The Pathway To Your Results
This podcast has been helping individuals remember what they truly were capable of before they forgot. Host Derick "DG" Grant dives deep into spirituality, metaphyics, and other topics to help listeners regain power of their minds. Remember, Life is Mental.
The Pathway To Your Results
Own Who You Are
DG reveals the transformative power of embracing your authentic self and healing the wounded parts of your identity that block your alignment with the life you desire. Through personal stories of family visits and professional success with athlete clients, he demonstrates how owning all aspects of yourself—especially the parts you've denied—creates the breakthrough needed to manifest your vision.
• Recognizing yourself as "the black sheep" can be empowering when you understand your uniqueness is your greatest strength
• Healing isn't about making you better—it's about making you real and removing static from your energetic signal
• You cannot outperform your wounds, no matter how hard you grind or hustle
• Real manifestation happens by releasing what you are not, not by acquiring more
• The universe rewards alignment, not effort
• Your journey will never look like anyone else's because you are uniquely designed
• Wholeness is the byproduct of healing and the pathway to becoming undeniable
• The world is waiting for the real you, not the version that performs best
Step into who you actually are. Once you see what you are—an infinite, limitless being—you'll discover that nothing exists outside of you.
Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to your Results Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results podcast. It is your boy, dg. This is presented by DG Mindset. As always, you know, it's a privilege and it's an honor to be able to hang out with you to share space and time. Wherever you may be in life, it does not matter. The fact that this podcast is here and serves as a resource for you. I'm eternally grateful for that.
Speaker 1:I know I've told this story before, but for the longest I was so scared to even do a podcast because I was so. Here's the story I used to tell myself Well, everybody else has a podcast. There's all these podcasts out, there's thousands of podcasts. Why would anybody listen to mine? Why would anybody listen to mine? Why would anybody want to hear what I have to say? And this is what I was literally saying to myself Nobody wants to hear what I have to say, nobody cares what I think. And this was just a story that I was telling myself, meaning that is how I viewed me, and the world only reflected that and then, finally, you step out on faith. You step towards the fear and you start something, and you see, wow, on faith. You step towards the fear and you start something and you see, wow, dang, I should have been doing this. So this episode today is about you really owning and being who you were and how. You are Not satisfied with it, right, continuing to work and grow and evolve, but really owning all parts of yourself, because each part of you, you divinely created it. Life helped you to create this version of yourself, and I'm going to break this down. I'm going to use some examples to help you along this journey and, as always, I hope that you may be able to take this with you.
Speaker 1:Last week, me and my family, we went out to go visit my parents in North Carolina. We hadn't seen my parents. I mean, we'd seen them. I think the last time I saw them in person was October. We went to Tennessee and met for vacation, but I had not been to their house. I haven't been to their house in two years and every time that I go back home, I call it home. That's where my parents live. I call it home.
Speaker 1:Every time I go back home, there's a level of healing, there's a level of recognition that takes place. I'm able to see parts of myself that I had not seen before. This whole journey of healing the inner child started because years ago, when I was at my parents' house, I could feel this wave of emotion come over me because I was getting sad that I was going to have to leave because there's the fear of this is the last time that I may see my parents, both of them healthy and alive. This is always a fear that I always had growing up as a kid, but this time, going back home, it was interesting. I was able to be the observer. I was able to sit back and just watch and see everything from an objective perspective, which to me was a reflection of the work that I've been doing on myself, that now I became the observer and I could see how life was reflecting it. So this is what happens, too when you start to work on yourself. When you start this process of healing and fixing the distorted perspectives, you no longer become the situation. You are the observer of the situation. And when you become the observer of the situation now, no matter what may happen, it doesn't have the effect on you energetically that it would before the healing took place. You see what I'm saying. So we took family pictures and my mom wanted to take family pictures with my family and my family I have now and then my brother, my mom, my dad, and it was so interesting. Good God, almighty, y'all stay with me here because I'm about to get going. It was so interesting for me to see the polarity of my life now and my family now versus what I grew up with.
