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Hello, I'm Julie Dammar, host of the Selective
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Hearing podcast. Selective Hearing isn't about
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tuning people out. It's about choosing what shapes
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your life. I choose to let God influence me,
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not the world, not culture, and not what's popular.
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What does selective hearing mean to you? Wow.
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Let that rest for a minute. Welcome. It has been
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a while since I said those words. It's been over
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a year to be exact. I think my last episode that
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aired was July 28th, 2025. So welcome back and
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thank you. Let me start there. Thank you to everyone
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who has been supporting me over the years and
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thank you to. all of my new supporters and listeners.
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Okay we are going to get into it this season.
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I want you guys to think of this season as a
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really really big story time because I have so
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much to share with you. Where did I go? Why did
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I go radio silent? Why did I delete over 150
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episodes? What was happening in my life? If you
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subscribe to my newsletter I know that I've been
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kind of checking in with you all over the past
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year and kind of letting you know some of the
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things that have been happening. in my life on
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my blog but this is like me coming back ready
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to share with you the changes that have been
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happening in my life the growth that I've been
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experiencing and the overall shift in transformation
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that has been happening and I know if you are
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subscribed to my website you see Now, if you
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didn't know what was going on and you're like,
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where did she go? Subscribe to my website because
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then you can get updates. I don't plan on disappearing
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again, but just in case I do, you can receive
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updates as to what's going on behind the scenes,
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why certain changes are being made, and just
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overall, you know, still catch little tidbits
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of motivation for me. So I know that over the
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course of the past year, I did announce to everyone
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that I would be releasing my new season and when
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I did, it would be playfully titled, My Solo
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Album. So when I did return, I was gonna return
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with no guest episodes and I was just gonna share
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with you what's been happening and bring you
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that motivation and encouragement that you're
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used to on this platform. But then I thought
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about it more and more and I was like, you know,
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I'm not gonna do that because one, I love talking
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to the guests and I learned so much from them
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right along with you. So I was like that's not
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fair to you or me to remove that aspect of the
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show. So I decided that there will be guest interviews.
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I will be bringing back older episodes. They
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will be sprinkled in throughout this season as
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bonus episodes. And in addition to that I have
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been in communication with some of your favorite
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guests from the past and they will be coming
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back to share with you. how their lives have
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also shifted since the last time we spoke, how
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change is very consistent and very much still
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happening in their lives. We are going to bring
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you those same impactful, inspiring, and motivating
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conversations. that you are used to. I'm just
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so happy to be back. I'm so happy to be speaking
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into the mic. And I hope that you are just as
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excited as I am for this season. And I hope you're
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excited to hear what I have to say. Also, I do
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on the other side of the mic know you're not
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alone in this. I remember when I first started
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the show, I started it because I felt alone and
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I reached a point in my life where I was like,
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something has to change. I didn't really know
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how to change it at the time. I didn't really
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know even what change looked like. I just had
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that deep feeling in me that things can't stay
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the same and because, well, I'm good at talking.
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That's what I decided to do. Now in the beginning,
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it was rough. Like, let me just put that in there.
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It was rough. My words weren't the best, but
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I started using them. I started saying, hey,
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I noticed this isn't right. I started saying,
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why? I started saying, help. There were certain
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things that started happening once I started
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talking. Again, I had no idea that I was planting
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seeds and that all these things would come full
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circle six years later. But in those early moments
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when I was low, in those early moments, in those
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early years when I felt like this can't be life,
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am I the only one who's going through this? Something
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has to change. In those early moments, my words,
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that's all I had. we all have a purpose and the
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reason for that is because God designed us all
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with a purpose and somewhere in the fog or in
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the mud, however you want to describe it, in
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the mess of our own stuff, we lose sight of that.
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But it never goes anywhere. It's always there.
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It's always with us. So, I would like to thank
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Hearing. So, okay. So now what is going on girl?
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Where have you been? Where have you been? Julie,
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where'd you go? Let me get comfortable in my
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seat so we can talk about this. So everyone who
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has been here with me, you know that the show
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started during the pandemic. So Selective Hearing
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originally started on my couch with no idea how
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to podcast, no idea how to mix and record audio.
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All I had was a cry for help, a really good idea,
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and nothing but time on my hands because it was
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COVID and we were all at home just on the hamster
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wheel. So that's when it started. And when it
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first started, it was like a combination of a
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bunch of different ideas that I had been throwing
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at the wall. And I'm like, something's going
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to stick, something's going to work. So when
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I first started addressing everyone, I was talking
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about everything, a little bit of pop culture,
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a little bit of politics, a little bit of what
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was happening in the world, a little bit of just
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everything. I didn't know that that was never
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really the direction that the show was going
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to the place that it was going to stay in or
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go in. That's just kind of where I was at at
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the time. So when I first started talking I was
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talking about a little bit of everything and
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then I was incorporating you know my real life
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experiences into each subject. As the pandemic
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went on, as things in my world became bigger
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and brighter but also more complicated, you know,
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I was a new mom, had two small children, had
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a NICU stint, you know, I did all the things
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that can basically swing you right into postpartum
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depression twice. I started going a little bit
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deeper into my fears. to be very honest because
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there was a lot of I didn't know there was a
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lot of heavy on the I don't know I don't understand
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why big on you did this to me blame blame blame
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shame shame shame guilt I don't know if you all
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can relate to that but I think you can I think
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at some point in time we all end up in the washing
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machine of whoa this is my life how did i get
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here is it my fault is it your fault oh no i
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think it's your fault you did it and you're definitely
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the reason why i'm this way then that come to
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jesus moment in the mirror like oh no girl yeah
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a lot happened to you and that's not being discounted
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but uh some of this is on you ma 'am so all of
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those things happened early on when the show
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first started and as i Began to get help. Thanks
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to someone in the comments on a live like girl.
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You need a little help you let's try some therapy
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girl. Thanks to Someone being brave enough or
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bold enough to say that to me It did start me
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on a journey that it's like wow when I look back
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or you look up in that rear -view mirror You're
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like wow like I was there and now I'm here as
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I Changed and grew the direction of this show
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has changed. It has grown I went from talking
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about pop culture politics. What's happening
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in the world? Oh my god We're stuck in the house.
