The Pathway To Your Results

Sacrificing For Our Children's Sake

• Derick Grant • Season 5 • Episode 225

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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. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Your Results Podcast. It is your brethren, Derek Grant. Welcome. Oh goodness. We're gonna go kind of deep here. We're gonna go kind of deep. Okay. Um, this is something I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a little insight to. Last week I was in Tulum, had a retreat. It was a great retreat. Transformation took place. Thank you for all the attendees that were there. Uh always cool to witness when people grow. Like to see the amount of transformation that can take place in like three days is wild to witness, but um always a privilege and an honor. But I stayed after and I had three ceremonies uh to myself with me and Jesus. You know, that's always a treat anytime I get to talk to him. But um, I like to share with what I've gained and what I what I've walked away with. But um there was something that came up in my uh first ceremony that that then and and I asked Jesus, you know, I'm on this program and I'm gonna ask him, like, okay, some ceremonies I'd be out here purging, it'd be rough stuff, and then some ceremonies I'm like, so you know, me, I had to ask him, I'm like, yo, what is this? What is today? I need to know what today is. And he like, he thinks what I'm asking, I'm being like, I'm I'm questioning him, but I'm like, yo, I just need to know. So anyway, he's like, this ceremony, I made this uh, this particular brew to help you with restoring balance in your life. I'm like, okay, okay, cool. So I didn't know I that was enough. That's all I needed to know. I'm like, so anyway, go ahead and adjust the medicine, sit in ceremony, talk to him. And then all of a sudden, I start to see my children, and I see them walking on their path. And they're walking on their path, and then there's all of these things that are coming to knock them off their path. Sometimes we refer to them as distractions, sometimes we refer to this as adversity, sometimes we refer to this as struggle, sometimes we refer to this as setbacks, enemies, whatever you want to call it, anything that knocks you off your path. And then I saw myself jumping in front of the kids. So these things that in the form of the ceremony that were showing up as missiles, these missiles were not hitting them and knocking them off their path. So I'm asking the medicine, I'm like, what does this mean? What is this? And the medicine said, We're restoring the balance because you had been sacrificing yourself so much for your children. And I'm like, what does that mean though? A sacrifice. We all sacrifice for our kids. And here's what it did. It took me on a story, a journey to show how not only as a parent, because it ain't just, you don't have to be a parent to sacrifice for the generation that's coming. We all have wounds and we have missiles that were shot into us from other forms, from other people. I want you to think of it like this. Somebody rejected you, somebody abandoned you. They shot you with a missile. That missile went into you, but it did not detonate at that moment. That missile went into you and it started to ooze poison later. It was a delayed missile, meaning the thing that was going to harm you started later, not from the moment. It started later in life. So, what it was the ceremony was showing me, it was showing me how these things that have happened in my life, these missiles, by me working on them and fixing them, it's actually keeping your children from adopting the same poison that you had by it be getting passed down. We're talking ancestral generational trauma. Hold on now, let me get started. Let me get myself comfortable right now. We all have something that we went through in life. We've all had some type of uh uh neglect, abandonment, uh uh wounds, rejection, whatever you want to call it. We all have had something that caused us to look at ourselves from a distorted lens. And then here's what ends up happening. We then end up unconsciously passing it down to the generation below us. We end up giving it to our children. But when it said you are making the sacrifice, the sacrifice means the transformation. You are willing to transform and you are willing to replace one version of you with a new version of you. So now it shows my son specifically, he's walking down his path, and his goal, his dream is to get to the highest level in basketball. And then all of a sudden it has these missiles that are coming at him. It has parents who say, Oh, well, he can't do it, or it has coaches saying, Well, he's not. And now here I am jumping in front because I asked myself, why am I coaching him in basketball right now? Why am I doing this? I never, I thought I was, I told myself I wasn't gonna coach anymore. I told myself I was just gonna chill. And then Mother Aya said, You're making a sacrifice. You're making a sacrifice, meaning you're helping him and you're enduring things that he won't have to deal with that you had to deal with. So you're being a buffer. The reason why I'm saying this, and I'm using basketball as an analogy, we all are doing this with our children. Every time that you work on yourself, you become a buffer. You become a bulletproof vest so the missiles don't hit your children. We hear this all the time with people who make it to a certain level. It's like, man, my mom worked two jobs and she wasn't home and all this. She was sacrificing. I heard, I was watching, anybody watch