Bougie Bayou Witches Podcast
Let's Talk About What Brought You Aboard Spiritually?
Ever wondered how life's toughest moments can lead to profound spiritual awakenings? Join us on Bougie Bayou Witches Podcast as Kamona shares her transformative journey from a tumultuous relationship to embracing spirituality, despite the setback of encountering a deceptive spiritualist. Chayna Nisha's story is equally compelling, as she walks us through her shift from the entertainment industry to academia, where her quest for understanding led her to the Yoruba religion under the guidance of a Cuban elder. Together, we explore how our families and inherent abilities steered us towards spiritual practices that brought healing and serenity into our lives.
Prepare to rethink the concept of magic as we explore its presence beyond rituals and herbs, delving into the power of spoken words and intentions. Learn how your daily thoughts and actions can open unseen portals, impacting relationships and emotional bonds in unexpected ways. We also reflect on the importance of self-work and personal growth, noting how these elements can transform personal connections and help us maintain our energy. With anecdotes about the pressures of marrying and the wisdom of our elders, we emphasize the need to shine brightly amidst potential toxic influences.
Finding a "soul tribe" is more than just making friends; it's about connecting with like-minded individuals who share your spiritual beliefs. We discuss the delicate balance of managing personal and professional commitments, from running a nail shop to writing a memoir, and the significance of energy cleansing and maintaining privacy. Navigating relationships, setting healthy boundaries, and recognizing one's growth are crucial topics, as we share our experiences and advice for those just beginning their spiritual journeys. Tune in for candid discussions on interracial dating within the spiritual community and the joy and challenges of embracing different cultures.
Ever wondered how life's toughest moments can lead to profound spiritual awakenings? Join us on Bougie Bayou Witches Podcast as Kamona shares her transformative journey from a tumultuous relationship to embracing spirituality, despite the setback of encountering a deceptive spiritualist. Chayna Nisha's story is equally compelling, as she walks us through her shift from the entertainment industry to academia, where her quest for understanding led her to the Yoruba religion under the guidance of a Cuban elder. Together, we explore how our families and inherent abilities steered us towards spiritual practices that brought healing and serenity into our lives.
Prepare to rethink the concept of magic as we explore its presence beyond rituals and herbs, delving into the power of spoken words and intentions. Learn how your daily thoughts and actions can open unseen portals, impacting relationships and emotional bonds in unexpected ways. We also reflect on the importance of self-work and personal growth, noting how these elements can transform personal connections and help us maintain our energy. With anecdotes about the pressures of marrying and the wisdom of our elders, we emphasize the need to shine brightly amidst potential toxic influences.
Finding a "soul tribe" is more than just making friends; it's about connecting with like-minded individuals who share your spiritual beliefs. We discuss the delicate balance of managing personal and professional commitments, from running a nail shop to writing a memoir, and the significance of energy cleansing and maintaining privacy. Navigating relationships, setting healthy boundaries, and recognizing one's growth are crucial topics, as we share our experiences and advice for those just beginning their spiritual journeys. Tune in for candid discussions on interracial dating within the spiritual community and the joy and challenges of embracing different cultures.
Hello, I'm Toni from Bougie Bayou Witches Podcast. Today we'll be talking about what brought you aboard of spirituality. I'm going to get started with my co-host, kamona, and I'm Chayna Nisha. All right, so let's go ahead and get started a little bit. Can y'all share a bit about your background and what initially drew you to explore spirituality?
Speaker 2:So for myself, I would say, a bad relationship. I had a bad ending in a relationship and I was just kind of lost. I was feeling so lost in the world and it's just like you know, I kept, I was blaming myself and I was just like, okay, what, I should be doing something different. And I, uh, ray, I was on Facebook and I ran across this one lady uh, she was a fake spiritualist, to be honest, but she scaled me out of a lot of money. But I knew that I was still supposed to be on this path. I just needed to be connected to the right person. But, yeah, basically being in a bad relationship, wow being in a bad relationship.
Speaker 3:Wow, okay, well with me. Um, I was gravitating from, um, you know, the the industry of entertainment. I was an exotic dancer for a long time and so, um, I came to a of going to school and getting my degree, and during the time of me getting a degree, I was doing a lot of research and I really wanted to know, like, where we came from. That was always one of my questions. I wanted to know how did we really originate here?
