Speaker 1:
0:00
Today Met Olivia. Today, our guest is Elm Michelle McCrae. Elm Michelle came and shared her story of dealing with rejection and how we can move beyond rejection. Olivia, what did you love most about this episode?
Speaker 2:
0:14
She gave a really great perspective on how to think about rejection, which we won't give away because you'll have to listen to the episode. But let me tell you, Brian, I am ready for my next rejection.
Speaker 1:
0:29
I think that's great. That's inspiring to hear. Well, congrats, met Olivia. I am so excited that you're excited about your next rejection time. All right, with that. People are probably wondering what and what are they talking about? Let's go ahead and dive into today's episode. So, olivia, before we bring out our guests, I know we're going to be talking about when you felt rejected. So at first I thought it might be good to ask you have you ever felt rejected? Now, just let you guys all know. Before we came in here, elm Michelle is probably going to bring us up, but the whole night started. Let me set the mood here. We were in a private session, everybody getting ready for the show. I said Elm Michelle, we need to create a party so we can travel together. She's like. I got it. She invited us all into the party and Met Olivia did not accept Elm Michelle's party invite. She rejected it. So see, see how it started already.
Speaker 1:
1:22
Getting her pumped up for the show, getting her ready is what I was doing oh my gosh Well, have you guys ever been invited to a party and someone rejected it? Or you invited someone, they rejected it? Yeah, confetti up for that. Met Olivia. Besides being rejected for joining a party in Horizon World, let me ask you have you ever felt rejected before in real life?
Speaker 2:
1:47
Yeah, I mean absolutely, and I feel like, now more than ever, there are more avenues to feel rejected from. It can happen through texting on Instagram, on Facebook, on TikTok. There are so many more places that you can feel rejected at too. So, it can be a lot, especially on your mental health, for sure.
Speaker 1:
2:14
This is a great time to bring out Elm Michelle. So when we bring out Elm Michelle, you guys please rain her with confetti. Elm Michelle, would you please come out and join us at the Killer B Studios. Here she comes, Look at her. She's like, yeah, she says she's going to do some dancing and yeah, she's got a new outfit she's shown off here.
Speaker 2:
2:28
Yeah, elm Michelle, check it out, look at that, yeah. She's got the moves over here, Brian, why don't you? Can you do that?
Speaker 1:
2:36
Yeah, hold on a second. I can do like the, like I don't know, can I do like the?
Speaker 3:
2:39
robot thing. Oh, the music went away, here we go.
Speaker 1:
2:42
I can just like drop the hand. I can do that. Is that like a robot hand?
Speaker 3:
2:45
Do the robot.
Speaker 1:
2:45
I don't know. No, I can't dance in life and I can't. I can't dance in real life or in Metaverse. So welcome to the Killer B Studios, elm Michelle, we're so happy you're here. Thank, you.
Speaker 2:
2:58
I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 3:
2:59
It's long overdue right.
Speaker 1:
3:01
Yes, long overdue, long overdue. Okay, so a lot of people here might not know who Elm Michelle is. So, elm Michelle, why don't you take about 30 seconds and just tell us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3:
3:12
Oh, my goodness. Okay, my name is Elm Michelle McCray. I have a just a background in mass communications, that's television, radio, broadcast production. I'm a mom of amazing, amazing Sundance in the military. I'm a voiceover artist and professionally endorsed saxophoneist. A singer, multi-genre singer, vocalist, and there's that's just to name a few a writer, author, actress, just to name a few things.
Speaker 1:
3:41
Wow, I should have gave her more than 30 seconds.
Speaker 2:
3:44
I think I should definitely gave her more than 30 seconds Wow.
Speaker 1:
3:47
So you've got your hands in a lot, then a lot I do With everything that you, that you, you got your hands in. What would you say is the thing at the top that you love the most? What is it?
Speaker 3:
3:59
Oh my gosh, I honestly, being a mother first and foremost, but every to everything there's, I think I love the applause yeah, I love the applause and honestly, there's things that have seasons. For a while, my focus was music and my saxophone endorsements and going and traveling and performing and a lot of things I work on simultaneously. So it kind of weighs out, but right now, voice is. It would be at the top right now in this season of my life. Wow.
Speaker 5:
4:27
That's awesome.
Speaker 3:
4:29
All things to do with voice, voiceover, singing, all of those things.
Speaker 1:
4:31
You know, tonight I know we're going to talk about rejection. I know you've already experienced it a little bit. I'm sorry about meta Olivia We'll have a talk afterwards about all this, but I'm sorry about that. I'm still recovering.
