I Can Relate To You

And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if you want to be better and you want to do better, then you're going to have to be able to see better. So join me on this journey of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest stats act. I want you to be a roach. Yes, I said a roach. Now, it probably shocked you when I said that. Heck, it shocked me when somebody said

that to me. But I had to think about and I was like, damn, you gotta be real dope to be a roach. I was in Hollywood the other night and I was at this dive bar, and so I was kicking up with this guy. My friends and I were just talking about our journey in life, and he was saying the story of how he came to l A. He said he was on sheer survival mode. Now I wish I could remember this brother's name was Michael or brand because it was two guys there, but only one day.

But either way, it doesn't matter. This guy was talking about his dream and what he had to do to survive and to make it. So he said, for a minute there he was living in his car. He said, how he was able to pay for his food or to eat rather? Is that I guess Wendy's had like a special or something going on. And he said he did this for three months where if you signed up for a or with a new email address, you got a free mail, like whether it be a burger or fry.

And he said, for months, that's how he relied on his food. Now he comes to the point fast forward, he has a whole loft downtown in l A. Won't he do it? As he was leaving, we were celebrating the like, wow, thank you for sharing a story. Um, I appreciate talking to you. He said, be a roach And like I said, I was shocked. But if you think about roaches are gone store, like you talk about

being outside, roaches then outside. Now. I don't know if you're familiar how roaches go, but I was like, let me just google some things on what I know about roaches or how they they survive everything. Now, these are just some random facts that I just saw. And some of the things taken consideration is that they are able to live like weeks without a head. They can hold

their breath for several minutes underwater. Um, they survived bombs, like if you ever had roaches or have family members that had roaches, and you know that the whole bomb thing they survived. That they have the strong and flexible outer exoskeleton, which makes it harder to squish them as compared to other pests. They can often withstand the hardest shoe stump or the strongest swing of a newspaper, especially on soft surfaces like cushions, bedding, and carpet. Roaches be

out side. Roaches are survivors. Be a damn roach. You know, roach has been out for millions of years. People can't stand because they survived. You ain't gotta be like a roach because every time in adversity comes your way, you gotta think about the uprise. You heard that. Uh that trend adn't sound on TikTok. Prepared to be suckled me. Prepared to be suckled me. That's how I want you to be. Be a damn roach. You got this. I don't care what's coming your way. You just gotta keep going.

You know what I said before. Sometimes we can feel like we drown it. We're trying to swim, We're trying to make it, We're trying to figure it out. All I need for you to do is focused on keeping your head above water. Be a roach, got dagg it. They try to push you, squeeze out. Be a roach. God dang it. They try to bomb you, You still show wow. Be a roach. God dang it. They cut your head off, You're still moving. Be a roach, God dang it. Be outside. That's it. I want to be

a roach. What about you get your right any right with me and get excited about your lives. I said it before, and I'll say it again, and I will continue to say it. Vulnerability is everything. Vulnerability gives you the ability to be seen. Vulnerability also gives you the ability to connect I was talking to a high school friend of mine for obvious reasons. As I continue on with the story, I'm going to leave his name out of it. But we called, we talked to each other.

Now we met in high school, and now where we're going on? Shoot him? Don't let me tell my age about twenty something years done one. But anyway, we caught up. We hadn't talked for a bit, and you know, he had noticed or he had paid attention to my social media account. He saw that I had been dressing a little bit different, you know, giving more of a drogyn us presenting my masculine side. And so it said, Dawn, I got something to ask you already know where he's

going with it, he said. So, I don't know if he said, Dawn, do you like women? I don't know if he said, Dawn, are you gett I don't know what he said. And I said to him, I said, yeah, so I'm attracted to women. And we began to talk, and further on the conversation, he revealed to me that

he has an attraction to men. Now we're both from Detroit, and he was just explained to me, how you know in Detroit is a black man, that's something that you don't discuss and in me showing up as me, he said, wow, Dawn, for us to know each other since high school, almost twenty something years, he said, I am so grateful. I am so glad that we have the ability to connect on this level. He said, I never had anybody I could really share it to, let alone, especially being where

we're from. He said, after this conversation with you, he said, I'm I feel so much lighter. He said, I feel inspired. And I was like wow, because you know, I've been really working with myself and how I wanted to present, how I want to show up, because I really don't do labels. But when we talk about we're leaving somebody of stress, anxiety, somebody that perhaps even thought about taking a life. Come on, what are we really talking about here.

