In The Passenger Seat with Alethea Crimmins
From the front seat of her car, Alethea has motivated millions—reaching hearts around the world and even catching the attention of icons like Rihanna, Kesha, Madonna, and Viola Davis. Now, she’s bringing that same energy, wisdom, and unshakable confidence to the podcast realm—inviting special guests to ride along and share their own journeys of resilience, purpose, and self-discovery.
No scripts, no filters—just raw, powerful conversations filled with gems, laughter, and the kind of motivation that makes you sit up a little straighter. You never know who will be in the passenger seat next, but one thing’s for sure: every ride is a step toward something greater.
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In The Passenger Seat with Alethea Crimmins
Burnout Isn't a Badge of Honor: Conversations with Rapper JunoFlo
Hustle culture has convinced us that rest is a reward we haven't earned yet. But what if constant grinding isn't the badge of honor we've been led to believe? What if it's actually killing our creativity and joy?
Rapper JunoFlo joins me to unravel how the 24/7 productivity mindset has shaped his 14-year music career. From being raised in a household where excellence was the only option to navigating an industry that celebrates sleepless nights, Juno shares how he's learning to balance ambition with well-being. "People become fans of you as a person," he reveals, "and that might be more important than being a fan of the music."
We dive into the concept of "glow up guilt"—that uncomfortable feeling when friends and family resist your growth and boundary-setting. As Juno wisely suggests, "Go out of your way to make you happy," which might include taking yourself on an "artist date" to refill your creative well without considering anyone else's needs.
I'll leave you with three powerful tools to reset from burnout: remember that productivity without purpose is just noise, schedule rest like it's a non-negotiable meeting, and celebrate quality over quantity in your work. Because here's the truth—you don't have to hustle every day to be worthy. You already are worthy.
Ready to reclaim your life from hustle culture? Your challenge this week is to choose one area where you can trade hustle for purpose. Be intentional about it. Do it for you, not for anyone else.
Have a Good Day On Purpose...
YA' Welcome
yeah, hello, hello, family, and welcome back to in the passengerassenger Seat with your girl, alethea Clements, where we take life by the wheel and we avoid every burnout detour along the way. Listen, today we are going to talk about something that most of us has been trapped in. I know that I have because I am constantly trying to get it. I'm constantly, I'm a go go, go, go, go, and sometimes I don't stop and sometimes I feel like that's what I have to do in order to succeed, like I have to keep going, I have to keep pushing myself. We're going to talk about the hustle 24-7 culture. When did this become the norm? When did this become okay? Like you feel guilty about just having time for yourself without checking that email, making sure that this is okay, making sure that your work is done. When is it okay to just breathe, rest and take time for yourself without feeling like there's always something to do? Listen, I do not know who needs to hear this, but constantly grinding does not make you a superhero, it just make you tired. I'ma say it again constantly grinding, constantly going, does not make you a superhero. All that shit does is make you tired. So when is it going to stop? How do we fix this? Because this is a trap. Like where does this hustle culture come from? Like, who thought about this? Who approved this, this hustle culture? So how do we end up believing that burnout equals success?
Speaker 1:Somewhere along the way, we started to feel like overworking. Was this badge of honor? Oh yeah, I done worked 110 hours a week. That's not nothing to celebrate. You are tired and what are you getting out of it? So they have folks that brag about it humbly. Oh well, I just slept three hours this week, are you okay? Are you all right? Like you that? Listen, that does not make you over. Working does not make you more successful. Again, when are we going to take time out for ourselves? Burnout is actually killing productivity. It does not make you more productive, it's actually doing the opposite. Because if you're only running on three hours of sleep, so how are you going to function? So how are you going to operate? So how are you going to operate? How are you being more productive?