Speaker 5:
4:42
So sorry.
Speaker 1:
4:42
Thank you. No problem, no problem, but I know you know we're going to talk about rejection tonight, but I would, I would would you mind sharing why this topic is important to you.
Speaker 3:
4:53
Absolutely. I talk about all the different things I've done in my introduction, from saxophones, singing to voiceover and all of the things in the arts and in communications. Nobody really wanted to hear my voice. To be honest, I wasn't the one ever chosen. I was the one looked over constantly. I'd be in the background waiting to be picked. You know how when you as a kid, you have the games where they pick oh, I want that one on my team, I want that one on my team. I was always the one last or not even picked it all. When it came to voice, singing, music. It happened over and over. I would be good for background or to fill in or some of those things over the years as I was developing and growing. But it was. We don't like that style. We don't. You don't have the right sound, you don't, it's not, it, it's not. Yeah, I will pass. You know it was that. A lot of that happened with in all of the different things that I actually was in, even in acting, even in acting.
Speaker 1:
5:56
That's how it started off for me. How did that make you feel at those times, like internally, and what did you tell your? I've learned. Last time we were talking about here. Last interview was talking about how we all have. I'm starting to learn that we all have different inner voices that I didn't really think of. My wife and me has been talking about it.
Speaker 1:
6:14
She's like when you when you mess up or or something doesn't go the way you had planned, is your inner voice critical? And I was like yeah, she's like really. So we've been talking about that and learning that. So, like, how did like, what was it like for you when you were going through that time and having that rejection? How did that feel and what was your inner voice telling you?
Speaker 3:
6:35
Much like what you experienced. I was very critical. When you have a tendency to be a perfectionist, you always wonder well, what's wrong with me? What did I do? I did that a lot. What did I do? All I did was offer help. All I did was I can sing, just like that person, and I can. I can do that too, but what did I do wrong? What? What did I? And I would constantly beat myself up trying to figure out how to make myself fit to be accepted at the time, and that was.
Speaker 3:
7:06
That was very hard. It was very painful, very painful, and so it wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't a good feeling at all, to be honest, especially when you're trying to develop and when you're trying to grow and discover yourself and you don't have a lot of people that have your back, that are in your corner. Of course, I have my mother and father, but they don't operate in any of the gifts that I do, nor are there any are any of the fields that I'm in, so all they could do was say you can do it. All they could say was you know what? We got your back, but they did not know how. They did not know how to encourage me past that painful rejection and you know discovery they didn't know how.
Speaker 1:
7:48
Well, how old were you like when you first started going through it?
Speaker 3:
7:53
Oh gosh, junior high junior high. Wow, and yeah, junior high and it came from. And I'll just, if you don't mind me just being blunt- it came from? Why are you trying to sound like somebody? You're not. Why are you trying to sound like a white person? Why are you trying to? Why, well, your hair is not really naturally curly. You're all kinds of things I would get bullied legit bullied for just being different or speaking different or using correct.
Speaker 3:
8:21
It started there. I found myself, even as a young girl, caught in between, and what that means for me was I was not enough for this group of people. Not enough for this group of people and not enough for this. It was always I have a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but nobody really fully said, hey, come on, come on and join, come on and be with us. It was always caught in between.
Speaker 1:
8:46
Does that make sense yeah that does make sense.
Speaker 2:
8:48
Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
8:51
And at that age I mean you're at a young age which you're still trying to, your brain is still developing as well and you're feeding yourself like what's wrong with me? That's a hard age to be doing that and I mean gosh. I think that I know for myself that there's things that has, when I was talking to my wife about my inner voice, that I've learned that a lot of that came from bad experiences when I was young that negative talk and thoughts and rejection, and then those are things that you run through your head and I started realizing with her.
Speaker 1:
9:23
I told her I was like you know, what I realize is that the inner voice that I'm hearing even today I'm 43 or actually, I'm sorry, I'm 44, I still have that inner voice and I realized that that voice sounds a lot like the person that cut the deepest from the rejection.
Speaker 5:
9:42
Yes, it does it does.
Speaker 3:
9:44
Unfortunately, when we experience pain, it doesn't matter whether it's physical or mental. Our brain process is the same, and so we have mental scars as well as physical scars that people don't realize that are there, and the scars scarring doesn't go away. It's just a reminder, right?
