Know Yourself, Know Your Worth

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 Make room. I can't implore enough from you to make room. Make room for yourself, make room for other people to show up, make room for beauty to happen

in your life. Oftentimes we get so used criticizing people, situations, not seizing opportunities, all simply because we have a closed mind, the closed heard, a closed ear, just a closed point of view. Online, It's time to open it up. It's time to make room. I don't know about you, but I'm calling forth abundance. And I understand that in calling forth this abundance, there's probably some things I need to clear out. There's probably some things I need to space out.

There's probably some things I need to erry. It's the time to face whatever is going on in your life head on, face it on, because oftentimes when we aren't facing situations, it's simply false evidence appearing real. It's that fear, and it shows up in procrastination. It shows up in closing walls, it shows up in a raction, it shows up an anger, it shows up in ways that don't

serve in the better light of you. And you know, just like Kabad said, I'm thinking that you pack like, pack like with the room that you are allowing in your life. Make room for joy, make room for that peace, make room for love, make room for you. You deserve it. And when you make room, that means you allow people to show up as they are. That means you allow yourself to show up as you are, and you extend grace, grace, vulnerability, love.

That's what I want for you. You deserve that, you deserve room to show up as you are, how you are right now, and you don't have to wait for anybody to give you permission. You simply existing is enough. Now. What you can do is extend this grace to someone else who may not be so adamant, strong minded and standing on their own for who they are right now. But we can all serve as a life or someone else right I mean, that's what we're all here for. This little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine,

Let us shine, let us shine. Get your vitamin right with me. I get excited about good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you may be. Yeo, you consume to the Vitamon Diva Doings a podcast. I didn't even tell Jeremiah what we're recording right now. Right now we are recording a ah A check in, or if I had in my way, I would call it what's happening now. I say that because I'm about to give you update what's going on with me. But let me say this.

When I was like having the vision, I said, you know, when vitamin D is gonna be on the radio, or maybe I didn't even think vitamin D. I said, well, I'm gonna be on the radio. I wanted to be ensure to use the implementations that I learned when I was over at BLS and Wendy Williams was on air and this guy named Goose, he was like her producer. They had what's it called a three sixty dang, I don't even know what it's called. But now they got it all on the computer and you just pressed the

buttons there. But before it was like this machine shortcut shortcut three sixty. I had plans. I had plans with that because I wanted all the sound effects from the movie's quick sayings like you may catch you know, Chris rock Off on Friday, damn or um, you know Martin, damn Gina. But you know, there's so many rights now, so that kind of was like a little damper or whatever. But I mean, I can re record it or perhaps if I find somebody else. I don't know. I just

wanted to share that. Um. Also, let me just say this to uh. I think I said good morning already. Clearly I got so much energy because I used I'm coming in the evening, So listen, pull out your pin and paper. You better take notes because I'm about to go off. And I can't really tell you how my brain is gonna go. But as I was thinking about that and the sound effects of radio, it made me think of this conversation that I had with Bill May.

Bill May is helping me developed vitamin D with on day okay, And one day I was talking to him and I was asking. I was like, basically, who are the ships nails like the ban by the bang when it comes to radio? And he was like who My My mouth rushedbore and I was like, oh, yeah, I never thought of it like that. Now, let me put a clearance. We all know how the game of telephone works. Pardon me if I get a person confused. Okay, just

understand the storyline. So anywhere, he said, if I would have put my MoMA rushmore together, I would have Howard Stern Charlemagne. Wait, how are Stern Charlemagne and Russia Lombard? And I said, well, what about Wendy Williams Because you know, I'm thinking like a pioneer. Oh you see the translation talking about the sound effects coming back to Wendy. Okay, glad you're checking, And I'm thinking, like, what about Wendy Voliames And he was basically, damgn this was not shadey.

He was just saying, basically, her tenure in radio, uh not staying you know so long. And I don't know if it matter about the impact because I look at her, it's like kind of like the a freaking American woman version of Howard Stern And I don't even like to compare like that, but I'm just saying this fact is being raunchy and whatever. And sidebar. You know, when we had this conversation was a while ago, but did you

see on social media. I think it's something squirreling around that she might be having her own podcast coming out. She did something about the Wendy Williams experienced that I don't have the information right there, but I'm just giving you a lead to sniff on one. She Winty might be back. I don't think I think she will be, But anyway, the point is the minute he said that, you know, I got the vision of myself up there.

