'The Big Door Prize' Can Be Yours

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what's going on? I'm coming to you live from in the closet. I'm in the closet. I'm starting to feel like my brain is coming back. It's just been everything everywhere, all that wants muddling and doing its thing. But I'm grateful, and I remind myself that I am growing, and when you're growing, that means that you are uncomfortable. Now rather being irritated than wonder why this or why am I

so feeling like this, understand that growth is happening. Huh. Listen, growth reminds you that you're still alive and I ain't trying to die to day. So that being said, now that I'm getting my mind and it's coming at ease and I'm being in existing, you know, I decide to turn on a little TV. Now. I don't really watch TV often, but when I do, I find myself a

good show. In fact, my favorite thing to bach of you really want another truth if I'm minding down or if I need to decompress is a Disney animated film That's My Girl Too. And I am finding here lately that Apple TV has some really great shows. I had just got done watching the film Tetris, and then there's a new one on the block. Have you heard about The Big Door Pride? Well, it's all about potential. Yeah,

that's what it is about. It's about tapping into that magic part of what we call life, a reason for being here. See similar to why I'm enjoying this show is that of with Disney animated films, It's all about inspiration and changing it and manifestation. So another reason why I really decided to say, let me check out this film is because Gabrielle Dennis is in it and I had the opportunity to meet her when I was working with the Steve Harvey Morning Show and I covered the

NAACP Image Awards. It was the luncheon and I feel like we ran into each other twice. If you go on YouTube, you might catch the clip. I don't know if it's there. I do remember I had posted it on my Instagram, but I have cleared that our child, but it might still be there. I'm not gonna say it's not. But either way, I said, that's my sister girl. I said, let me see what's she doing. I don't want to misconstrue the last network. When I spoke to her,

what she was on. No, no, no. The reason why we ran into each other because she was talking about her role. She was playing Whitney Houston, and I remember I was loving it because even her cadence and her energy that she was giving. I don't know which programmer, which network out. I don't even want to throw one out there and be wrong. But anyway, that's the point. So that lured me in to really open it. Now.

The film is based off this book entitled The Big Door Prize and it's by M. O. Walsh and it also stars Chris O'Dowd o d o w d a white man. Yes, Gabby is married to a white man. His name is Dusty. Oh, and this name kind of describe hi. His character is No, it's not Shade. I'm not trying to be Shaddy. What I'm saying is is that, well, what happens when you don't change, or you don't move something, if you don't fluff your pillows, if you don't draw

your curtains, Dusk gets on it because change isn't taking place. Well, similar into this series that I am unpacking. I don't know if I should say spoiler alert. You might want to stop this, pause this, not stop pause this and watch it, because I don't want to tell you too much. But I just gotta give you what I need to give you, and I need to catch I need for you to catch it because it's gonna be high. Okay, all right? Anyway, So when things are sitting in a

place and not moving. They collect dust. And that's similar to what's going on with this brother, Dusty. He's so content with his life that he hasn't even imagine what could be more, Dawn, what are you talking about? I know now I don't even recall what's the actual city as taking place in. I want to say Deerfield or is that just the name of the store anywhere? Imagine

the small town. I imagine it's somewhere to be like in the Midwest, because you know, I'm from Detroit, Honey, after living to End DC, New York and LA, I can admit we are a big country, Honey, we are a bit slow, Honey, we are giving very small town. Now. This is Detroit that I'm speaking of two thousand and four and before, how about that? Okay, just keeping it real anyway. So what happens is is there's this machine

that a store has. The machine appeared out of nowhere one night, okay, and this machine is causing some type of I want to say disturbance, but not negative disturbances necessarily, but just movements of disturbance in the everyday flow of the town. Because it's letting people know they got potential. What do you mean by that doing? Oh, I'm glad you asked. Okay, So this gentleman, his name is Jonathan. I don't want to mispronounce his last name. I shouldn't

know this, but listen, I'm in a closet. I'm in a closet anyway, So Jonathan has the store. I told you. This machine appears there and it's called Morphol. Now morphol in the name, same definition, it's butterfly. Come on, Life of a Butterfly. Yes, please check out my best friend's book, Shelley Slack. It's entitled The Life of a Butterfly. That was a segue anyway. So in this show, this machine

