Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about your life so that you can live life on purpose and for a purpose. And this is your first time tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon off our name. My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
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 assad Can I ask you something, Why is it that we understand the value of an original of something. That's
where we can't understand the value within ourselves? What's up with that? Like, there's value of just being you, doing you exactly how you are. Yeah, we go throughout life caring and valuing the opinions of others. In fact, so much so we're willing to change out of your parents, change what we say, we value. We even put on masks to fit into a room, rather than just showing
up as and who we are. Perhaps we feel as though we have some ex securities right because we aren't perfect, perhaps coming from a broken home, not having the financial money, perhaps dealing with a mental illness, not coming in this cookie cutter box. We have this tendency to hide. But I want to challenge you to step forth. You know what they say, what allows a diamond to shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been placed within it. Are you ready to shine? Now? We also know that
pressure or makes diamonds. So that's all the trials and tribulations that you've experienced in your life. I have led you right here, and I challenge you to show up as you. I think of my life and how I have made it a point to make room for Dawn to be this aggressive, this loud, rumbunctious, this human, this person to show up is mean because I realize I'm more valuable being me than anyone else, and I hope you do too. Get right with me. I get excited
about that. I don't even know how I want to start. I'm just I'm gonna start Hello, gone days here Um. I was inspired by something by the statement of boss the funk up. I know, I know coming and hide listen. You know. It really came to me because you know, I'm getting my fitness on and I must say that I am getting foined foin oh um. And I wanted to feel for two point five seconds because Latif has changed this race. I wanted to feel some type of way.
And I had to recall back on some things that I have experienced and that I have been thinking about as an entrepreneur. Um about knowing and stating your value and making sure that you walk authentically in that and realizing that you dictate your value and other people don't. And here is the thing you don't take now your value and your worth based on someone else. Heck, they need to boss the funk up. Or if it's you that's looking at something, perhaps need to boss the funk
up now. I really had to think about this because as I am doing my thing as entrepreneur, I picked up this book Why shouldn't had already? And I said in the studio it's in my text hold On actually sent it to my mentor Skip Dillard last Night. Um. The title of the book is entitled The entitled the book is entitled. The title of the book is Breaking the Time Barrier Now to unlock your true earning potential. This book is by Mike mc dermott and Donald Colper.
Check it out you'll thank me later anyway. But it talks about establishing your value. And one thing I've just been realizing as I read this book established and how I want to show up, is that you don't negotiate someone's costs or their prices. It's down't write damn near disrespectful. And I think as Americans or perhaps even like traveling. I don't know about you, but I've been one to go ahead and hackle the price. You know, I'd be like, oh, you know, how about this? And that not realize how
disrespectful that is. Because when you go on the store, whatever store is, do you don't go up there with the price tag, listen on that item and say, hey, can I get it for a discount price only if there's something defective, right, But you don't come initially and they're asking for them to discount the price. If you can't apport afford it, you leave it where it's sad, and it's something to be said for somebody to stand in their power authority of what they said they're worth.
Because I don't know about you, but if you're confident and knowing what you're worth, I don't want to buy into that. And I was thinking about that because I feel that sometimes we do that in relationships, right, because I say, how you do anything is how you'll do everything, not realizing that the detriment is actually happening and affecting ourselves. You know how somebody may not speak your love language, may be slight weight, disrespectful. You're giving a discount of
parts or what you feel that you desire. Why is that? Huh? And then for the other person, you want to stand up shock while you're not getting the value that you want because you've already discounted what it is that you're looking at. Furthermore, when you ask people, you negotiate someone's price, why would they be more apt to want to do the best? Now I'm a firm believer is that whatever
you do, you put a hundred and ten percent. But it's almost like when you negotiate with somebody, it's saying that I don't think you're worth or I don't think you say or I don't think you are who you say that you are. And we know that confidence isn't knowing, right, Why would we want to do some business or do anything with someone who doesn't know who they are, who doesn't know what they're worth. So I had to think
about that. And when we talk about even intimate relationships, right, if you're going after seeking a specific can I say type kind someone that may live a certain lifestyle, enjoy certain things. And when I say lifestyle, it doesn't necessarily always mean something financial, right, but just a way of living their life. And if you know that that's not the mark that you can meet, you don't pull somebody down. You feel like you see how you can meet them
where they are and then elevate from there. Right. And I just want to make sure that we understand the importance of boss the funk up because it can only be detrimental to both parties. You feel me, I want to challenge you for that because that's what we call growth.
