Ever feel like you're juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle? That's just another Friday for us on the Big Dog Talk, where Big Charles and I, Big Shay, celebrate the juggle of life's grand circus. This heart-to-heart is a testament to the power of recognizing your weekly triumphs amid the hustle. We're not just gabbing about the grind; we're living it, breathing it, and teaching it. Our tradition of cheering each other's top three wins since the start of 2024 has been an electric charge to our ambition. And it’s not for us alone – we’re here to share that high voltage with you. Hear how I balance the triple-threat of entrepreneurship, education at 44, and family life, proving it's never too late to chase those dreams. We're dishing out real talk on how to keep your vision clear and remain grounded while navigating the chaos.
Strap in as we take you on a rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of our week. Even when motivation seems to duck out for a siesta, we're here to share the secret sauce for drawing it back to the fiesta. We get real about those days when every win feels like a battle, demonstrating that even the modest victories deserve a spotlight. Our personal stories are bound to strike a chord, reaffirming the importance of a can-do mindset. Join us as we explore the discipline required to find silver linings and why embracing the power of positivity isn't just feel-good fluff – it's the linchpin of relentless progress. Big Dog Talk isn't just an earful of inspiration; it's a playbook for turning every week into a winning streak.
Ever feel like you're juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle? That's just another Friday for us on the Big Dog Talk, where Big Charles and I, Big Shay, celebrate the juggle of life's grand circus. This heart-to-heart is a testament to the power of recognizing your weekly triumphs amid the hustle. We're not just gabbing about the grind; we're living it, breathing it, and teaching it. Our tradition of cheering each other's top three wins since the start of 2024 has been an electric charge to our ambition. And it’s not for us alone – we’re here to share that high voltage with you. Hear how I balance the triple-threat of entrepreneurship, education at 44, and family life, proving it's never too late to chase those dreams. We're dishing out real talk on how to keep your vision clear and remain grounded while navigating the chaos.
Strap in as we take you on a rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of our week. Even when motivation seems to duck out for a siesta, we're here to share the secret sauce for drawing it back to the fiesta. We get real about those days when every win feels like a battle, demonstrating that even the modest victories deserve a spotlight. Our personal stories are bound to strike a chord, reaffirming the importance of a can-do mindset. Join us as we explore the discipline required to find silver linings and why embracing the power of positivity isn't just feel-good fluff – it's the linchpin of relentless progress. Big Dog Talk isn't just an earful of inspiration; it's a playbook for turning every week into a winning streak.
Welcome back to another episode of the Big Dog Talk podcast. It's me Big Charles.
Speaker 2:
What's up, y'all, it's your girl Big. Shay and I'm back.
Speaker 1:
Hey, how are you feeling? Like I'm just talking to the world, like the whole world looking?
Speaker 2:
at me. It's a whole. We got a whole audience over here. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:
Hey y'all, what up y'all. What up Daho? Yeah, it's me. Yeah, y'all Listen, what up Daho? Yes, Lord, yeah, look at my fellas over there, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, thank you for coming out.
Speaker 1:
Ladies, Do my ladies run this mother Hell yeah? Do my fellas run this mother Hell yeah. Yes, Lord, we just love our audience.
Speaker 2:
Hey y'all.
Speaker 1:
Listen, ain't nothing like a vision, baby. Ain't nothing like a vision, baby. Make a vision, make it plain. Ain't nothing like a vision.
Speaker 2:
You understand me, you're going to have to get. You're going to have to have that vision baby. You're going to have to Make some things happen. Speaking of vision, yeah. It's a new week.
Speaker 1:
Yes, Lord.
Speaker 2:
We got some new goals.
Speaker 1:
Yes, Lord.
Speaker 2:
We've been killing the game. Yes, Lord Since 2024 came in with a bang.
Speaker 1:
Every.
Speaker 2:
Friday I hit you up.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
And I say, here go my three wins for the week.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2:
I hit you up I say big Charles. Here go, I go, my three wins.
Speaker 1:
So the first time you did that, though the first time you just hit me about the bloom, it was like three wins for the week and you just labeled them. I was like it just shocked my brain, but it was a great high. I got from that, though it just it was an instant spike of dopamine.
Speaker 2:
Right, right.
Speaker 1:
Because, at the end of the day, Monday through Friday it's week, grind, we grind. Mind the fact we grind seven days a week. We just loosen up a little bit, fall back a little bit on Saturday and Sunday. That part, you know that part. But when you sent that to me I was like what a brilliant idea, what Thank you what a brilliant idea and what a way to start 2024.
Speaker 2:
Every Friday we check in what I got down when every Friday we do a check in, and so what I love about it is that I usually initiate it because it's on my calendar, you know. So we could keep it as part of our weekly routine to celebrate because, at the end of the day, you know what I'm working on, I know what you're working on, but, like this past week, life gone, life.
Speaker 1:
Wait, though. Remember that life is going like, but I want to share with them what we're working on, though a little bit Okay, because it needs to be known. I went too fast. It needs to be known that how you are already a successful entrepreneur In my mind. You are already like woman in both goals. Appreciate you, you know what I mean, but for you to be can I say age.
