Becoming a Content Queen (w/ Danielle Young)

I'm I'm grateful. I'm grateful you're here. I'm grateful that that you can experience this with me. So I want you to engage. If you have a question, hit me up. She's coming through. Hey, I was just saying that, this is uh my Vitamin D podcast. Uh. In about a minute or so, Danielle Young, she's coming through and we're gonna talk about what it means to go after your dreams and what it looks like and what that feels like, um and everything in between. So I'm excited. So you know,

somebody go tell somebody Dante's about to do this. You know, I'm going live with it, okay, And I'm telling you get ready to get inspired. That's all I gotta say. Um, and not just from me, from Danielle as well. Okay, when I tell you that this woman is amazing and in ways when you look at and you're just like wow, you inspire me. That's what I inspire. That's the life that I'm living where I can look at somebody next to me and it's like, Queen, I see you, Thank

you for inspiring me. Hey down, my name sakes, So M Danielle is coming and so how how are you doing? It's it's um as president's story. We got a president. We like this one. Maybe. But as I was saying, um, you guys know that My bodym D podcast is on I Heart Radio and whichever platforms there are out there, you can also catch it out on Steve Harvey FM dot com, Forward Slash Podcast. You're gonna sproll down and you're gonna see doing day. So I was saying that

I'm going to do the podcast live. It's my first time and I'm excited. I love doing things that excite me like this and scared the mess out of me. You know, I sought it's about and I think that's what people gotta realize when when going out to your dreams, like you gotta go out there and you gotta take a chance, you gotta go out there and uh see how you feel about it. And sometimes it's gonna be unnerving.

And I think it's so interesting. People be like, Dawn, I want to be right, Dawn, how do I go after? And it's like, you gotta do it when it scares you. And when it scares you, that's when you know, because that's when the energy starts moving. That's when you start sweating and shining because things are moving and you don't stop moving until you're dead. Do you hear what I'm saying? Right?

And it's so interesting that even though we know like this energy it creates life, we got this sense of consistently trying to stop when it starts to heat up in the kitchen. When aren't you trying to cook up on your dreams? Aren't you trying to cook up on your best life? So what are we talking about here? So I say, at this point you have to ask yourself what it is that you want you know, and

you can't expect to see it just yet. And it's gonna be different from what you expect because you've never had it, So sometimes you're gonna have to figure it out. But if you can't start, take the heat, step out the kitchen, and if your dreams are existing, if your dreams are here for you, you you have to understand that you're gonna have to take its chance, and that chance is gonna be rough, and it's gonna take you to

grow because you've never done it. I'm gonna mention this when Danielle comes on, and I'm actually gonna text her um because one thing I don't think people think about uh a lot, is that will you ask for more? You gotta stretch for more? Do you understand what I'm saying? And when you talk about stretching, we're talking about pulling, We're talking about turning up the heat. So what do you want? You're ready to turn up the heat or what? Go on? Only if you're ready, Because this podcast is

all about getting you excited about your life. You hear me, That's what it's about. I want you to know too. This is another thing. As we're gonna get on this podcast, Dan y'all is charging up her phone? Is that on this podcast? Vitamin to Yeah, you're gonna get excited, right, But let me be clear, let me be crystal clear with you, because when you talk about the truth, that's

talking about cutting on the lights. I don't think that you can show up as part of you, Okay, you can't just fix part of you and expecting all your dreams to come to fruition. So on the Vitamin D podcast, we're calling people out. You hear me sometimes calling myself out, and I'm just saying, because it's gonna charge you to get uncomfortable in that way, because you're asking to be great, right.

Can somebody throw up my hand if you agree. If you're asking to be great, you're gonna have to realize it's gonna our charge you change. Are you ready to change? Are you ready to be dope? I don't know about you, but when I look at it and when I think on myself and what I'm doing, it comes down to the chance of that I don't have another choice. And it's so interesting even right now just sharing on another level. Um, just I'm approaching the season of my mother's death and

it's weird. I say it's weird because, um, for a while, you know, I never can really remember the date um, but my body does. And when I think about how I go after my dreams, you know it's because that time away from my mom. So I asked you, what's your why you know Eric Thomas, he's from Detroit. He says, you know you have to have want your dreams as bad as you want to breathe. How bad do you

want your dreams? Because if I tried to constrict you, right, if I tried to hold you down underwater, you are fighting for your life. It's not because you're saying I wanted. Your body is reacting. Do you understand? That's why when I think when they say that you gotta be crazy for your dreams, that's what they mean, because you gotta go on a full all assault. So don't sit here and say that you want to be great but you're comfortable.

Do you understand what I'm saying. You can't sit here and want to be great and not making the steps that you gotta make. And so my guests that they have coming on right now. V Danielle, young guy, we're gonna talk about all of that and more. She's joining. Okay, Hello, I didn't want to enter up the firm and he was going he was going with somewhere. Well, I meeting Sure, I had to get to try and go on because I know what we're about to go. I want to

be amazing. But I've been telling people get excited about your life and understanding. Well, we're about to talk about we're hitting on some things that's on the good and the bad, because that's what it means to cut on the lights. We're coming on the lights today and we're to modify you. Okay, okay, we're at a queen. So people have been listening. We've been warmed up. Um. This is the first installment a Vitamin D life. In case

you don't know, let me just tell you. Like I said, Vitamin D is a multi vitamin for your mind, your body, and soul. Vitamin D is designed to get you excited about your life. Vitamin D has been instilled so that you can live your life more purpose and for a purpose. Now, can tell me one person, Dan Yo that doesn't want to get excited about their life? Listen, Well, I don't know those type of people. Hello, and here's the thing. As Vitamin D was installed, it's upon off of my name.

