Greater The Vision (w/ CJ Gross)

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and I truly believe we have the power to create whatever life that we want. And we got to realize too that we have to live on purpose and for a purpose. Now, as for me, Dawn day, all day, every day, and I'm from Detroit. What I've don't right there off for a mile between Evergreen and last Year, and I'm just a Detroit girl with a big dream

and a brave voice. The thing that I find more importantly is that people always say have a sense of bringing you boy and happiness to their life and just making him feel good and and provide us a good insight which leads me to the topic of this episode of Vitamin D greater division, because you can't be what

you can't see. So I took some time to talk with a mentor, a close friend, the very first person that gave me an introduction to the public speaking world on a professional level, The one and only c J growths about what it means to have the greater division, the greater the opposition, the greater the reward. Take a lesson, get your vieminy right with me, and get excited about Thank you so much for coming on today, No problem

at all, anything for you die. But this is this is near and dear to my heart, like this hell of stuff. You know, I haven't doing diversity inclusion stuff. Mostly I can't believe I look it all this time now um, and I'm like, wow, I am sitting here for one of my original mentors, see J Gross, the host with the most The interesting thing is, was it the greater the vision, the greater the opposition, the greater

the reward. I was sitting here today and I was thinking about our interview and or like I'd like to say chat, and I was like, the greater the vision, the greater the reward. But guess what when you talk about a great vision, it comes with a climb M And I'm like, that's the opposition. So now it makes sense because I was like, hmm, I wonder how we're gonna put this together. But that was the link. But

you just you just said something that was powerful. You talked about you said the climb, right, So you know how You'll go on into the internet and look at like these uh, really beautiful uh photograph photographs of landscape and sometimes they're a high and we never think about like how did you how did that person get that photograph? Right?

A lot of times they you know, the most exotic photographs, there's danger, whether it's surrounding exotic animals or you know, aerial views or on the mountaintop or the desert or something. So it's like the beauty of that photo, that photograph really is indicative of what was necessary to get there. And I think a lot of times we're just magazine turners were like that's a nice photograph. That's nice photograph.

But I believe when you can look in your own phone and you have beautiful pictures, there is a story behind those pictures that you know, is is really how you bring your vision to life, Like what you what you went through to get that to make that happen. I'm sitting here and I'm like wow, because well, I thought of two things. One, I've been telling people to check out this. Uh it's a Disney animated film, so animation and it's called Onward and oh, by GE's your life.

It just came out like this year. It is everything. When I say on a spiritual on a motivational inspirational tip, but just one of the characters on there, she talked about her challenge and her opposition. Rather, it was all about the greater the risk, the greater the reward. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. I'm gonna definitely check that out.

You gotta go all in. And so just when you were talking about that, you know, you think about that climb, but guess what on that climb to get to that level, to get to that peak, A lot of people don't tread there. And unless you work out those muscles to to to get there, that's like that's a whole other moment, whole other moment, whole other moment. So you taught me that, and I feel like when you always talked about the

greater division and what was just back? I met you when I was a student at Howard University, found you on Craigslist. You were looking forward? Does that? And you were my first connection with a motivational speaker, right because you know, see Jay, that's that's the grand vision of it all. I am going to use radio and television and voiceover to inspire. And then you always used to tell me, you said, Dawn, I don't say motivate because you get motivated to get started, but you get inspired

to change your life. Talk about seeds of life. Stop playing with me, see Jay. Yeah, that's a that's yeah, it's because that's it. That's it. Motivation is for time and inspiration is for lifetimes. Like and and this shows right how many years ago was that we calculated? One time? I think we were between thirsty. Yeah, it it's more than that. It was a Wow, I'm like a junior. Look now you got me telling my age, but I'm

gonna tell them too. Yeah. So we you know, both of us had our visions and look at you know where we are now. You know you're a California You're doing your thing. Um, you pursued it. You know you're catching it and you're ascending. And I think that's that's the beauty of you know, the ability to have your vision and and what you um you want to accomplish and doing the work to create it, to bring it into life, to bring it into fruition like you just like you're having a baby. But I don't have an

experience with that, like having a baby. But you know, okay, so how about this as a word right now? I mean I just had to jump up for a second because I actually put that up on Facebook to day. I said, I have been working so hard, but I know all this is for, you know, my greater purpose, and I'm gonna walk in faith with it that I'm doing things I've never done before, things that I am so uncomfortable with that I want to go hide that I've said here and cried, tried to figure things out.

I just completed a sketch and I was telling a friend I said that felt like I gave birth because I was frustrated. I was crying, and then when I got it out, it was like, yes, yes, we're talking about vision. And I think it's one of the important things that every person that's probably alive needs to have and I'm like, I don't know anybody better other than you that I would speak to this about, because you talk.

You were the first person that introduced to me what it was to have vision and what it meant and and the diligence. And you know what I've realized. I started meditating, uh, and of probably like fall of twenty nineteen. Uh. And it was just a matter if I said, I gotta get my chakras together. I have to move into alignment.

And I'm one, and just because of grinding, of just constantly hustling and moving and everything that I'm not doing a self check in and I said, God, I have grinded for years and I know that I have a long way to go, but I need to move soundly, right. I hate need to move with discernment because now you know, you just start realizing time, you start realizing your efforts, and when you sit down and you smell the roses and you're like, okay, God, I see where you've placed

me order my steps. That's so powerful to be in that place. And when you know that, you can lean on it more. Because I think when you first start out on your journey and your vision, it's like being a baby, you know you're taking me steps and you don't know why how, And as you grow you start to think, okay, well that was meaningful. I didn't see how. And then you get to the place where the place around at now it's like I know my steps are ordered,

and I know things are unfolding. There's some things that I don't know, but there's so much more that I know now because I've seen it in my past. I felt that one Okay, I'm listening, you know, I was thinking about our interview, well, our conversation. I think about sight, you know, like vision and sight, and I remember I think what Willie Jolly has said, Um, which we wille who we will know? And and then the four from from my book, Um, he's a greatness, he said, there's

four different sites. There's um, there's hindsight, when you can have reflection on what has happened. You know, you're able to look and reflect on on your past experiences and gain information from that. And um, there's foresight, so when you're able to see the future in your mind's eye

and see what you want to come and pass. And then there's oversight when you've been given you know, resources, and opportunities, and you oversee those resources and opportunities, Like people have opportunities right now that they're not they're not actualizing on like on their job, or maybe someone got laid off and maybe they can start a business, but they don't have that, you know, oversight of the resources. So they're just chilling, playing on the couch. You're not

utilizing your time. But the most important one, I believe is insight. So insight is when you're able to gather deep information about yourself or a person in that moment. And it's not something necessarily that you can see what the naked eye. It takes time to know that this is something special, this is something I should move on, this is something that um and it's something sometimes your your head can't help you with. It's like you gotta

