Finding Fulfillment Beyond the Mic with Robin Ayers' Insightful Tales

When faced with the daunting question, "What's your passion?" many of us find ourselves at a loss. Robin Ayers, a media sensation and motivational powerhouse, joins us to unravel this mystery, sharing her transformative journey from fashion to entertainment reporting and beyond. Her story is a beacon for anyone navigating the unpredictable seas of career change, offering insights into the valuable skills she acquired along the way, including the art of networking and maintaining a stellar reputation. Robin's candid conversation is not just about finding your calling; it's a roadmap to personal and professional fulfillment.

Each of us carries a unique tale brimming with trials, triumphs, and the potential to inspire. This episode dives into the art of storytelling with Robin, who illustrates the power of personal narratives in connecting with others. From overcoming health challenges to recognizing creative gifts, the discussion is a testament to the serendipitous nature of success. Learn how your life story can influence and motivate, reminding us that our impact on the world doesn't require fame—just the courage to share and connect.

Wrapping up, we reflect on the pillars of faith, purpose, and the drive to uplift those around us. Robin opens up about her written works, her daily entertainment radio show, and her entrepreneurial spirit that fuels her desire to help others. As we bid farewell, we leave you with an empowering reminder: the resilience within you is capable of navigating life's unpredictable waves, guiding you to extraordinary places. So join us, and let Robin Ayers' wisdom fill your day with hope, determination, and the courage to say "yes" to your dreams.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

I have. Just for me that you were made for me. I'm only for me. That you were made for me. Oh yeah, you were made for me. It ain't everyday that I get in my feelings this way, that I knew it was rare Cause before you I never did care. Don't know what I would do If I had to go on without you. Twin, where have you been? Nobody knows me like you do. Nobody gonna love me. I, like you, can't even deny it. Every time I try, when I get my eyes, you know I'm lying, lying body to body. I'm never gonna get up, never gonna learn life. I'm just a girl. You were made for me, just for me. That you were made for me, that you were made for me. Oh yeah, you were made for me, made for me, made for me, made for me, just for me.

Speaker 1: 3:18

You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, where feet may fail. And there I find you, in the misty, in oceans deep. My faith will stand and I will call upon your name and keep my eyes above the waves when oceans rise, with some impressed In your embrace. I am blessed and you are mine. Oh, your grace abounds in deepest waters. Your sovereign hand Will be my guide. Your feet may fail, and this surrounds me. You've never failed and you won't stop now. So I will call upon your name and keep my eyes above the waves when oceans rise, with some impressed In your embrace. I am blessed and you are mine. Oh, oh, spirit. Lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters Wherever you would call me. Take me deep within.

Speaker 1: 5:58

My fear could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior Spirit. Lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters Wherever you would call me. Take me deep within. My fear could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior Spirit. Lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters Wherever you would call me. Take me deep within. My fear could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior Spirit. Lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters Wherever you would call me. Take me deep within. My fear could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Savior. I will go upon your land and keep my eyes and bones away when it gets night or night or night, or night or night or night, or rest in your hand when I am gone. You are just like me I am gone and you are my. I am gone, you are mine.

Speaker 2: 8:21

Oh man, y'all know how I do. I cannot turn oceans out. I gotta let Brie do her thing and bring us into the room. Honey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. Thank you so so much for tuning in to this episode of Listen. Linda, the Waiting Room I have such a special guest.

Speaker 2: 8:51

If y'all know me, y'all know I do not have people down. This platform is usually sought out, but I stalked this lady down. I saw her on threads. I was like Look, can you please just come up on show, teach me honey, teach me the game, put me in the game coach. This lady is such an inspiration for young women, older women, little girls across the globe and I have never seen her story told. I see what she do. I've been following her as a journalist and as just someone that's in like PR and radio and just everything for a while, for years now, and I'm like why nobody never had her on a show Like? These people are dropping the ball. If anybody knows this lady or does not know this lady, we're gonna get into it. Her name is Ms Robin Ayers and she, to me, is like a media guru. I have crowned her the queen of media. This lady has interviewed everybody, from Mariah Carey to Usher, to everybody. Okay, y'all saw Usher. This is the ball. She have had first class tickets. Honey To Usher. Okay, y'all don't know who she is, look up, but you ain't gotta look up, because I got her with me today.

Speaker 2: 10:33

How are you, ms Robin? What do I call you? Robin, rob, rob's, what do I call you? You have to unmute yourself, because I can't unmute you. Just hit your button. Gotta hit that little thing, robin. Hit your little face so you can unmute yourself. Robin, are you there? I didn't get you this bomb introduction. Now we gotta find a way to unmute you. You have to unmute yourself, robin. You have to hit that button. Hit that little circle With the little man on the inside, and it should unmute you. You have to unmute yourself, robin. You have to hit that button. Hit that little circle With the little man on the inside and it should unmute you.