the starting five on Netflix? I was watching them, I was uh in Mexico, I was watching the starting five on Netflix, and they follow around five guys from the NBA, and one of them was Kevin Durant, and they were talking about how he's a mama's boy. And he said, My mom had me when she was a teenager. And then they start asking the mom, and the mom goes, I sacrifice, I sacrificed giving up so my son could make it. I wanted to give up, she said. I wanted to stop. I had two boys. I'm a teenager, I'm a single mom, but I sacrificed giving up so they would have a chance. And now, obviously, you know, Kevin Durant just hit, I don't know, it's like$588 million earned in contracts. He's the highest paid player ever in the history of the NBA. But what people won't see is the sacrifice that his mother made. So he could get to that point. Now I'm using this as we're using a public figure. Hear me when I say this, y'all please hear me. A lot of us as parents, we make sacrifices every single day. You driving them to the ball field, you sit down with them, you doing homework, you over here holding them, and you taking on their energy and their emotions when they had a rough day. A lot of us are sacrificing for our children and the world shall never see it. But please, please, please, please, do not think for one iota that it's not making a difference in this world. Please do not think for one second that your sacrifice won't be uttered. Please don't, and I'm not talking about like, oh, well, if I do good and I help, you know, sacrifice my kids, then you know the universal pay me back. I'm not talking about this distorted religious transactional sacrifice. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about now your children don't have to carry the same energy that you walked with. They don't have to carry the same energetic book bag that has slowed you down. They ain't gotta walk with it. And now, guess what? You may not see it in your lifetime. But you better believe that opportunities, you better believe that new levels are gonna be hit by your children, by those coming up after you, because there's a new level of awareness, there's a new frequency. Do we see how this works? So let's understand on a deeper level. You went through something in life. You did. I don't know you. I don't need to know you. But I know if you hear a human being, you went through something. And let's just use the example of this. Mom and dad split up, dad left, you never heard from him ever again. Let's just say that's what it was. And now you reach out to dad, you call dad, dad, nothing. Dad, dad moved on. Dad went to start his own family. And now you look at yourself every day in the mirror. Feeling like maybe I'm not lovable. Maybe I'm unworthy. I mean, maybe there's something wrong with me. Because if there wasn't, I mean, why would my father not like he would you'd think he'd like? And then here's what ends up happening. Here you are, 30, 35 years old. And that little eight-year-old, that little nine-year-old inside of you is still thinking that. And now you have a promotion, you have an opportunity to get a job that will, oh my goodness, that will create generational wealth. But you won't even apply for it. You won't even put your name in for it. Because that little girl inside says, I ain't good enough anyway. So now here's what ends up happening. Something will happen in life that will cause your children to trigger this eight-year-old inside of you. Something will happen. And I'm saying this in a nice way. I'm saying this in like, well, you know good and well. Them kids gonna trigger you. You know that. They're gonna get you, they're gonna touch you in places you ain't never. And you're gonna be like, loud, why is this child acting like why did somebody somebody come get this child before I put my hands on them? Please come get. Because they're touching the eight-year-old inside of you who feels unworthy. Now the ego has to defend it, has to protect it. But you don't realize you took a missile. So your child wouldn't have to take it. And see now, because you don't like the way this feels, you start working on yourself. And because you start working on yourself, you come to a level of awareness and you heal that, you change that narrative, you change that story that you had with your father. And now you start operating out of a place of wholeness instead of operating out of a wound. And now your children, they're getting a side of you that you never even got growing up. They're getting unconditional love from you now. And that's not something that you received. But do you see how this works? You had to make the sacrifice. You went without so they could go with. Good God almighty. I don't think you hear me. That is a bar. Don't you at me on social media. You went without so they could go with. So I realized this. I'm gonna tell you a true story. I came home from basketball practice the other day, and it was the day before I was left to go to on my retreat. Now, anytime I have to leave for a week, I was, I don't know why. It's something I'm working on. I think it's a wound. Actually, I know it's a wound. I'm working on it. I like to cram everything. Like if I leave on Thursday, I cram everything in between Monday and Wednesday. Now I'm stressed out of my mind going out and leaving Thursday, right? So Wednesday, I'm already on 10. I'm on 10 because I know I got to leave Thursday for a week. Okay. I have like six, seven calls a day. I'm exhausted. Well, it's the first day of tryouts or uh practice. No, it was it was tryouts. So I go to tryouts and I'm one of the coaches. So