lean into your heart. My daughter was diagnosed with a serious illness and I had to really make a really difficult choice. Um where I'll getting all into it. Had to make a really difficult choice, and there was this opportunity that came up for me and um my my daughter was in this place of transition in the hospital and I had some support systems and I really it

was really lunge. And it was. It was the one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in my life, because I had to make a decision whether I was going to get on an airplane to capitalize on this opportunity, or was I gonna stay in hospital because I wasn't sure my daughter's gonna get a hospital. Better not to be moved, right, And so, without getting into the particulars of it, I had insight. And people

did not understand me. They thought I was being a bad parent because you know, I was a single parent at the time. But they were like, oh, this is rocaching his business dreams and all those other things. But I had insight. And when you have insight, you move in faith. And I moved in faith and and and it changed the trajectory of my speaking and coaching and training. And from that I became a international speaker. I I

you know, I was able to Uh. It led me to a path where I was able to, um, purchase multiple homes, uh you know, you know, travel, travel the world, UM, you know, work on my fourth book, and um, you know, just so many other things. But a lot of other people couldn't see that at the time. So I think insight is one of those visions that you know, like in your situation and being able to block our fear in all the noise. M And it's so interesting you say that, because that's one of the things that I

was realizing when it came down to manifestation. And if you get even down biblically speaking of why do you have to write the vision? And and for me, what I've realized of why you have to write the vision and how you have to put things in hindsight because this whole thing about life is a matter of communication. And just like you said, with going in and getting into that insight is getting rid of the distraction and

the noise. So what I found is that your spirit already knows that's the intuition, that's your gut that's speaking to you. But at the same time, we're spiritual beings having a human experience, and so now we have to have a communication of what's going on to the spirit and with the mind. And hence that's why I'm like, Okay, we have to write the vision. We have to make sure to see things even if it's not naturally out there.

How would you orchestrated and put it together, and I find that sometimes that's even more fun because guess what, you live your life limitless, that's right, you said, limitless. Tapping into the potential that we that we all have. But turning that potential within the acorn into the oak tree is the everybody's like, you know that that acorn. We want to be the oak tree. But we don't want to move off the ledge. We don't want to get a little dirty because we gotta get some fertilized

with some nutrients. We think we can just jump out there and fresh fertilize those things. Oh, doesn't it us start hurt? But it's beautiful, it's it's amazing. It teaches you just it gives you everything you need, your nutrients to grow, that's right, it makes you have You gotta

go deep. The roots go down before the style comes out of the dirt, right, the roots go down to build your foundation, and in that time you don't see anything, but that's where that's why it's important to have the insight knowing that the season been planning, something's going down and it's like the same thing you know in your story. You you you know, you graduated from Howard University and you know, that was just the seed that you were

planning part of your education and building your foundation. And then I was, I was, I was impressed. You were like, I'm going to New York. I'm gonna go do this thing. I'm gonna make it happen. And I was, I was excited. I was like, oh cool. And then even you went to California, I was like, oh, you know, you were working with Lisa Nichols, you you know, and then you needed to Steve Harvey Show and you know, and I'm like, wow, those those seeds you were planning and then they were

just starting to take place. But you have to have faith. You have to you know, overcome the fears that were necessary in order to bring and bring into fruishing your your potential. But yeah, I needed so a couple of things that were special. Well, I definitely had my sweat equity, were probably some tears or just the to go around

and go. But I had to go through a process that allowed me to have those nutrients and photosynthesis because I have mentors like you just show me the way, to show me the light, which leads me to wonder, what was the inspiration behind seeds of life? LLC because I find when individuals find mentors like you, there's a planting going on. What inspired that? So? I mean, I'm not a gardener. I'm gonna tray my hands on, but

I'm not really a gardener. But what I do understand is that there's something special about the way agriculture happens. You have to plan a seed in the ground, right, So there's nothing that's gonna come up if you plant no seeds, right, or if you keep the seeds in your pocket, you know, there's nothing's gonna happen, right. So it made me think about life. You're always those who grow or listening and hearing and you know, finding information

and they're seeking the information. They're not just sitting and waiting. They're actually going out and seeking the information. And those that information is seats and then that information is life. And if you plant it into you the ground, to the soil of your spirit, into your heart, they will they will, they will birth. Now here's the thing about that.

Some people are planning some seeds, but it's not what they want, well, land seeds of dandelions or you know, you don't need to see the damnim or I guess you do. But the point is they have all these weeds, but they're not planning the things that they want, Like they want apples, they want avocados and all that. You have to plant the seeds for those things too in order to grow. Is that because they don't have the

proper vision for it? Or what what's knowledge? Again? If I go to the if I go to the um, to the nursery, to you know, we play, we buy seeds, I can tell them exactly what kind of um trees I want, what kind of plants someone, and they'll tell me exactly what to to plant, how much water it needs, how much um, what kind of dirt to put it into everything planting in the shade that needs this amount of life. If I'm willing to listen, that those seeds

will grow. And what most people are doing one is they're not seeking the knowledge, right which the knowledge as the seeds. They're not seeking the knowledge like what you did and like what I did. I had a mentor and I have mentors as well. So people are kind

of just trying to figure out on their own. They're just throwing seeds around, some of some of the landing on the concrete and even going into the dirt, and some of the land on top of the dirt top soil, the birds come and picking them off and they're like, but I have no crops, I have nothing to eat. No, because you didn't plan it, you didn't nurture it, and you didn't get the knowledge to even how to do it.

And I think that is one of our biggest challenges because if you don't reach out to someone that is further along than you or has insight on some different components of life, then you're gonna stay stagnant, and it's gonna happen year after year after year after year, and someone else is gonna be sitting, you know, a couple of years later. They're gonna be sitting under their tree that has is producing fruit, and they're gonna be able to eat the salad that they put on the fruit

that they had planned a couple of years ago. And you're still out there, you know, on the wilderness. And so you have to be willing to um to step out on the lim someone said step out on live because that's what the fruit is, right, and that means like buying the book, you know, that means listen to this podcast day um reaching out the going to Craig's Listen and answering the ad. You know someone else saw that.

It was like, nah, it's probably they're not really doing that. Yeah, that's unfortunately because I think so many people have so much talent. And again I get this from less Brownie. So you should die empty, just giving it all out, just coming with well, I don't, I don't not not necessarily broken. But when I say you got dying empty, I don't know if it's necessarily for me if I would ever say completely empty, because I would hope that whatever joy or whatever purpose I'm doing, I'm on overflow.

