Danielle Adams Elias: From Survival to Stardom | W.A.R. Network Season 4 Premiere

Season 4 premieres with a conversation that goes far beyond dance. Danielle Adams Elias shares her journey from surviving abuse and heartbreak to building a legacy through faith, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and healing. This is a story of courage, resilience, and discovering purpose after pain.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Growing up, trying to operate and be in relationships, you know, through middle school, through high school, through college, you know, and then being in a relationship that I thought was, you know, the all-and-be all, and then it turned out to be not. And just like you talked about postpartum, you know, having a kid, being a single mom. Like there was a lot of pressure for me to get to the point mentally where I said, you know what, it may just be best if, you know, all of this went away.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Yo, good morning. Welcome home. Welcome to war. We're all recovering. And welcome to season four. Today, I got a special, special guest. And um, I just want to shout out right now to Danielle. Danielle, please tell me, tell the world where you're from, please.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

I'm from New York. I'm from Far Rock, Queens.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Listen to that, guys. Far Rockaway, America. I'm from Far Rock, so this is a special, special interview. You know what I'm saying? If you know, you know, Far Rock is real small. She and Callie, I'm in Cali, so we already on that same level. You know, so today's guest, you know, not only from Fall Rockaway, you know, doesn't just come. She just she just doesn't create choreography, all right? She creates transformation, she's a choreographer, creative director, actress, entrepreneur, founder of cardio healing, a mother, everything. And a woman who took who took abuse, divorce, heartbreak, and disappointment, and somehow turned that into purpose. Because that's what it's all about. And it's just a this just isn't another interview about dance, alright? It's about rebuilding a life after everyone everything falls apart. Danielle, Adams, Elias, welcome to Wall. We're all recovering. It's a pleasure to have you.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. We're all recovering. That's such a powerful name.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Thank you. Thank you. It took me a minute to come up with it. You know, I was like, I want to start this podcast, you know, but I want to reach everybody and everything. And I and that's just the way I felt for a long time. And then I was like, we're all recovering. And then the war hit me. I was like, hold on, that's it, that spells war. And it's really like we at war.

unknown 2:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

You know, so we're all recovering and war. I was like, bam, we got it. Let's run with it. Yes. I love it. And congratulations on uh season four. Thank you, thank you. And you starting it off, you know. So this is this is great. So let's start here. I love starting here, you know. Everybody sees the confident, beautiful woman sitting in front of me today. You know, I want to meet the woman nobody saw. You know, who was Danielle before life forced you to become who you are?

SPEAKER_01 2:56

That's a that's an interesting question. That's a really good question.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

I love it. I love starting here.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

You know, I was I'm I'm definitely quiet. I think, you know, that person inside of me will never go away just because I love to be by myself. I love to be observant and kind of on the outside of the circle rather than in the mix.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

So you like an introvert.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

I am. I am the biggest introvert, but I I also have had to be forced to be an extrovert because, you know, becoming into my womanhood and you know, just being a woman and just being out in the world, needing to talk to other people and you know, assert assert yourself in a certain way. Uh me being a dancer and a choreographer and being a leader in those moments, I have to not, you know, shy back, but definitely step up. And then just being a performer, you know, there's no room for, you know, being shy or on the outside or just kind of looking the one on the outside looking in. So yeah, that definitely forced me to step out of my comfort zone and interact with you.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Right. Right, right. I feel you because I'm a huge, huge introvert, you know, and yeah, I can't, I can't, I actually well not now. I did I hated talking to people. I I just hate opening my mouth. Like it was it was a point in time where I would open my mouth and yawn. Like it felt exhausting. Yeah. Like somebody engaged in the conversation with me, and I just bust out with a yawn, like then the conversation will start to flow. Like, let me prepare myself for this, you know. Like, yeah, but you know, like I changed though over time and you know, so you know, it's good to be a little extrovert from time to time. Yeah, sometimes, but I always like love starting there. I wish we did this interview, you know, face to face. You know, we so close, we could have did it in person, but maybe in the future, you know.

unknown 4:53

We will.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

All right, bet. So yeah, because uh and I always feel like, you know, success is easy to admire, you know, but the climb is what inspires people anyway, you know, what what inspires me. You know. You describe your journey as survival, you know, the self-made success. Take me back, you know, what was the lowest moment where you honestly didn't know how life, you know, was gonna turn out.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

You know, I I suffered, you know, a lot of things as a child, you know, as most people had. But I think when it really hit me and I was like, what the heck is this? Is after my divorce. So I was married at 19 and you know, had my child at 20. So I was extremely young. And we got married, um, we were married for about a year and a half, and after that year and a half, we separated. And I think that is when everything just hit me at once as far as like relationships and you know, where I was in life and how I handle things, and just everything just kind of hit me at once, and that's when I I really kind of took a turning point in in saying, okay, you know, something, something has to give, because I was so low to the point where I felt like I just wanted to end my entire life. I didn't want to be here. And for anybody who's ever experienced that, you know, it's definitely a hard place to be in because not a lot of people understand that, and there's so there's not a lot of people to talk to about that. And so that's why a lot of times when people do that, it's just like, oh, it happened out of nowhere. Like, oh, they were so happy or they were so, but you never really know what they're going through because it's a hard thing to talk about. But it's just the enemy, and it's just the attack on your mind and on your spirit and your soul, and thank God I was delivered from that, you know, right at the right time. But yeah, that would have been the lowest part, and that was like the turning point for me.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Was it was it your marriage, you know, that made you feel like that? You know, like, you know, like you just want the end things, or you know, was it uh the the birth or of your kid that gave you like postpartum or something like that? Or was it like a combination of both, or things that just was going on in the world?

SPEAKER_01 7:07

It was a lot. It was a lot. So for me, like I said, I was a kid, I was um when I was a kid, I was abused for many years. And when you are abused or anyone who's abused, especially as a woman, I mean men deal with this too. We just don't really talk about it as much, but when you are when you're abused as a woman, as a child, it can affect the way you view relationships moving forward. So I believe it was just a combination of that and then growing up, trying to operate and be in relationships, you know, through middle school, through high school, through college, you know, and then being in a relationship that I thought was, you know, the all and be all, and then it turned out to be not. Just like you talked about postpartum, you know, having a kid, being a single mom. Like there was a lot of pressure for me to get to the point mentally where I said, you know what, it may just be best if, you know, all of this went away. Right. That's not always I'm sorry, that's never, never the answer. Because when you go through things, it's not you're not hoping that it goes away so that you can finally become comfortable. You're hoping that or the the goal is to become stronger so that nothing can tear you down to that level again. Because we're all going to encounter things, it's never gonna end. The enemy is constantly going to try to stop us from to get into where we need to be, or stop us from even continuing to thrive in life. And so we have to know within ourselves, no matter what that thing is, whether it's postpartum, whether it's divorce, whether it's homelessness, whether it's poverty, whether it's um single parent, whatever the case is, whatever, you know, trauma that you've experienced, you know, there's always a way through it. And that doesn't matter getting out of it.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Right. And those, excuse me, those are the moments that define us, really. You know, nobody posts those chapters. You don't see that on Instagram and all that. You know, that's where your character gets gets built, you know. So uh I love that. You openly mentioned surviving abuse, you know, like you were just saying. What did abuse try to convince you about yourself? And how did how did it take, you know, to stop believing those lies? How long did it take?

