233 - Six Months Postpartum and Back on the Mic: The New Season Starts Now

She is back. And she is not the same person who left.

Salisha is six months postpartum, baby Ajax is thriving, and a whole new season of The Salisha Show is officially underway. But before she gets into any of it she has something she needs to say first.

What if you did not have to choose?

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• The moment Salisha realized she had been living proof that career and family do not have to cancel each other out
• How she accidentally manifested the most perfect work situation during the entire term of her pregnancy
• The challenge she is throwing at you right now to write down exactly what you want not what seems possible but what you actually desire
• What happens when you say it out loud three times and then let it go
• A behind the scenes look at the Glow Up community and what that 90 day experience actually looked like
• Why nobody can close this show except for her and what that means to her
• And a very heartfelt thank you to the people who helped make this season happen

CHAPTERS

• [00:31] Welcome back to a brand new season of The Salisha Show
• [01:10] Six months postpartum and stepping into something new
• [01:37] Baby Ajax has entered the planet and changed everything
• [02:13] What if we do not have to choose between family and career
• [03:17] How did she manifest the perfect show to be pregnant in
• [03:42] The actual timeline of her pregnancy and her Radio City contract
• [04:22] What does this look like on you
• [04:56] Write down exactly what you want not what seems possible
• [05:41] Say it out loud and let it go
• [06:29] We are working slowly and with gratitude
• [07:06] Thank you messages
• [09:40] The Glow Up community on Skool and what is coming next

Episode Recorded at: Gotham Production Studios, Midtown Manhattan

THE GLOW UP SOCIETY https://www.skool.com/be-a-10-6090/about?ref=c422989aa4694d43b0b708ca534c4582

Edited & Produced by AMPLIFY by Metafit Metamind https://www.metafitmetamind.com

@salishathomas @thesalishashow, www.thesalishashow.com

Many thanks to Gotham Network in NYC, TyNia Brandon for writing and laying vocals down for the updated theme song and Big Red Studios for the intro video wherever you watch the latest season of The Salisha Show!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

It's the part that you can't plan. That is the exciting part. So, okay, I guess we're welcome back. Welcome back to this new season of the Silicia show. I wasn't even expecting to go there, but I just wanted to say we are back up in here. We are working, we're trying to be as skinny as we can. What does it really look like to build your dream life while you're living it? One day I'm on stage singing with Hugh Jackman at 36 weeks pregnant, just trying not to give birth in Oklahoma. In the next, I'm having real conversations about love, loss, career pivots, and becoming someone I didn't even know I could be. Because this show isn't just about Broadway, it's about the moments that change you, the risks you take, the dreams you almost talk yourself out of, the strength you don't realize you have until life asks you to use it. If you've ever felt like you're in between chapters or stepping into something new, you're not alone. You're just getting started. This is the Salisha Show, where Broadway meets culture and your real life becomes the main event. Hello, what's up? It's me, Salish. We are back for a new season. Listen, I have not been breaking up this show into seasons ever since 2020, but I kind of feel like we are truly in a new season. The last batch of recordings I did, I was eight and nine months pregnant for every episode. For every episode. So, and now I'm not pregnant. I'm six months postpartum. Um, in a few days extra, baby Ajax has entered planet Earth successfully, and he is strong and happy and actually emotional, and he has changed my whole entire, my literal whole entire life for good. Before before becoming pregnant, I was like, I'm not really trying to be pregnant. I kind of felt like it's career time. I'm in my 30s in New York City. It's either this or that. And I gosh, I was not even meaning to go straight into this, but I'm realizing being on this end of it at this point, things can change. But where I am right now, I'm realizing that, like, well, what if we don't have to choose between starting a family and going for our career? Let me say that again. What if we lived in a world where we don't have to choose between starting a family and climbing the ladder in our career? Let me say that one more time for the people in the back. What if our dreams didn't have to cancel each other out? What if we could have them all? So here's the thing with that. There is no step one plus step two plus step three equals da-da-da. There's none of that. Because I've seen other people do it, but I'm like, yeah, but what does that look like on me? And then I just had my own course this last year, and I'm like, that was a freak of nature. How did that happen? This is how my friend reflected it back to me. How on earth did you manifest the year that you were pregnant being on stage with Hugh Jackman all year? I'm like, I don't know. Like it was literally the perfect show to be in and be pregnant from eight weeks. Wait, no, I was before that. It was eight. I liter I think I literally I think I got pregnant January 1st, honestly, but I didn't find out until January 23rd. And then my due date was October 8th, and I had Ajax on September 26th. Like the in and my contract at Radio City Music Hall was between January like 8th or something through October 4th. Like it was the actual literal term of my pregnancy, and I thought I was going to have to like quit because I'm like, well, why would they want a pregnant woman in the show? Like literally, I was like, oh, I'm gonna mess up the whole stage picture. So I was ready to put my notice in if I needed to do that. And they were like, what are you thinking? Absolutely not. Please come to work. How fun! Like, I felt so welcomed the entire term. And it just was such a specific gig for me. And so, what does that look like on you? Your situation, I'm sure, is completely different than mine. Maybe there are similarities. Maybe you are a creative or a performer and you're like, I wish I could meet a guy or a girl or somebody else. I wish I could start a family, but I'm also at this precipice of like greatness in my career. If you want something specific, I'm just gonna throw this out there. Let me challenge you and encourage you to write down exactly what it is that you want. Not what you think is possible, not what you think is available, but what you actually desire. Like I'm gonna challenge and encourage you to write down what you actually want. Not what your friends want, not what everybody around you is telling you what you should want, but what you want. Write it down. Look at it, say it out loud, say it out loud again, say it out loud a third time with some meaning. And just hear yourself say it and then let it go. Here's what I think happens in this moment. You just whispered out a prayer. I pray to God. You might not, you might pray to the universe or some trees or something, whatever it is you be talking to, you just whispered out a prayer and you just put it out there.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