I know, and I'm grateful because I think it's so important to talk to people that expand your horizons, that make you think exceedingly and beyond. And I just smiled to myself. I'm like, yo, that would be done because I want to be that person. Which reminds me of a conversation I had with Jennifer Line Grouper. This was like what it was a few years several years ago, maybe around UM twenty nineteen, we were in New York and we were out there for the Urban Music Festival.

I probably made that up. It was like, it's basically the marketing meetings where all the labels come out and they introduced us to their artists and we can hear the music, we give our feedback. They want to, you know, say why you know they want us to put in rotation at I heard. But anyway, the point is, I asked Jennifer, I said, who are the first chairs when it comes to women? Now, if you're unfamiliar, you said,

on what is the first chair? Well, if you think of radio, um, let's just say the Steve Harvey Morning Show, Steve Harvey is the first chair. When you think of the Time Joining morning show, Tom Joyner is the first chair, not the breakfast Club. That's all three of them, So I don't know who. I think they kind of balance it out, but they may have a lead, but the first chair is the lead who show it is and um,

she mentioned, Oh got Ellen Kay? She said, Ellen Kay is a first chair and I believe she at one point and I could be misconstrolling list. And I'm learning she was partnered up with Bryan Seacrest for a bit and then I was like, um, and then you know, there's Dana Cortez. But I'm thinking to myself, what about Dawn Day Dawn Day comen which leads me to my next thing. Going after your dreams isn't easy. I've been

I think I've been having a moment. I've been having a moment and I'm giving myself grace in space for the moment and what I mean by that. Sometimes I'll be like, God, why you put all this on me? Like why is it that I have to do this? Like some people can live their life just functioning, and I don't think anything's wrong with that. You have to

figure out what works best for you. But for me, I don't even know what life would be like to not pursue my dreams, but so all my dreams of being on radio on TV using my voice to inspire people. I don't know what life there is yet. At the same time, in this process, in this journey, for my dream. I was just telling um my colorist. I was just

telling her this last night. I said to her, you know, I'm standing optimistic about what I want because I don't think it's a mistake that I'm sitting here when very well, a little over ten years ago, maybe eleven or twelve, I was in the office of Premiere Networks. Now we fast forward, I'm in the studio and if you if you're watching this on video, if it makes it to video,

you'll see behind me. It says the same thing. While I was talking to her, I'm like, I know what I'm going after, And I said, it's almost like being underwater. If you can imagine yourself in an ocean, deep deep down under, and you look up and you can see the surface. You can probably see the sun, you can see the birds, you can see the clouds, you can even heck, see the boats and maybe even people swimming,

and you're just working to get there. But for some reason it's like you're not there, but you can see it. Is that the same when it comes down to your vision and your dream, because you got the vision right, And they say faith without works is dead, and you just gotta keep paddling. You gotta keep treading, you have to keep going. And it's like sometimes you want to give up. And when I think about Dawn, well, let me be mindful of my words, because I don't want

to say give up. Sometimes I'm just thinking like, what's happening next? Or is this gonna happen? Or how is it gonna happen? When I'm getting in the way of the doing rather just than doing, then that's when I find myself on the end of not having as much courage as I need to have courage. And as you can notice, I'm being mindful of how I use my words, and I think we all need to be mindful of that because words have power, and I'm very I'm working

to be I'm not working. I am being intentional about the way I use my words, because what do I say how you do anything? It's how you do everything. And if we know life and death on the power of the tone, what are you speaking over your life? So as I'm looking up at the top and I'm just like, God, what is gonna happen? I know that it's there, and it's just like Dawn, just keep going. But I'd just be like man, so that's what's going on that end. I'm really working on it because in

mama thirties, I don't know where I imagine myself to be. Well, yes I do. I don't know if I put an age on it, but I imagine living adult life of lux traveling, you know, um for me and when when we I guess, when we do the things on our timeline and we're not trusting the process, We're constantly looking

in the next line of someone else. Well, if I'm asking for exceedingly and beyond, far more than what I could ever imagine, what hell I've already imagined saying that I'm gonna you picking it hop for Hey, everybody's very play Damie Kelly and your tuned into Invitamin D podcast Daily Dope Vitamin D with my Girl down day Dad is, So, what are you comparing it to? It's interesting that you can't do a comparison when you are the blueprint. And I want to encourage you with your life to understand

that you are a blueprint. There is not a specific instruction of how to do something. It's just a matter of doing. And I say this to you as I say this to myself. These are the things that what I said, what's going on that I'm working to balance, and that since I don't want to say balance, I'm learning this new thing about introducing the word of harmony. Harmony is important because if you try to get things in balance, something is always going to be short changed.

