Forging Strength from Pain: The Journey to Resilience and Purpose with Yane Sneed

Have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered what it takes to truly rise from the ashes of a difficult past? Yane Sneed, my incredible guest, and I share an intimate conversation about the very essence of resilience and how rewriting your self-narrative can lead to profound personal transformation. Yane's journey from a tumultuous childhood to founding Relentless Phoenix and authoring 'Manifest Your Canvas' is nothing short of inspirational, proving that strength and purpose can indeed be forged from pain.

Throughout our discussion, we peel back the layers of self-love and the significance of purpose in our lives. I reveal how facing one's own demons and extending grace to oneself can be the starting point for cultivating a deeply rooted sense of self-worth. We also touch upon the role of life coaching in piercing through the fog of uncertainty that envelops many of us during life's pivotal moments. Whether you're navigating major changes or simply feel adrift, this episode offers a compass to guide you back to your true north.

Wrapping up our session, we turn our gaze towards the concept of wholeness in the context of life's relentless challenges. I share insights into my daily practice of mindfulness and gratitude and how these tools help maintain equilibrium in a whirlwind of parental, entrepreneurial, and creative responsibilities. Tune in to absorb the essence of Yane's and my experiences, and let this episode be a reminder that growth is measured by the lessons learned along the way—not by the ticking of the clock.

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Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 0:42

Good day out there to all of my listeners. Welcome to Is your Way In your Way podcast, and I'm your host, cassandra Crawley-Mayo, and for some of you, the new listeners that are on, just so, you're aware that my book corresponds with the podcast. The name of my book is Is your Way In your Way. It's a self-discovery guide for women on how to restore yourself, learn from your experiences and be your true self again. And also this podcast for my listeners who are ready to move forward in their lives. They feel like they're stuck, they're just in a stagnated mood and they just want to come out and be their best self. And also we want to mitigate those self-imposed barriers that's preventing you from living your best life on your terms. And I have a special guest today and one of the topics for the new listeners. The topics we talk about are usually business or personal development, and also this creates an opportunity for you to self-reflect. And so we have our special guest today by the name of Yane Sneed, and I'd like to welcome Yane to the stage. How are you, yane? I'm doing very well. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm glad you're here and I love the topic that we're going to talk about the power of resilience through relentlessness. That's a lot of R's and can get twisted up, but we know what resilient is and keep it moving. And relentless not letting go. Keep it going.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 2:28

Before I start my new listeners, I read the bio of my guest so that you'll get a little tidbit of what she's all about before we delve into the questions. So Yane has faced numerous trials, each offering valuable lessons for her growth. Her journey, marked by challenges, is a testament to resilience and strength. She refuses to let experiences define her, always seeking the silver lining in every hardship. In 2022, she established Relentless Phoenix, an author manifest, your canvas, sharing insight on overcoming adversity. Her mission is to guide individuals through adversities to unlock their full potential. We definitely want to hear about that right listeners. She's guiding individuals through adversities to unlock their full potential Wow. Well. So, yane, before we really start delving in, I want you to share some specific aspects of your backstory that empowered you to start this work.

Yanee Sneed: 3:48

Yeah, so I had a troubled childhood. I didn't really have a lot of support growing up and I was emotionally and mentally abused in my family dynamics. I was also sexually abused as well by my dad, who I call a sperm donor. Throughout my childhood I really lost my identity or sense of purpose and it wasn't until I started getting to college where I started finding my belonging. I started doing mentorship and really helping other individuals with their life diversity. So I started finding my purpose during that moment and really finding where I belong and the balance within my pain and my struggles and helping others. I was using that to motivate myself and help them overcome their struggles.

Yanee Sneed: 4:37

And in college I did social work and I didn't feel like I was getting given back in social work, nor was I really. I was struggling a lot in college, but I did manage to get a degree in social work and overcome those adversities with believing that I can overcome. And then I had children. After my second child during my time I had my second child in 2022, I started a business called Witness Phoenix as a life coach because I wanted to use more of my background, my life experiences, to continue helping others and also, like my bio said Bright, manifest your Canvas, which is talking about the ways in which I use motion, resilience, mental clarity, empowerment in my daily life to help others as well. So it's been a full circle journey of using my story to help others overcome their challenges, right so it sounds like you are an entrepreneur, solo entrepreneur now, yes, so are you doing social work?