Speaker 1:Listen, my next guest. Nobody hustles harder than people in the music industry. Nobody hustles harder. And I know somebody my next guest. He knows all about the hustle culture. He is a rapper. I have seen his videos on TikTok. I've seen them on IG. I love everything that he does. We are going to talk about it later on, but let me introduce you to the rap phenomenon changing the game doing his thug thistle, juno flow run that clip Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'. Got bougie on my neck. She like my chain she beggin' up on me.
Speaker 2:I forgot her name. I'm too turnt up. I ain't lookin' for love. Ain't got no diamond rings for you, but just for the night I think I'm custom made for you, fresh in a white tee checks all on me.
Speaker 1:Like I left Nike, ooh, she got Pisces.
Speaker 2:Swim to the lake boy, if you wanna fight me Out inside the club, I go by 290, just want a photo. We don't call the police, we call the homies. G-l-x on me, bitch, wreck him off me. Ay what? Okay, I'm too Turned up, turned up Pour that 1942 up in a cup.
Speaker 1:Ay yeah, kick him in the top Off, top off, top off, top yeah, cause I don't need no love. Listen, Juno, juno, flo.
Speaker 2:Come on, juno.
Speaker 1:Thank you, alethea, I appreciate it, oh my goodness, listen, I was yeah, yeah, don't you know. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I love the energy. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:So I have already introduced you, but can you introduce yourself to the beautiful people that watch in the passenger seat? Can you tell us who you are and what you do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. What's up, guys? My name is Juno, I go by Juno Flo and I am a I'm an artist, songwriter and producer originally from Los Angeles, but now I'm based in New York. So I've yeah, I've been making music for most of my life and you know I'm here now, so glad to be here with you so how did you start out making music Like?
Speaker 1:how did you say, ok, this is what I want to make music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's actually funny because I had like the very typical Asian household upbringing where my mom forced me to play piano and I hated every second of it. When I was a kid, I was like I think I played for like 10 years and I hated every second of it. When I was a kid, I was like I think I played for like 10 years and I hated every second of it. For some reason, like you know, it was like this thing where, because I was forced to do it and, like you know, I learned it, I got better at it, but at the end, when I finally quit like my piano lessons, that was like one of those days where I was like, oh my god, like I'm so happy that it's done now. Yeah, but but now that I look back, like I'm I'm very grateful for my parents for you know, for for doing that to me, because because I feel like that kind of embedded like music into my brain, and then, um, and then I started writing.
Speaker 2:You know I started writing. You know I started writing like some poetry and like I wanted to rap back in like high school because I didn't have like a recording set up or anything. I don't even have a computer. So I asked my roommate. I'm like, hey, could I borrow your MacBook? I want to use your garage band and and I have my. You know, I have my little Apple earphones, the wired ones yes.
Speaker 2:So I connected it and I wrote like this rap over over, like this jazzy hip-hop beat that I really loved, and so I was like I recorded it and I was like cool, like I mean I don't know how to engineer, like I knew nothing. I all I knew was I wanted to rap. Okay, I recorded in garage band, then I posted it on soundcloud and I posted it on SoundCloud and then I posted it on Facebook to all my Facebook friends at the time and I'm like hey, guys, like check out my rap.
Speaker 1:Like this is me like check this out what y'all think like this me right here yeah yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2:So I posted it and you know, I got a good response and then one of my friends on Facebook was like hey, he messaged me on the side. He was like, hey, if you want to record, like I have a studio, you should come. So I was like whoa, you know, like, oh, that that's really cool. So that opened up a whole new world for me and I got, I got more passionate and more serious about OK, cool, like I'll, like I want to do this. So I made a mixtape. Then I made like a duo group with my buddy, paul. We were called the Native Souls.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we were doing like you know, a lot, we were just taking like very popular classic hip hop beats and we're just rapping over them. You know, like a lot of Trap Called Quest of like a lot of wu-tang stuff. And then, uh, um, yeah, and then 14 years later, you know I'm I've been through a lot of a lot of ups and downs on this music journey. It took me to a lot of countries. I moved to korea for a little bit because I got signed to a label out there, oh, cool. So I was, um, living in korea for about four years, from 2016 to 2020 and making music in korean or like. I guess like 50 50, it was like half English, half Korean. Okay, um, yeah, and I'm trying to like, I'm trying to like think of the condensed version right now, because I feel like there's so much I can tell you, but, um, but yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, uh, should I keep going, or, or?