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Wow, that's a really good question. So abuse made me believe that, you know, that's all that I was capable of getting. You know, when the closest people to you that are supposed to be loving you and protecting you are doing the complete opposite, you start to feel like, well, this is all that I deserve, right? And you will go through life like that because that's why the Bible says, as a man thinketh, so is he, right? So if you're thinking this is all I deserve, then a lot of times that's all you're getting because that's where your mindset is and that's what you're settling for. And so then it continues to be a downward, downward fall because that's what you're getting. So it's like that's what I deserve, because you're not seeing a different result, right? And so it's not until you know within yourself, you know, I deserve much more for myself, even if it doesn't come from someone else within myself. I have to give myself more. And I actually got delivered spiritually from what was called a spiritual husband. For those who know kind of that world, a lot of times a spiritual husband will come into your life as a demon and start to affect certain areas in you.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

And so getting delivered from that definitely changed a lot because I believe that spiritual husband attached itself to me when I was a child, going through that abuse and not knowing how to operate spiritually to kind of defend myself. And so, growing up, you know, going through relationships, you know, like I said, not choosing the right men or even friendships, you know, that weren't beneficial for me in that kind of set sense. So, what am I trying to say? Sorry, I lost my train of thought.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

No, you good, you good. Take your time, take your time.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

So, yeah, so after being delivered, you know, then it was like the mental thing now, like right, the spiritual was fixed. Now it's like, okay, now I still have to fix my mind and what I'm used to and what my body has gotten used to, like the habits that I'm used to doing in relationships. And then so that's when I was able to now see myself in a different light, see everything in a new perspective from God's perspective, right? Without any anything clouding that judgment and grow from there. So, you know, learning um from the right people, reading the right books, watching the proper videos, you know, feeding my mind and myself with everything that I needed to do to say, okay, this is where you are, this is how you get to where you want to be, whatever that looks like, whether it means being in the proper relationships, whether that means being more confident, whether that means, you know, knowing who you are and not thinking that's all you deserve. So there was definitely over time, God definitely had to do some things to shift me, and as he still is, but yeah, it just took time and work.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

And I I feel you, you know, because I found out it took me a while to find out, find this out though, but that's what abuse does, you know. It it's not just your body, it don't just hurt your body, it kind of like attacks your identity. Yes, you know, and so I feel you deeply. Before I before I go on though, Danielle, you're two people right now. Break down, Danielle. Tell me, is it Danielle Adams Elias or Danielle Adams Johnson? Cause I I'm just so confused. When I what I was what I was reading, what I was looking at, when I was when I got all of the uh the the uh the media kits you came through, I'm like, who is this person and who is this person? Is this which one which one am I interviewing? So who am I interviewing right now?

SPEAKER_01 12:45

You are speaking to Danielle Adams Elias. That is my spiritual last name, but Joe is my was my married name, so my ex-husband's last name, but I kept the name for my daughter's sake.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, and it's easier for identification, and you gotta change all your license and all that. So, okay, I could dig it. I dig it now. Okay. Now we could continue. All right. But y'all the same per people, okay, cool. No, the same person. Okay. One is the introvert, one is the the extrovert, okay. Okay, cool. I got it, I got it. So that's that's what's going on, people. Just just just want to clarify. All right, all right. Moving on. What finally made you say no more? You know, just that's it, no more. No more to uh to to yeah, like like the uh, you know, abuse and everything.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Well, I got older. So I don't think, you know, once you get to a certain age, you kind of start to recognize what's going on, and the person abusing you understands that too, right? So I that's one of the things, you know, me getting older. But yeah, after after my divorce, I moved back home, and there was a period in time where I was just doing whatever I wanted to do. You know, it's like anybody who's been through divorce, especially at the age of 22, are going to, I mean, divorce at any age. You're gonna do whatever you want to do at that point. You're just gonna be living, right? You're gonna be living in the world. So I had that moment in time, and then that was like okay, my moment where I was like, okay, I have to I have to figure something out. Like, this is not gonna be able to continue on. And I remember I moved back home and I was laying down on my parents' couch, and I remember opening the Bible, and I was just like reading it. And like I had always been in church, you know, my parents had always made us go to church, and like that was always a thing, but I don't think my relationship like really got intimate and like personal until that moment where I was just reading the Bible, and the Bible was reading back to me myself, and I was like, Oh my gosh, like I am just a terrible person, like right, right. So from then it was like, okay, I gotta I gotta do something different.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Right, I feel you, I feel you. Like everybody has that moment, especially with the Bible, too, man. Like, that's when I actually my relationship with God is what changed me, you know? And that's when the world just when I figured out when you really accept God into your life, you'll see things change. You know, like people say, I believe in God, but do you really believe in God? Yeah, like don't just talk it, you know. You just you really gotta believe him, you really gotta accept him, you know, and have that faith for things to change. I used to always say, I believe in God. I grew up in church, and you know, I say my prayers and everything, but then life goes on, and you know, I'm not thinking about God until until shit goes south. Yeah you know, but then when I really I had my near-death experience and and I I really accepted him, things just change for me instantly. You know what I'm saying? Amen. You know, that's a line in the saying, you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Yeah, that's that's true. And I'd love to hear more about your experience too.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yes, yes, man. Definitely, definitely. But this is about you. We're gonna, you know, we're gonna keep it with you, you know. Go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

