January 25, 2024 • 31 mins
In this episode, my special guest Dr. Letitia Wright shares her story of being able to pivot from her medical practice to a media expert and TV Host.
Dr. Letitia Wright is the Executive Producer and Host of Wright Place TV, which has run on cable for over 22 years. A Former Chiropractor, Dr. Wright transitioned into the Media World. Wright Place TV is in its 23rd season with a bandwidth spanning over 6.5 million homes throughout Southern California and beyond. In addition to her media work, she is a Top 100 Crowdfunding Expert in the United States, focusing on putting funding and money into the hands of women and minority-owned businesses.
Connect with Dr. Letitia Wright at https://wrightplacetv.com/dr-wright/
Dr. Letitia Wright is the Executive Producer and Host of Wright Place TV, which has run on cable for over 22 years. A Former Chiropractor, Dr. Wright transitioned into the Media World. Wright Place TV is in its 23rd season with a bandwidth spanning over 6.5 million homes throughout Southern California and beyond. In addition to her media work, she is a Top 100 Crowdfunding Expert in the United States, focusing on putting funding and money into the hands of women and minority-owned businesses.
Connect with Dr. Letitia Wright at https://wrightplacetv.com/dr-wright/
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Hello and welcome to all beautiful soulsout there. You're listening to the Restore
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Thank you so much for joining ustoday. I am so excited and glad
that you are here tuning in tothis episode. I am your host,
Princess Millons, and I'm your favoritegrief and emotional wellness specialist. And you
know what we do here. Weeducate, We inspire you and empower you
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with the information that you need todo all the things that God has called
you to be. I believe thatwe all have a journey, we all
have an emotional wellness journey, butwe can also create that mindset that will
push past that pain to our purpose. So today I am so excited about
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our guests here today. My specialguest today is doctor Letitia Wright, and
she is an executive producer and thehost of The Right Place TV, which
has run on cable for over twentytwo year and as a former chiropractor,
right Doctor Wright has transitioned into themedia world and The Right Place TV is
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in its twenty third season, y'all, and it has a bandwidth of spanning
over about six zero point five millionhomes throughout southern California and beyond. And
in addition to our media work,she is a top one hundred crowdfunding expert
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in the United States and she focuseson putting funding and money into the hands
of women and minority owned businesses.So I want to welcome to the episode,
to the show today, doctor LetitiaWright. Thank you so much for
being here. Is an honor tomeet you. Finally, yes, thank
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you for having me. And helloall you beautiful souls. I love that
you beautiful souls. That's that's lovely. Absolutely, So I know that you're
here and you're gonna just add somuch value to this episode. And we
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here, we we all talked aboutour journey, right, our journey,
the things that we had to overcome, the obstacles that we've had in life.
And I know today that you havea powerful story and information about really
how to pivot in life, right, how to pivot. So I want
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to first just ask you, howdid you come from being a chiropractor right
from a doctor to the media expertthat you are today. Absolutely, it's
a very interesting story. I wentto a local cable access station and was
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a guest on the show, andI did that in my mind thinking I
could help promote my practice. Mypractice was struggling. I could not find
a mentor. Back then, therewas no sb TV and all this stuff.
There was no books, and Iwas struggling. I would go to
other chiropractors and say, hey,I need some mentorship. One told me,
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well, you have kids, don'tgo home and be with your kids.
One told me you're too Yeah,you're two cities over from me.
You're too close. I'm not goingto mentor you. There were just all
these people that would not reach theirhand out to help me and help me
figure out, you know, whatwas wrong and how you can do things.
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And so I struggled. My practicestruggled, and I finally wrote to
a practice management company, which theysend out, you know, a person
to help you get your practice togetherand make sure it's making good money.
And they called me up. Igot excited. I got my pen and
my paper and I was going towrite down you know, the person was
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coming. And the woman on thephone told me that I don't make enough
money to be one of their clients. Wow. So I was pretty crushed.
To me, I had exhausted allthe help I could reach out for,
and I had started a health showthinking that it would bring in clients.
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It was fun, but it didn'tbring in more clients like I had
thought, and so I decided todo a show called The Right Place that
would interview business experts like you andyou know, get this from people like
you know the way, I wasn'tthe only one, So I really,
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I'm gonna turn my mic down justa little bit because I think there's a
little echo there. So I reallywas trying to figure out how to make
this business part of it work.And I kept interviewing all these people learning
and I kept getting sponsorship, andwhen Southern California Edison supported me and gave
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me a chance dollars, I waslike, oh, it's business. And
so I started to look at myshow as a business and it walked.
