothing more than
just upset you or frustrate you, get your blood pressure up,
make you say unkind of things to people you love
so much, maybe we can take just a moment to
assess it, acknowledge it, recognize it for sure, and then
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start working in our direction so that we can be
better about it to the people we love the most.
To appreciate situations we used to beg to be in,
to be so thankful for the circles we get to
run in now that we used to hope we could
be big enough to fill those shoes one day, And
now look at you, you're so big, the toes are pinsion.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well done you, So what are we gonna do? We're
gonna get even bigger shoes. What are we not gonna do?
Piss and moan about having shoes that are too tight?
I said what I said, and now I'm going to
take a sip of coffee. These things. Do you ever
talk to somebody? Okay, you're like, how you doing? I'm
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doing fine? Great, love to hear that that's wonderful. Well, yeah,
I mean I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But you don't want to tell anybody because they wouldn't
care to listen anyway. Oh okay, I mean that's one
way of looking at it. I know we've all heard
somebody say that at one point or another. And the
thing is, instead of thinking that way and just going
ahead and cutting it off, maybe if you can't find
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an audience for your grievance, maybe you can find a
way of thinking about it so that you can sort
of sublimate that kind of just blow that steam off
without having to make someone else an audience to your unhappiness.
I'm not saying you can't, It's not at all what
I'm saying. But there will be times when we can't
find somebody like that, where we're not around somebody like that,
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or they're perhaps not available to be there for us,
whether it is geographical availability or they're just not emotional
available for that kind of unhappiness sharing at the moment. Okay,
I get it, and honestly, i'd rather know that. I'd
rather you tell me that you're not really a spot
where you can listen to that sort of thing, so
I don't put my burden on you. All I'm looking
(15:24):
to do is sort of er it and then get
rid of it. I don't want you to carry it.
I want you to listen to me talk about it
for a second, because once I understand that it's out
of my face and you know, out of my head,
I realize how silly and small it can be can be.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Not always. I'm not trying to.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Diminish anyone's problems here. Folks have real serious problems they're
dealing with daily and I send love, respect, and admiration
of folks out there that are dealing with these big things.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I have friends that are pregnant, and God love them.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They are loving it and they are laboring for the love, okay,
And I send them love and understanding and hopes for
relief and prayers for hell to that baby that they
have prayed to have, and space and grace to come out.
(16:20):
And whenever something is swollen that ain't supposed to be swollen,
or something that hurts ain't supposed to be hurt, or
forgetting to tie your.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Shoes because you've got some kind of mom brain thing happening. Great.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, we all have either been there or know someone
who has, And I am plenty strong enough to tote
that for you for a hot second at least until
we can both kind of throw it up into the world,
laugh at a little bit, and just let it turn
to dust great or better glitter sparkle. Mama, you're building
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a whole other human being, and yes, I know it's hard. Ooh,
I give you honor and praise for the work you
are doing. Thank you, because I can tell already you're
gonna be an amazing parent and your partner is gonna
be an amazing parent. And I am over the moon
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that this little one's.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Gonna show up and they're gonna be so loved.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And sometimes if you can't make your own enthusiasm, or
you can't make your own gratitude, you gotta lean on
somebody you love just a little, just a little trustfall it?
Do that? Hey, tap tap tap, I'm about to fall.
I'm gonna need you to catch me. Okay, could you.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Do me that? Solid?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I promise it's not gonna be full body weight, but
right now, all of this is just too much. So
I'm gonna ask you to take about and it's falling
in three two one. I got you, and I'll hold
on to you and you can tell me about it,
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or you can just sit there and you can just
sort of be okay that someone has taken forty two
pounds off you for just a minute. And then eventually
you're gonna have to stand back up full weight, you
little bit, whatever it is you're carrying, and you're gonna
have to go back out there. Why Because that's who
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you are, that's what you do. You ask, you received,
and now it's time for you to go out there
like the warrior you are and own it and show
the rest of the world just how good.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You are at owning it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Wow, Because you may not know it, you're probably somebody's inspiration.
I let's not forget about that. We talk about it occasionally.