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Oh, why'd y 'all steal all the toilet paper out
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the store to Something's not right. I'm not okay,
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but I don't know why the big why. I was very
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curious about why am I not okay. I had convinced
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myself that I always was because I was successful.
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I had a husband. I had a house. I had kids. I
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have, you know, the education. You name it, I
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had it. Still have it, but that was like the
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center. That was the focus of everything. Life
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is good because I have all these external things.
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Still trying to understand so why is everything
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so... wrong almost. Why does everything feel
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so crazy to me? That's when life coaching started.
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That's when reading started. That's when journaling
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started. That's when writing down my prayers
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started. Even though I grew up in church my whole
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life, grew up in a church family, spent basically
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my whole childhood in church. I didn't kind of
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step away from church until I became an adult.
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And well, I'll say, I didn't, yeah, I stepped
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away. Let's not even go there. I stepped away.
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I became a Easter Sunday special programs, Women's
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Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day church attendee,
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and I still really didn't know what I was doing
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with God or what God was doing with me. I'll
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say that I was just writing down my prayers because
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I did a coaching program with a faith -based
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life coach. a lot of things that I learned in
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that particular program were supported by scripture.
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So again, all these little seeds being planted,
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I started the show, I started talking, I started
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asking questions, I started getting curious about
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myself, what's going on. I started finding community,
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but there was still this, you know, I don't know
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what's going on component to everything. But
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because I was taking all these steps and dropping
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these little seeds along the way. things were
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happening in my life that I was completely unaware
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of. So as I move through these different seasons
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of now I'm learning, now I'm growing, now I'm
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healing, now I'm forgiving, now I'm thinking
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more, now I'm becoming more aware of my actions,
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now I... It's still a little messy, okay? It
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was controlled mess for a little while. It was
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real zen or cuss you out, but you know... I was
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finding some balance there as I'm moving through
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these seasons and these different stages of growth
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and development that were very uncomfortable
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to very triggering to very emotional let me feel
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a real tender at times again these seeds were
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being planted and now I have arrived this morning
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at this full circle moment where I know now what
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took place when I took that first step as messy
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and uncomfortable and as raw and real and at
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times Cringy even in those moments those raw
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real cry out moments early on it was building
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for today. So why did I disappear? November 2024
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I Was invited to church. Well, my cousin had
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been invited me to church a lot. I just wasn't
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going so I have cousin who Would invite me to
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church because he went to church in my area And
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he would come up and he would invite me to church
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and I thought oh, yeah, maybe next time At this
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point, again, I still, you know, I had left church
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as an adult, family's church, and I had kind
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of just been doing my own thing, watching church
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online, visiting churches. I would attend church
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through my kids' school, because they were in
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a Christian school, and all of their special
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programs and things like that were also held
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during Sunday church services, so I was attending
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church that way. But again, I still really didn't
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know what was going on, what I was doing, but
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I was there. So my cousin kept inviting me to
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church and I'm like yeah sure I'll visit one
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day I'll visit one day. He invited me around
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my birthday which is in November and his brother's
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birthday is in November so he invited us both
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to church like yeah come you know your birthdays
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are coming up yeah y 'all come to church yeah
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okay I'll come. So I go to church and when I
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get to church I just had this feeling that I
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can't describe of love from the moment I walked
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through the door. There was just this overwhelming
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feeling of love now at that moment I'll tell
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you I didn't know that it was love so I don't
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if we go backwards to me walking through the
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doors that probably wouldn't be in that moment
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how I'll describe it but hindsight looking back
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knowing now that's just what it was I walked
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through the door and all these people you know
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they greet me they're kind I got some of the
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best hugs I've ever gotten in my life and I'm
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just like oh wow you know this is a nice place,
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this is a nice church. So I go in, they give
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me a seat, and my cousin, he isn't there yet.
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So I'm just kinda in there chilling, going through
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the worship service, sitting there, and I had
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my boys with me. There was this nice lady who
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was sitting next to me and my boys, and I will
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never forget her words, because she asked me
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where I was visiting from, and I was like, oh,
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you know. we don't have a church home. And she
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smiled at me and she was like, well, you do now.
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You do now. I was like, oh, you know, like she's
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just so cute. Oh my gosh, the cutest little lady.
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And I was like, she's so kind. Thank you. So
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finally my cousins arrive and you know, the service,
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the worship part of the service is over and the
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pastor comes up and he starts preaching. So this
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is four years into. if we mark it back from COVID
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to present to that day. We're four years into
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me now reading, learning about the mind, learning
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about emotions, learning about emotional regulation,
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learning about parenting, learning about accountability,
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learning about mindset, learning. So I'm four
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years into the science of how your mind works.
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I'm four years into at this point. learning about
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the power of our words. I'm four years into learning
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about the power of our intentions. I'm four years
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into all of these different things that I have
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been learning and all of these different strategies
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that I have been implementing into my daily life
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to heal. I'm four years in. But I'm four years
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in and there is also this screaming inside of
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me that's like you're learning you're changing
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you're growing you're better but you're missing
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you're missing something that's much bigger than
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anything that you've read anything that you've
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practiced any strategy that you've implemented
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into your morning routine your daily life you
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are missing something big. So as I'm sitting
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in church and the pastor is preaching, I heard
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for the first time in my life the word of God
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and connected to it. I heard for the first time
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in my life the word of God and felt presence
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in it. I heard for the first time the word of
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God. Now when I mean like I heard it wasn't I'm
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hearing it for the first time. I sat in church
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my whole life. And I'm gonna do a whole episode
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about this but about going to church and not
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knowing God But I that's coming later, but I
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sat in that church and for the first time in
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my life I heard God speak and I don't mean in
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audible voice. Hey Julie. Hey, how you doing
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girl? What's up? Thanks for coming to church.