You know, within three years,I was in the black and I knew
what I was doing, and Iwas interviewing people and things were going really,
really great. And so I've expandedsince then too. I have my
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own channel on Roku, Amazon andApple TV, and so now I can
really go the narrative, and Ialso build those channels for other people like
you who want to expand past socialmedia and get onto real media and really
just take their brand to the nextlevel. So my pivot was that I
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had to give up something i'd beentelling people I was going to be a
doctor since I was three years old, So that in that pivot walking away
from a practice that was stressing meout and not making me happy, there's
a little grieving that you have todo, and I think that that's what
people don't anticipate as they pivot.You are going to have to spend some
time however you do it. AndI believe in grief work. I've had
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a grief counselor when I had adeath in my family, So I truly
believe in grief work. I knowhow it helped me so much. But
you do need to spend time grievingwhat you're letting go of and you're feeling
about that you can fully embrace thepivot, even if it's just ten to
fifteen pivot, a small pivot,you're still getting rid of something, and
you do need to take time tosay goodbye, make your peace with it,
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and move on. Because I spentmy whole life telling people I was
going to be a doctor, andI'm still a doctor. I just don't
see patients exactly exactly. What awonderful story there of being able to pivot
and transition from an old season toa new season. Right that has brought
you so much fulfillment and you stillchanging so many lives every single day,
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right, And I agree that thereis grief in the pivot. Right.
It's grief in the pivot in lettinggo. And I think a lot of
times for us, the trouble inletting go is that we always want our
comfort zone. We want the thingsthat we've always had. And like you,
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I had to do a pivot aswell. I was in a classroom
for twenty years. I taught highschool and middle school, and a couple
of years ago I had to pivotas well because of health issues and things
like that. But it transitioned meinto some of the things that people see
me do right now. And thebeauty of letting go. Let's talk about
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the beauty of letting go and whatit looks like. So for you,
can you just expound upon the powerof letting go something that something else can
come and just be so beautiful inyour life. What what does that look
like? What does the letting golook like? And how can we really
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successfully do that? It is reallyjust taking a deep breath and letting it
leave your hand. That means disconnectingfrom the financial cost. You know,
having the practice was costing me everymonth, putting me in debt every month,
and it was you know, Iwas not catching up. I was
not getting there. I didn't knowhow to get there. I mean,
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I just couldn't do it. Whereaswith my TV show, I could see
exactly how much I was putting inand getting back, and I knew the
exact day that once I got thecheck from so and so, my show
was in the black, meaning wewere making money. There was some profit
there, or at least it waspaying for itself. And so it is
about looking at the financial part thatyou're giving up most of the time.
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You're going to be giving up alot of financial strengths. You're going to
be giving up working with people thatwere stressing you out. Yes, I
grieved my patients. I loved workingwith my patients. I worked with families.
They were children that were born intomy practice that I was their first
chiropractor. And you know that,you know, being in a delivery room
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adjusting a baby his first hours beingborn as a privilege that I got to
have with families that trusted me withtheir children, you know, whole entire
families. It's all about that,all about that, and so it's giving
up that, setting your peace,thanking people and moving on, you know,
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the offices that I had, theplaces that I did, all of
those things, moving on and sayingI'm going to focus on this and you
know, this is what I'm goingto do. So you do need to
take some time. It's not justcutting things off and moving on. You
need to take some time to processthat pivot and embody that pivot. It's
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no longer what you're going to dois what you're doing. I'm doctor Wright
doing TV, you know, andso am I okay with that? I
was okay with that people. Ithink we're surprised how okay I was with
it because I was just I wasready for the pivot when it happened,
and there was so much success happeningwith my TV show. When the TV
show started making more than the practice, it was time for something to be
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like though. So you know,in the pivot, it just looks like
a deep exhale and relaxation and lettinggo of the things you've been trying to
hold on to with all your MC. And if you let it go and
it slips away, that's fine.Embrace what is your talent, all of
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your energy to what's here now that'sworking, and you're going towards and that's
what you're supposed to be doing.So it actually, while it is scary
because you've been using all your strengthto hold on to this thing, oh
my gosh, when you let itgo, the deep sense of relaxation is
amazing. Yeah, yeah, itis. It is amazing. I've witnessed
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that myself, and you're right,it is the disconnect. It's a lot
of things of what we don't wantto disconnect from. And like you,
I felt your heart when you weretalking about your patients. You have to
grieve not being able to you know, support them in that way anymore.
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I grieve the loss of my studentsand being around people, my coworkers,
my colleagues, right, And sodisconnect it takes courage. Disconnect takes courage.
It takes the courage of you know, even overcoming other people, other
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people and what their opinions are andthings like that. So I want to
go back to you know, yousaid that, you know, if you
asked you what you wanted to beat three years old, it was going
to be that doctor, right,And you grew up and you became that
doctor, and a lot of uswe follow that same path. You asked
me when I was little what Iwas going to be. I would be
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a teacher. I was going tobe a doctor or teacher. I had
two things that I wanted to be, so I ran from both of them.
But teacher caught up with me,right and so But a lot of
times we find ourselves in this placeand it's painful for us to transition,
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and sometimes we just don't know howbecause you know, and some of our
pain is not necessarily related to moneyor the loss of money or things like
that, is other things. Socan you just talk about how other people
biases and their assumptions can affect ourability to be able to pivot into really
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what we're supposed to be doing.Well, it's important because you when people
say I don't care what nobody thinks, a girl only a psychopath doesn't care
what nobody thinks, you talk aboutit. You have to be crazy to
not care about what anybody thinks,because we are people made to be connected
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to people, and that is howGod built all of us. And so
I can't say that I don't careabout what anybody thinks. But I do
prioritize and I do make it clearthe thoughts and concepts of people who are
not supporting me, not financially supportingme, not supporting with me with media.
