Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to youo Odyssey podcast, where your guides, Tara and Karen invite you on a transformative journey toward wholeness and personal growth.
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So, explorers, let's dive into today's episode.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Hey, explorers, it's Tara. Karen and I are so glad you joined us today.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: So very, very glad. This is gonna be a wild ride.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: I think it is definitely going to be a wild ride. Karen and I were talking a little bit before we pressed record and before we became who we are. There were women who carried something for us. They are the women who woke up early. The women who prayed quick, quietly. The women who endured more than we could ever think or imagine and definitely more than they even spoke about.
[00:01:29] Speaker C: Oh, hell, yes.
Acknowledging that is part of the thing, you know for sure. Yeah.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: And March is Women's History Month, which is more than just about the famous women with the monument, statues and biographies.
[00:01:45] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: It's about the women who shaped us, the women who mentored us, the women who believed in us. Believed in you, explorer, before you ever even believed in yourself.
And this is also beginning a series on identity rejuvenation for us. How many episodes are in this series? I don't know.
[00:02:06] Speaker C: We'll see.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Are they going to go in order? I also don't know.
[00:02:09] Speaker C: That we don't know. And that's okay.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Yes. But here's what I do know. You cannot rejuvenate what you refuse to remember.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: You cannot.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:21] Speaker C: You can't breathe new life into something that wasn't there or didn't exist in your awareness. Right. We have to. We have to remember. We have to become aware. We have to notice and be curious to then maybe breathe new life or a different perspective or perception of it.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I went back to the dictionary. Yeah. Rejuvenate. Rejuvenate is defined as give new energy or vigor to revitalize.
When I think about identity rejuvenation, like, I know that our identity doesn't just appear one day fully formed. Like, we just wake up and this is who I am.
Our identities are inherited. Our identities are interrupted. And sometimes our identities are reimagined.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: Yeah. It's a layer. It's a stacking. It's three dimensional. It's not just from bottom up. It's left to right. It's in all the ways we're 3D and it happens in so many different forms. Right. And. And a lot of it, really, especially when we're younger, it's on an unconscious level. Right. We're sort of taking on especially as you say, the ancestral. The pre experience.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
So in today's episode, we're honoring the women who shaped us, the ones we saw, the ones we didn't see, and the ways that their courage still echoes in who we are now.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: Love it.
Yes.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: She's like, I'm on board.
[00:03:43] Speaker C: We were all born of a woman.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Listen.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: So we all have that in common, no matter who's listening.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:03:49] Speaker C: Whether it's a biological or adopted or whether you're a man or a woman or identify as non binary or whatever it is. We all came from born of a woman, woman's uterus.
So let's just get right down to it. Like, that's just biology.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: So. Yes. Yeah. When I first started thinking about this episode and the concept of lineage and legacy, I immediately thought of a specific woman in my life.
And I'm not going to name because it could be you. And what's interesting about the thought of this woman is that when I was younger, I didn't fully see her strength. I saw her routine, I saw her responsibility.
I didn't necessarily see, like, her resilience underneath all of that. Looking back now, I realize that so much of who I am is tied into what was modeled before me.
And there's something interesting that happens with adulthood. Like it gives you that context. Like you're able to look back, maybe hopefully prayerfully, with fresh eyes and a new perspective. I think for some explorers listening, this might be the first time they've paused long enough to ask, what did I learn by watching the women in my life, Be it emotionally, spiritually, relationally, we all learn something. And so maybe that's where we start. Not with this big dramatic story of this woman saved my life, but the ordinary story of the women you watched every day.
[00:05:18] Speaker C: Yeah. And if this is a new awareness or new concept, something to think about, it's pretty easy to look backwards and connect the dots of how you got where you are. So if you can, in a detached, kind of almost unemotional way, just notice, like, oh, that person. Oh, I can see where that person had way more responsibility or way more resilience than I thought of in the moment. And wow, that must have come through because I feel like I'm really resilient and I don't really know why. And it's just lovely to do a little bit of a Tetris game with it.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, Karen. Well, since you want to play Tetris,
[00:05:55] Speaker C: it sounds like a game.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: What comes to mind when you think about the women you watch growing up? What did they teach you without sitting down to teach you what they taught you?