Speaker 1:So I'm naturally a loner. I enjoy being by myself, but I do love connection. I love connection and I'm not really one on quantity, I'm one on quality. So the quality of my relationships, the quality of my conversations, the quality of time that I spend with people, that matters to me more than how many friends, and I've always been this way. I've never had a bunch of friends. I've never needed a bunch of friends, I only needed one or two. That you know what do we call them Ride or die. They ride with you, right, it's the quality that you know what we call ride or die. They ride with you, right, it's the quality of it. So growing up I had two. I have two loving parents, two loving parents.
Speaker 1:But I realized this time, going back home, how much my soul needed connection, my soul needed affection, my soul needed touch, and it's not that I didn't get it, but maybe I didn't get it to the level that I needed, that my soul needed, and I used to. Before I healed, I started to look at this as something that was negative, but then I was able to. While I was back home, I was able to look at my family that I grew up with and I was able to look at my family that I have now my wife and two kids and I was able to see that everything that I quote unquote felt like I needed or wanted. I had been able to provide that in my life. Now my life, now my kids know that they're loved, and it's not that I didn't know that I was loved.
Speaker 1:Now, hear me wrong, I had a great childhood growing up, but my point of this is you may have gone without something, and this is one thing with a healing journey. I have to say this for everybody when you go on this journey to start giving yourself what you need, naturally you're going to start to feel some type of way towards your caretakers, but understand divinely what they did for you. I can look at it and say you didn't get, maybe, what your soul needed, but the reason why you didn't get what your soul needed was so you could create it in your own life and you could give this to your children. So really, everything that I felt like I missed out on, or I feel like I didn't get, was actually divinely orchestrated so the generation coming up after would be able to receive what I did not. And this is how consciousness evolves. This is how the world becomes a better place. You take what you didn't get and you give it to somebody else.
Speaker 1:So it was fascinating for me to watch and see. But more importantly, I got to see really how different I am. I mean, I'm a giant in my family growing up. You look at the family pictures. I mean I look like an avatar compared to my family. I was joking with my dad the other day. I was like I've got those pictures back that we took and he goes yeah, I go. Somebody would never think that I grew up in that family and he started laughing he goes. I know, I know it, but my point of this is for so long I tried to fit in and I tried to be like my family. I tried to have the same perspective. I tried to have the same outlook.
Speaker 1:I remember being in school, my mom would always be like education, education. I'd be like man, education. They got me up in the school for eight hours and they ain't teaching me nothing. I knew that back then and I used to be like man I ain't doing this work, I ain't doing this school, I don't want to do this. And we used to me and my mom used to have knock down, drag them out, fights over homework and everything, because I did not see the value in what it was going to provide for me later in life.
Speaker 1:The actual education piece like what am I going to use algebra for Me and my wife have these conversations all the time. I'm all for school, but show me how school can be used in life, because I would be doing life a lot more than I would be doing algebra If you even told me, like man, you use algebra to land a plane. Well, at least now when I'm flying on a plane, I can say, oh, wow, I wonder how this you can start to you would. I would be able to see how it pertained to life. But my point of this is for so long I tried to conform Good God, almighty. I tried to fit in, I tried to be like everybody else.
Speaker 1:But then, this time, going back home, I was able to observe and see like you were never meant to fit in, you were never meant to be like anybody else. You were not supposed to do everything the way everybody else did. I got to see how I was the quote unquote black sheep. So this is for all my black sheeps out there. If you're all out here, let me hear you say really, you ain't the black sheep, you're really the goat. You're the greatest of all time. Because it was greatest of all time meant that there was nothing to compare it to. You were the one of one.
Speaker 1:And I saw this when I went back home and I said wow, this is what it was for. It was for me to step into who I actually am. This is what this message is for you. I'm just reflecting your state of awareness right now. It was for you to step into who you are. It was for you to own all parts of yourself. It was for you to step into your journey. And here's the beauty of it. And this isn't the beauty. This is going to be the hard part. Your journey isn't going to look like anyone else's. It's not because it was a one of one. The goat doesn't look like anybody else. We look at LeBron and say LeBron's the GOAT, lebron's the GOAT. Lebron ain't nothing like Michael Jordan. Up until that point it was Michael Jordan, and Michael Jordan was the GOAT after Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. He didn't look nothing like them. He didn't play like them. So the reason why I'm saying this, this message, is for someone who's maybe struggling right now with owning who they are.