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You know, I know all mysisters in media. We support each
other. You know. You cancall me in time and say, hey,
I'm promoting this, Can you putthe word out for me? And
I will, you know. Butthe people that are not supporting you,
they're never buy anything. They're nevergoing to buy anything from you, no
matter what you do. And tobe worried about that people is a whole
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different concept. So I have tobe honest, I was not really worried
about what other people thought because I'ma very internally motivated person. I'm not
really super influenced by what people think. I care about what my tribe thinks
because I'm trying to serve my pod. But for somebody to say, you
know, question what I'm doing,I just don't care. I recently went
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to a conference in northern California andmost of the people at the conference have
newspapers there, and I was thereas media with TV, and there was
a woman who had a newspaper whowalked up to me and said, well,
what are you writing? And it'slike, I'm not writing anything.
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I'm amplifying the stories that some ofyour people are writing. Because there's a
whole set of TV and media onTikTok. These young kids don't want to
read. Okay, we're past thetime trying to make them learn how to
read. They're only going to learnhow to read it when they want to.
They don't want to read, theywant to watch a video. So
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I'm giving them the same thing you'vegiven them in video so they can get
it. So, I mean,you know, just the thought that how
dare I be? That's what shetalks to me, like what are you
writing? What you know? Whyare you here? And that's the only
time she spoke to me. Shecame over there specifically to say that.
And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna do what I want to
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do. I know why I'm here. They can accept me, they cannot
accept me, But I know whatI'm doing with my media. I have
a show called The California Community Briefwhere I put in California, I'm not
gonna take my whole but news thatwill help the understand in California's and that's
what show was about, and that'swhat I put out. So you have
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to get to a point where youwere strong enough to say whose thoughts matter?
You know you're in a circle.I call it my power five.
These are the people that will helpme bury the body and not ask those
questions. I got my power fiveright, and then you have you know,
you have a couple of layers ofyour inner circle and they can give
you input. But beyond that,there are a bunch of people who are
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actually inconsequential to what you're doing.That person in her newspaper, they're inconsequential
to me. They have nothing todo with me. They're not stealing my
money. I'm not stealing their money. That they might think I'm stealing their
money, but I'm not. Ihave a whole set of revenue that I'm
creating has nothing to do with them, and it's not taking advantage of them.
So you really have to be veryvery clear about what you're doing.
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Know that you are called to dothat, because I know what I'm called
to do. You know know thatyou were called to do that, and
then move in that. If youare overly dependent on other people, think
you will never go above mediocrity.And so there's just a just a stand
you have to put in yourself.It is not somebody that a mentor can
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give you. It's not confident thatsomebody else can give you. You got
to grow those waves yourself. Okay, you got to put on those big
panties yourself. You gotta be girlyourself and once you do that, you
are unstoppable. Yeah, that's that'ssuch a powerful encouragement, uh, for
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those who are really tied to theopinions of somebody else. I read in
one of your articles that you wasfeatured in that you said that you kind
of decided that just to be okaywith who you wanted to be and how
you wanted to live your life right. And I think that's a powerful statement
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because we have to make sure thatwe are ready and willing to show up
for the people who are waiting forus, right and people are ware wait
on us to walk in our purpose. They're waiting for us. And until
we make that decision, sometimes wehave to transition in terms of time,
We have to pivot to something elsein order to show up in that authentic
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way that is the solution to somebodyelse's problem. Right. And so you
know, I think that a lotof times that when we are stuck in
that place of you know, notbeing willing to accept what we are called
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to do, that brings on awhole nother level of grief. I think,
because you're grieving what you used tobe, you're grieving how people see
you now, and there's a linebetween of that and where you want to
go, right, And so Ijust I think that there are so many
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things in our life that we haveto really connect from and be okay,
Like you said, just be okaywith who God has called you to be
right, And I think that wecan't be nothing else the thing that really
God has called it us to be. We can't be anything else because to
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be anything else, it will neverwork, it will never succeed. And
we see that with so many peopleand even some ways in our life.
Right. But I want to askyou, is there any particular thing that
kind of motivates you in your transition? How would you encourage somebody or what
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some things that they can do tomotivate themselves as they try to transition to
another season. One of my thingsis music, right, Music is life
to me? I tell you itmusic can just make everything all right,
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right, So what kind of thingsdo you do or have you seen other
people do to make that transition orthat pivot to another season to make it
better, you know, to makeit more palatable. One of the things
is that I practice meditation, andI'm practicing as more like Christian meditation.
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I'm not out there chanting woo woowoo. But I spend some time.