What you're going through right now, you look to somebody
for an inspiration, there's a good chance they don't know
that they pattern some of their successes off what they've
seen you accomplish. And what uh joy, what an honor?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Whow what gift?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
If you think there are people out there that are
doing the exact same thing to your life, trying to
reach the goals you've reached, to accomplish what you've already
done and probably looked real good doing it, you would
be mistaken. Somebody out there is watching your life and
they are walking in your footsteps wherever you have stepped before,
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whether it's mud, snow, concrete, whatever it is, they are
putting their feet where you have tried in order to
be get what you have, what you are, or what
you have received. And that's huge, and we always want
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to live for ourselves always. It's not always easy. So
whenever we need one of those, fake it till you
make it moments that I hate. Just haven't come up
with any better terminology for it anyway, because they't faking.
It is pre recognition. It is the before the good
stuff hits. Sometimes you just got to put on just
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a little bit because you've got to do something for
somebody else, because they're watching, And it's not performative. What
it is is just Okay, I honor the fact that
somebody else is here watching me and what I have
they want, and I don't want to whine about that.
Whenever I am living someone else's dream life. I don't
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think that's selfish and I don't think that is artificial.
What I think that is is respectful, and I think
that is paying homage to what you've already done and
accomplished and what others would love to do with their
own lives. And sometimes it's hard to do it for yourself.
Whenever you live inside the circle, it's hard to see
what's going.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
On in there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Sometimes it just is. So we rely on the people
in our lives that we love and respect and trust
to tell us the truth or facilitate that next step
in getting out of our funk and getting back into
our power.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What is different? What is wrong, though I don't love
the word wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
What's off? What are you seeing in my behavior? In
whatever it is it's going on right now that you
see is not typical? What is.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Just not my flava? What do you see that's off? Brand?
With me? Right now? And they can approach you. Now
here's the thing too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You gotta be ready for it, okay, because some people
really love you a lot and they tell you really
really straightforwardly.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And sometimes I'm gonna be a little munch great super
The Dutch are very direct, and I love that about
them because it is so efficient.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Until you learn how to deal with it, it can
be a little painful, it is very efficient, and once
you understand that, they honor you by telling you the
truth instead of trying to beat around a bush or
cushion it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They want you to know so you can be better.
Almost everything in this.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Culture is so fun like that, because the Dutch are
known to complain, especially about the weather. The difference being
whenever I hear someone loves to complain, I think they
are a complainer. That is not what this is in
this land, in this land, in this country, and in
this culture. They complain about something so that they can
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get a consensus on what it is someone doesn't like
about said topic, and if there is something to be
improved or repaired, they figure out what it is that
is probably the least enjoyed and that is the thing
they work on improving.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm sorry, what it's just not sit around in bitch
all day and nothing gets changed or fixed. Correct it is.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We see it here and we talk about the things
that could be improved or better served. We get a
feel of the room, you know, get the temperature, and
then we spitball ideas on how to change that so
that it will be less of a topic of complaint.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
What exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's wonderful and it's helpful because it's one of those
things too where to be fair, sometimes it's really hard
to get people to contribute. Whenever you're in a discussion
or conversation about positive things about what you like about something,
it can be a little surface, it can be a
little elementary. It doesn't really go on a deep dive. However,
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you start putting on the moan about something and here
comes every body with tiny, teeny details about everything that
isn't just a one hundred percent utopian in any and
all situations. Great, Now we've got a list. Which of
these things are just little gripes a little like, man,
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I don't love it. It doesn't like affect me in
any way. I just don't love it. It could be different, Okay,
super What of these things are a whole other game changer?
Which of these things, if implemented, would make this better?
Would make for a safer, calmer, more productive, more profitable
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working environment. Which of these things wouldn't make our relationship closer, deeper, stronger,
less fragile. Which of these parenting techniques would build a safer, stronger,
more confident child, one who is who feels so safe
(24:42):
and so confident that they can spend time around anyone
of any age and feel safe and loved and accepted.
These are the things complaining here gets you, and I
want to apply that to a lot more of our
our lives in general. When I start to complain, I
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want to realize that this is a tool for improvement.
It's not something to be avoided, because this is not
a positive ViBe's only space. Absolutely not. Some days are shitty.
I acknowledge that they're shitty. No one's going to tell
you any differently on this channel, so you might as
well just be okay with that. Sometimes some days it's
just going to roll up and stink. Got it noted?
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What it is now, in my renewed perspective, is an
opportunity to get better. Whenever I say something like that,
and I'm the only person in the room with this complaint,
this is clearly a me problem. When I bring this
up and everyone literal unanimous decision that this is BS
and we need to fix it adjusted however, improve it perfect.
