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welcome back you guys welcome back to your favorite
podcast here shit that's just life with your
favorite life coach me Cecilia Cecile welcome
we are on episode 59 people we're growing every
day we're getting back to it it's time to get
started you guys so much to get into so much
to just release and you know really indulge with
you guys really let y 'all know what's going
on with your sister okay it's time to get started
you guys episode 59 that's just life let's get
started let's get started hey you all i'm growing
every day literally i think my face is even changing
you guys welcome to the episode but seriously
i think my face is even changing a little bit
i don't know i think your girl is growing i'm
noticing it in the mirror every day i'm 27 now
what's going on yeah i think my face is changing
i don't know but you all i'm here i'm here life
has been life -ing relationship has been relationship
-ing no seriously i'm relaxing in the bed on
this lovely episode here giving it to you guys
because it's a lovely Wednesday okay so let me
get into it what's going on with me a life update
here so your girl is ready to exit the government
yes I am I'm ready to exit, you guys. I'm ready
to indulge with the civilians full -time. You
know, I'm ready to go hard or go home. I'll be
going hard because we will not be going home.
But I'm ready, you guys. I'm ready to just, you
know, thrive. Walk in faith, walk into the uncertainty
of life. Lord knows, I don't know what's gonna
happen. But yeah, you girl is ready to just get
out there. Go hard on the content. Make more
content. Just keep pushing it. I'm ready. It's
gonna be a lot though. But I am ready for the
challenge. You guys, yes I am. I am ready for
the challenge. I'm also ready to be a gal full
time. Yes. Tired of wearing my sweats when I
don't need to. Yeah. Mm -hmm. Tired of wasting
multiple beautiful outfits just to sit down for
eight hours. Like, what the heck? Oh my God.
Nobody even got to see me and my good stuff.
You know? It's crazy. I'm just staying here,
people. It's time to move on, okay? And your
girl will be doing that really soon here, okay
My relationship has been lovely Yes, my lovely
Britishman he's been lovely mmm, my gentleman
I'm sorry be already baby. If you if you listen,
I miss you No, but seriously Like relationship
has been pretty good I was giving some advice
to some Uber drivers. And you know, letting them
know, you know, with the love life, I know the
dating pool is pretty crazy. But I think some
people also that are looking for love may need
to be a little more. Let's just say girly. for
the women. You know, just guys, let's dive into
our feminine side, people. Let's be a dreamer
again, you know? I know a lot of people are not
dreamers. You know, I know a lot of people are
just realists and there's something wrong with
being a realist, but it's also beneficial to
be both, you guys, okay? That's all I'm gonna
say. I'm just gonna say it's beneficial to be
a realist and be a dreamer at the same time.
It may get you far. That's all I'm saying, okay?
But other than that, you guys, I was having a
Uber ride and it was a pretty interesting conversation.
So I'm gonna let you guys hear that today. Am
I in here? Yes. Mm -hmm. But... I'll get back
to my life update before I let you guys hear
this Uber ride conversation here. It was pretty
good. But before we head off into that, like
I said, back to my life update, which is more
important, of course. Life update. Yeah, you
guys, I'm also considering moving. Moving, moving
from Dallas, Texas. I'm considering it. It's
just a consideration. Gonna figure some things
out. Need to dust my eyes and cross some T's
before I say anything more. But I'm considering
moving from Dallas. I'm excited about visiting
Kansas City. I will be heading there soon. I'm
excited. My family will be meeting my boyfriend.
So you guys, I will definitely be potting after
that. Meet the boyfriend the family the boyfriend
meets the family the family meets the boyfriend.
Yes. I'm gonna pot. Mm -hmm This is gonna be
crazy. I'm nervous, but I am interested to see
everyone's reaction Interest is I want to really
want to know what he's gonna do. How would he
act? Because he tends to overthink sometimes
and needs and think he needs to act cool So I'm
not sure how this will go but we i want to just
hope he acts normal not act cool just saying
just in case you're listening babe love you but
let's just hold on to the acting cool situation
here okay um he's british so he's going to be
new to kansas city and um if you've looked up
kansas city it is the eighth place dangerous
it's like the eighth most dangerous place in
the world but it's lovely lovely people there
don't worry about that you know that yeah but
it's a lovely place the Chiefs are the best team
in the world so that's all that matters we have
pretty good actually we have like the best barbecue
so not even gonna say pretty good Gates barbecue
chef's kiss okay so We're gonna head there. He's
gonna get some of that Gates barbecue. Might
even hit up Jay's chicken. You know, have some
Chinese food. It's a few places we're gonna head
up. A few family members are going to meet him.