And you can meditate to music.For those of you that feel like,
you know, you just can't sitthere and quiet, that's okay. Yeah,
you can meditate to music. Alot of times. I'll meditate to
spa music. I have my ownchannel that is a health channel, and
I put meditation music on there foreverybody else, But of course I tune
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into my own channel to listen tothat when i'm want so. In that
meditation time, I just spend timetaking deep breaths and telling myself, you
know, I feel the love formyself. Not a lot of people say
I am affirmations. I want youguys to like, let's level up,
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leveling up form I am you canuse I feel or I know or I
see. That's a level up fromI am. So a lot of times
we don't feel the love and compassionfor our self. So you know,
I remind myself I love myself,I feel the compassion for myself, I
feel the love, I feel theease of the success. And I also
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spend time imagining the thing I'm doingworking out. See, we spend a
lot of time imagining it not workingout. Well, you spend a lot
of time. And I make thatcall and ask for that money, they're
gonna say, no, why don'tyou spend five minutes just pretending in your
head that it's happening. And yougot to pretend with all your might.
This is something I want you guysto about. When I talk to my
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nephew. I have two nephews.One is one is three, and one
is six. When I talk tomy nephews and I go, let's pretend
to If I tell him to closeyour eyes and pretend to be a ninja,
he's gonna close his eyes and gowhullbody fully into it. If I
tell an adult to close their eyesand pretend in their head that they're a
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ninja, they're just gonna sit therelike this. So when you're pretending in
your head that it's working out,really feel it really like you know,
like just hear it and see itin your head, like really get involved
in imagining that it worked out foryou. That's what they mean when imagine
that it was okay. Imagine thateverything works out. That's where you're supposed
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to do that. You're supposed tospend time with yourself seeing yourself be successful.
So as you're making this pivot,once you're clear what the pivot is
going to be, before you makea move, spend a week with yourself
just imagining that I'm doing it andit's working out. People are coming out
of everywhere to work with me.People really love my work. All the
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little negative people, they're just thatthere's an invisible bubble that just keeps them
away. They can't even get tome, all the little haters. I
don't hear what they're saying about me. I don't hear nothing about their gossiping
church about me. I hear noneof that. So, you know,
just imagine that it's working out foryou and then go ahead and start the
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pivot. You will be inspired todo things. You'll be imagining it and
you'll come up with an idea.Write that idea down. Oh, yeah,
I should make a list of thisand write that idea down that comes
when you're imagining it working out.That's your inspired work, that's your little
nuggets for God. Say we'll doit like this and do it like that,
and let's normalize, as they say, doing things in peace and without
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struggle. It doesn't have to bea struggle to pivot. It's only a
struggle if you continue to hold onto that thing and try to get something
else with a handful of garbage.You gotta let go. We're the empty
hand. Received. Yeah, sogood, and that looked. That was
an encouragement to me because sometimes wedo we forget about imagining if it does
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work. Imagine that thing working thatthe thing that you know that has been
so embedded in your heart, whatif it does work? Right? And
so if we put ourselves in theplace of that positive thinking and and can
just visualize and imagine, just likeyou said, I think we'll be in
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a much better place. So thatwas a great encouragement. I know that
the audience that is listening it wasa great encouragement for them too. So
if you're in a place, ina season in your life where you have
felt and know that you need topivot to something else. I know that
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they will appreciate these beautiful nuggets thatyou have dropped today in this episode.
So I just wanted to thank youso much for being here. But before
we leave, I want you totell everybody how they can connect with you,
how they can follow you, anythingthat you got going on right now
that they can connect to absolutely.I've got a great newsletter. You can
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connect with me here on Facebook,Doctor Letitia Wright. I've got a great
newsletter that I'd love to share withyou. Guys. It's all about making
money with your show, and whetheryou have a podcast like this, or
show or whatever you're doing, let'sget some revenue in there. If you're
not making money, please get onthat list. And also, I'm on
TikTok. You're a crowdfunding expert.On TikTok, you can follow me there.
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I am on LinkedIn, I amon Snapchat, I am on Instagram.
I'm doctor Wright and the number oneon Instagram. I'm on Twitter,
but we'll see how long I'm onTwitter, because you know, Twitter is
haven issues. They got a littlefew problems going on. But available if
you'd like to talk about what you'dlike to do your show, idea,
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what you'd like to create in termsof a show. My channel is off
for business shows. So I amabout to open up, a matter of
fact, an opportunity for about fivepeople that are new to be on my
channel. So that way you getto feel it out, feel what it's
like, and it's an incredible offer. You guys need to follow up on
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it. You'll be able to beon the channel for a year. You
can upload thirty shows. I'll beuploading them for you, and you get
a little coffee mug. So whenyou buy the coffee mug, the show
comes with the coffee mug. Sothat's the first person to hear about that.