Speaker 2: 12:06

Sorry, you guys, for the delay. We gotta figure out how to unmute the lady, the lady of the hour. I'm going to have Robin come out and then come back in, and while we're doing that, we're going to finish the song. All right, now try to unmute. Now hit the button to unmute. There we go. Yay, dr Kira, we got the gun. I'm saying I'm sorry we did it. You know I got to go in and take that part out. That's okay. How are you? I'm great. Look, I had to let my audience know like I had to hunt you down. I saw your threads. I was like, yes, let me go on my show. I was so happy you said yes. I was like, oh, that's cool, that's what's up. Thank you so much. That is really really cool.

Speaker 2: 13:45

Yes, like so you never know you be having fans and don't even know girl, you don't even know, yeah, I guess so I mean, I guess so, but don't we all though, Don't we all?

Speaker 3: 13:56

Yes, I'm like, I know you like who is this girl stalking me from Chicago.

Speaker 2: 13:59

I don't know. This girl is talking to me.

Speaker 3: 14:01

No, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, no, no, no, no, not at all, but I'm happy to be here, I'm happy to finally. You know, we worked it out. We're finally on the line with each other, so I'm definitely happy to be here with you. Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 2: 14:18

Now, before I start any show, I always start with prayer and then, after prayer, then I get right into it, so you won't have to run down your accolade to anything like that. I usually question you based off of my research and what I've done on you. Okay, that's how I get my audience to get to know who you are, because I ask the questions that people want to know. Okay, okay, we're going to start. Okay, Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you today with grateful hearts as we start on this journey. In this interview with the inspiring Robin Ayers, we ask for your guidance and wisdom as we dive into her journey of overcoming challenges and discovering her purpose. May this conversation be a source of inspiration and encouragement to all who listen. In your name, we pray Amen, amen.

Speaker 2: 15:19

That was quick, I know. Y'all know I usually go for about a good two minutes, but we got to get into some tea with Robin. We had to let the Lord get his first and ask my turn. That's right. That's right, based on Robin's bio. Okay, I've cultivated some questions to kind of get us going before we really dive deep into what we hear to speak about today. So can you share with us how your fashion career paved the way for your current path in entertainment, reporting and motivational speaking.

Speaker 3: 15:58

Well, the fashion career fashion just in general, I believe is just a subsidiary of entertainment. It's just another branch. So I got into fashion, though, because I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was in school. I wasn't one of those kids who, you know, at a young age just kind of figured it out. I had to make my way, and even when I graduated I was like I'm not sure what I want to do, but what I knew I was always good at was putting clothes together for myself and for everyone else. But I didn't even know what that was in the fashion business, and I wound up going to school and landing in fashion merchandising, and I learned a lot about it.

Speaker 3: 16:43

But I guess the key thing that I took away from not only school, but even after I graduated, I stayed in fashion for a good while, some years, and what I took away from that was the art of networking, the art of hustle and also keeping a really good name for myself, because I realized that your reputation, your reputation, absolutely precedes you. And so, yeah, although I loved it, I was just like, okay, I just found my way there. That wasn't necessarily going to be like my lifelong passion. So, yeah, it led me. I left fashion with a few nuggets that I could take into the broadcast journalism career that I have now.

Speaker 2: 17:35

Now, would you consider yourself a creative visionary or creative?

Speaker 3: 17:41

And yeah, 100%. Why so? Just because, when I look at over my lifespan, everything that I've done has been creating something, or, if I don't do it, I have the vision to see it for other people, and so I've given so many ideas to people. I've helped other people expand on their vision, and to me, that's where a visionary, that's what a visionary does and a creative does. So it was fashion, it's storytelling, it's book writing, it's all things that you utilize your mind for your creativity for to put something out into the world. Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 18:30

Because I feel the same way. That's why I feel like when I said, when I meant that you know you missed that part of the show when I played on the song, because that's awesome. Now We've been took your money long, it's awesome. No, yeah, I feel the same way Like when I graduated high school. I did not know what I wanted to do. All I knew and I'm gonna tell you this, I'm gonna tell the world it's not love my husband. Anybody who know me know I love me some of Mr Cox.

Speaker 2: 18:56

But I won best essay in high school and college because the theme was you know, what do you want to do when you grow? When you grow like, what do you want to do? And my, my response was I just want to be rich and move next door to Usher and marry him and have his babies. Like that was like serious, like I could bring it up, like I still have the essay on my computer, like it's real, like this was back in 2006, 2007, when I graduated high school. So it's like so funny because, of course, it never happened, right, I found somebody had a way that a thank you, mr Cox salute.

Speaker 2: 19:36

But moving on, you know I, you know I never knew what I really wanted to do, but I knew I could write, I knew I was smart, you know. I knew like I had certain gifts, but I always tried to go towards the corporate way because that was what everybody was telling me I should do. So I went into DCFS, I went into, you know, just you know, being an executive assistant to an executive director and just doing those things. But those things didn't really suit me. So when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, it actually sat me down. And then after that, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, being diagnosed with lupus and, the next thing, you know, covid. And then that opened my mind.

