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Your Miracles Are Infinite
True freedom comes when we refuse to conform to society's expectations and instead embrace our authentic selves. We discover our limitless nature when we're willing to walk through life's fires rather than bow down to external pressures.
• The biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego represents our choice to either conform or stand in our truth
• Society (like King Nebuchadnezzar) constantly asks us to bow down and shrink ourselves to fit others' expectations
• The fire represents the challenges we face when we choose authenticity over conformity
• Our greatest tests and hardships are actually initiations into our greater potential
• There's always "another one in the fire" with us—we're never truly alone in our challenges
• The pressure and heat don't destroy us—they prove what we actually are
• When we walk through fire with integrity, we emerge without even the "smell of smoke"
• The universe never runs out of miracles for those willing to stand in their sovereignty
• True greatness requires discomfort—you can't be both great and comfortable
• The hottest flames in our lives are when the greatest miracles and blessings appear
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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 Bro style framework with recorded masterclasses, live eight-week coaching courses that I personally teach and live Q&A coaching calls with me, plus a community that is built for growth. We're going to talk about entrepreneurship, money, healing, performance, mindset, growth everything that life entails. The first semester begins November 3rd, but you can start right now. Join today at dgmindsetcom. That's dgmindsetcom, and I will see you inside. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to your Results podcast. It's your boy, dg. We are here live. In an effect, I've been waiting to do this episode. This is probably more along the lines of inspiration. This is probably going to be something that will get you going, get yourself back up. But I told you last episode how I was listening to this old playlist of these old songs and there was a song that popped up in this playlist. I made this playlist over the course of years, but it was in arguably the worst quote, unquote hardest time of my life, and there was a song that popped up and it was called. It was made by a Christian artist, right, it was still in my Christian paradigm, christian land. It was called Another One in the Fire.
Speaker 1:Now, another One in the Fire is referring to if you go to the Bible and look at Daniel, the book of Daniel, chapter 3, verse 8 through 30, basically, king Nebuchadnezzar was this tyrant ruler who built this golden statue and he commanded everybody to worship and bow down to it. Okay, so then there was these three young boys right, named Shadrach, meshach and Abednego. They refused to bow down. They're saying I'm not going to worship that, I'm not going to say like they worship their God, right? So this is the story in the Bible. So then here's what Nebuchadnezzar did. He said, okay, well, if you ain't going to do things the way I want you to, meaning you ain't going to conform, we're going to throw your butt in the furnace. So the whole premise behind the story, the metaphor behind it, was these three boys would not conform to what society says they should conform to. So then they were punished and they were thrown in this furnace. But then the guards were watching and here's what they said. Right, the boys were like if we were thrown into this furnace? But then the guards were watching and here's what they said right, the boys were like if we were thrown into this furnace, we know that God's going to deliver us. So this is their belief, their faith that, no matter what it was, they were going to be okay. But even if he does not, they said we want you to know, oh king, that we will not serve your golden statues. We're not going to do it. Okay, so, all right, we got that part of it, we got the theological part, the scripture, out.
Speaker 1:Now in this story they're told to bow down, they get thrown into the fire, and now there's three of them walking in this fire. The fire is hot, right, and the guards are looking, because King Nebuchadnezzar is like yo, they burned yet. And the guards like nah, they ain't burning, chief. And he's like what do you mean? They ain't burning, I don't know. He's like well, did you throw them in there? Yeah, we put them in there. They're in there, we see them. They are in the fire, but they're not burning. And he said make the fire seven times hotter. He said fire seven times hotter. All right, we'll turn up the heat, but they wouldn't burn. And then they're looking at me like yo, there's something or someone else in there with them.