Yanee Sneed: 5:43

I am using my social work degree for my life coaching business, so not much social work one-on-one with a client more than I am doing with my life coaching.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 5:54

Okay, okay. Now, what is it about you? Based on your background, your backstory, whereas individuals there's some individuals that have very similar instances or circumstances as you do, as you did, and they're having trouble. Some of my listeners are having trouble getting out of it. They're stuck with it. You know they're still in their past. What did you do, or what is it about you that had you to pivot and say, hey, I'm going to do this thing. I understand what happened to my past and I'm not going to let that define me. So what happened?

Yanee Sneed: 6:39

So I just want to say that I get a little. I get. I get shy when I say something about you, because I feel like everyone can do what I can do if they really put their minds to it. I just want to make sure that I'm not a exception to the rule. I am the rule. I can do what you can too and I want to help with those skills. I want to provide that.

Yanee Sneed: 6:58

But to answer your question, one thing was when I was in college, I challenged those thoughts that I had, that was built inside of me, that I had that was built inside of me, and I re-challenged those negative thoughts. Because one thing I understood about myself when I started challenging these thoughts was that most of my thoughts, my negative thoughts, wasn't my own. My thoughts were chained towards somebody else's thought of how they perceived me. I believed that I couldn't be this way. I believed that I had a lot of self-doubt. Those wasn't my thoughts.

Yanee Sneed: 7:27

Once I started challenging them, I started looking for the positive that I have done already in my life up to that point of college, and I started challenging more of my negative thoughts. I also started looking at the things that I have overcame when I was in college, I felt a presence and I heard the presence said I'm doing it. And when I repeated it it was kind of like epiphany, like I am doing it. So I have to make sure I'm in the moment as well when I'm going through this stuff, so I won't feel stuck like I don't know which way to go. It's being a moment and look at your obstacle as the, as the obstacle is a problem more than you are.

Yanee Sneed: 8:04

So I started really trying to focus myself and ground myself. Um, today, I'm starting to use meditation now in order to really focus it and be more positive, harder, because when you do go through something like that, it's hard to really come out of it. So those tips right now is what I do and I continuously do Just plant that seed of not letting it. It's not what they tell you, it's kind of what you tell yourself, it's kind of what things I tell my, my clients. So really reprogramming yourself in your, in your head, to really challenge some of those thoughts and your, your perception.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 8:39

Is that easy to do? Could my listeners take that, that nugget that you just gave, or could you share with them like well, with them, like well? How do you really do that and how long did it take? Did it happen?

Yanee Sneed: 8:55

I know it didn't happen overnight no, no, no, I've been out of college for a while now, um, so it doesn't happen overnight. Um, what happens is well, for me, it's consistency. Um, it's not like a light switch you, you turn it on and you don't have self-doubt or insecurities or your self-esteem is high. Now, it doesn't work that way. You're kind of like bacon in the oven, if you will. It's a slow process. It's a very slow process to rewire a lot of things that you self self-doubt, and for me it was graduating.

Yanee Sneed: 9:31

Say, for instance, you're trying to graduate, you have self-doubt about getting there. Well, for me, I look back, I was like well, I finished freshman year, I finished sophomore year. So I'm proving to myself that me saying I'm not going to graduate is senseless when I've already proven I can pass one year, I can pass two years. That's what self-doubt of graduating. Or if it's in you being a parent, I got two kids.

Yanee Sneed: 9:54

Well, the first one was a little bit edgy, you know you make your mistakes. But the second one, because you learn from those experiences with your first child. Now you have some building blocks to work with. So you're not a bad parent, you're just a parent that's trying to prove. There's no handbook in that, so giving yourself grace as well. So just trying to rewire that, to look at the positive, because sometimes, when we're in a tornado, we can only think about the negative, because that's where we're at, we're all in a tornado, but we, we try to focus on a positive, which I call it, you know, we all call the silver lining in a situation that helps you focus more on something positive to get you through that dark tunnel, you know, and and survive, which is like resilience, trying to find ways to adapt to a situation, or a stretcher, um, a stretcher, a stressor, I'm sorry, a stressor um another way is to um, to joke about things probably just sound weird, but make a light of a situation and don't be so hard on yourself when something happens.

Yanee Sneed: 10:48

Accidents happen, but it's the way in which you can proceed yourself when you make an accident or a bad judgment call, you know, just learn from it, grow from it, but don't be so hard on yourself. That's one. Also, a trait of growth as well is being really down on yourself. So those are just some of the tips you can use to um, get yourself out of that, those nuggets so in words it's like give yourself some grace. Yeah, in different ways.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 11:15

Yes, yeah, yeah, you talked about empowerment. What does empowerment mean to you?

