Fear Not, Be Courageous

We break down why courage is the one energy you cannot skip if you want real expansion, and why comfort never earns the reward you are chasing. We share stories from family, sports, and our own growth to show how fear can become a doorway to confidence and change. 
• courage as the tuition for the next level 
• the first step as the most powerful step 
• fear as an invitation rather than a warning 
• trusting the route when life feels off-course 
• asking “Am I willing?” instead of stalling 
• redefining courage as emotional honesty and self-love 
• the nervous system reacting to uncertainty like danger 
• building courage through deliberate discomfort and discipline 
• the caterpillar lesson: growth is vulnerable and often solo 
• swapping “What if I fail?” for “What if this changes everything?” 
• using imagination to see possibilities before proof 
• recognizing when growth means leaving relationships behind 
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Transcript

Courage As The Price Of Growth

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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.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results Podcast. If it's your first time, welcome here. If it's not your first time, welcome back. This podcast is intended to help you find and see a little bit more of yourself in a way that you didn't even know was possible. All I'm doing is taking my life and sharing it with you, so uh we might as well get to it. I was I've been I've been on this journey as of late, um just really taking a look at kind of how everything transpires and everything unfolds in our life. And I and uh and we've talked about this before. I've done an episode on this, but there's a deeper, a deeper level to this that I want to kind of get to and talk about. There's an energy that's so needed. There's an energy that, bare minimum, if you don't have, then the universe is going to force you to develop it. And that energy is courage. It's the energy of courage. Now, the reason why I'm saying this is because what I've learned is that expansion has always happened on the backside of doing something that's courageous. You ever had something in your life that you were afraid to do? You were afraid to try it, you were afraid to take that step, you were afraid to put yourself out there. And then when you did it that one time, you felt like you could do anything. It's because every time that we take action, every time that we do it from the energy of courage, the universe always rewards you because it knows in order for you to do something out of courage, you first would have had to be uncomfortable. And hear me when I say this the universe can never reward comfort, it rewards expansion. So you start to see how these equations work. You start to see that if I want to have expansion, I'm going to have to be okay with being uncomfortable. And to be uncomfortable, I'm going to have to be courageous. And here's the deal: here's what I've learned. The reason why expansion requires courage is because you first have to leave the known before you can experience the unknown. Remember that story of uh that what's that what was that movie called? What was her name? Uh Moana.

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Right?

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Moana had never been, nobody, none of them, no, well, she didn't know, but they she ended up finding out that her ancestors had gone past the reef because they were voyagers. That's what they did. We all have this proverbial reef in our life that we're afraid to go out past because we would have to become somebody that we've never been. And then we start to, I see it all the time. We're afraid to take that first step. That first step is the most courageous step. Do you hear what I'm saying? The first step, the first step that you take in climbing a mountain is the most powerful step that you can take. And yes, the world's gonna reward the fact that you made it to the top of the mountain, but they don't realize it was the first step. The first step. I was telling uh DG Mindset Academy on one of our calls the other day. We went we went to uh uh we went to a restaurant here in Indiana. I didn't know where I was, I ain't even gonna lie to you. I had the GPS on Carly's phone, it was sitting right there in the console. I don't know where I am at one point. I even asked her, I'm like, where are we right now? And then I was just looking at make it left, make it right. We're on these country roads. The roads didn't have names, it was just CR100, CR3, and that stands for uh, I think country road, or maybe it's county road. I don't know. I like to say it's country road, but we were in the middle of nowhere and we went to this restaurant because that's where her mom wanted to go for her birthday. Now we walk in there and that was the restaurant was it was eclectic. That was the word Carly used. I like to call it uh uh interesting. It was it was a oh it was it was it was created in 1903, and uh it was an old hotel. And you walked in, it wasn't like a normal restaurant where there's the the lobby area, and walk in, you can see all the tables like no, you made it left, you had to go through the lobby, then you gotta go by where the elevators were, and you gotta go by the staircase. And I'm thinking, like, where in the world are we gonna eat at? So finally we got there, right? But my point of this was this journey that we had gone on to get to this point, right? To get to this restaurant. At one point, I was like, Are you sure we're going the right way? Are you sure this is where we're supposed to go? And we ended up making it to the destination, and we got there, and the food was good, and obviously it was funny. We were talking, and you know, Carly's parents had a good time, whatever. But as I was sitting there, I was like, How often does this happen in life? We start going on a journey, we think that it's going to be a certain way, and then all of a sudden life says, No, we need you to go this way, and then you go that way, and then you feel like you're being derailed, but then you actually get to where you were supposed to be, and when you get to where you were supposed to be, it doesn't look like how you thought it was going to be. And now you question, like, is this any good? But then you actually eat the food, meaning you actually experience it, and you're like, dang, this actually wasn't too bad. It was actually better than what I thought it was going to be. Yes, of course. It's because

