When we want to start using our message, what happens?

Our voice might shake.

It might get shut down.

So many say to me, “I want to share my message, but I stepped out and it didn’t work.”

I’ve been there.

“I dreamed big but it didn’t work out.”

If you have had a promise or something you’re holding onto waiting,

You know you have something to offer the world but it didn’t work out.

Sometimes the darkest moments of our life is necessary.

Capacity is built in our lives through valleys.

We can so easily feel forgotten in the valley.

In the valley my heart was being built.

WHO YOU ARE is built in the valley. 

It creates resilience to withstand even the largest storms.

What ground are you standing on?

I was following all the rules and performing in order to be successful, 

and in that I lost me.

Be willing to push through what most won’t push through.

A brave person with a message for today, you will be standing against giants.

What are you going to do if you don’t know who you are?

Those who know who they are will not be shaken. 

They will rise.

The temptation today is to look good and perfect, but not to BE good.

The road to BEING good and carrying capacity to shift culture doesn’t come from your talent, it comes from the depths of your soul.

You have so much more inside of you than a weary soul

Capacity has to be built.

I was in the wilderness for 7 years.

But 7 years later I ROSE with bravery, perseverance, and compassion.

Success doesn’t call these things out, valleys do.

Platform and self ambition had to die inside me.

You must rise. I am contending for it.

I’m calling you forth.

More is being built in you than you know.

Rise up.

I dare you to move.

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I’m calling the adults to put our stakes in the ground.

We need to overcome so we can teach our youth that they can overcome too

We need to ask:

What am I passing on?

What am I leaving as a legacy?

What am I passing on that will make a young person’s life better?

We show up to our dreams

There are solutions and ideas hiding inside of YOU right now that is going to impact them.

Today’s kids are different.

Teachers are having a hard time teaching these kids and bringing them closer.

It takes bravery to love prickly people.

Your school/workplace and home is a “community”.

Resilience: how I recover from difficulties

Resilience doesn’t come easy to kids who’ve had trauma.

We can’t give up on the hard ones.

We can’t give up on prickly adults.

Trusting people is an issue for most people.

We don’t know how to show up for the long haul for people.

People are crying out for people who will show up for the long haul.

People are crying out to be understood.

So many people don’t feel understood: labels, judgments.

Put up walls and armour.

We see everything through heart wounds and trust no one.

Bringing people closer means we have to be willing to show up for the long haul.

Not making behaviour the goal but to journey with.

DO YOU SEE ME? Will you understand me?

Look underneath behaviour. Behaviour is communication.

What’s it saying? 

The brave will find out.

Belonging creates resilience. 

The number one thing we can do: CREATE BELONGING.

There are hurting people right next to us.

Imagine a teacher seeing that ODD kid, or the child missing so much school, instead of judging them we say I SEE YOU - we call out the potential and growth opportunities in you.

I”m not going to let you go until you know this about yourself. I’m going to celebrate your small wins. I’m going to remind who you are the whole way.

I’m going to teach you what it looks like to walk through hard things

This has to be created. WE create it.

The only way you can create it is if you know you belong and know who you are.

Do you know you belong?

We need to rise out of our shame and inadequacies and remember you are so you can call this out in others. 

We live in a world where we are told to believe in yourSELF, love yourSELF, do it yourSELF

They need you to see them where they can’t see themselves so they CAN start loving themselves, believing in themselves. 

It doesn’t take just SELF it takes a TRIBE and bravery rises in tribe.

Every home is a tribe

Every school classroom is a tribe

Every workplace is a tribe

It’s OUR role to be the culture creator of my tribe.

Everyone will leave my presence knowing their great worth.

It starts with YOU. 

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