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131. The Secret to Resilience: Lessons from a Life of Unyielding Determination
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In this episode of the Spiritual Fitness podcast, host Eric Bigger uncovers powerful lessons in resilience through an inspiring conversation with Dr. Debra Waddles. Sharing her journey from overcoming the stigmatization of teenage pregnancy in the 1960s to achieving academic and personal success, Dr. Debra highlights how her upbringing and spirituality were crucial to her growth. She shares insights into self-worth, unwavering determination, and the transformative power of faith, enriched by moments of divine intervention from supportive strangers and mentors.
Also in this episode:
- Transformative power of faith, Dr. Debra's life illustrates the profound impact of spirituality and belief in one's divine potential as a pathway to overcoming life's adversities.
- Her journey emphasizes the significance of unwavering perseverance in the face of societal stigmas and personal challenges. Spiritual guides and unexpected mentors often appear in life, becoming pivotal in one's journey to success and fulfillment.
- Through "You Are Royal Beauty," Dr. Debra's encourages women to recognize their inherent worth and royal lineage, promoting holistic self-care and empowerment.
Guest Bio
Meet Dr. Debra Waddles, a renowned speaker, educator, author, and catalyst for change dedicated to empowering individuals, particularly women in their prime. An alumna of Howard University, Dr. Waddles’ impactful career spans from teaching to creating programs that foster resilience and personal growth. Her speeches are transformative experiences that invigorate the soul, inspire reinvention, and promote resilience. Whether discussing overcoming adversity, navigating life’s transitions, or aging gracefully, Dr. Waddles offers a path to empowerment and transformation. Visit Dr. Debra Warren Waddles' Website for more insights, follow her on Instagram @DebraWarrenWaddles, and explore her skincare products.
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Transcript
Introduction to Spiritual Fitness Podcast
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Welcome to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and each week we will explore powerful practices, inspiring stories, and expert insights to guide you on your path to holistic health. By blending spirituality and physical wellness, we support you in strengthening your body and soul. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual seeker or just beginning your journey, the Spiritual Fitness Podcast is here to help you unlock your inner potential and live your most vibrant, purposeful life.
Meet Dr. Deborah Warren-Wiles
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It's Miracle Season.
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Spiritual Fitness, Spiritual Fitness podcast. We back again for another episode and I'm so happy and I'm so grateful because I have a special guest. She's incredible. She's phenomenal. She's actually the mom of one of my great friends. We want to welcome to the podcast, Dr. Deborah Warren-Wiles. She's a renowned speaker, a catalyst for change, author, an educator. She's going to bring so much wisdom, so much medicine and so much light and love.
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Dr. Deborah, how
Family Legacy and Upbringing
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are you? Welcome to Spiritual Fitness. Thank you, Eric. And first of all, let me say thank you for having me. I never take any opportunity for granted to shed light. I thank the Father for placing us together.
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I love it. Amen. So just a little context that people, you know, listen to. So Christian, Chris Walker is her son. We went to Hampton university together. I think I met Chris in 2008 when I transferred from Howard community and the last 15 years we've just been phenomenal friends. He's a Pisces like me. But the other day in my morning prayer, I was praying about, you know, asking God to connect me with the right souls at the right time, with the right minds. and All of a sudden, I get in the gym and Chris calls me and says, hey, I want you to speak to my mom. He's been my friend for 15 years. I don't know nothing about his mom. And then she just gets on the phone. She's telling me like this amazing story about how you got to transition, you got to transform, you got to evolve, you got to change. And so here we are today, the power of you know God and the universe and relationships and people.
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And here she is on the podcast. That's why I love life and I love people. But to the people who don't know, I mean, most of us don't. From your perspective, who is Dr. Deborah? Because I know you as a mom and an educator and someone that is a phenomenal person from just the brief conversation we had, but just give us an option of like, how do you see yourself and who are you today in this moment?
Challenges and Triumphs
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To put it into one word, a believer.
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I'm no more than a believer. I am the daughter of father whose father came with a legacy of owning 125 acres of land and sharecropping out to the community so they wouldn't have to go to the others. And once they sold their crop, they would send their children up north on a handshake to college, just one of them. That's who my grandfather was. That's where the warrant comes in. That's the DNA in me, the warrant.