Speaker 1:listen, I know that doing what you do record you said 14 years. So doing what you do, and also your background, like we, you, you're, you're raised, like look, I gotta work, got to get it, I got to do it, I got to push, I got to push. And the what does the hustle culture mean to you and do you implement that in what you're doing now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's a that's a great question. That's a great question and also this topic. Uh, it's cool that we're talking about this because this is something that, like, I've always thought about and felt and I was actually just having a conversation with my buddy the other day about it, um, but, yeah, like, I feel like I was raised into the hustle culture, like, especially, especially like being, you know, being Korean, and you know my, my family and my upbringing has always been like you got to excel at everything. You do Right and and whatever you do, like make sure you're the best at it and be good at everything. I grew up in that way where I had to be extremely competent and I had to put in my all for everything or else I'd be grilled for it.
Speaker 2:And musically, too, I didn't know a lot of how it'll be these long nights, long hours, no sleep, like I'm probably going to have to be in situations where there's a lot of alcohol involved for extended periods of time and like you know, all these things that have to do with hustle culture too, like, even though that when people think of, like clubbing and partying and stuff like you know they, they think of it as like, oh, you're just having fun. But I realized once, yeah, like once I got into the music world, I was like, oh, this is work. Yeah, I'm working all day, then I'm going to the club and I'm working all night. You know, like, um, so that's something I learned over the years.
Speaker 2:And, yeah, like the, the hustle culture is definitely, uh, it's like very prominent right now. Everybody wants to be the. You know, like all grind, no sleep. Yes, and I've also been that person and I, I'm, I'm still guilty of it now because I, I just work as much as I can because I feel like I'm not where I aim to be yet. So, um, yeah, I'm still guilty of it, but I'm, I'm trying to balance it out, you know.
Speaker 1:How did? How did your background? Because you, you, you said like it was always I, I have to to to be the best. It was like you, you're best or it's just not good, good enough. You, you get, give, give it your all or is nothing. So how did growing up like that affect you, positively and negatively?
Speaker 2:I feel like the positive aspect of it was that it trained me mentally to want to continue to seek knowledge and the skill to be really good at whatever I was interested in, so it allowed me to be able to learn and absorb information. So I'm the type of person now where, if I get into something, if I'm really interested about this one thing about production and I was never a producer to begin with, I was more of a songwriter, rapper but because I got interested in it, I locked myself in my room and I just that's all I did, all I learned, cause I wanted to make sure like I get to a level where I can display this to the world and there'll be like oh wow, this is good, you know, just just like, objectively, I guess. But um, so it allowed me to condition myself to like keep working harder and not like burn out in a sense, because I kept, I was interested in learning more. What I thought was like perfect, I guess you know, but there there is no perfect right. Like you, you're just you're you and you're going to be as good as you are in this moment, which is probably already good enough, but we don't think it and I think that's how I've felt most of my life. Just not, not even in music, you know, just like in everything else in life, like social norms and like just like me presenting myself like in any type of way.
Speaker 2:But when it came to music, I was like, oh, wow, yeah, like I'm creating something and showing this to the world to be like, hey guys, look, you know, this is me being vulnerable. Look at what I made and everyone is going to have a judgment or opinion on it and yes, yeah, and that that always like scared me because I was always a type to like, keep to myself. So sharing something with the world was always like very intimidating and I think I was always thinking I wasn't good enough, so that would be the negative side of the whole. Like you know, the whole hustle, nonstop is like I kept comparing myself and I was like, you know, I, I don't think this is good enough, like no, no, I need to, I need to make it better, I need to make it better. But sometimes I I mean like now I realize, like you know, what like, like this is good, what?