A few of them won't, you know. Just gonna be
selfish. I'm gonna say that right now. Some will
meet him, some won't meet him. Maybe later, you
guys may get to see pictures, you know? But I
will be very selfish. I'm just gonna be honest
people. Love you though. Love you. But yes, you
guys, think about moving. It's been, it's about
to be six months that me and my darling have
been dating. So I'm excited. I'm a little nervous
but I'm excited. But I'm a little nervous. But
I'm definitely, definitely feeling excited about
just going forward. Mm -hmm. My man, my man,
my man. Yes, you guys. Outside of that, your
girl needs her hair done again. I've been looking
lovely with my hair, but I need my hair done
again. I have to set an appointment because...
It's time to get in baddie mode. It's time. You
know, I've been working. I'm about to wrap up
July. We're gonna head into August soon. It's
time. It's time to get us in baddie mode and
just... Sometimes you just gotta pop up at show
niggas. Is that what he said? No, he said pop
out at show niggas. No, seriously though sometimes
you do so I'm saying you guys but You guys it's
time to get into it. It was nice to do a nice
little dump with you all I may be heading back
to England soon here people So I'm excited about
that as well, you know See what your girl can
do See what she can't do Probably more than likely
see what I can do. So yeah Gonna wrap up some
things on my end about moving that my eyes cross
my t's and see what I'm gonna do here Head off
the government because your girl needs to spread
her wings. Yes, I need to spread my wings That's
what I need to do. I need to just be a bird Yeah,
I need to do that Yeah, I need to just, you know,
be free, you know, of the job. Yes, I do. But
it was a it was nice just releasing with you
all and having this moment. It's been it's been
a minute since I've been able to release. I've
been so busy being that government worker that
I'm about to clock out for the rest of my life.
Eventually just wrap that up over there. but
On another note, I'm gonna let you hear the recording
of me and my uber drivers. I know y 'all miss
them I know you miss the recordings of me and
uber drivers talking getting to know each other
me asking the questions I know you miss them.
That's why I thought you this lovely lovely gift.
Okay episode 59 Here we go Okay, sit back relax
Lego So I got hired by American Airlines Sabre
to go to France to help them develop the reservation
system of the French National Railroad, SNCF.
It's Société nationale des chemins de fer français,
SNCF. Each country own their own rail system.
French is SNCF. Belgium is SNCB, England is Red
Rail, Spain is Renfe, etc. Anyway, so we weren't
there. So they got the group that had been working
already for Saver, Marginal Line Saver, and then
they hired a lot of people because they couldn't
get everybody. Otherwise, there wouldn't be anybody
left to work on the system here. Yeah, they had
more work less workers. i'm sorry they had more
work less workers yeah exactly so i went there
for five years and uh we build up uh you heard
about the uh the high -speed train yeah ggv Yes,
the system was already established. They had
an antiquated system, so we made it better. And
also, they were doing a new line, which was a
high speed line that would link Paris to London
and Belgium to London, Belgium to Paris. So going
to London, going under the water. body of water
between france and england so we did that okay
mainly for them and we cook up uh the the other
system made it better and like every everybody
else including airline reservation system car
rental hotel etc because as a passenger let's
say for example you call uh other place and said
okay I want to go from Dallas to Nice in France
okay they said okay well you can get on the plane
from from here to London and then take the high
-speed train from London to Paris and take the
normal train from Paris to Nice you know or make
a combination of, you know, bosses, trade and
so on. So, to you, it should be transparent.
You just want to go from Dallas to Nice. So,
get me the proper routing and tell me how much
it is and I'll pay and then boom, okay? So, we
had to make sure that all the different systems,
the airline systems, the the rail system and
so on and for example the hotel system because
once you get to Nice you got to go to Marriott
or to wherever all right so we have to make sure
that whoever is making the reservation on your
behalf is connected to all this system and find
availability and book for you and then it will
come on one record which they will print and
give it to you And then you will know that on
such and such date you're going to go to DFW
to get the airplane from American Airlines to
London, from London you're going to take the
high speed train to Paris or Paris etc. And then
when you get to Nice you book, you arrive, you
take a cab and you know enter and say okay here.
and so on. It's transparent because you paid
your fare. Now go ahead and make it happen. Okay.