Speaker 1:So we got back and I got a client of mine. I don't really talk about my clients. I don't really share. I like to pretend I'm like Batman. I'm Batman, I'm in the shadows. Nobody really knows what I do. Nobody knows to the level of my work with clients. I purposely do that because it's sacred. It's sacred and what is known does not need to be talked about, and what is talked about usually isn't known. But this you know. I'm going to go ahead and share it. I said you know what I'm going to share, to show as a metaphor, as an analogy, to show the power of when you do own who you are.
Speaker 1:So I got a client who I've been working with here for the last two and a half years. Her name is Haley Van Lith. Right, she just got drafted Literally, I just got back from New York today, but she was drafted this week by the Chicago Sky and I got a hold of her. We started working together when she got done at Louisville and when she got done with Louisville. She had a great career at Louisville, but she's like I didn't. She put her name in the transfer portal to transfer and then when she transferred to LSU that was right when I met her Literally say I met her on Monday and Thursday she committed to LSU.
Speaker 1:So I didn't really know her like that to be able to say, hey, let's weigh all the options, but anyway, to see the evolution, the growth, the change that she's gone through, and the reason why is because she's really gone back and touched parts of herself that she had never touched before. Right, and this is what the key is. The reason I'm saying this is because this is the secret. This is the secret to you hitting the next level. This is the secret to you hitting your goals. It's you going back in the past. It's you going back in the past and dealing with the wounded identity that you were still walking around with.
Speaker 1:And here's what I mean by wounded. Every time that you move in scarcity, every time that you try to be like somebody else, every time that you are not owning who you are, you're moving from a place of a wound. So so often in our world we always get taught to visualize and align with the future. But chances are, most of the time we're moving from the unhealed state, we're moving from the wounded state. We're living life from this place of feeling unsafe or unworthy or unseen, and now your energy is going to reject what you're trying to call in.
Speaker 1:So for that year at LSU, I just kept telling her like yo, like just stick to the script, just stick to the plan. Like, look, we're going to develop who you are, we're going to write out who you want to be and then we're going to go back and deal with those parts of yourself that do not align with that. Hear me when I say this if you want to get to X, y and Z, but you got a part of yourself back when you were 15, somebody told you that you would never be and you were never good enough. Guess what? That version of you is going to be the thing that is keeping you from getting you to where you want to go. So this is why I tell you the secret is you healing. And this is the secret sauce.
Speaker 1:Her coach came up to me. He said he was like man, you're the secret weapon I've been hearing about you. I said ain't no secret weapon. It's not a secret meaning we don't know. It's a secret meaning it's hiding in the darkness. That's what a secret meaning. It's hiding in the darkness. Right, that's what a secret is. It's in the darkness, it's in the unconscious, it's in the unaware. We don't know that it's there. But when we bring the awareness to the unaware, now it ain't a secret no more. And when there's no secrets, now you can start to reclaim the parts of yourself that got fragmented along the way.
Speaker 1:So now that I've dealt with those parts of me, now guess what? I can start to become the version of me who's ready to receive. I'm going to go ahead and say this Some of us wish and hope and pray and write down and manifest and write down the three, six, nine, do all these things. But we really haven't put ourselves energetically in a state to receive, because we still have a part of us that doesn't believe that it's worthy of receiving. So I'm going to tell you a truth here. The truth of it is is that Haley and the rest of those girls and I don't know everybody, but I can speak for Haley she didn't just get drafted, she healed the version of herself that didn't believe it was worthy of being drafted. So when you understand that you're putting out a Wi-Fi signal, you're putting out a broadband signal, you're putting out this radio station, healing removes the static from your signal so the universe can finally hear what it was you had to say. So I'm telling you this because a lot of athletes, a lot of high performers, they don't understand this, they don't know this.