Speaker 3:
10:06
Of something you experience and then you have to take that for what it is and then move forward with it. However you can right so there's mental scars too. That memory. You can either take it and say, dang, that hurt, and you can go back to it and revisit it and live it, or you can say no. That scar reminds me that no, I needed to move forward from that moment. That's good and say now I'm here, Now I'm here.
Speaker 1:
10:30
That's good, that's good. And what did that?
Speaker 3:
10:32
teach me.
Speaker 1:
10:33
Let me ask you this on my show Okay, you're at this young age and I'm just, you know, going back to that time as we're kind of ramping up here to where we're going on this, discussing things about Excuse me, about when you feel rejected. So here's your art. You're young, you're feeling rejected. What started changing to To help you move forward? What was there anything that changed, like did you? I'm sure you came, came to points thinking like you couldn't do this, why do this? I should just give up. And you talked about your parents speaking into you. Is there something that really Helps you start open your eyes, to start moving beyond that rejection? Yes, Absolutely.
Speaker 3:
11:12
First it starts with, you know, because it didn't go away immediately. First it starts with Okay, now I'm gonna people please. Like I said, you start to try to shift who you are to meet the requirements of this one or Be accepted in this, you know, group of people, but then you start to get exhausted, because anytime you have to act Continuously other than somebody you're not, it's exhausting you have to keep that up.
Speaker 3:
11:39
It's not authentic, right? You always have to come up with the next thing, the next gimmick, the next Complement, the next whatever to feed into whoever you're trying to be accepted by, so that people pleasing becomes very dangerous, right, because People are never satisfied. People are fickle, right they're ever changing. They'll shout your name one moment, you know the story, and then the next minute it's crucify him.
Speaker 3:
12:05
They'll say woohoo great job and then the next moment won't answer a call, right, yeah, so you have to. You have to figure out well, what. What is the sort? What am I trying to do here? What am I really trying? So I figured out that I was becoming so exhausted In my teens and you know my early teens trying to fit this mode I said, wait a minute, I can't do this anymore as as it is and being adult and live like this either.
Speaker 3:
12:33
I was, and I started watching people. I Started watching people. I started trying to understand what made me, you know, want them to accept me. Does that make sense? Yeah, and started asking questions. I started asking questions. But why? Why do I need that acceptance? Why do I need this from that person? Or, okay, from that person? Or are you look beautiful from that person? What is it? And when I discovered that Something, my mom said God's trying to show you that you don't need those things because you're fearfully and wonderfully made. He's trying to show you that you're not gonna get what you're expecting. And don't expect anything. Don't have unrealistic expectations from anyone who can't provide you what your soul needs, right and that was at a very young age.
Speaker 3:
13:19
I'm telling you that was in a very young age. So thank God from a mother with wisdom is my best friend right now, and so that started me. That started the stop of the people pleasing and the trying to search for answers through other people in acceptance, like that, and once I got over people and what they expected of me, which was exhausting you should do this, elmish, oh, you should do that. Oh what with all the things that I do, people would have me everywhere, strong and I wouldn't get a wink of sleep. What I or I'd be saying at that and for that matter right.
Speaker 3:
13:52
So that's what started the stopping point and the strategic inflection point for me to begin to move according to my destiny and forge my own path and Manifest with God has for me.
Speaker 1:
14:06
Hey, man, that's amazing. So when, when you did this, let's look and you're talking about the Bible and I want to talk about this because this reminds me of the story of David right when, when, Samuel.
Speaker 1:
14:18
When Samuel was sent to go and like the king who is gonna be king of Israel later, and he goes, you know, he went to go see Was a Jesse I think it was Jesse, right, yeah, jesse's His sons. And he brought, you know, jesse brought all his sons in except for David. David was the, he was the shepherd boy. He was the boy that was ten in the sheep. He was the, the youngest. He was also the person what the scriptures, if you read in first seems, will tell you.
Speaker 1:
14:43
First, samuel's chapter 16. Read that sometime. It's very interesting because he talks about when he sent. He said, oh yeah, there's still one more son. He brought all his strong, you know, big, big strong boys. In that he saw these people, these boys, these right here, these boys are a kings, you know they're strong and they, I'm guess they fit the role. But he brought Samuel. He's like no, there's still one more, it's these. None of these are the king. And he said, well, I have the youngest. So, like when he said this, he says I have the youngest. Well, back in those days the youngest wasn't the one in line to to.
Speaker 3:
15:17
Right, yeah like that.
