1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,920 I need some R&R with Chas, yeah. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,320 Raw & Real , oh ahh ah . 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,320 I need some R&R with Chas, yeah. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,080 Raw & Real , Raw & Real . 5 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:18,040 Hey, what's up? 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,800 Welcome to R&R, Raw & Real with Chas. 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,000 Here's where we speak on the journey of self-improvement 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,600 based off experiences, observations, opinions, 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,120 and some facts. 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,520 Some topics can be a little triggering, 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,880 but others may be funny, a little raw, or a little bit edgy. 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,960 So sit back, relax, grab a snack, grab your notebook, 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,200 grab something to drink, or even grab your just your headphones. 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,760 I mean, did you miss me, though? 15 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,880 Like really, really, did you really miss me? 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,640 Because I've missed you. 17 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,360 Welcome to R&R, Ron Rihl wishes. 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,440 I'm your host, Shazman, and I know I've been gone for a minute, 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,040 but I'm back with R&R. 20 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,360 I'm so sorry I left you guys. 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:08,360 Hi, I'm Tully. 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,080 I miss y'all. 23 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,040 I have so much to talk about. 24 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,360 Because seriously, life has been life and, you know, 25 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:27,360 I had to like take a step back and take like a hiatus 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:32,360 because things started to get serious within my personal life. 27 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:37,360 And I had to make some decisions for, you know, me and my kids and... 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,360 Not all the time, you know, talking about it out loud, 29 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:50,360 trying to explain what type of journey you're on to everybody else. 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,360 It just doesn't make sense all the time. 31 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,360 So sometimes you just have to be quiet and deal with what you're dealing with 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,360 at that time, in that time. 33 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,360 You get what I'm saying? 34 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:06,360 So I mean, I just had to like completely like lock in with God. 35 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:12,360 And, you know, like, I don't really know how to say this 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,360 because I don't want to say too much on the first episode back. 37 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:24,360 But sometimes you just have to quiet the noise around you 38 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,360 so that you can hear his voice when he's trying to talk to you, 39 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,360 you know what I'm saying? 40 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,360 When he's trying to guide you, when he's trying to let you know 41 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,360 what your next move should be. 42 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,360 And it's, you know what I'm saying? 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,360 We're so busy listening to everybody else. 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,360 And we don't think that people are intentionally trying to give us bad advice 45 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:50,360 or offer help in a bad, you know, in a bad space or has bad intention. 46 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:56,360 So we just like, we want to hear you. 47 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,360 But like sometimes we really just need you to shut the hell up. 48 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:09,360 They really just need you to shut the hell up and like, let me hear his voice. 49 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:17,360 And like sometimes we get so caught up in hearing other people say, 50 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,360 oh, well, God told me this and God told me that. 51 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,360 And it'd be like, you get so confused and it'd be like, but wait, though, 52 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,360 but God didn't tell me that. 53 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,360 But you can't tell people that because then some people get offended 54 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,360 and it's like, you know, I'm going to just be quiet. 55 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,360 I'm going to just be quiet. 56 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:42,360 And ultimately that's really what it had to be like I spent time after time 57 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:51,360 crying to God about my little heart desires and trying to make the best decisions 58 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,360 and the right decisions is very difficult because I have a lot on the line. 59 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,360 You know what I'm saying? 60 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,360 I have two kids that literally think the world of me, 61 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:09,360 they don't they know for a fact that their mom got it and she's going to make it happen. 