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Which is my father married my mother. My mother was one of those daughters. She was the only child that was supposed to go to Morgan, but her and my father hooked up and they hooked up at mortgage, but they started this same girl with play country tale moving it forward. They get married.
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And they have four kids that didn't work out moving forward. So she decides she's going to become a teacher now. She's a survivor. She's brought her from the country to this big city. She knows nobody. She knows nothing. The only thing she could do was sew. So one day I said to her, I said, are you going to sew all of your life?
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And the next thing I know, she applied to common state at the time college to teach. She became a teacher while I was in like the third grade. And then fifth grade, she got a master's and this is back in the sixties when women our color it didn't pursue an education and be divorced and have four children ah wow and become a homeowner in the Jewish community. I'll get back to that. So that's part of me ingrained in me.
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And then as far as the legacy of the land, it was instilled, you get an education, you don't work in the field. Because when we would go there in the summers, the kids would be working in the field, and I wanted friends. I wanted to work in the field. No, no, you go get an education. So that was ingrained in me. Meanwhile, fast forward, they get to before my mother will be married. She marries a minister.
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of this big church in Baltimore, and it's good. She's a teacher. I'm at Cali Western High School. I had to take an IQ test. I was an excellent student off the school. Lunchtime. These little girls, six, 10, 70, you had your first experience. Good girl. See, the girls got pregnant. Next thing you know,
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No, I can't be pregnant. No, and there's no such thing as this. No, no, no, no. My mother's a teacher. She's the community leader. My father's a minister. I hid that baby, hid that baby, hid that baby. Finally, I couldn't hide it heart no more. Anyway, I had to leave. I had to go to school for maternity for pregnant girls. And then I went back to Western. And then when I walked into the classroom, the girls stood up and clapped. Meanwhile, let me back up. This is the critical part.
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When my mom found out that her prized possession was pregnant and it was illegal, I was not married. She had her church she was a teacher. She was hurt. She was angry. And she had to make that crucial decision. Her decision was, I'm not going to let you affect everything I worked for. Girlfriend, you got to know.
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He packed me up, sent me to a whole different neighborhood. Meanwhile, she brought my grandparents up to the city, which they ended up on Rice and Sherrill Road, which at the time was not a Park Heights, which was not what Park Heights back in the sixties was like your upper middle class. She sent me back to where people that came up from the South, where they
Perseverance and Faith Journey
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lived,
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She took me in. She restored me. She took my baby. She watched my baby while I went to school. She went through all of the channels. I was able to get two years that copping in under my belt. Being a D-list student. Anyway, meanwhile, my mother's like, I'm cutting off all connection from you. Now I got to live with this awful pain of I hurt my own mother. It was like killing her.
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yeah I got the shame of I got a baby. Little girls that are good girls don't have babies. So now I'm in a different class. The other girls, I see my mother put me down so bad, you are nothing. You are nobody. You would never amount to nothing. That bastard you got of a baby, don't come in my house. Don't tell nobody you know me. Don't come to my church. And I'm thinking, okay.
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and anything I did going forward was to satisfy my mother and to say, Mom, look, please, do you accept me now to ship me while going forward? That baby now is a doctor. That baby now is a multi-millionaire. That baby now got four opioid clinics. She's a minister now. She has clinics in Africa. That baby now is her doctor.
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But let me get back. I mean, this is going to be deep. I didn't expect all of this. I was going to raise over. Let's do it something. The universe is opening something in me that I had shut off and just kept it moving. But if somebody needs to hear this.
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I took a job at General Motors, spot welding cars. Here, I'm a little teeny, educated college, but I'm like, God, what did I do wrong? I got on coveralls and I got this big gun going around these. At that time I got married. He left to please my mother, had another daughter. So he left. But anyway, that left me with the house and I had to go to work. And that's in a compound old word, you mean you had the baby.
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sixty six You were really young. I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I was a virgin mentally, physically, and emotionally. Because you are in that educated class of nerves, you have those social skills as to what's going on around you. Nobody talks to you about cuss words. Nobody talks to you about drinking. I wasn't allowed to attend parties.
