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The Hero's Journey
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In this episode I explain the definition of my "Hero's Journey."
Talking Points....
. Leaving Baltimore for LA 13 years ago
. Trials and Tribulations of growth
. Becoming then falling off the mountain top
. Returning home to Baltimore with full understanding of my existence
. Dark Knight of The Soul
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Introduction to Bigger Talks
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Welcome to Bigger Talks with Eric Bigger, a podcast dedicated to delving into unexpected conversations with a diverse range of guests.
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I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and I'm joining you each week to create an authentic space of dialogue about the subcultures of American life.
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The Hero's Journey Episode
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Bigger Talks, Bigger Talks.
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We back again with another episode.
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And I'm so happy to get this episode out because it's all about the hero's journey.
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Well, let's get right into it.
Eric's Personal Hero's Journey
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Let's talk about the hero's journey.
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So the intentions of this episode is to kind of dive deep into my journey of being a hero, where I come from.
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So this past weekend, I was in Baltimore, Maryland to see a good friend of mine, Walter Sanders.
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He goes by Stone Heavy Hitter.
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He's a boxer to box in this match.
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And at the time, you know, all my friends, childhood friends, at least three of them came up to join the fight.
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And this is probably like the first time in like 20 years.
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All been in the same presence of one another at once.
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Unfortunately, the fight didn't happen.
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His opponent blood results came back negative or bad and he couldn't fight.
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So I don't know if he has some.
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enhancing performance drugs.
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I don't know.
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He didn't fight.
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But the root of it all, we were able to come together, connect, reminisce, and I felt like a kid again.
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And this was the first time in 13 years being away from home that I felt what it felt like to come back home as the hero.
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So I'm going to give you a little bit of background on the hero's journey and how it works and what it really means.
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So I have a chart here and basically it's departure.
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So my departure was 2010, June 12, 2010 is when I booked that Huawei flight, had a thousand dollars to my name.
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From Baltimore, I came to L.A.
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And then you have the initiation, then you have the return.
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So the return is what I just recently felt for the first time because I've been back and forth from L.A.
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to Baltimore for years.
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But this is the first time I felt like the hero will return back home.
From Baltimore to LA: The Adventure Begins
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So the departure, you know, when I left in June 12, 2010, they call it the call of adventure.
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I went on an adventure to discover who I am and what I am and what I'm going to do in this lifetime.
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Right.
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And I remember getting on that flight and shout out to Aunt Femaine.
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She was asking me, are you going to come back?
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I said, I'm not coming back to Baltimore.
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I'm gone.
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So $1,000, that's in my name.
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Some of you guys know the story.
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But anyway, a good buddy of mine at the time, Nick Shabbat, he's a celebrity barber, picked me up from the airport.
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I stayed with him for two weeks.
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He was such a pivotal moment in my career out here because he helped me get started.
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Thank you, Nick.
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We don't speak anymore, but it's all love.
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And then a few weeks after that, I ran into the CEO and founder of
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Aisha Pinky Cole of Slutty Vegan, the owner of Slutty Vegan.
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She's from Baltimore.
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We went to high school together.
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And I ran into her at the club called the Key Club on Sunset at the time.
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And from there, she helped me, you know, find an apartment.
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She was the one who told me I should do background acting.
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And she's super successful.
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I think her company is worth like $100 million, evaluation.
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So shout out to Pinky.
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Congratulations on all your success.
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True angel in my life.
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And always supported and gave to me.
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So I'm thankful for that.
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So, boom, I
Breakthrough in LA
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come out here.
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I give you synopsis of, you know, a little initiation of how I started.
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And then I just went on this journey of like to find myself from doing background acting, Uber, selling Kangen water machines and going to alkaline water, a bit of, you know, a door guide, a nightclub, personal training, auditioning, background acting, all the things.
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And, you know, my seventh year out here in L.A.,
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is where I feel like it was a little bit after the initiation is where I kind of like, oh, wow, I had my first opportunity to be on a TV show and to become something and to be visible and to be seen for who I am and not what I look like, right?
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So it took seven years for something magical to happen.
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Miracle season.
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And that's when Miracle season was born in 2017.
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How crazy is that, right?
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Yeah.
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You know, I've been on the shows on TV for 10 weeks.
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It changed my life.
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I'm with the Sixth Country, so I love.
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Boom, jumped off the show, did another show, went through games at the end of that year.
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Boom, waited another summer and did Bachelor in Paradise.
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And I did, that was 2018.
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Then I did Mastery from Kim with Viacom and Elon Gale.
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Shouts out to him.
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And Pepsi.
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It was a great opportunity in 2021.
Personal Growth and Self-Discovery
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And then from there, I just went on this whole discovery of finding my true self, going through ego death and going through pain and shame and guilt, fear and all these things.
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The hero.
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So last week, coming all the way back home.
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And I can say now with all that experience and respect this.
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travel, change, challenges.
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I can really appreciate how to return home as self.
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And, you know, some of you might take the comments and return home.
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Like, are you moving back home?
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No, no, no, I'm not moving back home.
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I don't know.
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Maybe.
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Who knows?
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The universe is always in control and we let it.
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But the return home for me was that now I can see me how everybody else see me or saw me for so long.
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Because I think my struggle in most of my life was...