62 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,360 Regardless, you know what I'm saying? 63 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:21,360 So I had to like, like really tell God, like, look, I'm I'm never rushing you 64 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,360 and I'm never, you know, doing that. 65 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:30,360 But like what do I got to do to get what I want? 66 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:37,360 Pretty much that's literally how I came to God was what do I have to do to get what I want? 67 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,360 Because this that space that I was in. 68 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,360 I'm like, this cannot be it for me. 69 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,360 This just cannot be it. 70 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,360 Like you got to be kidding me. 71 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,360 This is this is my future God. 72 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:04,360 So I asked him, like, what do I have to give up and he told me and I had to follow his plan. 73 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:10,360 And it may not have been what everybody else may have thought it should have been for myself and my kids. 74 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,360 But ultimately, it was a learning lesson for me. 75 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:24,360 I had to learn a lot about myself, about healing, reprogramming my mental. 76 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:36,360 Like I had to like, reparent myself in this process while also making like some big some big dog moves, you know what I'm saying? 77 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:48,360 And like I was on a timeframe and like time was like, you know how you send around waiting for something and you procrastinate and then it's like the deadline is tomorrow. 78 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,360 So now you're scrambling trying to figure out what to do. 79 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:58,360 That's what it started to feel like. And I was sitting there like, okay, God, I did what you asked. 80 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,360 I did what you asked. Come on now. 81 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:13,360 And I felt like at some point in time, me and God was like, even. 82 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:21,360 It was it was difficult. It was a difficult time and like, I knew. 83 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:32,360 I knew that something had to change. So I had to like and and when I liked it with him, it was like, I kept showing him that I was serious. 84 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:40,360 I kept showing him that I trust him. I kept showing him that I have faith in his plans and what he had for me because what I was doing was not working for myself. 85 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:56,360 It just was not working. Like taking charge being in control. It just was not working. And sometimes trying to explain that to people who aren't who didn't grew up the same way that you grew up or grew up with the same belief that you have. 86 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:02,360 It sometimes it doesn't make sense for them because they were like, what do you mean you you wait on God. 87 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:12,360 So you telling me you're not going to go get a second job to pay for this or like, you know what I'm saying you're not going to work overtime like, no, I asked God for a job where I don't have to work overtime. 88 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:23,360 That that was in my prayer. I'm sorry. I don't want to be an overtime hustler. Absolutely not. It's an addiction. I was that before. And I saw what it was going to do to me. Absolutely not. 89 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Absolutely. Like I had to stay on my path and not listen to other people like, you know what I'm saying. 90 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:45,360 Tell me how I should do it and what I should do and I had to learn that the things that I was going through in this time was to strengthen me. 91 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:56,360 It was a lesson like I had a lot of lessons to be learned. I've met a lot of people that I thought were supposed to be something. 92 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:12,360 Well, not something that's I shouldn't say something. I've met some people that I thought were going to mean something in a longer term, if that means anything. 93 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:23,360 And instead, they turned it out to be a lesson to strengthen me for the next steps in the next stages that God is about to put me through. 94 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:37,360 And I didn't know it at that time and like, but I had to learn that and I had to learn to, you know, I had to listen to be obedient. 95 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:55,360 Because I had to trust him and trust in knowing that God was going to give me my heart's desires and that he heard my cries and that I will be rewarded. 96 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:01,360 I had to learn that and finally just accept it and like just hold true to it. 97 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:15,360 But I also had to do some work to they say faith without works is dead. And I fully believe that I'm pretty sure a lot of people are kind of sort of in this stage right now, especially since 2025 has started. 98 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:23,360 We're not even going to go there with whatever is going on right now. 99 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:49,360 But I have noticed a shift in, I guess, not in the atmosphere, but just in the shift in people and like the things that people are posting and along with myself, devoting to yourself and like focusing on the lessons that you've learned and those boundaries that you talked about that you were going to stand on. 100 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:57,360 You know what I'm saying? I'm not being it. Okay, we'll stand on that boundary. You know what I'm saying? 