So you know, Dawn means the son, so I'm here to shed light into your life. But here's the thing. You remember that song that we learned as a child, This little line I'm gonna let it shine. I do remember that, so still alive. So with I'll further doo list Daniel Young, It's time for your Vitamin D. Right with me, I get excited about Let me just say good Morrow. The professional is absolutely um, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you may be, I want to let

you know that you are tuned into the Vitamin D podcast. Um, and I have a special guest with me on today. You know, as you come back time and time again to hear this podcast, you know I always tell you that I'm here to get you excited about your life. Okay, but more importantly, I want people to identify, and I want you to identify. How are you at your greatest stats? Act? So I'm yeapp and you see this beautiful, beautiful queen that we are going to edify today on my screen.

You just sound so good. I'm just like, um, she's a cartoon queen, she's the contour queen, A journalist. I'd say actress because I've seen some of your sketches. Yeah, left climate in the name of Jesus, who already is because we're walking in it, am Um, your host. That's how we met a producer. Yeah, and in case you know, someone's been shining under the rock somewhere. You're also soul Ivy's best friend. Hey, you know the other. So you guys, if you can do me a favorite and just throw

some claps up and welcome Dan yo ya. I can't I was about to say, I came out. I can't throw my own clips welcome, oh seraders in the building pace to read. Uh, how are you doing? Girl? But you know, pandemic amazing, pandemic amazing. I feel, you know, exceptionally, I'm doing exceptionally well. I cannot complain um, my family as well, and you know, so I'm just nothing to be said about. It's just a weird time to be

in to be you know, immobile for the most part. Um. But you know, it's not a complete loss, I definitely. I just feel like I've been able to have time for the type of growth that I've been needing, um at the time in the space to do that. So that's been just I've been so grateful for that. UM. But yeah, I just I can't complain. It's just we in this weird time. But I'm alive. I'm alive, and I'm thriving. Yes, yes, um. You know, for me, this pandemic has definitely been a blessing. And I say it

because there's a quote I always say. I said, what allows the diamond to shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been placed within it. Right, well, Daniel, what's the diamond? It was once a piece of cold under some pressure. Some of the most amazing things that occurred to me in my life have been in the pandemic because I was forced to stop and say, Dawn, you're ready to go after your dreams? Wait a minute, hold on,

hold on, let's see this. And I said this when I was on your Stories Told podcast, right um, episode eight, make sure you check it out. Okay, come out with the reference already ready going for a good streets to xact reference. But I say that because we you know, I talked about it a little bit before you came on.

I was talking about Eric Thomas. He's from Detroit and he's says on his his I got his motivational album and he talks about this thing is and how you gotta want your dream as bad as you want to breathe, and how your body is sometimes reacting like it's not a matter if you have a choice. If somebody tried to hold you under the water, your body is gonna fight. So that's gonna be depressed when you're tired and all that. Right. So although my breath wasn't leaving me literally, you know

what I felt like, I felt stuck. And what was it before me was the Red Sea because it was like, Dawn, what are you gonna do? And that's when I think you gotta realize when you gotta have that faith. Because when Moses was standing at the red see how tall was the water? How why was the sea be? Could you imagine what was in it? And you just have to get to the other side. What now, whether or

not it really happened, We gotta think figuratively. But the illustration and the book was saying that, you know, it's a minute to separate. So in that moment I made some tough to say, just damn you and I wouldn't be sent here where you're in front of you had I not made the decision. Mum hum and we met a couple of years ago on the red carpet. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Sweat and bullets, sweating bullets, you and your umbrella. And I heard this voice over yonder, Hey

queen black List. Yes. Yes, I was excited because I was like, yo, that's smart. The umbrella. That was because it was really hot on that carpet and I had a long sleeve. It was like butchering hot. Yeah. I was like, oh, that's so smart. And then I mentioned it cut the lights when I was like, who is who is this lady? Who is this chick? That's what I said, no disrespect, said who is this check? I

was like, your vibe was contagious, your energy was contagious. Everybody, every celebrity on the carpet was galling for Dan Yoe like, hey, bo, I'm coming. Good to see you again. I said wow, And I said she looks like me. She's another girl out here that's like me and doing it. Then I began to follow you because I said who is this girl? You know we had went to the after party, but I was like, oh, she and I saw all the work that you've done on your projects. Um, you know

we could stay out that night. Yeah, you remember remember that was a fun night. I just remember the fact of how you know, just looking at your body of work, from the over explainer, from what you're doing with the root, from what you're doing with just everything right. And I was, I was sitting in my stay, I said, I gotta have Dan Yell on my podcast, but I gotta make ain'tle different. You a beast. Anybody can look at your

bio and say that, right, thank you. But you mentioned something um on the episode that we were on, and you talked about a transitional moment. But I thought it was interesting because even recently you put up a post and you said how your dreams kind of unfolded and came to life. And I want to play a snippet of that, right, and I want you to start, and I want you to begin to tell the story how did she get there to what she is right now?