Yanee Sneed: 11:27

When I think about empowerment and it probably sounds really cliche, but I think about MLK I really do, because he was very authentic. He spoke up for what he spoke up even when it was just him speaking up about it. And that's what you have to do when it comes to yourself. You have to be your true, authentic self. Even if there's no one in this world who's going to love you, no one in the world who's going to speak up for you. You have to be your own best friend. That's what I think of empowerment Speak up to what is true to you, regardless of what it looks like, but you have to love yourself at the end of the day. So that's what I think of empowerment. Even when it goes against speaking up for others, you're being true to yourself because you are the community. The community is you. You. So just being authentic and what is right and what is wrong and speaking up for it okay, okay.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 12:12

So, um, you have clients, you indicated, and so how do you empower others? Because you, you have that innate gift, you know. You know what to say to yourself, what to do. Um, reverse that self-talk, that negative talk, you know, because we think 20,000, the statistics say that we have 20,000 thoughts a day and 70% of those are negative, right, so you've taken a while to kind of what you would call to not only to empower but to develop yourself. So, as you're working with other people, how, what's your methodology to empower them? What do you? What do you? How do you start that?

Yanee Sneed: 13:01

process. So, whatever challenge, it is safe and easy. We'll go back to self-doubt. I have them do more of a self-reflection. You know, look upon their life, start seeing what they can pull from it. So if they're saying you know I'm worth nothing or I don't feel love, or something like that, well I start challenging that. Is it true? Can you think of a moment in your life that you know you? Just you felt the opposite. You felt love, or anything like that. Usually they can pick up one or two things. So I started trying to breaking down those walls, because sometimes we give ourselves a narrative that's not true. So I start challenging them, doing their own self-reflection and once I start giving them that epiphany that some of the things they thought wasn't true, we start building up other barriers or take away the limited beliefs on different situations.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 13:53

Now, how can you tell whether a person loves themselves? How can you tell that? Because one of the things you talked about is, first of all, you want to make sure, first of all, people have to love themselves. First of all, you want to make sure, first of all, people have to love themselves. So what are some of the characteristics you found where people do not love themselves? It said, yeah, like one of the first commandments was, you know, to love your neighbor as yourself, and if you don't love yourself, it's going to be difficult to love your neighbor as yourself, and if you don't love yourself, it's going to be difficult to love your neighbor. So how can you tell if a person loves themselves or not?

Yanee Sneed: 14:36

um, it's the way you can kind of really put a nail in the head. It's kind of really how they treat themselves when it comes to others. Um, how you, how your posture, how you see things, how you see the world. Um, I mean, there are black and whites like racism. That's not love, neither for you or because or the other neighbor, because that's not bringing peace. There are subtle ways in self-sabotaging uh, possibly, um, drinking alcohol. That's not really some loving yourself or others, especially if you have children. So it just depends on the influence of a positive influence that promote your, your mind state. That's how I know yourself, your loving yourself and others.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 15:12

So you talk people through how to love themselves. I mean, like, if somebody comes to you and do you automatically know that based on their behavior, and if so, what are some of the things you do or support them with so they can start loving themselves?

Yanee Sneed: 15:31

Well, self-love comes from a lack of void or self-esteem, lack of self-esteem, lack of confidence. So we have to get that first situated before we can even say we love ourselves. Because when it comes to that, it comes with shame, it comes with defeat. If you've been through some trauma, you're thinking it's yourself, so you don't have that love within you. So we have to build. We have to build from where they're at. So if they're coming in with a little type of still love, low confidence, then we have to prove well, not me, I come, I get had them come to the realization of proving themselves that they have that within them. So when it comes down to helping them with love, you can bring them to the ocean and have well, the river and give them a drink, but it's kind of like that scenario. They have to see that within them.

Yanee Sneed: 16:13

So I can't say, hey, let's walk through a moment where you felt that you wasn't loving yourself in this moment, and then I kind of reprogrammed them. Okay, well, maybe you give yourself, like I said that word grace and look at this a different way, not asking these. I said that word grace and look at this a different, different way, and I asked him these questions. Hey, well, you could have been nice to yourself, yes, you could have been more forgiving to yourself, yes, but through that, did you ever ask yourself how you're doing in that moment? So I started building those those things that, if they don't have that, I started building those things up within them to to have those, those skills, those stepping stones for them.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 16:49

So they can do it on their self. So it sounds like you know, based on what you've been through, you've had a lot of personal growth. Where did that personal growth come from? How are you getting that?