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No, I heard his word I connected to it I felt
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presence in it and I understood what was being
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said and what was required of me. I had an experience
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that shifted me in a way where I was like, that's
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it. That's the big, that's what's missing. And
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so, altar call happened. After service, altar
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call happened. And I don't even remember like
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standing. Like I know that I got up and I was
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at the front for altar call and I rededicated
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my life to God that day. The pastor said something
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he said you know maybe you don't know Jesus or
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maybe you do and you just stepped away for a
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little while and he said like this is an invitation
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to just come back to him and have a relationship
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with him and that also stood out to me because
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maybe I was encouraged as a kid to have a relationship
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with God, but it just wasn't framed in a way
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where I received it that way. And so I didn't
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know. I didn't know that I could. I just thought
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God was God. We were supposed to do what we were
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supposed to do. and at the end of it all it was
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either did you do it good or not heaven or hell
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and you move on i did not know about his beauty
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his glory his intention his love his grace his
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mercy his want and need for me to live and fully
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operate in my purpose that he has assigned to
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me and in the gifts and the grace and the will
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that he has established and how in collaboration
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with all of the great things that he instilled
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in me, every single thing that I will have in
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life is a beat so much bigger and greater than
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anything that I could see or that I can dream
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of or that I could think of. It's like Julie
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on steroids. So I just kept going. And I would
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go to church and sometimes I would just sit in
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the back and I would write in my journal. And
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I would, I had to learn new songs, but once I
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learned them I would sing them. I made friends.
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I joined groups that were full of women who understood
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where I was in life, what I was going through,
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what I was doing, who supported it. And I was
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still recording during this time. This happened
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and I went to church in November of 2024 and
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I still continue to record for the rest of that
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year moving into July. But I always take a break
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in July. I'll take a little break. I'll come
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back August, September. Sometimes I would also
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kind of stockpile episodes. So I would record,
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record and record and I would release throughout
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the summer even though I wasn't recording new
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content. I would still be releasing content throughout
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the summer so I can break with my kids. But after
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I released my episode in July, I just had this
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moment. I also got accepted into a psychology
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program. So I'm also growing because I want to
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learn more so that I can serve more so that I
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can help more people through the show, through
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my books. through this thing that I created.
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So I'm like, I'm going back to school and I have
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a really good friend. She knew that I rededicated
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my life to Christ. She knew I was going back
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to school. I share with her the coaching program,
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my own coaching program that I was working on.
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She's a psychologist. I was bouncing ideas off
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of her, sending her drafts, asking questions
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about... does this work does you know, what do
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you think about this and She told me basically
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the course that I'm on is going to change the
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trajectory of my life and it's going to be such
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a big shift that I'm not gonna ever be able to
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go back from and she said it's going to change
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me She said it's gonna change everything about
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you and I just want you to be prepared for that
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and i was like oh okay you know i've heard motivational
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speeches before thank you i love you for encouraging
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me i thank you for your words but i still wasn't
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seeing what she said as something that was going
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to come to pass so it happened it happened and
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there's a something else that happened i said
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right before i went back to school i announced
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that i was going back to school on like a facebook
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live And I remember saying like, what if I can
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become, what if I can become like the person
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that helps people in a way where we can restore
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families, where we can restore relationships,
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where we can be educated in a way where we learn
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to be more intentional about the things that
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we do and the things that we say and the choices
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that we make. And what if we can come back to
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a place where families don't have to go no contact
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or Where you know horrible things aren't happening.
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I'm paraphrasing what I said, but I basically
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Announced why I was going back to school and
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why I felt it was important for me to become
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more educated in this in this field So that I
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can help but also I was speaking about restoring
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families because at the time there was a huge
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disconnect between myself and my family and I'm
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like just what if like that that little nugget
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of hope. What if we can learn to be better? And
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not knowing that, I opened up my mouth and said
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that. Not knowing that what my friend said about
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your life is gonna change and you're not gonna
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be able to go back. You're not going to be able
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to go back. You're gonna know too much, you're
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gonna learn too much, you're gonna be different.
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And literally watching these things starting
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to come to pass in my life in real time. watching
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these shifts happen in real time has been the
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most rewarding thing that has ever happened to
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me. I've just been like taking it all in and
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it got to the point where I felt like it was
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more responsible of me to step away from this
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and to really sit in what I was experiencing,
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what I was learning, what God was doing in my
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life, what He was saying to me. and really know
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for sure before I move forward again, is this
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the path that I'm supposed to be on? And if I
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am supposed to be on it, if I am supposed to
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be talking to you, if I am supposed to be encouraging,
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motivating, inspiring, making sure that while
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I'm doing it, God is with me. with me and he's
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in it. These are like the things that that happen.
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So what to expect moving forward with selective
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hearing? Well, first of all, what to expect?
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Expect big motivation, big inspiration, real
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conversations. None of that has changed. Like
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this show is for educational purposes. So I am
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not, even though I will be soon, I am not a therapist.
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I am just here to share with you that I'm only
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a few steps. ahead or behind some of you and
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I'm just walking out my process out loud with
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the hopes of encouraging someone else out there
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to continue to walk out theirs. Baby when I tell
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you like I know we find comfort in the things
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in the past because they're familiar but all
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that stuff in your rear view is there for a reason
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and you got to keep pushing no matter how uncomfortable
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it gets no matter how you may feel afraid. no
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matter how, no matter how emotional it gets,
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this has been a very emotional year for me. It
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has been a year of pushing through some really
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uncomfortable truths about myself. Like, wow,
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there were so many areas that I thought I had
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resolved and healed in, and they came right to
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the surface. Like, hey, we right here, psych.
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.839
You definitely got over that. Let's talk about
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it. Let's work on it. but I serve a God who is
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a healer and a restorer and a forgiving and loving
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God. I learned that when I know Him, then I really
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know what love is. That when I know Him, then
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I really know what forgiveness is. I really understand
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what it is. And that when I know Him, have a
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relationship with Him. Through reading His word,
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through people teaching me, I have learned who
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I am and that all these big beautiful things
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me that he placed in me that I have been pushing
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down or Other people have pushed down or that
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I've been running from are supposed to be right
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out here BAM Right here right out front but not
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for me and The cool thing about all this is it's
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never been for me even before I went back to
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church Like I was always just trying to help
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people I was always just trying to let people
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know Like you're not by yourself other people
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experience this we all have a story there's power
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in our testimonies and there's relief and resolve
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and restoration in our testimonies. We can help
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other people through sharing our overcoming.
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I've always had that mindset that's how the show
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got started even if I was in crazy town in the
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beginning. So from starting the show to building
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a platform or resources to writing a book to
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returning to school to all this it's always been
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to help other people but I just didn't know.
