From Reflection to Action: Turning 2024 Lessons into 2025 Wins

Reflecting on 2024 and the lessons it came with. Sharing my progress and my thoughts on looking forward to 2025 with consistency and discipline. 

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Two types of people, there was the people who were going

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out on New years.

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and the people who were staying in the

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house

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2025 is like an answer

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for all. 2024 had setbacks, that whole year, it just showed that we're

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capable of more. We're capable of pushing ourselves

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Self development has a process in many different ways. One of them is letting go. I have to trust that time never heals, but time is working progress. I'm a working progress.

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So be relentlessly disciplined

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and consistent.

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It wins every

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time and turns your potential into reality.

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Welcome back to another episode of I'm just sharing with Shonda. I'm Shonda. Happy New Year, y'all. I'm so glad that

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got through. I can't

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believe

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2024 is over and it's 25. Like, 2025. Like,

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oh my goodness.

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is like

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crazy. Like, where did it go? I just wanted to give, like, my thoughts on 2024

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and just how it was.

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Because it was, like, an

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interesting time.

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Two things was just seeing how with new year's, I have to start with new year's and seeing how there were like two types of people, right? There was the people who were going

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out on New years.

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and it was the people who were staying in the

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house

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and new years. It was like 80 20 because I just feel like people like you know, It's on a Tuesday, like Tuesday night into a Wednesday, some people was off. I was off. I enjoyed my time off, but it's just like, Tuesday.

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just don't feel like

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going. Don't feel like getting up, get dressed, like rather have something cozy and just be in and celebrate

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See the fireworks from a

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a distance. Look at it on the news, the ball drop and it's still like the biggest thing ever because you're with somebody that you love or like, you're, you just been so trustworthy

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yourself that you're

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celebrating

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and you're enough.

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Like, it's like a whole thing. I want to say that I've had that moment, but just like seeing that, And also seeing how like, I also feel like the 2024,

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in

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general, it was a lot of people.

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Um, that I've seen

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on my feed of a lot

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pep talks

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of like your goals

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what

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to look for

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you're

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locked in 2025. Like it just seemed like that's what you need to do. Like be locked in. It's time that your goals is definitely going to get to you because you're motivated and you trust

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and you trust this process. Like,

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it's just seems like 2024 definitely Went

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from round and we stayed up until the

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last minute until that bell rung until that ball dropped.

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It's like, alright, I know I can handle

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this. Whatever's going to come to me in 2025 is

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to be nothing but vibes.

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positivity, good

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my goals,

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the things

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I'm carrying out. Like, it's so crazy to me that like, just seeing that everywhere

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has motivated me to

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the same thing.

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2024 for me has been rough,

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like

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mentally, physically, emotionally, as everybody else, but like just me personally,

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it was

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just

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mentally. Am I really? Going through it, but also sitting with myself

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learning and understanding

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feelings.

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But like, it's

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just has been

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a very.

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interesting 2024 to do it. Like I said, I feel like I've been aligning myself

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and it has been definitely great and I feel like everybody is

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like moving with intention is a thing and

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just knowing that 2025 is definitely going to look different. Definitely different. I haven't like read from my journal. It feels like I haven't read from my journal, with you guys or shared it with you guys

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in a minute. So

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I'm going to do that because reflecting,

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but

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now I want to say I wrote this

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yesterday.

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January 1st, 2025 at 12 53 PM. Quote, every individual is only a version of you. How can they forgive when there's no forgiveness in

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the heart. It's by Kendrick Lamar.

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His

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Song right here, Reincarnated, speaks

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valiance to

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especially now in a time

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that I want to move

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with intention. With

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God with me. I'm willing to trust this life process, understanding that every choice is the right choice, never taking anything for granted, meeting a version of me, learning and understanding I will never take for granted. I see that self development has a process in many different ways. One of them is letting go.

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If

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a version of me is hurt, I would want them to let me go. Don't tell me I'm letting you go.

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I

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want better for myself. Assessing my emotions and feelings and connecting with Jehovah and others is my self development.

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Working

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through my emotions, taking it out and understanding oneself is progressing. My progression. I have to trust that time never heals, but time is working progress. I'm a working progress. And it just seems

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like it's. shutting off

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skin. And I feel like that has been, very

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uncomfortable

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but

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necessary

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And just looking back at it, I'm just really, really proud

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that you know I'm

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I'm making decisions that

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for me. I'm making decisions

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that work for me even before that

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I just said that I'm proud that I still have

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kindness and love

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empathy in my heart that I still have the room for that.