Speaker 2: 20:22

Me and my husband were sitting now watching TV one night Funny thing, and I scroll past this thing on Facebook. That was like, oh, it was from book leaf. Like, oh, we got this challenge. No, like this 21-day challenge or whatever. You just do poetry or whatever, and I've always been a good poet. So I was like, oh, we could do this only $50. Nail publisher to whatever. Whatever that thing went and took a mind of his own. They say, you know, I'm here, work or hold a force.

Speaker 2: 20:49

Black member like I, best-selling author, like, though, my kids are best-selling authors my husband's a best-seller like these things happen Just by the grace of God, but it's also because of that creative mindset. Like you don't know where you go Go, only God knows where you'll go right. That's why we, moving on to this next question so throughout your career, you've had the opportunity to interact with notable figures in the entertainment industry. How have these experiences shaped your perspective on storytelling and the power of sharing Personal narratives, like I've just shared mine with you, like how has those experience shaped you In your story teller and the power to of sharing your personal narrative?

Speaker 3: 21:38

Um, that's a? That's an interesting question. I I'm not sure that I've ever looked at how it's shaped me in my storytelling, I guess. The realization that I have, though, is, before I got into this industry, I've always been around Notable names. I've always been around people growing up.

Speaker 3: 22:01

I live in a certain part of Los Angeles, in the Valley in Los Angeles, where a lot of people grow up or a lot of people live, and it's just, you know, it's just on, maybe 30 minutes away from Hollywood, but you know the the, the chaos of the city. Many people don't live in in Hollywood, you know. We just go out there to work and then we drive back over here to the Valley to come live, you know, and in in peace and Somewhat quiet or whatever, and so I grew up out here for them for the most part, you know, my junior high school years and up is where this place has developed me, so I've always been around these people in new, very early on. That people, as as high Profile as you may be or Whatever, whatever your credentials are or accolades are, you're still just a person to me. You still just live down the street, or I've watched your kids or your daughter and I are friends and we go to eat, and so I see you at home and behind closed doors. So I've always kind of felt that way. So I say that to say, when I Actually officially entered into this business and began speaking to a lot of, you know, more notable people, I knew that, because I set aside your fame or your notoriety, I can actually just focus on your story. I can actually just focus on what it took.

Speaker 3: 23:40

What kind of mindset does it take that you've mastered to do what you've done, that's going to inspire the rest of the people who are watching or listening?

Speaker 3: 23:49

And that, to me, has sort of resonated with me being like, okay, I might not be, you know, a famous actor or famous singer or whatever, I might not be any of those things, but we all have a platform to a certain degree where people are looking, people are watching or listening. So me being able to tap into these people's stories, real life stories, and not not necessarily putting their, their projects or their decorations on display, not letting that be the topic of conversation, but digging a little bit deep, deeper than the surface, that's allowed me to say you know what, that's what people actually care about. So when it comes time for me to share my story. That's, again, that's the thing that people care about. So in a sense, I guess maybe that's how it's Informed, the way that I speak about my story, being able to tie those two together how I interview and how people interview me or just have a conversation Not necessarily interviewing, but just having conversations with people, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2: 25:01

Perfect sense and that's that's the answer that I was looking for. A lot of times, we, we put the accolades in front of the person and that's the reason why I said, no, I'm gonna do my research on people and that's how I've gained, you know, the the audience that I have, because, you know, a lot of times people like, oh, it's, this person, is that person, and even though I just, I truly adore, like everything that you do I also, I'm the same way that person is still bleed blood child, just like, just like you and me, bleed blood and breathe air, just like we do. And you know, I think that they appreciated more when you, when you, set aside what they do and really want to know about them. That's why I haven't mentioned, like your platforms, if you notice anything. I haven't mentioned your platforms, anything.

Speaker 2: 25:53

I really want to know the person behind that, because I tell people all the time On this show, like if we got to know car med or the person behind car med or you know Whoever rushed it, we wouldn't have a problem giving them our money every month.

Speaker 2: 26:09

You know what I'm saying? Like I wouldn't have a problem buying into certain brands if I knew the actual person behind the brand. So when we used to have those shows like Unsung or behind the music and those type of shows that we used to have, what was it? Planet Groove and those type of things that made us want to buy those albums more, that made us want to really be behind that person or their music or their brand, because we got a time to actually sit down and get to know that person behind the album, behind the song, behind the brand. So I'm so, so, very grateful that you're even here to even tell us your story Now. In your bio it's mentioned that you have presented motivational speeches to various groups. How do you tailor your speeches to resonate with different audiences, such as women conferences, church groups, high schools and live events?