Speaker 1:And people ask me all the time and say well, dg, how come you ain't mainstream yet, how come I see this person? You know why I ain't mainstream. You know why. You know why and your words are being mainstream Because the world hasn't caught up. The world hasn't caught up to realize that it has to heal. If you look at this country, ain't nothing going to change until we heal. Ain't nothing going to change until the unconscious gets brought up, you see.
Speaker 1:So when we start to understand that People are naturally going to be drawn towards wholeness Hear me when I say this, matthew Chubbs, if you're out here, I know you hear me right now. Wholeness, brother. Wholeness is a byproduct of healing. Wholeness is a byproduct of healing. Wholeness is a byproduct of healing. The more whole you become, the more aligned you will become with the life that you want to live.
Speaker 1:So when me and Haley started working together and she started to really do the inner work, it wasn't about her getting better as a basketball player, it was her becoming undeniable. Do you hear what I'm saying? When you stop denying yourself, you will start to become undeniable. But the only way to be undeniable is to accept all parts of yourself, all parts of your journey, and the universe will mirror that. It will start to see it. So now we look and say, oh, wow, look at this comeback Haley had. She had this rough year at LSU. And now look at her. She led TCU to an Elite Eight and she was Big 12 Player of the Year. And she won Big 12 Conference and first player ever to lead three different teams to the Elite Eight and she got drafted in the first round. All this stuff.
Speaker 1:Last year she was on no draft boards and I told her. I said listen. The Last year she was on no draft boards and I told her. I said listen, the league ain't going to see you until you see yourself. The world ain't going to see you until you see yourself. He ain't going to see you until you see yourself. She ain't going to see you until you start to see yourself. Good God, almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying See this world that we live in. We believe that we don't make it somewhere because we're less talented. That ain't got nothing to do with it. You will make it there because you have adopted enough wholeness, enough safety for you to own who you are in the skin that you have.
Speaker 1:So I look back on my life. How much of my life I denied who I was. I tried to be like this person, I tried to be like that person and I tried to sound like this and I tried to look like that and I tried to talk like this. I remember people used to say oh well, you don't sound like you're black. What the fuck does that mean? And here's what it ended up doing. It ended up creating this subconscious program of I'm not good enough as I am. I'm here to tell you right now ain't nobody going to talk like me, nobody's going to sound like me, nobody's going to look like me, nobody's going to talk like you, nobody's going to walk like you. You might as well go ahead and own that and I'm here to tell you.
Speaker 1:When you start to own that, when you start to walk in the skin that you have been dealt, meaning you start to own all parts of yourself, you're going to start to get rid of the false identities. You're going to start to get rid of the overachiever, the grinder, the people pleaser, that inner child who was so scared of not being enough. That inner child who was so scared that it would not measure up to mom and dad's standards. The inner child who was so afraid that society would reject them. The inner child who was so scared that it would not be validated for what it did or what it accomplished.
Speaker 1:When you start to heal those parts of yourself, meaning I go back and I talk to him. I go back and talk to that 15 year old who felt like he had to use basketball to be accepted. I go back and talk to him. I go back and let him know and say, brother, do you not know? You do not have to be who this world says you are, and when you do that, the world will acknowledge you. The world will see you when you start to own the parts of yourself that you have been rejected.
Speaker 1:I swear for loas, the older folks used to say it will. I'm telling you, life is going to mirror. I can use Haley as an example. I can use my life as an example. Look at when you are happiest, look at when you're most at peace. It's when you are owning that part of yourself that you have denied. And that, my friends, is how you reach new levels, new heights. Because here's what's ended up happening Every time that you go back and deal with a part of yourself that you've been rejected, you create a new version of yourself in the future. And now we're just literally stepping out of lifetime to lifetime, to lifetime, or timeline, as we want to call it. And now you get on the right timeline that's in alignment with you getting drafted, with you becoming a business owner, with you hitting that million dollar mark.