Speaker 1:Hold on now, let me go ahead and just Okay, okay, y'all ain't. Y'all ain't picking up what I'm dropping off right now? You see, you've been listening to this podcast for a while. You know that everything is uh symbolical, everything is metaphorical, everything is an analogy. You ain't picking up what I'm dropping off right now? They inside this fire. They supposed to be getting burnt, but they not getting burnt. And the guards say there's another one in the fire, there's something. There's something I don't know if it's the angel of God, I don't know what it is, but there's something that's protecting them. And now they starting to walk around. Good God, oh my, they starting to walk around the fire. Now they over here, rejoicing. Now they over here saying, yeah, oh Lord, I'm just imagining this is what they were doing. Maybe they weren't doing that, but they over here walking in the fire and there's something else in there that is protecting them. Good God, almighty, if you stay with me, I promise you I'm going to take you to where you need to be. If you just put your seatbelt on right now, if you drive right now, go ahead and pull over. Go and pull over right now.
Speaker 1:When we start to understand the metaphor, the deeper meaning behind it. These three men are you, king Nebuchadnezzar is society. It's the matrix. It's telling you to conform. It's telling you to bow down. It's telling you to be a certain way. It's telling you hey, you realize you can't do that, because nobody from your family with your economic status has ever been able to accomplish anything like that. You do realize that you better be more realistic, because people from your place, people who look like you, don't really do stuff like that. You see, this is what happens. And then here's what we do we take the paradigm, we take the collective consciousness, belief, and then we make it our own.
Speaker 1:So the whole premise behind this these men are basically saying no, we ain't going to bow down to no system. We ain't going to bow down to what you believe. We ain't going to do it. Notice what they said, though. They said no, even if it cost them everything.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm just going to stop right there, because some of us out here playing, some of us out here halfway playing right now, yeah, I really want that. Well, how come you ain't willing to let go of everything then? Huh, oh yeah, you do it as long as things look good as long as it's hunky dory. But you don't really want to do it. You's hunky-dory, but you don't really want to do it. You don't really want to become her. You don't really want to accomplish that. You ain't really trying to. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:They say we're willing to let go of all of it. I'm willing to go be thrown in the fire for me not to conform. I'm willing for all my friends to leave me if that means I'm going to be who I truly am. Good God, almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm willing to walk away from the dynamics of this relationship because I know that this doesn't work. I'm willing to lose it all. That's how serious I am when it comes to me not betraying myself. And this, energetically, is what this story is trying to say. These men are saying, even if it costs us everything, we ain't going to betray ourselves. I ain't going to leave who I am. I'm not going to betray who I truly am. Okay, so now here's where it gets crazy. Instead of them being destroyed, instead of them being burnt up, they walk through it untouched.
Speaker 1:If we really want to go deeper, there was something greater that was walking with them. There was a supernatural force, a supernatural energy that science hasn't quite quantified, science can't quite come to grips of how. You know what we call these. We call these miracles. So you over here, trying to use that logical, linear, egoic thinking mind that uses problem solving and reasoning and measurements and scientific equations and the scientific method, let me just go on a tangent real quick about scientific method. I was helping my son with his homework the other day. Let me just go on a tangent real quick about scientific method. I was helping my son with his homework the other day. I'm just going to stop. Let me go back to what I was talking about, because I'm going to forget what I'm. But scientific Good God, oh my, that's a whole nother podcast. But anyway, there was something that defied logic and this is what we call a miracle.
Speaker 1:I want you to look back on your life right now and look at the miracles that have taken place. Go ahead and start smiling. Go ahead and let it out. I said start smiling. You know to tell you a story real quick. When we lived out in the country for a little bit, there was a fox that, I guess, got underneath our deck and couldn't get out and he ended up passing away and he ended up dying. And when he died it looked like His mouth was like. It looked like he was smiling. And Ruby, she was young at the time, she was only like three years old, and Carly's mom was at the house and I heard her say she's like Meemaw there's a fox down here and I started to walk out and all she said was Meemaw, look, he's smiling, see that he ain't smiling. That thing is dead.
Speaker 1:Well, here's my, here's my point. You can go ahead and start smiling and look at all the miracles that have happened in your life, because you know that if it's happened once, it's going to happen again, moving forward. So the reason why I'm saying this, please write, write this down, please let this sizzle in your spirit. This universe never runs out of miracles. This universe ain't never going to run out of miracles for you in your life. So, instead of being destroyed, these boys were walking through it untouched because there was something that was protecting them. Please look at your life and look at where you are today and how you have made it to this point that you can even hear this.