Speaker 3: 27:16

Well, I actually used to be. How it all started was I used to be a speaker for a college, a fashion school out here. Ironically, I was no longer in fashion, but I got hired as a speaker for a fashion school called Fiddem and when I would go to different high schools, the whole goal was to share with the students about fashion, but it was all of my presentations were geared towards their specific class. So say, for instance, if you were in economics or if you had an English class or a math class, we had presentations that would align with all of those different topics and so that would just sort of let you know about fashion in a way that we could talk about it through math or through economics or whatever. But what I realized is, although I loved it because at that time it was blending fashion and speaking together, I loved it but I found myself looking into those kids' eyes, those students, every time I went and being like I can't leave you guys until I give y'all some sort of something, something that's gonna help you, something that is going to motivate you or something, just I don't know a piece of me. And I found myself just after I finished my presentation. I would go and I would say whatever it was and I would just have so many students. After the class they'd come up to me and they're like, oh my gosh, thank you so much for X, y and Z and saying this and saying that or that hit my soul when you said whatever and I was just like man, I love this. I love being able to speak life into people and it really helped me to open up and it's sort of my lens.

Speaker 3: 29:15

So when you asked about how I tailor the message, what I know about my entire life is I've been through the ringer. I have family members who have been drug members. I have family members who have been killed, family members who spend time in jail. I've seen a lot of different things with my own eyes. I've lived in the hood, I've gotten up out of the hood, I've joined church. So I'm a you know, but I joined church when I was in my 20s, so I know what it is to be a regular girl from the hood. And then the flip changed my life and dedicate my life to God and I can look at life through so many different lenses and that in and of itself that is such a relatable thing that anybody.

Speaker 3: 30:02

Once I go into on stage or I'm looking at a group of people, the first thing I do is tell them myself I'm like, listen, I'm from this place. Who can relate? Or I've done this, I've seen that, and I raise my hand who could relate? Automatically all the hands start going up, because that's how I get you guys to understand. I'm here with you, I'm not here above you, I'm not here better than you. I'm here with you and I was once sitting in that chair and but I know what it also feels like to tap in to what God said that we have.

Speaker 3: 30:41

God has given us the ability to do tap into that thing, have no fear or overcome the fear or do things even though you have the fear. And I also know how to win with that. So I can take that knowledge and that experience. I can take that and hopefully speak to audiences, no matter where I am, if it's a church or a school or a boys and girls club or just a group of people getting together for a vision board party, whatever it is. I can take something that I've been through and know how to convey it to a point where they understand, they can relate to it, they understand it and then hopefully embody what I'm saying enough to actually go out there and move their lives forward. That's always my goal is to take something that I've said or someone that I'm speaking, to take something and embody that and move your life forward.

Speaker 2: 31:43

Thank you so much for that, and girl. I think you just went through like three of my questions, but I'm gonna ask them anyway. Okay, so you mentioned that your goal is to inspire others to overcome challenges and pursue their dreams. What has been the most rewarding aspect of this journey for you?

Speaker 3: 32:10

The most rewarding aspect has been I came from a place where I was able to be a stay at home. I have twin daughters who are now 17 years old. But when I first got pregnant, my husband and I we decided he would work, I would stay home. I stopped my career in fashion and I was just chilling at home and just sort of being a housewife. But remember, I'm a creative and I'm a visionary. So I'm sitting there really just like I don't even know what I'm doing here, Like, yeah, it's a blessing that he's able to just sort of provide for my life and our kids. At the time I had kids, or I gave birth to my twins and I stayed home with them for the first two years and then we put them in preschool and all of that.

Speaker 3: 33:04

And from that moment of me trying to reenter into the workforce and in a way that I wanted to do I didn't wanna go just get a job, I wanted to. This sounds so crazy and it almost sounds like so entitled, but it wasn't that. It's just that I knew again, visionary, visionary if you know that there is something that you want to do and even if you don't know the first step in getting it started. If you know that there's something you wanna do, all you really have to do is just move. You just gotta put a foot out there. You gotta put a foot and the universe wants to provide. The universe wants you to get what you wanna get, so the universe will provide the other foot to meet you, to take you a little bit further, and then you gotta step and the universe is gonna step right with you. So that is what I did for so many years, but I don't know how it looked to everybody else, but to me I was just like, as my girls, my twins, kinda grew older, they're looking at me and they know that I don't know what they knew, to be honest with you, but in my mind I'm thinking they see daddy working and they see that I'm here, I picked them up from school and I cook and all of that, but I didn't know that they really understood what I was trying to build, and so one of my biggest goals was for them to see me operate in a space that I was even proud of, and so I said for years I was like I want them to know that I make money, I want them to know that I have a career. I want them to see what I do and be proud of what I do, not just look at their dad and be like my dad is the king. I wanted them to look at their mom and be like she's a queen. So I'm just proud of the fact that I literally had a vision Once.