(25:52):
We have our square one, ladies and gentlemen. I the
floor is now open for suggestions on how to improve.
And that's when the rubber meets the road. And that's
whenever it becomes more and more readily available those two
ideas of enthusiasm and gratitude, because now we are working
(26:13):
to be better. And though we have all of these
things that we wanted for so long and it's so nice,
it can at some point become a little tiresome. It
can become annoying. And that's okay why because we see
it every day. If you see something every day, it
should come as no surprise that occasionally it will be
(26:33):
a little boring, okay. And what we do then is
we take a moment and we focus on the things
that we love, the things that make us the happiest
about whatever the situation is, where we find ourselves and
we fill that whole chest cavity with the gratitude that
where we are is where we always.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Hoped we would be.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And then we take that over, we bear, hug it,
we pull it up out of that throw it in
this other container over here of enthusiasm, and then we
start to feel our juice flowing again.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Got a little shitmy, get that up?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Been there?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Right? Yeah, I'm a badass. That's right. Look at all
I've accomplished. Look at all these lives I've touched, Look
at all of these situations I've made better just by
showing up in my full power, strength and brightness, and
people acknowledge it. It is a help, And I am
so proud of that. How wonderful to be that person? Right? Yes,
(27:38):
I agree?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
How wonderful. How lucky am I that the things I
wanted I accomplished, that I did it, and now I'm
grateful for doing it, And now I get to use
those skills to make my life better as well as.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
The people around me. That I really enjoy those who
want it, those who ask me for it, and continue
work alongside me so that they can have the joy
in the accomplishment that I've already attained. How about that?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yes, it's exactly what I want for all of us,
because I think all of these good feelings they have
a flip side, which can be complaint to find improvement,
and then they have the headside, which is basically just
two twins holding hands. One is enthusiasm and the other
his gratitude, and they're both beautiful, and that coin is
(28:32):
worth a lot. As always, friends, I'm so so happy
you're here with us at Radical Joy. If this is
your first episode, welcome, I'm glad you're here. Thank you
for joining us for this half hour of fun and
chit chat and hopefully helpful. If this is not your
(28:54):
first episode, welcome back, friends. Thank you for being part
of the COLW Studios and Radical Joy family. We're thrilled
that year here. If you're the type of person who
likes to leave a review because they are so helpful, truly,
word of mouth is our is our best way of
getting new listeners to hear us what we're doing here
Radical Joy. Please leave us a five star review. Wherever
(29:18):
it is you're listening, please make sure you take a
screenshot of that send it to us here at Radical Joy.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You can find out how to do that in the
show notes.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Make sure we get that and we'll happily send you
some new swag. We just started season three, well just started.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
We're a few months into season three.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And we've got a brand new look and some brand
new swag. So I would love for you to send
us the screenshot of your five star reviews so that
we can send you a sticker to thank you for
your love and support. As always, friends, please know that
we are so grateful you're here. Hopefully the time we
get to spend together is a help for you for
the rest of your week and into the weekend. And
please never forget that all of us here at CLW
(29:58):
Studios and Radical Joy.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We love y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Thank you for taking time to share a moment of
joy and hope with me. We're so grateful you're here.
If this is your first time, take a moment to
check out our archive. See if there's something else in
there that fires you up, rekindles the joy in you. Hey,
spread the word if you got something out of being
with us today. We welcome your thoughts and suggestions. Now.
I rarely run out of things to talk about, but
if there's something I haven't covered that's on your mind
(30:30):
or heart, I want to hear from you. To learn
more about me and CELW Studios, follow the links in
the show notes. Hey, don't forget. When you leave Radical
Joy a review, be sure to send us a screenshot.
We'll send you some kick ass swag to show our gratitude.
I am not a therapist or a medical professional. If
you're experiencing a mental health emergency, please call nine to
eighty eight to reach the National Crisis Lifeline. This content
(30:53):
and other content produced by CLAU Studios and affiliated partners,
is not therapy, and nothing in this content indicates a
therapeutic relationship. Any opinions of guests on this podcast are
their own and do not represent the opinions of James
or CLA Studios. Please consult with your therapist or see
what in your area if you are experiencing mental health symptoms.
Everything in this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes.
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Only have a great one and we will see you
next week for another dose of Radical Joy Love y'all
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