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It's a beautiful morning, isn't it? It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day to craft a courage, the courage to create. Because we are creation in itself. And what else is there to do but to create, to recognize our individuality, our essence, our uniqueness. You know, sometimes it can be uninspiring. When we look into the world and we see almost as if everything under the sun has been done. You know, it may cause us to question, like, what's the point? You know, why start a podcast? There's already a billion podcasts. Or why do ceramics when you know there's already. You know what I mean? There's a lot of people doing a lot of cool things, and it feels like everything under the sun has been done before. But the thing that hasn't been done before is you. You understand? It's so key that we recognize our uniqueness in our being. This season, no matter what is being done under the sun, nobody has done it like us. Nobody on this planet has lived your exact experience. Nobody. Not a single soul. Isn't that cool? Out of, like, 9 billion people, nobody has lived your exact experience. There may be similarities, but you are a 101. You look at the palms of your hand and you see those creases and the individual lines, the prints on the tip of your fingers. You recognize that you are a 101. No other individual on this planet was coded the same way as you were in your DNA. So we are crafting the courage to create a life that we love and love it while we are living it. Create a life by design, not just luck. You know that, right? You know, you can create a life by design. The life that you want, you created with intention, with rhythm, with consistency. Instead of just accepting whatever life gives you, you deserve to be in this world. Free, ashamed, being yourself. Undeniably so. The ones that love you can come closer, and the ones that don't can go another way. I was thinking about, like, in the last four or five years, I've done a bunch of, like, collaborative projects that just never saw the light of day. Like, I went on some podcasts. I even did an interview with Forbes. I remember Forbes hit me up and I did an interview with them. I was like, wow, this is cool. I'm doing an interview with Forbes. Guess what? It never came out. And these other collaborations and podcasts that I did, guess what? They never came out. And guess what? I was never told why. So obviously all you can do is sit there and think that, well, I must have noded. I guess I'm not worthy. I guess I didn't do a good job. I was rejected. I guess people couldn't see the value in whatever I was doing. I was like just kind of sat with that and these rejections. I felt a little bit of shame and even a little bit of fear to lend my services or value into more spaces because I was like, what's the point? What's the point? I've already extended myself into these other spaces and for some reason they haven't come into fruition. But we deserve to create and have the courage to create free of shame and fear. You understand? No matter the rejection that we face, we know that it's redirection now. I see that, oh my God, I was living for the world a little bit. And all that rejection allowed me to see myself in a new light and know that I stand in myself undeniably believing in what I am doing. And that's the energy that we are standing on. My friend. You and yourself, you are magical. You are the art in itself. You know, like, I don't look at the things that I make as like the art. I actually look at myself as the art and the things that I make allow me to craft myself. Like imagine if you go to the gym and, you know, you pick up some dumbbells, you know, 30 pound, 40 pound, 50 pound dumbbells, whatever it may be, and you just rock an amazing set. When you put that set down, do you look at the dumbbells and be like, man, those were some great dumbbells today? No, you look at yourself and say, wow, I am strong today. And that's how I see creating. Everything that you create is offering itself as a tool for you to explore yourself and create the life that you want to live and love it while you are living it. Right? We are creating it by design. We have to shift our focus a little bit, you know, stop judging every individual step that you take and instead look at the grand picture. Like, even with my content online, I don't really judge myself on individual uploads, but I understand that everything I am building is a world. World, right? It's a world that all sews into one another. You know, I also look at the Internet, like my digital whiteboard where I scribble my thoughts and you know, some of my most beautiful paintings go up. But sometimes some of my most vulnerable ideas are there as well. And some of the ideas that don't make much sense, but I'm still working on it's all A part of the universe. And this is what allows us to. To create and be in a flow. Because our highest form of nutrition is in our expression, right? You are building your own universe, your own world. Think about in life how you want your home to look, feel, smell. How do you want your body to feel? How do you want the tonality of your voice to resonate in your friend's ears? You understand? Enjoy creating yourself. Have the courage to create yourself. Love yourself, Pour into yourself. And if you're like, you know what? I want to be a more social person. Let me create myself into a more social individual. Don't go to your default and just be like, oh, I'm an introvert. I can't do that. No, no, no, no. You get to build. You get to create. You get to create yourself. I am most inspired by what I don't know about myself, right? And sometimes being in different experiences or meeting different people will reveal things within yourself that you did not know was there. You know, growing up, you know, I didn't really talk until I was like five years old. I could speak, but I didn't speak to nobody but my mom. And then my whole life, I was a very quiet, quiet individual. And then all through school, all through high school, I feared public speaking. And now today, what do I do? I talk for a living. I share my opinions. I speak. Imagine if I just held on to the default mode of I am quiet and I am shy, and I'm not somebody that can speak because that was my narrative. That was my reality. But then I shifted and I said, I took the courage. I created the courage. I had the courage to create myself. And two, the individual that is speaking to you today, and it never stops. So