Remember Who You Are

You know, that's all about shedding light. So you're going to see the good and the bad, just like there's an end to every gang, just like there's a dusk before dawn. Because in order to be our best selves, we have to see ourselves. No time for foolishness. Now, I do understand that this is a process, and you will see how in past episodes I'm unraveling and I'm discovered because vitamin D is a gift from me as well.

Vitamin D speaks to me, Vitamin D helps heal me, and vitamin D has been a dream of mine to shed light and give different perspectives. So I love that you're here, and if you're returning, welcome back. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for consistently investing in my dreams. Thank you. I appreciate you. And although I don't physically see you, know that I see you. And we're taking

this to the top. We're taking it to the top because the world needs vitamin D. Right, okay, And if this is your first time, welcome, I am so glad to have you. Thank you for embarking on this journey, and I'm so honored to be on this journey with you. And I hope that you come back so we can continue to do the work. I hope that this is a more of healing for you. I hope that it's a gift that you want to continue to keep on giving, because only good is coming from this. Only good. Wait

did you say only good? Um? So yeah, so it's one first episode of one. What you say, happy new Year? You know what? Joyful new year? Let me because we gotta count it all joy. But let me tell you why I had to change instead of saying just happy, I wanted to go to joy. I've been telling you all that, Uh, I study improv at the groundings and It's been phenomenal for my life. One I can be just as dramatic as I am. I'm just done extra

a whole lot of emotion just it. But it also teaches me so much about life and and receiving and building on. And in the last episode it was all about raping up the new year and realizing the gift that gave us. So yes, I hope you received that. But now let's talk about the empire. The end is what we talk about the action, And that's another principle

I learned from the Groundlings from learning improv. But why I had to change for why I decided to go from happy too joyful because when we go into character and we have to find an emotion for that character, Groundlings doesn't allow you to use happy because happy is a description. Happy is fleeting. When we talk about the characters at Groundling, it's all about being. In fact, improv is all about the state of being. Improv is life because in life, all you can do is be in

this very moment right here we are. I said it moment for life. You gotta treasure this moment for life. And you see how they build in their ad ad so anyway they told us. You know, you can't choose happy as an emotion because it's an adjective, it's a description of the being. Instead, find another word, so joy, because joy is a state of being joyous and now, and when we talk about being, we have to choose a state to reside in, not something that's fleeting in

a moment, something that is Now. This is something I want to talk about as we are embracing this new year, as it's unraveling, because now it's the unpacking and as I talked about in the last episode, as the gifts. Now we have to unwrap it, right and when we unwrap it, we see the essence of what is in it. You feel me what's in the gift? Because and knowing what's in the gift, that's how we can present it to the world and hence be present. Right now, do

you dig what I'm saying? We're in the present, the present, present, the present. A gift is a present, so let us reside in the present. Okay, now, twenty the gift was the vision. That's is all about taking action. Now. Usually, uh, we talk about visions for this year. What do we see for ourselves? No, we've had time to see it. We've had time to see it. And I say this to Dawn down. You had time to see what it is that you want. You had time to be You're

back against the wall. What are you gonna do when everything is looking against you? And when I say that, looking the conditions of society, and you're knowing that you're going to have to embark in your dreams, knowing that you are going to be in the state of being uncomfortable. I got the vision. We all had the vision. If you are seeking more, it's because you've all already received the vision. So excuse me if I say it's time

to go beyond the vision now. In order to go beyond the vision, I had to say, wait a minute, don't who argue? Who are you? Three words? We can take a lifetime to describe what you say. You know, I gotta kick you off of myself sometimes. I know, I told you I'm everywhere high anyway, So as we take this lifetime of unpacking Dawn, who are you now?

I wonder I was sitting here, I was sitting on the couch and I was just thinking about life, you know, specifically because I'm really gunn hold my dreams, my dreams are everything to me, and it's just not just career. It's my health, it's my state of being, it's my peace of mind, it's my family, it's at everything. That's the essence of dawn. Remember, vitamin D is about shutting light. And I want to take all of me. I want

to be whole, whole. I don't want to have to be something when I leave something else on the table when I step in the room, I want all of me in the room because this vision that I've acquired for my life, it's time for me to show up completely as the gift that was packaged in twenty HM the vision of where I said where I'm going to go, because for me was definitely like WHOA, what is going on?