But when I think of harmony, it reminds me of that of a yen in the yang, you know, like the black and the white. They kind of bleed in and they surface in one another. They're never completely equal at the same time because they're ever flowing. And I think like in life, if you you choose to flow, you know, things can be superb. But if we are the blueprint what you're checking from, that's what I have to constantly remind myself. Next up, did you hear the

interview that I have with Kiana Monroe? Yes? Yes, child. She came in because um I wanted her to share her story about about her sexual abuse as a child and how she's overcame that and she came on here and she had may mentions. She said, you know, she talked about a crayon theory workshop because she kept talking about colors. She was like, you know, when it talks about relationships and vulnerability. You have to match these colors. And I said, what else this that you're talking about? Collins.

You can look at the clip all us on Instagram. It's on YouTube Vitamin D Dawn Day. Check it out and I'll say, you know what, let me check it out. Let me invest in myself. So, uh, congratulations to all of you that would ahead and followed and shared and you attended the workout workshop. Shout outs to Robin. You know, she personally reached out Robin perry Um, but it was phlomen at all. And it just reminds me of what colors are we showing up as and what colors are

we seeing others as as they present themselves. In this workshop, it was all about identifying what it is that you truly want so that we can have compassionate communication. And how she uh articulated what compassion and communication consists of is that you have to have a consideration of love. And when you love somebody, you respect them, and more than likely you respect somebody, you would trust them. And

if you trust somebody, you feel safe. So it kind of builds up a kind of like a square of box, but not so much to block you in, but just so much that a flow can go through. And oftentimes when any of those sides are missing, then you know that compassionate communication is not taking place. As you know, I said, Dawn, we're working on this level of vulnerability because I say, how you do anything, it's how you

do everything. How am I going to show up to you and talk to you if I'm not being vulnerable, if I'm not being open, if I'm not opening the

door and sharing it so that we can walk through together. Okay, But a level of vulnerability I feel in order to let yourself out is to know who you are, and that's what she was talking about the mirror thing, but she talked about these primary colors and allowing yourself to see because I want to open the door for not only just platonic and business but also romantic relationships, and

that's seeing people who they are. So she talked about how you can show up and see somebody and they are, you know, down to their guns about what they want. Then you have another person I might be free flowing. Then you have another person that might be in the middle. And it's important to realize or to um identify what kind of love it is that you want. And often times I think people are showing up to spaces that we aren't seeing them in. What do I mean by that?

We have our own fixation of who they say they are, and if we took time to listen, we could see who they are when they show up as they are. Additionally, she also talked about how important it is is to make a safe space. Now, if you go back a few episodes, heck, it might be back in the previous year. I talked about how I had a lot of pruny, a lot of pruning process, a lot of friends had to go, a lot of people have to go. By the wayside of fact, that's when we were in the

other studio. Damn, you see how we're growing up here under the cover in my house, in the closet, in here in the other studio. Now we're in the studio. My god, watch what's gonna happen next? And when you look back at this, remember I said that. Anyway, So when I was in the other studio, I was just talking about how I had to let a lot of people go. I had a lot of people go because

I didn't feel safe and I didn't feel comfortable. And now it's making sense, And I say that is that when we have the intuition and when we feel something trusted, because being safe is so important. But I also understand how important it is is to identify that safe space. And as I'm showing up in my level of vulnerability, I even realized how I want to approach future relationships.

I want to let you know that it's safe for you to be who you are because I want to see you and I don't want to show up anything other than who I am. And I don't want you to do vice versa because I ain't got a kind of ways like if we connected on the sense of a vibe, if it doesn't work out in a romantic or business or whatever kind of way, there's other ways that the relationship can flourish. But I gotta see you so that you can show up that way when I

tell you. On in this workshop, I had to cut the camera off because it was on zoom because I was having emotional moments. Why because I think I was allowing my style. I think I was allowing myself to see areas that I didn't realize that needed to be seen. How important it is to show up and say this is a safe space how I can identify and share with people like, Hey, I want this to be a

safe face. This is a requirement. What am I non negotiables because we can think if we want this color love and in actuality, this is the color love that was showing up as So what is the website Jeremiah for Kiana? I think, he said, Kianama Road dot com. Make sure you check it out. Talking that Dawing Day sent you. All right, Okay, he said, kianaman Road dot com. Next thing, I want to talk about value and self worth.