[00:06:05] Speaker C: Well, there's a couple things.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Bring it on.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: As I look back, is not my favorite part of my identity in my history, which is a lot of women in my life sort of just made do with.
With little or may do with over giving, made do with wearing themselves down, made do with less than.
Maybe we're in a relationship that was less than, and there was not a whole lot space or allowance for the whole person to emerge. I feel like in some ways, and I'm speaking specifically in my ancestral lineage, the women that I see and know and reflect upon as being my family, it was almost like it was really just such a fragment of who they really are. Like they had. I feel like they had so much more to express and give and were kind of backed into a corner culturally or whatever it was. So I honor that and I regret that for them, and I feel the pain of that for them, and I allow that to inform how I am either willing or not willing to exist. Throughout my journey here, this 90, 100, 105 years that I'm planning on going. That's something I notice, you know, that I feel like part of the reason why I'm so enamored with working with the voice is because I feel a lot of my lineage did not use their voice or did not know how to use their voice and did not or either allow or were allowed to use their voice. And that's. That's sort of. That's in my heart is something that's really important to shift in myself and moving forward in my daughter and son and such. So that's a really important piece. And then there's the other side, where I saw a lot of badass women, resilient, taking care of, like, nobody's business, taking care of nine kids. What, like, nah, nah. And just being there for their families, especially for their kids, in a way that was really beautiful. Being committed to a spiritual connection and a, you know, a sort of a higher power connection, things like that, where I'm like, yeah, that's.
That's real. Because that's. To me, there was such evidence also of love, love for others, love in the giving, love in the caring, love in the spiritual connection.
And I don't want to belittle that because they didn't know how to or feel empowered to either love themselves in a deep self love, self care way, or they didn't know it wasn't modeled for them how to use their voice without feeling like they were going to lose everything in their life. Right.
So I honor and respect the bravery, the courage, the resilience, and the love that they showed for the people in their life. And I'm grateful because I'm here. Right. Like, without them, I wouldn't be here.
So however it manifested and we got here, that's the gift. And what are we gonna do with that awareness and what are we gonna do with that moving forward in our own lives?
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Yes, Ma. I love the connection between the shrinkage that you saw as a child and your commitment and passion to voice work and calling people forward in ways where they don't follow into those same patterns where they use their voice to explore all of who they are and not lock themselves into this one identity as we so often do when that's been modeled for us. So just wanted to point that out.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Yeah. That's beautiful.
[00:09:52] Speaker C: And have you something to share about your.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Of course, the something that I have to share mirrors what you said mirror and reflects it. So that is what a mirror does. That is anyway.
[00:10:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:04] Speaker C: Echoes and mirrors.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Maybe that's mirrors. Yeah. When I think about the women that I watch, I remember how big and giving they were and how they still are, how they weren't seeing that, what they were doing and how they were moving and living. They didn't call it empowerment. That wasn't the words that they used. It wasn't some branded identity of this is what we do. No one was giving them a round of applause for showing up the way that they showed up. They just showed up because that's what women did. Like, especially.
I could go down a whole rabbit hole right here, and I just caught myself because it was about to go into a black matriarch women history thing.
Let me lock in and focus, but let me come on back to what we're talking about. Especially. Especially giving that narrative and that story, how important it is and how necessary it was for them to continue showing up the way that they did.
And with that being said, as an adult, as a mother, as a woman, I understand what that cost them to continue to show up, to give in that way. And I think about my grandmothers in particular, because they were some spicy women. I don't know if y' all if you know me, you like, okay, I can believe it.
[00:11:23] Speaker C: And Spicy. That was their names, actually.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Sassy and Spicy Grandma Sassy and Grandma Spicy. And they flip flop names back and forth. But I understand the cost differently now. I can recognize the cost of what it must have taken to hold the faith in your family and all of the responsibility of those things at once in a world that is not necessarily kind to women, in a world that often demands that women shrink themselves to not be big, to not be bad, to not be bold, but, like, fit in that box over there and go ahead and raise them, birth them babies and do all of those things, like, don't. Don't do too much. Don't do too much. But to power and soldier through that, like, y'.