101 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:09,360 But a lot of people are choosing to vote to devote time to themselves and to really like be so freaking for real and stop playing with yourself. 102 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:22,360 How do you expect somebody else to treat you with the utmost respect with the utmost love? One, if you never even show them how to love you because you don't do it to your. 103 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,360 Oh, okay. Right. 104 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:43,360 So how can you expect somebody to take you serious when they can see that you don't take yourself serious? You lie and you don't you go back on your own words on yourself. You don't put yourself first and you have so much guilt for putting yourself first. 105 00:10:43,360 --> 00:11:03,360 You haven't grown out of that. And I just see people like changing the whole like narrative of them of their story and like putting themselves first and stepping out and like being okay with standing on boundaries. 106 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:15,360 I know standing on business is a thing, but like no standing on boundaries. I'm standing on boundaries. I'm standing on these things that I said for myself. 107 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,360 If I know how to love myself good. 108 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:30,360 Then other people will see me loving on myself and they will learn how to treat me because of how I treat myself. 109 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:42,360 And also how I treat others. I'm not saying go be selfish and be a, you know, stuck up snotty snooty, you know, person like that. 110 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:51,360 No, be kind, be loving, be understanding, be firm, be strong. 111 00:11:51,360 --> 00:12:00,360 Accept what is and accept what isn't and you know what I'm saying be a good person. 112 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:06,360 Just that I just see I just see people doing that and that is also something that I am in. 113 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:18,360 I'm doing it myself. I had started to do it. But I did it obviously during that time that I took away from, you know, my podcast, but I was dealing with some things and 114 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:30,360 on the fence, I was such in a gray space and like confused and was just searching for clarity and something just kept saying wait it out. 115 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,360 Wait it out. 116 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Don't say nothing. 117 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,360 Don't overreact. 118 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,360 By Chow Tong. 119 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,360 I am not a completely retired crash out. 120 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:48,360 So just understand if I choose to crash out on you. 121 00:12:48,360 --> 00:13:00,360 You just had me in a bad space, but to choose to be silent and to disappear and to live with whatever ending story that I created in my head. 122 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,360 You're cooking. 123 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:13,360 Whatever story I came up with my head, whatever that ending is, that's exactly what it is. I don't care what you say what you have done. None of that. 124 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,360 I got to stand on that. 125 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:25,360 But I loved I love seeing everybody focus on themselves and like really really really really taking care of themselves. I love that. 126 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:35,360 It's so needed right now. Like, it's okay to put yourself first and work on you and you are the focus. It's okay. 127 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:44,360 But like lock in for the right reasons. Like, change your narrative, change what's going on. You see what's going on. 128 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:50,360 Understand that perception is stupid. You don't you don't need that. 129 00:13:50,360 --> 00:14:10,360 You got to remove that about your mental like change that you know other people's perceptions of you don't even matter because honestly, nobody is thinking about you the way that you think that they are like at all. 130 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:29,360 I had to learn that shit the hard way. And when I say the huge bruise that that has left on me ever since baby, people do not think about you or care about you as much as you think trust me. 131 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,360 Trust me. People are far more selfish than you think. 132 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:39,360 So it's okay to be selfish. Okay. 133 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,360 Go be yourself. Nobody cares. 134 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,360 Literally nobody cares. 135 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,360 You just need to find the people that fit for you. 136 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,360 And those are your people and that's it. 137 00:14:53,360 --> 00:15:10,360 Just just like we break our next for these dudes and for these chicks for these jobs for our parents. We do all of this stuff. We'll be breaking our next wall of these people. 138 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:25,360 And they go to girl and they still don't take you serious. They still do something that's just just an inconsiderate, hurtful, mean, nasty, ridiculous. Like how could you do that? 139 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,360 Like how? 140 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:38,360 But we spend so much time on them. I would never do that to you. I wouldn't do that to you. I was so good to you. I was the whole time they was thinking about them. 141 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:45,360 They had nothing to do with you. It was them thinking about them. They made a choice for them. 142 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,360 It's time for you to start doing the same for you. 143 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:55,360 Very much so that simple. That same energy. Turn around and put that on yourself. 