So you know, we say this thing and I want to insert this guy's we asked to be great, right, you asked to be amazing, You asked God to grow, and then it starts raining. I'll take a listen. I really had a lot of um. Some would say a series of unfortunate events, but I got fired, right, before the pandemic, Like on March three, it was my last day. Um and at essence, I'll say that, and I had to like spring into action because my plan was actually to leave. Um, I was going to stay until until April.

I was like, okay, so the end of April, I'm out and then I'm gonna getting you know, do this in the summer and um and yeah, I got told on March third that that was my last day, and I said, oh, okay. I didn't also didn't know a pandemic was coming, so I just thought, okay, maybe it's time to just go ahead and do this thing where I said I was gonna do it and just bet on myself. And so I went full throttle with it. Um.

But I didn't know what I was doing. So it was just like I knew, I knew what I wanted, and I knew what I my intentions. Worse, I just went with that. Talk to me. Yeah, I just went with that. I mean, I knew that I wanted to continue to interview people because that's something that I just enjoy doing so much and and like collecting people's stories and telling them or had or being the vessel where they're able to tell their story in a different way,

um that they may not have considered before. But I just wanted to keep doing that. So within the space of everything shutting down, UM, I was just like, well, everybody's at home, people are on the Graham, let me just start interviewing people on social media, like, let me just start talking to the people where the people are at, um.

And it just became real quick, which was h is an interview series that I have now, Um that is just design and to like just come at people while they're in their social media scrolls, while they're in this space,

just real quick, um. But it's conversations that like, what I want to do with it and what I hope I am doing, what I hope to continue to do, is to gather information from these people who have been able to unlock and get to these levels in their field that seemed untouchable for people a lot of the times. So I want to unlock what they have done, the things that they tap into, the things that they uh subscribe to believe in, you know, engage in, and make

that accessible to the people who watched. So like that was always my intention and that I've been able to refine and it's so crazy too that I've been able to refine that part of not only my career, but I feel like, what is my purpose my own situation not being a part of these you know places where I felt like that validated me to be a staff member at x y z UM And it's still an amazing thing to do that that's not an easy feat um.

And just because I experienced a space where I was let go in those spaces, or experience being let go in those spaces, didn't necessarily mean that I'm not supposed

to be doing this um. And so I think that that is like, really what has been able to like be to shine up and made so fresh, so clean, so brand like, so brand new for me to be able to do that, to be able to see that in this in the space that I've been able to create for myself, So that to me is where the story is continuing um and in the space of And this is something that I say, I try to say it all the time because I want to burn it

into my own bread as well. But we need to no matter who you are, where you are, what you are, whatever, move as though we are the shots, not that we need someone to bring us, give us, gift us, present us with a shot you like. So it's the creation for yourself versus being like, oh well, if I could just get this, or if I could just be like that, or if I could just have this following, or maybe if I get this co sign like it. That doesn't I don't think is the is the drive the drivers yourself.

So the creation and the nurturing of the building of may not be cute, um, And a lot of the times it's frustrating, um. And to your point earlier, like there's no one there to tell you, you know, to do the thing. You have to say, like I have to motivate myself within it to do it. Um. And you might think that it might be easy to motivate

yourself to do it when it's yours. It's not. Definitely, it's not, especially in a time like this as well, um, where there's just so much constant grieving and reminder that we're like not moving but we're moving. Um. So it's just I mean I always get like kind of off

where I was going. But I think to your original question of the continuation from that clip, it's literally the doing for oneself that yeah, yeah, that that is continuing to push me, to keep me, to motivate me, to allow me to be to be ready and willing for expansion, because nobody's gonna push you, right, And that's the thing I think people feels realized. People think like, oh, you know, when I work for myself, you know, I ain't working for nobody else's watch. I'm not going in for them.

Do you know what you're gonna have to do for yourself? You're up for still working for some moment, it's yourself. And essentially, if you're putting a product out there that you want somebody to buy, you're essentially working for that that buy. Yeah, unless you're like revolutionizing maps and that's the ministry and the work aiming the thing that you're doing and it's making you money, you're not gonna get say layout and to rest and to this being and

your you know, and your comfort. Um So I know that, like, there's a lot that it there's a lot to consider. But wait a minute, Danye, I gotta stop you. You said there's a lot to being comfort, but there's no such thing as called for when we're talking about going after dreams, because you're acquiring something that may not be standing or sitting or visually right there in front of

you that you're holding is right. So then I think, and this goes to attest to the fact of how we're talking about whether or not how bad somebody is willing to work for their dreams. Like, you know, I'm gonna go from a spiritual sense. Let's just go at it, right, You're like, God, let me be at my own TV show. I'm about to do a variety show with sketches. I'm gonna go to the film and TV where I'm on camera and I'm interviewing all the movie stars and TV personalities. Amen.