we are crafting the courage to create ourselves. You want to be stronger mentally. Craft the courage to create a stronger mind. You want to feel proud of your body? Craft a courage in the season and create a beautiful body. But give yourself permission. Give yourself the license to create yourself. You understand? And allow yourself to be seen. Allow yourself to be in this world. You create the position and you give yourself the permission. You understand, a lot of the times we get imposter syndrome, or we think like, you know, we need to be validated to make sure that, like, we belong or we are deserving, but now we create the position we want to be in, and then we give ourselves the permission by having the courage to create, not just create things, but create ourselves, you understand? And just get an emotion, get in a momentum of it, you know, like a Lot of us, we hold ourselves back because of perfectionism. We hold ourselves back because we feel like we are not good enough yet, right? Not realizing that there is no final destination. Our whole life is just one beautiful body of work. You know, like it's very easy to over romanticize a season in our life or a time in our life, or a relationship or, you know, you know, something that we created. And we feel like that was the best of us. Not realizing everything is flowing into each other. And yeah, it's not a linear path, right. Like sometimes I over romanticize this period of my life, but seven years ago, that just feels like my most purest disciplined form of self. And it was a very beautiful season. And I've had ups and dips and I've had so many different experiences. But when you look at the grand picture of your life, right, you're going to realize that every step was stepping in to the next and every season was sowing into itself. And that not one day, one year, one thing that you did or season that you were in was beautiful, but the whole thing in itself, when you look at it, is beautiful. Is a universe in itself, a whole world. Just understand that you have a divine ally that is flowing right through you, that is creating life with, you know that yeah, it may not be going exactly according to your plan, but there is a beautiful divine plan. And keep moving with intention, developing that consistency, developing that momentum and understanding that you have a rhythm because you are deserving. You are deserving to stand out in this world. You are deserving to create a position and give yourself permission to step into it. You are, are deserving to be felt. You are deserving to be seen. You are deserving to be heard. But you have to craft that courage to believe in yourself first. I always say often they're just judging what they can see. Your first few steps, not your heart. Nobody can see what is in your heart or what is in your mind, right? That's your superpower. You have the inner view, so you need to lead and allow others to hop on board and listen. People are always going to be late on our vision because they just don't understand it until we bring it to life. A lot of the people in your life may not understand the change that's happening with you. And they may be judging you, they may be distancing themselves from you. Maybe they are rejecting you, maybe they are critiquing you, maybe they are talking about you. But you know, within yourself you are crafting courage and creating yourself, molding Yourself into a beautiful being. So we are embracing the journey day by day, right? Crafting the courage to create a life that we love and we are loving it while we live it. Because that is the key. We are not telling ourselves that our happiness is locked behind a cage. While when we get this dollar amount or when we get these followers or when we get into that relationship or when we move to that place, our happiness is not locked away. We are opening that door right now, every single day. Setting the intention and crafting happiness through our courage. Understanding that the process and the journey, the destination is in every single step. And we are loving it, right? We are loving our motion, our progression. We are loving our dips, our falls. We are loving who we are becoming. I highly advise just look in the mirror every single day and give yourself like a beautiful moment to see yourself, right? Your beauty, your flaws and awe and the things you do not like about yourself. Work on it. Work on it. If you want to be a better communicator, work on it. Don't judge yourself and feel shame about not being a good communicator. Instead, get excited about the journey of creating yourself into being a beautiful communicator. If you want a little bit more muscle on your body, don't judge yourself, don't shame yourself, but get excited that you get to create a stronger body. Crafting the courage to create ourselves. Because we are the art in itself, you understand? And everything that we are experiencing and diving into our tools to offer us an interview into ourselves so we can craft and expand these gifts and become our highest version of ourselves, the version that God created us to be. You are a beautiful, beautiful being. How often do you tell yourself that? Make sure that you tell yourself today, I am beautiful, I am resilient, I am graceful, I am creative and I am creating myself. You see problems as opportunities and you understand that no in the grand scope of everything that you are creating a world for yourself. And each day, each step is just as important as the last or the next. So as we move into this week, let's continue to craft that courage. Courage to be, courage to speak, Courage to give ourselves the permission and step into whatever position we want to be. You are deserving. You are deserving to be heard and to be seen. This world we want to experience the best we really do. This world we want to experience you. Because there's no other individual like you on this planet. Nobody do it just like you. That's the energy I want you to move around with. Like nobody do it like me. I know you compare yourself. I know you admire and idolize other people sometimes, but I want you to turn that energy around and be like nobody. Do it like me. That's the energy, my friend. And you done know in hindsight everything gonna be all right. If you enjoyed the podcast, please share it to your Instagram Stories. Each week the numbers are growing, so that is beautiful. And it is growing because of you, because you have been sharing it. And I am so thankful for every single one of you. Give thanks.