I've learned a good lesson. I was talking to a friend of mine, Um, he's actually coming out here because we're getting ready for a photoship. Yes only you think we're working out for no reason. Child, We didn't got the hair color. We gotta get these locks a little straightened out a little bit. But understand, we're getting ready. And I had a conversation because he was talking about he want to come out of here and do some photo shoots from other people. Now, last time I worked

with him was damn, what's it about to see you? Damn? It may have been two years ago, and while come on full circle, it was ten years ago because I was getting ready to move out here. Yeah, and I had to get my website together, doing take speaks dot com. I had to get my website together, so I said, I wanted to get another photo shoot. This had been um a couple of months or maybe almost a year after my mom had passed. You know, I've been working out in my short blind here. I said, this is

the movement. I'm coming out to l A. I'm doing my voiceovers, I'm doing my radio, I'm doing my speaking. We're about to do the damn thing. So fast for we're back in rotation. Because you can't stop on stop and what do they say? You can't fail if you don't quit. Well, it's interesting when you're looking at photography and when you look at things that are right for you, you have to see what captures the essence. And I've seen some photographers out here, and uh, I'm gonna give

him a plug shout out to Zoe. Zoe can capture the essence of me. And I said, you know what, I need you to come out here. I need you to do this. So here we are fast forward. Now he's gonna come out here. But anyway, in a conversation. Leaning up to that, I'm telling him what the vision is. Get ready, I'm gonna show y'all something like. I never even seen him myself before. Hey. We were talking about pricing and what he would charge if you were to

do some head shots, and I was like okay. I was like, yeah, I don't even like to listen to my services out there, but because people don't like to pay. I said, what do you mean by that? He said, you know, you show up and you tell people with the prices and they're constantly trying to negotiate. And I'm saying I never thought anything wrong with that, And I even had to be vulnerable, and I shared with him. I said, it's so interesting that And I think I

said something before. Sometimes I feel like not sometimes I usually feel like somebody is trying to get over on me. I don't know why. Is that an abandma is an abandonment? Is that neglect? I don't know what it is, um, but I'm always feeling like you're charging me more than I should be charged, rather than in the reverse, looking

at it as you're charging how much you're worth. And when I was talking to him, I really got introduced to a new perspective of how I want to approach somebody when it comes to the cost of their services, because he said people are always trying to get a discount for your service and not knowing what you're worth is He was like, I'm not negotia creating my worst and there is some type of value when somebody stands firm and what their cost is and they think it.

It goes along the lines of confidence, confidence of knowing who you are and how you want to show up. So when he said, Dawn, I don't like to put up the price because I'm not negotiating, I said, damn, that was good. I truly appreciated that, and I think that's going to charge me to approach different situations in the future of receiving somebody or what they say they're worth is because we've got to be a non negotiable. Sometimes you gotta get off the clearance rack and get

behind the glass where the valuables are. Not everybody can touch you, or not everybody is meant to touch you. Know your audience. What's the audience that you are surveying. So yeah, that part is that, Um, that's what's going on. That's what I want to share. And I also want to encourage you to just keeping a with mind of new perspectives. Go out there and challenge yourself and don't

give up on your dreams. I can't. I got something else so long we're not giving it for dreams because I was thinking like, oh, you know we're gonna die one day, and you got to realize that going after your dreams is going to require you to be vulnerable going after anything you want. Now where am I going with this? I was watching National Geographic yesterday at my friend's house. Shout out to Wana Um. Now I always tell people. In fact, I was just telling him last night.