But people can contact me. Iwill send you out the page and
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the information you do need to havea business show or something that goes with
right Place TV. But you'll beon Apple, Roku and Amazon Fire TV
when you're part of right Place TVchannel. And it's all for the cost
of a coffee mug. So youknow, if you'd like to be a
part of it, you're ready toexpand. I love working with powerful,
ambitious women. Let's go. Let'sgo. Well, thank you, doctor
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Latitia So much for being here today, and I know that it'll be so
many people that want to connect withyou, and I just want to thank
you for encouraging the audience today tokeep going, even in your pivot,
even in the season that you haveto disconnect, even if you're grieving the
loss of transitioning, that it isso so so possible. Thank you so
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much for being here, Thank youfor having me. All Right, y'all,
well, thank you so much forhere on this episode of Restore My
Soul Podcast. I thank you,and I leave the words of doctor Letitia
with you is that you don't haveto struggle in the pivot, right and
we could just imagine, just imaginewhat your life would be like if you
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just believe that you could do it, that you can transition to your next
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Thank you so much for joining ustoday. I am so excited and glad
that you are here tuning in tothis episode. I am your host,
Princess Millons, and I'm your favoritegrief and emotional wellness specialist. And you
know what we do here. Weeducate, We inspire you and empower you
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our guests here today. My specialguest today is doctor Letitia Wright, and
she is an executive producer and thehost of The Right Place TV, which
has run on cable for over twentytwo year and as a former chiropractor,
right Doctor Wright has transitioned into themedia world and The Right Place TV is
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in its twenty third season, y'all, and it has a bandwidth of spanning
over about six zero point five millionhomes throughout southern California and beyond. And
in addition to our media work,she is a top one hundred crowdfunding expert
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in the United States and she focuseson putting funding and money into the hands
of women and minority owned businesses.So I want to welcome to the episode,
to the show today, doctor LetitiaWright. Thank you so much for
being here. Is an honor tomeet you. Finally, yes, thank
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you for having me. And helloall you beautiful souls. I love that
you beautiful souls. That's that's lovely. Absolutely, So I know that you're
here and you're gonna just add somuch value to this episode. And we
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here, we we all talked aboutour journey, right, our journey,
the things that we had to overcome, the obstacles that we've had in life.
And I know today that you havea powerful story and information about really
how to pivot in life, right, how to pivot. So I want
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to first just ask you, howdid you come from being a chiropractor right
from a doctor to the media expertthat you are today. Absolutely, it's
a very interesting story. I wentto a local cable access station and was
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a guest on the show, andI did that in my mind thinking I
could help promote my practice. Mypractice was struggling. I could not find
a mentor. Back then, therewas no sb TV and all this stuff.
There was no books, and Iwas struggling. I would go to
other chiropractors and say, hey,I need some mentorship. One told me,
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well, you have kids, don'tgo home and be with your kids.
One told me you're too Yeah,you're two cities over from me.
You're too close. I'm not goingto mentor you. There were just all
these people that would not reach theirhand out to help me and help me
figure out, you know, whatwas wrong and how you can do things.
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And so I struggled. My practicestruggled, and I finally wrote to
a practice management company, which theysend out, you know, a person
to help you get your practice togetherand make sure it's making good money.
And they called me up. Igot excited. I got my pen and
my paper and I was going towrite down you know, the person was
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coming. And the woman on thephone told me that I don't make enough
money to be one of their clients. Wow. So I was pretty crushed.
To me, I had exhausted allthe help I could reach out for,
and I had started a health showthinking that it would bring in clients.
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It was fun, but it didn'tbring in more clients like I had
thought, and so I decided todo a show called The Right Place that
would interview business experts like you andyou know, get this from people like
you know the way, I wasn'tthe only one, So I really,
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I'm gonna turn my mic down justa little bit because I think there's a
little echo there. So I reallywas trying to figure out how to make
this business part of it work.And I kept interviewing all these people learning
and I kept getting sponsorship, andwhen Southern California Edison supported me and gave
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me a chance dollars, I waslike, oh, it's business. And
so I started to look at myshow as a business and it walked.
You know, within three years,I was in the black and I knew
what I was doing, and Iwas interviewing people and things were going really,
really great. And so I've expandedsince then too. I have my
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own channel on Roku, Amazon andApple TV, and so now I can
really go the narrative, and Ialso build those channels for other people like
you who want to expand past socialmedia and get onto real media and really
just take their brand to the nextlevel. So my pivot was that I
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had to give up something i'd beentelling people I was going to be a
doctor since I was three years old, So that in that pivot walking away
from a practice that was stressing meout and not making me happy, there's
a little grieving that you have todo, and I think that that's what
people don't anticipate as they pivot.You are going to have to spend some
time however you do it. AndI believe in grief work. I've had
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a grief counselor when I had adeath in my family, So I truly
believe in grief work. I knowhow it helped me so much. But
you do need to spend time grievingwhat you're letting go of and you're feeling
about that you can fully embrace thepivot, even if it's just ten to
fifteen pivot, a small pivot,you're still getting rid of something, and
you do need to take time tosay goodbye, make your peace with it,
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and move on. Because I spentmy whole life telling people I was
going to be a doctor, andI'm still a doctor. I just don't
see patients exactly exactly. What awonderful story there of being able to pivot
and transition from an old season toa new season. Right that has brought
you so much fulfillment and you stillchanging so many lives every single day,
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right, And I agree that thereis grief in the pivot. Right.