For me was like you can't wait for a perfect opportunity, a situation, a circumstance, a condition, because no, no tomorrow brings. But listen, we've heard this consistently for I don't know how long, about the fact we don't know what tomorrow is or what tomorrow's will bring it how to live in and now. But for some reason, you know, for me, was that not I saw that again or I saw

that before when my mother died. Uh, it was like Dawn, life is fine at this time, we got here is fine and what's good you gotta go after And actually that was spearheaded my move to California. Mm hmm. I was like, noh, to lose. I was working out fitness, loving on done. I said, I gotta come out here for the tree, for the tree, but I come on weekend saying that on the Steve Harvey Boarding show. I got the fun it in deep packets for the TV

series called For the Love of Jason. Don't tell me, oh amen, that was fine care for mm hmm, No, listen, you know it's about growth because it was a lot of stretching. So just because you know you hear this emotion of joy, Uh, I don't think that it didn't come easy. I don't think that I didn't have a family situation within forty eight hours. I had to pack and go across the country. Okay, but I had to remember who I am. And so that's what I wanted

to talk about on this episode. And look, I can go from zero to one hundred like I went from joy. The crimes are not back at one. So because that's life. Life is a ride So as I was telling you, I was sitting on the couch and I was looking at my arm and I said, wait a minute, look at these hair follicles. I said, could you imagine if a hair follower one day decided that it was gonna

be a bird. No, really, think about that hair followicer one day and say, you know what, instead of hair coming out, it's about to be an egg and it's going to be a bird. The reason why I it as because gave us all some sort of vision. I don't care what you say, um you got something from it, and I want to extend my love to you, my comfort, my support to you. If you endured a lot of loss, a lot of pain, a lot of stuffering, I hope that you continue to seek into receive healing for that.

But realize, what I need you to realize is to understand that you made it. You're still here and that's a gift. So what are you gonna do with this gift that you've been wrapping up all the twenty Let's gift a vision, this gift of insight, this gift of seeing girl from a different perspective, a different altitude, um even perhaps even seeing you in a different way. Well, this is what I'm doing, and this one I'm embarking on the notion of staying committed to knowing who I am.

I say that because, um, knowing who I am, it's going to get me into the life that I deserve, and I deserve greatness exceedingly and abundantly because I live a yes and kind of life. Mm hmmm, I'm addic. But the reason why I said I need to focus on being committed to knowing who I am is because when you know who you are, you know who you are well, you know who you are, you operate as such. You don't see a bird trying to swim underwater, That's what fishes do. You don't see a turtle trying to fly,

That's what birds do. I'm not saying that you have to because stricted, but when you know who you are, you know what your gifts are, you know how to operate in such. And I am choosing to operate and such. I got the vision of what I want. Vitaminthe is here, it's coming out your speaker. But as we bark on this who I am and who you are is realizing that you have to consistently walk in that, and you can't second guess to see, my faith relies in God,

and I'm not a Christian. I have said that time and time again, because my faith, my God is bigger than what any religion can put him in the box, her in a box to be. But I love the stories and I love the parallels because that's how it relates to me. And that's a way of understanding a God that says I go by many names, a God

that says I reside in you. So this God that I believe in has references upon references, testimonies upon testimonies, And if I know that I have a promise on my life, there is no second guessing what my God can do, because just as though if I were applying for a job, I put references down, and I entrust those references with those names and those numbers that perhaps that email addresses going to speak on my behalf and high regard, so I can inquire this position. See already

got this position with God. God doesn't appoint to disappoint, and he fears came time and time again to fulfill promises in my life that said I'm giving you a hope and a future. But understanding that faith without works is there? What would I ever second question? Who am I? I don't want you to second guess who you are? You've got greatness inside of you and it's time to act as such. Can you imagine one day if a fair following on your decided not to be the hair

follicle anymore crazy? So why should you operate anything differently? If you are destined for greatness to be that film director, to be that speaker, to be able that voiceover talent, to be that scientist, to be that neurologist, to be that heart surgeon, to be that psychologist, to be that therapist, to be that actor, that singer, carpenter, preacher, who need to get to work. Faith without works is dead. See just look at it right now was the vision? And

now this is the plus one, the and one. This is the alley hoop. So we on this plus one season? Right, you got the vision? Now you know who you are. Let's operate in such. This has taken action. And when you want a second guess, you gotta know whose essences inside of you? You you survived of your worst days. What can't you do now? I got that from Steve Harvey. Now who you got that from? What? That's his business. But when you think about it, what can't you get through?