Speaker 1:in the world.
Speaker 3:So I kind of, you know, researched and gravitated to different people that were on the journey, and it led me to a 99 year old man named Carlito, and he was from Cuba, and so he introduced me to the religion of Yoruba and I've been on that journey since 2013 and so throughout this time, you know, I do all my spiritual stuff every morning. I got initiated into Yoruba last year oh, so, thank you.
Speaker 4:Thank you, it's been a journey you're part of the African tradition religion yes, yes yes, okay, um, and for me is being around certain family members that actually, you know, mold me into it but just didn't tell me too much about until I actually got older. So what happened was for me I got older and start seeing, you know, spirits and start feeling things, noticing that everybody will come to me and just have a good conversation. Animals will just come up to me and just sit beside me and I can also, you know, do things with my hands. So if a dog or bird is sick, you know I always nurse them back. That's why I end up in healthcare. But still know beside that I still do my little things when I'm not, when everybody's not around.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I guess with me. Um, when I was young I always had a love and a passion for spirituality. I just didn't know the name of it because we didn't have all this technology like what we have now. So it's kind of like I knew I always gravitated towards spirit boards. I always gravitated toward horoscopes, tarot readings and stuff like that. So, like as I got older, of course Mona was like yeah, you need to come aboard in spirituality, da, da, da. And I really didn't want to cause I like being in a closet, I didn't want everybody in my business. But I eventually started kind of doing some research and then I had a friend girl that was actually considered a witch. That I reached out to and she kind of helped mentor me a little bit and I took a witch class as well, as my brother was in spirituality. So he was also telling me to come on, come aboard and quit you know, you know, being in a closet, trying to hide.
Speaker 1:So I did and I'm going to tell you I loved it. My spirit team even got more, you know, communicating with me on a more higher level with it. I don't think they tried to push me or rush me, I did. You know. I have been communicating with spirits since I was like around 15, 16, but it's got even better, you know, now that I'm in spirituality and I've done a lot of research and talked to a lot of different people. I'm not initiated. I was headed that way. But then I just paused and stopped myself because I felt like I would just prefer to be open and not have a title or anything and just do whatever.
Speaker 2:So do y'all feel that it saved your life? Yes, heck, yeah.
Speaker 1:It helped me.
Speaker 4:I did a 360. With depression and everything. That's exactly how.
Speaker 2:I feel, I feel like a brand new person.
Speaker 4:And you're at peace and you don't have to worry about nothing and you don't care what nobody says.
Speaker 1:So many people at your life, yeah.
Speaker 2:I go through that bonus where I feel like, you know, I do feel sad because I'm just like, you know, man, I'm leaving people behind, yeah, vibrating on a higher frequency, and I'm just like, oh, I miss my old friends, but at the same time, it's just, I'm just at peace. You know, I'm loving it and I love the opportunities, the doors that are being open for me. It's just, you know you know it's funny.
Speaker 3:You said that because I did an interview the other day and I was telling the guy that I did the interview with you. Know when those doors close? They're closed for a reason.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 3:I feel like you don't open them. You know you keep those doors closed, whatever you did during that time that you were with that person, whether it's a friendship, relationship, family, whoever when that door closes, it just needs to stay closed. You know, yeah, closes, it just needs to stay close, you know yeah, because I've experienced over the time frame whenever I go back and reopen a door it's like damn.
Speaker 1:Why did I do that?
Speaker 3:you know I should have let that door close, because you repeat those lessons in that door and the consequences are 10 times harder.
Speaker 2:They really are sometimes you all be hard headed because I'm like, oh, let me see what was behind that door, if it can be better for me If things have changed, Changed right and it don't it be worse? It be 10 times worse, so I do yes, once those doors are closed and that's something I'm still learning to this day Leave them doors.
Speaker 3:yes, yes, yes, some people don't change because um you know the story of my book. I got a book coming out and, um, I have a lot of girls that reach out to me in my inbox and they're always asking me like why you would, why you didn't marry the guy you was with, and you know why y'all wasn't together. And I was like you know, he went his way and I went my way, and that door is closed, like we did what we were supposed to do down that path and it wasn't meant for us to go further.