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so I did not develop that outside of the book, but I wanted to fit in, so I found a neighbor that gave me something to give me to talk about in lunchtime, which really catapulted my life unknowingly. So anyway, we go forward.
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So now at 20, I'm married, got two kids, got by in a house, he leaves, we too young, got two daughters, anyway, anyway, anyway. The next thing you know, I'm at General Motors and there's this line. And so I was at spot welding. So down the line was a lady and lunchtime, the line stops and you can bring your lunch out and you can go to the cafeteria. One day I decided to just go down and sit down and have lunch with this unknown stranger.
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She looked at me, Eric, and she said, God is calling me. You don't know me. Remember, I grew up in church. When they talk about being saved and knowing they can command that, that's different it from being saved and inviting Christ in. She said, go home tonight, ask, confess at your sinner and ask Jesus to come into your heart and save you. And I said, okay. So I went home,
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I had this big old biggie. I got on my knees in this dark closet. All of a sudden, the room filled up, and I jumped up out of the closet and walked down the hall, jumped in the bed, threw the covers over my head, and was nobody in the house but me. I said, whoever said it, it adds your weight. I went back to the blind next day. I went up. She looked at me. She said, I see your light.
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She said, you did it. She said you were in good hands now. Whatever you ask will be done. She said, I want you to start reading in Matthew.
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I got a Bible. I couldn't put it down. I was eating, eating, eating. I mean, lunch break at night after we're in the middle of the night, something that had me, I couldn't put it down. So I said, I'm going to try this. I want my car washed. So I put in line, the guys came up and they said, Hey dad, we're having a car washing party tonight. We'd like for you to come and we'll wash your car for free and clean the inside.
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Okay, what's in the lead? You are in good hands. I'm driving down if you know but the street. I hit the brake. I'm the light. My foot would not hit the gas. All of a sudden this car came from the left. Hit the light pole. The pole falls over and on the car. Wow. He said nothing will ever hurt you.
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Well, let me fast forward.
Celebrating Children's Successes
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Guy saved, went on, and got buried again. This guy was waiting to see my son. His father was like that on steroids. Just happy, go lucky, loving, kind. I want a family, too. I want a family, too. Will you be my wife? Will you have my big pet? Yeah, we can do this. Beautiful.
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And so I became, Chris has a sister too. Matter of fact, let me back on all five of my children are college graduates. The one's a doctor. The second one has her bachelor's degree. She's that it from Johns Hopkins University. She's an HR journalist. She's a partner with the Federal Reserve. So when you hear about what it interest rates, that's her. And then the other one is a CEO for big corporations. They all three live in mansions. I have my own wing in there in their homes.
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She graduated from Oregon. And then Chris is Hampton and his brother is Howard Community. But anyway, to back up. So I had India. That makes me have three girls. And um how close this love was. His father said to me one morning, he said, I gave you a son last night. He said, as a matter of fact, I gave you two of them. He said, I'm not going to be on this planet long. His father was a spirit. He said that?
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is pure divine spirit. Look, I'm carrying twins. I know what it's like to push your baby out. I'm like, oh, I bought a place, wanted to push it. I went through labor, didn't know I was in labor. Had they did the delivery, my dad kept telling me they were premature. First they called them, were not due until April the 16th. They were six weeks early. I'm a premature. Here's the thing. I had a twin that didn't make it.
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It was a girl and my mother said, that's the energy that's in you. You are the miracle child because the doctor told my mom that I wasn't going to make it. My lungs wasn't fully developed. And she said, this is why you have all this energy. Cause your twin is living inside of you. And I'm like, that's the exact, and they say, I have a friend, she had twins, she lost one. It was a girl on the boy. The girls survived, but they, doctor told her in instances like that is because they made the choice. I'm going to go to let you live.