No, I was gonna say, you know, sometimes it it does take those like life-changing moments for us to finally wake up to, you know, the relationship and the intimacy with him. And, you know, a lot of times, like even in life, even after, you know, people have come to God, whether life was like crazy before, and then they come to God, and then, you know, over time they start to see like that doesn't mean that everything's gonna be perfect. The same way God brought you to himself and allowed you to see him in a new way when he brought you through that struggle the first time. That's the same thing gonna do continuously, no matter what the struggle is. He's gonna show you who he is, continue to show you new perspectives and show you how how much you can grow and learn and push through and and teach other people.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Yes, ma'am, absolutely. Now, Daniel, I just something just crossed my mind too. I meant to say earlier, you could dance your ass off. I was like, yo, I was looking at your Instagram videos, you know. You could dance. I'm gonna put it all in the description and everything so people could follow you and everything. You could dance your ass off, like for real. You know, like we're gonna get into that later, but uh I just want to throw that out there so I ain't forget to tell you. Yeah, but you amazing. You can move, girl. You doing your thing. Yes, yes. Let's let's get into your divorce a little bit. We were just talking about, because people treat divorce like it's just paperwork, you know. And it's not, because I lived that I lived that life, you know, that went through that divorce and everything. It's grieving someone who's still alive, you know. So tell tell us how you survived that season.

unknown 17:59

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

It's crazy, you know how they say you don't you don't look like what you've been through?

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Oh my goodness, you would have been so disappointed in your girl, okay. Oh my goodness. I was so you know, I just knew I was like, you know, God hates divorce, and you know, this is but I didn't realize how much more I needed until I learned and grew and you know became an adult. Um, because I was a breadwinner, which I had no no issue with, but I I didn't understand how much that affected him negatively, and I didn't treat it as such. I wasn't as empathetic as I should have been. Him not being the breadwinner, like obviously there were things going on with him that he needed to fix as well. Just speaking on me and who I was in the marriage, I definitely could have been a more supportive wife in that sense, but I just didn't understand. And it actually helps me even now because a lot of my message is about pushing people into their purpose, but there's a way to do it, right? And there's an understanding that comes behind. Um, and at the time I just didn't understand. I was pushing him a little too hard and just you know, just going too hard. He felt like he had to lie and kind of be sneaky if he did lose a job and that and that's man, yeah. It wasn't the best. So, you know, that that's that's where we were. So when we got a divorce, I felt like it was part of my fault for why we were ending, but you know, God So was it mutual?

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Sorry to cut you off. Was it mutual or did you no?

SPEAKER_01 19:39

He walked out and never came back.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

So I was so hurt, I was so hurt. I mean, you can only imagine, and then we had a kid together, so I mean, the stuff with the kid, and then you have other people being involved because you start dating and you know, friends, and oh my gosh, I mean, I'm like getting into fights with people. It was crazy, it was crazy, but you know, I was young, and that was my husband, you know, at the time. It was like you're married, just like people really took that seriously.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

But uh, yeah, so it was definitely it was definitely not easy, and then after he left, you know, you're left kind of trying to figure out what to do, what's going on, who you are again, and again, I was so young, so that was already a question in my mind. So it wasn't easy. It wasn't easy. I fought for the marriage, I fought for at least like a year. I think I called him every day for a year straight.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Oh crazy. So you tried, you tried.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

I did, I did, but that's what I said. God knows what he's doing because if I I thank God, okay, that was like us being divorced was like really in his plan. Like, you know, our daughter, right? Definitely his plan. Our divorce, definitely his plan, because we don't even align spiritually anymore, you know. Our belief is different, like we're just different. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

So do you think you that he felt emasculated a little with you pushing him so much and you being the breadwinner and everything? Yes.

unknown 21:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

And it was hard, and at the time I didn't know, you know how people say don't date potential, and da da da. There's a lot of things I just didn't know. And so in my mind, I'm like, okay, he's here in this position now, but that doesn't mean that he can't get to where I feel that way about everybody. That's literally the the purpose of my brand and my company.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

But again, it's how you do it, and because he was my husband, there was also that additional pressure for him to, you know, get it in a certain amount of time and do it in a certain t amount of a certain way. But yeah, that that just didn't align with me. Like I'm definitely a go-getter. I'm definitely gonna push him to go get right. Yeah, he's a great, great man.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was just on two different paths. And I and I agreed it with you like. Like everything is in God's plan. God plans everything everything that happened to me, I'm like, why? But now I see why. You know, but during that time, I didn't understand. But it's definitely in his plan. I tell people that all the time. I say, I say, you know, just follow it. Just take it in. You know, it's it's it's gonna make you better. Trust me.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Yeah, if we were still together, I I definitely wouldn't be sitting here today. I definitely wouldn't have built what I built.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Right, right, right. Me and you here. We here. I feel you. Trust me. If you knew my story, you you wouldn't believe how aligned me and you are right now. It's crazy. I feel you. So after your divorce, did you like feel like you had to rediscover who you actually was?

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Yeah, I was still learning that. We actually didn't get divorced until I moved here to California. And I knew that, you know, God would be bringing me to a better place. And so I I started thinking about alimony. I didn't know that was a thing, and then so I started looking into it, and I was like, you know what? Let me go ahead and cut these ties officially. Because I was not dealing with that.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Smart, smart, smart, very smart. Good job. Good job. I'm patting you on your back right now. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

You mean to tell me?

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Yeah, yeah.

unknown 23:18

No.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

So yeah, it was after I moved here. And once I moved to California, I moved here when I was about 24, 25. Because after the divorce, you know, I moved back with my parents, you know, but then I got my own place and he we tried to do it again. So then I finally moved, and you know, of course that wasn't easy for him, but for me, it was definitely necessary. You know, I definitely knew I had to be here. And since being here, you know, it's different when you're by yourself, no family, all of your friends. Yeah, I got in my car and I drove all the way here by myself. But being here without the additional support and distractions definitely shaped a lot of who I am today. Because I had to be tough. I had to be the woman. I had to be the mom. I had to be, you know, everything. I had to be the dad at some times, you know. So I had to be everything for myself, for my daughter in this world, in this new environment. You know, so it definitely caused me to grow up and and learn who I was in that moment. Because I was gonna do that anyway, but in this environment, it was definitely a lot better than with him.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Man, you you're amazing, man. Because I tell you, like, it's crazy. I did the same thing. I just I didn't drive, I flew. But all my family is in the East Coast, and I don't have any family here. But the distraction is gone. You know what I'm saying? That loud, loudness of the East Coast, you know. I still got them at, you know, I like to say they're at arm's length. You know, they think I that I moved out here to get away from them, but I didn't. I just yeah, I didn't. I'm I just need to feel find home. I need to, you know, like feel at home someplace. I didn't feel at home where I was. It was crazy, but anyway, that's we talk offline about that. But you were built you built your, you know, you rebuilt your life while raising your your daughter, you know. How much did motherhood save you?

