Grab your headphones and a dose of empathy, folks, because it's time to ride the rollercoaster of life with me. This week, I'm peeling back the curtain on the unscripted comedy of my world – from a sinus infection that knocked me down to a stomach rebellion post-surgery that had me learning lessons the hard way. Plus, I’ll give you the inside scoop on my son's bowling birthday bash, featuring a broken thumb and the kind of improvisation that only a mother could muster. Who says resilience can't be hilarious?
Join me as we celebrate Women's History Month – not just by honoring the past, but by owning our present and powering through our personal hurdles. I'm toasting to the triumphs, like defying the teen mom statistics with diploma and degrees in hand, and popping the confetti for my company’s first anniversary. It's a journey of growth, grit, and a touch of glamour – all shared with you. Let's make some history together, one laugh and one milestone at a time.
Grab your headphones and a dose of empathy, folks, because it's time to ride the rollercoaster of life with me. This week, I'm peeling back the curtain on the unscripted comedy of my world – from a sinus infection that knocked me down to a stomach rebellion post-surgery that had me learning lessons the hard way. Plus, I’ll give you the inside scoop on my son's bowling birthday bash, featuring a broken thumb and the kind of improvisation that only a mother could muster. Who says resilience can't be hilarious?
Join me as we celebrate Women's History Month – not just by honoring the past, but by owning our present and powering through our personal hurdles. I'm toasting to the triumphs, like defying the teen mom statistics with diploma and degrees in hand, and popping the confetti for my company’s first anniversary. It's a journey of growth, grit, and a touch of glamour – all shared with you. Let's make some history together, one laugh and one milestone at a time.
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the gag is podcast. I am your girl, charlie shantae. Maybe I should have got myself together before I came up on here. We gonna make it, though. Welcome back to another episode Another week.
Speaker 1:
I haven't missed y'all, but we've been a play catch up. So first let me say Happy women's history month. So this episode was supposed to come out Last week, right, but life be life, and right like life be life, and as a woman, we know that life don't never stop. So this was supposed to come out last week, but during the period of Recording, your girl had a sinus infection in a bad one. Your girl was down for the count and then, a few days after that, I ended up Getting sick With stomach paralysis. No, I don't take ozimpic. No, I don't take none of them drugs. I had a Surgery few years ago, a hernia repair surgery, severe From a few years ago, and stomach paralysis is one of the side effects that can happen within the first five years. And I ain't gonna, I ain't ain't gonna lie to y'all. Your girl wasn't even like she was supposed to be eaten and she had to pay for it. I was in pain for three days. Three days and still still recovering a little bit. But I tell you what I learned my lesson. I Know I finna be eating right. Well, I am eating right. I'm gonna finna be. Your girl is eating right, so you know. Yeah, so there is that.
Speaker 1:
And then it was new faces birthday this past week and Four days before his birthday. So let me set this up for y'all. He wasn't supposed to have no party Because his greats, he got a love beside themselves, so he was supposed to have no party. But it was gonna cost me more to cancel this party than to head a party. So I was like we're gonna have a party Two days before the party, buddy playing a flag football in PE and break his thumb. It's a bowling party, oh my god. So at the end of this episode, going over to YouTube, or if you're on YouTube watching already at the end of this, I'm gonna put some footage in there of his attempt to bowl from his birthday party.
Speaker 1:
Tell y'all what mother and woman in this is a lot, it'd be a lot and sometimes, but it's okay, like it is okay, we gonna be all right. But I was like I got to get back on this horse, like my stomach still ain't a hundred percent, but Y'all can't see the my stomach at a hundred percent. I know my stomach in a hundred percent, but you can't see it like there's no like indications that I'm sick, but like I know so yeah, so mm-hmm I. But let's jump on right into it. It is women's history month, so I figured it would only be appropriate for this first episode to be about me, because I'm a woman and to me, I've made history in my own mind, because I've beaten statistics as being a teen mom. You know, I graduated high school, I ended up going to college and then I did not end up having another child within the first five years, because I think that's a statistic as well. There's that.