144 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,360 But let's be real. Y'all know how I am. 145 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:08,360 You gotta take accountability, like some type of accountability for the way that you let people treat you. 146 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:19,360 I mean, at some point you just have to. There's no way that you can walk around and honestly think that you didn't play some part of it. 147 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:25,360 I mean, you allowed it. I mean, accepted it. 148 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:32,360 If you allow it, it will continue and the limits will be pushed. 149 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:37,360 Take that. Exactly how I said it. 150 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:45,360 If you allow it, it will continue and the limits will be pushed. 151 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:52,360 Put that into whatever scenario you need. I'm sorry. It stands. 152 00:16:52,360 --> 00:17:00,360 What's that? Okay. I said boundaries. I did it. I'm standing on it and I'm still hurt. 153 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,360 I'm still hurt. Shaz. I'm still hurt. 154 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:08,360 What now? I want to call them. I'm on no contact. 155 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:17,360 I want to just go back. I want to give in. This is stupid. This is hard. Don't you dare? 156 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:25,360 What's that? How do you stop hurting yourself? How do you stop allowing these things to happen? 157 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:37,360 How do you just stop? One, you have to take accountability for the things that you allow to happen, the things that you allow to be done to you. 158 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:44,360 The first time it didn't feel right, you should have stopped it. 159 00:17:44,360 --> 00:18:03,360 When you look at yourself and you just kind of sort of lose respect for your actions and how much you just overlooked everything, 160 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:11,360 that's when you know you need to like just be so freaking for real with yourself. 161 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:21,360 Or you may have a moment where you just crash into a brick wall and get your feelings hurt by that one person. 162 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:32,360 And how do they do that? They just cross that line, that line where you had to make that, like you had to decide between you and them. 163 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:43,360 When the respect is lost, it has to go. It just has to. 164 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:51,360 You cannot keep allowing something to keep hurting you over and over and over. 165 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:56,360 It is not going to change. Trust me, I thought so too. 166 00:18:56,360 --> 00:19:04,360 It is not. It is time for you to walk away. And you know what? Walk away when God tells you to walk away. 167 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:08,360 Or I'm sorry if you are not religious, but I mean that's it. 168 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:19,360 That's what I speak it on, okay? But if it don't feel right to you and you got to keep questioning yourself, it makes you question your word. 169 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:30,360 It makes you wonder like what the hell am I doing? It is just walk away. It's better to just wash your hands and go with that man's face. 170 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:43,360 It is above me. It absolutely is above you. You have to choose yourself and whatever capacity that is and no matter who it hurts, it will hurt you too. 171 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:50,360 I know it hurt for those of us who are in it still and like we're past that phase and the beginning. 172 00:19:50,360 --> 00:20:04,360 We in it and we hurt still because we miss the other person or we miss that thing. We miss that job. We miss we miss something about that. 173 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:17,360 But you had to let it go and this time letting it go, it hurt, but it didn't even hurt as bad. Like you ever realized that? 174 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:26,360 Like you just be like, you be down bad, but you don't even be down bad that long no more. You ever realized that? 175 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:39,360 I did. I did. I was down bad. But like the bounce back was like not that long though. 176 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:47,360 Like yeah, I have my moments and I'm pretty sure everybody else do. Yeah, we have our moments but like it's okay. 177 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:59,360 Like I'm able to pull myself back together without like falling into a deep well of tears or you know, anger. Like I'm constantly anger. 178 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:11,360 No, like I just got back focused on me and when I did that, it made me feel good. 179 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:18,360 I'm in the gym all the time now. I'm in the gym. I'm taking yoga. 180 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:26,360 I didn't eat y'all listen. I've never been a fan of Bible study. I got a little Bible study book for the year. 181 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:38,360 I'm journaling. I even wrote a poem. I've been wrote poems since like the sixth grade. 182 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:48,360 I'm just really focusing on myself and what I got to do to get to the to the life that I wanted for myself. 183 00:21:48,360 --> 00:22:00,360 I was stuck in such a limbo space like hesitant on making moves because I'm up here contemplating it. 184 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:09,360 Yeah. That's for another conversation. My love. 185 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:16,360 But I get it. I like what is yours going for all of us. 186 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:21,360 I can't wait to see what it turns out to be. 187 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:37,360 If you are in that space and you just like are looking for some encouragement or you're just like wondering what the other side of making the decision to choose you looks like. 188 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:50,360 It looks a little bit more peaceful, a little less chaotic, a little bit more mental clarity and quite funny. 