It's grief in the pivot in lettinggo. And I think a lot of
times for us, the trouble inletting go is that we always want our
comfort zone. We want the thingsthat we've always had. And like you,
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I had to do a pivot aswell. I was in a classroom
for twenty years. I taught highschool and middle school, and a couple
of years ago I had to pivotas well because of health issues and things
like that. But it transitioned meinto some of the things that people see
me do right now. And thebeauty of letting go. Let's talk about
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the beauty of letting go and whatit looks like. So for you,
can you just expound upon the powerof letting go something that something else can
come and just be so beautiful inyour life. What what does that look
like? What does the letting golook like? And how can we really
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successfully do that? It is reallyjust taking a deep breath and letting it
leave your hand. That means disconnectingfrom the financial cost. You know,
having the practice was costing me everymonth, putting me in debt every month,
and it was you know, Iwas not catching up. I was
not getting there. I didn't knowhow to get there. I mean,
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I just couldn't do it. Whereaswith my TV show, I could see
exactly how much I was putting inand getting back, and I knew the
exact day that once I got thecheck from so and so, my show
was in the black, meaning wewere making money. There was some profit
there, or at least it waspaying for itself. And so it is
about looking at the financial part thatyou're giving up most of the time.
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You're going to be giving up alot of financial strengths. You're going to
be giving up working with people thatwere stressing you out. Yes, I
grieved my patients. I loved workingwith my patients. I worked with families.
They were children that were born intomy practice that I was their first
chiropractor. And you know that,you know, being in a delivery room
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adjusting a baby his first hours beingborn as a privilege that I got to
have with families that trusted me withtheir children, you know, whole entire
families. It's all about that,all about that, and so it's giving
up that, setting your peace,thanking people and moving on, you know,
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the offices that I had, theplaces that I did, all of
those things, moving on and sayingI'm going to focus on this and you
know, this is what I'm goingto do. So you do need to
take some time. It's not justcutting things off and moving on. You
need to take some time to processthat pivot and embody that pivot. It's
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no longer what you're going to dois what you're doing. I'm doctor Wright
doing TV, you know, andso am I okay with that? I
was okay with that people. Ithink we're surprised how okay I was with
it because I was just I wasready for the pivot when it happened,
and there was so much success happeningwith my TV show. When the TV
show started making more than the practice, it was time for something to be
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like though. So you know,in the pivot, it just looks like
a deep exhale and relaxation and lettinggo of the things you've been trying to
hold on to with all your MC. And if you let it go and
it slips away, that's fine.Embrace what is your talent, all of
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your energy to what's here now that'sworking, and you're going towards and that's
what you're supposed to be doing.So it actually, while it is scary
because you've been using all your strengthto hold on to this thing, oh
my gosh, when you let itgo, the deep sense of relaxation is
amazing. Yeah, yeah, itis. It is amazing. I've witnessed
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that myself, and you're right,it is the disconnect. It's a lot
of things of what we don't wantto disconnect from. And like you,
I felt your heart when you weretalking about your patients. You have to
grieve not being able to you know, support them in that way anymore.
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I grieve the loss of my studentsand being around people, my coworkers,
my colleagues, right, And sodisconnect it takes courage. Disconnect takes courage.
It takes the courage of you know, even overcoming other people, other
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people and what their opinions are andthings like that. So I want to
go back to you know, yousaid that, you know, if you
asked you what you wanted to beat three years old, it was going
to be that doctor, right,And you grew up and you became that
doctor, and a lot of uswe follow that same path. You asked
me when I was little what Iwas going to be. I would be
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a teacher. I was going tobe a doctor or teacher. I had
two things that I wanted to be, so I ran from both of them.
But teacher caught up with me,right and so But a lot of
times we find ourselves in this placeand it's painful for us to transition,
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and sometimes we just don't know howbecause you know, and some of our
pain is not necessarily related to moneyor the loss of money or things like
that, is other things. Socan you just talk about how other people
biases and their assumptions can affect ourability to be able to pivot into really
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what we're supposed to be doing.Well, it's important because you when people
say I don't care what nobody thinks, a girl only a psychopath doesn't care
what nobody thinks, you talk aboutit. You have to be crazy to
not care about what anybody thinks,because we are people made to be connected
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to people, and that is howGod built all of us. And so
I can't say that I don't careabout what anybody thinks. But I do
prioritize and I do make it clearthe thoughts and concepts of people who are
not supporting me, not financially supportingme, not supporting with me with media.
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You know, I know all mysisters in media. We support each
other. You know. You cancall me in time and say, hey,
I'm promoting this, Can you putthe word out for me? And
I will, you know. Butthe people that are not supporting you,
they're never buy anything. They're nevergoing to buy anything from you, no
matter what you do. And tobe worried about that people is a whole
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different concept. So I have tobe honest, I was not really worried
about what other people thought because I'ma very internally motivated person. I'm not
really super influenced by what people think. I care about what my tribe thinks
because I'm trying to serve my pod. But for somebody to say, you
know, question what I'm doing,I just don't care. I recently went
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to a conference in northern California andmost of the people at the conference have
newspapers there, and I was thereas media with TV, and there was
a woman who had a newspaper whowalked up to me and said, well,
what are you writing? And it'slike, I'm not writing anything.