So I'm just constantly going like I never really lose out because it's more like an energy source or flow. Yeah. Yeah, So I think what even you said the quote is that you know the world should know that you were here. If things happen and they can't find you on the internet, you know, what was the whole purpose of you being here? You know, you just sucked up the air. You know, you got on people's nerves. You know somebody has to deal with your stinky attitude, and you didn't leave the

world no better then how you found it. I think I think I think that's the sense. Should you want the sense? All right? Taking up occupancy? When you look at how much life is a gift and it's like, wait a minute, not the treasurer. But here's the thing, you know. I think sometimes we have people that may not necessarily go after dreams or necessarily feel like as though they have something to pursue because they feel like they don't have a vision. Like is everybody given? Is

everybody given a vision? Can everybody seek a vision? Can everyone attain acquire a vision? What is the vision? That's a great question. I think I think both happened. I think, um, you sometimes we're giving a vision but we don't see it right or we suppress it. Um. And I always tell people when I'm coaching them, um, and they're trying to figure out what their career goals are businesses, I said, what is that thing that keeps coming up to you

that you're ignoring? What's that thing that keeps you up at night? What's that thing that? Um? Someone you think it and you you you shut it down, you suppressed it, and then someone else says it and every way you turn is that that is the thing that's the vision that you're that you're that you're looking away from, you're hiding from. Some people do their whole lives and it's like, you know, you would be great, you know, making donuts or something, and you just keep not doing it because

you're like, oh, you make up excuses. So that person has a vision, but they're not willing to see it. You know how you get up in the morning and the sun comes in. Instead of letting them when the sun come in, you should close the blinds. The sun is still there, but you just close the brands and those things go back to sleep. Yeah, that's the vision when you put it like that, and you know, for somebody that might be listening to us, the vision it

should be so big that it right. Yes, for for you, I've met people that they didn't want to you know, travel the world and those things. They wanted to go back to school to be a teacher, but they didn't want to let their parents down because you know, their doctor or engineer or whatever it was. Because of their culture. They felt like they couldn't do it. So for us like that, I wouldn't want to take away that money, but that's not a big deal. But for them it's

a big deal. So one person just wants to go to school, so it doesn't have to be for them. That is a huge monumental vision. So so yes, UM, it's big when it's big and relative and relative to that person in their experience. So when it comes down to you and you talk about how greater the vision? UM, what's the vision you have for your life? And are

you living it out? Yeah? Great question. UM. So the vision that I have for my life is to inspire, motivate people through writing books, doing videos, UM, podcast, write article, speaking at speaking at UM conferences, UM, creating financial opportunities, residual income only real estate, UM, you know, just inspiring people at all levels. Uh, and work with Fortune five companies, CEOs, things like that. So yes, I am. I'm living that vision.

I'm excited about and that's what keeps me going because and that's where my energy come from, because I'm doing something I love to do and then started out doing where I was making money, I started doing it for free and that so you started off saying motivation versus inspiration. If I was only motivated, we wouldn't be making this connection right now because I would have given up because I wasn't making any money, So there was no external

motivation to keep me going. But the inspiration, the same inspiration I had then is the same inspiration that I have now. It gets me out of bed. It makes me think, Oh, who needs me today? Or not me, but who needs me to walk my path today so that they can help find their path? So did you know that your path was going to lead you to be a speaker? Like? When did you? How did this come about? No? This is check this. I actually wanted to be a engineer. I wanted to be a mechanical engineer.

I wanted to be an engineer. The reason why was because my vision was limited to the vision of the people that are around and um, my mentor was a electrical engineer. My mom was a weapon specialist, so she was she was in the tech film Yeah what she has to do? Right? Um? And my dad was a electrician, so everyone was very technically inclined around me. Right, And that was part of the part of my vision for my life. And although in my spirit I realized one

day I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I knew it from like tenoral eleven, but once I got older, it was like, what do you really want to do, and I started to shape and form my vision based on what I saw my family do, and which is nothing wrong with that. If that's what your that's what your path is to be. And so I didn't see I didn't fully connect my vision again until I saw Willie Jolly speaking one day and he was, you know, motivating

the crowd, and I was like, I want to do that. Okay, So wait, what stage in your life or how old are you when you realize I want to do that. I would say I was definitely my twenties. I would probably say I was twenty between twenty seven and thirty. I became a mechanical designer. I worked for General Electric, you know, and and I was I was good, but I didn't I didn't like my job. I actually hated

my job with a passion. Yeah. And and the problem was, you know, this is bad when they do layoffs, they off half of the company, and you're mad because you're not laid off. I was bad, oh man. I followed my path to a speaking coaching and all those other things. But here's the thing. I believe that my steps you mentioned this earlier, steps are steps are ordered. I was meant to go through the to go through the UM experience of being becoming a mechanical designer and working in

the engineering field. And the reason why that was important because my first job out of engineering was a teacher. At the time, I did not have a degree. I went back to the school to get my degree UM to be a draft person to teach the kids that have been incocerated UM drafting skills and entrepreneurs skills. And I had to have so much time under my belt working in that field. So the reason why I didn't

get laid all. I can look back now and I had one less year, I would not been able to receive my UM teacher certification and I end up making ten thousand dollars more than what I was making. Yeah, and now you know, full circle. That was fifteen years ago. Full circle. I'm actually speaking now to engineering company. I'm speaking to the Toyota's, I'm speaking to the Turner Constructions, to the company that I have the technical skills in there.

And it's just happening UM this week because people are now trying to figure out what's going on with this situation with the social injustice across the country, and people are reaching out to me but the people that are reaching out to me are the manufacturers, the engineering companies, the construction companies, because that's my background. So it's all come full circle and it's on a global scale. What

you say? What? And you know, it's so interesting because I think that some people feel as though that the vision has to come by a certain time, and it's just like it just has to come in the season where you receive it. Because it's like if you were to take a cut cake out of the oven, do soon, or if you're cooking any food, or if a baby comes out. You know, there's a reason why you have to go into seasons. And I even thought about that when you were talking about the seats and so forth.

It's not only of where you're just throwing it, but what kind of so you are you putting it in? Absolutely, and it does not go in the microwave because that doesn't work. Cans of thirty seconds and okay, I'm gonna come out with a big little tree. You know, you have to labor, and that's why I cannot be motivation

as the inspiration. You have to labor, and it needs to be a labor of love because if not, you will not have the discipline or the fortitude to to go and to you know, turn the soil, you know, uh, to put the water, put water on the on the on the seats, to uh to think about it, to figure out how to get experts out there and do all the things you need to do. And if you're only motivated by money, then you will want that microwave situation and that um you know again I call less

Brown a lot. He says that your true treasures are in your heart, So follow your heart because that's where your your treasures are. In your head is where your fears are. Yeah, that's not mine. I can't take that's that's less branded And I probably jacked up a little bit there, but because sometimes we get so caught up in our head thinking the hound to why not wellfore and when first it's just being in the moment and just literally feeling each beat and moving to the rhythm

of your own drum. You know. I was actually just thinking about that today with everything that's going on with the social injustice and a lot of the question, reigins is that, you know, should those people that appropriate the culture, whether you're into music, whether you're into film, if it inspires you should you be required to speak up, And just like when we talk about your passion and your purpose, you gotta realize it's not something that you put on

when it's convenient. You're gonna live in it regardless, and as long as you're speaking with your truth, you don't have to blast off and let it be known a moment. It's just something that's going to attract you. And kind of like that same thing when you talked about how the vision is always there and you kind of get signed, you kind of get reminders. But then if that fear comes into play where you're constantly in your head and not allowing yourself to be how can you receive it?