And if you let go, that's when the magic happens. It's the part that you can't plan. That is the exciting part.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

So that, okay, I guess we're welcome back. Welcome back to this new season of the Silicia show. I wasn't even expecting to go there, but I just want to say we are back up in here. We are working, we're trying to be as skinny as we can while still eating and working out, but slowly getting back into the swing of things. We are not forcing this body to do anything that she's not ready to do, but also like we've got some goals, we've got some dreams. And I just want to give a quick shout out to Gotham Production Studios, this gorgeous studio that I'm in right now. This is my network, you guys, and they have taken me in. They have cultivated this relationship and helped me to grow and to reach you. So if you haven't already subscribed to the YouTube, now is the time. Hit that button, tell a friend about this. On my um website, thesilicia show.com, there's a speak pipe. So if you want to leave me a voice message, I will listen to it. I don't get a lot of those. So if you send me something, I will hear it. And who knows? Like, I might just say something like, Marianne, I heard your voice message on here and it really touched my whole heart. Like, you have no idea. I listened to that when I was on a down day, and you changed my whole day. So thank you so much. I also want to say thank you to Carla, my editor. Um girl, is your brand called Metafit, MetaMind? We can link it in the chat. You're such an incredible editor. Thank you so much. I also want to thank my co-producer, Tania Brandon, who was in The Lion King. She was in Beautiful with Me. We did um Some Like It Hot. And we're gonna also be doing a few co-episodes together. She'll be recording from out of the country because she's got it like that. But you'll see more of her. And we also already did an episode together on at the drama book shop on their podcast, and it was on fire with a live audience. It was so fun. And lastly, I just want to say thank you to you for tuning in. And this is like so cool. I've always been a girly, a theater girly who I'm like, I want to be on Broadway, I want to be on Broadway, and I have gotten to do that. Thank you, Jesus. I've gotten to do two Broadway shows. But you know what's the difference between a Broadway show and this show? Nobody can close this show except for me. Period. And so thank you for helping me live my dream. And I hope that you get some encouragement and some inspiration from today, from my old episodes, and from episodes going on into the future, because that's what this is about. This space is about love and positivity and connection. That is why this show was born. It was you it used to be called Black Hair and the Big Leagues. Now it's the Silicia show. I have so many people I want to talk to and so many things I want to talk to. So I did open it up and broaden it quite a bit. But the core of this show is about connection. That's we started this in the pandemic. Who the who? We started this in the pandemic when everyone was in their closets and I was feeling so isolated and needed that connection. So that is the purpose of this show. That's why we're here. So I hope that you feel seen. And if there's something that you want to say to me, send me a message through my website at the Salicia Show. Oh, wait, no, wait. The Salicia Show.com. And keep your ears peeled because I'll be starting a community around this show. I've already begun one on school.com. Have you heard of it? It's like Alex Harmosi's School S K O O L. It's kind of cool. I did a 90-day glow up on there, and um, I didn't charge or anything like that. It was me and uh like seven other women and every week, every Sunday, we just met and checked in on each other's goals and we glowed up together, and it was pretty cool. Not a lot of structure because it was my first time doing it, but like I would do that again. All right. Well, thanks for tuning in, and I'll catch you next time at the Salicia Show.