Yanee Sneed: 17:02

My personal growth came through wisdom. That's the only way I can help myself and my clients is through my wisdom. I didn't learn as an old book, not at all. How I can speak is through what I've been through and that's how I can help them. So it's basically just all on wisdom, and that's a lot, because not a lot of people can look back on their lives and say they learned something. So that in itself was self-reflection. A lot of self-reflection because I did make mistakes but in order to grow from them and help others, you have to know what it looks like to get to the other side. You really can't talk through with a client if you don't know what it looks like on the other side. So a lot of self-reflection, a lot of uh growth through it all uh, what triggers your clients to come to you?

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 17:46

what's their trigger? What's like a common denominator why they come to you?

Yanee Sneed: 17:52

so the main stressor is a lack of purpose. That's the, that's the theme. I'm trying to think of all of them. That's the theme a lack of purpose. They come with I don't know the next stage in my life, or I'm stuck deciding between, um what my family wants, or what do I want when it comes to school. Um, I have clients that come in and say that my kids are grown now and they out of um the house. What do I do next? So it's a lot of finding purpose. Um, there's some identities, but more, when you get down to, it's about belonging somewhere, trying to find a purpose, another meaning, after they already fulfilled what they thought was their original purpose.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 18:35

So it's more of of that type of thing okay, um, now a lot of people are into um and I remember myself. I'm like what is my purpose? Throughout the years, what's my purpose? And you found your purpose out of what you've been through. You were clear on that was your purpose.

Yanee Sneed: 19:00

So originally it wasn't about what I've been through. I didn't know that is what I was going to arrive at. When I decided to do life coaching. I was even talked down about doing life coaching by a lot of my I call them fake leaders. At this point I had leaders that I tried to look up to define my purpose because I didn't know. I don't think they knew. They tried to tear me away from life coaching and try to point out my flaws, try to make me embarrassed about already speaking up about my, my life story.

Yanee Sneed: 19:28

Um, so it took me a while to even get to this point. So I always questioned why I was going through what I was going through. I didn't know why. I didn't know about what, what clues? I didn't know anything.

Yanee Sneed: 19:41

I just knew that I was going to arrive at that at some point because I knew that during that time I was religious. So I knew that God would put more on me than I could bear. I didn't know why he put that much on me. I just knew I can get through it. So I just kept with the why, why me? Why am I going through this? Until I started getting sparks of it. Um, when I started mentoring and I was like, okay, I'm helping this individual because I've been through it, so I know how to guide them. In a way, I know how to get them to a realization of what they need to see in this moment for themselves. So I started getting a lot of those and I was like, okay, well, let me go into social work, um, so I can do more of that. I didn't know like life coaching was existing during that time, but I arrived at that much later, after college okay, um, your your mission is to guide individuals through adversities in order to unlock their full potential.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 20:39

Use me as a client. What would some of the things you do to support me or empower me to unlock my full potential?

Yanee Sneed: 20:49

Okay. So I don't want to ask your age or anything, but so, in order to help me unlock your full potential, you'll get stuck, and that means that there is a crossword, there's a void, there's something that you're uncertain about doing, because if you're not stuck, you'll make a decision. You'll know what it is. So say, for instance, you're working and you're stuck at a job. You don't know what you want to do. At this point, the first question I would ask is what makes you happy? What makes you feel like you, you belong? What is, what is that? It You'll give me? You want to give me an answer, you can give me an answer, but usually it is well. I do this, or I play this sport, or sometimes when I read, or X, y, z, this, makes me feel happy.

Yanee Sneed: 21:33

So we start looking at any connections to what can be out there for you to explore. We go down that road. Sometimes if you're younger, I ask the question of when you was younger. Well, what did you want to be, you know, ballerina, astronaut, whatever that case may be. So we look at that. We start exploring those things and seeing how that can fit in, what you can do. So we start really where the client is and we kind of work around that. It depends on the age as well, but it definitely depends on what makes you happy. I start there first because that's usually where I can get someone to really think. When you're stuck, you're like I got 550 many things to think about. I have no clue which way. Let's start with what makes you happy first. What does that look like for you? And get everyday life when we start there?