But we had to realize that that Danielle they had to run to that interview and probably should have went to the doctor. It took that growth. It took that Danielle that probably lost that sleepless Nights. It took that growth to know that when the opportunity comes, what it's gonna take for the efficiency, what it's gonna take for the preparation. But here's the thing, and we want to go from a spiritual sense. And we talked about the Potter's House because you said I'm a creator. You were

made by a creator. So you're essentially here to create, right, yeah, and we literally say, oh God, mold me, make me better. If somebody is pressing on you, spilling you in circles, they froll a water to tears because I gotta move you. I gotta put grooves in you so when you take a step, you're not gonna slip and fall. See you're looking at it like a start, but you don't understand

why you need it. I need you to get hurt so you can get that callous yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you get it to the fire because guess what, it's time to lock in. Here's the thing, Danielle, how can we and you tell me this, how come we can see efforts more easily with going to work out because you're pulling muscle, you're straining your sweating. Then we can't for going after the dreams? Right? Why is that? Mm hmm, you said, why can't we see that? Yeah?

That is the same tassas that is. I mean, because it's not there's not a lot of physical gratuity to it, you know what I mean. Like you might see an ent or two, you know, come off, you might see the pants fit different, you might feel different going up the stairs and you're like, Okay, now I see why I'm doing I'm doing this smoothie challenge, like I see it. But when you're going for the dream, there's not a

lot of immediate gratuity or tangible gratuity at all. Sometimes you know like that it's just it's every leap gets a reward, for sure, but you still got to actually leap and kind of see what happens from that jump. It's not just the leap and a sore um. And sometimes it might be you never you never freaking up. But the thing is it's going to require more from you, is always going to require more of you, right to to be able to get to get to that, to

maintain that, and then to continue forward. So I feel like there's just so much that we need to understand comes with wanting, praying, wishing, hoping whatever for the more. It's not going to ever be this Like I feel like it's the same thing when I when I pray about like the idea of me wanting to be more patient and to be to lead with love and all those things. Right, Like it's cute, but it's a thing that comes with like a practice. It's not going to

ever be. Oh, I'm gonna show up at Cinderella tomorrow and start singing with birds that it. No, it's just I'm going to be presented with opportunities to exhibit that patient said, I'm pray aim for shibit, the kindness and the love that I'm asking God to build up and within me and to show you know, other people. It's not a gift that's given in a box that you can just gied and just open and be like I

am now more patient and kind. No, So you're presented with the opportunities to exhibit that behavior that you're asking for. Face that works is dead. It's always gonna be that way. Yeah, Like I would love to be able to serve a God that was like here, you're just asking for it. But that's just not how it works. We serve a God that allows us to do the work to get the thing that we're asking for. It's not it's never

free these it's never Christmas. The gifts are earned and it takes some weathering through the storm and a couple of things you said that stay because the seasons forever aims. That's how you know that you're going, That's how you know that you're growing and you don't have to stay down because down happens. What wait, come on, wait, see wait, come on, wait a minute. See you know what I's out here. You talked about patients, and you talked about

the down. Right, we can understand the importance of the down when we look up at a tree. Let me say it again. We can understand the importance of a down when we look up at the tree because how tall the tree is kind of gives us an indication how deep deep the roots are. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And so when people say, wait a minute, let me go after this dream, you don't realize that you gotta wait for the leaves to sprout. It's a button there.

But because if you're asking God for more and you're saying let me reach, like, look at you, you are saying let me reach it. Since the last time we spoke, I just stand in amazement of you. I look at you and I say thank you for inspiring me. You're the reason why vitamin D live right now is on I g because I said, wait a minute, I gotta come through dawing day No seriously, walking authority. So I

thank you for that. But I say all that to say is that when those challenges come, because the seasons are going to change, understanding the reasoning for the patients. We can understand it when we're making food, who's eating meat that's uncooked. We can understand it when we talk about, um, working not necessarily working out. But you can talk about it when your hair is not done. You can walk

outside with some white hair. That's not the style. So why can't we understand that the taller we are asking God, the girl, we're just asking for the routes to stretch out. Now, you said this on a recent interview, you said, Um, you talked about in this stage right now, how you're feeling more connected to God more than ever tell me about that. I think that it's because of where we are, Like, you know, I would hate to be like, oh, well,

because I'm not going anywhere. Well, yeah, there's there's a lot of there was. I live in New York City, I'm in this media industry. There's a lot of ways of which distractions can just be such an easy thread of what I'm doing with this job, you know what I mean, Like, of course I have to go out to that party right after work, and of course I

have to do this. Of course I have to fly out to l A to cover that and do this, and then fly back and then do that and then go over here and then cover that and before you and not to me, I'm a single girl with no children. So God bless all of you that have all the other elements involved with life. But you know, there's still I gotta have a relationship with my mom. I gotta do this, I gotta work out. Oh my gosh, I love you your relationship with your mom, you know, but

not just before you know it. There's just so many things that are allowing you to not connect and to not look within and to not connect with God. And so like those I would get those little moments, you know, where I would be like I might pray when I before I go to bed, or I might just fall asleep. So now within this time, there's like really no excuse to the other than to talk to God literally all day long. Like we are in you know what I mean,

we are in here. So I just spend a lot of time talking to God as I would myself, my friend, my plants, like really just like really just talk lance, you know what I mean, just talking at having a conversation, getting it out, stuff that like could end up on somebody's Twitter feed where it shouldn't be, you know, like just getting it out. Um. So yeah, this time I have used a lot of it to reconnect and to

stay connected um with God. And I love that you said that because we talked about the connector we just talking about a relationship, right. And are you into vision boards? Yeah? Good? I have it made them because you know, I live in Brooklyn. There's nowhere to put all that stuff, right, but it's kind of like now everything is kind of visual, so even putting up a rail or doing highlights or pictures, you know, you can kind of you're creating your reality. But but I do do that and then you know,

in interest and all that. And you know, one thing that I found that's really helped me along with my vision board, but also is journaling. Oh yes, oh, because that's another get it out so that you don't have

to get it out anywhere else. And I also I used it for my dream so because you know, one thing that you just said that was interesting is that when we talk about this whole notion of going all in and getting locked in with self, it's a communication, like you said, and if I'm the spiritual being having this human experience, this is nothing more than the physical doing couldn't get connected with the spiritual doing. So I can say, Okay, this is what I feel inside. Now