Speaker 3: 34:57

I decided that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to interview people, I wanted to tell stories and I wanted to be a big deal. I wanted a big platform, not for me, not for the fame, not for the shine for myself, but I wanted a big platform because that told me, the bigger the platform, the more people that are gonna be watching these stories, watching me talk to these people and get something from it. So it was never really about me, but I can say that the two biggest proud moments are the fact that I had a vision and I didn't know how to get it started. I didn't know what to do, who to talk to. I just went out there and I did something and the universe and God helped me move it along and I kept going. No matter what the trials and tribulations that I came into, I still overcame it and I kept going. So I'm proud of that. I'm also proud that my family at this now we're talking 17 years old my two girls and my husband are able to look at me and be like you did that from nothing. You actually did that.

Speaker 3: 36:06

I was out the game. I was at home, pregnant and a housewife and all of that stuff, and I was out the game when it comes to career. I didn't really know anybody to get it started. I didn't have the cameras. I didn't know anything about the industry outside of the people that I knew. I knew a couple of people here and there, but not for real, for real. So basically, what I've built now I can see was like wow, that was a vision that I really made happen, and my kids are able to look at me.

Speaker 3: 36:42

I interviewed Nick Cannon the other day and my daughter almost fell out. She was like so you're not cool. I can interview all of these people in the world, but you're not cool until your kids, until you interview somebody that your kids think is cool. And then my daughter she's looking at me like, oh my gosh, you interviewed Nick Cannon and Nick Cannon followed me and she's like he followed you. This was actually before the interview.

Speaker 3: 37:08

But it's those kind of moments where they can see that I'm out here actually doing something and I still cook for them. I still take them to school and pick them up and I still make it happen. But I still go do my radio show every day and I come home but I make sure everybody is good, I make sure my husband is taken care of and that he has everything that he needs, but I still go out here and make it happen. So those are the two, more so than anything else in the industry those little moments of like oh, I met this person or I've covered this event. It's not that it's my family, those are my family and me achieving the thing that I've always wanted to achieve over the past several years. That those are the biggest highlights for me.

Speaker 2: 37:55

Thank you so much for that. And you know what that just you just really told my story. Like I'm just in here, like this lady is me, I've been at home, I've been to stay at home. My husband is a veteran, you know, truck driver, you know. So he gets up, he works, he did his thing and went to war and did 9-11 and he just liked the man right. So it's like okay.

Speaker 2: 38:21

When I, when I got down sick and then I had my son, seven years ago, I became a stay at home mom and I didn't really have a lot Like I hadn't finished my college degree. I was just like moving around. You know what I'm saying? Like work this little job for a little while, sit down, work this little job for a little while, sit down, you know. And then when I got diagnosed, I sat down Even more so it's like. But I knew that I wanted to write. I knew that I went to Columbia for a year for broadcast journalism. I knew I wanted to be something. But then it was. It was when my oldest son he was like seven at the time he was like mommy, so you don't work, and I was like what? Like I don't work, no, you don't you don't work.

Speaker 2: 39:09

And it was like a lot of family on both sides would be like well, jackie, what do you do, you know? Like. So it was just like I would just like basically sit at home, lazy, like I don't do nothing, even though I'm cooking or cleaning or, like you said, picking the kids up back and forth from school, driving Uber, trying to figure out like what I really wanted to do. So when I started writing and I was like you know what I'm going to take this on, but I also always wanted to do like radio. So when I found a way to do podcast and I was like, okay, well, I'm going to do that too and I'm going to just see where it takes me, and then not even like I've only had this, this platform, robin, for four months. So it's like in four months I become a global podcast with over a million listeners in 10 different countries, and it's like crazy. But it's just like you said when you put your foot out into the universe, when you tell God that, okay, you know what, god, I want this and it makes me happy and it's not compromising my spirit, my spirituality or my belief in you Like I really want to do this and I really want to touch lives and I really every book that I wrote is is been a memoir about my life, so I can tell people yes, I'm a domestic violence survivor. Yes, you know, I suffer from parental abandonment, both of my mom and my dad on drugs, lost my dad. Been through all of this stuff, right, and I've overcome it. I've been homeless, I've been out on the street, I've been neglected, I've been beat. You know I've went through all of this stuff. I've lived on part, I've slept in parts, I've slept pillow to post and I'm 34 and I got this gray husband now and and I'm here Like I have a story, I'm going to put it out there, but I'm also going to create this platform. I want this platform to be for women of color right, who have a story that hasn't been told, that needs to be told, to touch lives, not just a little black girl's life, but women everywhere. You know, all women can relate to our stories, but it's it's our stories that don't get told, it's our stories that are at the bottom of the totem pole. And when I look, when my son told me that I got back in school, I finished my degree, I graduated cum laude and it was like when you, when you, when you really get out there, and then I pushed myself even further and I got a world record. You know, I pushed myself further and I joined the black, the force black community. You know, I pushed myself further and now I'm NYC Journal top 40 under 40.