Speaker 1:
And then my big thing is this I am so proud about my company, which I produced this podcast under, turns a year old this month, and I am so super excited about it. If you would have told me two years ago that I would have my own company, which I produce my own podcast under, I might be like me or whatever. That's not me, but I do. And here I am a year later still doing big things, achieving and growing and glowing and all of that. So I am super happy about that. But the podcast is not a year old. The company is a year old. The podcast is only like eight or nine months old, so there's no confusion with that. And so when the podcast does turn one, that'll be a special episode in itself. So I mean my business, me Charlie, with a business like who would have done it? I've always wanted to be a business owner and I've always wanted to be a creative, but I never knew that my business would be a creative business. So there's the irony in that and I know the hubs is like I know he look it down like, yes, my wife, that's the girl, that's the it girl, that's my girl. So there is that. And I'm also celebrating a year of I took social media. I took a social media platform off my phone because I felt like it was becoming too much. So it's been a year for that.
Speaker 1:
And then the biggest thing I would say I'm celebrating a year this month is one year of being alcohol free. Now, that's not to say that I was an alcoholic. A lot of people get that misconception when I say I am celebrating one year of sobriety. They always think like well, you had a problem, then you just stop. No, I did not have a problem. I had some health issues and I could still drink. However, I personally decided that I wanted to get my health together and everything like that, so I just decided that I was not going to drink. Now will I say, in addition to that, I still wanted to drink. Yes. However, I know that previously I have drank way too much and have gotten overboard to where it was becoming a problem, and I'm glad I stopped when I did, because I could see that it could. It could have started to become a problem again, and so I realized that and I decided to act upon it.
Speaker 1:
Can we acknowledge that y'all are getting a daytime episode? If you're listening, it is daytime, so you'll have to go to YouTube to see. It is daytime, so everything is just daytime sunlight, sunlight and everything. There's no colorful lights this time that wish y'all are used to seeing. I like, like I said, I like daytime recording sometime for the simple fact that I'm a little bit more energetic and yeah, I just like it because I mean I can go to sleep at night.
Speaker 1:
But women's history month I like this month because we as women have come so far and as a woman. I celebrate myself this month because I'm a woman in STEM. So that's science, tech, engineering and mathematics and I pretty much love all of those realms and I think that as women, we don't get enough credit for it. I love, love, love, science. Science is my die-hard. I randomly read articles. All my friends called me for medical advice because little known tidbit I started off in nursing school and then I wanted to go to school to be an epidemiologist.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, your girl wanted to be a doctor. But as I got on that path, I discovered that although I like treating patients, I feel like policies and procedures are a little bit more my thing. So you know, I'm the one that's helping with the policies and procedures. And in my current job, in my current role, when I tell you I'm making some changes and doing some big things, just got what's the word I'm looking for? Nominated for the DEI board at my job, doing big things. That board is ran by a black woman. Let's just put that out there.
Speaker 1:
So women's history. I think we need to take time, like we just acknowledge a thing like perms and different stuff like that. We need to take some time and acknowledge some other things. One thing that during this women's history month, I want women to acknowledge and support other women. I don't understand why we feel like we got to be in competition with each other Because I feel like, just easy, as you're being in competition with another woman, the person that you're in competition with could absolutely be the woman that helps you get to the next level. That can be a resource for you. So why make a woman an enemy when y'all could partner and work together, because two is stronger than one, right?
Speaker 1:
So I try to support women businesses. When I go to fairs or little galas and things like that, and they have booths set up and things like that, I try to support women. I buy from men booths that's not saying that I don't buy from them, but my women booths, I support them. As a matter of fact, I have some lotion, like natural lotion. This stuff smells so so good. It's a natural lotion that I had bought when I went to a gala in October and I ran out and I was like man. I got to get some more in. It smells like aloe. So so so good, so so good, and we got to learn how to support each other more just because you may be in the same room as somebody. I mean, I mean I know that there is something in this room that you can't support them. I mean maybe y'all can partner up and do something together. You know, just because both of y'all sell hair don't mean that y'all got to be at odds with each other. Just because y'all both do credit repair don't mean you got to outcredit repair somebody else why you can't work together, like there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to work together.