Detours That Teach You Trust

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you try to see everything through the feeble, linear, logical, egoic lower mind, and you don't see it through the spiritual mind, aka the soul, the part of you that's connected to spirit, aka the God, the source, the one that knew everything, the alpha and the omega. When you start to trust and understand that everything that you have ever wanted in your life, and hear me when I say wanted, we don't get what we want, we get what we are, but you have to understand the universe hides it behind the thing that you are avoiding. It puts it on the backside of it. This is why I've been trying to tell you all. Fear is not a stop sign, it's an invitation, it's a doorway, it's a portal. So, courage is the energy that's needed for you to get on the ride so you can go through the fear. So you can go through the uh uh uh the apprehension. So now I look at it like this: courage is my ticket that I have to pay. That's the admission that I have to pay, that's the fee, that's the tuition that I have to give in so I can get to the next level. Because here's what we got to understand. Good God Almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing I've ever said in my life right now. The universe cannot hear me. It can't reward the person that you used to be. The universe does not like to repeat the same thing over and over again. Why do you think we always see this the uh we see repeating patterns, but they're different? Everybody has fingerprints, but they're different. Yes, there's many snowflakes, but they're different. It can't do the same thing twice. So why in the world, as my dad would say, why in the devil is he won't want to do the same thing twice? It ain't going to. So this is why you have to understand that courage will be needed, because courage is nothing more than you becoming somebody that you've never been, that you're just a little unsure about. You don't know what it's like, good. Good. If you don't know what it's like, good. That's exactly where you're supposed to be. Well, it's so uncertain, good. Well, I don't know how much good. Good.

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This is how we expand. Think about it like this. Okay.

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When you were a baby, 9, 10, 11 months, 12 months, you learned how to walk. And that was really unfamiliar. And it was really uncomfortable, and it was really challenging. But you didn't stay crawling because for some reason, on a deeper soul level, because remember when you were a baby, that's when you were closest to spirit. You somehow knew inherently that even though this is challenging, even though this is difficult, this is providing the landscape for me to expand. And in this case, it was the capability to be able to walk. Now imagine if you have the mindset that you have now, if you had that back then. Well, this is uncomfortable and this is hard, and I don't know if I'm ever gonna be able to walk, and I don't know. Well, look, he's walking. How come they can walk and I can't? Well, how come the how come their mom helps them and they have all of it? You see? You see what that was happening? You see how you make all these excuses? Huh? We make it, hey, as my teammate, I used to have a teammate from uh, where was he from? He's from somewhere in South Carolina. He's just saying man, you got more excuses than a pregnant nun. You got all these excuses. You over here talking about, well, well, I don't know. Imagine if we did that when we were children, when we were babies. We would never be able to experience that what we actually are and have these breakthroughs. So the reason why I'm telling you this is because I know I see this so often. Everybody's so scared to take the first step because that's the most important step. But you have to understand that, like the reward is after the step. It's after the step. The upgrade comes after the step. Do we see how this works? So

The Willing And Able Test

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there's two questions that you have to ask yourself. Am I willing? Yes, you are. No, no, no. Maybe you're not willing. Am I able? Yeah, you're able. You have the ability to go to the next level. The question is, are you willing? If you are willing and able, then you gotta take that step. So hear me when I say this, when I say you have to be courageous. Because people think courageous means like, uh-uh, like I gotta be strong and I gotta be. Sometimes being courageous is actually you feeling things that you haven't touched in a long time. Sometimes being courageous is you looking yourself in the mirror and telling yourself for once, doggone in this life, I love you and I see you. Sometimes that's what courage is. Sometimes courage is saying, I'm not gonna let you procrastinate anymore, and I'm not gonna let you put yourself second no more. I'm not gonna let you go the next 40 plus years of you playing back, uh playing second fifth. I ain't gonna let you do it no more. Sometimes that's what courage looks like. So when we have the fear, that's a good thing. That's evidence. That's evidence that you're approaching this new version of you. And courage is the thing that's gonna push you through it. So the reason why I'm telling you this, because I'm learning through my kids.