appears there. It's entitled Morphol, which means butterfly. And there's a butterfly on there, and the machine appeared out of nowhere. Now you put quarters inside of the machine. It asks you to put your Social Security number in there. Then it scans your fingerprints. Then it tells you that it is going to reveal to you your life potential. Dawn, what do you mean by that? Exactly what I mean by that? So, now you have a principal who's at a school, who now said that she supposed to be

a motorcyclist. So guess what she got herself a motorcycle and she is living her best life. Huh. It got some people saying there that should going archery, a healer, a male model, and all of these people are spending nights rather they're playing guitars, singing new songs, doing things otherwise they would have never done. Now, Dusty, he's given

what is going on? One? Why are people acting like they can't be like the olden day when people manifested their dreams, when they wrote them down and they just did it. H And what I really like about this show is so it's that so unconventional. I'm gonna get to Gabby Gabrielle. I can I call her Gabby girl? I'm getting real comfortable. Gabrielle Dennis is her name? Please? This is all about branding. John, Thank you, John. I'm

in the closet. I'm in the closet. I'm gonna say that every time, just so that we're clear, and then I'm doing this myself, so please make room. My former front page family know what I mean by that. Anyhow. So this film is so unconventional because, like I said, you already have the mixed race couple where the mother is of African American descent and then the husband is

from Ireland. That's Dusty, Honey, given Dusty and the thing that's so interesting how these two worlds came together and while all the people, all these people are getting their great potential of something that sounds amazing, Dusty is like, why aren't they just manifesting like people did in the olden days. He was so apprehensive about trying the machine that he actually tried the machine and it told him who he is right now, now you better catch this.

This is double sided because it's like, on one token, Dusty, if you're in discontent, you're everything that you said you want to be. But then on the other side, he was disappointed because it wasn't more. You better catch it. It's hot, I know now. The reason why I want to point that out is because Jonathan, the gentleman that owns the store, he had his potential revealed on a

card as a magician. And the line that he said in the film or the show the episode that I don't want to misconstrue because it's not verbatim, is that he said, wow, this explains why I've kept every Magician book since I was a kid. So it wasn't that he didn't know what was inside of him. He just didn't have either to know how or the courage to tap into it. We also have to realize that when we talk about potential, that is a choice. You know, I say on plenty of previous episodes that you have

to choose to live your best life. You have to choose to live your life on purpose and for purpose. Huh, you better catch it. So Dusty, it's actually in this disappointment because it's like, well, why isn't there more for my life? But at the same token, it's like, Dusty, you weren't trying to envision more. You felt that everything was just okay. You were fine with just being so damn Dusty, I gotta ask you, are you, Dusty, what

kind of dust is going on in your house? Have you made room for change, for possibility, for you to live your best life on po's and for a purpose. I'm asking you this because this could be your big door pride and one thing that I was thinking in the film and then they are the show and they answered it immediately. I was like, why would you go ahead and go ahead and put your social Security number and your fingerprints in there and don't even know where

it goes. Well, Dusty, he is a teacher at a high school, the same high school that the principal got her motorcycle and is living her best life. Yeah, and his daughter goes there. That's just a caveat. But in that class, the students that clarified, like, listen, mister Hubbard, the store doesn't even have WiFi. The guy Jonathan, the owner doesn't even know technology like that, so how could

it be hooked up to what I know? That's the magical part about it, But more importantly the thing that stood out to me, and I want to watch this with you on this journey about why it's important to choose to live your best life and tap into the potential. And then to my girl Gabriel Dennis, Honey, she's giving royalty down. I even like the intentionality of using the purple. That's all on her and how you have to choose it, because what happens when you got so much noise around you?

How did you focus? I was talking to this guy kept running into we connected over us sneakers Holka sneakers. Have y'all heard about this Holka Listen, do you know how much of our girl? I think we need to tip a little talk. And I kept running into him, he told me, and I told him. I was like,

I'm gonna be bigging an Oprah. And this is before I identified as well with an impact like Michael Jackson, but at the time, and he was like, oh wow, really, because everybody doesn't have the courage to tap into their true potential because sometimes I think it's so very deep instead side that we forget and see just like this morphoe machine, it just put it in the forefront. Well, how about if you just kept it in the forefront.