Speaker 1:Do you realize how many supernatural things would have had to have taken place for you to get to where you were at, and not all of them are you aware of. Every once in a while you became aware of them. Every once in a while you saw, oh my goodness, I was about to die and then all of a sudden someone came in and said this, or I was about to walk in and then this happened. These are all these natural effects that we can't quite quantify from this third dimensional reality. Here's the crazy part Meshack, shadrach and Abednego eventually came up out of that fire.
Speaker 1:Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm just going to stop right here because I have to recap, because I don't think you really understand what I'm saying. The fire was the initiation, the fire was'm saying the fire was the initiation, the fire was the test. The fire was the first thing that had to take place for change to be spurred right. So the fire is never here to kill you. The hardship is never here to stop you. The test is never here to break you. It's here to reveal you. It's here to show you the part of you that was inside of you on another level. So pressure and heat don't destroy you. It's here to show you the part of you that was inside of you on another level. So pressure and heat don't destroy you. They don't destroy you. They only prove what you actually were.
Speaker 1:So now these boys refuse to conform. They refuse to bow down. Every single day we ask to bow down. Every single day we get asked unconsciously, somebody's telling you to limit yourself, somebody's putting you in a situation to make you shrink so you can meet their expectations. Good God, almighty, I don't think you're trying to hear what I'm saying right now. So here's what we end up doing we will bow down, we will shrink ourselves to fit in a box, to meet somebody else's expectations. We will do this in fear, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough. We continue to bow down, but these boys are saying I'm not doing it anymore. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:So the moment that you stop bowing, the moment you stop shrinking yourself to fit in somebody else's box, will be the moment that the fire shows up. I don't think you hear what I'm saying. The moment that you say I'm going to do, this life says show me, show me. I said to myself I'm going to help the world. I'm going to help the world. I used to say this all the time. I'm going to help the world Now, knowing what I know. The universe says show me, enter the test, enter the transformation, enter the catalyst, transformation, enter the catalyst.
Speaker 1:So when you realize that, the moment that you stop bowing and stop conforming to be something for somebody else, this is when the fire is going to show up. But that's also the same exact time that your power is going to show up too, because this universe ain't going to give you nothing that you weren't already equipped for. It can't give you something that you weren't strong enough to lift. I don't think you hear what I'm saying. It ain't going to put more on the bar than what you capable of lifting. Just because you ain't lifted it yet doesn't mean that you can't do it.
Speaker 1:But then here's the deal. Right, you're going to have to walk through that fire, meaning you're going to have to be willing to say I don't care if I lose everything, I don't care what, what, I don't care what it's going to look like, I'm going, I'm going all in on me, I'm going to go ahead and do this. And here's what ends up happening. On the front end, you think the fire is going to burn you. You think the fire is going to break you, you think it's going to stop you, but here's what it's actually going to do. It's going to set you free, because you know how it is when you go into something with your head held high and that back up straight, and you go into it consciously and willingly.
Speaker 1:When you get to the other side, don't you feel just a little bit more proud of yourself? You just feel just a little bit different. You walk by that mirror, you flex a little bit more. You say, dang, you do look good, you sexy mother. Don't we do that? I told my son the other day. I said you know why I work you so hard. You know why I do this, why we work out. The other day, I told you. The other day Carly went home again. I'm going to tell you what we did.
Speaker 1:He had to do box jumps. He had to do box jumps, not a box jumps. What he was doing was on 30 inches. He had to do 30 inches. He had to do 50 reps straight. 50 reps, box jump, Boom, boom, boom. As soon as you got done with that, you do 40, 40 box jumps. As soon as you get done with that, go back and do your 20 lutz. As soon as you get done with that, do 30 box jumps. As soon as you get done with that, do 20. And we went all the way down to 10. I didn't hear a peep out of him, I just held the box.