Okay so pretty simple, isn't it? Yeah, I'm sorry
because it was talking to me at the same time,
so I... Yeah, you're fine. But what made you
disconnect from the job, the corporate job that
you had? What made me what? Disconnect from the...
is their downsides and they got rid of my department
it was a quality area and they estimated that
you know the development should have their own
quality so therefore they didn't need a quality
area quality you know department so they said
adios and you know basically I have been there
for such a long time, so they didn't want me
to be there any further. You know, they have
their own reasoning. Yes, of course. So, that
was it? That was it. Interesting. Now, I try
to do other things, you know? Yeah. switch positions
before you fully left? One second, one second.
I'm sorry, what? Did you try to switch positions
before you left? Before they, you know, got rid
of your department? Oh yeah, you know, they always
tell you, okay, but it's last minute. You have
a month. Of course. You know, you have a month.
And unfortunately, you can't find anything in
a month. Yes. So they knew they knew that they
had to downside they had to reduce the number
of employees especially the one that I've been
there the longest because then It's money that
they saving I got to a point where I tried to
do other things. I even tried to... You know,
it didn't work. Because I got fed up, you know,
from working for corporate America. So I wanted
to... to buy a franchise okay i i tried decalage
okay it was around the time when the virus came
and there was something in the contract that
i didn't like they didn't want to remove and
also you know i mean you putting lash you're
so close to the client right right now the virus
you know it's it's that time when the virus exploded
and so on so it was you know get over unfortunately
i had to 8b 8b court road yeah yeah yeah sorry
sorry sorry yeah i got it yeah so eventually
yeah you have to find your own yeah okay and
uh but but uh i recorded for almost two years
but in the end you know I had to step away because
for two reasons one look on track and two I checked
to see time to break even what I estimated wasn't
going to happen because of the virus there were
too many unknowns so I was set up for failure
so I didn't and I you know I of course you know
the only thing I had an MBA plus the work that
I've done. And with that, I estimated that it
wasn't going to work. So therefore, I gave up.
I said, OK, well, let me cut my losses. So I
have a question. Considering I'm 27, I'm curious.
If you could go back in time and give your 27
-year -old age advice. What would it be? What
would it be? What advice would you give yourself
at the age of 27, just going into life? This
is if you could go back of course. You were gonna
say you're 27. Yes and I'm curious what since
you are of course you're older than 27 but I'm
currently 27. What advice would you go back to
give your 27 year old self? What advice could
you give yourself? For what? Just life. You're
heading into life. You're 27 heading into life.
What advice could you give yourself? Life. Okay.
First of all. Okay. I have two plans. Main plan,
backup plan. Main plan, backup plan. Yes. Okay.
Just like when you go to school, I have kids,
you know, and they're in college and I tell them,
you know, and I said, you know, and especially
my son, he's going to his second year at Texas
A &M and he said, he said, dad, can you send,
he's over mom. Yeah. He said, dad, can you send
me something? And then he said, no. For that,
I got a B in that thing, you know? Yeah, the
little thing, of course. Anyway, anyway. Like,
can you give me a little $5? By the way, I got
a B in gym. Could you send me a $20? I'm not
working. Yeah, by the way, I didn't get a B in
Spanish. All right, next. I said, you know, you
should call me more often, by the way, but it's
okay. Of course. call me other than for money
okay you know it's all right i laugh but it's
okay yeah it's natural that's just life eventually
they'll learn especially when they there's some
of them you can tell it's when they have their
own children that's when they will really learn
you know but anyway um so back up plan yes just
like you know you go you go i was a premium student
Okay. And then, you know, I noticed that I had
tremors. So I said, I cannot be a doctor administrating,
you know, a vaccine or doing surgery and so on.
And my hands are not, you know, no. So I still
finish the bachelor's degree, but I end up taking
computer science. Okay. Where I'm going with
that is because that, you know, One time I was
putting the report into the computer and I put
something wrong. Okay. And the computer came
back and said wrong entry, please re -enter.
Now I said, wait a minute, you know, how can
you? And I checked, the computer was right. So
I went, you know, I was talking to my advisor,
I told him that. That was bad. Okay, of course.