Speaker 2: 41:53

When you do those things and you do it like you said, you got it out the month, I got it out the month I started out on a, on somebody else's network, and they were limited, what I could and couldn't do, who I could and couldn't interview, based on the people they liked, and I was like, no, I don't want to do it that way, so let me just do it off my back, off my dime, do it myself, do it for you know, do it for the people and and do it for God and do it in his name and and thank him every time and give him the glory, just like Carlos King told me give God the glory and he will glorify it right. So, like when you do those things and you have people like you, like Carlos King, like Zane, all these people who are reaching out to me to push me, you know, like you know, jacqueline Cox, I see you, I see what you're doing to Tabitha Browns and all these people are pouring in to me. I want to do the same thing for other people and I just I just really appreciate people like you who are saying you know what it's okay to be a stay-at-home mom. But the most important thing is when my kids look at me now and they see me in magazine and they see my books and they see me on Hulu and all these different platforms and they say you know what that's my mom? You know that's my mom and you know those type of things and creating that general, that generational wealth for them. You know, like now I got this platform. My son, he's the best selling author, he's 13. He was the best selling author at 11 years old. He had one for my kids have their own clothing line now been had it for three years, sold out the past three years. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 43:42

Leaders like when you, when you, when you, when you, we are kids see you doing something great and doing something that they can be proud of. My husband and look at me now, even though my husband, like you say, your husband always loved you. Right, my husband always loved me, always motivated me, always wanted me to do better. So now he can look at me and say that's my wife right there. You know what I'm saying, miss Lissa, linda is my wife. You know, like those type of things we can appreciate because we believe so much in ourselves and we say yes to ourselves. I just thank you for saying yes to you, because when you say yes to you, you don't know that you planted a seed and birthed me out of that. Do you get what I'm saying? I can look at you and say she did it.

Speaker 3: 44:29

So are you yes, absolutely no, and I appreciate you saying that. I think that's the best way. When you said yes to yourself, you know that's just actually. The word yes is just such a powerful thing. I say that all the time. Yes, it's just. That's the only word that moves something forward. If you think about it, the only word that allows something to happen is the word yes. So, for sure, when you say yes to yourself, my God, like everything, everything will open up for you.

Speaker 2: 45:06

Yeah, the doors will open up and if they don't open, you can kick them down, come through the back door. I just truly appreciate you taking that step towards yourself, because a lot of times we do get lost at, you know, just being a mom or just being a wife and being content with that because all the bills are paid and this and that. But then when you don't want that time not saying that it will come, but you don't want that time to come when somebody can look at you and be like, well, I pay all the bills. So you know what I'm saying Well, I do this or I do that, like it has to happen to me, but it better not happen. Okay, but it ain't gonna happen, you know, because now I can say you know, even though it's not much, but I bring something to the table and I'm content with that.

Speaker 2: 45:55

Once again, I don't have to be in the limelight. If I want the limelight, this would be a visual show, right, but it's not, it's audio, because I don't want people to see me. I want people to hear the message, because when you see the person, you're distracted, right, and a lot of people oh well, you got this, and that's always kind of been like a I won't necessarily say insecurity of mine, but more so like I watch that because people will look at you and be like, oh, she got that because she cute, or oh, she got that because she's light-skinned. Well, let's take that away and just put a microphone over me. Now you know, like why am I getting it now? Not that I have to prove anything to anybody but myself, but it's more so. Yes, I have to prove it to myself because I know I'm smart, I know I made the grades, I know I could do certain things.

Speaker 2: 46:46

But people will try to diminish that or take that away from you if you possess something that they wish they had. A lot of times it's beauty. A lot of times it's a good husband. A lot of times it's great kids, right. So they'll just take that and they'll say, oh, you got that because. Or let's say you, oh. They'll say, oh, you got that because you friends with so-and-so-and-so-and-so who's in the industry, or me, oh. They'll say, oh, you got that because they like the way you look, or because you light-skinned, or because it's this or because it's that. It's always because it's never because you're just great at what you do. No one wants to give you that. That's why what they say I heard Tia say that the other day you live by the applause and then you'll die by the booze.

Speaker 1: 47:32

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 47:33

You know, and how true is that.

Speaker 3: 47:37

Yeah, no, it's very true. I mean, at one point, at one point a while ago, I actually scrubbed all of my page, of all the friends that I have in the industry and I, you know my page has gone through many changes, but for the most part, I wanted to let my work speak for itself. And so, yeah, for the most part, I've taken that I have so many friends in this business and it's not even a big deal. I'm like. You know, you can probably Google me and find more pictures of me and friends than you will find on my personal Instagram page, just because, again, you know, I had to allow my work to speak for itself, and you know that's a real thing. You know, people do say that you've achieved your success because of one thing or another, but I also don't vibrate on that. I don't vibrate on a low level of like. I don't even acknowledge negative talk. So people don't even really come on my page talking mess just because they're not in the at least yeah, I just don't.