SPEAKER_01 25:11

You know, it's funny because being in my position and going to going through what I have gone through, you would have thought that I mean it would have been easy for me to kind of just be out in the world and do whatever I want to do and kind of make money whatever way I can make money. And of course, having a kid, it makes you do that too, especially in California. You know, you'd be surprised how many offers you get to, you know, leave your purpose and go after the bag in a positive way, right? But with having her, it was like the complete opposite because I never wanted her to get into a difficult situation, ask me how I got out of it, and I not have a proper answer to give her. That was like, that's like really big. And not just for her, but a lot of other women, you know, that are in my vicinity, because everybody's gonna go through financial something at some point. And if your only answer is getting on my knees or on my back to figure it out, then who are you helping? And so I had one to help myself first so that I can look like what it felt like, in order to, you know, pass that down to her. So yeah, I I could have definitely took taken the easy way out in a lot of situations, but because I knew that she would one day become a woman, she would one day through certain things, it was important for me to figure out how to handle that so that I can carry that to her.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Yes, yes, I agree a hundred percent. And you know what I call, I call children, I call for for a long time I call them accountability partners. Yes, they are b uh biggest accountability partners, like they stay watching us, you know. Especially when you think they not, they stay watching us. You know what I'm saying? Very observant, very smart and ahead of their time. Like, especially the kids nowadays, like they don't seem smart, but they they like you know, they are way ahead of their time now. They are built different. Something is cooking in y'all. Something different is cooking in y'all. I don't know if it's alien D, I don't know, but it, you know, I ain't gonna tell you my thoughts on aliens and all that, but I think they all changing like evolution and everything, but that's another story, and but they way smarter than us. Like yes, you know, so I feel you. I feel you. Alright. Moving on. Alright. So what lesson do you hope your your daughter learned from watching your life?

SPEAKER_01 27:45

You know, the biggest one for me, anybody watching, is to see, is to know that they can get through anything and get to where they're going. But for my daughter, I would say maybe something a little bit more grounded, you know, because we're with with each other every day, sometimes all day, because she's homeschooled.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

How old is she?

unknown 28:06

She's 10.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

10? Wow, wow, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:10

So something a little bit more grounded would be, you know, I mean, I teach her the normal things, like the normal household things, but definitely just her relationship with God, like building that intimacy. Because I don't want her to ever feel like if I'm not around, she can't, you know, continue on. Because, like I said, we have such a close relationship. We're with each other all the time. But now that she's with her dad, for example, for the summertime, it was important for me to take like those last couple months to just build her up in, you know, scripture and you know, situational things like real life events and still including God in it so that when she's alone, you know, in the world, you know, she can still have a certain mindset that won't tear her down.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Right, right. And let me say kudos to dad for having her for the summer. Kudos to dad. And I love that y'all have a great co-parenting relationship. We need more of that, you know, and unfortunately, i it's not like that, but you know, hopefully one day, you know, men will wake up. But big shout out to dad.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

Well it took some time. Okay. Took some time, some some arguments, you know. Because I was I was not the easiest to deal with. Like, I if there was something that, you know, you know you could be doing better on, I know you could be doing better on, I'm gonna say it for sure.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

So what's your sign? What's your sign? What what I I gotta know, what's your sign? I'm big in astrology too, so I need to know this before we continue or before I end the conversation. Okay, what do you think?

unknown 29:51

What do you think it is?

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Uh I hope please I don't wanna say this. I hope, I hope. Let's let's get this. Let's first date Virgo?

SPEAKER_02 30:03

No.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

Okay, thank God. Woo! That's a good that's uh that's that's a close one. That's a close one. Alright, I'm not talking to you. Okay. Let me try two more, two more. I'm gonna go with Gemini.

unknown 30:18

No, God, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Okay, just tell me, is it a fire sign?

unknown 30:21

It is.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

Okay, if it was I'm not gonna go Leo because if it was Leo, you would have told me because I said my birthday is in August.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

So I was too honest to my hus ex-husband.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Let me see, Aries.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

No, that's close. He was an Aries. That's why we were so tight.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

Okay, okay. So what is it? What is it? Just give it a next one. Good, good. I I rock with Sagittarius, I rock with the Sag. Shoutouts to all the Sag out there. Okay, good. As long as you're not Virgo, we good. We good. Yeah, yeah, like, yeah, like, okay, okay, good, good. Get away, go, go play dead. Yes, okay. And what I wanted to say about that, you know, is kids, you know, they they they won't remember every conversation. You know what I'm saying? But they'll remember how we lived, you know, because that's what I remember mostly. How my how my parents uh lived, how my moms lived. I don't remember everything. I remember I ain't gonna I ain't gonna barish mom right now, but I remember when moms beat me when I when I came home for sticking my middle finger up out the bus and all that. But, you know, I remember, you know, good things too, you know, her, you know, trying to do whatever she could to take care of us, but I don't remember conversations and stuff. All right, and I gotta say I love the fact, you know, you doing your thing and you building a legacy, you know, not just a career. I don't see that as just a career. You building a legacy for you, your daughter, you know. What do you think the difference is between that building a legacy and a career?

SPEAKER_01 32:07

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Hmm, I does this. I does this.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

I'm like, oh, that's a good question. Great questions. Yeah, a legacy and building wealth, right? Is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 32:19

No, just like, yeah, basically legacy and just, you know, getting money.

unknown 32:24

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Yeah. Um, you know, even the Bible speaks a lot about this too. And I reference the Bible a lot because the principles in there are just, you know, a lot of times scientific and they just they just work, right? And when we leave an inheritance for our children, they're able to advance from the level we left off at. You know, it's not like everyone is having to start over. And so even in this in the idea that the government is bringing up for everyone to get paid the same amount and for everyone to not own anything, is just not right to me. Because again, we need to set our children up because that's what legacy is, right? Allow them to continue on. And if we allow them to continue on from where we stopped, it puts them in a position to go a lot higher and a lot farther than we did, as opposed to everyone just getting money in their time for their generation or for their that moment, and then leaving nothing for your children or leaving debt for your children, and then them having to start from Right, right, right, right. So it's like we're constantly, every every generation is constantly going back to get further and inch further. And who's to say it's gonna get that inch further? Maybe someone doesn't want to, you know, maybe a hundred years years down the line, that person may not want to start from the bottom and find something. So then everything you built is just is is gone. So if you leave, you know, security enough so that whoever's coming after can just continue to build on it or create something different, then that legacy comes as opposed to just building a career.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Right. You know, day to day and you know, paycheck to paycheck. I was just telling my brother that, man. It's legacies feed generations, you know. He was like, you know, all we need is love. Okay, I I I get where you're coming from. But love ain't putting food in your your your your your family mouth. And if everybody broke and and and depressed, that's gonna spill over into your your wife, your kids, then and then everybody's gonna be depressed and then and then what?

unknown 34:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to, I'm trying, I'm trying to get them to see that. I'm trying to get Ted, I'm not talking to you, please. Stop. Jesus Christ. Now tell hold on, Danielle. Tell me, what did you say about what the government is trying to do? Make everybody get paid the same.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Yeah, they want everyone to get paid the same. It's look, I think they were thinking like 20, 2030 is when they wanted to try. They're just talking about it pretty much. It's like a conversation that's being had, an idea that was brought up. Um by who?

