Vitamin D with Dawn Dai

On this episode of "Vitamin D with Dawn Dai," Dawn talks the importance of self-reflection. Find out what Dawn has to say in this check-in about the importance of knowing who you are and your why. It's time to get excited about your life.

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Today’s dose of "Vitamin D" is dedicated to taking risks. It’s easy to sit in what feels like fear when you have big dreams. I know, it can be paralyzing when we’re faced with the scope of our hopes, but what is that energy really? Is it fear? I know my dreams scare me sometimes with how bold they are... but no… I choose to see it as excitement. I see it this way as I reflect on some words spoken by the late Mac Miller in his song, “Two Matches,” “What’s a life if you never take a risk? Ain’t a place too far, ain’t a dream too big.” I always took that to be a declaration of defiance... of youthful rebellion, but as time has gone on, I came to see it as a cry of anticipation. The risks that we take to make our dreams reality are part of the adventure! To have nothing but the confidence that you can do it and the nerve to throw yourself at the world to see what you can achieve are two of the greatest joys in life and to learn how to improve when you fail is one of the greatest gifts you can receive. The greater the risk, the greater the reward and I know I want to live my best life. So now you gotta get out there and live yours.

Alright, that’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D,” be sure to follow me on all social media @dawndaispeaks and until next time, always remember, "YOU... are your greatest asset."

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Today’s dose of “Vitamin D” is dedicated to being unwritten. Depression shows up easily when you’re living in the past singing your “shoulda, coulda, woulda blues.” Just as easy as being trapped in a whirlwind of anxiety because you’re so concerned with your future. However, it’s only when we choose to live and be fully present that we experience peace. So what’s your deal?

Are you so consumed with what happened to you in your past and what you’ve done, that it haunts you? Are you the busy planner trying to map out all of your next steps that you can’t sleep at night? Just stop! It’s time for you to free yourself and release all of those inhibitions you have on your life. Natasha Bedingfield said it best in her hit single, “Unwritten,” that in order to find peace you must “drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.”

There’s no better feeling than living your life on your terms, right now! It may mean that you “break traditions. sometimes [your] tries are outside the lines. we've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but [you] can't live that way!” Be the story no one ever told, be unwritten

That’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D,” be sure to follow me on all social media @dawndaispeaks and until next time, always remember, "YOU... are your greatest asset."

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Today’s dose of “Vitamin D” is dedicated to self-love. Now that might sound like a broad topic and we often find self-love to be a slogan or one of those words that gets used so much as to be useless. But when you think about love and I mean the type of love you have for yourself, do you think about the conditions that you’ve put on loving yourself? Do you ever think how it compares to the love you show to others? Do you think on what is holding you back from showing that same tenderness and understanding that you have for others to yourself?

See it makes me think back to “As” by Steve Wonder how he said, “I’ll be loving you always”. How he would show love and be loving even when the impossible happened. When mother nature says her work is through. When 8 times 8 times 8 is four.  It’s that same love... that same acceptance that you need to bring into your life! Now you have to remember that love isn’t just feeling good all the time or letting things go. Love is the action of facilitating one's growth and prosperity. Doesn't matter if it’s for your mother, your daddy, your brother, sister, lover, friend, or… YOU!  See when you love yourself without bounds or determining factors you stop focusing on if you can love yourself... on if you have reached that point where you can say, “Oh I finally feel like I’m worthy of love”... and instead you focus on how you can love yourself because you’re already there… you already have it and deserve it you just have to grow it. Can you dig it?

Welp, that’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D.” Be sure to follow me on all social media @dawndaispeaks and until next time, always remember, "You are your greatest asset."

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Today’s dose of Vitamin D is dedicated to acknowledgment. are you acknowledging the things that are important to you in your regular life? more importantly, are you acknowledging the people you love or the things that drive you?

Tell me, how do you feel when someone tells you how much you mean to them? you feel good right? It’s that moment of appreciation that reminds you of why you’re here, doing the sometimes hard work of building a relationship. that same thing happens when you take a moment to realize how lucky you are to be able to make your dream real. you get to show up and make yourself better. You get to become your best self. You get to turn that vision that has driven you for 5, 10, 15 years and share it with the world. 

Think of Daniel Caesar's “Best Part” he sings, “If you love me won’t you say something, if you love me won’t you say something?” Remember that your dreams can call out for recognition. just like with a relationship if you don’t acknowledge them you’ll lose them and the opportunities to make them real. Now I know we often feel like gratitude is for the birds, that life is moving fast and that when you show up you’re expressing interest but stop and hold that for a second. You need to bring gratitude to everything you do. Your dreams as well and when you can acknowledge the best part of making your dreams you stop thinking about it as work. 