When we when we decide not to boss up, when we decide to negotiate our value, that limits our growth, It diminishes our potential, It tarnishes our shine, because what you're saying is that whatever this worth that you have, declare, whatever somebody deem your value, you've allowed their blanketed view of you to stand true. But like Eminem said, I am what I say I am. If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? So what do you say that you are? How do you choose to show up?
How do you want to choose to show up? How do you want this to impact your relationships? So I say all this the same as I'm thinking about this, I said, Uh, it's time to up level in every aspect. And that's why you have to understand that you can't expect somebody else to devalue their word so that you can afford them, Nor should you devalue yourself so somebody can afford you. That's not helpful to the supply chain. Boss up, so the next person boss up, and any bossup.
In fact, I think even then Mr Harvey said something like that. He said, you know, people have this idea. They want to dream, they want a big house, they want to mans. You know, whatever your thing is that me cost money. It ain't all such things. I don't want to dream that big because you know I ain't gonna never be able to afford an art. Oh that's not in my price range. I can't even look at it. Figure out how you gonna get it. Why do the
limiting yourself and saying what you can't do? Why don't you figure out how you can't get your resources are so that you can get it? Because remember God promised you exceedingly and beyond. He didn't say, oh, you're gonna be content and even less. Should I digress? I know I took on myself. I hadn't put a rhyme in there, and a man and something came over a spirit. But you feel what I'm saying. I think that's I think
that's really important. It's time for us not only get our money up, our emotions up, emotional intelligence up, our communication up, our spirits up, our energy up, like all of that. You know, I was thinking, Um, I have a friend, I love him to die. I would call him out. Was wanna I love him to death? I was just kicking it with him, and I was thinking
about something. You know, I'm already I'm always turned out like hello, I probably calmed down now is that I've gotten older, and especially if you catch me in the morning, that's like my ProMED hole, I'm tumed up and we were kicking it and because of the excitement hadn't seen him in a while. It's just a great friend. You know, I got fifty things going on, my my power, and you know, he couldn't make it comments like oh my gosh, no, you're so dramatic, Oh my gosh, just too much. Oh
my gosh, you're a lot. And you know he's an actor too, but he's kind of like really chilling, mellow, and you know, at first I saw him, I've told him before. I was like, you know, I make sure I know, like, okay, that doesn't really feel good and you don't realize and I want you to pay attention to that because even in this as an example of Boston, the funk up right, And it was at one point he had made the comment again He's like, wow, you're just a lot, and I was like, you know what,
it's time for me to go. And I didn't think about it till later, like one my energy and my spirit didn't feel good. It doesn't mean that he's a bad person. You just gotta know how you gotta take people in doses or and you gotta catch him based on your temperment of self. And I felt my spirit, it felt I didn't feel good. That's what I would say. It wouldn't say it was hurt or pain. Just didn't feel good. So maybe paint in a different way. And
we came over me. And what I realized is that he kept saying, Oh my God's doing, You're a lot doing, You're too much, And it's like, Juanna, maybe you're not enough. Hey, everybody's first play Kelly and your tuned into Invitamin D podcast Vitamin D with My Girl down Day Dad is. And I think often times we need to realize that in situations because half the time we're diminishing ourselves to
fit in a certain box for someone else. We are devaluing ourselfs so somebody else that can hold us who do not even have the capacity to put us in their hands. So that goes the same thing with latif
for anyone else. Once you declare your value, once you decide what's your worth and how you want to show up, don't let nobody else dictate how you walk, how you talk, how you move, how you think you are you for a reason as long as you are not negatively affecting somebody else, Do not limit your shun Now, going back to to Swanna, you say, Okay, doing you being dramatic? Just hypothetically right? Because I always try to look at different things. I'm a firm believer of how you do
anything and how it's how you'll do everything. It was not only you kept saying that what I felt like I was being criticized. What I felt that I was being ridiculed. What I felt is I couldn't show up authentically as Dawn. I am the same doing all the time. Can you imagine somebody trying to show up or somebody showing up as they are, and somebody constantly ridiculed, Why are you doing it like this? Doing like this? Did it? I know? If I can be transparent with you, just
don't make me feel good. But it just reminded me. I remember, but my mother had said that to me. We were coming out of the the Call American brank right off for eight mile. I wonder if that Call America is still over there anyway, and I had said something, Mama, looks we should said done. You are just so critical, you criticize, and maybe that looks at like nitpicking, and maybe that looks like people who are control fake freaks.