I'm like sitting down with the head coach and we're going through everything. And I'm watching my son. I'm like, he looked like he's chilling right now. Now, granted, there's a lot of kids at the tryouts, probably more than needed, but I still look and I'm like, man, why does he look like he's like slouching off? I said, ain't no big deal. Didn't bother me, nothing. Didn't bother me. But then after we sit here going through me and the head coach are going through everything, and I'm going through all the who I think should stay, who I think should leave. He's going, and I'm if I say yes, he says no. If I say no, he says yes. And I'm like, damn, why is this, why is this bothering me a little bit? It's okay for people to disagree. It's actually the beauty of life. But for some reason, this is bothering me, it's triggering me. And I'm like, and I know it's not him, it ain't him, but I'm like, what is this inside of me? So anyway, we start walking out to the car, and me and me and my son would get in the car and I'm asking him, like, yo, were you kind of like slacking back? He's like, yeah, because there were so many kids. Um, and then when he said yeah, I didn't hear nothing else. You know, when he watched Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown. You know, when the teacher would start talking and after he said yes, I didn't hear nothing else. He could have told me, Dad, mom's in the hospital. I wouldn't have heard it. I'm just being honest with you. And that was all that was needed. That was the trigger. It was almost like the universe was saying, okay, and action. Go ahead. Get unconscious with it. Go ahead and go back into that wound. Now, this sent me into a tailspin. Now all of a sudden I'm I'm just mad. I'm furious. I'm and I'm look, everything I'm telling y'all, I'm over here. I'm oh, I'm a human. I'm a human. I have raw emotions. Sometimes I act human-ish. And I'm asking myself, okay, what is this? Why is this? All that stuff that I tell you all, all that was out the window. I'm gonna go ahead and be on, I keep with 100. It was out the window. Do you hear what I'm saying? I could not get myself out of this tailspin. And I realized, oh, this is someone I've never met before. I don't know this version. I had an instant headache. I'm talking about the real headache. Not the headache in the front of your head. I'm talking about the one on top of your head, inside of your brain, like deep down in it. The pineal in the cranium, in there. And I'm like, what is this? I have one more call. I gotta cancel it. I'm not even hungry. So, anyway, had a long talk with him, told him why it's important for him to show up. It's not about tryouts or where it is. You you stay consistent in your output. I'm teaching them consistency right now. So, anyway, kids go to bed and I sit with it. And I close my eyes. I'm like, who is this? What is this? Why is this? Where is this? Who is this? What is this? Where is this? Why is this? Who is this? And I got back to the 13-year-old me. Isn't this ironic that our children take us back to the age of whatever they are? Huh? I got back to the 13-year-old me, and I remember being, I remember being in junior high in seventh grade, and I remember coaches saying certain things and undermining me. And basically saying, like, I'm not, I'm not very good. And then guess what? I believed it. And then I all believed it. Now that became my perspective of myself, and I'm carrying out what somebody else believes about me. And now here I am sitting on the bench, and I'm like, why am I doing it? And it was triggering listening to this happen in present day as a 42-year-old man because I said, I'm telling you, this kid can actually play, but you're saying no. And it was really me talking about myself. I know that I'm good enough. I know I'm better than everybody. I know I can do it. But the coach is like, nope, no, you're not. And I believed it. I believed it. And that's what carried out my reality. And this triggered me to get back to this. So when I was in ceremony, when I was in ceremony, Mother Aya showed me how I took a missile way back then in seventh grade. Good God Almighty. Y'all stay with me. I hope y'all are seeing. I took a missile in seventh grade, where somebody thought that I was less than or not capable of. And I took that missile and I let that missile stay in me, meaning I believed it. And that missile did not detonate at that moment because I didn't have the awareness. It detonated later. It detonated in 2025. It didn't detonate in 20 in 1995. It went off in 2025. Why? So I could save my son and keep him from walking, not walking down the path if somebody doesn't think that he's good enough. Now, I'm I'm speaking in code right now. I don't want to say too much, right? I'm saying, but you you you get what I'm saying, hopefully, of sometimes somebody may not think that you're capable. Somebody may have told you that you were not good enough. The same thing is going to happen to our children. It may happen in a different way, but because you took the missile, you sacrificed yourself, and you have been doing the work on yourself, you have the ability now to keep your child from inflicting that same wound or dealing with that same poison. So I realized in that moment, I can sit down with my son and be proactive and tell him, like, yo, here's why you can't slouch off. Because maybe there's some people who don't think that you are any good. Maybe there's some people who are looking at you from a place of jealousy. So they're looking for any reason to say that you're not capable. And what they say about