I gotta see it. Yeah. And the thing is that I think that's, you know, just so amazing is that when you were talking about sun up to sundown. I don't know about you. How have you been able to balance it? Though? I don't balance it? Like what is balance? Like That's one of the things that I feel like I have an aversion towards being the person being interviewed because I feel like people see people getting interviewed and they hear them as this like sage and this wisdom,

and they have all the answers. And I really don't want people to think that about me because I have no idea what I'm doing half the time, you know, not that I have no idea what I'm talking about, Like I'm not an idiot, but like I'm just a person living life and trying things and allowing myself the freedom to dream and then go for it. So like I don't know, like I am never going to figure

it out. I'm always gonna be working and being a work in progress and remixing how I approach things or whatever. Like I've always gonna be in that space of like experience and not like I know these things because I have climbed this mountain. No, I've climbed the mountain now and I'm continuing to climb the mountain. And some things have worked for me, some things that haven't worked for me.

I'm just still here, but I'm here. Like that's like, so, yeah, I never I don't know, I don't have no answers. I I definitely agree with you on the whole situation because if you come from a space and you're speaking your truth, you know a lot of people I feel like they cant inspired because we were come authentic of what our truth, our truth is and and yeah, we feel about something right. But then it's like that you you're starting to put me in a box I did

not subscribe to. Yeah, like I don't know, it's uh light and I and I've done that to people and I still do that to people sometimes, um, people who I consider above me, and I'll call them a beacon. And this that and the third and a lot of that is because I am a reverence kind of person. I like really give giving people their flowers, and especially if you are someone who I looked at and admired and been like, you showed me something that is possible

that I had no idea what's possible. So I have a feeling for you that's like and I get a chance, I get a chance to meet those people, talk to those people, sometimes befriend those people, and I just I had to like take a step back and be like, I can still feel that way towards you, but I don't have to feel like I've lifted you up on high because that's not healthy and that's not good for that person, either not myself or pressure. That's too much pressure.

I've to subscis thought I was the person. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure things out. Some people thought it was good, and they gave me the the awards, the accolades and the list and that to be able to get to the next level. That's what's happening here. I've got some divine creature who was set on earth to be whatever. It's just that these things are happening for me, and it's happening for me in a visible crazy big scale.

Do you think that's supports the whole cancel cultural situation because we build people over and we build people up to these unrealistic uh light sources, and and it doesn't allow for people to be human, It doesn't allow for people to learn lessons, it doesn't allow for people to have redemption and be redeemed, which I think is really dangerous.

It's it's you know, there's certain things that are really deplorable and horrible to say as public figures, horrible to stand by, to stand on, and some things and where people are not remorseful around the dangerous, you know, divisive things that they say that is bad. But even I'm like, well we still shouldn't be having some type of conversation to open up some minds. And if that's not possible, then okay, you can be canceled over there. But I'm

not gonna call it a cancel. I'm just gonna be like, I'm not excuse me, I'm not engaging. So it just doesn't matter to me to say whether or not I'm canceling someone because that's not effective and it's not real and it's always just who are you in anything? What kind of conversations are we or could we possibly have? You know, like ignorance is only ignorant because people have this and I'm not. I'm not moving from this now.

So it's it's I think if we get mad about the person that we are trying to cancel because they're being get they're ignorant, aren't we still aren't we being ignorant by being like no, I don't want to hear any that's it. You're like, well, okay, because you know, we don't get so caught up. And here's the thing too, like we get so caught up and with the vessel of the kind of like what the what's containing the message? But two miss out on the blessing, whether that's an idea,

whether it's a new opportunity, whatever it may be. And it's like, and you know, here's the thing, like I've always had a strong relationship with God, but I've always been apprehensive to speak because I don't want anyone to say that I am a pastor if you catch me doing something that isn't subscribing to don't put me in the box. So I know I've been trying to make sure people see I do a lot of different things.