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I'm amplifying the stories that some ofyour people are writing. Because there's a
whole set of TV and media onTikTok. These young kids don't want to
read. Okay, we're past thetime trying to make them learn how to
read. They're only going to learnhow to read it when they want to.
They don't want to read, theywant to watch a video. So
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I'm giving them the same thing you'vegiven them in video so they can get
it. So, I mean,you know, just the thought that how
dare I be? That's what shetalks to me, like what are you
writing? What you know? Whyare you here? And that's the only
time she spoke to me. Shecame over there specifically to say that.
And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna do what I want to
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do. I know why I'm here. They can accept me, they cannot
accept me, But I know whatI'm doing with my media. I have
a show called The California Community Briefwhere I put in California, I'm not
gonna take my whole but news thatwill help the understand in California's and that's
what show was about, and that'swhat I put out. So you have
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to get to a point where youwere strong enough to say whose thoughts matter?
You know you're in a circle.I call it my power five.
These are the people that will helpme bury the body and not ask those
questions. I got my power fiveright, and then you have you know,
you have a couple of layers ofyour inner circle and they can give
you input. But beyond that,there are a bunch of people who are
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actually inconsequential to what you're doing.That person in her newspaper, they're inconsequential
to me. They have nothing todo with me. They're not stealing my
money. I'm not stealing their money. That they might think I'm stealing their
money, but I'm not. Ihave a whole set of revenue that I'm
creating has nothing to do with them, and it's not taking advantage of them.
So you really have to be veryvery clear about what you're doing.
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Know that you are called to dothat, because I know what I'm called
to do. You know know thatyou were called to do that, and
then move in that. If youare overly dependent on other people, think
you will never go above mediocrity.And so there's just a just a stand
you have to put in yourself.It is not somebody that a mentor can
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give you. It's not confident thatsomebody else can give you. You got
to grow those waves yourself. Okay, you got to put on those big
panties yourself. You gotta be girlyourself and once you do that, you
are unstoppable. Yeah, that's that'ssuch a powerful encouragement, uh, for
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those who are really tied to theopinions of somebody else. I read in
one of your articles that you wasfeatured in that you said that you kind
of decided that just to be okaywith who you wanted to be and how
you wanted to live your life right. And I think that's a powerful statement
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because we have to make sure thatwe are ready and willing to show up
for the people who are waiting forus, right and people are ware wait
on us to walk in our purpose. They're waiting for us. And until
we make that decision, sometimes wehave to transition in terms of time,
We have to pivot to something elsein order to show up in that authentic
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way that is the solution to somebodyelse's problem. Right. And so you
know, I think that a lotof times that when we are stuck in
that place of you know, notbeing willing to accept what we are called
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to do, that brings on awhole nother level of grief. I think,
because you're grieving what you used tobe, you're grieving how people see
you now, and there's a linebetween of that and where you want to
go, right, And so Ijust I think that there are so many
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things in our life that we haveto really connect from and be okay,
Like you said, just be okaywith who God has called you to be
right, And I think that wecan't be nothing else the thing that really
God has called it us to be. We can't be anything else because to
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be anything else, it will neverwork, it will never succeed. And
we see that with so many peopleand even some ways in our life.
Right. But I want to askyou, is there any particular thing that
kind of motivates you in your transition? How would you encourage somebody or what
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some things that they can do tomotivate themselves as they try to transition to
another season. One of my thingsis music, right, Music is life
to me? I tell you itmusic can just make everything all right,
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right, So what kind of thingsdo you do or have you seen other
people do to make that transition orthat pivot to another season to make it
better, you know, to makeit more palatable. One of the things
is that I practice meditation, andI'm practicing as more like Christian meditation.
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I'm not out there chanting woo woowoo. But I spend some time.
And you can meditate to music.For those of you that feel like,
you know, you just can't sitthere and quiet, that's okay. Yeah,
you can meditate to music. Alot of times. I'll meditate to
spa music. I have my ownchannel that is a health channel, and
I put meditation music on there foreverybody else, But of course I tune
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into my own channel to listen tothat when i'm want so. In that
meditation time, I just spend timetaking deep breaths and telling myself, you
know, I feel the love formyself. Not a lot of people say
I am affirmations. I want youguys to like, let's level up,
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leveling up form I am you canuse I feel or I know or I
see. That's a level up fromI am. So a lot of times
we don't feel the love and compassionfor our self. So you know,
I remind myself I love myself,I feel the compassion for myself, I
feel the love, I feel theease of the success. And I also
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spend time imagining the thing I'm doingworking out. See, we spend a
lot of time imagining it not workingout. Well, you spend a lot
of time. And I make thatcall and ask for that money, they're
gonna say, no, why don'tyou spend five minutes just pretending in your
head that it's happening. And yougot to pretend with all your might.