you doesn't matter. I don't want you to think that what they think about you matters. But here's where I'm afraid that if they say it and they have enough influence, it may influence the way you see yourself, like it did me in 1995. So now here I am looking at myself based on how what the coach actually looks at me instead of looking at myself how I needed to look at myself. Now I saw a light bulb go off. I had this conversation with him via text message. And he's typed, you know, kids put OHHH like, oh, I get now what you were saying. Yeah. But I told him, Thank you. Thank you. For bringing awareness to a part of me that I didn't even know was there. So in my ceremony, Mother I said, we got to restore the balance. We got to store the balance because every time that you get hit with a missile that detonates later, it creates imbalance. It knocks you off. It knocked you off your path. So you got to get back on your path, meaning you got to heal these wounds. You have to deal with these things. You have to retell these stories. So that way your children don't skip the same exact wound by you passing it down to them and projecting it onto them. So for everybody here, you working on yourself is making a sacrifice for your children. The sacrifice happened way back when when you had to endure the wound. But because you are working on yourself, it won't get passed down to your children. And that was the sacrifice that was needed. Right? When we say in Christianity, it's that Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins. That means he gave up himself so that we would be, uh we would experience atonement. We would be clean. Now, that's obviously there's a deeper, deeper meaning behind it. But here's my point. That just meant an old version had to be given up so a new version could live. Good God Almighty. Do you not realize that your children are the new version of you? I don't think you hear what I'm saying. Your children are the reincarnation of you. They are the newer you. So that's why you gotta patch up the old you. Because we don't want a new you to be walking around with the old you. Otherwise, what was the point of you creating the new you? Do you see how this works? So if you have ears, please hear what I'm saying. And you don't have to have children. You don't have to have children. At some point, you will interact with a child. It could be a niece, a nephew, a grandchild. I guess you can't have grandchildren if you you'd have to have children to have grandchildren. So I guess that wouldn't make sense if you don't. But you get what I'm saying. You at some point will interact with children. Please realize that your work on yourself is making the world a better place. It is changing lives. It may not get posted up on Instagram. You may not ever see the result. But you are sacrificing the old you so newer versions of humanity can exist. And if I okay, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and get into it. I'm gonna go ahead and get into it. This is what the issue is with this world. This is what the issue is right now. This is what the issue is. I'm gonna try not to cuss because I know kids listen to this. But there are people who will not let go of old versions of themselves, knowing good and well that it actually oppresses humanity. It actually puts humanity down. It actually still lives out of the same mindset and the same consciousness that when when certain people looked a certain way back in the 1950s and 60s, it keeps them oppressed. We are we still, still in 2025 are living out of the same, and guess what? We call this heritage, we call this tradition. No, you know what it is? I hear this. It's a lack of willingness to let go of old ways that do not work. I don't see anybody here wearing the same thing that you wore back when you were seven years old. Why don't you do that? Why don't you go get a bigger size and wear the same thing? Huh? Why don't we do that? Because you are willing to let go of that version of you that would wear that. The same must happen in everything if transformation is going to take place. Good God, oh my, I don't think you hear what I'm saying. Transformation cannot take place with things staying the same. Do I have to say it again? I'm gonna say it again now. Transformation cannot take place with things staying the same. And if things aren't staying the same, that means there is a sacrifice that must take place, meaning there must be a transaction. I will give you the new when you let go of the old. Do you see how this works? And in our world, we're not willing to let go of old ways. And those old ways worked. We call them different things. And those old ways worked, but they don't work anymore. And it's not saying we have to throw out the whole thing, but maybe there's a tweak, maybe there's a sudden change, maybe there's just a little bit of just a slight shift we have to make. This is the only way we're going to continue to evolve. This is how we create transformation, not just on a personal level, on a collective level. But in order to do that, it would require courage. And that was the other thing I saw in my ceremony. We say that some souls are chosen. No, we ain't chosen. Everybody's chosen. Chosen didn't refer to that. Some souls chose courage. Some souls say, you know what? Yeah, it's gonna be hard. Yeah, it's gonna hurt. Yeah, it's gonna sting. Yeah, I'm gonna question why I'm doing this. Yeah, my family's gonna view me as an outcast. Yeah, I'm gonna be an outlier in my industry. Yeah, I'm gonna for sure it's gonna happen. But you know what? This is what I came here for. This