SPEAKER_00 35:04

Can't it can't be by Trump.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Yeah, they it was a a team um of Trump and like a few other countries who were discussing this idea to either have everybody be paid the same, you know, everybody's making the same no matter. So say if we worked at a company and I was there longer, if I did more work than you Right, right, right. And then the idea of people not owning anything. What? Yeah, yeah. So you don't necess you won't necessarily like own the house you have because of the debt, I think, or something like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

So they're trying to do a away with capitalism or something? Like exactly, exactly. Wow. This man has lost his mind.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

After he done made all his money, now you want to do that. Okay, okay. All right. I'm it's not gonna be one of my Trump days.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

There's either a country or a company, I forgot which one it was that that's that is doing that system, like so. Pretty much if you're if I'm a janitor and you're the C or you're the CFO, for example, we'd probably make the same.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

Or so I don't know if it's he talking to he talking to China too much. He talks he he on the phone with somebody from China or North Korea, because that that just sounds crazy. But I ain't gonna get into my trunk shit today, so let's keep it moving. It's all about you today. So I re- I re I read somewhere you said choreography tells stories. Explain that to me. Explain that to us.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

I was doing music at first. That was like my first love, my first passion, I would say. And then I got prophesied too about my dance career. And it made sense because even when I would perform for my family when I was a kid or whatever, the fun part was creating the show and creating the dances. And so that's what choreography is, right? It's creating the dances behind the dancer and then creating the show around it so that it makes sense and looks like a real show. And so I thought that I had to tell stories only through my words, like in my songs. But when I realized that dance and movement was so powerful, I realized that those same stories, those same messages can be put through action, through movement, through dance. So with no words, just movement and the atmosphere around it. And so that's what I do. That's what I correlate. So even when I'm choreographing for a live show or a music video or a play or just for a concept video, the goal is to always tell a story and to tell someone's story so that they leave there with something. Because whether you know it or not, like sometimes if you go to a ballet, right, they may not have any extra props. It may just be the woman dancing and then the music behind her, but sometimes you can feel yourself getting emotional because whatever story she's telling is is there and she's doing it, you're just not hearing it, right? But you can see it. And so it's the same thing in dances. So sometimes it can be a little bit more intentional where we set up the atmosphere and the movement to be a little bit more literal. And then sometimes we want the audience to take whatever they are feeling internally from the show and you know, kind of get the message that way.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

I'm visualizing it all while you're saying it. Because anybody could teach steps, but very few people can make someone feel something, you know?

unknown 38:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

I'll dig it. I could dig it, I'll dig it. Alright. So, how have you ever, you know, choreographed a piece that was secretly about your own pain?

SPEAKER_01 38:24

Mmm, that's good.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

Like, you ever did anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 38:29

You know, I have. Um, but I wanna I'm trying to think of one that was live.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Cause I'm gonna go watch it after this.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

Yeah, I'm trying to think of something that was live. Because we do a lot of like concept videos, but they're those are a little bit more literal and they, you know, tell the story. But I would say live that was in secret. Did I did like a 60s, 70s era kind of play. And although the times were extremely different, the emotions were still there. You know, you had one woman who was, you know, the more quieter one who didn't want to ruffle any feathers when it came to the relationship that he was the man was dealing with was a little bit more vibrant and outgoing. And just to see the emotions between the characters and then having to portray that through the dance, I definitely had to pull from something deeper, you know, within myself. It's very easy to just envision what the dance is going to be when I close my eyes by the grace of God and God. But in order for a play to really for people to really feel that in a play from their seat to the stage, I definitely had to pull from my own personal experience and securities in relationships.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

You're changing the world, girlfriend. You're changing the world. Yes, ma'am. I could feel it, I feel it. I could I could just feel it in the way you speak, you know?

unknown 39:48

Good, good, good.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

Yeah, I asked that because I know artists, you know, have a funny way of confessing, you know, without saying a word. So I was just curious if you had ever had ever did anything like that, you know?

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Well, I that's why you we go through things. Like I know I know that's why I probably went through a lot so that I can pull from a lot of different areas without it being attached to me. Like, even though I've experienced it and I know what that emotion feels like, and I can tap into that if I need to. I don't live that, like, that's not my everyday life. My everyday life is joy and peace and happiness, you know, regardless, you know.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

Stay as it should be.

SPEAKER_01 40:28

In any artist, I think that that's a great place to be. If we were just talking about this with actors, you know, sometimes actors will use the method where they really become the character and they dive deep into the character, which can be good, but if you don't know how to get out of it when the role is done, you know, you can stay there and it can continue to change you and who you you know who you are. Like if you were playing a depressed, sad character, use the method to to dive all the way in and become that character, and you don't know how to separate it, then that can be very dangerous, you know, for you and your career. So it seems so.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Can movement communicate things words never could?

SPEAKER_01 41:17

Yes. That's what you have body language. Body language is I just posted this. Body language is louder than a lot of people think. It it it really is. Like, you know, standing next to someone, talking to someone, watching them perform. Like body language is a real language, and it's something that you can see rather than hear, but you understand it. So it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Right. Right, right. Okay. Our bodies remember everything, you know, so sometimes they speak before our mouths do. Yeah. You know, because when I want to say you to somebody, you know, sometimes I just like, you know, like because I, you know, I hate, I hate, I hate, you know, speaking. So yeah. Older me would just knock somebody out, but exactly. With the movement, that's movement. Yeah, that's still movement, exactly. Exactly. But them days are behind me. Them days are gone.

unknown 42:12

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Yes, yes, ma'am, amen. All praise be to God, yes, ma'am. Do you think dance can actually heal trauma?