Speaker 1:
15:18
He's the youngest, so that was they started giving them labels. Well, he's the youngest and he's the. He's the one to watch over the sheeps and goats. I mean, probably not a lot of people back then wanted to be known as the person that watched the sheep and goats.
Speaker 1:
15:29
You know it's it's like the lower level job and he's out there and he also said that he's, he's, he's the. Basically he said he's, he's, handsome, beautiful eyes, he's a pretty boy, right. So it's like, okay, he's probably not gonna be the king, it's just, I guess, their mindset. But that wasn't the truth, that wasn't, and I love that because in the scriptures it says the Lord said to Samuel Don't judge by his appearance or height for every, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn't see things the way you see them and and I love that in this story because it's the same thing here is like it's not about the way people see you, it's about the way you're sharing the way.
Speaker 5:
16:07
God sees you. God sees something different in you.
Speaker 1:
16:10
I love that.
Speaker 3:
16:11
Yeah, love it. Oh, my god, and that story is one of my favorites. That and Joseph, both, both Because I spent time and speaking of rejection and I just kind of going to something that I wanted to say about that yeah, go right every time. Every time you experience a rejection from people, there's two things it's either redirection or protection. It's never truly a painful moment if you don't let it be it hurts.
Speaker 4:
16:42
We have emotions, we're people, we're natural we go through things, but it's either redirection or protection.
Speaker 3:
16:49
It's never a fail or a miss, because what's for you will be for you, and so you don't have to worry about that. So on the redirection side is well, why didn't I get that job? Well, why didn't that person want to date me? Well, why didn't that person? Well, guess what? There's some things that you may not know or be aware of that you're being to redirect it away from.
Speaker 3:
17:09
That is gonna save you precious time and energy that you would have invested Wrongly. You know, yeah, and so when you get rejected, it's for reasons. Sometimes people don't even know why they do that. Some people we don't know why. We don't know the answer. But if you take a look at it and you choose the redirection and say, well, maybe that just wasn't meant for me. Right now, let me focus on my energy's, on better myself. Right now, let me focus on it'll send you in the direction that you need to go.
Speaker 3:
17:41
No, that's good from a job, rejection from a job, and my brother got hired at a new job, right, and he was like I don't, I don't feel right about it. They Then turned around and rejected him, right, but then it was all roses and sunshine and he was gonna get this big bonus and blah, blah, whatever. The company shut down months later and he ended up taking a different job. If we take that as redirection, then we'll fare better and say okay, maybe let me learn how to pivot in this moment.
Speaker 3:
18:14
Now the protection side, the protection side. Oh my god, how many times has have I been protected from situations that I wasn't aware of the depth and severity of them? Oh no, I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of that. Oh my god, how many of y'all have actually seen something play out that had you taken a step to force yourself into a situation where you did not fit, and Then you were like, whoa, I'm glad I didn't do that.
Speaker 1:
18:41
Yeah, that's me, I've been there. Oh my god, anybody else anybody else been there before? Anybody.
Speaker 3:
18:47
I mean so many times. I remember one thing with arrow Smith how about this rejection? Somebody called me. They needed a female saxophone player that could sing to tour with arrow Smith. I still have the email and I still have the video audition that I sent in and everything, everything. At the time my son was still small and I'm thinking, oh, I'm gonna be here for my son, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. Had I gone on the road with a world-renowned Aerosmith and the things that my son was going through at the time, I would not have been there for him a crucial moments of his life.
Speaker 3:
19:18
So that rejection actually protected my legacy, my son as well. So you have to really think yes, it was close, it was a compliment. And then I found out later that that road life, that type road life, might not have been for me either, because my temperament and my little you know country self.
Speaker 5:
19:36
I'm a little Texas country girl and rocking out.
Speaker 3:
19:41
You know, but, but it was such a great opportunity.
Speaker 5:
19:45
Oh it's so so well right.
Speaker 3:
19:48
But then what about my son? And he would have been like where's my mom, when his dad wasn't there. Ah Horrible so guess what now he's like oh my god, I couldn't ask for a better mom. I'm so grateful how you raised me so that rejection turned out to a, a beautiful, amazing son. Wow with wisdom in the military.
Speaker 5:
20:09
So how about?
Speaker 3:
20:09
that.
Speaker 1:
20:12
Yes, totally well. Really, I think what I'm taking away from this is also, with the way you handle rejection can be a big part and moving beyond rejection. One of the things that really scarred like we talked about when wounds right One of the things when I was younger that really scarred me was Someone I looked up to that really cared a lot about, called me a failure face-to-face, I mean just face-to-face and it was like a most fistfight and your failure.