189 00:22:50,360 --> 00:23:00,360 Because somehow some way you tap into like your little inner kid like you start doing like things that you used to do as a kid. 190 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:04,360 But it's it's healing and it's rewarding. 191 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:10,360 Just knowing that you got yourself and that you grow now. 192 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:17,360 You don't have to. You don't have to keep doing those things that you were doing before those those characteristics. 193 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:22,360 You can let them go. You don't have to be a people pleaser anymore. 194 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:32,360 You don't and you can practice that. You don't have to be afraid to stop someone or cut them off in the early stages. 195 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:37,360 Once you see that you know what I'm saying. 196 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:46,360 Okay, this person is striking is giving me like straight avoidant like, oh, no, I'm not cool with that. No, walk away. 197 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:51,360 So I was like scrolling on. 198 00:23:51,360 --> 00:24:06,360 I think it was like either TikTok or Instagram or it could be like X or Twitter, you know, millennial Twitter and I saw this. 199 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:14,360 It was like a quote and it says the potential you see in other people isn't actually there. 200 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:20,360 It's just what you would do in their shoes. 201 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:25,360 That was definitely like a mic drop moment. 202 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:32,360 Because this is how a lot of us get into a lot of situations because we see the potential in somebody. 203 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:43,360 And it's literally it's just because of what we would do if we were in their shoes, but that doesn't mean that that's what they see and like, or what they would do. 204 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:50,360 That's why people be doing something you'd be like, but I wouldn't even do that if I was in your shoes. 205 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,360 Yeah, but they would. 206 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,360 You're not them. 207 00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,360 When this happening to you, you wouldn't probably respond to this, but they did. 208 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,360 Just got to let that go. 209 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,360 You got to let them go. 210 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:15,360 That's not falling for people for that potential and like really just seeing people for who they are. That's gonna be like the best thing for you in this stage. 211 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:22,360 It's just let people just sit back and just let people come to you and they'll show you who they are. 212 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:29,360 Because listen, once somebody show you who they are once, please believe they ask. 213 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,360 Please believe them. 214 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:32,360 Okay. 215 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,360 Happy Black History Month everybody. 216 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,360 This quote comes from my dad. 217 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:40,360 He always sends us text messages during Black History Month. 218 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:47,360 And usually there are either quotes or like black backs of like the first black person to do this or the first black person to do that. 219 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:54,360 And one of my dad's quotes that he shared, which I do like actually, I really like it. 220 00:25:54,360 --> 00:26:01,360 It says, faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. 221 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,360 And that was by Martin Luther King Jr. 222 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:14,360 And it just means that even when the path ahead seems uncertain or unclear, having faith allows you to take the initial step towards your goal. 223 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:19,360 It just encourages you to take action despite not knowing what lies ahead. 224 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,360 This was literally something that I had to do. 225 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,360 I didn't know what I had planned. 226 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:25,360 I just stayed on it. 227 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:29,360 And I just kept taking a step forward with him though. 228 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,360 You know what I'm saying? I wasn't stepping in front of him. 229 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:35,360 Every time I would feel myself take a step, try to take a step before him. 230 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,360 I'd be like, sit down. 231 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:45,360 Sit down. 232 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:46,360 But I've missed you guys. 233 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,360 Happy Black History Month. 234 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:56,360 I cannot wait to meet back with you guys here on this beautiful podcast space of R&R Rod Rear with Shad's. 235 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,360 Thank you so much. 236 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,360 And I will catch you in the next clip. 237 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:29,360 Okay, bye. 238 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:58,360 Bye.