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why that was until I was reintroduced to Christ.
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Now, I have so much more to give you and I have
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so much more to share with you and I absolutely,
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I just can't wait. I'm looking forward to sharing
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with those of you who have been here and I'm
00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:58.960
looking forward to all of the people that will
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come. I want you guys to do me a couple favors
00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:05.470
though, okay? So, listen up. I'm still writing
00:27:05.470 --> 00:27:09.609
a blog. I also have another collaboration that
00:27:09.609 --> 00:27:15.730
is new -ish. I work with Dorothy Watson from
00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:18.890
the Mental Wellness Center. She drops in blogs
00:27:18.890 --> 00:27:23.569
every month with great information, great tips,
00:27:24.150 --> 00:27:28.160
and so you gotta sign up on my website. so that
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:30.720
you can have access to all these amazing tools.
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:33.720
So sign up on my website. You'll get a monthly
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blog from Dorothy. You will also get a nice little
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pop -up blog from me. You need to sign up so
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that you can know exactly what's going on with
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the show before everyone else. Please follow
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me on social media at selective hearing show.
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I do have a Instagram and a Facebook. I'm on
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threads. I'll reintroduce TikTok. Again, once
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.440
I get the hang of it, somebody send me a message
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:02.099
and let me know how to figure that out because
00:28:02.099 --> 00:28:06.859
I haven't got there yet. Also, I did a interview
00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:09.339
with Brushfires. This is how we built our relationship.
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Again, planting those seeds and not knowing what
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.579
was going to become a full circle moment. I interviewed
00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:18.839
J .R. Rennie from Brushfire Ministries, I want
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:21.319
to say a couple years ago. And through that interview,
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.700
we built a rapport. and he has been an amazing
00:28:24.700 --> 00:28:30.279
mentor ever since and he and I recorded our first
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.259
episode a couple years ago and then before I
00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:36.839
went silent we recorded a second interview because
00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:41.220
I went through his design discovery program which
00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:45.019
I said I would do in our first interview so we
00:28:45.019 --> 00:28:49.200
went through my and complete design discovery
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.500
through his program and he read the results in
00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:57.759
real time for you to see so after this episode
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next week you will get a episode from me and
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.539
you will get two bonus episodes with me and jr
00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:05.180
check them out if you're trying to learn more
00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:10.900
about your host and how i tick and how i why
00:29:10.900 --> 00:29:15.720
am i this way um me and jr had a really amazing
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.539
and um we had a really amazing conversation about
00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:22.859
you girls. So check that out. You know I always
00:29:22.859 --> 00:29:25.000
end the show when I ask a guess. If you're new
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.960
here you're going to learn this now and everyone
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.099
else. I always ask the guess what does selective
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hearing mean to you. That's how I always close
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.980
the show and over the years I've had you know
00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:41.099
selective hearing means what you want to hear.
00:29:41.990 --> 00:29:44.230
selective hearing means you know blocking out
00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:48.109
the noise and being very intentional about What
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you're listening to what you're taking in which
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when we go a little deeper into this I will tell
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you some really cool things that I learned in
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the Bible about that But I was saying all these
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all these things before going back to church,
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which was really cool because it was like God
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was with me the entire time even when I thought
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that he wasn't so Yeah, there were great big
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things on the inside of me that I just was ignoring
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or moving past until I was pulled right out like
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no you can't do that anymore because I got something
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big for you girl and You need to come on over
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here with me so you can get to it. So what does
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selective hearing mean? to me Now today as we
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speak selective hearing means transformation
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and that transformation begins when we learn
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how to hear. But what do we need to hear? We
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need to hear God's voice above the noise, above
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the distractions, above culture and popularity,
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above what we feel might be best or what's right.
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And I'm not saying what we're feeling sometimes
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isn't best or what's right, but hear God about
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it first. Selective hearing means encouragement.
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It means love. It means boundaries. It means
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being intentional. And we only get to that point
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when we hear God and when we grow in purpose.
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So be mindful about what you're listening to.
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Even me. I will say this boldly and proudly.
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Even check in with God about listening to me
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because I'm still a work in progress. And so
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I just want to thank you guys for I just want
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to thank you guys for rocking with me. I want
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to thank everybody for being here and supporting
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me. I want to thank you all for making it through
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this episode and I'm looking forward to everything
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that we are going to discuss this season. Everything
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that we're going to learn and I'm excited for
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everything that we're going to grow. How we're
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going to grow together. I'm going to drop a blog
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in the comments. just so you know i'm gonna drop
00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:11.160
a blog in the comments uh in the show notes you
00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:17.579
will find um a link to a blog that i wrote as
00:32:17.579 --> 00:32:20.599
we closed out 2025 that kind of lets you guys
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know exactly what has been going on i hope this
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episode covered a lot but don't worry we got
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a whole 40 episode season coming up where we
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gonna cover it all but i just wanted to let you
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know where i've been and what has been happening
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so far yes read the blog Also, check out that
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link for Brushfire. It is also linked into the
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comments. Get over to my website and sign up.
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It's also linked in the comments. Follow me on
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Facebook, Instagram, all that stuff. YouTube,
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you know, everything is at Selective Hearing
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Show. So let's be intentional about hitting those
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subscribe buttons and those like buttons and
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those share buttons and talking to our friends
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and our family about everything that... you like
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about this show, okay? And I am doing something
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new too. Every episode, I will be closing each
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episode with a prayer. Father God, I thank you
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for the opportunity to speak today. I thank you
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for an opportunity to share my story with every
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ear that's on the other side of this microphone.
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I thank you for restoration. I thank you for
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transformation. I thank you for the renewing
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of minds. I thank you for the truth, Father God,
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your truth. And your truth is that we are your
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fearfully and wonderfully made children and you
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have a purpose for us all. I thank you that you
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love us so much that you sent your son. And I
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thank you that I can share your light and I pray
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that everyone that is under the sound of my voice
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today, everyone who hears me who does not know
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you, that they want to get to know you and they
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want to understand you and they want to understand
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your perfect will and plan for their life. And
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I just thank you for the opportunity to share
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this morning and I pray all this in Jesus' mighty
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name. Everyone go be great and until next time.
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This is selective hearing.