Speaker 3: 48:54

my level of vibration is just so high, and it always has been, which is why I do what I do in terms of like speaking, you know, and people will believe that, because they see that I vibrate at a high level. But anyway, I was just saying I finally got to the point where people can see you can see the level of and the quality of work that I bring to the table. But yeah, I just I also the other reason I took my friends down is I didn't know how to handle, initially, the people hitting me up for different things, for different people that I knew. It almost felt like oh well, can you introduce me to this person, cause I have something that I think would be good for them, and I definitely was. I was new to that space, and so how?

Speaker 2: 49:49

That's called driving. That's what I call driving, yeah yeah, you know you coming for a reason.

Speaker 2: 49:56

But yeah definitely Trying to shade it like okay, like oh, and then, next thing, you know, it hit me like oh, yeah, then that's the reason why I don't, like I know a lot of people in the industry and I do not put them on my page Like I do not specifically because, like you said, I don't name drop. You know, like a lot of people I know, you know I've had publicists try to hit me up. Oh well, I've had this person on show, I have that person on my show, I have this person on my roster, but that means nothing to me because they are just like you say. They bleed blood and breathe air just like we do.

Speaker 2: 50:33

So it's like when you name drop, it turns me completely off, because that makes sense, because it's like, okay, I work just as hard as that person, or I've done just as much as that person. I may not be in the same career field as that person, but I'm just as qualified, or I don't need that to validate who I am or what I do. I try to let my work and my work ethics speak for myself, because you could put me in a room with anybody and I will outwork them. I will outwork that. I put me up, spar me with anybody. I promise you nobody's work ethic is more than mine to me.

Speaker 2: 51:15

Now I don't know, like logistics, why I was like I don't know what you're doing every day, 24 hours a day, right, but I know I'm working. I'm working from six in the morning to six the next morning. I'm working, and if I'm not, I'm sleeping. I get up and I'm working again. So, with that being said, like I can understand from that point too, because it's like you build your career and you get to a certain level and you don't like I don't mind being a vessel, I don't mind because God put us here to be used, right, because he wants to use us as a vessel in order to provide for other people. That's why we're His humble servants. But you're not gonna use me and then misuse me and then play in my face Like you got to pick one, do it.

Speaker 2: 52:04

You pick out the Allen Gilligan.

Speaker 2: 52:06

Okay, but one of them like I don't mind being used and we all here to be used, but don't use me and then misuse me and then try to come back and think that you're gonna spend a block, like I don't do that and I don't do the negativity thing either. When I see somebody trying to be negative on my page, you immediately blocked. My block list is the Egyptian scroll. It's a mile long, because I've done like okay, you know what I'm done, done, done, done. I'm 34 years old. I still got time to grow.

Speaker 2: 52:36

But I think that my way of thinking is not the same way as my peers, and I saw something today that resonated with me and I think I put it on my page, where it says trees don't hang with grass, even though they come from the same space, because the grass is gonna just remain where it is. It's only gonna get to a certain level, right, but that tree is gonna just grow. And even though they both come from the ground, right, you're not gonna. It's like almost like when you're vibrating on a higher frequency in life, like at your 40 level. You'll never see things the way everybody else here. You're gonna always see it from a higher standpoint, from a higher level in life.

Speaker 2: 53:24

It's just like a giraffe in a mouse looking north. The giraffe is gonna always see things above ground level, but they're not gonna see the things the same. So the mouse, the rat, may see a car coming down the street, whereas that giraffe is gonna see over the trees and see the birds flying that way. So when they say, okay, well, what's coming towards you? Oh, a car is coming towards me. No, birds are coming towards me. We're gonna always see things differently. So we can talk to a blue in the face, but if you're not on the same level that I'm on mentally and spiritually, we'll never. I could talk to a blue in the face. Until you're ready to understand and get it, you'll never see it.

Speaker 3: 54:07

I agree, so moving on.

Speaker 2: 54:13

Cause I told you I got questions and I'm not gonna keep you long, cause I told you one hour and I know like I'm on your time and I'm on your dime and I so so appreciate you. I'm pretty sure my audience can appreciate you being here today to just drop in major gems. Spirituality and belief in God are important aspects of your life. How does your faith influence your work and the message you share with others?

Speaker 3: 54:42

Yeah, my faith and my relationship with God is paramount to everything. I put that in. I wrote a book called Unspoken Languages and I told the story of when I was three or four years old. I was born in Milwaukee, actually, and I came out to California when I was four and I told the story of when I first met God, or when he introduced himself to me, and God told me in that moment that I was looking out it was me out of the window still and I was looking out into the backyard and the sun was sort of shining on my shoulder and I felt the warmth and I felt God and heard from God and the voice basically told me that it wasn't always gonna be like this.