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I didn't see myself the way others saw me because I was so had these big ideals and big ambitions.
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And, you know, I would tell my mom, like, if I didn't change your life, don't be proud of me.
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I changed your facial expression.
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You're smiling.
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You're happy.
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But I didn't change your life.
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So I put all this pressure on myself to be this person, to do this thing.
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And then I, you know, going back this past weekend, I'm like, I can really appreciate who I am, what I've been through.
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I can see the city of Baltimore for what it is.
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I can see the people there.
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I can appreciate where they are in their paradigm and their thinking and their actions and their behavior.
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No judgment, just grace and compassion.
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And it's like, that was the first time I'm like, man,
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I'm so, so grateful to be from Baltimore City.
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I'm so grateful for all the challenges and changes when I was there.
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The violence, the drugs, the negativity, fears, to making it out, to getting out and becoming a name or someone for everybody, for yourself, for your family.
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And it felt good.
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So this podcast is dedicated to any and everyone who's on a journey now.
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Because as I returned home, now I'm on a new journey.
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I'm on my second level of dreaming and going to the next level.
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The quote was a great quote by Tony Robbins.
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And he says, success is getting what you want.
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But fulfillment is doing what you're made for.
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And now I get to do what I'm made for.
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I get to do the things that are in alignment with my soul, my soul attractions, my soul purpose, right?
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I would tell people just because money's involved doesn't mean you got
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to say yes to it.
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And in some instance, you might on your journey, right?
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Like I did.
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But if it's not an environment, if it doesn't speak my French or my energy, I don't really want it because energy is everything.
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And if you're doing things because you can oppose to doing it because you really want to, you'll see the difference in your outcomes, your results, your relationships.
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And so I'm here to tell everyone listening and watching, however,
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Go for it.
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Get after it.
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There's going to be struggles.
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There's going to be challenges.
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There's going to be changes.
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There's going to be adversity.
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There's going to be fears.
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There's going to be setbacks.
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There's going to be hardships.
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There's going to be everything.
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You go to need.
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You don't need more than a magic mind shot.
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You don't need a miracle in disguise.
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You don't need some prayer.
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You don't need some faith.
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You don't need some movement working out.
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You don't need some clarity.
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You might be able to read some books, run into some people.
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But the main thing is not to give up.
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I experienced some very dark moments these last few years of my journey that made me really wake up to the journey of the hero, call home.
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And I think last year was a rebirth, the rebirth of who I am and what I'm becoming.
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The old self, the guy who left in 2010 to who I am in 2024 was completely different.
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And I'm just thankful.
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And, you know, being a hero sometimes is not easy because I had to jump to get the faith.
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I had to take the chance to advance.
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I had to be the trailblazer.
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I had to lead with no direction.
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I had to lead with no guidance to find guidance on the direction that I am going.
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But it feels good to know the truth.
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It feels good to experience some contrast on a journey, some resistance.
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I just want to be a beaming light for those who might be struggling, who's going through something, or who's on a journey, or who might be in the same
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space I'm in.
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Like,
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I always say, you're better than no one and no one's better than you.
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Right?
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Like, we all are the same, meaning collectively.
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So if I hurt you, I just hurt a few other people.
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Right?
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If I can help you, I can help a few other people.
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So the main thing for the hero on your journey is to stay the course, to seek perspective, advice, wisdom, and don't allow the bad moment to
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To feel like you have a bad life.
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Don't let one setback be the end of your legacy of who you are and what you're becoming because it gets scary.
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Especially for me, you know, creating a brand, being a brand, doing 101 things, being the face, being the voice, being a talent, being the speaker, being the marketer, the motivator, being all the things, wearing all the hats.
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Fear does creep in.
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Doubt does come up.
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But, you know, you keep going and you just have faith and you trust something greater.
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Blessed by the best.
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God is the greatest in the ladies, I like to say.
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Things turn out for your greater good and your highest good if you believe and you trust.
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But I like to say, I don't like to say I believe.
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I believe I don't.
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I know I'm so normal.
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I know I'm incredible.
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I know I have the power to help people see their power.
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I know I can inspire someone to change their life for good.
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I know I'm here on a mission to raise the frequency of the planet.
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I know.
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Don't believe that.
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I know.
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So with that faith and confidence, I'm so certain that if you're listening to this,
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It's purposeful.
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You're supposed to.
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And you need this message because it came through me to speak this today.
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And I'm so thankful for the opportunity to reconnect with everybody, no matter what part of their
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journey they're on.
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And I want you to know that, you know, I'm still growing.
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And the way I get over it is I pray, I work out, and I just keep having faith and using my tools that I've developed over the years to be where I'm at today.
Tools for Personal Growth
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But yeah, so go, I'm going to put this in the show notes.
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Go to YouTube and look up by Joseph Campbell.
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Gotta really watch this.
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Joseph Campbell.
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Such a great, great, great, great documentary.
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Oh, yeah.
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The Hero's Journey.
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It's called Finding Joe.
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It's really good.
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It's an hour and 20 minutes.
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Finding Joe on YouTube, please, please watch it.
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You're going to see what the hero's journey is and the call to adventure, the initiation, resurrection, coming back home and healing and evolving and going to a whole other dimension.
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