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Hello, I'm Julie Dammar, host of the Selective
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Hearing podcast. Selective Hearing isn't about
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tuning people out. It's about choosing what shapes
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your life. I choose to let God influence me,
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not the world, not culture, and not what's popular.
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What does selective hearing mean to you? Wow.
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Let that rest for a minute. Welcome. It has been
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a while since I said those words. It's been over
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a year to be exact. I think my last episode that
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aired was July 28th, 2025. So welcome back and
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thank you. Let me start there. Thank you to everyone
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who has been supporting me over the years and
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thank you to. all of my new supporters and listeners.
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Okay we are going to get into it this season.
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I want you guys to think of this season as a
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really really big story time because I have so
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much to share with you. Where did I go? Why did
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I go radio silent? Why did I delete over 150
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episodes? What was happening in my life? If you
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subscribe to my newsletter I know that I've been
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kind of checking in with you all over the past
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year and kind of letting you know some of the
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things that have been happening. in my life on
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my blog but this is like me coming back ready
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to share with you the changes that have been
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happening in my life the growth that I've been
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experiencing and the overall shift in transformation
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that has been happening and I know if you are
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subscribed to my website you see Now, if you
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didn't know what was going on and you're like,
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where did she go? Subscribe to my website because
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then you can get updates. I don't plan on disappearing
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again, but just in case I do, you can receive
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updates as to what's going on behind the scenes,
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why certain changes are being made, and just
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overall, you know, still catch little tidbits
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of motivation for me. So I know that over the
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course of the past year, I did announce to everyone
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that I would be releasing my new season and when
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I did, it would be playfully titled, My Solo
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Album. So when I did return, I was gonna return
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with no guest episodes and I was just gonna share
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with you what's been happening and bring you
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that motivation and encouragement that you're
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used to on this platform. But then I thought
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about it more and more and I was like, you know,
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I'm not gonna do that because one, I love talking
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to the guests and I learned so much from them
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right along with you. So I was like that's not
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fair to you or me to remove that aspect of the
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show. So I decided that there will be guest interviews.
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I will be bringing back older episodes. They
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will be sprinkled in throughout this season as
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bonus episodes. And in addition to that I have
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been in communication with some of your favorite
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guests from the past and they will be coming
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back to share with you. how their lives have
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also shifted since the last time we spoke, how
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change is very consistent and very much still
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happening in their lives. We are going to bring
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you those same impactful, inspiring, and motivating
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conversations. that you are used to. I'm just
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so happy to be back. I'm so happy to be speaking
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into the mic. And I hope that you are just as
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excited as I am for this season. And I hope you're
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excited to hear what I have to say. Also, I do
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want to share with you about our new sponsor.
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on the other side of the mic know you're not
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alone in this. I remember when I first started
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the show, I started it because I felt alone and
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I reached a point in my life where I was like,
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something has to change. I didn't really know
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how to change it at the time. I didn't really
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know even what change looked like. I just had
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that deep feeling in me that things can't stay
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the same and because, well, I'm good at talking.
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That's what I decided to do. Now in the beginning,
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it was rough. Like, let me just put that in there.
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It was rough. My words weren't the best, but
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I started using them. I started saying, hey,
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I noticed this isn't right. I started saying,
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why? I started saying, help. There were certain
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things that started happening once I started
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talking. Again, I had no idea that I was planting
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seeds and that all these things would come full
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circle six years later. But in those early moments
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when I was low, in those early moments, in those
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early years when I felt like this can't be life,
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am I the only one who's going through this? Something
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has to change. In those early moments, my words,
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that's all I had. we all have a purpose and the
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reason for that is because God designed us all
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with a purpose and somewhere in the fog or in
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the mud, however you want to describe it, in
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the mess of our own stuff, we lose sight of that.
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But it never goes anywhere. It's always there.
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It's always with us. So, I would like to thank
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Hearing. So, okay. So now what is going on girl?
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Where have you been? Where have you been? Julie,
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where'd you go? Let me get comfortable in my
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seat so we can talk about this. So everyone who
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has been here with me, you know that the show
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started during the pandemic. So Selective Hearing
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originally started on my couch with no idea how
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to podcast, no idea how to mix and record audio.
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All I had was a cry for help, a really good idea,
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and nothing but time on my hands because it was
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COVID and we were all at home just on the hamster
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wheel. So that's when it started. And when it
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first started, it was like a combination of a
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bunch of different ideas that I had been throwing
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at the wall. And I'm like, something's going
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to stick, something's going to work. So when
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I first started addressing everyone, I was talking
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about everything, a little bit of pop culture,
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a little bit of politics, a little bit of what
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was happening in the world, a little bit of just
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everything. I didn't know that that was never
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really the direction that the show was going
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to the place that it was going to stay in or
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go in. That's just kind of where I was at at
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the time. So when I first started talking I was
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talking about a little bit of everything and
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then I was incorporating you know my real life
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experiences into each subject. As the pandemic
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went on, as things in my world became bigger
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and brighter but also more complicated, you know,
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I was a new mom, had two small children, had
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a NICU stint, you know, I did all the things
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that can basically swing you right into postpartum
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depression twice. I started going a little bit
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deeper into my fears. to be very honest because
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there was a lot of I didn't know there was a
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lot of heavy on the I don't know I don't understand
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why big on you did this to me blame blame blame
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shame shame shame guilt I don't know if you all
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can relate to that but I think you can I think
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at some point in time we all end up in the washing
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machine of whoa this is my life how did i get
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here is it my fault is it your fault oh no i
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think it's your fault you did it and you're definitely
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the reason why i'm this way then that come to
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jesus moment in the mirror like oh no girl yeah
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a lot happened to you and that's not being discounted
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but uh some of this is on you ma 'am so all of
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those things happened early on when the show
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first started and as i Began to get help. Thanks
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to someone in the comments on a live like girl.
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You need a little help you let's try some therapy
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girl. Thanks to Someone being brave enough or
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bold enough to say that to me It did start me
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on a journey that it's like wow when I look back
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or you look up in that rear -view mirror You're
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like wow like I was there and now I'm here as
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I Changed and grew the direction of this show
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has changed. It has grown I went from talking
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about pop culture politics. What's happening
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in the world? Oh my god We're stuck in the house.