Letting Your Kids Find Confidence

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I'm learning through my children. I keep constantly putting my kids in positions so they have to exercise courage. So uh my son, I've I signed him up for boxing. No, no, he don't have to fight anybody. He don't have to fight anybody, nobody have to fight. You don't have to worry about nothing. But I told him, I said, you know why I'm doing this? So I can like fight people. I said, no, it ain't so you can fight somebody. Anyway, you doing it. And you better, I better not catch you out here trying to fight somebody. I said, there's a difference between defending yourself versus going and fighting somebody, okay? I told him, I said, look, the reason why I'm doing this is because I know you've never done this before, and this is going to be really uncomfortable for you, just as it was when it was uncomfortable for me when I started. So I went ahead and signed him up. First day I dropped him off. That's the first time I've ever done this before. I dropped him off and I left. I had to go run some errands. And he's like, What you you're so you're not gonna like hang out in the car? I said, No, I got stuff I gotta do, brother. I gotta go do some stuff. So you go in there, do what you need to do. And the guy who's training him, shout out Aaron Lawton. Aaron is old school, he's from Jersey, from Newark, tough, 60-something years old. Just I this was he was cut from the same claw that I was. You go, go with him. So I knew Aaron. And I told Aaron, I told Aaron three years ago, I said, When my son gets old now, I'm bringing him in here to you. So I came back. I could see on his face. He had about five minutes left. I could see how uncomfortable he was. As my dad would say, my dad has all types of colloquialisms. He would say, he's more uncomfortable than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I saw his face and I said, Oh, he's he's in the growth zone right now. He's uncomfortable. And when he saw me, he thought like I was coming to save him. Like, okay, we're done. It's over. No, no, no. Keep doing your thing. Y'all you keep going. Keep going. But here's my point. He got done and he said, I already feel more confident. I'm clocking it. I just learned this. That's what you do when you gotta you clock, you someone says something, you clock it, right? Okay. I said, yes, but please don't think it has something to do with because you learn how to throw a jab or a cross or a hook. You feel more confident because you did something that was uncomfortable. You did something that you didn't think that you could do because every breakthrough will always begin with uncertainty. You see how this works, son. So the reason why I'm telling you this, because you ain't even got to ask the question, what if I fail? Don't even ask that question anymore. Ask the question instead, what if this action changes everything? What if just by me doing the thing that I've that's uncomfortable, this actually empowers me? What if this actually takes me to the next level? This takes me to the next iteration of me. So now here's what I gotta tell myself, I gotta remind myself. I gotta trust and know that every time in my past I have ever done anything that was uncomfortable, I have always come out more confident, more empowered on the other side. So why in the world would the universe stop now? Why in the world would all of a sudden the game change? It wouldn't. So now you gotta ask yourself the real question. Why do you keep avoiding courage? Because remember, the courage was the energy that you needed in order for you to transform to become the person that you've never been. Why do you keep avoiding courage?

Why Uncertainty Feels Like Danger

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It's because your nervous system, your nervous system doesn't know the difference. See, it doesn't know with you starting this business, it doesn't know if it's you starting this business or if it's a lion chasing you. It doesn't know if this is you leaving a toxic relationship or if you're about to fall out of a plane. It doesn't know the difference. All it recognizes is uncertainty. So this is why the growth feels uncomfortable. It ain't that you're doing anything wrong. It's not that there's something wrong with you. You're just expanding beyond your current identity. Hear me when I say this. Courage will be needed if you're going to expand past what you have known. Courage is going to be needed if you're going to become who you truly were capable of being. So if you look back on everything that you've ever accomplished, you've always required courage, always. The first day of school, you needed courage. That first relationship, you needed courage. The relationship that you knew wasn't working anymore, you needed courage. The first business that you ever started, you needed courage. That first retreat that you ever ran, you needed courage. That first website that you ever put together, you needed courage. To ask that person on a date, you needed courage. The first speech that you ever gave, you needed courage. The first child that you've ever had, you needed courage. The first investment that you've made, you needed courage.