It's like the same thing every day. No here, I love God, but I will post the picture of myself and lau Dree like it's I have a lot of different things. I have a lot of different things, and I think we should be allowed to be as such. And these are my little ways of trying to normalize it and trying to make sure that society allows black women to be more than just the one thing or even just women. I don't even know black women. I was about to say, no, black women to be more

than the one thing. And how are you showing us that? What's your work? Um? You know, because I have my hand in so many different pots between the writing, the producing, um, the acting. Like as you say, right, my show, the Daniel Young Show has a lot of elements to it that UM allow me to showcase like I have a theater degree yas girl theater and journalism we out here, so I'm able to like do skits and stuff like that to be able to show off that type of

talent um as well. And so I think also because I am a plus size woman, UM that in itself being in the spaces that I've been able to be in and continue to occupy like that in a in and of itself is enough to show folks that there's like no real limits other than the ones that we placed on ourselves. Um and so I've never allowed for myself to be like I can't do it. Well I have. I don't want to say never, because let's be real, like, yes, there's been a lot of times where I said I

can't do it, but I will do it. I will do it. So let me ask you this, who was your person while going up that gave you the idea that you were possible? A k inspires you. So there's so many, but too in particular or Oprah and Cadijia

Jay living single and Candiesia James on living single. Yes, like not well especially you have evolved her own career, but uh, for for sure clean lands for growing up on living singles, specifically as Cadisia owning her own magazine and the struggles that she faced, like you know, it was a comedy, so they always made it funny, like she couldn't pay the bills and stuff was happening and

like money was always the issue. Um So it just really like put it in my mind, a black girl I could like I could live in a place like Brooklyn. I could have my own magazine. I could have like a brown Stone, like it could be a whole thing. Um. And so to honestly look and really like I'm about to move at the end of the month and to a new apartment. Yeah, and to a new apart me Brooklyn giving living single is giving you, Candijia. And then to be in this pandemic growing and building my own

media company or brick by brick. I was like, oh my god, I'm Candijia this media company. Yes you are. And it's it's just it's I love the way you're doing it now. It's it's um like, I see you. Here's let me just this is the wild factor, like I have life tattered in my mouth right um now, When this this podcast will be available on I Heart radio and every streaming platform, it will be after this event.

But the thing that's so amazing, Danielle is that you told me about the fact of one episode eight of Stories Told podcast. You said, Dawn, my next step is to really go in there and step on camera to go into the film aspect, that TV aspect. And then I just saw on your Twitter that you're hosting like this Twitter chat with um Barbin Starr comedic film and I'm just like, wow, just to see the fruits. And then you just launched your talk show, The Danielle Young

Show on YouTube no Facebook. So you told about walking in it. That's around? Is that around when we did that interview? No, That's what I'm saying, Like, you are really not on the YouTube and that's what's to be something that's looked at that. I don't think a lot of people do. People don't go into the situation and understanding how important it is for that patience and to be consistent with that word that you speak, because life and death on the palm of the tongue and your

spirit knows no different. Mm hmm. That's real. And that listen. I tried to traffic in that because I'm just like, I don't want to put something on myself or someone else that isn't life, you know what I mean. I want to be able to, yeah, to speak life and receive that from because I received a lot from other people. I really do. And I'm just like, yes, God, you are just giving me all these confirmations. Um, and so I'm just like that's what I want to do for

people as well. But it is, it's it's honestly, it's crazy. It's crazy. And even when you talk about your level of ambition, right, you said something like, there's a difference when uh, black people black people in their ambition. There's just different adversities, right, It's just different kind of fertilizer

that's thrown on us. Talk to me about your experiences, why you are so gun hold of me and the voice for black people and the expansion of black people because you know, you're doing work with Lena Ways and her production company and just so much. I'm not doing any work with her. Lena is just my mentor. Yeah, but I actually don't work with her. We're just like we were like this. But it's I don't necessarily think

I am a voice for anyone other than myself. Um, but I want to be able to use the voice that I have to, like I said, speak life and to shine light on us and who we all are. You know, I'm really passionate about black people in US because I am us, but also just because historically, you know, they have done so much to erase who we are, what we have done, and you know, it's like seeing

it and knowing it. It's so frustrating, and it's and so being able to not only tell these stories but act as some type of historian or preserver of culture and preserver of us and our excellence and are just existence. They don't even have to be excellent, but our existence is enough for me. So I think that's what keeps me like wanting to do it and motivated to do it because I am so attached and attracted to the

preservation of us and our contributions. This came to tie, Hey, it's this came to me is when, um, when you know who's you are, you know who you are, and when you talk about being great, it's all about the identification of knowing self. Um. And I say that because just as everything that you said, the things that hadn't manifested the way that you wanted to, or when you show up, you have to walk in a sense of

owning who you are. And there are times that I know myself, well, I feel like I've forgotten who Dawn Day is. I second guess what I've done. Yeah, talk to myself and talk to my out myself out of situation, sabotage myself through procrastination. Is there a time that you can recall with yourself where you second guess or doubt in Danielle Because on the outside we're looking it was

like everything is coming to fruition. But I think sometimes although we don't ask to be on the pedal stool, sometimes we just happened to look up because we decided to grow. And you only get elevated when you grow right right right. But tell me about, you know, on the way up there sometimes if you did second guess yourself and how did you get over that? Oh? Yeah, I mean you so I can guess yourself all the time.

It's not like growing and all that. It sounds so cute when you're hearing it on a podcast and you're watching it and people are talking about it on a panel, But it hurts and it's scary and it's unsure. There's a lot of shaky ground, um, you know. So it's it's it's growth comes with a lot to it, So it's it's always going to be new. Things are always going to be new when growth is involved, and new can manifest in a lot of different ways for people.