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Yes, yes, yeah, yes, it can. It really can. Because the music and the show and the facial express the the right, the right show, I think. You know, like you said, there are people who just go up and they move and it's like, oh, okay, great job. That was really good. But then there are people who are just they have you just enwrapped in whatever show they're putting on through movement, and it's like, wow. And again, you start to pull from your own emotions, and then you know, it can tell that tell the story that way. So a lot of things can be either very literal or you can have that subconscious feel where you know you're just watching it from your own perspective and everybody feels something different, but it's still a strong emotion.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Fascinating. That's fascinating. Because I would imagine if it if it does, then you will have to like gravitate to a specific performance and watch that over and over, or you know, different performances that mean something to you, and like, you know, watch them over and over. It doesn't, it wouldn't just happen, you know, like if you have real trauma happen just with one performance. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 43:30

If I understand correctly, you mean in like healing the trauma through watching the performance?

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

Um, that can happen with things that are a little bit more literal, especially like in in concept videos, because then people can literally put themselves in that position and see, okay, that is what I went through, that is how they got out of it. I can do that too. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 43:53

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 43:54

Um, and then again, you know, it's never going to be one and done, you know, especially if you. Like to listen to positive music or watch you know positive things or whatever, you want to constantly feed your mind with these things. But as a dancer and a choreographer, if I really wanted to hit a specific person with a specific story or situation, I'm definitely gonna make it a lot more literal so that they know, okay, this woman was abused, she went through this, you know, she's you know getting beaten up by her husband. So you would literally see, you know, the bruises on her face as she's coming out on stage and and with her head down. And you know what I'm saying? So it would be shape the story in the movement, but it would be a little bit more literal. Or for example, if the man and the woman were physically fighting, even though the dance moves wouldn't be like her getting punched in the face, but you know, kind of what he's doing. So if he's dismissing her, his back will be turned, you know, toward her, and she's you know, dancing, showing that she's trying to show her emotion with him not giving her any, you know, kind of thing. So then you would see, okay, there's something going on between them kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

Right, because healing don't always happen with just talking, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, I I definitely see that as a alternate, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

So now somebody in the audience they can see, oh wow, like my husband dismisses me like that. That's you know what I'm saying? And so what happens at the end? Do they come together? Does she does the woman, you know, by herself? Does do they end things? And you know, what you know, so that's why the person's probably like, you know, at the edge of their seat, because now that's me. Like I'm, you know, my husband friends is back. You know, I'm just constantly, you know, so kind of.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for that.

unknown 45:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Tell me about cardio healing. Tell tell us all about that. When when did that vision become bigger than yourself?

SPEAKER_01 45:48

When I knew that it had to be, you know, I I found myself, like we talked about earlier, just wanting to have the wealth. Like at the time, I just needed my rent paid, and I was just like, what dance class can I teach? Who's who needs a private lesson? Like, what can I do in order to get my rent paid? You know, but then and then to get my name out there. But then it became so much bigger than that when we started to perform for the ball drop at the end of the year um in New York City. Um never had an all-dance team before us. And it was always like an artist and then dancers behind them. And so we were able to bring, you know, that all dance show to New York stage, to one of the biggest stages in New York. And when I realized that we had something really going here, I felt like it was necessary to create this nonprofit. And so cardio healing LLC is the umbrella, and then we have the nonprofit underneath that, the Adelaide's Foundation. And that pretty much helps dancers and entertainers in the community. I'm sorry, in the industry, whether it be dance or production assistant, directors, videographers, whoever it is, um, they're able to be a part of, you know, a huge experience and then also get paid from it. And so that's really where that was birthed in in helping other entertainers in the industry really grow and thrive and what that looks like. Because a lot of people can't move to these big cities like New York or LA or uh Houston or whatever the case is, and they still want to be a part and they still want to learn and they still want to, you know, feel what it feels like to be a part of something industry, even before fully committing to it.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

So the nonprofit. Amazing. I love that. And I love that name by the way, cardio ailing, because people hear cardio, but you know, you're really talking about hailing, hailing hearts. You know what I'm saying? So is the ball the ball drop something you're doing yearly?

unknown 47:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

Yes, yes, this is year five for us.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

I love it. I'm not talking to you, Ted. Yes, yes. Man, you that's huge, that's huge. I love it. Good, good, good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

You're more than welcome to be a part and come see the show and all the things.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

And yeah, I wanna dance too. I wanna I wanna Did you hear me? I wanna dance. I you know, being from New York, raised in New York and everything, I don't I never did the ball drop. Never.

unknown 48:13

Really?

SPEAKER_00 48:14

Never. I never been to the Statue of Liberty, I never been to Yeah, like being in Queens, we really care about that. Especially, you know, we take all that for granted, you know? Like we really just don't care. We say, oh, that's a tourist attraction, you know? Right, right, right. Yeah, and I don't I don't want to deal with all that uh crowded, you know, all the congestion on a subway and all that stuff. Well, just don't want to do it. But I would definitely go to yours though. Now that I know you're you there and you doing it, definitely, I'll definitely go.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Yes, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

I might hit up 2027. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 48:50

Okay, good, good, good.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

If we if we make it there, because I it's another thing. Uh I'ma stop with all the antics and stuff because I I just feel something bad about to happen, but no I don't want to talk it into existence. Let's let's let's move on. What do you think? Why do you think so many people today feel unseen?

SPEAKER_01 49:12

I feel like people feel unseen. Well, you have to see yourself. People don't see themselves. And so it's not until I started seeing myself, and this is for me personally, it's not until I started seeing myself, is when other people started noticing me too, you know, and then you get kind of weirded out because you're not used to people noticing you. But you have to notice yourself first. You have to get used to being noticed, you have to be get used to being liked and appreciated, you know, and you have you have to start within yourself because that's just what it is. And then when people see you appreciating and loving and seeing yourself, then they start to appreciate love and see you too. It's just how the world works, you know. So, you know, it's and you can't sit and and feel sorry for yourself. Oh, woe is me, nobody loves me. Do you love yourself? Because that is the determining factor on whether other people can see if love even exists in your atmosphere.