This is something I want you guysto about. When I talk to my
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nephew. I have two nephews.One is one is three, and one
is six. When I talk tomy nephews and I go, let's pretend
to If I tell him to closeyour eyes and pretend to be a ninja,
he's gonna close his eyes and gowhullbody fully into it. If I
tell an adult to close their eyesand pretend in their head that they're a
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ninja, they're just gonna sit therelike this. So when you're pretending in
your head that it's working out,really feel it really like you know,
like just hear it and see itin your head, like really get involved
in imagining that it worked out foryou. That's what they mean when imagine
that it was okay. Imagine thateverything works out. That's where you're supposed
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to do that. You're supposed tospend time with yourself seeing yourself be successful.
So as you're making this pivot,once you're clear what the pivot is
going to be, before you makea move, spend a week with yourself
just imagining that I'm doing it andit's working out. People are coming out
of everywhere to work with me.People really love my work. All the
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little negative people, they're just thatthere's an invisible bubble that just keeps them
away. They can't even get tome, all the little haters. I
don't hear what they're saying about me. I don't hear nothing about their gossiping
church about me. I hear noneof that. So, you know,
just imagine that it's working out foryou and then go ahead and start the
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pivot. You will be inspired todo things. You'll be imagining it and
you'll come up with an idea.Write that idea down. Oh, yeah,
I should make a list of thisand write that idea down that comes
when you're imagining it working out.That's your inspired work, that's your little
nuggets for God. Say we'll doit like this and do it like that,
and let's normalize, as they say, doing things in peace and without
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struggle. It doesn't have to bea struggle to pivot. It's only a
struggle if you continue to hold onto that thing and try to get something
else with a handful of garbage.You gotta let go. We're the empty
hand. Received. Yeah, sogood, and that looked. That was
an encouragement to me because sometimes wedo we forget about imagining if it does
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work. Imagine that thing working thatthe thing that you know that has been
so embedded in your heart, whatif it does work? Right? And
so if we put ourselves in theplace of that positive thinking and and can
just visualize and imagine, just likeyou said, I think we'll be in
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a much better place. So thatwas a great encouragement. I know that
the audience that is listening it wasa great encouragement for them too. So
if you're in a place, ina season in your life where you have
felt and know that you need topivot to something else. I know that
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they will appreciate these beautiful nuggets thatyou have dropped today in this episode.
So I just wanted to thank youso much for being here. But before
we leave, I want you totell everybody how they can connect with you,
how they can follow you, anythingthat you got going on right now
that they can connect to absolutely.I've got a great newsletter. You can
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connect with me here on Facebook,Doctor Letitia Wright. I've got a great
newsletter that I'd love to share withyou. Guys. It's all about making
money with your show, and whetheryou have a podcast like this, or
show or whatever you're doing, let'sget some revenue in there. If you're
not making money, please get onthat list. And also, I'm on
TikTok. You're a crowdfunding expert.On TikTok, you can follow me there.
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I am on LinkedIn, I amon Snapchat, I am on Instagram.
I'm doctor Wright and the number oneon Instagram. I'm on Twitter,
but we'll see how long I'm onTwitter, because you know, Twitter is
haven issues. They got a littlefew problems going on. But available if
you'd like to talk about what you'dlike to do your show, idea,
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what you'd like to create in termsof a show. My channel is off
for business shows. So I amabout to open up, a matter of
fact, an opportunity for about fivepeople that are new to be on my
channel. So that way you getto feel it out, feel what it's
like, and it's an incredible offer. You guys need to follow up on
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it. You'll be able to beon the channel for a year. You
can upload thirty shows. I'll beuploading them for you, and you get
a little coffee mug. So whenyou buy the coffee mug, the show
comes with the coffee mug. Sothat's the first person to hear about that.
But people can contact me. Iwill send you out the page and
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the information you do need to havea business show or something that goes with
right Place TV. But you'll beon Apple, Roku and Amazon Fire TV
when you're part of right Place TVchannel. And it's all for the cost
of a coffee mug. So youknow, if you'd like to be a
part of it, you're ready toexpand. I love working with powerful,
ambitious women. Let's go. Let'sgo. Well, thank you, doctor
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Latitia So much for being here today, and I know that it'll be so
many people that want to connect withyou, and I just want to thank
you for encouraging the audience today tokeep going, even in your pivot,
even in the season that you haveto disconnect, even if you're grieving the
loss of transitioning, that it isso so so possible. Thank you so
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much for being here, Thank youfor having me. All Right, y'all,
well, thank you so much forhere on this episode of Restore My
Soul Podcast. I thank you,and I leave the words of doctor Letitia
with you is that you don't haveto struggle in the pivot, right and
we could just imagine, just imaginewhat your life would be like if you
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just believe that you could do it, that you can transition to your next
Okay, so you make sure thatyou follow me on all social media at
Princess Millon's and my website at Princessmillonsdot com. Y'all, remember that grief
is a journey. You don't haveto walk it along. And I will
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