Speaker 1:I have right here this is good because one of one of those common myths in the hustle culture is constant motion equals worse. Like the the like lie is that like busier you are, but the more valuable you are, right, like the the the more that you do, the more that you work, it equates to your value. But running on empty isn't noble because it does not sustain you. Like it's true it. Like you're running on empty for what? Yeah, like what are you doing it for? Like I was guilty, like I, I used to feel bad about taking breaks.
Speaker 1:Like, like, like I would feel bad if I stopped. Like if, if, if I would answer the phone, if I would answer the phone, if I would answer an email right then and there, if I wouldn't show up. Y'all, if y'all don't hit. You do not have to show up for everything that everybody asks you to do. You do not have to show up. The world does not stop spinning just because you you didn't show up. The world does not stop spinning just because you didn't answer that email or answer the phone. Like the world keeps going, but we don't. Yeah, absolutely, the world keeps going, but we stop because we are exhausted. Like productivity without purpose. Is this noise?
Speaker 1:oh, that's real, that's like you, you, you, you just make a noise like that's, that's just, it's just pots and pans just hanging with, like you're just going yeah no, that's so real so you said that you were like. It made you compare yourself to like okay, well, I'm, I'm not good enough. Like it, should I be better. How did you overcome that, being in constant competition, in essence, with yourself, like you were in constant competition to always one up yourself? How did you get over that?
Speaker 2:You know I feel like I'm still trying my best to get over it. You know I feel like I'm still trying my best to get over it. I don't think I've fully succeeded in that sense, but I've learned and grown a lot from my time in the music industry and world. For the last eight years-ish, because that's when I started to actually go full-time and I started to make a small living out of music, I was like, wow, this is possible. But because of that, there was a lot of pressures that came with it. Over the years, like I kept, I kept comparing myself to the players at the highest level, because I wanted to be, I wanted to be up there. You know, and I and I still do so. Like everything that I do, I'm always thinking in my head like, oh, like, can this compete? Like, can this be played on the radio? Can I hear this in a DJ set with? You know if, like Yadda Yadda's playing it? You know, like. So I'm still growing into myself, but I feel very proud and you should.
Speaker 2:Comfortable, yeah, thank you, and comfortable at where I am, because I think I've found a bit of my voice over the years and you know, of course, that was through constant experimentation, constant comparison, sad to say, constant comparison, sad to say. But I would absorb the things that inspire me, the things that I would like to, or the type of moods or feelings that I would also like to show when it comes to my music. I thought about how can I make this my own If there's this type of flow that I take like from you know? Let's just say like I like this flow that Kendrick did over here, but then it's like okay, like I don't want to just copy that, like how do I make it my own? How do I make it me? I love it and that's something that I'm constantly working at and I'm trying my best to like share my story, because I feel like that's what makes me me and nobody else can tell you the story that I'm telling and nobody else can tell the story that you're telling you know yeah.
Speaker 1:I love that and you know I don't think what people realize. I know for me because it happened with me, because I was, I was in band. I was, I was a band nerd and I played yeah, I played the clarinet and I also played the ob, the um oboe and I loved band. I like band, thank you, and band was my jam. But the more pressure that other people put on me and the more pressure that I put on myself to succeed, it takes the fun out of it and and that's exactly what happened Like it takes the fun out of it and and that's exactly what happened like it took the fun out of just being in band, just having for it. It takes the fun. So the the more that we try to reach a certain level of success, it takes the fun out of what we're actually doing and the like fun out of what we love. And I love, I love, I love, I love that you have found a very unique way to also have fun and promote what you do. So I I watched your TikTok videos.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:And I love how you are true to you. You incorporate fun, but you're also pushing out your, your, your like songs or like videos. Your like songs, your like videos. Listen, okay, if y'all do not know what I am talking about, watch this. I felt the highs, I felt the lows. Sense of the chronic over that leathery crown I always felt like an outcast, like I was.