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I feel like

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2025 is like an answer

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for all. Like I just feel like it's definitely answer. Like cause 2024 had setbacks, but I just feel like with that whole year, it just showed that we're

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capable of more. We're capable of pushing ourselves and

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Going into 2025

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prepared and ready for

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whatever, like we already, we've been through this all together in 2024.

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So now it's just time to focus on 2025, your goals, your dreams,

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and like really have them

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flourish, you know,

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and it's just been a really cool.

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journey. 2024 has been

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yeah, I'm gonna take a quick break and

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going to be right

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back. Welcome

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Um,

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so speaking about

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in progress,

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I was listening to shits and gigs and James was just talking about like

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pressing like

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the A button

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and you never know

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that the A button won't work until

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press it.

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And I'm like, you know, we

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have to go through this stuff. And, um,

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just keep saying that it just seems

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like 2024 and whole, and especially with me being intentional that I have to try to apply myself because

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never really know if it's

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going to work out if I don't try. Like, like

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it's, it's all work in progress. It's another thing

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that I've been seeing on my social media TikTok is

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how people are writing

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down.

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And it's broken down in like different categories, which I just never really thought about this. I always thought it was like huge and people having these three pillars and everything.

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Um,

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but it can just be

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as small

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as family relationships, um,

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finances, whatever business

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that you're doing, and

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post

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personal goals that you like feel within can be, you know, worked

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on and you write them down, you plan it out. And I just feel like with,

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If you do that, you're more intentional with how

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your outcome is going to be.

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And I feel like all of

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2024 and seeing all this stuff, people were just preparing. I've just seen a lot of people wanting to teach

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something, to express something, to let somebody know like, this is something that you should

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just try.

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You know, be curious, be, open to

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do things

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because you never

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really know what

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the

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next

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year is going Um,

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it just made me think about like the whole 2024 and what I've done

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far. I've noticed that, you

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know,

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with all my platforms that I have, I use Buzzsprout to get my audio episodes out with Apple, Spotify, and Google

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podcasts. On there and then I have,

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you know, my youtube page and you see the visuals. I have my Uh instagram page and my Tik

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tiktok page just to post my reels and knowing that you know I'm working on being a little

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more active on there I

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like that i'm active

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every week, but

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I know that I can probably change that to every

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three days you know like it doesn't have to be too big maybe two but like just making sure that

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i'm more active and Working with

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Progressing.

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I want to be

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more active. I

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know that if I'm not, you know, I'm not really going

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So I really do want to

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keep applying myself to what I'm doing.

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So it has been a journey. I really feel that some of my reels have

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had some responses and I feel pretty,

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pretty good about it. Um, with Buzzsprout

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I saw that like in total I had 273 downloads. Uh, it's,

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uh, you know, varies throughout

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all the episodes that I do put out. My highest episode on there is, taking the lead in traumatic

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circumstances. And like, that one had 23, like, listens on there. So I was pretty happy about that. With my Instagram page or in a, you know, I'm just sharing That's my Instagram name on

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there.

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I have 94 followers. It was just 93 earlier. So,

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woohoo, to the

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plus one. I'm so really, like, happy. I'm really happy about this. Um, I like seeing that at least some people seeing

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short form content, they connect

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with, you know, short time,

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the attention span,

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all that they, they stay connected. So I really like that they

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active on

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here. Um, sooner or later,

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I have been like

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getting people listening to,

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um, my.

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YouTube page, well, listen to the

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thing, but on YouTube and see the visuals.

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That also has been progress. I want to say that's a little bit delayed, but I mean, it's cool. So, um, on my YouTube page, I have

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37 subscribers. And my, um,

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most watched video is I'm Not

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My Mother featuring Dreamer, my friend. Shout out to

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to you, Dreamer. Thank you for, being on

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there. And that's like my most watched.

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The second one was, uh,

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Bob's Burgers and Unspoken Truth. And that was 118 watches.

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So like, that was like really, really good.

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Um, Dreamers was 122 if I didn't mention it. I

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I think I did, but either or. I was like really happy about the

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progress, progress that I've seen.

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And I know that I can do better.

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So I'm like,

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writing down goals

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on like wanting to see 50

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on subscribers. 50 subscribers. I'm

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starting small. I know

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I am thinking big,

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but I want to be realistic of like

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wanting to have 50 subscribers

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on my YouTube channel first, um, and build up from there.