That’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D” be sure to follow me on all social media @dawndaispeaks and until next time, always remember, "You are your greatest asset."

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On today’s episode of Vitamin D, Dawn dives into her email bag and responds to letters from her listeners. Find out what Dawn has to say about a partner who gives you mixed signals, the importance of being clear about what you want in a relationship, gaining the confidence to let go of something that is no longer serving you, and much more.

If you need advice on passion, purpose, career, love, and anything else, go ahead and submit your Vitamin D advice letter to [email protected].

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Today’s dose of “Vitamin D” is dedicated to the fight, the courage that you have inside. Let’s be real, have you ever felt like giving up? I know I have. We all know what it’s like to have obstacles come at us left and right. Obstacles that seem to almost knock the wind out of us. Obstacles that don’t have a specific shape or form, but we battle within. No matter what those obstacles are, you must remain standing.

As Les Brown says, “If you can look up, you can get up.” You cannot control the cards you are dealt in life, but you can control how you play your hand. The key to playing your hand is to stay in the game. The only way to stay in the game is to remain standing. If you fall down seven times, get up 8!

As Monica stated in her 2010 hit single, “Still Standing,” there are times in my life that I tell myself Dawn “you gotta walk by faith, and not by sight.” Everything isn’t going to be easy and realize that “whatever, don't kill, you makes you stronger.” Then I think back on what I’ve been through and say to myself, “well, I must be the world's strongest woman!”

How big is your fight? The next time you face an obstacle stare at yourself in the mirror and say, “you can bet your last that my head won't hit the floor, never!

And I'm STILL STANDING!

That’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D” be sure to follow me on all social media @DawnDaiSpeaks . Until next time, always remember, “You are your greatest asset!”

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Today’s dose of “Vitamin D” is dedicated to being invincible. Understand that you have greatness inside of you. You have the ability to create and to do anything that your heart desires. While we have known this all to be true, why is it that we continue to “play small” in world that we are meant to “play big.”

We “play small” by being unsure of who we are, running from empty threats of emptiness, abandonment and all things that scare us, but that truly don’t exist. We “play small” because we are afraid to take chances. We “play small” because even in the loneliness, pain and unhappiness we feel “comfortable” with just being “ok.”

I challenge you to “play big.” Just like Kelly Clarkson belts in her hit single, “Invincible,” I want you to declare, “I am invincible. No, I ain't scared...no more. I am invincible. I'm a perfect storm.” Now go after your wildest dreams. Be unapologetic for who you are, and have vision for where you want to go. But most importantly, bet on yourself!

Now go ahead, free yourself and become invincible!

That’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D” be sure to follow me on all social media @DawnDaiSpeaks. Until next time, always remember, “You are your greatest asset!”

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On today's episode of Vitamin D with Dawn Dai, Dawn is joined by Journalist, Actor, and Media Producer Danielle Young. Danielle sits down with Dawn for her first live show to give insight into what helped her take a chance on herself and become known as "The Content Queen" as well as laugh about her initial meeting with Dawn, what to do when you start working for yourself, how to prevent people from putting you on a pedestal and how you can open the next door for yourself by just hopping on live with your friend

Interested in following Danielle Young? You can keep up with The Content Queen on her social media at @thedanielleyoung on Instagram and at @rasphodani on twitter, and you can catch her Facebook Live show The Danielle Young Show at https://www.facebook.com/danielle.young.39948. Remember that you can make your dreams a reality if you take a chance on yourself and as always, you are your greatest asset.

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Today’s dose of “Vitamin D” is dedicated to living life. It’s so easy to say that we’re “living,” because in actuality we’re just functioning. Doing the bare minimum to get by because it’s safe, because it’s easy, because it’s all we know. STOP! Robots function. Robots have the inability to feel, the inability to dream. However, as humans we feel and we live with passion.

In order to live, you must learn to let go. Expand your vision, expand your dreams and take flight. It’s easy to stay “stuck” in a relationship, job and/or situation that you despise. It’s time to muster up the courage to be all that you can be. If you’re tired of the relationship you’re in, get out! If you’re tired of your mundane job, it’s time to pursue the dreams you’ve always had. Whatever it is that you want out of life, it’s time to get it. No more waiting until tomorrow, because tomorrow isn’t promised.

Australian pop singer, Sia, belts in her hit single “Chandelier” that she ‘s living her life to the fullest by proudly stating, “I'm gonna swing from the chandelier…I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist…I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry. I'm gonna swing from the chandelier.”

Do whatever it is that scares you. If you cry, cry because the new heights to be soared will dry every tear that you’ve shed.

Swing from the Chandelier!

That’s it for your dose of “Vitamin D” be sure to follow me on all social media @DawnDaiSpeaks, Until next time, always remember, “You are your greatest asset!”

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