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 22:21

Well, I ask that because the podcast is Is your Way, in your Way? There are a lot of listeners that number one they want to change jobs, they want to be promoted, they want to get out of a relationship, but they're struggling with that. They want to start a business. You know a number of things, whereas they'll get in their way from doing those things, they have that self-doubt, those negative beliefs doing those things. They have that self-doubt, those negative beliefs. Also, comparison, social media. They're so busy trying to compare themselves to social media.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 22:59

It's a lot of things that's preventing them from living their best life because they're in their way. Like you mentioned, procrastination. I can recall myself. I know there's certain things I need to do when I was supposed to have been writing my book but I would find everything else to do. But that Also self-sabotage, imposter syndrome. So that's why I asked that question about how do you guide them to their potential, because that's a lot of my listeners are ready to move forward and do something. They're uncomfortable, they're unsettled and what it is that they're doing and they want to do something different. So that's why I asked the question for my listeners to find out, you know, to help them, like you said, maybe ask them what makes them happy, and there's some of them that that might not even know, you know yeah, because the reason I asked that is because, although it's a simple question, when you put that in context of what to do next, it's it's hard to connect those two.

Yanee Sneed: 23:56

Because what makes you happy for me? I love poetry, but poetry is not going to pay the bills unless you're a good writer. So we have to start connecting your passion first and then give a 10. I can't help say, okay, these are the steps I would like you to take if you're not passionate about it. So what makes you happy For me? I guess my client is a way to think on a more positive note to do that, because you mentioned a lot of things.

Yanee Sneed: 24:41

But if you don't have passion behind doing something, then it's kind of irrelevant. You're going to stay stuck. So having that drive definitely helps. Yeah, social media we've got a lot of different things going on. Well, all that is distractions. But if you have passion, you have intent behind it, you have a purpose behind it, then you can get rid of all of those distractions. So starting from what makes you happy for me opens my client's eyes up to well, let me see what I can do, cause sometimes we in a job just for the checks. So what makes you happy Can start finding that purpose. Let me find out what I can connect with in this world and then you know that goes to attention.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 25:18

How has your spirituality impacted you?

Yanee Sneed: 25:25

Greatly, greatly. Um. I think my spirituality saved me in a lot of situations, um, because of how I perceived life when I was younger. It it saved me from a lot of things that I could have done worse for my um to myself, um, it, it, um, it. It balanced me out. It helped me clear um, find clarity in certain situations that I didn't really have a strong understanding on. Um. Meditation has definitely helped because it allowed me to de-stress in a lot of situations that may be um triggering. So really leaning into that to help manifest what I want in this world instead of letting the world define me. So the spirit challenges really put a balance and a calmness in me to really move forward with what I need to do, which is get back.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 26:20

Right, right. So you talked about wholeness. How do you be whole? You know the W-o-l-e, you know um, and and what. What does it look like to be whole?

Yanee Sneed: 26:39

yeah, um. So two questions. The first one what it look like be whole is be one with yourself in the midst of the troubles. So so you're not scatterbrained, you're balanced and you know what to do during a situation. The stressor is not stressing you out or is not causing you to be discombobulated, not focused on the actual goal, which is dealing with the stressor head on and not freezing up. That's what it looks like.

Yanee Sneed: 27:05

How you can get there is a lot of self-reflection, a lot of meditating, a lot of grace and forgiveness. These things, I'm saying sounds simple, but it's really not. Meditating for 10 minutes is not something that's simple, because we're so in constant interaction with something. To stay still is not simple at all, but it is rewarding Grace and forgiveness. Not simple at all, though I'm just saying it like that. It's not simple at all, especially when you have to do the inner work and come to terms with the reality of the situation that you may have caused a lot of self-sabotage in your life. That's not an easy feat to have at all, especially with me I'm not speaking from personal experience. It's not an easy feat to say you know what. I may have caused some harm to myself. I need to show some forgiveness. That's how I can move on from this situation. Now it's all easy. Also, it's a lot of hard work, but when you're consistent with it all, it really does pay off. It really does pay off.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 28:06

What does Yanni's day look like? Like who? Like? Yeah, it's because you have children and you want to maintain where you are now and you know how do you do that man, oh man, oh man.

Yanee Sneed: 28:22

So it varies depending on if the kids wake up one time. So the first thing I do is I do wake up at least 30 minutes earlier. I do try. The 20 minutes is the minimum I have afforded to me. So I'll use that time to meditate, or I'll just sit on my couch, listen to instruments, to soft music, to get my mind in a mind state of giving back. I'll be grateful. I'll wake up with a thanks. All the time. I say thank you to myself and I also say thank you to myself and I also say thank you to the world to wake me up again. They didn't have to. I could have been six feet under yesterday, but I'm not, so I'm grateful for that.