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yeah Because both of y'all, but she said, I'm going to go to let you live. So that's what's happening. They're going to be able to breathe. They're going to be an incubator. They are going to neonatal. They were scaring me. His father said, you're going to be just fine. I went into labor, didn't know I was in labor, delivered them, didn't know I had until The last Chris came out, one was, Chris was five pounds, four ounces. They kept telling me the babies were two and three pounds. Five pounds, four ounces, did not need oxygen. And then Calder was four pounds, 11 ounces. So this was my evidence for going back. Their father died. And when he died at that point, I had five children. The thing about it was the whole 15 years we were married, he kept manifesting everything I asked for.
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I want a house. I need a car just to ride my babies around just so that they can go to sleep. I want this guy. He kept manifesting. I don't look inside that movie Starman. I used to call him my Starman, but anyway, so when he passed, I said, Oh my God. So went through that, went through the kids. And then I looked and I looked at my life and I knew the girls were in like middle school and high school. I looked at Kristin Ford in India and I said, I can't talk to toddlers all day.
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I can't tell them to get an education. My mother got an education. She showed me how it is done without showing them what it looks like. And then if I do this by the grace of God, God, and I pray, give me strength, make a way, give me that unrelenting determination to help me follow through. Because I had gone to school, but I kept dropping out with the babies. I had gone, kept dropping out.
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give me that follow through. And that right there was the joke that followed through into my spirit. And I'm riding this, I took a job at the post office at night, putting envelopes in a zip codes every day, 11 at night to seven in the morning. So you go in and you come out and it's daylight. But anyway,
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And then meanwhile, you got to come out and God bless me for the lady that would keep my kids $50 a week. Get them, get them ready. They care. And then get a little five, 10 minute nap. And then you're back in class at 11 o'clock. So one day I'm driving up and in the van and all of a sudden it just, I pulled all the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I've got a final for graduation.
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to determine and how they are no excuses. They put out exhalates because they don't accept excuses. Unless you die, unless you are unconscious and you've got a medical report. Now you can't save my car. So anyway, I'm like, Father God, the name of Jesus, you promised me. You would never leave me with a sickness. I looked up after I prayed the sign said, W-R-E-N-T-A W-R-E-C-K, $20 a day. yeah I had $22 in my wallet. I took my books out, my purse, went across the street, gave them my driver's license, and got the keys. I was in class, graduated with a degree in political science and education. habit If your desire is to pick up your education and go to school, funding
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The government has all kinds of funding if you just find it. God has already placed in your path what you need, but all he wants you to do is to look for it. I'm sitting in class with Howard.
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When they do attendance, if the registrar's office have sent over your name for not paying, you cannot sit there. You cannot go and say at the end of the day, please see go to, no, they call your name and they say, Deborah Warren, registrar's office, Tiffany Smith, registrar's office, John Smith, registrar's office. You got to go. You can't wait.
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I wish they called my name one time. Although I had done the FAFSA, the Pell, I think it was a student loan. Howard is a private college. You can't go on regular financing from like a Morgan or a copy. It's expensive. I didn't do my research. All I wanted to do was get in. They called me, I went in there and I sat there and I said, ma'am,
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I have five children. I have a job at the post office at night. She said, I'm going to find you some money. That woman went in that computer. She said, here's the scholarship for this. What are you right handed? Here's a little scholarship for this. They never ever called my name a again.
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And I graduated. And so then when I graduated, now that leaves me with the kids. So I'm thinking, I'm not going to ban them. I'm going to teach school so I could be home in the summers. I did teach in the summers, but when schools are closed, I'm going to be home. I want to teach when I come home from school, the kids homework, pull it out.
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All of my kids excelled because I stayed home and thought I brought my profession in the house and summer times. But anyway, that value of education and self-sufficiency that my mother inadvertently instilled in me came alive. my la That's who she was.
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She was a teacher. So let's give it a little bit because that was a beautiful story of your life.
Focus, Goals, and Faith
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So well put and well said. In today's society, what do you think people lack the most? And what do you think they're looking for that they don't know?
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That's an interesting question because there is no such thing as lack. There is a mindset of who you are around and who you're listening to. Once you go inside of yourself and find out who you are being violently created to be your passion. What is it you like? What is it that lights you on fire? That's what your gift is to the world. But what we do is we surround our people. They have a desire, but they don't know how to make it manifest.