I was thinking even when I asked you, I said, well, when did you know you wanted to be a speaker? Like for me? And you always want to entertain and I like to speak. I just like to talk and just say hey everybody. And probably the earliest memory I went to minor story school, so preschool, Yeah, I'm a mind story girl. So we put on like a lot of plays and stuff. That was a moment, it was invigorating. But then when I knew it was something like for real, for real. It was when I was in high school

and this guy came on stage. I went to all girl high school. Not that that part matters, but we had something like it was like, um no, I don't know, we gonna seminar or a pep Rowley. He was in the auditorium and this guy came and he was on stage and he was just up there talking and I remember he showed people how to do the moonwalk. People were screaming. I was like, and from him, I or in the moonwalk by the way, you know, I got it.

Um And I was like, wait a minute, what is this And people are just yelling, just engaging back and forth, and I was like, wow, people are having a good time. And now I'm the same girl. That'sn't the same high school where we say prayers over the p a system. That's a moment like people are coming down. Was like, Dawn, was that you? And I'm like that was me, thank you, because I've always just taken so And it was then that I found out. I said, wait a minute, you're

telling me you can get paid to speak. Wait a minute, you're telling me you can pay me to help other people feel good about themselves. Come on. It's like the drug that can what But here's the thing, even if I feel that, even if you don't want to be a speaker, it doesn't mean that you can't experience the same thing because, like you said, when you start to go with the passion what's inside your heart, you're going to realize that you are going to attract people no

matter what you do. Whether you're a person that's good with numbers, whether you're a singer, that's the song that you're singing, whether you're you're a writer, that's the book that you're writing, a painter, it's just whatever i'd like to say. Your song is just singing in your tune. Yeah. Absolutely, you just came with that. Come on, stop playing what you saying. You're absolutely right. I think that we you know, you mentioned it, and it's like we were missed if

we didn't talk about it. It's like fear. The only thing that holds us back is fear, you know, and um, it's crippling. Unfortunately, it's like driving a car with the parking break up. You don't realize it until you realize it, and then being able to put that parking breakdown, which means that sometimes it's about, really, you know, going against what you've been taught. What you mean, maybe taught in school, your parents taught you. It could be going against what

society says is a appropriate um. And then you know, we again in our heads, we lay in our beds and we we um ruminate over these these things because our heart is like, I will let me out. I got something to share, and our heads are like, now lay back down, and the problem is um. Jim rones at this one. He said that UM, paying now or regret later. So instead of taking action to do what you need to do now, you will regret, you will regret. And I my dad, he's um in his a lot

of years. He's in the years that you know, he's he's regretting some things. And as I'm sharing with him some things that I'm going now, he's so excited and he says, you know, I wish or would have I would have done those things. Well, here's the thing, it's

never too late. And I'm speaking about my dad. My dad was the type of person, you know, he's he's he smokes cigarettes, He drunk a lots of alcohol, you know, and he had diabetes and he didn't take care of himself and not until his until he was in his seventies did he did he change into a vegan. Craziness right, And I am changed into a vegan. And first of all, I was motivated and inspired, but I was like, if he can do a vegan? You know this guy and what that did for him. He was able to get

off the medicines. You know, it's seventy something years old. Nothing on eighty years old. He was able to get off his medications and make some other miraculous changes in his life. And that's the thing. So you can have regret. But no matter how old you are, what your situation is, if you have kids, if you have a bit mortgage, you have student loans, you know, you live in a

developing country. You don't have a lot of money, or maybe you have too much money, because that's you know, this is too much money, you know, and there it's never too late until you are not you're not here anymore. Hello. I always tell people that you have forty eight thousand, six hundred chances every day to live your best life, because there are forty eight thousand, six hundred seconds and every day. But hold on a minute, Oh work it work, it. Here's the thing that I realized, and I think I

may have seen this in myself a little bit. You know, sometimes when people think about fear, it's like, Oh, I'm scared to do something because what if this happens, If this happens to me. Now what I've found because I am stretching myself out of my comfort zone doing things where I'm not good at because I need training to do it, not because I won't be great. It's just that I'm exercising this muscle. And where how I found how my fear is trying to appear and step before me,

is that I'm stuck. And it's not that I'm scared. I'm letting all of this stuff like how you talked about getting in your head all these ideas of the different things to do, whether than just coming clear mind in the focus. And that's what I think for myself. Meditation has helped me so much of just centering the vision because it focuses me focused to take time to just sit there. I then have the decency to take my job and write down the experiences and kind of

like how you say, these things start popping up. I think also on another side that's when things start working in alignment, when you start getting into that manifestation role, because you'll start realizing that the conversation that you have with something else, someone else is appearing for you, maybe on the television, or maybe with another friend, or maybe somebody just gave you a note or you receive something

in the mail. And I think it's just so important for people to realize that when you have a vision, when it's great, it's outside the comfort zone and it doesn't mean you're scared like a monster, but it means you just gotta move. Wait a minute, can you say that again? Because that was powerful you said, when you have a vision, it's gonna be outside. People need to hear that. They need to hear that and know that

that's reality. It's like it's not going to turn over the bed and it's right there, because that's that's not a vision that you're behind and that's what you can actually see. And remember when we talked about vision and actually what you spoke about, it's greater. It's beond the eye, it's like the horizon, it's like the seeking the scope of it all. And it's like, okay, why can't you have that? If you were able to conceive it, why can't you achieve it? Yeah, that's it, because you gotta

believe it. So as far as you know your vision and far speaking and speaking to all these tech companies of opening your houses, traveling the world, what do you think is the most valuable part about having a vision And what is something that you are working on now

that you're manifesting in one of your visions. The best way to describe I was in a mentorship program once and I was mentor recording and I had a guy come and speak and he said, the hardest thing that people understand about mentorship is that the reason why mentorship is important is because I'm gonna say this slow because it was so powerful. He said, you can't be what you can't see what he said, run it around one

more time. He said that if you want to be Because we were mentoring young boys, right, he said, if you want this boy to become a man and have these attributes not just physically be a man or be a male, but to be what we consider to be someone as upstanding and you know all these other things, he needs to be able to see it with his very own eyes. He needs to be able to touch it. He needs to be able to ask questions, He needs to be able to mimic it. He needs to be

able to walk into it. And if you can't see what it is that you want to be, you will be whatever. If you just keep looking at a rock all day, you want become that rock, right because your brain wants to to create. Your brain wants to retreat whatever it sees. And if you just see stagnation, you know, I said a rock, but it could be. You know, people in your life they're not going anywhere, and you

just keep hanging around them. Your vision becomes, you know, mesh into what you see in their vision and what they've created, and you become only that. And so if you're not very clear on the possibilities or your life, you know, you won't get outside of your own community. You won't go to the gym, you won't go look at that car. It's a good one. Here, it's a good one. Um many people like I want a new car.