And the advisor said, well, why don't you stop
taking, you know, photography, Spanish, and take
computer science as your elective. Right. You
know, that way you will see if you like it. And
then I started taking, and I was making A's.
I love it. And then, you know, when I noticed
that, I talked to him and said, well, I said,
well, would I get another diploma? He said, no.
you will get a bachelor's degree and you can
get a second major in computer science. I said,
no, I want another bachelor's degree. He said,
well, then you have to take all the classes.
But the good thing was, and that's where I'm
going with that, is that I had taken some computer
classes as elective and those were core classes.
So when you do go... and you're taking, you know,
your major is such -and -such, try to get your
electives in your second, your alternative, your
alternate major. Of course. You know? Yeah, yeah.
So that way, if you have to switch, you won't
have too much... To really worry about. Exactly.
Because you would have already been far ahead.
Okay. You know, ahead of the game. Okay, and
then... I think that's pretty interesting just
to have a backup plan. God forbid anything goes
wrong. Always, always. In life, always have a
backup plan. Okay, so question, my next question
to you. If you could describe your future in
three words as of today, just based off how we
are living in today's society, how would you
describe your future in three words? I'm curious
yes a crazy place right now so I'm like how would
anybody that's older than 27 describe their future
as of today in three words I just want to know
Three words, right? Three words, then you can
describe it. Okay. Cautious and... You want to
get over? I'm trying to find the word. I have
to do that. I'm trying to find the word. Cautious
and... You know, when you're not rushing, you...
patient. Okay. Cautious and patient. Okay. Cautious
and patient planner. Cautious and patient planner.
Yeah. So cautious, patient planner. You have
to be cautious. Okay. You have to be patient.
Patience is a virtue. Yes. You know, you do not
want to regret. The patience. That you rush into
something. Yeah. You know, and especially when
you're hot. You know, you do not want to make
decisions, you know, when you're hot. You step
back. Yes. You step back, and you know... You
recessed. You recessed, you assess, you know,
and then you said, okay. The thing is, remember,
let me just pull there. You're too good, I love
it. Was I supposed to go in there? No, you said
perfect. This works right here. No, this is perfect
right here. Okay. Personally, my three words
would be doing my best. Doing my best for the
next future. Excellent. Three words. Doing my
best. Excellent. You know why? I'm on Facebook
and this person has something, you know, about...
You have to forgive yourself. Say it again. If
you did something and you find out that, you
know, it was the wrong thing, forgive yourself
because knowledge is power. At the time when
you made that decision, that is the knowledge
that you had. Had you had the knowledge that
you have now... then you would have made a different
decision. So therefore you have to forgive yourself
and learn from that. Know what you don't know.
Be okay with learning, but know what you don't
know and know that it's more to learn, it's more
to come. And do what you're doing. Doing your
best. Which is, you know, knowledge again, knowledge
is power. You don't have all the knowledge. But
if you ask question, You learn. You will add
to your knowledge and it's gonna be better. Yeah,
and it's nice just to be curious, curiosity.
I am like that. Yeah. I am like that. You know,
if I don't know something and this person knows
it, I will go and ask. Okay. You know, the worst
the person can say is, no, go find it yourself.
You know, but you know, that doesn't mean that
I haven't done. No, I have. But if I see that,
hey, You know, in time, if I ask that person,
I'll be able to get the answer quicker. Then
I'll go. Information changes. That's it. Yeah.
And last question before I leave. The Uber car
was a lovely ride. My last question to you. Listen,
you want to continue. I can. No, no, no, no,
no. I don't do that. Yeah, no. This is just my
last question here. My last question to you before
I exit here would be, are you a dreamer or are
you a realist? Both. Both. Both. okay because
you know you know what happened yesterday okay
and you know what's happening right now yes but
tomorrow is not promised to you right okay and
and you know you can dream you can plan for tomorrow
you know that doesn't mean what what happen today
doesn't mean that it will happen tomorrow so
it's okay to dream it's okay to you know to plan
yes they say if you want to make god laugh tell
him your plans he's like plan just make me laugh
yes you know it's no bad thing it was it's no
bad thing to dream it's a good to be a dreamer
it's also very rewarding to be a realist yeah
absolutely to know exactly what's in front of
you That's that's rewarding. But it was a pleasure
speaking with you, Mr. Haiti. Originally from
Haiti. Okay. She loves. She loves. I like that.
Okay. It was a pleasure speaking with you. Thank
you again. Yes.