This is a year of counting it all. Joy, Joy that you have this blank canvas to paint this beautiful picture. What are you choosing to paint? Who are you doing? I'm an artist. I'm an artist that goes outside of the lines. I'm an artist of so many colors. I'm an artist that inspires. I'm an artist that gives hope. I'm an artist to live out my dreams life and didn't live in color. Remember who you are. Time waits

for no one. We saw that all of and we've really been saying it our entire lives, honestly, But for some reason, that impact it came and a lot of people like, oh my gosh, twenties twenty was so awful, And then you know a lot of things that may have been paint. Like I said it before, it was truly a gift. And if you're feeling remnants of it, you gotta understand, as I even told myself, Dawn, you're still growing through things, and things still hurt. Even a

diamond was once a piece of coal. Did you hear me? Even a diamond was once a piece of coal, and it took pressure, okay, and it took cuts, and it took confidence and courage to step into the light to shine. That's you. We gotta be that diamond coming in this year. We gotta realize how valuable we are. This year, we gotta realize that our dreams are worthy. This year, we gotta realize this is an and one type of year. This is a plus one type of year. And knowing

who you are, you can operate as such. Walk over your dominion in your life. Time waits for no one, and you know the declarations, You know what you want to be. Now, get out the hesitancy when you start second guessing your ability to understand that it's taken you your entire life to get to where you are right now. Why wouldn't you be equipped? Because you gotta come with perfection. Even Jesus failed three times, even as dust before dawn, Even there's a year with every yank, Hello, show grace.

And I gotta show myself grace this year because this whole notion of having everything gotta be perfect, it causes us to freeze, It causes us to major in the minor dawn. Just get it out, Dawn, Stop, have that everything together, Dawn. See, we try to restrict our life. You don't know what you're plancking, and you gotta show up as you are and take a chance. And I don't know why these moments get emotional for me in times because I guess it's tapping into something. Uh, And

that's not the thing. When you know who you are, you operating your potential. Okay, it ain't discovering the potential is tapping into the potential. And you're tapping your potential because you know that it resides there. You know that it resides there because gave the gift of that. And your potential to tapping in is that gift. That's the essence, that's you. That's this little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine, this little light of mine, I'm gonna

let it shine. We learned that it's little beings to let the light shine. When you got the vision, Now it's time to unwrap it and let it shine. That what's the gift. You gotta let it shine. I keep saying this because it's door die. It's door die, because you are only here for finding amount of time. If you had to see how real life is from far or near. Showed you that. It showed you that I don't care who you are. No one is invincible. Are you willing to be seen? Are you willing to operate

as such? Do you know that you signing up and you're walking in everything that you were destined to be, that you could be saving somebody's life? Do you hear me? I don't care if you have a dream to make a pencil to that very artist you allowed to to express emotion. What's your guest? Who are you? Man? We gotta get out there and do it. Weasu And the reason why I said to remember who you are is because this year is of lank slate right, and it's going to be amazing. But the winds will blow and

the rain will come down. You gotta ensure that we're standing, and you stand because you know who you are. When you know who you are, you're rooted. Those roots are strong, Those roots are deep, and they intertwine and they intersect, and they travel so far, near and wide. I know who you are, okay, I know what you deserve. You deserve the best you deserve. To take a chance. I'll remember, faith without works is dead. Go out there and get

it again. A lot of things were subtracted in. I know, a lot of pain, a lot of hurt, but it was a way to make room, making room for a new thought process, making room for a new vision, a new outlook, a new he's in, a new Why I knew you or just you just making a way for you. So now that you got this palett in this way, who are you going to be like? For me? We're

taking Vitamin D to the next level. I guess it's so emotional because I just think about how many years ago I can remember living in New York and man, my mentor skip dealer got me my first microphone. It was a USB mike. It was this little Samsung joint and I would be under my comforter sweating because you know, in New York there's no central air unless you're really fancy with I was a little fledgling out in New York pursuing a dream, and um, I would be under

that sheet, sweating is dripping down my face. To record by vitamin I would be sweating, and I'm just getting so emotional because look at we're Vitamin D is right now, what's coming out your speakers? So this year, I'm increasing subscribers and I'm showing up as doing something, give you doing. Some days it's gonna be together. Sometimes it's not. Okay. I mean I told you my dream of it being an old bri. I'm sharing this Vitamin D to the world, okay. And if this is a gift for you, I implore

you to keep going and do it. If it's in you, do it because remember the real gifts, they just keep on giving. And I hope that you know you share this with somebody and so they can be a gift for them, so they can implore them. Because if it's keeping you whip at night, if it's cost you not to sleep, man, keep going and keep doing it. And when people go say no, and people don't give you objections.