Speaker 3:It was meant for it to end where it had ended. So they're always like you should have married him. He wanted to marry me, but I wasn't ready to marry him, you know. And so even now, to this day, we still talk Like we still you know communicate, that's good. But I don't see that connection.
Speaker 2:Did he try to open that door?
Speaker 1:back.
Speaker 3:He did try to open that door back and I was like, damn you know, I thought about it and everybody was like you got to go do it, Go do it.
Speaker 1:And I was like no, I and everybody was like you guys, go do it, go do it and I was like no, no, and I thought about it.
Speaker 2:This was over the past month, yeah, over the past month. I was like dang and I've been going down.
Speaker 3:You know this. Um, I did a cleansing. You know, back in, like maybe six months ago, I did another cleansing and so like I haven't really done anything, like I don't smoke anymore I smoke weed, like every single day, every single day.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you once you start my break I'm tired From the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep.
Speaker 3:Every meal get in the car. You know I'm smoking a blunt.
Speaker 2:I haven't smoked in three years.
Speaker 3:I haven't smoked in six months y'all.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy.
Speaker 3:That's good. In six months y'all, and it's crazy, but that's still good. I ain't had sex in six months like I haven't. It's a lot of things that I haven't done in six months. So when he came back, kind of you know, trying, and I was like damn, like I love you, know, I love you, but I can't even give myself to you even like we love ourselves more, right I?
Speaker 3:can't even get. It got to a point where we was at the thing and I was like it don't even feel the same, it just don't feel the same. I'm in a situation like that too, and it's just I can't do it it don't feel right and I don't know if it was just the cleansing part of it, because it cleansed away a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:That and itself a little part yeah, like you know, you change, you'll change your boundaries and I tell myself all the time, but oh, you love them, you love them, you love them, but I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, and then you know, my friend had passed away too, so that was another thing she passed away in February, sorry so. I was like I was like dang, you know, like I went through a depression state the whole month of March. I was tripping Like her birthday's in March too, oh so um, it was like damn. My friend died. You know, me and her, we were like best, best, best friends Right.
Speaker 4:Oh wow.
Speaker 3:And she was murdered. Her boyfriend killed her. So you know it was kind of like damn. You know she done backtracked and went back dealing with somebody. She thought that loved her.
Speaker 1:You know, and he really didn't.
Speaker 3:He really didn't. He probably loved her, but love he probably had love for her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but his love was very um.
Speaker 3:It seemed like he was obsessed with her.
Speaker 1:He was, he was, he was, he was very upset for him to take her life and I think she was trying to leave you know and in the process of her trying to leave and get away.
Speaker 3:He was like no, I would do death, do us part.
Speaker 2:I've been seeing a lot of that on social media stories a lot of women that are trying to finally leave, but just don't get that opportunity to leave. Fully right.
Speaker 1:But let me ask y'all a question do y'all feel like these women might have done magic and stuff like that on these men, to where they get, to those stages, to where they don't want to leave them, but then, when they're done with them, they want to walk?
Speaker 2:away. So as far as you know, I don't think a lot of them probably physically sat down and played in herbs or had something. Me personally I don't think, but as far as you know, saying different things and casting words and not knowing that, it's magic verbally because some people don't understand.
Speaker 2:Magic comes in multiple forms it just does not evolve herbs and all of that stuff it comes, like, with stuff you speak, you know, we don't know if they say, oh well, I'm going to be with him forever, I'm tied to him, we don't know, like, what they actually be, and it's crazy y'all said that because you know, when he called me, he said yeah, I know she was dealing with them cards.
Speaker 3:Because you know, me and her was both on the spiritual stuff and he was like yeah, y'all was over there fiddling with them cards and opening up portals.
Speaker 2:This is what he told me.
Speaker 1:That is so true though we open up portals each day that we have no idea about, because if a woman crazy about a man and they want to make it to where they can be with them. They'll do that but then when it's like they're done with them, they got to realize all that stuff you did, it's gonna manifest and come to fruitation. So y'all doing this and then when you get tired of me, you want to move on. He done got obsessed and he don't got bounded to you and stuff.
Speaker 2:So then he might do something crazy to snap. But I have known females to actually go to a practitioner and do real work on.
Speaker 1:You know some people.