We're all special offers here for a limited time only. Life is too short to live unhappily. You better live while you're still alive. And so when he said that to me, I just thought about how many other people probably are not bold enough, probably not stepping into themselves, not going after their dream job, not fulfilling that relationship they want because they are ashamed of perhaps no one else has come forth that looks like them and say hey,

I'm just like you. And me being able to do that, I realized how I was able to connect and for him to say he feels that much lighter. So I want to implore. I want to charge you whatever it is. Show up. You are perfectly perfect, just the way you are, every intention of how you were made. That's how it was supposed to be. I just need you to walk in it. And I want to say this too. I know what God's promises for my life because God said

exceedingly and beyond. And you know, I found myself in tears at times because I am amazed one that I can dream so big, so big that when I stepped back, I want to laugh, or I just get emotional because I'm like, this sounds insane, but it came to me and I feel it, and to know that God said far more than what I could ever imagine. But this

is the key. I gotta show up. See, it's just like anything God formulated, this cake, this formula, and all of these elements have to come together to produce what it is that you're meant to do or whatever it is. It's supposed to do. And I realized that is me encompassing all of dawn and showing up as dawn. Hence

why I say, I gotta make a room. And that's why you need to make room for yourself, because it's time to show up, because we gotta show out because God said exceedingly and abundantly, far more than what you

could ever imagine. And guess what it's going to require you to be all of you, not part of you, not some of you, but all of you behind the curves, beautiful people, intoviting indeed day and and talking to my friend, very heavily connected with church, couldn't really put together the connection. And I mean Am and I were both like, you know, I would talk to him like you're gonna be a past one day. You know. We joke around and we say things like that, Um, I think we both have

a clairvoyant kind of well with us. And he noticed that it it puts some friction, he said, you know what. Door. He was like, I had to leave the church, the church that he was committed to at the time, because he saw that it was bumping heads. And I saw this video and this gentleman was talking. He was talking about men versus women. Okay, he was saying that, you know, women have the ability to explore their sexuality, yet they can't be promiscuous, while men can be promiscuous but aren't

allowed to explore their sexuality. And I said, and you don't really have to be thinking, because I've really opened my mind up to things. Uh. If you would have asked me before and whatever, realm or ignorant mind, and I say ignorant because of lack of knowledge, I would be like, oh my gosh, I would never date a man that's bisexual. I would never do anything like that. And if you are doing today, I don't know. I say,

I don't know, because it is just skinned. And if we are these spiritual beings having this human experience, what are we talking about right now? And so what the guy was saying is that when do we get out of the terms or what do we get out of the realm of accepting what is natural versus subscribing to what is said to be normal. And I said, you're onto something because it isn't a situation of your harming

or doing anything else. Because somebody can say, hey, don you know, it may be natural for somebody want to hurt somebody else. But we're talking about a situation out of love. And here my friend is telling me that he was having friction, hesitancy of showing up as himself, of even staying with his church based on what he was taught and who he was proclaimed to be. You know, he said he was like, you know, I was teased the time growing up and people telling me who I am,

and I haven't even figured it out. You know what I had me thinking, I have a friend who has a cins gendered son, and I don't know if I want to say they dressed him fluently, but he dresses in men and boys and girls clothes almost like I don't know the term that I'm looking for, but there is no definitive. It's of freedom there, and I'm starting to think. I'm like, is anything wrong with that, letting

the child choose? I don't know. I'm not saying I subscribed to that, but what I am subscribing to you in this talk, in this conversation, vulnerability is everything. Show up so that you could connect, Show up so that you can inspire, Show up so that you can be all that you can be. Because guess what you deserve that. You know, we gotta get out this notion of hiday. We gotta get out this notion of secrecy and understand that everything is about timing. But it's so important when

we talk about living our best life. It's so important of standing who you are. And I what I know is that it's a confidence. And and the think about confidence, I think people think that it's a concoction, that there is a method to it, there's a formula, right, But essentially confidence, it's just no wing. Huh, just no wing. Who you are, Not subscribing what somebody else is telling you, but sitting down with yourself, embracing yourself, receiving yourself, and

acknowledging yourself. I am, so, who do you say that you are? You don't have to be alone. If you're vulnerable, I promise you somebody will relate to you. You might even save a life. Well, tell somebody to tell somebody else, to tell somebody else, to tell somebody else that Dawn Day got a podcast. It's called Vitamin D with Dawn Day and it's available wherever you get your favorite podcast.

Vitamin D is all about shutting the light on the good and the bad because If you want to be better and you want to do better, you gotta be able to see better. It's time to shine bright. So I'm gonna get out of here. You know, always say I'm in the business of making dreams come true, and our damn show ain't gonna forget about mine. So until next time, always remember you are your greatest stass. Act, get your rightamind right with me, and get excited about your lives.