[00:12:09] Speaker D: All.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: And to not lose sight of who they are, who they know. Like, they held onto that. That badassery.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: And these women that we speak of in our formative years, like, they were strong in ways at the time we didn't have language for.
We did not see everything that they were carrying. We didn't see the emotional math happening in her head. We didn't even hear the prayers that were whispered before anyone else was awake. And we didn't see the countless disappointments that she swallowed just to keep the peace in the room, in the house, in the city, in the country. We didn't see any of that. We just saw the outcome of how they continue to show up, how they continue to be there for their families. And I'm like, that don't come cheap, y'.
[00:12:56] Speaker D: All.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: There is always a price. And they were big enough and bad enough to hold that. To hold that and the love. They knew what was at stake.
They knew was at stake. Right. If they didn't hold that space for that love for the family, I sometimes think about that, the challenges that they faced, right? We have different sets of challenges. However, the challenges that they faced felt a little more life or death in some ways, right? And to see women go through those experiences and still, like, as children, pick up on the gracefulness or the loving kindness and the generosity that they showed, like, that's.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, Very generous. Very generous to a fault.
[00:13:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: It wouldn't be us if we didn't also acknowledge that. Not every story of what you saw is a warm, happy story. Some of us in this life, unfortunately, are shaped by the absence of women. We are shaped by their silence, and we are shaped by things that weren't said or things that weren't safe to say.
And I want to acknowledge that your story doesn't have to be warm because that absence, that silence that counts and that also shapes who you are today as well.
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Absolutely. It has a profound effect on who you are today.
And I'm going to offer in that, that you, in this moment today, get to fill in those gaps for yourself by the moments that you take to acknowledge yourself, what a great job you're doing, and to love yourself and be kind to yourself like we get to. That's the joy of being an official adult grownup, is we get to fill in those gaps and we get to decide that we are worthy and that we deserve to. And all of those things.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So as we think about this identity rejuvenation, it's asking something brave of us. When we think about those women who were present or absent, it's asking us not to judge who these women were, who these women are, but also not romanticize them either, and make it all sunshine and rainbows, but to see them more clearly and realize that this identity that they either directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally poured into us is. It's complicated. It's not clear and cut and dry. I got this from here, and this woman did this thing because in observing the women in my early years, there are things that I'm deeply grateful for. Like you said, Karen, from these women, there is this faith, this resilience, this strength that I would not have gotten otherwise. And then there are also those things that I've had to gently untangle, such
[00:15:42] Speaker C: as the human nature, the being a human. It's a complicated, layered stu. We've talked about it. It's its own Tetris.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: Yes. You know, its own Tetris. Both things can be true at the same time. You said it a little bit earlier, like, you honor what they carried, what they went through, and you release what's no longer yours to be carried forward. And I don't want explorers to think like you're being rebellious. When you honor both sides, the duality of it, you are actually evolving. Like that comes from a healing place, that you don't just see the pain, but you see the purpose behind it.
[00:16:20] Speaker C: Yeah. And. And from that awareness, then you decide you can choose differently, you can take other action. It's okay.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: All right. Okay.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: Let's.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Let's. Let's go forward to not just the women who raised us or shaped us earlier in life. So let's fast forward to the people. The people, the women who interrupted our story, our identity and who we are and how we be. Doesn't just end what we inherited or what we learned without being explicitly taught. Cuz, y', all, I don't know if you know this, but your identity is still being formed.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: It's literally just like your cells. Just like your cells die and re. Regenerate every day, it's happen. Your identity is dying and reforming every day.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: Yes. I love that imagery, though. Okay, so for some of us, the women who shaped us maybe most in our lives came after their survival years after the years of shrinking or trying to fit our moles that didn't quite align with who we are. After we thought we maybe had already decided, this is who I am. This is the stake in the ground.
