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I pray that I learn the lessons that I need to learn quickly so I can move on to the next lesson.
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What does it really look like to build your dream life while you're living it?
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One day I'm on stage singing with Hugh Jackman at 36 weeks pregnant, just trying not to give birth in Oklahoma.
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And the next, I'm having real conversations about love, loss, career pivots, and becoming someone I didn't even know I could be.
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Because this show isn't just about Broadway, it's about the moments that change you, the risks you take, the dreams you almost talk yourself out of, the strength you don't realize you have until life asks you to use it.
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If you've ever felt like you're in between chapters or stepping into something new, you're not alone.
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You're just getting started.
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This is the Salicia Show, where Broadway meets culture and your real life becomes the main event.
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Hello, what's up?
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It's me, Salisha.
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What's the Dilio Padillo?
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What's the 411?
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I am so excited.
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Thank you for coming back to the Salicia Show.
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Maybe this is your first time tuning in.
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Welcome to the sphere.
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Welcome to the world.
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It's magical in here.
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And I just have to give a shout out to Gotham Production Studios because I love it here.
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If I could just move in.
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Well, actually, I have moved in.
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We live here now.
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I love it here.
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Thank you, Gotham.
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Thank you, Gotham Network.
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We love you.
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I just love you.
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Uh, okay, so I don't know when these episodes are airing, what order, but there were a few episodes ago when I was steeped in motherhood and exhausted.
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And I had an episode that said, sometimes good enough is good enough.
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I might have even said, it's okay to be an NPC.
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What is that?
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A non-playable character.
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Because sometimes we go through these parts in our lives where life be life.
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And sometimes you just have to get to the other side.
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Sometimes getting to the other side means you gotta crawl.
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Sometimes it's not a sprint.
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Sometimes it's the hare is winning or the tortoise, whoever's not supposed to win, they're winning, okay?
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And you are barely getting by.
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And in those moments in our lives, when we can barely breathe, when we are drowning in life itself, hopefully those are not most of the time, most of the moments, but in those moments, maybe, maybe good enough is good enough.
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But today, that is not where I am mentally.
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And so I want to say and reiterate and encourage you that if you have it in your spirit to go for the gold, why the heck are we going for silver, for bronze, for anything other than great?
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We've got one life, y'all.
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We have one life.
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And it's ticking.
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Time is ticking.
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I blink, and I feel like yesterday I moved to New York City.
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Now it's almost 12 years in.
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Wait, I might be going on 13.
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Like literally, time is moving.
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I was pregnant for what seems like 95 years, and now my son has opinions.
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What?
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What?
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I remember dreaming as a child who eventually got to high school, who eventually went to college, and thinking to myself, wow, what is it like to have a resume with multiple credits on it?
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And now, listen, we've got a long way to go, but I have stuff that I'm proud of on my resume.
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When did that happen?
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It was just yesterday, okay?
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Yesterday when I was looking into my sure SM7B microphone, being like, what do I do with this in my closet in a pandemic when we didn't know if we would ever hug people again?
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Okay?
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Being like, what do I do with this microphone?
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Can I make something of this?
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Why does this feel good?
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I have no idea.
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And now I have answers.
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And now I'm sitting in here with a multicam setup, with lighting, with a tech outside, with it life moves.
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Even when it feels like life might be paused, time has not paused.
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Time is still going.
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And so I'm here to say to you, to encourage you, to inspire you, to wake you up, to remind you, and also to myself that we get one shot.
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What are we gonna do?
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Are we going to wait until our deathbed to be like, what did I do?
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How much time do I have left?
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Let me hurry up.
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Let me try to make amends.
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Let me try to do this thing.
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Let me try to check this off my bucket list.
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I'm out of time.
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No.
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Y'all, one of the prayers I prayed when I was like seven years old is was, dear Lord, I pray that I can learn the lesson.
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I can't believe I prayed this as a seven-year-old.
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I pray that I learn the lessons that I need to learn quickly so I can move on to the next lesson.
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Help me to not have to repeat the same lesson over and over.
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And when other people around me make mistakes, big mistakes, help me to learn from that so I don't have to make the same mistake.
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My 1,000-year-old, seven-year-old self had it going on, and she was wise.
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And so confident.