Speaker 2:But, you know, we all, out of some form, do magic every day and don't even know it. Right, that's true, and we don't even know it.
Speaker 3:You are right about that you know how we used to be, a high school right.
Speaker 2:Kimona loves you know.
Speaker 1:Yes, we're doing it, you know, we keeping this person in our and I was a tree carver, so I I definitely know I was making a bad they don't even.
Speaker 2:They don't even realize it. That's not just necessarily oh, I paid this person. No magic. It comes in a lot of different forms. Yes, yes yes, but yeah, I'm reading more and more stories and I just you know, I've been praying against that that women are able to get out, and you know men, because a lot of men don't like rejection.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and they be the main ones that be going to the practitioners.
Speaker 1:Yes, they are. Absolutely, absolutely was it be going to the practitioners?
Speaker 2:yes, they are absolutely, I, I feel like in the situation that I was put under something, because I'm just like I ain't never had this to happen to like why do I feel so connected?
Speaker 4:yeah, you did oh, I know, I was you did something to me, sir.
Speaker 3:I think that's why I'm kind of I'm kind of like on the soul tie issue, and I feel like I was cleansed from even past people. I think that's why I haven't given myself to anyone, because right now, even when I see my grandmother about three months ago, mind you, she just turned 93, she told me when I went she said baby, normally she'd be like get the money, go get the money, get the rich man. You know my grandma's korean, so she'd be like go get the rich man and I'd be like hell, yeah, girl, let's go get this rich man.
Speaker 3:This past time I went and seen her though she said, baby, it's time to get married wow, it's time to settle down it's time for you to have a husband you need a husband, you need a husband.
Speaker 3:And I was like, damn grandma, you know you right, I do. And it's crazy because all my in the last interview I just told you I did with this guy. Everybody, all the men was in there talking about you married, you got a husband, what's up like? Who got you? You know all these men that are in my inbox. They always be asked matter of fact. While I was driving over here, this guy was like where your husband at, is he married?
Speaker 3:and I was telling him I said I'm you know I'm working on me right now, and that's when that's when you work on you.
Speaker 2:That is when they just come out of nowhere. That's when they are attracted to you. That's why I'm like you. I just maybe I need to work.
Speaker 1:We talked about that last. Maybe I need to work on me some more. We talked about that last night. Maybe I need to work on me some more.
Speaker 2:No, that's the real thing. Like when you take your mind off of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did say that.
Speaker 2:When you take your mind off of it and just be so focused on just working on you, whatever it is that you do, because here lately I've been having more guys to come up to me and I'm just like, yeah, I'm not even focused on guys, but I was liking it, I was I was happy, I was like oh okay yeah because they see that glow yeah because you're glowing. Yeah, thank you. No, you got to say that to you. Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 3:But some of them may be toxic. And then they come steal the glow because they like your energy. They want to look at you.
Speaker 1:They want to have to be careful with that too so how important is the community to your spiritual practice?
Speaker 2:right now I tell myself I'm not even looking for friends, I'm looking for a soul tribe because, friends. You know I'm appreciative of the ones that I do have left. But a soul tribe is somebody that are like-minded like you, that you can connect with more right. So that's why the free is no new. Free is no free. That's what.
Speaker 4:Drake said I want a soul tribe that way.
Speaker 2:People I could you know. Take all my retreats with me. Come to my retreats with me. Just like-minded people, right. I can connect with more, because everybody does not believe in spirituality. A lot of people look down upon it A lot of people frown upon it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like I told you, I just got this cleansing done, so I closed a lot of doors over the past six months. I've closed a lot of doors I don't even think I really just too much deal with people and I've been more focused on writing my memoir. That's just the book I got coming out in in about a month. I got an ebook coming out next week, so I think I've been more, you know, focused on on that.
Speaker 1:yeah because I know that I'm gonna have to I'm.
Speaker 3:I'm actually dealing with a lot more energy right now because I was private on social media, like my page was private. I probably had 100 friends when I first started and I wasn't dealing. But now I have so many people just from different interviews, from just dealing with different people, so I've gravitated more people to me and that's the energy that's gravitating towards me. So I kind of be having to like sometimes get off the social media because for one like she's a capricorn, capricorns are very mystic and we capricorn moon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're like you know, we gravitate to and we suck in like a sponge so the energy. That's why cleansings are important and the privacy is too yeah it's important because if you don't get your yourself cleansed, you'll carry on a lot of that energy and then it'll break you down and then gotta get those cleanses yes, yeah, yes and rest and rest.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's what I was telling her I said man, I'm so tired.