Speaker 1:He was out here doing his thing. Your shoes, we're going to the track now. We went to the track track about five, seven minutes away. He had to run three miles. I ran three miles with him. Got done with that. I said okay, let's hurry up and get home. Get yourself a quick snack, get your shoes, we're going to the gym now. Went to the gym. Me and him had an hour and 15 minute workout on the court.
Speaker 1:Now I told Carly I got home. I said I'm going to be honest with court. Now I told Carly I got home. I said I'm gonna be honest with you. And I told Hudson this too. I said I'm gonna be honest. I purposely tried to break you today. I purposely did it. I purposely tried to be the fire. I said you know why? Because every time that you go in a fire you're going to burn off that bulge part of you that couldn't go with where you can go. And I say you know what? You know what? Not one time did you break. I said this is how I know you different, son. This is how I know you different.
Speaker 1:And I told Carly she was sitting in her I had to go to Lowe's and go get a. I had to go to Lowe's and get a crane to pick her jaw up off the ground. When I told her everything, she said let me pick that jaw. She goes. I said he didn't cry, he didn't nothing. Not one time Didn't complain. She said what I said yeah, but here's my point.
Speaker 1:We think that the fire is going to burn us. It ain't going to burn you, it's going to burn us. It ain't going to burn you, it's going to refine you. It's going to make you just a little bit more different. You now, now you're going to burn off the mask. You're going to burn off the part of you that didn't resonate with the future version of you. You see how it says the part of you that needed approval, the part of you that needed validation.
Speaker 1:And here's what's going to end up happening. You're going to discover something. You're going to discover that you were never really walking alone. There was always something Could be your spirit guides, could be your ancestors, could be your guardian angels. There was always something that was with you, that was walking with you. I look back on it now. I had so many supernatural things happen to me to get me to this point and now, since I've been to the other side with a couple of ceremonies, I realize I was never going to fall and I was never going to get burned, never. I may get skinned up a little bit, but those powers that be on the other side, they were they, they, they on the other side cheer and say girl, get that fire, keep going, go, you ain't going to get burned. And the moment that you think you will get burned, guess what? We're going to come on in here. And here's the crazy part you ready these three boys, meshack, shadrach and Abednego. Do you know that when they came out they didn't even have the smell of smoke on them? They didn't even have the smell of smoke on them.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go ahead and stop there and let that marinate, because I know for a fact you ain't trying to hear nothing. I'm saying when you stand in your truth, when you stand in your sovereignty, you stand and own who you are. You walk in this divine consciousness that you actually are. You sit there with your chest out and your chin up and you tell yourself I know what I am and I'm not going to let the world tell me what I'm not anymore. I'm not going to be something for somebody else. I'm going to walk in who I am and it's going to be scary and there's going to be flames and I'm going to be afraid. But here's the deal. The residue from the past version of you is eventually going to start to fade off and you ain't even going to be able to tell people what you really went through. You're just radiating.
Speaker 1:You have a presence about you. You have a power about you. What do the kids call it? They call it that aura. Your aura gonna be different. Different people gonna look at you and say I don't know what it is, look at you and say I don't know what it is, but I'm attracted to her. I don't know what it is, but that woman right there she magnetic than a moon. I don't know what it is. She looked like she'd have been through it and she made it. I don't know what it is, but she went through the fire and she made it and I'm ready to get burnt too. I want to get burnt up with you. You see how this works. Burnt too, I want to get burnt up with you. You see how this works.
Speaker 1:So the reason why I'm saying this is because they turned that heat up. They turned it up. You do realize that they turned the heat up. They turned it up. King Nebuchadnezzar said make it seven times hotter. The heat's going to turn up right before the breakthrough. Y'all you know the heat going to turn up. What do they say? It's darkest before dawn, yeah, dawn, yeah, yes, absolutely. Because when you refuse to compromise, the heat's always going to turn up. When you refuse to be a people pleaser, the heat's always going to turn up. Because this is life's way of checking you. It wants to make sure. Do you really mean it? Are you bluffing? You out here, bull cutting right now? You out here telling us one thing, but you act as something different. Turn that heat up. They over here talking about they. They ain't gonna stop praising. They turn it up. See if they see if they change that. And you see, the hotter it gets, the closer you are to that breakthrough.