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I'm still trying to find the confidence of that seven-year-old me.
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But here we are in these bones.
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You know, I have been um revamping a lot of things, and maybe this is another episode of reinventing yourself and curating the person who you want to become.
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Like you can be, that's another episode.
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But in doing this like revamp and like I'm looking at these photos, these new photos that I've been taking, and I'm I've been really hard on myself, being like, oh, she's fat, talking about myself.
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Oh, this, oh, that, like nitpicking.
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Nitpicking at the girl in those photos.
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And I'm trying not to get teary-eyed because, you know, I think about I just wish that I was as fat as the first time I thought I was fat.
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Some of you out there might be able to feel that.
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Okay.
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The first time you thought you were fat, you were like, man, I'm so fat.
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And you looking as you look at that version of yourself five years later and you're like, Whew, man, I had it good.
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Listen, I'm trying to fix my mind and my eyes so that I can see what I have now while I have it, instead of being in the present, being like, you're not good enough, Salish.
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You're to this, you're to that.
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Uh-uh.
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We're done.
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It's a waste of time.
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It's a waste of energy.
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It's a waste of this beautiful, precious, gorgeous life, okay?
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We have to stop wasting time.
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Being so critical, being curmudgeons.
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We get it right now.
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We get this time right now.
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And what if this was as good as it got?
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God forbid.
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Knock on all the wood.
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But what if?
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What if it was only downhill from here?
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That means that we need to really celebrate this moment, but we're not gonna be downhill from here because we're on this journey.
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If you're listening to this, this means you like to level up.
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This means you like to grow, to expand, to evolve.
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Because this is what this show is about.
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We're saying it's about Broadway and it's about these conversations with people who are um becoming who they've always wanted to be.
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Like this is it's about the journey, it's about transitioning into other chapters and to it's all up, it's about all of that.
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If you're listening to this show, you whether you have taken note of it or not, this kind of thing matters to you because this is what I constantly am thinking about and what I'm always talking about.
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It's literally the title of my book, Why Be a Nine when you can be a 10.
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Like when I think about saying good enough is good enough, I want to slap myself across the face.
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Good enough is good enough.
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We're only going to say that is true when you can barely get up to brush your funky breath.
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But if you have breath in your body and strength, do not take it for granted.
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Do not waste it.
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See how far you can go.
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See how far you can take it.
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See how many dreams you can make come true.
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And that includes real life.
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Dreams don't just have to be how high on the ladder of my career can I climb.
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It can be how many babies can I pop out before these ovaries say, you know, maybe that is it.
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Or maybe it's how long can I go without having kids?
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Whatever it is for you.
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Whatever your dreams are, no one else needs to understand your vision.
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Only you.
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Whatever that is, say it out loud.
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Say it out loud again.
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Say it out loud a third time.
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Write it down.
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Look at it.
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See it in black and white.
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When you do this, it is a prayer to the universe.
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God is listening.
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Whatever your version of God is, my version of God is God.
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Yours could be something different.
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Whatever your version of God is, they're listening.
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They're reading your stuff.
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My most precious prayers that have come true were the ones that I barely whispered out loud.
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And that is why I'm like, you can't tell me.
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You can't tell me there's not a God because I didn't tell anybody that.
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I didn't, I didn't even have the confidence to say this thing out loud.
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And not only was this prayer answered, it was answered tenfold in such specific ways to what my soul and what my heart needed.
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I'm like, you have to know what it is that you want.
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That's all.
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There's no time to be embarrassed or shamed or to not think that you're worthy.
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Spoilers! You're worthy! You're worthy! Spoilers, you are worthy.
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You are enough.
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You got a little extra something to squeeze onto?
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Good.
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Squeeze it.
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Love it.
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Okay?
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I got my little waist trainer on right now, but I got all the gooey stuff underneath it, okay?
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You gotta just accept where you are and love who you are and go for what you want and stop holding yourself back.
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There is enough people in this world trying to hold us back, trying to stomp us down, trying to silence us.
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Don't do that to yourself.
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And don't settle for good enough when you have in your spirit to go for greatness.
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That's all we have for today.
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Thank you.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Selicia Show.
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We will be here.
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We're here every week.
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Catch me outside on a Friday.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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I'm your host, Selicia Thomas.
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That's all we got.