And he said to me, he said, don I wish I could remember his name right now, but he said, Dahn, you aren't going to have to move like you got earplugs on and blinders on. Now, if you've been listening to the podcast, if you're going back to some episodes, which one I don't know, but if you go on, you're gonna find it for a show where I discuss

this gentleman. And he goes on to talk about the fact of how you are have to live your life because your focus has to be so disciplined, and it just reminds me of when Cynthia Cynthia Mayweather over at kjlage when we had lunch one day, and she talked about how it's so important to have a laser focus because when it's a laser focus, it can cut it through things. Now, not saying that a broaden light is good isn't good, but sometimes you gotta laser focus it in.

And when you are in a situation or when you find yourself in the circumstances that you are trying to do something that you've never even done before, think people around you haven't done before, you gotta remain focus. That's why they said that the dream the vision that came to you. So how can you expect anyone else to know what is your vision and your dream therefore tapping your potential and so cass that's Gabrielle's dentist's character's name.

She finds herself in situations where her environment doesn't support her like that. So what that means and what that looks like is that when you have that focus, you are going to have to stick to your vision. She said that she is royalty and everywhere around her is telling her, don't boast, don't brag, don't be who you are. But I have to ask you, who do you say that you are? Whose do you say that you are? And you have to teach people how to treat you. The Big Door Prize by m Ol Walsh, and it's

based off of a book. Heck, I'm about to get the book, but in the meantime, if you got Apple TV, you really need to check it out because I don't know if there's something that you've always wanted to do, something that you do know because it's always been something that tantalized your mind as a child. Huh, that got you excited, that got you to feel good. I'm not saying you gotta drop everything now, but can't you just tap into it? You know? Marianne Williams, She's saying, our

deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Well, it's something about that potential, because that potential doesn't let you know all the way of where it can go. And yet we are beings that are always trying to measure things. Huh huh, So what if you are powerful beyond measure. What if that is the case, I said, I'm gonna be picking an Oprah who out there right now was

doing it. I'm not saying that nobody else can't. But it's not measurable because when we think of a likeness of Oprah, well hello, when we think of an impact Michael Michael Jackson, well hello, it's a new dawn, It's a new day. Hey, hey baby, I didn't come to play. I'm about to do some things's never seen because God promised me exceedingly and abundantly, far more than what I could ever imagined, far more than what you could ever imagine.

And all God asked you to do is triumph. You know, we're here for a good time, not a long time. That's why we got to choose to live our life on purpose and for a purpose and step on the break of our potential. There's a priest in the film. I say priests because they referred to him as a father, a black man, and which Dusty met at a bar who he ordered a hard drink. I said, Wow, the duality while a showcase of where just all humans? Because

why couldn't a father have a drink? Why couldn't a priest, a father, a man of God be in the ball? Why not can we make room for people? But the father explained, because I told you Dusty was so perplexed before or I can't recall after knows after when he found out his potential is everything that he is right now, he was so disturbed and he couldn't he couldn't understand. He was like, father, why is everybody putting all their faith and something outside themselves machine and see what happens?

As the father explained, is that it reminds people to dare to dream, to reach out for something that is intangible. I'm looking for America and search for the impossible. I wish I knew all the words, but that's the Clark sisters right there. And to just go into the abyss because we can stay Dusty in our lives and do the same damn thing every day and every day out. But what if you just were to tap out to something more. I'm just asking what if? Because if you

stay where you are, well you know what you've always done. Again, that's masterable. But are you ready to be powerful beyond measure? That's why I dare you to dream, stop trying to have everything figured out and just take a chance step into the unknown. Take a note from Burnet Brown and lean into your vulnerability. Huh. Sometimes we take for granted how long we're here for, and I want to remind you that we're here for a good time, not a long time. Are you ready? H Are you ready for

the big door prize? Better? Yeah, your big door prize? You better catch it. Stay up today with me because I'm gonna be checking out on Apple TV. All right. I will have more to talk about that because we gotta impack some more. We gappy yet, but I feel like I had to get cast cast. Remember that's our character. I felt like I had to give a contact of the show a little bit. Hopefully it makes sense, but you gotta catch it, all right? All right? Well that

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