SPEAKER_00 50:06

Right, right. And it's hard for people like me, like, you know, extra, extra introverts, you know, like just you know, it's just hard, man. It was just hard, and it is it's hard to be vulnerable, especially men, you know. It's hard to be vulnerable. You gotta learn a lot of tricks and all that stuff. You gotta learn how to be vulnerable, you gotta, you know, open up more. That's why I learned, you know. That's that's the trick for me. Do you want him? Do you want this dog? Do you want him? Please. Please, look, look, and then on my thumb. What do you want? What do you want from me? He's like my goodness. Jesus Heavens to Pepsi.

unknown 50:52

He's so cute. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

He is a trip. He usually has more I had to cut all his hair off, but he usually has a because he's a golden doodle, he usually has a bush. Oh, yeah. But I had to cut it off. But anyway, this ain't anyway my next question. My next question is is you're developing a film series, right? Series a series centered around redemption and faith.

unknown 51:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 51:19

Right? Tell us tell us about that. I'm excited to hear about that.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it is um a seven-part series, and I'm super excited about it because it's pretty much telling all the stories that we talked about in one, right? Um it's coming from the perspective of a woman who again moves to LA and then gets gets the opportunity to do a bunch of other things, and she kind of falls into that. And then we see her build her life outside of you know what she fell into. So, for example, it can be anybody, it can be a woman from Houston or a woman who moves to Houston, and you know, the person she connects with finds her, you know, the perfect strip club for her to start her career at. And then the manager that she hooks up with, you know, and this is just an example, but it it kind of goes along with the with the storyline. So, you know, then the manager she hooks up with, you know, gives her an opportunity to be on TV, but then she finds herself in the wrong rooms. But the money is quick, the money is fast, the money is good. So when do we stop? How do we stop? Should we stop? You know, so it's answering all of those questions of pretty much gaining opportunities just to get out of an uncomfortable situation, but seeing the result is not what it could have been if you would have stayed course.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

I love that, you know. I love my, you know, revenge stories and stuff like that, you know, but very few people know how to tell redemption stories. So I I can't wait for that. When when when um can we expect that to drop?

SPEAKER_01 52:58

So we still have um a few things to shoot, like as far as like B-rolls and like just extra scenes to fill the story in. But yeah, everything is Hollywood.

unknown 53:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:09

Man, Hollywood. So that's something like you think like Netflix or something like that gonna pick up a company like that.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

That's that's the hope. That's the hope. And we're definitely hoping that Netflix or another company, another streaming service, Hulu, Amazon. You know, we're definitely hoping that they pick up also the documentary we want to do around the ball drop show as well, and just showing the reality of what it's like to be in the entertainment industry, dealing with costumes and people and rehearsals and you know, everything.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Danielle, Danielle, I love it. I love it, man. I got some I got I I gotta I don't want to say it on here, but I got something to talk to you about after this.

SPEAKER_02 53:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 53:56

So what do you think? Uh what's missing storytelling today? What's missing from story storytelling? Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 54:03

The genuine, like the realness of it. You got people who've never experienced these things, trying to tell the story behind it from a perspective they've never lived. And, you know, that's to me it's impossible. It's just like anybody else talking about things they never experienced. You know, it's like me telling you about owning a podcast and you know, writing a story about that. And I've never owned a podcast in my life. The genuineness and the realness is is definitely missing because you know, you you can see that. You can see that in the stories that we see sometimes, you know, it's real life, you know, and not to say that it has to be because it is TV, but let's make it a little bit more relatable to actually experience that so that they can get something from it as opposed to just trying to get their eleven dollars and fifty cents at the movie theater, you know.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

Right, right, right. Yeah. A lot of this is watered down today for some reason. Like, I don't know what's happening. It's just not the same anymore, you know. Right, right, right. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 55:14

You know what I'm saying? It's just like literally black and white. It just does not make sense. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:19

Exactly. I agree. So do you think, you know, people who become broke, you know, broken people, create the greatest art? No, when you say broke or broken, which one like not broke like money broke, but like people that became broken from life. You know, do you think, you know, I I I'll call myself broken definitely. You know, I'm still piecing myself together. So uh do you think like broken people like me, you know, create the greatest art?

SPEAKER_01 55:49

Yeah, honestly, I really do. Uh anytime you're in a rough situation, that's like the like you said, the perfect time to build character. You know, who are you? There's so many things I learned that I would have never learned if I had it all together, pretty much. Like I I grew into such a wonderful person because of the broken pieces that it came from, you know? And yeah, any any type of whatever career path, and speaking specifically in the entertainment industry for people who create, most definitely, because we're pulling from real experiences, you know, we're talking about things we know, and and that's that's what people need. Because if everybody was a doctor, if everybody worked in corporate, you know, who is telling my story of when I go home late at night and I'm and I'm single and I really want to be in a relationship? Like who else is telling that story? Who can agree with me? Who can relate? Who can I turn to to get that relief or that emotional release and relief? It's important for us, for the people who are creatives, to really pull from real experiences because there are real people out there really living this and they can't do it themselves, but they want to be able to express that emotion.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

Right. And for the people at home, don't get salty. I'm not saying you have to be broke broken to the create great art. What I'm, you know, I'm just, you know, pain isn't required for greatness, but it definitely gives greatness somewhere honest to come from. That's all. That's all we're saying. That's all we're saying. So take it easy, take it easy. I know some people, you know, I've been getting death threats and all that. I just want to clarify that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:29

You know, turn this off if you don't like it, right?

SPEAKER_00 57:33

Right, right. You know, like just just just take it easy on me, guys. Just take it easy. You know. So Danielle, you know, while we winding down, we about to wind it down. What's one scene from your own life that still's play that still plays in your mind today?

unknown 57:50

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 57:50

There's so many.

SPEAKER_00 57:52

Like, what the the the the the go ahead, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 57:55

It's okay. I'm just trying to, I'm like, which one do I want to pull from? I'd have to say when I got prophesied to, when I got prophesied to, that was like boom. Cause I was like, I was I'm so talented in so many things that I I had no idea what God wanted me to do until it made sense. And I was like, oh, dancing choreography. Duh. And everything else is like flowing from there as far as like the nonprofit, the brand, the creative things, like the content. All of that is growing from that one thing. So that really helped change my life. And I was at like an emergency situation because I was really gonna give up. I was like, Well, maybe I'm not supposed to, you know, and God spoke to me. So that was that was definitely a a very memorable moment.

SPEAKER_00 58:36

Were you ever angry with God?

SPEAKER_01 58:38

Oh my gosh, I was I was just expressing my anger to him yesterday. Talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 58:43

Yes, that's tell us, tell us about it, please.

SPEAKER_01 58:46

It is it is, you know, and I don't mean to say angry because it's like, how can we get angry with God? You know, like we're this big, like seriously.

SPEAKER_00 58:54

But right, right.