Speaker 2:from Atlanta, I was ditching class, yelling Caroline with that blunt road, with that pack of five more pack of heat just to pass the time, my soul sharp like I'm in Camelot Excalibur. You ain't on my caliber, so you a baby with it and I love it, thank you. Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:How did you come up with these concepts?
Speaker 2:I just wanted to figure out a way to showcase my music but also showcase a little bit of my personality, because that's something I always struggled with. I was very to myself and I didn't want to be all revealing and like vulnerable and but then you know, these days you got to. People become fans of you as a person, exactly, and that might be a little more important than the fan of the music, because if they just like you as a person, they're going gonna love everything you do, right?
Speaker 1:okay, can you? Can you just run that back one more, because somebody, somewhere, needed to hear exactly what you just? Said yeah yeah, my goodness yeah, it's, it's.
Speaker 2:It's something that I'm continually learning too, because, you know, there's so many talented musicians out there, so many talented people, producers, and you can make the greatest song in the world, but if people don't like you for who you are, then they're not going to listen to the song, right, and? And if they do find a song, then then that's amazing and they'll be like, wow, this is an amazing song. But then if they go to check on your like who you are as a person's, like social media and whatnot, and they'll be like oh, this, this is boring. Like, like, like there's nothing here. Yeah, because, like you know, people love geniuses, but at the same time, like they, they want to be entertained in a way. Yes, yes, and that's, uh, something I thought, I thought a lot about, because there are so many videos out there that are just like look at me rap, like yo, this is me in a cool spot, like there's a bridge behind me and I'm rapping, which I actually did.
Speaker 2:I got the Lambo in the back and I'm on the hood rapping. You know like these are all very common videos and I've made all of these too. You know like I've done all of these, but over time, people get tired of seeing the same thing, right?
Speaker 1:And I feel like they want to know you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and, and I wanted to figure out, like, how do I draw them in? Be like, hey, look at, you know, this is something funny about me. And then like boom, and then it's me rapping.
Speaker 1:so well, speaking of being vulnerable, we have come to the segment of the show called ask aletheia, where a follower sends in a scenario or something that they need help with and I, as as well as my guests, give them advice. Okay, so this is the ask, alethea, alethea how do I deal with people who don't support my growth? Ever since I started setting boundaries, focusing on my goals and saying no more often, I've had friends, even family members, act like I'm doing something wrong. It's like they liked me better when I was struggling. How do I keep evolving without feeling guilty? So I mean, first of all and let me say this for the people in the back there is absolutely nothing wrong with growing and guarding your peace. That is what you are supposed to do. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:People who benefited from your lack of boundaries will always feel some type of way when you start enforcing them. They will always feel some type of way when you start saying, look, no, I'm not doing that, but that doesn't make you wrong. It just means that you're healing, you're growing, you're evolving, you're doing what you are supposed to do for you, and not everybody is ready to meet that new version of you because they are comfortable with the old one. But your job is not to make people comfortable. Your growth will make people uncomfortable. That just is what it is. But it's not your burden to carry. Some folks like you better when you are smaller. They like you better when you dim your light, and it's not you being selfish, it's just you finally choosing yourself. So glow up guilt. You shouldn't feel guilty about it.
Speaker 2:You are choosing yourself and that's what you should do, you know I've actually never heard that term glow of guilt, but that's yeah, that's a. That's a very good like term to describe that. Yeah, because, because people do you know, people get jealous, people start hating when you start doing good for yourself. Yes, and it's. It's funny to see, like, how the people around you that you thought were your friends can feel that way. That's yeah, yeah, just like you said, like people like it when you are exactly where you are and if you end up doing something that kind of surpasses what they might be doing, they'll feel a way about it. So that's so.
Speaker 1:So what advice would you give our follower that like how do I not feel guilty about choosing me?