is what I came here to do. I didn't come here to stay the same. And I didn't come here to be around people that stay the same either. And ain't nothing wrong with being the same. But I know one good thing. That is not the nature of anything in this universe to stay the same. This third law of this universe, the law of vibration, meaning that everything that's vibrating is creating change. Everything is constantly transforming. So, in order to do that, you gotta make a sacrifice. So, our goal, usually as parents, as caretakers, as adults, as uh the ones who come before the generation after, is always to leave it in a better place. To leave it in a better place than it was when we got it. That's how we create value. It's through us working on ourselves, doing things that we need to do. So the generation coming up ain't gotta do the things that we had to do. So if you don't work on yourself, we always the old saying, if you don't work on yourself, your children are gonna pay for it through therapy. They're gonna pay for all your stuff. You might as well go ahead and make the sacrifice now. Everybody always wants to, oh, oh, I just want to create generational wealth so I can pass it down to my kids. You want to pass something down to your kids? You want to? Pass your healed self down. Three snaps in a Z formation, because I don't think you're trying to hear nothing I'm saying right now. If you really want to pass down an inheritance, work on yourself so your kids ain't got to get that rusty, crusty wound that you've been walking around with for the last 53 years. Go ahead and deal with that. Okay. I'm sorry if I'm saying something that's triggering. My apologies in advance. But the sacrifice is going to have to be had by the generation that came before. My parents made sacrifices so that me and my brother wouldn't go without. But in turn, they had to go without. There's many a nights when I want to stay up and I just want to sit up and watch a game. There's many a night when I say, you know what, I just want to go here on vacation and do this by myself. I just want to go and get away just for a little bit. There's many times that I have to do that, but I got to make a sacrifice because there's a generation that's coming up after me that if I don't do what I need to, then they're gonna have to do what I didn't do. And that's not what growth is. That's not what change is, that's not what elevation, uh evolution is. So if you just took it, let's take a look at the pulse of this world. Ain't no reason why I should still be having to fight the same bot the same battle. I should be having the same discussion that my parents had in 1950-something. Ain't no reason why I should be having to convince somebody that I'm good enough or that I'm this, despite what my skin color or what my sexual preference looks like or what my ain't no reason. But understand that it first starts with the individual. Maybe I will do a podcast on politics. If I do that, y'all might mess around and see if you can, you, you, you mess around and put me on a ballot. Don't let me get in that White House. Don't let me get in that White House. First of all, we're gonna put some shutters on that thing. I'm gonna go ahead and put, we're gonna, I will have that White House turned up. You hear me? I do my podcast from there. Look, I tell everybody, look, world leaders, I can't travel because we got to do this podcast. Matter of fact, you can come on and be on the pathway results. I'll let you on. You can go ahead because I need to, matter of fact, talk to you about some stuff. Because right now, what you got going on over in that country, we need to talk. Because I think you forgot that these are humans that have souls that are spirits emanating us. I think you forgot. So we need to have a conversation. Come on over to the Oval Office. And matter of fact, I'm not even gonna call it the Oval Office no more. I may call it the spiral office because when we look at an oval, matter of fact, I ain't gonna call it, I'm gonna call it the infinity office. The infinity office. You hear what I'm saying? I'm making up words again. It's gonna be the infinity office. And only conversations that we had will be from our divine nature. Let me go ahead and stop. See, I'm starting to daydream again. You see what happened? Let me stop. Y'all got me on a tangent right now. But here's my point of the whole podcast. Do your work. Do your work, and sometimes that's a sacrifice for your children. Do your work. Do your work. Love on yourself so you can give that to your children. Heal yourself so when your child triggers something inside of you, you don't act out of the wounded you, you act out of the compassionate you. I'm telling you from firsthand example. I notice that every time I go to a ceremony, I do a season where I'm really intentional working on myself. My family always reaps the benefits. Carly said to me the other day, she said, You seem like you're just way more present. Yeah, I am. Because I healed a version of my past and I integrated it. So it's just one less piece of me still living in 1995. You see how that works? And every time you heal a party from 1993, 2005, whatever it is, you get that piece of you, just a little bit more of you now is in 2025. Or whatever year it is you listening to this. So that's a sacrifice we make sometimes. We took a lot of bullets, we took a lot of missiles that had poison that came out later in life. You made the sacrifice. But now it's time to go ahead and start patching it up and clean it up so your children ain't gotta make that same sacrifice. And hear me when