Speaker 1:Whatever it may look like, whatever your goal is, it was about you becoming whole with who you were. So the reason why I'm saying this is because this ain't no, there's no secret to it. There's no secret. It's just good, old-fashioned self-development. The reality of it is that healing does not make you better. It makes you real, and I'm here to say this and speak life into you and let you know that the version of you that the world needs isn't the one who performs the best. It isn't the one who speaks most confidently. It isn't the one who has the biggest results. It's the version of you that is real. It is the version of you that is authentic. It is the version of you, of who you actually are. It's the one who stops performing and wanting to accomplish things out of scarcity. It's the one who wants to stop hitting these goals because it's no longer being driven by wounds. It's the one who actually feels safe enough to be who it is. This is what the world is waiting for. This, my friends, is what this world is waiting for. Just imagine this you can wipe away everything that you've ever dealt with right and you had, for one hour. Just be who you were. Think about how free you would feel. Think about how powerful you would feel if you knew I'm a one-on-one.
Speaker 1:I am the only one, me and my wife. When we were in New York City we were walking around Times Square and we're walking around and she's just kind of looking around. She's a good old Midwest girl from Indiana I always make the joke people from Indiana don't leave Indiana. So since we've met, I'm a Sagittarius, slash, ophiuchus, so I like to travel and get out and see the world and see all these different perspectives. I'm a globetrotter on a soul level. You hear what I'm saying. So we're in New York City, we're in Times Square and we're just looking around and she's like, wow, look at all this. And I'm over here looking at everybody and I'm saying, look at all of these beautiful souls here, these different walks of life who came here to carry out their birth vision, who came here to carry out what they've been put here to do, and they're all on a journey to figure out who they are. They're all on a journey, testing and evolving, experimenting, trying new things.
Speaker 1:This is why, if you have children, sometimes our children need to experiment. You may see your children, my son. He was like I want to have long hair. Okay, cool when he had long hair, when anybody got long hair. You know, when you hoop or you play basketball, you start sweating, the head's going to start itching. He said I want to cut it now. I said, okay, let's go ahead and cut it. I want to wear my clothes like this. Okay, wear your clothes like this. I want to do this, okay.
Speaker 1:My point of this is, my job as a parent is to provide a space, to provide a container so he feels safe enough to figure out who he is. See, this world wants you to conform. This world wants you to be who it wants you to be. And when I went back home and I got to see how really I am the black sheep and I went to my wife, I said I just realized I'm the black sheep of the family. She looked at me. She goes uh yeah, you are the black sheep. You didn't know that. I said I had no idea. But here's what I realized when you start to own that you are different not different in a bad way, like society has made you think you were when you start to say that you realize that you are different because there is not another one of you, you're going to see your life, the fullness of life, start to show itself. It's going to show itself in ways that you could never even imagine.
Speaker 1:I sat there with Haley last night after she got drafted in a draft party. We were sitting there talking and she said I'm just so grateful, I was just so grateful. She said I feel like this past year I really got to really be who I was. And I said the reason why is because you dealt with the parts of yourself who did not have, didn't feel safe that it could be who it was. So the reason why I'm saying this is because healing is going to be the thing that helps you return back to yourself, your real self, the self that had all the power, the part of you that had been hiding.
Speaker 1:When you go back and retrieve it, when you go back and get it, you're going to see how powerful you actually were. You're going to start to see that, wow, I've been trying to create my life from a wounded identity, my life from a wounded identity, and that healing taking a pause and going back and dealing with those things is actually the path to me becoming unlimited and this is what strengthens my magnetism to attract. So I don't have to go chase no more. I don't have to go and look for something. I don't even have to go and hunt for it. I have become it and you start to see that you don't manifest by getting more. You manifest by releasing what you are not. Let me go and say it for the people in the back, just in case you were not paying attention or maybe the kids were hollering in the background you will not manifest by getting more. You will start to manifest by releasing what you are no longer. So the reason why I'm saying this is own the fact that you are the black sheep. Own the fact that you are different. Own the fact that you maybe don't look or talk like somebody else. Own that.