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I pray that I learn the lessons that I need to learn quickly so I can move on to the next lesson.
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What does it really look like to build your dream life while you're living it?
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One day I'm on stage singing with Hugh Jackman at 36 weeks pregnant, just trying not to give birth in Oklahoma.
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And the next, I'm having real conversations about love, loss, career pivots, and becoming someone I didn't even know I could be.
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Because this show isn't just about Broadway, it's about the moments that change you, the risks you take, the dreams you almost talk yourself out of, the strength you don't realize you have until life asks you to use it.
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If you've ever felt like you're in between chapters or stepping into something new, you're not alone.
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You're just getting started.
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This is the Salicia Show, where Broadway meets culture and your real life becomes the main event.
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Hello, what's up?
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It's me, Salisha.
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What's the Dilio Padillo?
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What's the 411?
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I am so excited.
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Thank you for coming back to the Salicia Show.
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Maybe this is your first time tuning in.
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Welcome to the sphere.
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Welcome to the world.
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It's magical in here.
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And I just have to give a shout out to Gotham Production Studios because I love it here.
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If I could just move in.
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Well, actually, I have moved in.
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We live here now.
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I love it here.
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Thank you, Gotham.
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Thank you, Gotham Network.
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We love you.
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I just love you.
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Uh, okay, so I don't know when these episodes are airing, what order, but there were a few episodes ago when I was steeped in motherhood and exhausted.
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And I had an episode that said, sometimes good enough is good enough.
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I might have even said, it's okay to be an NPC.
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What is that?
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A non-playable character.
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Because sometimes we go through these parts in our lives where life be life.
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And sometimes you just have to get to the other side.
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Sometimes getting to the other side means you gotta crawl.
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Sometimes it's not a sprint.
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Sometimes it's the hare is winning or the tortoise, whoever's not supposed to win, they're winning, okay?
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And you are barely getting by.
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And in those moments in our lives, when we can barely breathe, when we are drowning in life itself, hopefully those are not most of the time, most of the moments, but in those moments, maybe, maybe good enough is good enough.
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But today, that is not where I am mentally.
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And so I want to say and reiterate and encourage you that if you have it in your spirit to go for the gold, why the heck are we going for silver, for bronze, for anything other than great?
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We've got one life, y'all.
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We have one life.
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And it's ticking.
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Time is ticking.
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I blink, and I feel like yesterday I moved to New York City.
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Now it's almost 12 years in.
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Wait, I might be going on 13.
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Like literally, time is moving.
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I was pregnant for what seems like 95 years, and now my son has opinions.
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What?
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What?
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I remember dreaming as a child who eventually got to high school, who eventually went to college, and thinking to myself, wow, what is it like to have a resume with multiple credits on it?
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And now, listen, we've got a long way to go, but I have stuff that I'm proud of on my resume.
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When did that happen?
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It was just yesterday, okay?
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Yesterday when I was looking into my sure SM7B microphone, being like, what do I do with this in my closet in a pandemic when we didn't know if we would ever hug people again?
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Okay?
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Being like, what do I do with this microphone?
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Can I make something of this?
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Why does this feel good?
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I have no idea.
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And now I have answers.
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And now I'm sitting in here with a multicam setup, with lighting, with a tech outside, with it life moves.
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Even when it feels like life might be paused, time has not paused.
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Time is still going.
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And so I'm here to say to you, to encourage you, to inspire you, to wake you up, to remind you, and also to myself that we get one shot.
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What are we gonna do?
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Are we going to wait until our deathbed to be like, what did I do?
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How much time do I have left?
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Let me hurry up.
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Let me try to make amends.
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Let me try to do this thing.
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Let me try to check this off my bucket list.
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I'm out of time.
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No.
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Y'all, one of the prayers I prayed when I was like seven years old is was, dear Lord, I pray that I can learn the lesson.
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I can't believe I prayed this as a seven-year-old.
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I pray that I learn the lessons that I need to learn quickly so I can move on to the next lesson.
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Help me to not have to repeat the same lesson over and over.
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And when other people around me make mistakes, big mistakes, help me to learn from that so I don't have to make the same mistake.
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My 1,000-year-old, seven-year-old self had it going on, and she was wise.
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And so confident.