00:20:09
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And they will start at the gate. Everybody starts at the gate together. But then, honey, I gave that up years ago. You gonna do that? Ain't nobody ever done that. You can't listen to any of that. You have to be one and only the first.
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No, nobody's ever done, but guess what? I'm going to be the first. I don't know what if I'm going to be the first. You're not anything is lacking in you, but the knowledge that you are the first and you need the carriage.
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behind that desire to push your and believe. Once you got courage, once you got the desire, once you got courage to manifest the desire against all odds, and once you believe and your faith is in God, God cannot be apart from himself. If he says, if you believe in me, all things are possible. You can do all that I will provide. Seek me.
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He can't lie about himself. It's a mindset. You got to have a goal and then have a plan. Don't tell nobody. Have a plan and just build on that plan.
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And then stay focused. How many times have you gotten a born a Biden? You didn't know or drove in a car, you didn't know car and you don't know where the world you go. Everybody, 95% of population is doing that. The ones that are you deemed quote successful are the ones that said, I have a goal. I have a plan.
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I'm focused. I'm going to be consistent. Here we go. I'm going to persevere and I'm going to ignore distractions. That's the only thing that separates the haves from the have not ignoring distractions and following through on your own goal.
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Yeah, that's faith, that's trust, consistency, right? You know, discipline. And there is so many distractions, social media, the environment, politics, all these things, fear, distortion. But you really have to be focused on life. You have to really set a plan, have your goal, be intentional, and lock in. Because I feel like life is designed if you're not around the right people to take you off course. And they say you are the five people you hang around.
00:22:32
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And I always say the main thing for us is the primary phase is what are we thinking? What are we listening to? What are we reading? What type of conversations are we having? How do we talk to ourselves when it was around? you know Are we praying? Are we meditating? Are we moving our bodies? Do we believe? Are we a believer? Do we have faith? All these things are so cliche, but it makes so much sense. When you're coming to people like you,
00:22:57
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You've been through more than enough. You've managed, you overcame, you've prospered, and you have five kids. And I'm so grateful for you because my sister is a mom and she has four kids, right? And her journey has been different in a lot of sorts. If she was listening right now, what would be some advice for her? What is her career? Well, she's a hairstyle. She does hair.
00:23:22
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That's beautiful. since She's a business owner. I would say to her to build out her business, and then with her children, focus on where she'd like for them to go. One good thing my mother did about me, when they were coming out with all the street gangs, a lot of them are dead. They died of overdoses of drugs, or they got killed, or they went to jail. Those were the kids I wasn't, I didn't know them. But to say as a mother,
00:23:52
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have a goal, you have a business goal, and don't mix the two. You are who you are, and have a right to be who you are outside of being a mother. Develop who you are. And meanwhile, let your kids see you whole and healthy and healed, and then focus on what is the goal you want for their lives. Talk to them. What do you like? Find out that 13 year old, where would you like?
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And a lot of times they don't know. So what happened with me, I was scared on education and that was all I knew. And then once I was done with education, I realized I was also a business woman. But have a goal and a plan for them to follow.
00:24:38
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And then once they keep God first in their lives, get them in a church, get them in a Bible Sunday school. Even if you don't go physically, get it on that iPad because these kids like around here in Charlotte, the teenagers are killing each other. Like, cause they think that's what they have to do to fit in.
00:24:59
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They are wearing these clothes that are just, ah they I think it should be illegal to be dressed like that in public. But that's all they know because that's all they see. And a lot of their parents have introduced that to them because that's all they knew.
00:25:14
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get your mind away from the culture, away from the streets. Social media can be good, but it's the big moves and who you are following on social media. yeah So you got entrepreneurs and so I watch hair beauticians or social media all the time. Actually, I learned how to do my makeup from social media. I learned how to style my own hair from social media. So social media can be good.
00:25:37
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But you cannot mix the two, like somebody's on their joints cussing, little girls twerking, hooves hanging it out, and they think that this is what will cause them to be acceptable and to build up their self-esteem when it's all a lie.