Speaker 2:I, I feel like, yeah, like we, we all have to continue to make decisions that make us feel good, whether that's physical, mental or spiritual, because if you're constantly giving away your energy and time to other people, then at the end of the day, you have nothing for yourself. And this is something that I've been practicing too. It's like I always make sure I have time to sit with myself and think about, like, where I am in life and mentally and what I want to do and the things that make me happy and I go out of, I go out of my way to make me happy. I feel like that's, that's what I try to do.
Speaker 2:And, um, there's this thing I learned recently called, uh, it's called the artist state, right, okay, it's just like as an artist or, as you know, as anybody, as yourself, right, but it's called artist state because it was referring to artists specifically. But it's basically like you should take yourself on an artist state. Take yourself on that date, whatever that thing may be that can spark a curiosity in your heart, or, uh, just anything that interests you. Just take yourself on that date, go go to that park, see that statue, go to that I don't know clay, build pottery class just because you want it, you know like, like, but just do it yourself and go for yourself and not for anybody else, Because if you take someone else with you, then you're going to be thinking about how does this person feel? Are they tired?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, are they?
Speaker 2:are they hungry? Oh, should we actually go this way? Should we go that way? You know, like there are all these other factors that come to play um.
Speaker 1:So yeah, take yourself on that date and feed your, your soul, you know I, I love when when you said and I am going to use this in my life and I'm gonna start telling other people this Go out of your way to make you happy. Go out of your way because we do go out of our way for everybody else. Yes, but we rarely go out of our way for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So go out of your way to make you happy. Mm-hmm Ooh, dropping knowledge, dropping boys. Wait, wait, wait Speaking of dropping bars.
Speaker 2:do you just freestyle or do you just write stuff down? There were a couple of songs in my past that I've just freestyled because I've just like gone in there and did it. But I feel like I'm I try my best to write because so, so, so so.
Speaker 1:so what you're saying? If I, if I like, give you a little, oh man.
Speaker 2:I feel like I should be able to, but I feel like right now it might be kind of hard. I probably should have came ready, though damn.
Speaker 1:Just in case I would have dropped that. Oh, my name is Juno. I love it. Oh, my goodness. Listen, juno, I am so happy that you came to be in the passenger seat with me before we get out of here, like we were talking about burnout and how to reset. So I have these are three tools that'll help you reset and get out of that burnout mentality. First of all, I need you to remember productivity without purpose is just noise. You define your own version of success. You, not your boss, not social media, just you. You define your own level of success.
Speaker 1:Number two schedule. Rest like that bitch is a meeting. Schedule your rest. Put that in your planner. Look, today I'm going to rest, I'm rest. Schedule it. Put it on your look, because rest is what? Fundamental, because I love naps. Number three celebrate quality over quantity. Quality over quantity. One focused hour, just one hour of you being totally focused, totally zoned in beats. Eight distracted hours. If you just have one hour of good focus and three hours of nonsense, which one is better? Quality over quantity, that is how you reset, that is how you keep yourself from burnout. So we're going to do two more things before I let you leave. Now you do have a new album that is out, or you do have an album just Juno. Can you give us a little? Yeah, what is what is? What is just just Juno? What, what is it about? Where can we find just Juno? Can you give us a quick little rundown of that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely so. The latest album that I dropped it was last June. It's titled Just Juno, because that album was a. It was it was like a sonic journey of my life in the last couple of years of my life in the last couple of years, like the last two to three years, and I felt like it was a great representation of like who I am and who the type of artists that I want to be, because if you listen to the album, there's a lot of genres that are blended in there.
Speaker 2:Like I used to just make primarily hip hop and R&B and that was it. But over the years, like you know, I love all types of music and I've grown to be courageous enough to be like oh, you know what? Like I could do that too, you know. And and I love experimenting I love hearing sounds that like I've never heard before, I've never used before, and showcasing it in a way like, look, this is different. Because I don't want to keep pumping out the exact same music. I don't want to keep making the same songs that you hear on the radio or that go viral, because then I'm just cloning myself to these other people. So that's why it's titled Just Juno, because I thought it was just me.