Speaker 1:So please understand that, that golden calf, that, uh, nebuchadnezzar was talking about, that. That didn't have to do with religion. That didn't have nothing to do with religion. That had to do with conformity. And here's what I mean by conformity. Every time you seek to please somebody else, you conform. Every time that you conform, you're living from a place of scarcity. I'm afraid that they won't accept me anymore. I'm afraid what they may think about me. Well, afraid that they won't accept me anymore, I'm afraid what they may think about me. So here's what we do. You ready? I'm going to say something and I'm going to go ahead and apologize in advance, in advance. So I'm apologizing in advance for what I'm about to say.
Speaker 1:Some of us would rather play small, just so we can fit in, because we too scared of what it may look like if we stand out. Okay, well, I'll play small, I'll play safe, because I want to fit in, fit in what fit in the box, fit in the box, stand out outside of what the box. This is why you're supposed to think outside of the box, think outside of the limitation. So the reason I'm saying this I've told you this many times before you can't be great and be comfortable. You ain't going to be both them boys, them boys.
Speaker 1:Who was in that furnace? That is what greatness is. I'm being everything that I know I am, and I ain't worried about whether I'm going to get burnt. I'm willing to lose it all, I ain't worried about it. And at that moment the universe says oh, they really are who they say they are. And at that moment the universe says, oh, they really are who they say they are. And this supernatural current, this miracle, this blessing, comes in Boom bam. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1:So here's the lesson Stop bowing, step into the fire. That's where your freedom is, that's where it is. And here's the deal. Oh, the fire can also be the fire. That's where your freedom is, that's where it is. And here's the deal. Oh, the fire can also be the backlash. You're going to stop people pleasing.
Speaker 1:Guess what? You're going to lose some friends. I ain't going to lie when I say friends. I put them in air quotes. They weren't really friends to begin with. They weren't friends to begin with. You know what they were. They weren't mud and needle, they were a bottle. They were a form of addiction, because you became addicted to pleasing them. That was how you numbed yourself out.
Speaker 1:So I don't really have to deal with what is going on inside of me. Oh boy, I have a wound that I really struggle with people not liking me. Oh boy, I really want her to like me. She makes me feel important. Yeah, she treats me like crap, but she makes me feel important. Okay, well, I'll just keep doing this, so that way I don't have to deal with the wound. I'll just keep pleasing her. So that way, hopefully, I don't have to deal with this wound of me not feeling like I'm enough. I won't face my shadow. So, so a lot of us with this wound of me not feeling like I'm enough, I won't face my shadow.
Speaker 1:So a lot of us, we try to avoid the fire, so we bow down. That's what usually the masses are, and I'm saying from an egoic place or a place of separation or division. But the reality of it is most of us. It's unconscious, we don't even realize, because it's a program, it's running automatically. I'm programmed to be a people pleaser. I'm programmed to put myself last.
Speaker 1:I just told my son today, in the car I was dropping off at school, I said please, please, please, please, own who you are and what you are, please. The world has been waiting for it. The world is waiting for people who walk in their sovereignty. Just because you walk in your sovereignty, that don't have nothing to do with nobody else, because guess what? They supposed to do the same thing too. They supposed to believe in themselves, they supposed to accept themselves, they supposed to love themselves. And just because I do that with myself, that doesn't mean you supposed to love yourself any less. It's no knock on you, but here's what we do.
Speaker 1:We've been conditioned to bow down. We've been conditioned to put ourselves second. We've been conditioned to be lowly. We've been conditioned to be. Oh, we'll be humble. What the fuck? What? So I'm going to put myself in a box and shrink myself down, and then we're going to justify and call that humility. Nah, I'm here to tell you right now.