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I'm still trying to find the confidence of that seven-year-old me.
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But here we are in these bones.
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You know, I have been um revamping a lot of things, and maybe this is another episode of reinventing yourself and curating the person who you want to become.
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Like you can be, that's another episode.
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But in doing this like revamp and like I'm looking at these photos, these new photos that I've been taking, and I'm I've been really hard on myself, being like, oh, she's fat, talking about myself.
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Oh, this, oh, that, like nitpicking.
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Nitpicking at the girl in those photos.
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And I'm trying not to get teary-eyed because, you know, I think about I just wish that I was as fat as the first time I thought I was fat.
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Some of you out there might be able to feel that.
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Okay.
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The first time you thought you were fat, you were like, man, I'm so fat.
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And you looking as you look at that version of yourself five years later and you're like, Whew, man, I had it good.
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Listen, I'm trying to fix my mind and my eyes so that I can see what I have now while I have it, instead of being in the present, being like, you're not good enough, Salish.
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You're to this, you're to that.
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Uh-uh.
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We're done.
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It's a waste of time.
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It's a waste of energy.
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It's a waste of this beautiful, precious, gorgeous life, okay?
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We have to stop wasting time.
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Being so critical, being curmudgeons.
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We get it right now.
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We get this time right now.
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And what if this was as good as it got?
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God forbid.
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Knock on all the wood.
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But what if?
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What if it was only downhill from here?
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That means that we need to really celebrate this moment, but we're not gonna be downhill from here because we're on this journey.
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If you're listening to this, this means you like to level up.
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This means you like to grow, to expand, to evolve.
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Because this is what this show is about.
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We're saying it's about Broadway and it's about these conversations with people who are um becoming who they've always wanted to be.
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Like this is it's about the journey, it's about transitioning into other chapters and to it's all up, it's about all of that.
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If you're listening to this show, you whether you have taken note of it or not, this kind of thing matters to you because this is what I constantly am thinking about and what I'm always talking about.
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It's literally the title of my book, Why Be a Nine when you can be a 10.
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Like when I think about saying good enough is good enough, I want to slap myself across the face.
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Good enough is good enough.
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We're only going to say that is true when you can barely get up to brush your funky breath.
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But if you have breath in your body and strength, do not take it for granted.
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Do not waste it.
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See how far you can go.
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See how far you can take it.
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See how many dreams you can make come true.
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And that includes real life.
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Dreams don't just have to be how high on the ladder of my career can I climb.
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It can be how many babies can I pop out before these ovaries say, you know, maybe that is it.
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Or maybe it's how long can I go without having kids?
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Whatever it is for you.
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Whatever your dreams are, no one else needs to understand your vision.
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Only you.
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Whatever that is, say it out loud.
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Say it out loud again.
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Say it out loud a third time.
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Write it down.
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Look at it.
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See it in black and white.
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When you do this, it is a prayer to the universe.
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God is listening.
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Whatever your version of God is, my version of God is God.
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Yours could be something different.
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Whatever your version of God is, they're listening.
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They're reading your stuff.
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My most precious prayers that have come true were the ones that I barely whispered out loud.
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And that is why I'm like, you can't tell me.
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You can't tell me there's not a God because I didn't tell anybody that.
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I didn't, I didn't even have the confidence to say this thing out loud.
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And not only was this prayer answered, it was answered tenfold in such specific ways to what my soul and what my heart needed.
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I'm like, you have to know what it is that you want.
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That's all.
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There's no time to be embarrassed or shamed or to not think that you're worthy.
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Spoilers! You're worthy! You're worthy! Spoilers, you are worthy.
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You are enough.
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You got a little extra something to squeeze onto?
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Good.
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Squeeze it.
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Love it.
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Okay?
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I got my little waist trainer on right now, but I got all the gooey stuff underneath it, okay?
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You gotta just accept where you are and love who you are and go for what you want and stop holding yourself back.
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There is enough people in this world trying to hold us back, trying to stomp us down, trying to silence us.
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Don't do that to yourself.
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And don't settle for good enough when you have in your spirit to go for greatness.
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That's all we have for today.
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Thank you.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Selicia Show.
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We will be here.
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We're here every week.
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Catch me outside on a Friday.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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I'm your host, Selicia Thomas.
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That's all we got.