You know I want this and that. Now I have a whole process of manifestation, our process for manifestation, and it starts with a vision, and you need to be able to touch it. So anytime I want something new and this is scary but a lot of people, but this is my process. When I want something new, I actually will create it. So for example, if I want a new car, which I have done for the last

five cars, and here's what I do. I think, I get a photograph of the exact color, this exact year, the exact model with the interior and exterior code that I want. I cut either I cut a picture out or you know, now we use the digital thing, right, And then I look at it. I look at it, I look at I put on my vision board, and then I go test rapt that baby, I go test

rap that I get in that thing. And I remember going touter of a car once I touched like this Tesla's like, UM, I can't afford this car right now, and they're probably gonna look at me crazy. That's the fear talking. That's the fear talking. And I remember sitting in the car one day thinking about what I was projected onto the salesperson, thinking that they they're probably thinking I can't afford this car when I can't afford it. And so I started to hold back to be the truth.

And once I shifted that because I knew what the vision was. It was so powerful. Not only did I get and this happened five times consenstively with the last five vehicles that are there own. I got down to the exact color, last car I purchased, left, the exact color, the exact model, the exact um interior, the mileage, the cost, everything that has happened to me five times in a row. And so you you have to not be afraid to

go if you want to buy a house. I sent you a picture of the house that that was gonna didn't think I could afford. I would have never thought about, you know, building and how I don't build? How do I build up? I might why not build that? I was just I wanted to go look at that house, and I was inspired. And when I the faith part was putting down the money, which was only five percent of the money I had to come up with. I didn't know where the rest of the money has come.

But I was inspired. And here's how powerful it is when you have a vision and you walk towards your vision. ME walking towards it was putting down the initial doubt that the downpayment deposit the rest I was like I don't know, but I knew him getting the house and I wanted Someone asked me this the other day, was like, but how because I came up with I'm manifested forty tho dollars in less than six months. And when I say manifest I'm talking about not out of my paycheck,

but I'm manifested out of other opportunities. Because I wanted it. I was inspired, and people always say, well, what do you mean manifested? This is what I mean. I was traveling and was in Canada, and when I was in Canada, I normally traveled, and people are always like, hey, you know, if you get off the airplane and give up your seat, will give you two hundred dollars, you know, some you'll get a discount on the next flight or something. And I'm never able to do it. And plus it's like

two hundred dollars. I won't be sleeping in the airport for a two hundred dollars. So the one time this this happens to me, the one time I'm able to do it, they say, listen, if you give up your seat will give you like a thousand dollars or something. And I'm thinking about it and I'm asked about a decent amount of money, man, I'm willing to do that. Long story short, I give up my seat, and it starts out of the thousand, then it goes fift hundred, and then it goes to two thousand and goes twenty

four hundred dollars. They give me twenty four hundred dollars to give up my seat when it's never happened to me before, and I've never heard that price before. Why did that happen? It happened because I took faith. I walked in faith and moved towards it. Another thing happened. I got an email from General Electric that was my last engineering job, that said, you have an unclaimed account. And in that unclaimed account and not a lot of these a lot to you about this. There was a

there was an amount of money like five thousand. I was like four something like that, five thousand dollars. Only five thousand dollars money just came out of nowhere. So stuff like that, stuff like that just kept happening to me into it accumulated to a forty thousand dollars of income that did not come out of my paycheck. And I can't tell a person that the money is gonna come from here here. All I can say to a person is when you have a vision, walk in faith.

And maybe that's putting twenty dollars down on something, and maybe that's getting up early in the morning. Maybe that's your payment towards it. UM. But I can guarantee you if you if it's if it's your true vision, that UM things will happen in your favor and Providence will step in and build bridges and that type of thing. That's the biggest, you know, one of the biggest things

for you. Manifesting forty thousand. We were talking about we're gonna take twenty four months to save up out of our paychecks, but instead it came in the way of opportunities in less than six months. And I showed you a picture of the house, right That's why I wanted to right here. And that was always a vision of mine to have a house that has certain things in it.

And I wrote that vision down a long time ago, and it's manifesting, and so be specific about it and attention and that's okay, So we gotta I don't even know, let's start at all. Okay, Well, let's just sit here. That's why I am so gun ho about speaking life. You have to be intentional with your words and understanding that life and death are in the power of the time and even when you were talking about living in it and being into it. One thing I heard was

from a good friend in New York. His name is Rafael Gordon. He goes by Rock Gore Motivations, and he would say that my location is not my destination where you're right now. It doesn't dictate where you're going. It only gives you a little smoke trail of where you've been. And just you said, the things that I may have appeared before in your life and you realize they circle back around. They don't knock you off your feet like

they used to. And sometimes you gotta go through it at this level so that when you get really high on that level because you're seeking out the vision, that same vision that you probably have to go down to go up so that you can spring forward, or maybe you had to plant the roots down a little bit before you grow up. That's the same thing we gotta do. And it just reminds me of a song by Meek Milan.

This is something that actually started out with d D. I would use just the lyrics of popular movie because his dreams chasing uhhuh, his dreams. He said, if you wanted you gotta see it with a clear eyed view. If you want it, you gotta see it with a clear eye view. I'm gonna tell you this now first time I mentioned on the podcast c J. There are times that I've caught myself and it's almost like my body.

I'm I don't know what it is, but I've caught myself that I'm standing and I'm literally speaking to the wall in spine ring. There's times that I've sat down and I can feel one one person that I look up to it in the industry a lot, as as far as a woman and just being living lessening my Tifa. There was a time I sat down and it was almost like I could feel her energy as if I'm like, it's already there, it's already done, and I'm just crying because I say, my God, and that's what keeps me

holding on when I want to stop. And just like I was telling you what that Facebook post like of working a lot, but I know that the promises and I think that when you are searching for a vision, and you may not feel like it's coming directly. You gotta remind yourself with the promise because there was a seed that was planted inside that gave you the ability to fathom to imagine what this vision is. And here's the thing. The thing that I find interesting c J

is that we ask for these brand divisions, right. But just like you made reference that every day that you wake up and that sun is beaming through and you gotta close the shade right because the light is so bright. When you talk about having the greater division, which is gonna have a greater opposition, but guess what it's going to ensure that you have a greater reward. You gotta understand us man that you're looking at, and you gotta