Speaker 1:I look back on my mother, my mother. I learned this from her Mom. I love you, I love you. I love you, mama. I love you for holding space and showing me the way to be just who you were.
Speaker 1:I remember I'm going to tell you the story, mom. We had this conversation before my mom grew up in 1951 in rural South Carolina, marion, south Carolina, to be exact. She grew up in a time when people who had skin like her, they were not accepted, meaning subconsciously, psychologically, you couldn't be who you were because who you were wasn't good enough. And my mom said I've always been different. If the crowd said go left, I'm going to go right. So much to the point that let me tell you how much of an outlier my mom wouldn't even she won't shave her legs. My mom ain't never shaved her legs, Never, never. And I used to ask her like mom, why won't you shave your legs? Why, because all my other friends growing up, all their mom's legs were shaved. They didn't have hair on their legs. And I used to feel so ashamed and so embarrassed and I'd be like mom, are you going to wear pants? She's like, no, I ain't wearing no pants. I'm like mom, please wear pants. She's like no, I ain't wearing no pants. Now, now I can see how so divinely orchestrated this was.
Speaker 1:My mama was showing me through example. She was showing me through her being. She was showing me through her being. She was showing me through her essence. I'm not going to conform to what society says. I'm not going to be what the world says I should be. I'm going to be who I am. My mom didn't get her ears pierced. She said I ain't get my ears pierced. I don't want to put holes in my ear. No, I ain't going to do it. And he'd be like mom, why don't you get your ears pierced? She said I ain't doing it because I don't want to. That's why. So the reason why I'm saying this I was fortunate enough unbeknownst to me at the time that I had picked two parents that taught me through their actions to be who they were, to own, how they were.
Speaker 1:So later in life, when I would have the context and I would have something to pull from, I would be able to say oh, this is how you did it. So this is how you transform. And I'm here to tell you this is the beauty of being a human. This is the power of the human spirit. There was no thing in this earth, there was no thing in this world of existence that you could not be. You could literally become anything that you desired, as long as you could get rid of the parts of yourself that did not believe it was worthy, it was capable, the parts of you that was scared to step out on who it was, the part of you that had been hiding in the shadow. If you would step out on it and I'm here to tell you, it's going to be scary. You're going to feel fear because we've been so programmed to be like everybody else. But I'm just here to tell you, if you will step out on it, life will honor it. I swear on everything, life will honor it.
Speaker 1:I look back at my old text message and I told Haley. I said, hey, this is going to be the best year of your life. I told her April 1st, 2024. I said this year will be the best year of your life. And we sat last night and we reflected. I said look at everything that's happened. You went to the Olympics, you won a medal, you were three on three USA basketball MVP, all these things, all that. Look at this. I said do you see now what I was telling you? All you did was just own a little bit more of who you were. And I told her I said you're in the league now. You made it, but don't think that the work is done. It's not over. It's time to get to the Hall of Fame now. It's time to be an all-star, it's time to be a starter. I use her as an example.
Speaker 1:I got another client who I work with a place for the Cleveland Cavaliers. His name is Ty Jerome Ty came to me. I've known Ty for five, six years, since he's been in the league, and he came to me and he said man, I got to get my mind right. I'm in a contract year. If I don't figure this out, I ain't going to be in the league. I said, okay, cool, easy, simple, not easy, simple. Let's figure this out. Then, who do you want it to be? Who do you want it to be? He said I want to do this. This is okay, cool.
Speaker 1:How about this time to figure out what parts of yourself don't align with that and I know this is sometimes. This isn't cool. To say healing, oh, I'm not. I mean oh, no, no, we can call it whatever you want, but let's go back and deal with those flaws. Let's go back and deal with those parts of ourselves we've been denying. Let's go deal with those. I said it's going to take some time, it's going to take six plus months, but I promise you, I promise you stick to it and you have a daily standards, meaning you got things that you do every single day that will keep you in alignment with the life that you say you want to live and you continue to heal and you continue to journal, you continue to meditate, you continue to do all of these things that support this outcome. I promise you, I swear on everything. I'm not a betting man, but I will put everything on you that this will happen. Well, here we are.