You know who you are. You know the promise that's on your life, and no matter what comes your way, well no matter what adversity comes your way, you know everything is happening for your greater good. And that's why you gotta remember who you are. You gotta know why you're doing what you're doing. You gotta remember what that gift was, gave you that vision of the insight about what you're gonna do you went in last year? Now

was the be like Diana Ross, I'm coming out. I went through a well to know, I gotta let it show. I'm come in. This is the year that we're coming out and one it's the plus one kind of season. Okay, And you gotta know who you are, and that's taking time to self discovery. But remember even understanding those three words, who you are? Who am I? Who are you? Those three words, no matter which order, which sequence you put

them in, they take a lifetime to define. But it's the lining, and that's living and living is growing, living is moving, Living is transformational. Living is being more than what you are right now. Living doesn't stop. The only time you stop is when you're dead. But guess what, while you're living, you need to be be all that you are destined to be. Take the chance on you because when you're going, you're going. That's it. That's the

dunned line. And I guess I'm emotional because I look how quickly I went from fighting, indeed under the covers, sweaty, trying to get it out your speakers world. Why let's go one. And here's another thing, don I can imagine you're saying this, don I don't know what I've been through. I lost so much. I almost lost my mind. I didn't lose my mind. I lost my house, I lost my family. I'm caught up an addiction. But I say, guess what you're still here? Yes, what you're still isn't it?

Guess what? You gotta hope and faith to keep going? Yes, when you're worthy, Yes what you're a daughter son of a key. Yes, once you got greatness in your life, guess what God said and your everything? Guys what Just guess what? Guess what? Guess what you deserve it? And when we talk about living our best life, and we talk about living our life that we deserve, when we talk about living on purpose and for purpose, it takes you to show up as you are. This ain't no

halfway kind of ordeal. So I don't think you're gonna come stepping up in here living all the riches and the promises of your life and you ain't gonna show up with everything that you are meant to be and everything that you are destined to be. Honest work, Could you imagine the sun trying to halfway show up? You know, the sun gonna shine and just like a diamond you were meant to shine. Yeah, you might be that piece

of cold stage right now. Yeah you might have that pressure. Yeah, you might have people chipping away in circumstances, shipping away into But I'm calling you to stand up. I'm calling you to stand in your life because it's value in you. I don't care how many guts, i don't care how the pressure is going. You have to realize that God is here to restore because he said he's doing a

new thing. This is a new year, a new you to be uncovered, to be unwrapped, to be the gift that you are going to present in the present to somebody else. Be the gift that you were going to present in the present to somebody else. We're talking about it. Yes, and kind of lifestyle you hear me. I'm talking abundance, I'm talking and one. I'm talking plus one. I'm talking faith without works is dead. I'm talking about living your best life. I'm talking about living your best life. I'm

talking about living your best life. You understand me. What does it look like? You already know what it looks like. If it's nothing like your surroundings, then you need to start acting and walking and talking as such, What does a smart business person do, what does a hairstylists do? How does a motivational speaker walk? How do they talk? What kind of deals do they sign up? I'm telling you you gotta act as if you aren't ready are

here's the season to do. But guess what. You gotta know who you are, and in this time, it's remembering who you are. The winds will blow, the rains will come, but joy comes in the morning. Joy is what I received. Joy is where I choose to reside. Joy is right now. Joy. I'm counting it all joy because if I know things are working in the greater good. My god, I'm so excited for this new take it. I have so much I've been last taking Oh Mamma died. My mother died,

and I don't really talk about it that often. It's really delving into it. You'll see him in a previous episode with Carla Farrell, were she shared about losing her mother. It's the breast cancer and finding out the airport. But to really understand the essence of my mother dying, Oh my gosh, I don't want her to be in mere pain, but I can't tell you wrapping around or challenging and learning how to be Dawn and discovering dawn and realizing

when you don't have a support like a mother. I see how God has blessed me with so many friends whose mothers have taken me under the wing. And I appreciate it because nobody you can't understand, and it's like it's something you don't want to understand. But even in the moments when you think about how many things causes pain, it ain't nothing but that cut when you step into the light because I realized that now I speak a language that not everybody that's fortunate or maybe not so

fortunate can speak. There's an understanding, it's a different realm I can step in. And going back to losing my mother, I'm just saying, I'm I'm just stepping out of that decade and I'm excited about a new thing. And you know, you look at life and it's always something. I don't want you to look at all this stuff, but life is always gonna be something. But what are you gonna do with it? What are you gonna change your perspective? What are you gonna realize who you are? Because coming

into the last decade. You know, I started out in New York. I was in New York and last decade, this new decade up. I'm in l A. I'm in La with my podcast I'm in a Lay, A weekend segment of Steve harvey mortgage show called What's Happening. I'm in l A and A filmed the TV series I'm in l A and I'm studying improv. I'm in a lay and I'm still living a dream. I've noticed I