position yourself. I have a question for you though, yes, because you know what you mentioned something about Queen La Titha, what you've met, right, I've met her but on one of her shows, been in your house. I want to talk about your vision because you know what we talked about was all those things that happened and you doing your thing and then I would just watch, um, I will be on social media and how would see you with like kinda hart you know, you know Steve Harvey, Um,

you know Oprah. I saw you in the Oprah shot. Is that don I'm like, I'm talking about inspiration. You're talking about inspiration. I mean I would see you with all these people and you would just be like, there's no thing. So it's like you weren't like the star strippers. You were just like having coffee with them something. What is it like to be able to now be able to have conversations with people that are on that level like the Queen Latifa's and you know, and my question

to you, who's the person? You mean, so many people, you know, I don't know if you get starstruck anymore, but who's the one person that when you met them? And it could be Laia you met them, you were like you could soft sound right like who's that? Because you met so many stars, so many big people. I mean it's Oprah Like what else? She said, Okay, what do I come with things? So? Well, you know the one that got me was Queen Latsifa. That was in

eighth grade. Uh, this is around the time now whether the book came out specifically, then it's like eighth or ninth grade. But it was like Sister Soul was really big and it was all about the coldest one to ever. Everybody was reading Eric, Jerome, Dickie and every all of those books. But they had something called a Tean Pex Total You Tour. First of all, I didn't even realize

that I looked up. I admired, I adored her like I did like I think, probably because I saw like a woman that looked like me, and she was unapologetic. She could, you know, she could wrap, she can sing, she could act, she could produce, she did it all. She was limited TV Like you're a cover girl, you're everything, and guess what you walk with so much authority that you have what people addressed you as queen. So anyway, go back to our eighth or ninth grade where at

the tem Pex Total You Tour. So they had it. They did a little speech and then you could walk up there and she's doing her thing with cover girls, so probably talking about hair color or no, actually it was probably about the lipstick with Queen collection. Do you know I walked up there. I ain't even get a chance to get a word out. She's like, oh baby, it's okay. But I was crying and I had met even then, like probably meaning some celebrities, And still to

this day, no one has gotten me like that. Now, when I did meet Brandy, I got nervous and I was acting out of pocket, just doing like weird, just weird stuff, like why are you doing that? Did you just say that? But to the point where overwhelmed with

emotion was Queen Latifa. And I think here's the thing too, whatever your belief is or whatever I find that people um aspired to do or whatever guid's them, you got to realize that you do all that you can do, and then you have to rely on your faith because if you're doing so much work of trying to figure

it out. It goes back to that same thing when you talk about fraction, I mean friction and all that static where you can't hear see if if it's already been on Dane and it's already promised, I don't have to ask for it because I continue to want it. I have to do the thing and claim it that it's already mine. So even with meeting Queen Latifa, I didn't it never hit me like, oh my gosh, I can't wait. I said I'm going to meet her. It's only a matter of time, even when it came out

to l A so hold home. I met her first. I was at Gray I was crying like crazy. Then the second time, she was singing some jazz concept in New York. I went up there and I'll meet. I got the picture up on my Instagram at Dawn day Speaks. Check it out, and I mean, I am down to the sweats and I remember she was she she was on stage, she was on her head in her hills. Then she had some glittery sneakers, sneakers and waiting for her.

When she got off the stage, and I remember everybody bum rushed to the gate and I was like no, and everybody was screaming her name, Queen Lativa, Queen a Tifa. I must have looked at the security guard. I said, sir, please, can I get a picture? Boom? Got the picture right? Wait a minute, not done yet. Then let's fast forward some years down the line. I never worried out. Oh am I going to meet her again. I know she's gonna be the homie. I'm gonna sit there and I'm

gonna tell her about it, about each instance that we've happened. Okay. I would always tell people that we're gonna be so cool you It's not gonna be like the picture that you see the actual vision of the picture of us standing next to each other. When you see me and I'm just with the crew, just chilling. You know, it's real. But I'm gonna go back to that because getting back to what you said about being specific with your words. So even coming out to l A. I live in

this area called men City. My friend lived over here, he said. He said boom, he said, Queen Latifa, it's over here. I said, what this is why I'm still in New York. I said, what do you mean? He was like, there's a store that has her picture in there. I know she comes in there all the time because I even seen her walking down the street. I said, you're lying right. Fast forward probably three or four years after that, I moved to l A. I'm in the area,

I'm at this store. I'm like, wow, that's the picture. Still didn't realize how I was going to meet her yet had signed up. I was going to enroll in an internship with Sony when she had the Queen Lativa show, just so that I could intern on the show. Still didn't fret didn't worry about it. I couldn't register for the class. Didn't get that. Then when I felt the

vision came over me. When I had came out here and I was practically working a year at a company called Unsung, where or it was called a Smith, but we produced Unsung, and I knew that. I said this time for me to go. I didn't know what I was gonna do. But it's just talking about you gotta go out on the limb to grab your fruit. Right, So I knew I had some fruit with some seeds on the other end that I had to get to.

So I had let that job go. I had an email that popped up right before I moved out to l A. It was on backstage and it was like, oh, we're looking for Kirby women who need to makeover on a stylist. Now, usually this email that they send out you have to be subscribed on their subscriber list. Otherwise they just give you the head inc and then you have to go ahead and sign up to their website to apply. Well, let me tell you how my God is set up. The email that they sent out had

all the information for all the castings. Now what I'm not model, height, sized or whatever. But I said, you know what, let's go ahead and do it. Let me go ahead and apply for a makeover. I am doing a show. It's called Curvy Style. What I come to find out? Okay, well, let me tell you. I auditioned to get made over. I'm working at my my job at this online radio station. The producers called me and they're like, wow, we love you. Instead of being someone to get made over, how would you like to get

paid to be on the show? What not even done yet? Guess what the guys show that I'm going to be on. It's Queen Latifa Stylist. Stop playing with me. That's when people tell me and they're like, oh, it's not possible, and how you can't manifest I'm not even all the way there yet, and I am a living proof. Yes

I'm on her show. Wait a man, now, this sounds kind of creepy, and everybody listening call it what you won't because back in the day of somebody threw a shirt at you or just even signed a piece of napkin, there were times that I'm thinking to myself, I am pulling clothes for my idol. I am I put your shoes on my feet, shoes that she is not wearing anymore, of course, or that they're giving away, or even just

seeing garments or here's a dress. Even down to the point where back to what I said that you gotta be specific about what you say. So even as you said, uh okay, I said, I wanted to be to part where I'm hanging with her crew. We were doing a cover shoot. Uh was it? I don't know if it. I think it was for Vanity Fair. It was a double shoot. It was Lee Daniels, so it was the show. I think it was Star and then it was another show. Anyway, we were doing it for Queen lat Tifa. I said.