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Oh, why'd y 'all steal all the toilet paper out
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the store to Something's not right. I'm not okay,
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but I don't know why the big why. I was very
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curious about why am I not okay. I had convinced
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myself that I always was because I was successful.
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I had a husband. I had a house. I had kids. I
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have, you know, the education. You name it, I
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had it. Still have it, but that was like the
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center. That was the focus of everything. Life
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is good because I have all these external things.
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Still trying to understand so why is everything
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so... wrong almost. Why does everything feel
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so crazy to me? That's when life coaching started.
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That's when reading started. That's when journaling
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started. That's when writing down my prayers
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started. Even though I grew up in church my whole
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life, grew up in a church family, spent basically
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my whole childhood in church. I didn't kind of
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step away from church until I became an adult.
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And well, I'll say, I didn't, yeah, I stepped
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away. Let's not even go there. I stepped away.
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I became a Easter Sunday special programs, Women's
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Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day church attendee,
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and I still really didn't know what I was doing
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with God or what God was doing with me. I'll
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say that I was just writing down my prayers because
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I did a coaching program with a faith -based
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life coach. a lot of things that I learned in
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that particular program were supported by scripture.
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So again, all these little seeds being planted,
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I started the show, I started talking, I started
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asking questions, I started getting curious about
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myself, what's going on. I started finding community,
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but there was still this, you know, I don't know
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what's going on component to everything. But
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because I was taking all these steps and dropping
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these little seeds along the way. things were
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happening in my life that I was completely unaware
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of. So as I move through these different seasons
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of now I'm learning, now I'm growing, now I'm
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healing, now I'm forgiving, now I'm thinking
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more, now I'm becoming more aware of my actions,
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now I... It's still a little messy, okay? It
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was controlled mess for a little while. It was
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real zen or cuss you out, but you know... I was
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finding some balance there as I'm moving through
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these seasons and these different stages of growth
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and development that were very uncomfortable
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to very triggering to very emotional let me feel
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a real tender at times again these seeds were
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being planted and now I have arrived this morning
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at this full circle moment where I know now what
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took place when I took that first step as messy
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and uncomfortable and as raw and real and at
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times Cringy even in those moments those raw
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real cry out moments early on it was building
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for today. So why did I disappear? November 2024
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I Was invited to church. Well, my cousin had
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been invited me to church a lot. I just wasn't
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going so I have cousin who Would invite me to
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church because he went to church in my area And
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he would come up and he would invite me to church
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and I thought oh, yeah, maybe next time At this
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point, again, I still, you know, I had left church
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as an adult, family's church, and I had kind
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of just been doing my own thing, watching church
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online, visiting churches. I would attend church
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through my kids' school, because they were in
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a Christian school, and all of their special
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programs and things like that were also held
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during Sunday church services, so I was attending
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church that way. But again, I still really didn't
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know what was going on, what I was doing, but
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I was there. So my cousin kept inviting me to
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church and I'm like yeah sure I'll visit one
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day I'll visit one day. He invited me around
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my birthday which is in November and his brother's
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birthday is in November so he invited us both
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to church like yeah come you know your birthdays
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are coming up yeah y 'all come to church yeah
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okay I'll come. So I go to church and when I
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get to church I just had this feeling that I
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can't describe of love from the moment I walked
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through the door. There was just this overwhelming
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feeling of love now at that moment I'll tell
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you I didn't know that it was love so I don't
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if we go backwards to me walking through the
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doors that probably wouldn't be in that moment
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how I'll describe it but hindsight looking back
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knowing now that's just what it was I walked
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through the door and all these people you know
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they greet me they're kind I got some of the
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best hugs I've ever gotten in my life and I'm
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just like oh wow you know this is a nice place,
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this is a nice church. So I go in, they give
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me a seat, and my cousin, he isn't there yet.
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So I'm just kinda in there chilling, going through
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the worship service, sitting there, and I had
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my boys with me. There was this nice lady who
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was sitting next to me and my boys, and I will
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never forget her words, because she asked me
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where I was visiting from, and I was like, oh,
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you know. we don't have a church home. And she
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smiled at me and she was like, well, you do now.
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You do now. I was like, oh, you know, like she's
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just so cute. Oh my gosh, the cutest little lady.
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And I was like, she's so kind. Thank you. So
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finally my cousins arrive and you know, the service,
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the worship part of the service is over and the
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pastor comes up and he starts preaching. So this
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is four years into. if we mark it back from COVID
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to present to that day. We're four years into
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me now reading, learning about the mind, learning
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about emotions, learning about emotional regulation,
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learning about parenting, learning about accountability,
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learning about mindset, learning. So I'm four
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years into the science of how your mind works.
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I'm four years into at this point. learning about
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the power of our words. I'm four years into learning
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about the power of our intentions. I'm four years
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into all of these different things that I have
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been learning and all of these different strategies
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that I have been implementing into my daily life
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to heal. I'm four years in. But I'm four years
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in and there is also this screaming inside of
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me that's like you're learning you're changing
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you're growing you're better but you're missing
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you're missing something that's much bigger than
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anything that you've read anything that you've
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practiced any strategy that you've implemented
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into your morning routine your daily life you
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are missing something big. So as I'm sitting
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in church and the pastor is preaching, I heard
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for the first time in my life the word of God
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and connected to it. I heard for the first time
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in my life the word of God and felt presence
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in it. I heard for the first time the word of
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God. Now when I mean like I heard it wasn't I'm
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hearing it for the first time. I sat in church
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my whole life. And I'm gonna do a whole episode
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about this but about going to church and not
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knowing God But I that's coming later, but I
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sat in that church and for the first time in
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my life I heard God speak and I don't mean in
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audible voice. Hey Julie. Hey, how you doing
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girl? What's up? Thanks for coming to church.