Yanee Sneed: 29:03

So I come in with a first grace Thanks for myself as well for actually making it here, because I could have been written off and had my life overcome me, but I overcame it. Then I wake my kids up, get them going. My daughter I also do the same thing to her. I also ask her to do three things that she's proud of in the morning. So I get her in that same mindset. My little one she's still two. She can't really do that.

Yanee Sneed: 29:28

But we wake up with a good head on our shoulders, we get together. You know school, know school. Come back, help out my clients. Um, I do have a podcast coming up um carl on this fan podcast that would be out um shortly, so I start doing videos for that. So in between the mix of those two things, um, I'm also authoring another book. So pretty hectic um day I do have sometimes, depending on what'm doing, pick the kids up and I'm with them, so I transition many hats throughout the day as well. So it depends on other life situations, but the general aspect of it, that's basically what I do.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 30:08

Yeah, Cause I asked that? Because we all have things to do. We got to have relationships, especially as women. We have to take care of the kids, take care of the bills, take care of the inside of the house. You got to cook, you got to buy the groceries. Here you are an author, Now you're an entrepreneur. So that's why I'm asking, because there's so many people that are just overwhelmed. You know, they're just burnt out. So that's why I asked the question, because I'm sure my listeners like, wow, she's doing a lot. What does her day look like? How did she start her day? What is going on? Oh, my gosh, you got two kids, you know. So that's why I wanted to pose that question to you Now, as we wrap up, and congratulations on starting a podcast. What's the name of your podcast going to be?

Yanee Sneed: 31:00

It's going to be. I'll name my business Relentless Phoenix. Okay.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 31:06

Right, because the title of this podcast is Power of Resilience Through Relentlessness, and that's something that has definitely resilient and you're going to keep it moving. You're going to let go. You're not going to let go and that's good. And just your testament demonstrates to my listeners wow, she's been through a lot. We don't know all the specifics of her life, but we do know that she had some experiences, like we all do in our childhood, but yet she was able to pivot and bounce back and and serve. So you're an entrepreneur, but you're a serve. You're not a product entrepreneur, you're a service entrepreneur, so that's a good thing. So what I'd like for you to do is because I talked about how my listeners are unsettled. Some of them, a lot of them, have come a long way with the trajectory of their lives. What message would you provide them that is ready to change the trajectory of their lives? To my listeners, to my listeners.

Yanee Sneed: 32:18

Two things and this is what I tell my clients as well, is a quote of mine that I use daily Age does not determine your maturity. It's what you learn from your experiences that justifies your growth. The second thing is the past is not here. The future is gone. You only have right now. So stay right now because you're telling your story. Both of those, I think, is really important, because it demonstrates that you have to be in the moment at all times and not be distracted about what happened in the past or what's going on in the future. You're right here, learning an exact moment, changing your story.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 32:50

Now, what was your first one? You had two, and I didn't understand what the first one was the message for the listeners.

Yanee Sneed: 32:57

Yes, the first one is age does not determine your maturity, but what you learn from your experiences justifies your growth.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 33:05

Okay, okay Great. What a great message. How can my listeners contact you?

Yanee Sneed: 33:13

Yes, so I have a website, yadnesneedcom that's Y-A-H-N-E-S-N-E-E-Dcom. My social media handles RelentlessPhoenix00. And I'm also from this recording. I am sharing one free copy of a chapter in my novel called Manifest your Canvas. You just have to inquire more on my web page or my social media. So you say you have a page on your website. No, I am going to be offering a free chapter of my novel Manifest your Canvas. You have to inquire about it on my website or my social media.

Cassandra Crawley Mayo: 33:54

Okay, okay, my website, or my um, my social media, okay, okay. Well, um, thank you so much for being on, is your way, in your way, and um, continue your resilience, and you're already relentless. So I, I applaud you for what you're doing. I applaud you for giving back. Um, it's better to to um give than receive, so I'm certain that you will be gifted for what you've given out. And again. So, my listeners, resilience is the word and be relentless with it. And again, yane, thank you so much and God bless you, and I also tell my listeners bye for now. I don't say goodbye this podcast. If you found this to be of value and you have some friends or individuals that you'd like them to hear this, please share it. And it's okay to replay it, because this is going to be on all podcast platforms and also this is going to go live on my platform in June. And so, again, thank you, bye for now, and God bless you. Thank you, yanni, bye.