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The first time that you looked at yourself and you said, I see you. You needed courage.

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So the reward will always come after the courageous act. This is why I tell you why it's so important for you to encourage yourself. Encourage yourself. You be the one who encourages yourself. And here's how I look at encouragement: encouragement is me ringing my bell, giving myself what I need, telling myself I'm proud of myself. So in those moments when I have to exercise courage, I already had a surplus from all the encouragement that I had given myself. See, I look at encouragement almost like uh uh uh coins that you put in a bucket. And I had been filling up this bucket and filling up this bucket and filling this bucket, and I won't use anything in that bucket until I need to exercise courage. So this is why I'm saying this. The reason why I'm telling you this. Those great, the great ones, the people who you worship and you love and you you follow them, you listen to their stuff, they feel all the same things that you feel. They feel the fear, they feel the stress, they feel the worry, they feel the doubt, they feel all of this. The only difference is they just have a surplus of courage. So,

Train Courage Through Discomfort

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Derek, how do I develop courage then? How do I do it? Start treating yourself to the opportunities and then the invitations of consciously doing things that make you uncomfortable. See, every time I do something that's uncomfortable, I will develop in the category of courage. And I'm also going to develop in the category of willpower, and I'm also going to develop in the category of discipline. And if I have discipline and I have willpower, now I have the ability to exercise courage. So this universe doesn't reward courage because courage is special. I just want you to understand that. It rewards courage simply because courage is what creates expansion. Think about it in terms of nature. If you'd have applied the same logic that you walk around with, do you know how terrified the caterpillar was? The caterpillar had to die. It had to die. It had to walk across before it could even climb upside down. It had to walk across the street. Do you know how many things are go have the have the opportunity to run it over or kill it? It's exposed. It's naked, it's vulnerable. But it still knew it had to die. And it didn't. And it got up on that branch by itself. You notice there's never two caterpillars in a cocoon. Good God Almighty. I'm not trying to hear nothing I'm saying right now. Meaning it's a solo motherfucking journey. You hear what I'm saying? Ain't nobody gonna do it with you. Can't nobody you can borrow people's encouragement, but you're gonna have to flex your own courage muscle. You hear what I'm saying? And when you know this, I gotta get up on this branch myself. I gotta do this. I gotta do this for me. Nobody else can do this. I ain't doing it for TikTok. I ain't doing it for Instagram, I ain't doing it for chat snaps, I ain't doing it for nobody else but for myself. Snapchats, whatever it's called. You understand what I'm saying. You gotta do it for yourself. That is the true measure of courage when you can do something for yourself by yourself. And then you understand what the purpose, what the mission was. The mission was expansion. This was why you came here. You came here to evolve, to expand, to be who you could truly be, and ask yourself in each moment, what am I truly capable of? And then you start to see that your life was nothing more than a book with a series of chapters. And every chapter first started with a moment that you were scared. It started with a moment that you had a choice. It started with a moment that you could either stay the same and stay in the old vibration, the old comfortable, familiar part of you, or you could be upcome uncomfortable and walk into uncertainty and exercise this muscle of courage. So I tell you that all these people that we look at and we put them on pedestals, they feel all the same things. The question isn't whether or not fear is going to show up. Fear is gonna be there for sure. Because feel fear was too built into the universe's equation to ex to ensure expansion. See, the universe provides opportunities that create uncertainty. You then feel the energy of fear. Fear is what spurs change because now I have to actually exercise the opposite of fear, which is courage slash faith. And when I incur, sorry, when I uh uh flex that muscle or that energy, we've just laid the foundation for expansion. So here's the question I have for you Are you gonna allow fear to decide who you become? I