But it's something you have not done before, So there's always going to be those feelings of like what if I got myself into like can I performed? Am I going to be able to do this? But I think that you've being in what ever space that you have expanded yourself into is proof enough that you deserve to be there and that you're supposed to be there and

there is where you are. So I think that knowing that you got to that place is enough to knock out whatever imposter syndrome that comes up or whatever the case, because you're always going to have those feelings when you are elevating just because it's a new level, because like you're thinking of it like a literal building where you're like, well I want okay, and I'm gonna make it to that floor now on this floor and you're like, oh shoot, what's on this floor? But you know, or you could

be like oh my god, what's on this floor? But why would you want to do that? So I would rather, you know, grow through it. Like as you go through it, like you have to literally say to yourself, I am climbing. Climbing hurts, it takes work, and it's going to be tough, but it's going to get me to something. The view is gonna be so much better up there, So let's keep going, let's keep pushing. That's literally what I tell myself.

And it sucks sometimes where like you think that you're doing amazing and you get your own show and everything's happening and it's so cool, and your own friends don't even know that you have a show in your sixteen episodes in where they're like, what, what what are you doing? I'm like, you don't. You don't know I have a show, like I put it out every Friday like clockwork. So things like that do sometimes discourage you or kind of knock you off your your your pet a little bit.

You're just kind of feeling like, but that's not I have to remind myself even that is not what I'm doing any of this for. I'm not doing it because I want you to watch me. Come on, who are you doing? I'm like, because I need you to know I have a show. I'm not doing it because you or eyeballs me to be glued to me. I'm doing it because I'm serving what I believe is my purpose.

And I have a very big interest and passion around journalism and storytell a. So with or without you looking as my friend, as my fan, as an internet stranger, I would still be doing it and I will still continue to do it until I don't want to do it, and I would do something else, But who knows. I'm allowing myself to space, to enjoy what I'm doing and let you be anything. Anything that you choose, is she

is for the asking? Yeah, it could be anything. He talks about friends and you know, I was watching a snippet of I G Life from a coach Stormy Stormy Wellington, and she she was in tears. I posted on my I G on my poem my feet or you know, And she talks about how choosing your friends. Don't ask you something? What has been your journey like of understanding your front of me is understanding how to make your

enemy your footstool? How have you know? I like to describe certain situations and people you have to go about when you're going on the road to your dreams. Treat people like you got a white outfit on. You can't get too close. Now we'll see. I don't know how I don't. I hadn't done that before, and now I understand that is important, that white out that I want to adopt that one. But um, you don't have to treat your enemies like your foot still, Like God will

handle that for you. It'll be done. They will be down there helping you get to your next level. Listen, as long as you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, you don't have to do that. You don't have to ensure that you don't get to be in the room. A lot of the times when karma does come back around, and that sucks, but sometimes you don't get to me in the room for it. And that's kind of cool, but that's like, that's not a good healthy way to be.

But you know, like if somebody has done you wrong, relate whatever the relationship or it worked like, and you get to see it happen. You're like, um, what I mean by that in my sermons because I think people do see that. But what I'm saying is that people will have no choice but to elevate you. And what do I mean by that? Because you're so excellent, I have to speak life because your truth radiates I can't

deny enemies don't be wanting to speak life. They don't have a choice because if you're doing if you're doing what you're doing right, Say, if I tried to stop you from having your your show, right, if you're doing well in your ratings, I don't matter what I say. At some point, I'm probably the tuning in that's helping your ratings. Right, I probably have to speak because you're

undeniable and you stepped in your truth. And I think, honestly, I think, to me, that's how I've understood that I don't have to do anything but sit at my right hand, stay faithful for me, and once no matter what, they will not it's not looked as to me as stepping on I looked at the steps tool. It's to uplift. Do you get on the step tool because you're like, I want to step on it? You look at it because I'm going yeah, because I'm like, I don't. I don't think I'm I that ain't my job to put

them there, because God has done that. God has definitely done that for me. Um and it it It's so crazy because you know, when you have been wronged or hurt in that way, you think that getting your revenge and your comment is gonna feel so good, and then it happens and you're just like, oh, I mean, I can't want that energy on me. Yeah, it's not that

it's not a satisfying thing. It's more so I'm more so satisfied in knowing that God worked something out for me to where he elevated me using someone who was not trying to you know, not a journey to my best. That's the devilment for good, God for bad, God for good. It's all for your betterments. Look God, that that makes you feel good, because I'm like, wow, this is oey, This ain't nothing but the Lord so love. I do love when that happens. I'm not gonna lie. I look

at you. You ready. You know you mentioned your mom before, and like I said, um to you, I just admire. We see Mama everywhere, whether it's on your episodes. You know a lot of people sometimes we forget about the foundation. And I wanted you to talk about a little bit about who your mom is and why she's so important in your life. Oh God, no, because I'm gonna get all emotional. I need you to well. I want to

say a lot to me. I want to say thank you because my mother, she died nine years ago this month, and so you know, for me, it's always an admiration when I see people with their mother and people just saying, well, Dawn, why are you going so hard? I gotta go so hard because the time that I was sin, the time that I was away in New York, that's time I could have been with my mom, and my mom is

the one that spoke life. It's me I wouldn't be doing right here from Detroit that worked at b LS, got an article in New York Times, came to l A. Didn't have anything working up but off for the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Been on television shows, game shows. When you see me, you see Janice Hill, and you know as this episode is going to be coming up in