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No, I heard his word I connected to it I felt
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presence in it and I understood what was being
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said and what was required of me. I had an experience
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that shifted me in a way where I was like, that's
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it. That's the big, that's what's missing. And
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so, altar call happened. After service, altar
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call happened. And I don't even remember like
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standing. Like I know that I got up and I was
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at the front for altar call and I rededicated
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my life to God that day. The pastor said something
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he said you know maybe you don't know Jesus or
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maybe you do and you just stepped away for a
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little while and he said like this is an invitation
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to just come back to him and have a relationship
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with him and that also stood out to me because
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maybe I was encouraged as a kid to have a relationship
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with God, but it just wasn't framed in a way
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where I received it that way. And so I didn't
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know. I didn't know that I could. I just thought
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God was God. We were supposed to do what we were
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supposed to do. and at the end of it all it was
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either did you do it good or not heaven or hell
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and you move on i did not know about his beauty
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his glory his intention his love his grace his
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mercy his want and need for me to live and fully
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operate in my purpose that he has assigned to
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me and in the gifts and the grace and the will
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that he has established and how in collaboration
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with all of the great things that he instilled
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in me, every single thing that I will have in
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life is a beat so much bigger and greater than
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anything that I could see or that I can dream
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of or that I could think of. It's like Julie
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on steroids. So I just kept going. And I would
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go to church and sometimes I would just sit in
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the back and I would write in my journal. And
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I would, I had to learn new songs, but once I
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learned them I would sing them. I made friends.
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I joined groups that were full of women who understood
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where I was in life, what I was going through,
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what I was doing, who supported it. And I was
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still recording during this time. This happened
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and I went to church in November of 2024 and
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I still continue to record for the rest of that
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year moving into July. But I always take a break
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in July. I'll take a little break. I'll come
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back August, September. Sometimes I would also
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kind of stockpile episodes. So I would record,
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record and record and I would release throughout
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the summer even though I wasn't recording new
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content. I would still be releasing content throughout
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the summer so I can break with my kids. But after
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I released my episode in July, I just had this
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moment. I also got accepted into a psychology
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program. So I'm also growing because I want to
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learn more so that I can serve more so that I
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can help more people through the show, through
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my books. through this thing that I created.
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So I'm like, I'm going back to school and I have
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a really good friend. She knew that I rededicated
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my life to Christ. She knew I was going back
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to school. I share with her the coaching program,
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my own coaching program that I was working on.
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She's a psychologist. I was bouncing ideas off
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of her, sending her drafts, asking questions
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about... does this work does you know, what do
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you think about this and She told me basically
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the course that I'm on is going to change the
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trajectory of my life and it's going to be such
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a big shift that I'm not gonna ever be able to
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go back from and she said it's going to change
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me She said it's gonna change everything about
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you and I just want you to be prepared for that
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and i was like oh okay you know i've heard motivational
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speeches before thank you i love you for encouraging
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me i thank you for your words but i still wasn't
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seeing what she said as something that was going
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to come to pass so it happened it happened and
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there's a something else that happened i said
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right before i went back to school i announced
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that i was going back to school on like a facebook
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live And I remember saying like, what if I can
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become, what if I can become like the person
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that helps people in a way where we can restore
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families, where we can restore relationships,
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where we can be educated in a way where we learn
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to be more intentional about the things that
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we do and the things that we say and the choices
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that we make. And what if we can come back to
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a place where families don't have to go no contact
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or Where you know horrible things aren't happening.
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I'm paraphrasing what I said, but I basically
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Announced why I was going back to school and
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why I felt it was important for me to become
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more educated in this in this field So that I
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can help but also I was speaking about restoring
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families because at the time there was a huge
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disconnect between myself and my family and I'm
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like just what if like that that little nugget
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of hope. What if we can learn to be better? And
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not knowing that, I opened up my mouth and said
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that. Not knowing that what my friend said about
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your life is gonna change and you're not gonna
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be able to go back. You're not going to be able
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to go back. You're gonna know too much, you're
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gonna learn too much, you're gonna be different.
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And literally watching these things starting
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to come to pass in my life in real time. watching
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these shifts happen in real time has been the
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most rewarding thing that has ever happened to
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me. I've just been like taking it all in and
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it got to the point where I felt like it was
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more responsible of me to step away from this
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and to really sit in what I was experiencing,
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what I was learning, what God was doing in my
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life, what He was saying to me. and really know
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for sure before I move forward again, is this
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the path that I'm supposed to be on? And if I
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am supposed to be on it, if I am supposed to
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be talking to you, if I am supposed to be encouraging,
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motivating, inspiring, making sure that while
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I'm doing it, God is with me. with me and he's
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in it. These are like the things that that happen.
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So what to expect moving forward with selective
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hearing? Well, first of all, what to expect?
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Expect big motivation, big inspiration, real
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conversations. None of that has changed. Like
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this show is for educational purposes. So I am
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not, even though I will be soon, I am not a therapist.
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I am just here to share with you that I'm only
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a few steps. ahead or behind some of you and
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I'm just walking out my process out loud with
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the hopes of encouraging someone else out there
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to continue to walk out theirs. Baby when I tell
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you like I know we find comfort in the things
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in the past because they're familiar but all
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that stuff in your rear view is there for a reason
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and you got to keep pushing no matter how uncomfortable
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it gets no matter how you may feel afraid. no
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matter how, no matter how emotional it gets,
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this has been a very emotional year for me. It
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has been a year of pushing through some really
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uncomfortable truths about myself. Like, wow,
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there were so many areas that I thought I had
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resolved and healed in, and they came right to
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the surface. Like, hey, we right here, psych.
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You definitely got over that. Let's talk about
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it. Let's work on it. but I serve a God who is
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a healer and a restorer and a forgiving and loving
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God. I learned that when I know Him, then I really
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know what love is. That when I know Him, then
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I really know what forgiveness is. I really understand
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what it is. And that when I know Him, have a
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relationship with Him. Through reading His word,
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through people teaching me, I have learned who
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I am and that all these big beautiful things
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me that he placed in me that I have been pushing
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down or Other people have pushed down or that
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I've been running from are supposed to be right
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out here BAM Right here right out front but not
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for me and The cool thing about all this is it's
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never been for me even before I went back to
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church Like I was always just trying to help
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people I was always just trying to let people
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know Like you're not by yourself other people
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experience this we all have a story there's power
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in our testimonies and there's relief and resolve
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and restoration in our testimonies. We can help
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other people through sharing our overcoming.
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I've always had that mindset that's how the show
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got started even if I was in crazy town in the
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beginning. So from starting the show to building
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a platform or resources to writing a book to
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returning to school to all this it's always been
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to help other people but I just didn't know.
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why that was until I was reintroduced to Christ.