Speaker 1:
20:40
It was just. It cut me really deep and I didn't realize how much I would play a role throughout my life. And I got to the point again I just started learning this last year. So if you're like, wow, these guys got it all together, I'm 44 and I'm still learning, still learning. And last year I realized that every time I would hear the word no, sometimes it would really hurt and I'd be like what's wrong with me, what's going on here? And then I started learning that no, it's because the way I looked at no, no to me, was your failure. It was that rejection right, right Maybe what I learned was no.
Speaker 1:
21:18
If I looked at no differently and said no means not here. This isn't the right place for you. So instead of wasting all that energy like you're talking about wasting our energy Trying to get that no to be a yes, so okay, it's not here.
Speaker 1:
21:30
Let me round that and figure out where the yes is, you know. So that's right. That's right. I mean in your, in the industry, like being in Brock. I think there's probably a lot of rejection there. That's we know. Like, oh god, it can be a lot of rejection and a lot of a I mean metal of it. You can relate to that right. Well, how the industry can be, but it's beyond that.
Speaker 1:
21:51
It could be with it could be with your family, it can be with your friends, yes, absolutely yeah, the crowds that you like, you said you you think you want to be a part of, but you don't know the protection that's there For you not yes, yes, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 3:
22:06
and I just can't say enough that the lessons I've learned from just thinking differently about, about rejection and what it really means isn't it that redirection and protection is what I want everybody to to leave with. I'll give an example. So for all the people who rejected my voice years ago, right, all the people who said, no, we don't like that, I go from Opera. Oh, we don't want to hear that too.
Speaker 5:
23:03
They call it stormy Monday when to Stages just as bad from that to you have reached the voicemail box for five, five, five, seven, seven, five, five. Please see the message after the tone for English best one, but I was been your mother kid Does.
Speaker 3:
23:23
I went for doing all of that and being the weird one to people like Snoop Dogg, saying, hey, I want to use you on my album from hearing me say in a quarter of a mile, turn left.
Speaker 3:
23:34
In a quarter of a mile, take a left on Crip Street to the chief scientist of NASA at the time, jim Green, becoming a friend of mine and I'll be meeting with him soon Just because of the things that had I not focused on what God had for me and tried to please the masses and the people that Were not meant to be in my destiny. I mean, will I am from the black eyed peas and me not realizing that God would be putting me in in Arenas to deal with people that are hurting on all kinds of levels and working with people and giving me a voice on a larger scale To influence Curtis, blow Krs1 and all of these people vanilla ice got, just to name a few people and just.
Speaker 3:
24:19
I'm just from the sound of my voice. And had I taken that hurt and I taken that pain and Just kept trying to people, please kept trying to figure out how to make metalivia say yes, how to make Bobby you know no man say yes, I wouldn't be where I am.
Speaker 1:
24:40
Amen, amen. That is so powerful, like it's beautiful, because that's thing God knew the plan he had for you and it was being a real Rick party is my friend, so I had to pick him.
Speaker 1:
24:55
It's like to be like be okay with you said, with being okay, with Not trying to fit in with the people, but trusting God, like me. He's opened up things and and to tell you like, here we are. I was at the pod fest last week and they're asking me like where's your podcast? That I was like, well, to be honest with you, he kind of started by accident. We actually do this live show in the metaverse and they're like what? And I started telling what we're doing and but a lot of people don't know this.
Speaker 1:
25:20
When I got into broadcasting I'm not a radio person, I just I do digital marketing strategies, content strategy and stuff like that but we did a lot of live videos and Nobody would get on the videos except for one personality and me. But their personality needed somebody to help. So we started becoming our own, basically own little show by accident, not meaning to, and I had people literally pull me in office and say Nobody here knows you and they don't want to hear from you, mm-hmm. And I was like I'm not trying to do anything. I was like what my whole point is is trying to get you guys, show you guys how to do it so you guys could do it, get somebody else to do it. But I left and I took that and I kept running those voices through my head Nobody wants to hear what you have to say. You know, nobody cares. And I'm like, well, do they? Well, here we are hosting this show and I still walk away sometimes thinking Nobody wanted to hear that. But why am I? You know what? But that's isn't that weird.
Speaker 3:
26:17
No, no, it's not weird, because you know, when we offer kindness and we offer help, we we do it with a peer intention, but how people people respond to you. Their response to you says more about them than it does you.