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But I would really, really, really

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love to see this business venture project.

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Beautiful, beautiful.

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business that I'm growing to grow more than it has,

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So like, I'm really, really happy about it. Most of everything that I've been doing, I've been really seeing like

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the hearts and the love and the response of the comments, people laughing.

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And then even with doing this,

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I've been working on my personal page and getting my

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little mini

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vlogs out. I find

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those to be like very hilarious and knowing that people like crack up at me. Some of my videos are hilarious I'm

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like, okay, I can

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really do this. I'm

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enjoying. Editing, I'm talking about

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making sure that I get future clients like as a business thing. That's just another thing

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I'm working on. I won't get

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too into that, but

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I am very excited to grow what I've been

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doing. I really want

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to mean something and it

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is, I fit, really do feel

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aligned with what's coming and what's happening right now. And I'm just

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very, very, very, very proud of

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So, um,

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Yeah, it was another thing. One more thing that I wanted to share in my journal that I wrote Uh on

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December 30th 2024 at 10 11 p. m.

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Um, I'm it's the grateful part I am extremely grateful for putting pride in the ego aside to be there for a friend in their time of need I am grateful that I can look at myself to feel and know that

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i'm a good person

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a great person I'm happy that I have

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room and still have room for kindness and love and

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empathy. I have nothing to prove to anyone. Shonda, you are beautiful. I'm not

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going to get emotional.

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You're smart. You deserve happiness. You are

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light.

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You are energy and you are deserved. I'm proud of you, Shonda. I'm proud to be, uh, this woman that I am, and the woman, the woman, a strong, black, vocal, brilliant woman that I'm becoming. Keep pushing for you, keep being curious,

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growing, progressing for you, Shonda. I

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there. I was just like, oh man, what a time, what a time,

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what a time.

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Um, cheers to

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2025 and beyond. I definitely feel that everybody will be enjoying their time in 2025.

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Like I really just feel that the whole world just wants peace. I

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know that

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it's going to look different to everybody. Um, So I'm really hoping that everybody takes The very, very

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small moments that

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like you're doing whatever that's hard or whatever, and

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just find happiness in it. Cause like, that means you're changing and you're moving and you're progressing.

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Um, the other thing that I

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wanted to

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say, um, to end off is again, huge

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fan, love tennis. All

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All right. When it comes to TC live,

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live, Steve Wiseman,

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is my guy. That man is so fine. I

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find him to be the most finest,

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smoothest, cool

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guy.

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And I believe, I don't know, I, like the puns

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that come off of him is just perfect.

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But he posted on his story. and it said, my New Year's Eve resolution

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script from TC Love. And it says,

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It is the year of discipline and

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consistency.

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Those things override motivation and passion every day of the week. Whatever it is you are trying to improve or achieve, if you are disciplined and

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consistent, you will get there.

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Motivation comes and goes, but discipline and

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consistency are undefeated.

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And if your habits don't change, you won't have a new year. You'll just have

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another year.

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So be relentlessly disciplined

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and consistent.

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It wins every

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time and turns your potential into reality. And

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again, just seeing all the things that I've saw before

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2025 was here. I saw people making sure that you stay locked in, stay charged every time,

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every time. it I'm just really happy that seeing these positive

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things

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and motivation of what people having their goals

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saying that if they can do it, you know,

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once they feel

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Successful, about what they've done, where they're at, what they're doing, they're like, if I can

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do it, you can do it. So I'm really glad that in a way I had that community to see. It

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inspires me to do more and I want to

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do more. Um, that

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I want to do more for my family. I want to do more for myself and just know that I got it. So yeah. Thank you guys

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for tuning in to another episode of I'm Just Sharing with Shonda. There is more

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to come, so please remember to rate, like, comment, and subscribe on my Apple, Spotify, and YouTube page.

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comment, DM me, interact with me. Alright? This is what

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for. So you can

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also share your stories with me by emailing me at I'm just sharing pod at gmail. com. I love to share

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them. I would love

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to share them. And

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I would also say that future guests is

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to come. I'm not holding back.

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I really appreciate everybody

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that I've had so far

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on the podcast. So I

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I look

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forward

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to.

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Being curious about new people and sharing

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things with them as they share with me.

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So, I will see you

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guys in the next one.

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Keep

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having a good year.

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And I'll

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be there with you. I'm,

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yeah. Bye.