I said, you, you don't know when Dawn has executed the dreams, the dreams that she has for life. I didn't mention this and now, but just in this sector what I told him. I said, when you see me chilling with Queen Latifa, like we're just chilling like ain't no post, like we're kicking it back like some homemies. And when you hear me on National Geographic, I said, no,

that Dawn is living out the dream. I say all that to say because I'm watch your National Geographic and Michael P. Jordan's is the narrator, and I'm just thinking like, damn, I can't, I can't away for my the sun is rising, the lion comes, are scared the winter salt. I don't know. I'm just saying. But anyway, it was on this thing about the alligators in the water and the swamps. It was the crocodiles, one of I forget which one is

in fresh and which one is not. Anyway, the gators catch it um they were talking about when it comes down to mating seasons. So they all get in this water, right, and they make a sound, a sound that's gonna do the vibration. But they do it so it's halfway in the water, because when you're in the water, you can

see the sound, and sound travels farther. So they get up there in the water, they lift their chin up or whatever the stune gay is they got, and they start vibrating and you can literally see the splashes of water. It's almost like a trickling, like rainfall, shine or something like that. And it's to get the attention of a woman because she's gonna be like who. Now, Usually the biggest and the baddest send out the most waves. Now, what do they say, is not the size of the

dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight. And the dog now immediately gonna think, Okay, whoever the big daddy is, that's who's gonna in right. Because he got the biggest tail, he can make it the biggest um sound and the biggest vibration. Uh. Catch this when you're in the swamp or whatever the water is there in when they're lifting their neck up, they're making themselves vulnerable.

So if you got a little homie over here and I just say a little home, because he might be smaller than you, he see you vibrating, you know, the chicks is come here, hold up? Just would I say, slow down, jim shoe. He can literally come up and take your neck out. They say they lose arms, they lose eyes, and sometimes they even lose their life. Getting the attention of the woman. Well, it's kind of like, I don't listen. May sound extreme compared to your life

and what you're going after. Are you willing to stick out your neck for? Even if you knew whatever the odds are against you, you knew that that was surprised. How far are you willing to go? And it was just so amazing that oftentimes we think we have to be equipped with the best. We think we have to do the smartest, We think we have to be the fastest. We think we have to be the prettiest. We think we have to be something else other than what we are.

But when we use our advantages and also use our quote unquote disadvantages for our advantages, you realize nothing is stopping you. But you how does this correlate? Or you got big Daddy in the water using his size to his advantage and getting a vibration where the female is already coming right now, love Daddy, who probably couldn't get that vibration so that she can hear she's already in

the mix of coming now, looved Daddy. If he's using his strategy, using his disadvantage for his advantage, now, I'm not gonna judge, just say right the wrong way this is survival there in the wild. It takes out the big Daddy. Well guess what, that's the opportunity. So no matter what you feel like your angle is, keep going find the fight inside the dog in you. Yeah, I

said that right. I had to look around for a second, but it was just so amazing to see something like that because I think a lot of times or I feel like I know I witnessed, we get discouraged by optics. And I don't want you to get discouraged by that because at any moment, all of this can cease. And wouldn't it be a shame to die and have never lived to not have something that you're willing to stick your neck out for to say, if it was only a sweet taste, could it be anything like this? I

want it? Okay, I think that's it. I think I should be done. I can do have more, but I'm gonna stop here. I want you to be amazing. I want you to live life on purpose and for a purpose. And I want you to tell somebody about us. Yeah, if you think somebody can benefit, that might be a guest. Heck, you might have an idea for the show. Whatever email us Vitamin D at dawn to day speaks dot com. I would love it, and you know I'll do advice later. So if you need some advice in your love, relationships,

your career, whatever Vitamin D ding Day speaks. No, I'm gonna keep it real with you, because what do I say when we talk about in a light that's 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. And you know that it's

coming out of love. Now, when you tell somebody to tell somebody else, to tell somebody else about the podcast, don't forget to write us because you know, mona, folks be looking at the podcast, They're gonna be like, yo, is it popul or not? And if you're listening to every week every other day, damn beer about to be every day and soon s indicated around the world. People need to know what's popping, So telling what's up, tell them we outside, okay, And then after you do that,

you're like, yeah, what's doing doing? What is Jeremiah doing on the red carpet? You know you're on social media right everywhere vitamin indeed during day check it out. Okay, clips Eames quote, maybe not so many quotes, but pictures, all stuff that's happening here when we talk to guests. Okay, all right, what I say, I'm about to get out of here. I like this morning thing. If I out of my way, this I feel like this could be

a rhythm or vision a moment. But I gotta talked to Jeremiah, gotta talk to the powers that be, but I like this. But anyway, um, I'm out of here. You know, always say I'm in the business of making dreams come true and I damn sure ain't gonna forget about my So until next time, always remember you are your greatest Ask that yeah, you're righting many right with me. I get excited about your lives.