Speaker 1:Now, the one who can stand in their truth and stand in their sovereignty will be the one who will discover that this fire was here to forge you. It was here to develop you. It was never meant to destroy you. So for, for everyone who's listening to this right now, please, you will have fires, you will have tests, all of these things are coming, but I want you to remember this it's just your initiation into this new life, this new existence, this new opportunity. It was never to take you out. It was never. It was never to take you out. It takes you out of what you aren't. That's what it does. It takes you out of what you are not.
Speaker 1:You capable of being a butterfly, but you scared to get up on that branch. That branch was the fire. That was the fire. So we'll stay caterpillar. We'll stay caterpillar, knowing good and well we about to breach our limit, we about to reach our limit. I'm sitting here eating all these leaves I'm going to get to a point I done ate too much and I'm not going to be able to get up on the branch. And guess what? I'm going to die as a caterpillar, not fully reaching my potential Of being this butterfly that could go off anywhere, this butterfly that this world would look at and say, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. We have been waiting to see this version of you. So here's the beauty of it to see this version of you. So here's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1:When you come up out of that fire and you realize that there was another one in there with you, you realize how untouchable you actually are. You realize I can't actually get hurt, I can't get burned, I can't. You realize I can't actually get hurt, I can't get burned, I can't lose, I can't fail. I may have situations that happen, but those were just initiations, right, those were just opportunities. So we all will have a moment in our life, all of us, when life is going to say hey, you, hey, you either bow down or you burn.
Speaker 1:Which one is it? Which one are you going to do, girlfriend? No, I'm talking to you. Yeah, I'm talking to you right now. You act like I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to you right now.
Speaker 1:He purely can't see me. He's not talking to me. No, I'm talking to you right now. He purely can't see me. He's not talking to me. No, I'm talking to you right now. Yeah, which one are you going to do? You going to bow down or you going to burn?
Speaker 1:You tell me, no matter of fact, don't tell me. Show the world, show the world. Most of us, not right, not wrong, most of us are going to bow, most of us are going to bow. But I'm here to tell you this the ones who burn them, the ones who change the game, those are the ones who bring in the new earth. Those are the ones who we will look at as the illumined leader saying oh my goodness, there's more in me. I know I can do this.
Speaker 1:So the reason why I'm saying this you ain't never going to lose, you ain't never going to get burned up. You ain't never will, never, will, never, will, never will. Because even if the fire touches you, even if it does, all it's doing is burning off the old parts of you that didn't belong. And just because you didn't know that they didn't belong and you hold on to them didn't mean they didn't need to go See. A lot of times we think we got burned. Oh my gosh, that was so hard. The hardest time of my life. Six years later, man, that was the best thing that ever happened. I needed to get that. I didn't even know I was over here walking around with this old, crusty skin on. I didn't know the fire was going to burn it off. I thought it was going to burn me.
Speaker 1:You see, you needed to get your butt put on the bench. You needed to lose that job. You needed for that marriage not to work. You needed for your health to decline. You needed to lose all that money. You needed all of these things to happen because that which is inside of you was greater than what you were doing at that moment and life was saying I need you to be more, because I did not incarnate in this physical existence for you to stay the same. That is not why I'm doing this. I know that which I actually am is greater than so much more, but we're going to have to change and your butt is too hard-headed in this physical reality. So I got to help you. I got to throw you in the fire and then, when you start to understand the mechanism of it, you're going to start to see fires coming from a long ways away. You're going to start to see fires coming from a long ways away. Instead of running from them.
Speaker 1:You will be lined up waiting, you going to turn the furnace up. We did seven times. They're going to turn this thing off. Let's see what we got to do, because I know what's going to come on the other side of it. The world thinks they've seen it. They ain't seen nothing yet. I'm just telling you right now. I'm telling you right now the world ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till they see this version of you who's been burned. Wait till they see this version of you, who burned all this bullshit up off you. Wait till they see this version of you and they gonna say, dang, girl, you look like you. Well, I don't know how to say it, but, girl, you are glowing. What is this, dang? What is this you look like? What is it your hair? Nah, nah, it ain't my hair. I mean, I did change my hair. Maybe I lost a little weight. I just burned off the bullshit. That's all it was, and I can show you how to do it.