You don't kind of have to have a hand on everything, how to see everything is doing, rather than just letting things breathe, letting things operate and move the way they need to move. And then that way you can decide if you want to show up and whether or not you want to entertain it. But ask me this, or
I should say, tell me this. What does it serve for you to keep pointing out the obvious about how something operates and how something moves if you have no intention of being involved in it so that it can change, nor that is it directly affecting you on a daily basis for it the need to change. Huh. I'm just saying, I just want to put it out there. So if somebody is asking you, were telling you that you're too much, perhaps they're not right for you in that moment at
that time. Perhaps there needs to be some communication. But that's an example for the other party. Boss the funk up and meet me who I am? Right? If somebody isn't providing the communication that you need, you don't just ignore it and say Okay, Well, I'm not gonna say anything this time, I'm just gonna let that ride. Now, I'm gonna need you to boss the funk up and
say something. You know. I just had a friend I was on the UH I was talking to the other day and she's going on a group trip and it's like two couples or whatever, and um, you know how you had that patty social media drama. So it was something that she was putting a picture up, you know, talking about no filter, no filter, like exploring or highlighting
her natural beauty. So one of the other girls in the trip, for some reason, probably thought because you know, if you don't care, you anykay, the old girl was talking about her. So she's giving I'm giving filters, filters, filters down, and my friend is like, don't We're about to go on this trip, and I feel like she think there's to be if I said, well, girl, why don't you say something? Ask her if there's nothing there.
Get this straight now, because what you don't want to do is go on the other side of the world and there's some drama that they don't even need to be no drama. Boss the funk up. Don't devalue yourself and say, oh, I'm not gonna say anything because whatever that discontents you feel, whatever that that thing that makes you feel uncomfortable, know your worth and know that you
deserve to say something because it doesn't feel good. And anytime you are feeling uncomfortable in a place where it is debilitating, I'm gonna have to put on you to say something and do something. So I told I said, girl, you better say something, Boss the funk Up. When it comes down to you, whether it fealize, if you want to stay in a certain job position because you got dreams and aspirations for more, You're gonna devalue yourself and
smother yourself by staying there for what, for whom? And why do you understand that we are special offers here for a limited time, Boss the funk Up, do the research that you need to do, looking and explore what kind of company you want to work for. Perhaps maybe you are your own company and you need to develop it, and it's gonna be uncomfortable. You're gonna have to figure it out, Boss the funk Up. I even had to tell myself to Boss the funk Up. You know, I'm
in a whole transition moment. I didn't said it. I said it, and I don't said again. It takes me about two damn hours to get up here. Now I could have easily said, oh my gosh, right now, my transportation is limited. I cannot get to the studio. But I am reminded, Dawn, boss the funk up. You're gonna have to figure out how are you gonna get there?
What You're just gonna stop, what You're gonna just devalue this dream that has been placed on your heart, something that you have been working for since you were a young girl. Don't play with me. So if you see something that you like, know you're worth, but also recognize it's worth and boss the funk up so that you can't afford it, Boss the funk up, so that you can have the life that you want. Boss the funk up, because you are worth it. Yeah, I'm talking to you.
There is no reason why you shouldn't be living exceedingly and beyond. There's no reason why you shouldn't be living a life of abundance, far more than what you could ever imagine, unless that's the choice and the value of the life that you seek. But I know I got greater this for me. I know greater is for me. So, just like I've done since the time I have entered this world, I'm gonna continue to grow. I'm gonna continue
to get uncomfortable. I'm gonna continue to get my money yup, my fitness up, my finances up, my emotional intelligence up. I'm going to continue to elevate. I'm going to continue to be the life because I choose to boss the funk up. So you're gonna join me on? All let's go, Come on. I think that you're worth it and anything that you have a connection to should show the same worth as you are more because remember we're not looking back to go behind, we're looking forward further or forward
to go over yonder. Yeah, yonder. So that's what I got on this check in. Ball's the funk up? And know your worst? Yah yeah? Um? Also, uh, I want to do some mouse keeping. Would you like to be on the podcast? H Well, if you do, I want you to email us Vitamin D at dawn day Speaks dot com. Or perhaps maybe you got like a topic or something, maybe you think or you've got a suggestion on what we should do. Email us and you know
I do the Vitamin D advice letters. You know I tell people to write us with anything on your relationships, your career, finances, anything that's you want. And Dan and I say this, and I said to you, Vitamin D is all about shutting life on the good and the bad. Because what do I say, If you want to be better and you want to do better, you have to be able to see better. So that means I'm gonna give it to you for all because I want the best for you and I want you to boss to
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