00:25:55
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So she had to get into our daughter's head as the mother and say, look, we cleaning this up and they want to be built. But you're the mother. You pay the bills. You are the authority. And trust me, as a former teacher, I watched it. It had no respect for parents that let them do whatever they want to do. why It was the parents that when they would come up to school and i would they I would report something and I would hear the lockers, you remember those lockers, those 10 lockers would shut up. That mother would come up here and I would hear the locker go, boom, I would go in and shut my door. I would say, I can't be a partner to this, but that kid respected that mother.
00:26:37
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I watched it. It's a hard thing to do. It's the most unsatisfying and hurtful thing to do, but you got to do it. You got to be the mother with some teaching values, instilling good character, teaching self-respect, teaching confidence. You are a beautiful daughter. Nobody has to tell you nothing because you were created with it all.
00:27:03
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yeah You don't owe anybody any explanation. Get your education, daughter. Your core is what's going to determine the quality of your life. And kids are not born with that. It's a hard job, but you got, I used to tell Chris, this is going to hurt me as more and more than it hurts you. But my children did not turn up just like that because they were born. No, it was God. It was work. And it was that shotgun.
00:27:33
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yeah call da but Yeah, I mean, it's so good because honestly, I mean, I can't say you don't because then I'll be wrong. We don't see women from your generation speaking like this. We don't hear unless it's our mothers, moms, grandmothers, but visibly that I don't come across it. So I know women need empowered women to empower them.
00:27:58
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So now that we own the word of empowerment, let's talk about empower your beauty because you do have a business and you have a company, Royal Beauty.
Empowerment and Intrinsic Worth
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You, you are Royal Beauty. Right. And how didn't it, thank you for introducing it. I love you already. You're my son You're my son by another mother. But if the name came about because of the pare down that my mother gave me,
00:28:27
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ah You're going to be nothing. You're going to melt into nothing. That bastard of a baby of yours, you're going to suffer. And I went into the world insecure because my mother said it.
00:28:40
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I went into the world looking for acceptance. Please be my friend. I got candy. I can give you $20. Be my friend. I went into the world hoping that someone would like me. and When I moved to Charlotte and I started meditating and I started going inside of myself and I started speaking up, I once had a radio show here.
00:29:07
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Oh, you are royal because I had a you are doing character development privilege. I didn't want another young girl out of the anger of a mother, father, sister, grandmother, out of a disappointment, have her whole energy destroyed. So i my program was you are royal because you are royal.
00:29:33
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Nothing here on this earth earth that you see defines you. You came here as an heir of royalty. And this is what I want young women to know. No man can make you a woman. No man can make you feel special. You are all of the queen that God the created because you came from the king. Now tell me the question. You know England. You know the court.
00:30:03
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Now, as jacked up as those kids are, how many of them did they say you were not born into royalty? Even though they jacked up after they were they were still born into, they are royals. Yes. That had to be, you know, chastised, but that has nothing to do with that bloodline.
00:30:25
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And it's the same with God when he says his daughter's here. You are royal. So I created the name out of that, and it helped build me up. And I was like, I'm going to take somebody with me. You will ever feel like. And so out of that, I created a website. I am into organics in here. When people look at me, they go, how old are you? I am 68 years old.
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When I talked to my webmaster to create the website for the skin care line, he said, Dr. Debra, you're more than skin care. You got a story. Talk to me. And as I began talking, he said on he said, you know what? That goes to show how God always has people in the bush when you're ready.
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When you're ready, he's got somebody that I didn't know I was a speaker. I didn't know that ah everything going along, he was developing so that I could share. I didn't know being an educator taught me how to speak. I didn't know that it was the webmaster that said, Ms. Deborah, you are more than skin care.
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Discover your resilience, I love that. Transformation coach, Dr. the Devil Wildos, let's get it. Personal growth, life transitions, empowerment, aging with race, talk to us.
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And we got to sign up to your masterclass or your program. You know, it's interesting. not So listening to your story, I really like to tune into like, I remember the first part was you was at work working for General Motors. You met a ah woman who tells you to go in print, right? Boom. You did that. You saw the next day. She said, you are a client. You're a file. You were manifesting. Boom. You go to the second half of your story. You go, you in school and there's a woman.