Speaker 2:And in the album I mix a lot of hip hop, a lot of dance music. There's a bit of house, a bit of like UK garage, a little bit of techno and a little bit of soul. So that album is the culmination of like just everything that I've been working on. And I also created it in that way, because I got into DJing about two, three years ago and I wanted to make music that I could also just DJ out. If I'm doing a house set, if I'm doing a classic house set, like if I'm doing like a classic house set, then I want to have music that I made that I could put in there too, rather than just playing like all other people's music.
Speaker 2:So I love it so that was my ambition with that album. Um, I'm pretty proud of it because I produced, uh, everything on there with the help of my buddy Doomsday and my other buddy, chucky. So it just felt like everything that was in my brain, that like the chaos in here. I got to structure it in some sonic way and that's what that is.
Speaker 1:I love it. Oh my gosh. So can you tell us where to find not only that album, but things juno flow yeah, uh, I'm on spotify, apple, every streaming platform under juno flow.
Speaker 2:J-u-n-o-f-l-o. Uh. Same thing with instagram, tiktok, youtube. It's all under juno flow. Oh, no wait, tiktok's under jiggy juno, I think okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:So the last thing that we do is something called pass it on, where we, you pass on something motivational, positive. It can be a quote that you heard or something that just comes from you. So what do you want to pass?
Speaker 2:um, I would say, uh, this is something that I've been feeling a lot lately. But, um, ask for help, and your friends around you or the people that surround you that believe in you and love what you do, they will be glad to help you. Because I've grown up with this whole mindset of like I have to do it myself, like I have to succeed by myself, like I can't ask for no favors, I can't be in debt to anybody. But then over time I realized, like we can't, we can't do it, we can't do everything ourselves and we need the people around us.
Speaker 2:And, uh, we shouldn't feel ashamed of asking for help in any way or form, because if, if we do, the person who is being asked, they might also be happy that you asked. They'll be like, wow, you think that I can help you, and because of that they might, you know, it'll make them feel good too. It's like look, let me help you. Because if my friend asked me for help, I'd be like yeah, let me help you, like whatever way I can. My friend asked me for help. I'd be like, yeah, like, yeah, let me help you, like whatever way I can. So I'm trying to think that way too. We're like, oh yeah, like ask, ask for help and the people around you will help you for it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I love it. I love it. Oh my God. Thank you so much for being with me in the passenger seat. Listen, guys, the hustle culture. It will sell you a dream that will leave you drained. It'll just leave you drained.
Speaker 1:So now is the time to reclaim your life. Now is the time to refill your cup. And just think about this you don't have to hustle every day to be worthy. You already are worthy. You are doing enough. You are doing enough. If you are doing your best, you're doing enough. And, like I tell y'all all the time, do your best and fuck the rest. I mean, that is just what it is Do your best and fuck the rest.
Speaker 1:All right, listen, your challenge this week is to choose one area where you can trade hustle for purpose. Be intentional. Be intentional Whether it's saying no to like a project or just binge watching your favorite show. If you are intentional about it, then you are doing a good job. Do it for you, don't do it for anybody else. Do it for you, all right. So thank you for being in the passenger seat with me.
Speaker 1:Guys, send me those DMs, keep sending me those emails for askaletheia. Pimping positivity at gmailcom. Pimping positivity at gmailcom, because you might be the next one to be featured on in the passenger seat. Now listen, you know that you are everything and everything is you, so I need you to go out there and act like it. You know that you are the and everything is you, so I need you to go out there and act like it. You know that you are the shit, the whole shit, and nothing but the. What? Yes, honey, the shit. So go out there and act like it. So, as you go out there and be great in they face, always be great in your own. Now, honey, you be fabulous like I know you can be and, as always, you have a good day on purpose.