Speaker 1:Season's over, his goal was to play in 50 NBA games. He played in 70. He's the first player in the history of the NBA ever to average at least 12 points in less than 19 minutes a game. And he said, man bro, I see what you was telling me way back then. So there's no secret. The secret was you. That's the secret. The secret is you going back and finding your parts of yourself. And it doesn't matter. You can play the NBA, the WNBA, the NFL, you can be working at FedEx, it does not matter.
Speaker 1:When you make healing your full-time job, meaning when you make it your full-time job to figure out who you are and these distorted perspectives that do not align with where you want to go. I swear on everything. I will sign it. Get your money back. You will achieve it. You will achieve it. You will accomplish it.
Speaker 1:And I promise you, the world is going to tell you to stop.
Speaker 1:The world's going to make you look like it ain't going to happen. The world's going to tell you to tone it down. The world's going to tell you to get back in the box. The world's going to tell you no, you don't fit in this container. I'm here to tell you good. If the world's telling you you need good, that means you're in alignment, that means you're walking your walk, that means you are owning who you are. And when you own who you are, life has no choice but to own you. Life has no choice but to honor you, because the vibration is what this world honors. This is what the universe honors. It doesn't reward effort. That's an old paradigm. It doesn't reward grinding. That's not what the universe rewards. It rewards alignment. So when you're grinding, when you're pushing, when you're swimming upstream, you're not aligned.
Speaker 1:So I'm just telling you, I'm just sharing with you this journey, as always with this podcast, do whatever it is you need to do to get back and deal with those parts of yourself, because you ain't going to be able to outperform these wounds. I'm just going to tell you right now you ain't going to be able to outperform these wounds. Don't even waste your time. You ain't going to be able to outperform them, you ain't? It's like trying to run from something that's going to catch you eventually. You're going to tire yourself out and it's going to eat you alive. Why don't you just stop running from it and heal it, become friends with it, let it become an ally, that part of you that you've been putting in the closet? When you start to deal with it, watch how life starts to honor you and mirror you. And this is the celebration. This is the celebration. So I just wanted to share. This is the celebration, this is the celebration, so I just wanted to share this with you all.
Speaker 1:There is no secret. The secret was you. The secret of you was those parts of yourself that were misaligned, the parts of you that lived in guilt, that lived in fear, that live in shame. You know when you will do, because it comes up the part of you that feel like you had to please the world Be in the world but be not of the world. You hear, when Jesus was saying this, he was telling you be in the world but be not of it. You are in your own universe, your own reality, shaped by your perspectives and your perception. Retell the stories and you'll shift your perspective. And when you shift your perspective. You will change the way you look at yourself. So keep going. We use Haley as an example, or Ty Jerome or myself or anybody else, but this is how you become unlimited.
Speaker 1:I'm here to provide as many resources as I can. In this podcast I mean anything, coaching, dg, mindset, community. This is what I know I've been put here to do. And the world was mirroring that. I had a lady come up to me, the gate agent in Indianapolis. I didn't get her name. I wish I would have. I would have given you a shout out. She came up to me. She said she came on the plane. She said, hey, I just want to tell you that I listen to your podcasts and it's helped me so much.
Speaker 1:And then we were sitting at a draft. At the draft, this lady came up to me behind. She tapped me on the shoulder. She goes are you Derek Graham? I said, yeah, she goes, I listen to your podcast. And I said to my sister her sister just got drafted. Cheyenne Sellers plays at played at Maryland. Shout out Sydney Sellers. Thank you for coming up and saying hello.
Speaker 1:This was just the universe mirroring me because for so long, like I told you, I didn't honor myself. I was too afraid to start a podcast because I was worried what people were going to think about me. Would they even listen? And then, finally, I healed enough and I finally started, and now the universe is reflecting that. So I'm no different than you. Go out here and get that mirror, go ahead and get life to start smiling at you. But you first have to start smiling at yourself and be patient with yourself. This is where we get mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all? It was you. It was you, it was you, it was you. As always, I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results. You.