Speaker 3:You know, I just opened up a nail shop so my time with this book and the nail shop is like I'm extremely exhausted yeah, run a bit tired.
Speaker 1:That's why I got on these glasses y'all, cause my eyes are like you have to find a life balance.
Speaker 2:I'm having to give up some things, but I know it's for the better. I still gotta get some type of sleep you know, and I still want to do a lot of traveling. So I'm just like what am I gonna give up? So I'm having to do that like what did you?
Speaker 2:have to sacrifice during this so I a lot of free so-called friends. Uh, I'm having to, you know, just to replace me to still work my nine to five and still be able to travel. I'm having to give up, like one of my side businesses, readings. I can't do readings all the time. I do them on special occasions, but I can't really dedicate a lot of energy because I'm trying to put my energy and starting my old retreats Right, so, and I'm taking classes to do that and that's.
Speaker 2:I have class every afternoon, so it's like you got to give it this up to be able to get this, but I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that because I can see myself in the next couple of years hosting retreats in different different countries okay, yeah, okay, congrats.
Speaker 1:That's great, it's Me.
Speaker 4:I think for me you don't find a lot of friends that actually, like you said, be in the spiritual world. They don't understand and I get tired of explaining myself. So it's more like I'd rather stick around the people that I know that are actually my own kind, that do what I do Because they think you're weird or I'm an isolator, because they think you're weird or you're I'm an isolator. So once I isolate myself from everybody, I can actually just go in and just I could be in a bubble and I can see this person has this going on, that going on, that going on. It's like that's exhausting and I'm not supposed to be feeding off that energy, but it attaches to you and it's like you have a hard time cleansing. So I think, no new friends, but only friends that I know.
Speaker 3:There are people that are actually trying to go the same way.
Speaker 2:I'm going this time on the same path. Yes, have you been attracting any of those people in your life? Um, people like-minded, people like?
Speaker 4:I have since I moved here, more since I moved here. So I actually have to close all those doors where I left and it's like starting all over, completely over fresh, which like a new baby, like a new baby and I love it.
Speaker 1:I love the piece.
Speaker 2:I was just getting ready to ask you how does that make you feel? Because I mean, sometimes I still, when I'm reflective, I do feel like, hey, I miss this person or I miss this.
Speaker 4:I still reflect, I do and I'm like you know what. It was there for a reason for a season. So it's like, I think, covid for me, I actually opened my eyes to a lot of things, so it was like I don't need to be.
Speaker 4:I got it, but I'm like I made. I made this goal. I accomplished this goal. Like I said I was, it's time to close this chapter and move on and get something bigger and better. So starting over fresh is like people think I'm crazy, like you just left on the leap of faith I sure did, and it's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:That's a good thing, atlanta. So yeah, so it's like I love.
Speaker 4:I love that precious.
Speaker 2:I love it so peace any day. That took me back to ATL, because I met this guy the last retreat we went to Costa Rica. They asked me they was like where you from? He said ATL. So when you said ATL, I'm sure he made me think about you Y'all he was hilarious.
Speaker 2:Like this guy right here, me and him had a conversation he was on a retreat with his wife but me and him had like a separate conversation and he was like I really don't know you, but he was like I see the hustle in you, like this guy, these people that I never met. It was just this whole. This past retreat was, so I opened it for it.
Speaker 2:Like you know it was. It was amazing. That's the reason why it's a goal of mine to meet different people all across the world. Just, you know, pouring into you. Because sometimes you know we say we pour into each other but do in ourselves. But do we really Right, getting our nails done and stuff like that's not pouring, that's maintenance, self-care, yeah, that's self-care. But how many times we sit it with ourselves oh, I love you, I really love you. It was just meeting these people that just poured into me.
Speaker 4:It was such a good feeling, especially when they gravitate to you like I don't know why they're telling me this, why they're telling me this, but they're telling me this yeah. I'm like, wow, this is a lot, let me go lay down.