I say you can't protect your children from all the missiles, nor do you want to. Because they're gonna have to have something that they're gonna have to sacrifice for their children. Or as my mama would say, your grandbabies. And this ensures that we continue to grow and we evolve. I'm looking right now at my window, right now, and I'm watching these leaves, these yellow leaves that were at one point were green, falling off these trees. And I look at the sacrifice that these trees are making right now. You don't look at it like that, but that's how I look at it. These trees are making a sacrifice right now. Also, their leaves can disperse, and the seedlings inside of that can go ahead and get themselves buried down in the ground. Also, a newer version of it can grow here in the spring. And we look at it, some of us look at the trees and say, ugh, look at the trees. They're all barren and bald headed, and ugh. But look at the sacrifice that these trees made. So we could have lush life here in the spring. Because you're gonna love it when everything's green, but we don't get the green without having the yellows, the browns, the baldness, the losing the leaves. This was the sacrifice that was needed. So for you and your journey, for your for your family. Go ahead and go ahead and uh uh what do they say? Buckle up. Go ahead and uh uh get yourself buckled up. Go ahead and lock in. Start healing those parts of you that made the sacrifice. Start healing those parts of you so you can sacrifice them and let them go. Because it's only going to benefit your children. I can't wait to take you on this journey this season. Uh I might do some video stuff too, maybe, but I cannot wait to just share these stories. Uh, and this season is the other reason why I did it too. Decided to coach my son again for a whole I'm at least locked in for another year. I signed to do it too because I grow. It helps me to continue to evolve and get to parts of myself. And I remember myself really from 12 and up. I remember like it became old enough and more self-aware, more conscious. But there's parts of me that still don't know. And this allows me to find them. So I can't wait to share everything with you all. I just want to tell you thank you because you've made a lot of sacrifices in your life that the world will never see. You've done a lot of things in your life that quite frankly, you probably never got a pat on your back. Nobody ever told you, hey, good job. Hey, you got those kids out of the house. You got a grown up. Hey, you making the ends meet even when you don't even know how you're going to make the ends meet. Hey. I just want to tell you that I salute you and I see you. I don't see you. I feel you. And I just want to tell you thank you and that I appreciate you. Maybe humanity won't do it, but I just want to tell you that. I appreciate you. Because I know how it is. I know how it feels when you feel like, damn, ain't nobody seeing me. Like I'm over here slaving. I'm doing all I can. And I don't even know if it's working. No, it's working. You're doing it. And one day, you know what's going to happen? I tell my son this all the time. I'm saying this out of wisdom, but I really don't know. I'm only telling you this because my mom used to say this, and I say this to her now. She used to always tell me, one day you're going to get old enough and you're going to understand what I'm saying. One day you're going to thank me. I'd be like, nah, Ma, I ain't going to say nothing. You're going to be over here hating on me. I ain't going to say nothing to you. She'd be like, mm-hmm. Well, watch your mouth though. Watch your mouth. And now here I am as an adult. And we have these conversations. I told you many times me and her talk, and we'll talk about the podcast. She don't know who Jesus is, but she knows Jesus. She goes, Did you go see Jesus? I said, Yeah, Ma went and saw Jesus. But we have these conversations. And I told my son, I said, I know, I know you right now. And I tell my daughter the same thing. You don't, you don't, it doesn't make sense right now. You want to write, why is dad doing this? How come mom doing this? But one day you'll get to be an adult. And hopefully I will live long enough to allow you to have the awareness to see for yourself why, why we did it this way. Why? You'll say thank you. Not that I need a thank you, but you'll come from a place of gratitude because you'll see that, oh my goodness, even when I thought it was for nothing, it was always for something. So all the parents, all the single parents, all the mothers, the fathers, the grandparents raising their grandchildren, all the grandchildren raising kids, like everybody. I just want to tell you thank you because your work on you is what makes this world a better place. You know, I know a lot of people say, you know, our world, our speak for our country. You know, I don't get to talk with people who don't live in our country very often. Had a long conversation with Jesus. He's not in our country. And he's like, it's sad to watch what's going on. That humans can do this to other humans. I said, yeah, sure, you ain't gonna tell me. I know that. You know what he said to me? He goes, People always say, well, hopefully, our children, it'll be better for our children. Yeah, but what about right now? So the reason why I'm saying this is because everything that you do right now matters for the humanity. Now. Now it matters. Don't wait, don't put it off. Do it now. And that's my message to you on this podcast. And as always, you know I'll wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.