WHAT A MESS

Once you realize the power of your presence, you won’t be just anywhere. Kalilah is being extremely selective on where she spends her time and with who. As she is submerged in the MESS of her day-to-day and preparing to run the Chicago Marathon in a couple days, she analyses the best places she should be to occupy her time. 

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen, that stillness becomes a radiance. Kalilah is upset with herself because she wants to be still after her trip to Cancun revealed how much of a MESS things were. She is afforded a big opportunity that takes her to Atlanta to work for a week, missing her son’s 9th birthday, but FOMO won’t let her turn this job down. She is conflicted because she did not negotiate her terms for this project and at times she feels like she’s compromising herself and her standards of what she requires. Everything ends up working out well in the end but Kalilah is still trying to find a moment to be still. 

Keep your face always towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. Kalilah recaps the end of the summer and talks about her trip to Mexico, part of it a solo trip, and the other half a girls trip that was a big MESS. Overall, Kalilah used this time to allow the sun to rejuvenate and energize her as she prepares for all the MESS to come in the 4th quarter. 

Do something today that your future self will thank you for. Kalilah gives a wrap-up of Summer 2022, a lot of MESS happened. This episode, Kalilah talks about the unfortunate murder of a childhood friend’s mom and severe injury to her son and how it impacted her summer. She talks about vending events and speaking events, Momentum, Essence Fest, and Invest Fest. Kalilah wraps the episode detailing her experience at Invest Fest with the folks from Earn Your Leisure Podcast in Atlanta. Her lessons, mishaps and meeting one of her favorite entertainer, Steve Harvey. Listen to how Kalilah upset the LGBTQIA+ community and how she got herself out of that MESS.

There is no real ending, just the place where you stop the story. Kalilah is excited to come back to her listeners for Season 6. Kalilah talks about the hardship she experienced over the last couple of months in business. This is the end of MESS as you know it. She is ready to explore who Kalilah is in her next chapter. 

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One cannot plan for the unexpected but the best things happen unexpectedly. Kalilah talks about the departure of an integral employee. She examines how the company makes her feel and if she is happy in her MESS. She explores what her life would look like without MESS and how the unexpected loss of employees impact her emotional investment in MESS in a Bottle. Should she leave her MESS behind?

The fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. Kalilah talks about the life you want versus the life you have and if we are letting FOMO (fear of missing out) coerce us into making decisions we don’t need to make. Does the fear of missing out brings us down paths we don’t need to go down?

Kalilah recaps current events happening in the US. She talks about the Buffalo mass shooting, a racist act that happened in Tennessee with a black family and her son almost getting into a fight. These acts of violence and accessibility to guns are weighing heavy on Kalilah, causing anxiety. Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something, but maybe it’s more about focusing on how you will live through it. 

Kalilah is going through a difficult time with personal and business challenges.  The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.  Kalilah shares how her mental health has been tested this month and how she is working through all the MESS.