[00:17:25] Speaker C: And yeah, yeah, yeah. The coaches, the mentors, the therapists.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: The teachers, the neighbor up the street.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: It could be the friend who asked you, why? Why are you doing it? Why are you being small? Why are you shrinking yourself in the situation? Or the woman who modeled boundaries when you didn't know that was allowed. That's a big one for me. It's like, wait, I can live.
Like, I can do that.
And there is something really powerful to meet a woman as an adult who doesn't compete with you, but, like, expand you, especially as a woman. Someone who is celebrating who you're becoming. That woman that is being your cheerleader, who's not asking you to stay small so they can be secure.
Yeah.
[00:18:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: The women who celebrate your growth. The women who celebrate all of the layers that you come with, even if it, like, oh, you're like, real bright today. Like, let me go get my sunglasses. Instead of. Could you please not do that?
[00:18:21] Speaker C: You just be. Oh, I'm gonna be over in that room for a little while.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Just a second. Like, these women. These are the women that interrupt our identities.
[00:18:30] Speaker C: The concept of interruption is, like, sometimes people perceive that as rude or. How dare they. Right. Or it's not their place. You're talking about interruption. Like, allow me to show you a different perspective. Or the way. Allow me to show you the way I see you or I perceive you. And they're just shining a light from a different angle, and that's what we're talking about. They're not like, cutting off or forcing or changing something. They're allowing more of us to be seen.
[00:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: During our.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: They're pulling out those pieces that have been buried under layers of whatever.
[00:19:03] Speaker C: So, yeah, they're interrupting, like, the small view of us. Right. The comfort zone, the patterns, possibility and potential. Yes.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: And like, sometimes they are doing this without even knowing that they're doing it. Like I said, like the one that modeled this. Oh, wait, I can live that way. Okay. So when you think about the women who interrupted your, I don't want to say smallness or your limited view of. When you think about those women, what did you learn from them? What did you learn from the women who interrupted your limited view of identity?
[00:19:34] Speaker C: It's funny, I will say that those women have really been more prolific in my life in the last 10 years.
And I can go out and pick women fruit, like, you know, BFF from second grade. Right. The people who are like at different points in my life, I'm like, oh yeah, they, they saw something, they acknowledged something in me that I didn't even know that I had as a, as, let's say, a skill, an attribute, whatever it was. But I would say the most impactful as an adult women that I've had around me have all been women who see more for themselves as well. Right. So they see more for themselves. They see more potential, more possibilities. They even see like the unseen. A lot of them are active in the awareness of there's more to us and there's more to this and than this. Just this physical world of me walking down the street. And they have shined a light on that really high level, big picture of who I am. And that has been hugely impactful, hugely empowering and hugely wonderfully loving.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, I don't have to go too far back really. What is this? I can go back two years ago and in my memoir, this chapter is called and then came King.
Because that's what it's like. Or suddenly K, like the interruption. I like suddenly K. Yeah, Suddenly K. The interruption of it. So I was at this women's event at church and she was one of the panelists on stage. And before she even said a word, I noticed how she entered the stage.
And she has the haircut of future me. Like, you know the one where it's like shaved on the side and it's a little swoop action, like a, like, like just sassy enough to do the things.
And how she carried herself was very confident, unapologetic, like she entered the stage without asking permission for anything. And I was like, who is this? Like this a woman? And then she started sharing her story. And baby, she talked about going back to school at 37. She had a husband, kids, full time job. And something stirred in the center of my body, in my chest. And I was like, I just told my husband, I think I'm supposed to go back to school, But I don't know, like, it was this pull, push.
Tara.
Hey, you want to go back to school? I'm like, wow, you know, anything I
[00:21:55] Speaker C: got on my plate and inside your heart, like, ping pong balls and lights. Sorry, pinball. Pinball lights are just, like, moving around.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: You're like. It was like, she's a panel on the stage, but in her sharing her story, it felt big. It felt disruptive and maybe, like, a little selfish for me to even consider.
Like, she did it. I can do it, but I knew she did it, so I can do it.