Speaker 2:
You better say the right age you've been acting up, Say it.
Speaker 1:
For you to be 44 years young.
Speaker 2:
Thank you.
Speaker 1:
Right, a successful entrepreneur. Yeah, you're in a good space. You have a husband that I love. You have children that I love. You know what I mean. You're in a good space, but you decided to stretch yourself in 2024 and go back to school. So not only do you go to school, you run your business for 12 hours a day, soon as you get off work. We got to paint the picture for y'all because they think we just be talking that talk. You understand me? This right here is earned. You work your boss for 12 hours out the day, but after work you go to school. Open up the computer online school for a few hours Straight. After that you go to the kitchen. It's time to be a mom and a wife Making dinner. Have our place ready, serve your entire family. Get to the about time. You get to the bedroom, it's time to take a shower. Quick talk, check in and go to sleep and do it all over again.
Speaker 2:
Here's the thing though.
Speaker 1:
Big dog, energy, god, energy, baby.
Speaker 2:
The part that you don't see because you at work, is that I've given up my lunch break, so I don't get a lunch break. I actually start school at 12 o'clock each day. That's my first session from 12 to two.
Speaker 2:
And then I go back to work and I get my kids from school to all the things and then I pack back into school at five o'clock and I'm so strategic and so disciplined and so into the details that once I got a rhythm with the three classes that I'm taking, I make sure I do all of my assignments. I don't care how much I got to stretch myself. Monday through Friday, that's when I'm doing my assignments, because I know who I am, I know the person that I am and I need balance. I need Saturday and Sundays to belong to me and so if I got to put in that extra grind throughout the week to get my assignments done, my readings, studying, all of that, then that's just what Monday through Friday is just going to have to look like right now, because I need Saturday and Sunday to be time to recharge, you know, spend time with my family, be fully present and not have to do the extra stuff and so backtracking.
Speaker 2:
What I love about the Friday check-ins is that I tell you my three wins and they vary each week depending on the week and you know what's going on in the week but you always celebrate and congratulate me. You know, you say good job and sometimes we throw in a little bonus. You know what I mean. And then you know, when time permits with you, what you have. Going on. You'll circle back and you'll say what your three wins are for the week and I think, like just that weekly check-in helps us both. It holds us both accountable to making sure that we have something to celebrate at least three things out of any bucket in your life. You don't have to be working, you don't have to be schooled. Out of any bucket in your life that you want to celebrate and call it a win, you get the autonomy to do that.
Speaker 1:
Yes, Lord.
Speaker 2:
It's up to you.
Speaker 1:
Listen Monday through. We said last year in 2023, we said fourth quarter mentality, did we not?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, we did, we did 2024 hit.
Speaker 1:
Everything came at us and we still been trucking. We still going, holding each other accountable. I get up every morning at 3.30 in the morning, go to bed around 8.30 at night and do it all over again Every single day, going to work, working on the business, working on my working on me reading, studying, meditating, making sure I have a word for my community, for our community.
Speaker 1:
Hitting that gym at five, hitting that gym at five in the morning before work man, this man I'm so grateful for, and I'm doing it without complaining, because when it's your passion, when it's your purpose, you don't have to feel like doing it. When you are called to serve the community and do what you're doing a childcare service you getting your ass whooped daily and you get up every single day To make this podcast. I have to work daily. I get up my son up to son down. I have to get up and study. I have to meditate, go to the gym, work on me on my way to work.
Speaker 1:
I work with children who that are special needs, artistic. I have to work while I'm on my on my way to work. When I get on my 15 minute break, I'm working on the podcast. When I get on my lunch break, I'm working on the podcast. When I get off work, I'm working on the podcast. When I get home, I have like an hour or two to work on the podcast, because you're still working. Yep, you know this. This is the thing, though, about. I'm about passion, though you don't always have to feel good, because you're not going to always feel good. Majority of the time you feel like you're getting your ass whooped.
Speaker 2:
The majority of the time, yes, amen.
Speaker 1:
But you get up and you do it over and over and over and over. Why? Because this is what we would do if this is this is what God has called us to do, absolutely. We're going to make our fans beloved, make us like really recap, because recap, because I really big down. When it come on Friday, wednesday, I'm like, oh my God, yep, but I'm going to keep going. Yeah, but when Friday hit and it's time to hit those wins for the week, it just give me a burst of energy Like we did it again.
Speaker 2:
Yep, Yep. And it's funny because, like you know, a couple of weeks ago I was struggling. I was like a win, Like I had to really dig deep. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:
I had to dig deep and really, I had to tell you about your text that you were sending me.
Speaker 2:
Figure out like nah, there's, there's three wins from this week. I don't really care what happened, what it looked like, how I feel there were three wins that happened. And so I dug deep and that's what it makes you do too. On those weeks that are tougher than others Because some weeks is easy I'm like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is what I'm proud about. But on that particular week I was kind of like yo, it's a struggle. So I really had to sit with myself and say girl, find you three wins. And I did.
Speaker 1:
And I was. You know what I like about this, though, because everything is about a mindset.