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Now, I have so much more to give you and I have
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so much more to share with you and I absolutely,
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:54.039
I just can't wait. I'm looking forward to sharing
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with those of you who have been here and I'm
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looking forward to all of the people that will
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come. I want you guys to do me a couple favors
00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:05.470
though, okay? So, listen up. I'm still writing
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a blog. I also have another collaboration that
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is new -ish. I work with Dorothy Watson from
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the Mental Wellness Center. She drops in blogs
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every month with great information, great tips,
00:27:24.150 --> 00:27:28.160
and so you gotta sign up on my website. so that
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you can have access to all these amazing tools.
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So sign up on my website. You'll get a monthly
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blog from Dorothy. You will also get a nice little
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pop -up blog from me. You need to sign up so
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that you can know exactly what's going on with
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the show before everyone else. Please follow
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me on social media at selective hearing show.
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I do have a Instagram and a Facebook. I'm on
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threads. I'll reintroduce TikTok. Again, once
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I get the hang of it, somebody send me a message
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and let me know how to figure that out because
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I haven't got there yet. Also, I did a interview
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with Brushfires. This is how we built our relationship.
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Again, planting those seeds and not knowing what
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was going to become a full circle moment. I interviewed
00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:18.839
J .R. Rennie from Brushfire Ministries, I want
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to say a couple years ago. And through that interview,
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.700
we built a rapport. and he has been an amazing
00:28:24.700 --> 00:28:30.279
mentor ever since and he and I recorded our first
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episode a couple years ago and then before I
00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:36.839
went silent we recorded a second interview because
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I went through his design discovery program which
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I said I would do in our first interview so we
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went through my and complete design discovery
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.500
through his program and he read the results in
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real time for you to see so after this episode
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next week you will get a episode from me and
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.539
you will get two bonus episodes with me and jr
00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:05.180
check them out if you're trying to learn more
00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:10.900
about your host and how i tick and how i why
00:29:10.900 --> 00:29:15.720
am i this way um me and jr had a really amazing
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and um we had a really amazing conversation about
00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:22.859
you girls. So check that out. You know I always
00:29:22.859 --> 00:29:25.000
end the show when I ask a guess. If you're new
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.960
here you're going to learn this now and everyone
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.099
else. I always ask the guess what does selective
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hearing mean to you. That's how I always close
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the show and over the years I've had you know
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selective hearing means what you want to hear.
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selective hearing means you know blocking out
00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:48.109
the noise and being very intentional about What
00:29:48.109 --> 00:29:51.029
you're listening to what you're taking in which
00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:53.950
when we go a little deeper into this I will tell
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you some really cool things that I learned in
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the Bible about that But I was saying all these
00:29:59.410 --> 00:30:01.450
all these things before going back to church,
00:30:01.829 --> 00:30:05.049
which was really cool because it was like God
00:30:05.049 --> 00:30:08.049
was with me the entire time even when I thought
00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:13.130
that he wasn't so Yeah, there were great big
00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:16.069
things on the inside of me that I just was ignoring
00:30:16.069 --> 00:30:19.990
or moving past until I was pulled right out like
00:30:19.990 --> 00:30:22.569
no you can't do that anymore because I got something
00:30:22.569 --> 00:30:26.049
big for you girl and You need to come on over
00:30:26.049 --> 00:30:28.990
here with me so you can get to it. So what does
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selective hearing mean? to me Now today as we
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speak selective hearing means transformation
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and that transformation begins when we learn
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how to hear. But what do we need to hear? We
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need to hear God's voice above the noise, above
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the distractions, above culture and popularity,
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above what we feel might be best or what's right.
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And I'm not saying what we're feeling sometimes
00:31:02.529 --> 00:31:06.250
isn't best or what's right, but hear God about
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it first. Selective hearing means encouragement.
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It means love. It means boundaries. It means
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being intentional. And we only get to that point
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.299
when we hear God and when we grow in purpose.
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So be mindful about what you're listening to.
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Even me. I will say this boldly and proudly.
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Even check in with God about listening to me
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because I'm still a work in progress. And so
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I just want to thank you guys for I just want
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to thank you guys for rocking with me. I want
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:46.160
to thank everybody for being here and supporting
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.599
me. I want to thank you all for making it through
00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:53.339
this episode and I'm looking forward to everything
00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:56.799
that we are going to discuss this season. Everything
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.319
that we're going to learn and I'm excited for
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.920
everything that we're going to grow. How we're
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.759
going to grow together. I'm going to drop a blog
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.180
in the comments. just so you know i'm gonna drop
00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:11.160
a blog in the comments uh in the show notes you
00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:17.579
will find um a link to a blog that i wrote as
00:32:17.579 --> 00:32:20.599
we closed out 2025 that kind of lets you guys
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.900
know exactly what has been going on i hope this
00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:25.920
episode covered a lot but don't worry we got
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:28.079
a whole 40 episode season coming up where we
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.420
gonna cover it all but i just wanted to let you
00:32:31.420 --> 00:32:33.740
know where i've been and what has been happening
00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:37.799
so far yes read the blog Also, check out that
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.039
link for Brushfire. It is also linked into the
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comments. Get over to my website and sign up.
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It's also linked in the comments. Follow me on
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Show. So let's be intentional about hitting those
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and our family about everything that... you like
00:33:05.579 --> 00:33:10.720
about this show, okay? And I am doing something
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:16.200
new too. Every episode, I will be closing each
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.099
episode with a prayer. Father God, I thank you
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for the opportunity to speak today. I thank you
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for an opportunity to share my story with every
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ear that's on the other side of this microphone.
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I thank you for restoration. I thank you for
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transformation. I thank you for the renewing
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of minds. I thank you for the truth, Father God,
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your truth. And your truth is that we are your
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fearfully and wonderfully made children and you
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have a purpose for us all. I thank you that you
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love us so much that you sent your son. And I
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thank you that I can share your light and I pray
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that everyone that is under the sound of my voice
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today, everyone who hears me who does not know
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you, that they want to get to know you and they
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:11.440
want to understand you and they want to understand
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:16.139
your perfect will and plan for their life. And
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I just thank you for the opportunity to share
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this morning and I pray all this in Jesus' mighty
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name. Everyone go be great and until next time.
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This is selective hearing.