Stop Negotiating With Fear

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have a saying with myself if it's hard, do it. If it's hard, do it. So this isn't non-negotiable with me. When I tell you, y'all don't know me. Y'all don't y'all don't know me very young. I try to tell you what's going on in my head, and as much as I can. Sometimes I go all over the place. I got a conversation that's constantly going on with me. The future self, the future me is sitting here looking at me, saying, Come on, dude. Come on. Stop negotiating with yourself. Stop, stop, uh, stop playing with your food. Stop it. You know, we are waiting for you. So, what you gotta do right now is do it. Do it. And sometimes it takes me a couple days to encourage myself and get myself pepped up to be able to do it. But I know at the end of the day, I gotta do it. I gotta do it. Why? Why? It wasn't about the thing that I was going to do, it was about who I was gonna become. And when I got this future version of me, I have talks with him all the time. I have talks with my future version all the time. And he's constantly telling me, looking at me, saying, Come on, dude, you got it. You know why? Because the version of me right now is the future version of me from the past, and I'm looking back on him saying, Come on, do it. Think about if you could go back in your life right now, just go back 15 years. Go back 15 years. Good God Almighty. Go back 15 years ago, with the awareness and the level of courage, in the level of discipline, in the level of self acceptance, in the level of self love, in the level of awareness. Go back 15 years ago and apply that right now. Do you know? How differently your life would look? Do you know the sh that you would do in your life? Think about it. Think about all the things that stopped you. They wouldn't be able to, you wouldn't be able to, how do they say it? Don't hold a moth to a flame or a candle to a, I don't know, a candle to a flame, whatever it is. A moth to a fire, you know what I'm saying. It wouldn't be able to mess with you one bit. You would be able to go back and oh my goodness, if I knew what I knew back then. What? Okay then. Okay. If you would have done that differently back then, then do that now. Because that's what the future version of you is saying. Come on. You know what you need to do. You know what we would have done differently. Do it now. Stop waiting. I've told you this many times before. We all gonna have to get out of this game. We all gonna have to check out. You might as well shoot that motherfucker while you in it. Shoot that. Shoot the ball. Shoot it. Shoot it. It requires courage though. Yeah, but what if I miss? Yeah, but what if you make it? But what if I miss three in a row? What if you hit ten in a row? Ask that same question from the positive polarity. So now here's my questions for you. What what conversations are you avoiding right now? What decisions are you not making? What's the cost of fear in your life right now? It's costing you something. What are you afraid of? Hmm? Let me ask you this. I just asked a I asked a player at work when she played the WNBA and she was scared she's gonna lose her playing time. Her playing time is going down. I said, I remember when you had the same conversation when you were in college two years ago with me. But back then it was, well, what if I don't make it to the WNBA? And now I hear you in the WNBA, you talking about you worry about playing time. And then guess what? One day you're gonna be an all-star. You'll be like, well, what if I'm not an all-star, man? You see how it just keeps see how the ego just keeps going, it keeps going, it keeps going, it keeps going. At some point, at some point, hear me when I say this, I'm talking to you, spirit right now. At some point, why don't you look yourself in the mirror and remind yourself, we're gonna be good. We're gonna be alright. Just as we always have, and lock yourself into that frequency and let that be the default program of your nervous system. Do you know how much differently you'd move? If you knew you couldn't fail? Ask yourself, if I knew I couldn't fail, what would I do differently? If I knew I couldn't. If I knew I couldn't fail, what would I do differently? Truly. I ask players this all the time that I work with. If you knew coach wasn't gonna take you out, what would you do? Shh, man, I'd do this and do that. Well then go do it then. Go do it. Go do it. Do it. But what if I no no no no no no no no no no no no no? Don't do that. See, you see, you already the ego's looking for a reason for it to stay comfortable. But what if coach that, nah, don't do that. Right? Because in order for you to do this, it would require courage. And the universe is like, come on, please, please, please, just be who it is that we need you to be that you've never been before. Please, we're looking for expansion. We're looking for ascension. We're looking for the energy of courage. Please don't do the same stuff that kept you stuck. Don't do the same stuff that got you here. We need the new you. Please, please stop asking what is coach gonna think. Stop asking if this is gonna work. Stop asking what if I fail? Don't even ask that question. Instead, ask yourself, how we gonna celebrate when this motherfucker hits? What they gonna say when they see me on top? How we gonna celebrate when we get there? Hmm? What we what they gonna say now once we do it? Huh? They said we did it. They didn't think we could do it. They said, oh, don't do that. Nobody's ever done that before. Are you crazy? Why are you what are they gonna say when this thing hits? And we over here celebrating. When we over here uh vacationing the Turks and Caicos and we was over here, they were over. Come on, what are they, what are they gonna say now? This is you see the energy? This is a choice, y'all.