Speaker 1:Is it a diet? No, it's not a diet. Well, I guess it kind of is. It's kind of like a diet. It's really more about letting go. What do I have to let go of? Tell me, you got to let go of the stuff that you know good and well. You've been putting off that stuff, that stuff, you know what? It is the part of you that bring up fears, the part of you that lives in scarcity. When you let go of that part of you, you're going to start to glow, you're going to start to hit. You're going to start to people say, oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. So for everybody here, you're listening to this, you're listening to this. I encourage you to just keep moving. Keep moving, don't change for the world, be everything that you know you're truly capable of being.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes it looks like it's not working. That's the fire. I see this all the time. It's like it's not. I know you may not get the result that you want at that moment.
Speaker 1:I'm sure the boys, when they went to it, when they were like, yeah, we, we, we bowed down to nothing, we ain't gonna be. No, we, we worship our god. And then in nebuchadnezzar's, like, throw them in the fire. They were probably like, oh dang, okay, well, uh, matter of fact, yeah, we're going to burn up anyway. Might as well, just keep on going. Just stick with it. Stick with it, stay with it. And I told you that furnace ain't going to burn you. That furnace is going to create a new frequency and the fire is going to be proof of the new frequency. And see, now you start walking and standing in integrity, even if it costs you.
Speaker 1:I was willing to lose everything. I didn't care. I've come to the point where I probably look crazy, but I said I don't care. I have to follow what my soul is calling me to do, and the world ain't going to remember it. Sorry, the world may not understand it, but they're going to remember it. Huh, do we see that's right? From a coal to a diamond, right From the pain to the progress, from the test to the testimony. We see this alchemical process happening all the time, from a caterpillar to a butterfly, from a tadpole to a toad. We can go on and on. But get your butt in that fire and please know that you will never be alone. Fire, and please know that you will never be alone.
Speaker 1:The irony of this, while this is coming to me in real time, we had a little fire pit in the backyard and I just go out there. Sometimes, when the weather gets nice, I sit out there by myself and I just sit there and stare at the flame. And Hudson came out there and he's like, is that fire hot? And I looked at him. I said well, I'm not going to answer that because I think you know the answer. But I think what you're asking is how hot is this? I said you see that little blue flame right there. He goes. Yeah, I go. That's the hottest flame, he goes. I thought that was the coolest. I said no, no, no, no, no, no, that's the hottest flame. So why am I saying this For you?
Speaker 1:Please know that the hottest flames in your life, the hottest flames is when life is going to show up the most. The hottest flame is when the miracles are going to come. Rushing in. The hottest flames is when the miracles are going to come. Rushing in. The hottest flames is when the blessings are going to be coming. You're going to be like how, the how? How did this happen? How did I get to this point? How? I didn't even think I was going to make it. How in the world did I get here? I didn't think I was gonna make it. I was figuring, I'm trying to figure out how to make it. How did I get to this point? Because you kept walking around in that fire. You just kept walking and people were looking in. They were like, hey, she ain't burnt yet. He ain't burnt yet. Nah, he ain't burning. There's another one in the fire with him. There's another one in the fire with you too. So please know that, whatever season you're in, you gonna come out, you gonna make it out of it and guess what? You ain't gonna have no smoke on your clothes. Anybody ever had smoke on their clothes before I have true story.
Speaker 1:I'm a freshman in college. I went downstairs to go get a drink from the vending machine. I put some ramen noodles in the Microwave. My roommate, anthony Momola Anthony I don't even know if you listen Went downstairs to go get a drink from the vending machine. I put some ramen noodles in the microwave. My roommate, anthony Momola Anthony I don't even know if you listen to this right now, but Anthony was sitting there playing a brand new video game. We got this video game for PlayStation 2. It was called Metal Gear Solid Great game. Anybody ever played it? Great game. Well, you couldn't save it. So I said, hey, I'm going to go run downstairs. You couldn't save it. So I said, hey, I'm going to go run downstairs. He played Metal Gear Solid. It was actually my game to begin with. Anyway, I should have told him to get up off that game. Anyway, I walked downstairs to go get a drink and I put my ramen in the microwave, but I didn't put water in the bowl. And to tell you how much of an idiot I was too, the bowl was plastic. That bowl was yellow and it's plastic. When I got back, that bowl wasn't yellow and plastic anymore. That bowl was full of carcinogens and it was burnt. I got back on that floor.