I prayed to God. I said, God, please don't let me act like a fool. It's like I can't afford it because then it been in the distance or I've seen items, but not to be like you right here on my face, like I'm right here, like what's up? Okay, this is what happened. We're at the warehouse. Okay. They got it all set up where there's like tents and stuff, and I'm just saying, Jesus, please don't let me lose it. So we're in the room, I'm setting up, I'm making

sure the shoes are out. And this is all lingering because I was on this makeover show where she was the executive producer and the stylist is her stylist. So we're doing a job which is for her. She comes in there. Wait a minute, you gotta understand. Remember I told you were two people I tripped out of. I said, Queen Latifa and Brandy may be nervous. The DJ got the music going, all right, she already has the dress on. We gotta figure out the shoes and the air rings.

All of a sudden, I wanna be down by Brandy is on and Queen Latifa's lyric drops, I'm dying because she's in there. She starts rapping, Dawn, please don't freak out, and then the song is done, and so I said, Hi, I'm Dawn, and she was like, I'm law and I want to be like, I know who you are. But here's the thing. Even as we were walking around there and we're going to another building for her to do an interview, that same thing where I said, we're going to be to the point where I'm gonna be part

of the crew. I was part of the crew. But see that this is about to be the HOMEI she said, I'm Lae right law, I've met her best friend. And this is not on some stalker thing. But it's just the think of having that vision you realize you attract that and just knowing walking in conviction and authority. So when you say, like, Dawn, well, how did you manifest this stuff? I think because I kept chasing what I loved.

I kept chasing the long hours I sit and think back, even at being at Howard, I would be working in the studio for twelve hours a day. That led me to have that grind ethic to to put me in front of working with the likes of Steve Harvey, or perhaps that ambition that allows me to be on the show. And Oprah's like Dawn Day and I'm like, hey, I said that Oprah speaks your name. What do you want

to understand this too? When I was in New York and I had an article that actually came out in the New York Times and none a voice for radio with Oprah's ambition, ce J Gross, I'm gonna be bigger than Oprah. Oh, dare you'd be so bold to say that Dawn because the vision is that great. And when I say that, I'm saying having the magnitude and to be able to touch like I'm going to do. George.

One thing you said earlier it was and I think we definitely need to lift that up, is that you said authority earlier, having an authority and I would say audacity like that you just said, I'm me both bigger than Oprah. The authority and the audacity to say something like that will bring grief life into it. And then you mentioned also we whether person spiritual or not, I'm just gonna call it. You know. You know some you were called hired nature of God, spirituality of the universe.

But your thoughts or prayers, right, and whether you're sitting down on your knees and praying drives closed, you know a certain type of prayer, or if you're just saying it or thinking about it, it's you're praying and you're consistently praying. And you know, God or the universe, whatever you're calling, if you believe, is bringing it forth for you. And it's that that authority. And when you say your words are vibrating and bringing those things into your life.

And I love your story about Queen Latifa, and you were constantly praying, you were constantly meditating on it, you were constantly having a vision for where you were going to be in the future, and you wasn't thinking about what am I gonna have it? And I think as kids, we we we had when we were kids. You know, in my generation, you had the Seers of Robots catalog and you cut out the bike that you want and you and you talked about it. You thought about it

all day long. And it wasn't called a vision board back then. It was called coldge a collage. Go to collage and you put these pitchers on the collage which we later want to turn into a vision board, and you would hound your parents and you would know everything about that one thing, and eventually, you know, Santa Claus, your parents put it under the tree and you got it. But you didn't stop until you got all. You got

a paper out like I did, get it yourself. And so I think that's so powerful how you bring that story to the forefront, and it's very inspiring. It's very inspiring. But like girl, like I was on your show, I've met your best friend. It's only a matter of time and I'm gonna sit here and it gotta be to a point. She gotta see me. And it's like, girl, like, are like you, what's up? No, I'm my father like that,

but listen let her through. Come. People like, all right, you got the vision, you got the energy, the vibe, and it's like, listen, listen. And here's the thing. I don't even know why this is all turning about, queen. Okay, let's go back to the vision. But it a good story though. That's all that matters, you know, because you know we and I think that's what I'm hoping that somebody gathered to that you gotta have visions that make

you giddy like that. You gotta have visions that just so outlandish that you said something like that, because that's what's gonna keep you going when you tire, That's what's gonna keep you fired up, when you feel like being blown out. That is so important. I developed the program and more so recently about uh, you know, living a life by Design, and part of that first phases divisions. Funny we're talking about that, and the lady said to me said, well, why why did you you know? I

just come with this program. I used to write books and programs, do programs based on my own personal life. That way, I don't have to think that hard to do research. And I said many of people, but I know myself. I wanted to have a life that was the life that I've designed in my head, not that someone else design. And what did that life look like, you know, traveling the world, doing different things and having a experience that supported, you know, things that I like sleep.

I like sleep, So I don't want to do things before ten o'clock in the morning. That's and it's something small, but it's big for me. And I want to be able to travel. So, you know, a week or two we close on our house, you know, I'm going to the house in Puerto Rico and I'm gonna be working on my next book. And that was the vision for me to be in a real property, you know, and a um warm tropical environment, you know, working on a book. And at that point, I need to have a book.

And so I love the fact that when we talk about these these ideas and these these thoughts that we have, um some people might And that's why I think it's important to hear the story. Because if we just talked about if someone just heard, yeah, I do see Harvey shot on this and that they're like, oh, but they create a narrative for you. That's not true because their

their narrative is based in fear. And so it's important for them to hear your narrative where you first started, my narrative, where I first started to realize, we started where they are lower, and we got to this place. And it is possible to do it in a lot of times, and it happens through someone hearing someone else's story. And that's why I think it's so important to communicate. It's so important to share. It's so important to water one another, to need each other soil, because we are

all connected in some kind of way. And it's just so important that when you talk about even putting the elements in the process to cut together to have the vision, that it takes different pieces, it takes different experiences, it takes different viewpoints, because that's when you look at in a culmination of everything that comes together, then you're like, oh, wow, this vision has been completed or it's manifesting in a way,

or as you said, you're just living in it. And so that's what I want to encourage people like, whatever your vision is, already, be the vision. Don't wait to receive the vision. Be the visions, because you gotta act as if you already are. You gotta claim it as if it already is, because guess what if you're not acting as if it is already, how would you know how to act when it comes. So I gotta train

my thoughts. I gotta train my position, and I have to train my movements, my words to reflect the life that it is that I want, because art imitates life, and when we talk about creating, we are all artists, made piece by piece from a master. You said something I want to mention a quote by by Less Brown. It says, you don't get what you want to life. You get what you are. You don't get what you

want in life. You get where you are. So if you're thinking whatever it is that you're you're you're constantly attracting those things into your life. And some people said, you know, I want to use the words and say you ain't you know what? Right? It's like putting that out You want to get that and you're vibrating. That's like the law of attraction. You're vibrating at the level of what you're getting. So if you don't like your life,

it's because you are tracking that. And even in your relationship is like you know, I heard people say, man, she crazy. He crazy? Is like, well, well, if it walks like Dug, talks like Doug, it probably is Dug. This with some mother ducks. Now you you mentioned to me before and I saw you mention it. Now you talked about a program. But I understand that you write a book too, So yes, So I have a lot of projects going on, and you did ask me that. Ques was like, you asked me a question, that's what

we do. Um. Yeah, So what do I have going on now? I am working on a book. It's called What's Your zip Code Story? And it's about class bias. It's overcoming class bias and how you rise above it. And because a lot of the work that I do now from a speaking perspective is UM like diversity, inclusion and equity work, so class bias. But it then gets back to this doing your own work. Um. And then I'm also working on a website called Impact Harbor, which people will be able to go to to gain information

and UM motivation from information personal development. One of the first programs that we're gonna put up is life by Design.