Wake Up To Bigger Possibilities

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It's a choice. I've been playing pretend long before I got on this podcast, just to let you know. I just let you know how I operate. I've been, I used to play house, doctor, everything growing up, right? I used to pretend like a mother, and I still did, and then I had kids and I got married, and then I learned, oh, well, you gotta be an adult. Yep, you can't dream. Nope, don't pretend anymore. You gotta be realistic. And I got away from myself. I got away from this childlike inside of me, this version of me who only operated from the energy of courage because it only was drenched in the and layered in the energy of faith. You think a child, a child don't sit here and ask how we can't do this, a child don't do that. Okay, maybe after the age of seven, what did Aristotle say? Give me a child until it's seven years old and I'll show you a man. We're good before we turn seven, eight years old when the conscious mind and the world gets a hold of us. But my point of this is this I've always walked around with this faith and this knowing that I can do anything. I can be anything. I know I can. Well, how? Because I look at everything else in this universe, and there's some seems to be some type of infinite creativity that's pervading and emanating through everything. Why in the world is not emanating through me? How come I take somebody else's perspective of me and I limit and I allow that to limit me? So I stopped doing that about three, four, five, six, seven, eight, seven years ago, probably, because I went through this thing that we call an awakening. And this is what it means to awaken. So I'm telling you right now, I'm speaking to your spirit. Wake, I'm sorry, parent parental advisory, wake your ass up. Get up. Get up. Wake up. Stop living from the limitations of what you have seen and start living from the unlimited, from the unlimited nature of what's possible. There's infinite possibility in your life, in your existence. And this is the courage that's required. Courage is required for you to step into a version of you that the world has never seen, and there's no proof of it that can exist. And I'm sitting here telling you from firsthand example. I started a podcast when there was, I had never even been on anybody's podcast. You hear what I'm saying? I didn't know how to do it, but you know what I did? I went and did it. I went on Google, and this was pre-u-AI, this was pre-artificial intelligence. I went and Googled how you start a podcast. Went and found, I didn't even know anything about an RSS feed, didn't know what it was, but I found it. Went ahead and did it, and now here we are, six, seven years later, a million plus downloads later. But here we are. Here's my point. It took me months to have the courage to take the first step. The first step was allowing myself the possibility to even have a podcast. People say, Oh, you did the podcast. That was the first step. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. By then, that was the last. So I told you, you gotta take the first step. You know what the first step was? The first step was you allowing yourself the possibility of what was possible. That's the first step. May I say something to you? This was the only reason why this universe gave you an imagination. You know why you got hands, so you can grab something. You know why you got those feet, so you can stand and you can walk. But you never ask yourself, why do I have the imagination? It was so I could think outside of my circumstances. So that's why I'm telling you. You don't have to have proof that it's possible. You don't. You don't. You are the proof. Now go walk in that. Go be that. And just do it for today. Do it for today. Because tomorrow is not really guaranteed. Tomorrow's uh Tomorrow's kind of like a promissory note. That promissory note holds some weight, but the promissory note don't mean really nothing. Just a piece of paper. Tomorrow's not guaranteed. So walk in the energy of courage. And I know your nervous system is gonna tweak out. I know it. Nervous system's gonna be like, what the f- Man, what is the win? What is this motherfucker? He's crazy. You over here doing that. Oh well. I made a negotiation, a non-negotiable contract with myself. We gotta do this. We're gonna walk in this energy. Yeah, but what if it's hard? Then we're gonna do it. But what if it's uncomfortable? Then we're gonna do it. But what if it's unfamiliar? Then we're gonna do it. But what if there's uncertainty? Then we're gonna do it. But what if it's then we're gonna do it? And now I don't even have the energy now to negotiate. I take that same energy of negotiating and I use that energy for faith. You hear what I'm saying? You see, you only got a limited amount of energy in this finite existence, if we call being a human, but you take your energy and you ration it out in all these other buckets. So instead of you giving energy into the faith bucket, you take the energy and you put it in the fear bucket. What I'm asking you, and I'm telling you, I'm challenging you, take that fear. Take that bucket, pour it into faith, take that energy, and then kick the bucket. Go ahead and kick it. So the fear is gonna come up, but you ain't getting none of my energy fear. Because I know that you ain't nothing more false evidence appearing real. I already know what it is. I also know that uh uh really what the fear actually stands for is fear, uh forget everything and realign. So you really you just come into my life because I need to realign myself. I need to realign myself with my divine nature, who only walked in the energy of courage. So I just wanted to give you some encouragement, let you borrow this and tell you uh go, go, go and do it, go and start it, go and try it, go and fail a little bit, go and skin your knees up, go and see if it works, go see if it doesn't work. Because all of these things require courage. And here's the deal here's the biggest thing that I'm seeing with a lot of people in this, in this, in this, in this age that we're in.