Speaker 3: 55:36

Just because I grew up in a very tumultuous type of environment with my dad who was alive then. He was abusive, he was an alcoholic, he was addicted to drugs the whole night and it was just so dark in my environment, in my life and God told me it's not always gonna be like that and he told me that he was gonna use me and he was gonna use me to help them. I didn't really know who them was at the time, but as I grew up and maintained my relationship with God. I didn't go to church, but I always had a relationship with God and I laughed at some of the things that how God and I related to one another as I was growing up. But he's always stuck by my side and always reminded me that, no matter what my current conditions look like, I had a bigger purpose and that it was gonna be helping other people. So that's always been where my faith was.

Speaker 3: 56:35

I never tripped about if I was in a situation where it was looking low and dusty, and I still have faith that. That's not even how I get down Like I'm gonna make it about of this. All I had to do was again get clear, have a vision and kind of move forward. And so to this day, I love, I appreciate God so much because there are sometimes, probably more than others, where I look and I'm like this is what you're talking about, god, like this is what you're talking about. And it also helps me to stay on track with what I do in my life. I have a passion for the art of storytelling and interviewing and stuff like that and talking to people and letting people share with me. I have a passion for that, but it keeps me on track when I know that God is reminding me that it's really all for His glory and it's all for the purpose of helping other people. It's never to get shine, it's just all about helping other people. So that's how it all ties in together.

Speaker 2: 57:48

Well, I absolutely adore you. I just wanna say congratulations on everything that you have going on. If there's anything that we did not mention, I want you to mention it and then tell people where they can buy your book, where they can find you, and I also would like, if you don't mind, for you to take us out in prayer.

Speaker 3: 58:18

Well, I appreciate you again for having me on at Robin Ayres on all the social media platforms. Ayers is my last name and I have a couple of books out. One is for entrepreneurs it's actually called the Rob Report Bankable Business Nuggets for the Rising Entrepreneur. And my first book, which is called Unspoken Languages, is Making your Belief Speak for you, and we're all born with a certain measure of belief. It's just, I believe, it strengthens, it gets sharper the more that you utilize it. But how do you let your beliefs speak for you? How do you make it work for you? So that's what my book is about, the first one. You can go to Amazon, find me on there. You could also find me.

Speaker 3: 59:06

I do a radio show. It's an entertainment radio show every single day where I talk entertainment, news, hot topics. We do interviews as well, and that's on KBLA1580 radio. So people who don't live in LA and can't get it on the radio, you can just download the KBLA1580 app and you can listen to it there. It also streams live on YouTube every single day, which is at 6 pm Pacific time. So it's six to 7 pm Pacific time. So we get people all across the country who are tapping in people on the East Coast, people Central Time or wherever just tapping in on YouTube. But the majority of our people are listening on the app just because it's easier and it's refreshing, no matter what time of the day you listen into the app, you're getting somebody. It's a black-owned talk radio station, so you're getting great conversations, smart people talking, and then you get me who's talking? Entertainment and then we do relationships, we talk. I mean there's a lot going on on the station, so I would advise and encourage everybody to download that.

Speaker 3: 1:00:18

But again, I appreciate you for having me on, even just to share a little bit of my story.

Speaker 3: 1:00:25

I appreciate that so much. And, with that being said, father God, we love you, we appreciate you, we crave you, lord, god, and praise you for your glory, praise you for your presence, that, where two or more are gathered in your name, there you are in the midst of us, father God, we just thank you that anybody who is listening can take away something that will ignite a faith in them and a belief in them that once they do and they know that that belief comes from you, father God that they will ignite their faith and take a step out and do something to move their life forward. That's what it's all about, and we promise, at the end of the day, to give you glory for whatever it is, if it's a half step or a whole step, whatever it is, whatever movement we do, lord, god, we promise to give you all the glory and we'll continue to praise you in the name of Jesus. We just thank you and give you all the glory in Jesus' name, amen. Amen amen.

Speaker 2: 1:01:24

So I wanna thank everyone who is tuning in now and who will catch the replay. This will be available today. Stairs to 12th. This will be airing on all platforms by 7 pm Central Standard Time today. I wanna thank Ms Robin Ayers for coming on and gracing us with her presence and dropping some gems just about her life. Dropping gems about motivational speaking and how she got to, but, most importantly, about her faith in God and her faith in herself and her saying yes to herself, her saying yes to her dreams, her goals, her children, her husband and just being just a beautiful beacon of light for people like me and people like you. So, with that being said, I'm signing off. This is listen, linda, and you've just tuned in to the waiting room. I'm gonna leave you guys with blessings by Nicki Minaj and Tasha Cobbs. Have a great rest of your day.

Speaker 3: 1:02:29

Thank you cember 2018.

Speaker 1: 1:03:31

I know that I'm a little bit out of control. I'm a little bit out of control. I know that the river that I go through and it heals me my contract is already never ending. I'm a little bit out of control.