Speaker 1:I'm like what is all this smoke going on? What is it? I got closer and closer to my room. I'm like the smoke is coming from my bedroom. I look at Anthony just sitting there playing Metal Gear Solid. The room looked like you ever seen that movie Backdraft. You know the movie Backdraft. It was about the firemen. They tell you to get low when there's a fire. You had to get low just to move through this room because there was so much smoke. And I walked in here. I said Anthony, what are you doing? He's like man, I couldn't save the game. I said, so you're just going to let it burn.
Speaker 1:My point of this whole story was you know, in college you got a closet, but it ain't really a closet. There's no door you can close. The door is just open and you just hang stuff up. I had to throw all them clothes away. I thought you could wash smoke out. I thought you could wash smoke out of clothes. You couldn't wash no smoke out of these clothes. These clothes I had a anybody. You guys remember Fat Farm clothes? These clothes I had a anybody. You guys remember Fat Farm. Remember Fat Farm? I had a Fat Farm velour sweatsuit. When I tell you, I was dressed to impress. I had to throw that sweatsuit away. That was my favorite sweatsuit. It was a Carolina blue, baby blue. I had to throw that thing away because it smelled like I just smoked a brisket for eight hours.
Speaker 1:My point of this is this You're going to go through with with something, but ain't nobody gonna be able to smell that smoke on you. Ain't nobody gonna see the residual effects. I'm telling you firsthand people have no idea what I've been through. People have no idea what you've gone through. People have no idea to the depths that you've gone. People have no idea. All they're seeing is your light right now. Ain't nobody gonna see your darkness that you went through, but I'm here to tell you that's okay because you shine and brighter and that's all that mattered anyway. So keep going, keep going, keep going. You know, look, yeah, I highly look. This is.
Speaker 1:This is part of the reasons why I started this academy, this school I started DG Mindset Academy School of Growth was to help people weekly, like, really, like I don't know, my mom was a teacher and like I didn't think I wanted to teach, but I do want to teach, so I like that's why I created a school to teach twice a week, just like a professor. I really started calling myself a professor True story, like I refer to myself as professor at home and I've been super wanting to help my son with homework and I'm like, why am I doing this right now? Because I just learned really what a mixed number was yesterday an improper fraction and all that. I'm sorry, I'm getting nauseous right now even thinking about it. And I looked at Carla and said what in the world is this? What is this? I'm over here, 42 years old, soon to be 43, and I don't even know what a mixed number is. I don't even know what it is. I know what it is but I don't know the name of it. And then I pulled out my phone and said look, look at this calculator I got it's going to do everything anyway. So here's what I do.
Speaker 1:I went on chat GPT and I was asking chat how to do this math. Chat was sitting here breaking it down, showing me. I said OK, thank you, chat. Oh, you're welcome DG. My point of this is this we got taught a lot of things in school, but a lot of things we didn't get taught that we needed for this game of life. So this is why I started the DG Mindset Academy School of Growth.
Speaker 1:I know you heard the commercial earlier, but you can get yourself signed up. And here's the deal. Take it month by month. We're going to have courses, we have semesters. It's literally like a real school, and I'm going to be your professor. So I encourage you to show up to class, because I was the kid who wouldn't show up to class and I know how that goes. But don't you not show up for class this time around, because you're going to get some stuff which you can lose in life. But I just want to tell you keep going. This is the whole point of this podcast that you may be in the fire, but you ain't getting burned up, you ain't, you ain't, and keep on going and, as always, I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.