Outgrowing Relationships Takes Courage

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Sometimes the most courageous thing that you can do is remove yourself from relationships that you know don't work anymore. It doesn't matter if it's business relationships, it doesn't matter if it's interpersonal, it doesn't matter what it is. You have to understand the way that you work, the way you evolve. You've been working on yourself, you've been evolving. So now the dynamic between you and that person who maybe you met when you were at a certain frequency, maybe you've been evolving and growing and expanding at a rapid rate. It doesn't mean that you're better than them, but they haven't been. And now you've become a butterfly and they're still a caterpillar. And there's nothing wrong with butterflies and caterpillars, there's nothing wrong. They're just different though. They have different capabilities, they have different likes, they have all these, but yet you still keep trying to do caterpillar type stuff, even though you got wings. You didn't get in the caterpillar and the cocoon and turn yourself upside down and cross the road and do all of these things so you could stay the same. So I'm saying this to you. Because sometimes, as my mother would say, sometimes we gotta keep it moving. And sometimes that's just that requires courage in and of itself. So be courageous, my friend. Keep going. I'm telling you this right now. Um I don't know what you got going on, and I don't know what you're doing, but I and I can I can I'll never tell anybody what to do. I don't have that

Join The DG Mindset Academy

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authority. All I can do is kind of guide you and lead you and say, hey, here's but here's what I advise you to do. I advise you to get into DG Mindset Academy. Okay, see, here's the reason why I'm saying this, because I built a container consciously, purposely. And and if I'm being real and honest, I had to tear down the academy, the community, because I needed to rebuild it from a new energy. Because, see, there was a new version of me. And I wanted to make sure, and I kind of just like when you when you build a house, right? When I build a house, I want to make sure that I got the concrete, I'm putting the right energy in the house, what do they call it? I want to make sure I sage in and have feng shui and all everything, all the rooms, everything where everything is. It's the right frequency for what I'm trying to build with this house. And this is what the DG Mindset Academy is. I built a container. I've I've done a pretty good job of making sure that I create a space that people feel safe. That people feel safe, that people feel uh, they they feel like they can be vulnerable, that people feel like they can be who they are. That's number one, okay? Number two, I provided a space and built a container so that you can grow and expand at your rate, at the rate that you see fit for you. This is why I put masterclasses in there. That's why I put recorded masterclasses with text and slides and teaching. This is why every live call I ever have, I always put it in there so you can watch it. Because I want you to learn at your own pace because I realize that every soul is awakening at its own rate. So who am I to say, we're gonna do it this time? If you're not there, then you miss it. No, no, no, no, no. So the reason why I'm saying this is because I built this container for you. This podcast is a container. My social media is a container. But I'm building this for humanity. And I know one day I'm gonna have to leave here. I don't know when, don't know what it's gonna look like, don't know how. But I know one day I'm gonna have to leave. But while I'm here, can I build a fish tank where these fish can continue to grow? So then when they go off into the ocean, oh my goodness. And now, before you know, you need your fish, fish, fish swim in schools. I don't know if you knew that. Where you see one, you're gonna see a thousand of them. Maybe you're gonna see 144,000 of them. I don't know. Check it yourself in the DG Mindset Academy. Now, I told you last week, we're we're already planning. We're me and myself and Maria, we're trying to figure out where where's the next retreat gonna be? Where's it gonna be? I'm trying to take the traveling, the traveling plant medicine ceremonies. We're gonna try to take these on the road here. We're gonna do destination. We might go to Italy and Greece, Costa Rica. I don't know. Me, me, me, Maria, hey, Seuss, we're gonna be on the road here. But get yourself in the academy. And as always, I wish you nothing but the best. On the pathway to your results.