Women's his Women's History Month. I just want people to understand, like when we talk about building and who we are the foundation of that and you know whether or not you use your words. Now, I just want to say thank you because it's things that I realized that things that I would like to say that my my just so has experienced me you say, I'm just popping up

and how she engaged. So thank you for sharing that beauty. Yeah, I know I don't love to share her because I feel the same way like I just I just don't feel like crying. It's okay live because I have known to cry on the live when I talk in a heartbeat when I talk about my mama, Um. But no, it's just because she means so much to me. And that is my second mother, because you know, my real mother passed away too, and so I just thank you

for sharing that. And I just don't know what I want to go over there I was, but I mean it makes to see you who you are because you know what, you don't have to go there, but you know what, now here, here's the thing. Wow to your mother that's here? Now who I know? You know? But now Danielle, like you know, and I think sometimes like people I don't want to show themselves and that this

is no about with you. But I'm just saying general, you made me feel that much more connected because although you know, I have my friends mother's that show up and call, but now you made it more really relatable to say, Dawn, you know, I too have my mother that pas my biological mother that pack. Yeah yeah, So thank you for opening that for me. Yeah, yeah, I do.

I mean, I'm very very blessed because I have a second chance at having a mom and so that's why that she is important to me in that regard, um because we all, you know, we all know how easy life goes just as lo as quick as it comes and can go. And so I just like, that's why I do so much for her, because I'm just like, it's you know, she means so much and I know that her life is so fragile, and um yeah, it's

just yeah, I just I hate. I just didn't I want to say that you know that look I got look I got master are of comment, but when I um, I just want to say that was something that stood out. You said it, and I should have brought put that clip out. But you talked about when you started showing up as you how the blessings came and it maybe we see the quote and we hear people say be you T foe and b e y o U, but essentially you can't even say that the world without saying

you beautiful, and it's just like showing up. Do you know how many years I went without getting locks because I said that people were going to judge me. My friend, my manager, hell Castle, She was like, I don't know, Dahn, if you should do the whole lock of situation because I was short and blind and I said I want to do it. Do you know, Blessing says still came because I decided to show up as Dawn. I can't do anything else. Yes, I'm done with the yellow Sun dials.

I've had these since I lived in New York. Got him off at Streight. That's me, and I just want people to realize be you. Yeah, so now where can we keep up with you and all the amazing stuff, because I know people have heard his story was like, wait, I want more. I want more. There's so much more, and there's so so, so much more. But you can keep up with me right here on Instagram. That's where I'm most active at the Daniel Young. You can go to my site, the Daniel Young dot Com. You can

subscribe to my YouTube Daniel Young TV. Um Facebook, it's rap so Danny, I know. It's like Facebook dot com slash rap so Danny R H A P S O D A N I And that's the same name for Twitter. Um. Yeah, I'm trying to to make sure that I share myself because I used to do it way. I considered it way too much. Um. I shared every little thing me and my head scarved, me struggling at the all the things, and I know that's what got people in dear towards me.

But the internet is a very crazy place. Yeah, And I started putting more of a wall up, not a wall to keep people from getting to don't hear anything, but just a filter to keep certain things for myself as well, especially as I'm like learning about myself and grow and go into therapy, like just trying to learn boundaries.

And so I just didn't want to like open up and get all emotion about my mama, because I do want to share her with people, but also there's just so much that I sacred around well, I I applaud you for your truth, and my thing is this, I don't care what nobody's saying. I hope anybody that's going after their dream like, whatever it is, if it's against who you are, you don't have to. First of all, people realize I don't feel like you have to explain

yourself for anybody, and I'm the explainer. I do that. I always say why I'm walking over here, why I'm breathing, why I'm doing this, And it's like, no, you have every right to create because I think sometimes people feel like when you come up here and your personality you old in the world. I didn't sign oh yeah, yes, and I'd be trying to make people are very much aware I am not a performer for you to ye yeah,

thank you for that. So I guess you know in Vitamin D we talked about it being a multi vitamin for your mind. Is there a quote, um, any lots of inspiration that you can leave somebody that can be you know, Danny's dose a Vitamin D. I don't know. Let me see, let me think, let me let me dig into the volts, because I know I got something good down there. Hold on, stay tuned. I'll put the pressure on my bad Okay. So one thing that popped up, yeah, I wanted to make sure it was a good one.

But one thing that popped up, I think it goes into the conversation of what we've had had here tonight. Um. But it's something that my sister A J. Says a lot. How bad do you want it? And are you behaving that way? Bars a quote but also a call to action, a call to act, a consideration, um, And I think it does go well with our conversation today. You know

you you caught it. You caught it. I appreciate it because it made me feel so uncomfortable inside in a good way, because I was just meeting you know, thinking about like you know how life is like a game of chess and you gotta make a next movie. Your best move. Your next move is to get you in that way. You're sitting here in lines and you want but you're not Internet. Each move is imperative. Thank you. Which way are you going? How? How bad? Okay? Um? And you want to do any last minute shot else

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first Vitamin D Live on I G You're good. You're really when you already know like you're so good, you are so like soothing to hear, and you'd be coming with the words and the gym's so I really, I know. I hope people are just like plugged in, like y'all are here, so I know y'all are, but I hope people are plugged in. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for teaching me so much. Hey wanna hey, y'all

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