said living the dream. I'm sure you've heard this before, but they say one of the richest places in the world is not in Abu Dhabi or Dubai, It's at the cemetery for how many people have died with the dreams, dreams that have came to them in visions, visions that have been wrapped up that God presented them in the moments that they were spending time to themselves. But unfortunately they didn't have the courage to unpack them, unwrap them. They didn't have the courage to present them. Why because

perhaps maybe they forgot who they are. And that's why I gotta challenge you to remember who you are, who you are as a survivor, who you are somebody that's meant to thrive who you are as somebody that deserves to live their best life. And in order to live your best life, you gotta understand that you deserve your best life. Remember who you are so you can know who you are. It's yours. It got your name on it. Nay amens claim it. It's yours for the asking. Name

it claimant, it's yours for the asking. Faith with our works is dead. I'm gonna get the Card Sisters on here. They're from Detroit, and we got some things to talk about. Because when you remember who you are, you gotta understand that you got to infiltrate yourself in an environment of who you are. So what do I mean by that? In times of getting to the point of being bold to go after this podcast, being bold to go after

my weekend segment, I had to have music. I was celebrating the greatness that was already there, and I would listen to the Card Sisters and it was ministry to my soul. Because I had to nurture my soul. I had to go back to the root of who I am. I had to go back to the root of what my beliefs are. Because did somebody tell me that this girl from Detroit whose daddy died when she was three months her mama was seeing her entire life with cancer. You can't tell that I forgot who I am you

because it's everything. Yeah, that's why you hear me right now. You did. Everything I am is who you hear right now. And I have to remind myself constantly about the promise. I gotta remind myself constantly when people want to throw a shade or the name series or can of magic because they don't know the promise like gout in my life. And that's the thing that's a hold on. That's another thing that you're gonna have to realize. Okay, people can't

see the vision that you got. Okay, so don't let them get in your ear about telling you what you can and what you cannot. Go Okay, You're gonna have to muster up the courage because when you see somebody acting as they are, how you gonna say they ain't? Because everything is adding up? What did I tell you? This is? And one kind of season everything needs to start adding up. Everything that you say that you you need to add it up this year, add them up

attie up at e up at the up. That's what this is about who you are because I need to add up, because I needed to make sense. I needed to make sense for your purpose. I need to make sense why this fine night time is here. I needed to make sense that you are here for a purpose and one purpose. As you realize that you're hearing me, so let this be a joyful new year for you. I'm so excited for the abundance to come. Even in the midst of that tangent, I'm excited to announce. Um,

we're approaching our six month mark. We've been rocking for six months and we're growing. Amen. So I appreciate you. Vitaminto y'all is doing something right. Well, I want to make sure that you continue to tell everybody about us. Let's join the community and let's get the pack going, because who don't want to edify each other? Who doesn't want to be edified? Huh? Imagine us all? Are you ready?

It's one thing for one piece of diamond to two shine right and started listening right, It's like, oh dope, could you imagine like all these diamonds right? Realizing that we're in the essence of self that probably turned as a cold meaning or imperfections. Right, we start out in the state and all this pressure needs experience of these cuts. Imagine us all coming together right and in the light

the sun bounces. Can you imagine the glitterati that's going on here, like the dopeness, the swag, the epityme of the epitome. So let's get this vitamin D community. Go and tell somebody to tell somebody, to tell somebody about this podcast, because we're about getting excited about your life.

We're not asking for anything, we are giving everything. And I talked to some of your favorite celebrities everyday people inspirational conversations and insights just to give you a little bit of vitamin D. That also happens to be me and well here every Monday. But I think I'm ready to give more. I'm ready to give more because I'm realizing each time by doing an episode, I get something. And I'm living my life on full. You know that life bank account. I'm going on full because I want

to get from my overflow. I want to get from my overflow. So if you have any comments, you want to be a guest, you want to submit an advice letter, go ahead and email us at Vitamin D at Dawn day Speaks dot com and we'll check it out. He will filter the information and some way will make its way back to me. Okay, we have some exciting guests that we have this year. It's it's gonna be amazing.

Vitamin D is unraveling and continue to stay on this journey. Now, if you're not listening to the podcast and you're like, what's up in my life or I need something one day, understand that you can also find me on social media

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two and making Okay, I'm out of here. You see, I'm gonna keep going joy for happy, joyful New Year, No joyful new year to you. Let it be amazing and you show up every way that you are because you are what you are and you're star. All right. Well, that's it for you until next time. Always remember you are your greatest asset.