That was all of the confirmation that I needed. There wasn't anyone saying, tara, you know, you could do that, right there. There wasn't any pressure. There wasn't any comparison. It was like, oh, well, I can't do that because I'm a little bit older than she was.
No, she gave me permission to do what I'm doing right now. And after the event, I remember walking up to her because I was like, this is the moment. This is the connection that you need to make. Because she offered a confirmation, but also to pour back into her. Because a big thing for me now is like, I never want to only be a consumer of something. I also want to produce and give back. And I was like, I had to tell a girl, you just changed my life. So. So we exchanged numbers, and I was like, I hope you know that you just signed up to be my mentor. Like, if there's ever a moment where I have doubts or questions or concerns, every time that I see her, in addition to saying, like, how are you? What's going on? She's at high school, and she offers that encouragement.
[00:23:11] Speaker C: She offers that.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Remember I did.
I was about to go too far into the story. Even when she holds grief, she still continues to show up for me. And I'm like, oh, this is Tara's episode of Cry. I thought you was gonna cry. Here we go. Jesus.
[00:23:26] Speaker C: And I'm like, there she is.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: There she is. And I'm like, yes, this means more to me than she ever knows. But I tell her every time I see her. But I was like, girl, you signed up to be my mentor. And she laughed. And I was like, girl, I'm not playing. Like, I'm so serious. Like.
[00:23:39] Speaker C: Like, I'm just. I'm just letting you know.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Interrupted. What I thought my plan would be for this phase of my life. And you are living the life that I know that I will be living too.
[00:23:49] Speaker C: And I was like, oh, that is
[00:23:52] Speaker B: so all of that. That Is powerful suddenly, K.
She didn't raise me. She didn't carry my childhood. She didn't bring any of that baggage. But she interrupted my hesitation. She shifted how I show up in this season.
Okay, that's like, Jesus, I'm gonna give
[00:24:14] Speaker C: you a second there with that, because I just want to reflect back to you. She interrupted your hesitation.
She blipped your blip. You know what I mean? She was like, I see you, and I'm gonna say, you can do it. Like, I am proof that you can do that, that this can be a part of your story too.
And she has held that space for
[00:24:38] Speaker B: you since the moment, like, when I took the. Like, I gotta go talk to her. Like, I don't even. I don't do this.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: You got.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: That's what I gotta go tell her. And, like, it touched her to see that sharing her story impacted me.
[00:24:52] Speaker C: That's all we all want.
All we all want is to have a sense of meaning and purpose and impact, to contribute. I really believe that is, like. Like, that is the next most important thing I think to people is like, I just want to feel like I contribute. Like I matter. Like, my story, like, what I've come through matters and will help someone else. It's a part of mission and purpose. And I believe that that is, like, right up there in the hierarchy of
[00:25:17] Speaker B: needs, and it should be.
[00:25:20] Speaker C: And you did it. You went. You went up to her and you said that your story matters.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Your story matters.
[00:25:28] Speaker C: So full circle. Yeah.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: Where I thought I was going after that. This episode has now been interrupted. When you said, like, y', all, this.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: You know, this doesn't. If you've listened.
If you've listened to us for a while, you know that this is not.
I'm the one crying. So I am just like. I'm like, let us spend 100 and
[00:25:46] Speaker B: some episodes are here now. Now here she is, 105.
[00:25:49] Speaker C: There she is.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: What she said about, like, the permission and, like, what you're building, I'm like, we, you and I, are co creating a platform that did not exist two years ago.
We are saying yes to the things that stretch us.
We are doing this, like, not because we are suddenly fearless, but because we are no longer willing to negotiate with our callings.
We don't do that. We don't do that anymore. Like, we. We've been interrupted.
[00:26:24] Speaker C: And we're saying yes because we know that women need a safe space to be able to explore their wholeness and their fullness. And that's exactly what we're creating.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: So to continue interrupting this episode and what you and I do like in matters is creating impact. This is just as good a time as any for Tara. Now I need to dance it out.
[00:26:46] Speaker C: We dancing now.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: We live in this state of gratitude for the women who shaped us, the women we inherited things from, and the women that interrupted us so that we could live these lives fully and carry forward with strength, grace, and determination.