And so whether persons for in the visual coaching, they can do group coaching, they can't afford group coaching, they can UM they'll be able to go through the automated program with they sign up and they'll watch videos and they'll have PDF and they have access to a coach via email, and it will be at a price that they can ford because without personal development, I feel like it's really hard to get to where you want to

go if you don't have this information. So we wanted to bring this information down to anyone's um ability to access it. So that's that's UM. Those are the main things that I'm working on right now. So if somebody wants to find some more information, is there email address or website or George, they can actually go to UM impact Harvard dot com. So that's I P I M P A C T H A R h O R dot com. I hope I spelled it right, not put

it in Google bat Harper dot com. UM. They'll be able to find the beginnings of that program there, and we're just gonna continue to expand. And what is this program going to help people do? Again? So it's gonna help them personally and personally and professionally to develop themselves to get there, to reach their goals. That's the that's the bottom one. So what's the difference between having a vision and having a goal. So a goal a lot tells people think it's like tangible. It's the goal is

the steps to get to the vision. So for imagine yourself going up some steps right now. If I'm if I want to go to the upper room, I remember that upper room. I gotta take steps to get there. Now, each step is a goal, right, but it is not the upper room. It's not the room of the place that you're going to. So each step is a goal. So if you want to, you know, own a business, maybe you have to apply for your LLC. The vision is not the LLC. The vision is the business. The

goal is the LLC. The goal is the funding. The goal is the knowledge. You know, you have a goal to get a mentor so you can learn how to do business. So goals are super important, but they lead up to the vision. Gotcha. And you have to understand too that those goals are still as important and they shouldn't be treated like anything less because it's still another leverage,

another level. The goals are usually tangible like something that you can touch, and the vision is something that usually can both are important and I think that people didn't do They hit off track when they can't hit their goal and then in the vision kind of goes to the wayside. So yeah, so goals are definitely important, but the vision is what's going to keep you out of you know, get you out of bed, and get you motivated your stories. You know, it allows your brain to

connect with this this picture. Because one of the things is we don't think in um in words, were thinking pictures. So if I say red rose, no one's thinking about how they spell red roles. They're seeing a red roles in their in their brain, their mind side. So it's not like Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna get a car, I'm gonna be living on the beach, and you know, you write it out and then you need to see that thing. You need to be able to visualize it in in that vision, um it starts to manifest it.

So it's like if you if you wanted a new car and you go you start setting over that car and you start to see that car everywhere you go. You start to see those shoes everywhere you go, that house, or that degree or whatever it is. And it's because of your articular activating system which allows you to focus on certain things because it's in your consciousness and awareness to bring it forth into your into your your awareness. And that goes right back to what you were talking

about about, what is your level of vibration? What are you attracting? If you want to sit there and you want to muddle with other people, you have no business and muddling. You guys will just muddle at that level together. But sometimes you gotta change your situation. You have to evolve with some of the people that you're with. And guess what you started tracking it? What you want? You know,

not tell people that as well. You talk about vision and going after what you want is that you have to treat things like you have it all white outfit on, meaning protect your surroundings, being mindful about what's around you, mean mindful of your lords, mean mindful of your thoughts, and mean mindful of your surroundings. So absolutely now hear you on that CTJ. And now is there anything else that we did not cover talking about vision that you

might want to share or talk about. I would say the minimum minimum tips to mamphis vision and definitely have a vision, write it down, UM, Read as much as you can possibly read about what it is you want. Find a mentor someone who is doing what you want to do. UM. It's not just the inspire you will

find someone to do what you want to do. UM. And I would say taking action and getting outside of your comfort zone is one of the best things because once you've jumped in the water and realize your feet cannot touch the ground, but you can steal swimming. You didn't die. That's so powerful for your self esteem and in your in, your in your in, your belief in yourself because faith is what you can't see. Belief is what I had, what I can't see. If I jump into water and I don't know I can do it,

I've never done it before. Once I've done a couple of times and then I know I can swim. Now I have belief. So you have phase first, then you have belief, and you only get that by taking action outside of your comfortble. So I would say those are those are the steps that was all poetic and stuff that was great. I don't know about that, but I mean that was so great. Thank you for believing to me. Thank you for taking a chance on me. Um, I thank you for all the years that you just called

and just check in. Hey, don't I'm just checking in and say hey. It means the world. And when I look at you, know my aspirations and the things that I want to do is people like you in my life that it's like I owe you. I owe you for taking time with me. Thank you you always paying pay and paid for it. You know. It's like your mentoring your mentor mentees. And I am absolutely blased to have met you and to to watch you grow on this journey so and many more things to come. I'll

receive it in the name on Shandala. All right, So thank you so much. I appreciate you. Now. When I look back on this and my time talking to c J, I kept thinking about how in order for you to make your dream a reality, you have to take responsibility for it, for crafting and and nurturing it. You have

to realize that your dream is your baby. And on this journey of giving a birth to your dream and your vision, it's going to be uncomfortable, but is your vision, so it came to you, so spend time with cultivating it. Understand what it is that you're wanting, what you're going after. It reminds me of a line from Meek Mail, and he said, if you want it, you gotta see it with a clear eyed view. So again I have to ask you, what is your visit? How big is your vision?

And are you living out the vision for your life? I want to thank you for tuning into the first episode of the Vitamin D podcast. I want to thank you for being part of my dream. Thank you for experiencing this trip. I want to also thanks Jennifer lion Grouper for taking a chance on me. I'm just so excited to go on this journey with you all in an exploration of change, about what it truly means to live your best life and and and do it intentionally. I'm shooting for the stars and I'm ready to make

a change in me. So are you ready to make a change with you? How about we make it together? And you know what, there's no better way to start it than your weekly doll Survitamin D every Monday, and I'll have some more inspiring conversations to help you get excited about your life. Okay, well that's it for your DO Survitamin D. Now I want you to follow me on our social media at Dawn day Speaks. That's Dawn

d a I speaks on all social media. Until next time, always remember you are your greatest asset.