Speaker 1:
I have many female friends that have businesses and do stuff like that support. And if it's not my thing I promote. I bought athletic wear, I bought cosmetics, I'm going to a cosmetic launch, I've done all kind of things. Because, guess what? It don't hurt to promote somebody, because when you're not in a room, how do you know that somebody else isn't supporting you? You sit over here hating on somebody because you're like, oh, she do the same thing as me, I ain't finna support her. But how you know, behind closed doors that woman ain't supporting you? It don't hurt to support. It don't hurt to you know. It don't hurt to have a conversation with somebody, because you never know they might be putting you up on some gang because you might be doing something XYZ way and they might be like nah, sis, this is how you do it. Let me show you a little shortcut that's going to yield you better results and save you some time. Put some time back in your day.
Speaker 1:
So I think that's one of the big things that I want. I want to see more of and stop letting social media make us all enemies, because we're not enemies. Like we can be. So as women, we can be so strong together. I want to like I just my vision. I just want to do so much now.
Speaker 1:
I'm not going to sit here and play and say like I'm just gun hold like women's rights down, like eat, like I love women's rights and we're going to support. I just want to see more brunches, more info sessions, more women empowerment and not doing these things on some malicious shit or some. You know I'm going to do this and you know like not on some positivity stuff, like and like why? Why are we competing? Like I just don't, I don't get it, I don't understand it. I just I just have me myself, like I have such a big vision and I'm putting it together right now so that when I execute it, I execute it well. You know, I've been able to be in rooms where I know that I can go back in those rooms and I can get assistance.
Speaker 1:
But I'm one of those people that I want to have it together. So when I go to you, I have a full thought and I have a full idea, you know. And then I make sure I surround myself with people who are going to encourage me, who are going to support me and who are going to give me the real, because I don't, I don't got time for just women. I don't have time for females to just hang around. Like I can count on one hand how many females that I'll go to for advice and be like. So what you think about this or what do you think about that.
Speaker 1:
So, women, I love women's history month because I always find out something different. Like I never go and look up the women who I know have pioneered things or or made trouble. Like I like to go and look up the little known people. You know, people that a woman that made that, made man, made the scrunchie or something like that, we don't talk about her, we don't talk about that enough. And we love us a good scrunchie. Okay, we love us a good scrunchie, but this month I want to.
Speaker 1:
I want to challenge you and I want to challenge you to support a small business that is owned by a woman. Even if you don't buy something from them, promote it, because what is the point of being a hate? We don't promote no hate over here. So if you go to the page, I will be supporting a few people. You know. If you want me to support you, go ahead and leave me a message on the page or down below, on the whatever platform you're listening on. You'll find the email to me. The gag is pod at gmailcom. Leave me a message. I shout out your small business or whatever business that you have, because I can do that, because I'm here for y'all, supporting for y'all, whoo chile.
Speaker 1:
So this is the intro to Women's History Month. We're gonna keep it short today, but the rest of the month I got some. I think I got some bangles for y'all because Whoo chile, it's gonna be good. But before we go, y'all know I like to do my lyric of the week. So I'm gonna give y'all a lyric of the week and then I'm gonna give y'all a randomness of the week.
Speaker 1:
So my lyric song of the week is gonna be Rise Up by Andrea Day, because I love, love, love that song. I think it's a great woman empowerment song. So yeah, andrea Day, rise Up. And your other little fact is going to be one of my favorite female movies is Hidden Figures, because, although it's about NASA, it was three black women that pioneered that thing up in there. So that is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite all-time movies. All right, well, remember, go follow the page, go follow the YouTube, share the page with someone. My page is open. Go ahead and read, retweet it, read whatever it. Share it with somebody, because my message can reach somebody, whether you know it or not. And until next time, I'm your girl, charlie Chante. Peace.