This song is I Was Here by Beyonce.
[00:27:07] Speaker C: Okay.
All right.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Check out this week's song on the YO Podcast playlist on Spotify.
[00:27:21] Speaker C: I. I love that because I. God, I had no ideas, no idea. Literally, like. And I've never heard that Beyonce song. I don't know how. I don't know how I missed it, but I never heard. And I was just thinking, it is so true. We long.
We yearn to feel that sense of connection, to purpose and to making a difference and to contributing. And she just said it so well. It's not from a. I was here. My ego needs to be stroked. Like, oh, you did all these things. It's more like, I was here. I made a difference.
I helped in some way.
And that's just like, oh, that's. Oh, that's all we're about. That's all we're trying to do. That's all we're doing here.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: And when I sit with everything that we talked about, the women we saw, what we didn't see in the women in our lives and the women who interrupted our story, like, what I keep coming back to is that we.
We are someone's continuation. We are living proof that what they carried mattered. And with that, we are also the editors now. Like, we get to decide what stays. We get to decide what softens. We get to decide what ends with us or what begins with us. And there is beauty and sacredness in that awareness.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: Yeah. And that awareness, there is power in that. Right. Because we actually do get to decide. Because everything that we've experienced, we build a story around. We can change the story at any moment with conscious intention.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: All right, this is.
Oh, this is. This has been an amazing episode. And shouted and made me cry. So today's question, what's one truth the women before you taught you?
[00:29:08] Speaker C: Love makes a difference.
Love and caring matters. That's it.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: I learned how to figure it out.
I learned how to figure it out without crumbling, without dissolving.
I learned how to show up in strength and grace.
And the truth is, these women, they gave me my grit and resilience.
[00:29:43] Speaker C: I like your answer better. Can I have your answer? I want your answer.
I'm learning that now. But that's not from.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah, like that. That's what I got.
[00:29:54] Speaker C: That's so great.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Great. All right.
[00:29:55] Speaker C: I love it. How active that is. Mine is more. I don't mean passive in a weak way, but it's more of an ambient, present feeling of like, you know, this is really important because I. That is a pillar of my life is that love really is all there is. And that is what matters. And in any form on any given day, we can express love a million different ways. Right? But, yeah, but I love both.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: I love both of those sides.
Embodied and lived truth and then the foundational truth, like that's what we represented in our answers. So I love that. All right. I have a beautiful quote from Toni Morrison, from her book Beloved.
Freeing yourself was one thing.
Claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
So many of us, myself included, we have freed ourselves from something. From old narratives, from old stories, from silence, from shrinking shackles.
[00:30:57] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: From all of those limiting things. But there's something very different, an active next step to claiming ownership of your freed self, of living from this identity that's been rejuvenated and taking up space, y'.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: All.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Claiming ownership is the deeper work.
[00:31:16] Speaker C: Yes.
It's part two of a two part story. It's the big part. It's the big part.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: The big. It's really big.
[00:31:22] Speaker C: It's the really big. To claim that. To have to claim ownership and sovereignty of your experience, your impact, your love, your desire moving forward. Yes.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: And maybe that's something that the women in our lives were always leading us towards. Not just the freedom of this identity, but ownership of our identities. That's it. That's all. This has been amazing. I don't even know how this went this way.
Okay, so with all of that being said, until next time, explorer, honor what shaped you, discern what needs refining and claim ownership of your identity.
[00:32:02] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. That was beautifully put. We see you, we hear you, we love you. We hold the greatest sense of limitless possibility for you and for what you want to create in your life. So until next time, explorers, take good care.
[00:32:23] Speaker D: Thank you to Queenies in downtown Durham for the use of their community podcast studio and for welcoming us so warmly each week.
We'd like to to give a shout out to Coco Cinnamon, the birthplace of 1023 Media and the yo podcast. Please support your local women owned, minority owned coffee shop in downtown Durham, Brought to you by Durham based 1023 Media, a heart centered woman owned multimedia company.
Sam.