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and you tell you have five kids, she gets you money. Boom, so now, even though we're on the third half, you meet the guy who's done it on your website, he's like, you're more than just a young kid, you're a speaker. So what do you attribute to those people? What were they in your life? Who do you see them as? Because we all have those people in our life. We just can't see them sometimes that we miss the message or the messenger because we're so encapsulated in our suffering or pain or challenge.
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How did you see that? Because those are like springboards to take you to another timeline in your life at the time. You know what? Because the word appreciation, the spiritual guides, the people when you don't know you're ready, they pop up. Once you continue to prepare yourself in a blind manner and you're just going off the spirit, you don't know you're ready.
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You just keep on, keep on, keep on. It has to take that spiritual guide that's already been, was born and created to be placed in your path to save your hand. You're ready. And what I hope I can do is for somebody else, give me your hand because you're ready. You're ready. Give me your hand because you're ready. That should be as a slogan.
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It's so beautiful because you never know where you're going to meet. You never know what people have been through, what they overcame. And you never know, like talking to you on the phone the other day to now. Now I understand why Chris has been my friend for the last 15 years, right? And here's the thing. I've met Chris in college with for anything I did, public media, TV. Chris has never changed as a friend. He's never turned his back on me. He never looked down on me. There's been moments when I was struggling to go on and do stuff I could call Chris.
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you know He was there. He was always, man, whatever you need. like If it was a party, an event, I need T-shirts, whatever it was, he was there. So to speak to this mom who is so empowered, her voice, her cadence, her aura, it just makes sense. And people listening, you never know why people are into your life. So when you're ready,
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that person, that spirit guy would pull your hand and say, come on, let's go. I got you. Whatever party you opened up today for me, for you, for us, for we, for the world, it's such a magic and miracle because this is a miracle season. Your story is going to save a life.
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Your story is going to challenge someone that they can make it. It's more than what you have. It's more than what you look like. It's not what's on you. It's what's in you. And I think today that's what you gave us. You gave us your heart. You gave us your love. You gave us your truth. You gave us your wisdom. That's going to heal a soul, save a soul, and grow a soul.
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and transform them.
Connect with Dr. Deborah
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But before we get out of here, I want you to share, like, where can we find you? How can we get into your vibration? How can we connect? How can we collab? You can find my personal email, dwwhattles at Verizon.net, my business email, DebraWarrenWhattles.com. For the skin care, one word, you are RoyalBeauty.com.
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he met and Listen, people, I'll put all this in a show notes. I'll tag her. And I'm pretty sure you have an Instagram account. I was on it earlier than yesterday, checking it out. I'm pretty sure people are going to email you and people, please reach out. Oh, Facebook, Deborah Lauren Waddles, D-E-B-R-A-W-A-R-R-E-N-W-A-D-D-L-E-S.
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Please follow me on Facebook. I post about what matters. Life matters. Support matters. Motivation and inspiration matter. So if you can bite on that just a little bit every day, you'd be surprised what you evolve into. But I get motivation every day. I give empowerment to women. So if you just need like a little shot in your coffee, subscribe Facebook page.
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Facebook, tap in, follow her, connect, and look to all the moms out there, entrepreneurs, listen to her, tap in, get into her energy, follow her. Dr. Deborah Warren Waddles, she's amazing. She's phenomenal. It was another incredible episode. Thank you so much, Dr. Deborah. I appreciate you. And people, don't forget, share, subscribe to the podcast, like, tell a friend to tell a friend.
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Connect. And by the way, it's Miracle Season. Get you a Miracle Season t-shirt, it's miracleseason.co, promo code MCs in all caps. And don't forget to get you a jar of Miracle CMOS. And if you're looking for one-on-one coaching, you want to work for me, go to my social media, click the link in the bio. But more importantly,
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Dr. Deborah is the main attraction. Follow her and build and learn from her legacy of her paradigm of her soul. This was another great episode. I'm so thankful. So it is. Peace.
Closing and Call to Action
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Thank you for joining us on the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. We hope today's episode has inspired you and provided valuable insights for your holistic health journey. By blending spirituality and physical wellness, you can strengthen your body, mind, and soul. If you enjoyed today's episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Until next time, stay strong, stay inspired, and remember, it's miracle season.