Speaker 2:So I'll do something, you know so that's what made me think when you said ATL you may be thinking, you know this guy was, so he was so he was so cool, he was he was so cool, wow I was surprised he didn't say Decatur, where it greater.
Speaker 4:You know, I got a little video saying that and he was like where are you from?
Speaker 2:He was like ATM. Everybody was just like Wow, and that stuck with us. So every time I hear that, I'm going to think about him, Right.
Speaker 1:Be like no, Kanisha's not no, she didn't say that, so I have a question for you, ladies what spiritual practices or rituals do you incorporate in your daily life?
Speaker 2:Journaling.
Speaker 1:Journaling.
Speaker 2:Don't miss a day.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:What about you? Yeah, I do do a lot of journaling. Well, like I said, in the mornings I wake up and I cleanse my house and I do a prayer that I do every morning and I put some stuff in some water and splash my front door. You know like my incense and you know I take my little baths and stuff.
Speaker 3:There's little little things that I, you know, I bathe in, okay, and stuff, every single day I flash myself, maybe with this, certain perfumes and okay, you know splashes, but um, yeah, every morning, every morning, I'm doing my prayers, my prayers to legua, and and you know, you know how it goes yeah, I do the cleansing, but some days I I skip.
Speaker 2:But I I don't I journal every single day because I have to. It's a form of release.
Speaker 4:Um. I'm a I'm a two o'clock girl, so I do have my little moments at two o'clock. I get up and go in my little living, reflect on things in the morning or two in the morning? Oh okay so I do like my incense. You know people probably think I'm talking to myself, but I don't. I'll be talking to you.
Speaker 4:Know, my little altars and you know, yeah, sit there and make like a little cup of coffee and then, um around about 5, 30 or 6 o'clock I'm getting up. Then I'm doing the whole coffee thing talking, reflecting quietness, um don't meditation. Not much journaling, but I need to, but um you know, I try to do journaling.
Speaker 1:I don't know I try to do journaling but it's like I'll start and then I'll. But I do listen to a lot of meditation music and I go to sleep with it. I wake up listening to it. I don't know. It's just something about that music. It relaxes and it calms me down yeah. I do do my little cleanses and stuff like that. I'm not going to say I do it every week, but I try to do it at least.
Speaker 2:If I don't do it personally like every week, I will um do it when I'm taking a shower I use like some little cleansing body washes and stuff like that one thing I want to tell people to incorporate in their daily is breath work. Yeah, that changed my life. So when we were in costa rica, we went up this steep mountain. I, I'm out of shape, I was not prepared, but I got. I got up there okay with the help of the team.
Speaker 2:But but it was this one lady. She was from St Kitts and she sat me down. She was like I need you to sit down and she started doing breath work with me. When I tell y'all I started seeing like butterflies, it's just really good, put me in the present, because you know, a lot of times we overthink oh, I got to do this, we, oh, I gotta do this, I gotta do this. But when you do the breath work and do it right, it puts you in that present moment. So I would tell y'all to start incorporating breath work. Okay, breathing in and holding it and releasing it, you let go of something like that I thought about doing um hot yoga.
Speaker 3:I have a real client that came in and she told me she said that was the best thing that she's done. It's hot yoga. I know exactly that's one off of camp bowie.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she said that was the best thing that she's done is hot yoga. I know exactly that's what I'm thinking about. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And she said, girl, when you go in there, like you're going to come out like a new person, yeah, and it's maybe two times a week, you know, go in there. She said you need a lot of water, but she was like, try that out, and I'm really thinking about doing it. I want to do a yoga class and I think I'm going to do the hot yoga.
Speaker 2:That's confirmation for me, because I was thinking about that too, and now that you said that, and I passed one every day on my way to work. Okay, well, you know, we all need to go, get in there, yoga you know journaling, you know cleansing all of that stuff is very essential on the spiritual journey because this world we live in, we are, we live in a world full of weird people.
Speaker 1:That's what I started calling them.
Speaker 2:I just call them weird, Weird and worldly. I'm just like. You have to stay prayed up. You have to stay protected focused because people are weird.
Speaker 4:I eat different during the week. Somebody caught on today at work. I eat mostly everything's veggie, Veggie and water and maybe a little juice during the week, but then on Thursday, Friday moments, that's my junk day. But they notice like I bring myself to work, but bring my lunch to work. Everything has a vegetable or something all vegetables and they want to like. Why do you do that?