SPEAKER_01 58:56

You know, but that frustration is real. Like that frustration is real, that fear is real, and that's really what it is. It's it's fear, it's fear, it's it's your doubts creeping in. It's you not knowing who you are. And that's just the honest truth about it. You know what I'm saying? Because, for example, if I was going for an audition, right, and I really wanted this audition and I didn't get it, that can make somebody angry with God, especially if I did all the things. I prayed, I gave into in in the church, you know, I've been sacrificial with my time, I've been reading the Bible, I've been I'm doing all the things that I'm supposed to do. Why didn't I get what I wanted, right?

SPEAKER_00 59:33

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 59:34

Angry and frustrated, especially if it's a dire need situation, which a lot of us have been in. Um, but then you have to, like I said, think back and take a second, a step back and say, wait a minute, who am I? Who do I serve? And what do I know about my life already? What is the truth, right? Because the lies can come. Oh, you needed that job, oh, you needed that opportunity, another one is not gonna come. All these lies can fill your head, but when you know who you are, none of that starts that none of that will affect you, right? So it's like, okay, I didn't get that job because I know I'm something better is coming. Like I said, as a man thinketh, so is he. So now the atmosphere around you begins to cooperate with what you said and how you think and what you're you know, what you think about yourself and your situation. So yeah, you know, I was I was upset yesterday and I went to church last night. We had service last night, and that was literally what he talked about was knowing who you are. And I've and I felt bad within myself because I'm like, dang, here I am trying to put all the blame on God for for you know, you know, making certain things happen. But all I did all I need to do is speak. All I need to do is act on it. All I need to do is stand firm in what he's already told me, and things will move accordingly. So yeah. I'm glad you said that because he's already given, he's already done. It's already there, it's already going to happen. Getting mad at him is a little backwards and it and it's counteractive because I need to be focused on what the truth is so I can make sure I get to where I need to be. Because if I'm depressed and I'm just in the house, oh it's not working, oh, it's me, da da da, woe is me. And I was supposed to be at the grocery store to meet so-and-so who was gonna give me so-and-so to so and you know you understand what I'm saying? So it's a ripple effect of either positivity or negativity, and you have to determine that within yourself. You can't be mad at God because he's already set out the positive path. But if you if you're not willing to walk through it, what is he gonna do? Force you, knock you out, drag you to the grocery store? No, no, everything is working for my good. So I can get up and I can freely go wherever I want to go because I know that everything is working for my good. And boom, I just ran into another blessing.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Right. Look at that. Look, but that's real faith, though. You know, when you when you say you get angry or whatever with God, you know, we're supposed to be able to take everything to him. You know, life ain't all hunky dory, you know, talk to him. You know, when you upset, you know, you know, let them know you're upset, you know. Like, that's real faith to me. It's not pretending you never you've never questioned, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

So that's that's getting into intimacy too. Now we're talking about intimacy. Now it's like, okay, I have a real relationship with this God, and now I can express my my feelings. Yeah, that's that's real too. Uh I I think I was speaking more on, you know, getting out of that, but when you're in that, that's okay. Like you said, that is okay to, you know, be honest with the God that you serve, especially if you have that relationship. Now, there's people who never talk to him, right? They never care to even see what his opinion is on anything that has on going on in their life except for when things are bad. But if you are if you have an intimate relationship with him, yes, he wants to tell you his opinions, your opinions. You know, he wants to ask, how do you feel? How should I go about this? Y'all now start to become co-workers together in this in this life that you I love that.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:58

Yeah, yes, co-workers. I love that. Wow, you just gave me a different insight.

unknown 1:03:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

Look at you, look at you doing your thing. Okay. Alright, all right, Danielle. Check this out. You know, every guest who comes on to war answers this for me. You know, our show, you know, stands for war. You know, we're all recovering. Recovery isn't just addiction, it's recovery, recovery, recovering from fear, abuse, shame, failure. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. He's recovering from heartbreak, you know, perfectionism. I could go on, but this is whatever life has thrown at us. So I'll ask you, what are you still recovering from? And what gives you, you know, hope you'll continue healing.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:56

One thing is that that has been new to my recovery is people pleasing. That's something new that um, you know, I've been getting healed from. It's like a different form of people pleasing because I I don't necessarily feel like I have to do what people tell me to do, you know, but I do want the people around me to feel good when they're around me. But you can't guarantee that in everybody. Because some people just don't feel good in themselves. And so that's that's something I'm learning. That's something I'm recovering from, right? Is you know, having to feel like everybody needs to be happy when they're in my God.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:34

I'm laughing not at you, I'm laughing because me and you are like so aligned. My my therapist told me that I needed to stop people pleasing, that I needed to learn how to say no, and that was my problem. I couldn't say no to people. That's still my problem. That's crazy. That's wow. And that's why this show exists, not because we we've arrived, you know, but because we're still becoming.

unknown 1:05:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:04

You know?

unknown 1:05:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:05

But uh Danielle, I could talk to you forever. I know I kept you here for a minute. I I never did a part two, but I will I have so many questions. I would love to do another a part two with you, you know, when you have the time. I know you're a busy woman, but yes, thank you. And I want to let you know this wasn't just an interview about choreography, you know. This was about courage, about motherhood, about abuse, about purpose, about faith, your legacy. You know, thank you for trusting me with your story. You know, thank you so much, and it was an honor. And everybody watching, go support Danielle Adams Johnson or Danielle Adams Elias. Go go go support both of them. Please. Go support both of them. And and and uh Danielle, tell tell the people where to find you, please. Tell the people your Instagram, everything, your your business, email, all that, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

Yeah, so you can find me on all social media at ING N T R. So specifically Instagram, TikTok, I-n-g-n-tr. My website is theglowhouse.club, and that is how spelled H A-U-S. So it's the glowuphouse.club. And yeah, if you are interested in any dance classes, we are hosting a dance class coming up pretty soon in the Los Angeles area. So if you are here, definitely let me know. If you have any online friends, please contact me. We'll be doing an online class as well. We have a retreat coming up in uh 2027. Be on the lookout for that for all the women.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:57

About branding, we'll be talking about financial literacy, we'll be talking about we'll be doing faith, we'll be doing EFT tapping to help us release certain traumas in our body. So this it'll be a nice weekend for the girls.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:10

I love that. I love that. It's support cardio healing. And uh, you know, support people using creativity to heal broken places, you know, is it because or is it just entertainment? Sometimes it's therapy, you know, sometimes it's survival for real, and sometimes it saves lives. Danielle, thank you. It was such an honor, my fellow Far Rock American. It was such an honor to have you here. I'm so delighted right now. I'm gonna have a good rest of my day.

unknown 1:07:41

Good.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:41

That's what I'm talking about. Yes, yes, to everybody, it's war, each one reach one. We're all recovering. Peace. On the next war, we're all recovering.