Speaker 2:
26:31
Mmm-hmm.
Speaker 3:
26:32
It really does if you really think about it. What did they learn? How did they come up? Who spoke into their life? How did they deal business with before? Who didn't listen to them? And so they perceive and they deal with you, how Respond to you. It has more to do with them. And then also, the other part of that is I Know that I have a heart that's really dedicated, right, right, and I keep my word. You know I'm gonna follow through, I'm gonna do all those things. So had you dug in more and not heard that, guess what. You may still be in that spot trying, right? Yeah, nobody wants to hear that, but guess what, it may not have been meant for their ears either. That's what we have to. You have to consider the source of where that statement came from and you have to consider what you're pouring into when that type stuff happens, right?
Speaker 5:
27:25
So it all just it go.
Speaker 3:
27:27
All things work together for the good of those who love God and are called a quarter of his purpose.
Speaker 1:
27:30
It happened the way it needed to be. Amen, amen, amen. This is great. This is great. How can people connect with you in real life?
Speaker 3:
27:38
The best way to connect with me is to follow my Instagram page right now, and it's at El Michelle McCray. But no periods leave those dot thingies out. All right, but it's at Elm, it's at El Michelle McCray, and you'll see me there and you'll see a couple of posts With some voice stuff on there. A few little things, awesome, cool, interesting things yeah awesome.
Speaker 1:
27:59
We have one question up right now. So you guys, while we're bringing up, bring up Honda Honda, if you want to come on up, awesome.
Speaker 4:
28:05
I love questions oh can you hear me, yeah, we got you. Yes, yes, el Michelle, first of all, thank you for the navigation through the streets and also the voicemails that we're navigating on a daily basis. Appreciate that. My question is this in dealing with someone who has been dealing with a lifetime of rejection, what would you say to them to probably encourage them to get out of that mindset that everything is a rejection to them?
Speaker 3:
28:39
a lifetime of rejection. Surround yourself with new people, okay, intentionally. And why? Because it's a fresh start. Because a lot of times, if there's a lifetime of rejection, it's because you're exposing yourself to the same people Over and over again, doing that thing that we just talked about. Let me try to figure out how to get them to say yes and they keep saying no, let me try to figure out how to get that same type job. And they keep saying no.
Speaker 3:
29:11
Let me so start to surround and seek out different people and new environments and Experiences, just to get yourself out there. Can that be scary? Absolutely it can be scary, but it I'd rather they do it. Afraid. Then remain where they are, because remaining doing the same thing, expecting a different result, is what Insanity so I say, surround themselves with new experiences and new people and start discovering new things and just trying to just get out there. Really, it's not easy. It's not easy, but it can be done, one step at a time.
Speaker 1:
29:48
And that's awesome. Thanks, thanks, honda. Thank you. What is one thing you would hope people would take away from today's show?
Speaker 3:
29:56
Okay, just like I talked about that, that rejection, it doesn't ever, ever feel good. Initially, right, because nobody likes no. Who does? I don't. I don't think anybody will raise their hands. I love hearing no, right, but you know Right. And so what I want everybody to take away from that is what I said earlier. Rejection, at the base level, is just that, somebody turning away, not choosing you or whatever, but rejection is protection or Redirection. It's protection or redirection. That means I need to pivot, I need to look at something differently. And while you're in the redirection, right, this is what you do.
Speaker 3:
30:39
Remember, um, david, in the field that you talked about? Yeah, what was he doing in the field? It wasn't pretty, but while he was rejected from the others, he was developing all of his skills for what he was destined to be. The whole time, what I did in the background was practicing my voice, practicing my saxophone. I was practicing to say welcome to killer B studios. I was practicing these things, and so when it was time for me to be called upon, guess what happened I was prepared. I was ready instead of focusing on?
Speaker 3:
31:13
why don't my brothers and sisters like me? Why don't I blah, blah, blah? Oh god, I'm just gonna wallow in this. He was preparing, he was fighting the lines and the bears, he was protecting the sheep to ultimately be what? What did he turn out to be?
Speaker 1:
31:28
Yeah, the big king Okay king.
Speaker 3:
31:31
So take that away and those moments of rejection. It's either protection from something you don't need to be a part of God protects you from dangerous seen and unseen and then it's redirection To for a better thing. So while you're getting that redirection, study to show yourself or prove, dig in deeper to who you are. What did you think about you wanted to be when you were a child? Dig into that and hone those skills and then it'll start to manifest in minutes time. You're gonna shine. That's it I.