Speaker 1:I'm like, so I mean healthy.
Speaker 4:And then it gives me a little bit more energy, and I take my 15 minute naps at lunch, so that actually works. I'm a cat. Never Did you say a 15 minute nap. I do too. Yes, I do.
Speaker 2:That'd be healthy. That'd be healthy, either that or you want to fight, yeah it works if I gotta wake up, oh yeah 15 minutes or you wanna fight yeah yeah, but to do that little power dip it works wonders because I do that during the day, like you know, because I work from home, so I go get it in 15, 20 minutes.
Speaker 4:And. I feel like a whole new person afterwards At 15 minutes. Oh yeah, and do that walk in the evening. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Have y'all ever faced any major challenges dealing with um your spiritual journey?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, can't get right, you can't get right, can't get right going back to my childhood because it you know, it was some things that happened that I was not happy about having to go back and relive that, but you got to in order to heal from it. It triggers me, it sets me back from times.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about you?
Speaker 3:Mine is just staying focused, you know, and keep going, because if you don't keep going you'll lose the whole. You got to start all over again.
Speaker 1:That's why that lines man come in handy. It keeps me staying focused.
Speaker 3:Yes, you'll be like dang now I gotta go back, I gotta do the same little routine, I gotta get back cleansed and refocused. So, yeah, I think more just staying focused on the path you know and and then dealing with people that are from the past okay, they'll kind of gravitate, you to go this way.
Speaker 4:Yes, you really be trying to go this way, but you'd be like tug of war on it, you know so yeah, I think that would be more of me um, well, you know, I'm a ghost or a blocker, so with people, so one side they should.
Speaker 2:I want to be like you when I get older.
Speaker 4:I'm actually enjoying it now. At first I would never do it, but it's like now no block, no block, don't talk to me no more, and I'll do something where I'll make sure you don't call me and text me back, all right, and so I think I, I do.
Speaker 1:I'm always blocking if you get on my nerves.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna block you, but not to me, I ain't never blocked you, mama.
Speaker 1:I don't get that before though they be like. I'm trying to call you and you block me.
Speaker 3:It's funny she said that cause I went to a party a couple weeks ago it was one of my friend's birthdays and these one ladies that I know me and we had got into it over a salon chair I was selling, like it was crazy.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:So, we had got into it and I'm like girl, I'm not going to sit up here and be arguing with you. So I blocked her, so she could just keep, you know hitting me up.
Speaker 3:So when I seen her, she was like yeah, chyna, you blocked me the last time we talked and I said well, hey, say what you got to say now, girl, because next time we see each other I'm not going to go through this with you. She was like for real. I said, yeah, say what you got to say. Like, what did you want to say? And she was like, oh well, you know, it wasn't even like that and I wasn't even trying to be. We was arguing over something so dumb about the salon chair and I was like, exactly, and that's why I blocked you, that's why you got blocked.
Speaker 3:Because I wasn't going to argue with you over something so petty you know. So yeah, I get you on the block.
Speaker 1:And then, girl, I will block somebody.
Speaker 3:So quick, let you be on something stupid.
Speaker 4:Get you on the block button. You won't even give him a chance to explain. No, Family members I done. Went down a whole list. You keep calling and bugging me Block yeah.
Speaker 1:Get your mind right.
Speaker 4:We'll come back. I might unblock you when I need to talk to you.
Speaker 1:Right, right, when you need to talk to her. Look at you. You know what. I can see that, though.
Speaker 2:I need to ask a question. You know going back and forth with people these days, it's just, it's not working it's.
Speaker 1:It's so draining, so I can respect that I feel like them small-minded people when they want to sit here and go back and forth back and I'm who. You're gonna do that with your child, because not me yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:That's why I'm glad they invented that yeah that little black button you know.
Speaker 1:Okay, keep on going. You ain't to worry about them no more If you see them in public. If you see them in public, I know People showing up these days.
Speaker 2:They showing up in public, I know, I know.
Speaker 3:Because I sure wasn't thinking I was going to run into them at the party I was like damn they here. I was kind of mad about it. I was kind of mad about it Like dang they should go with that chair. They did, I feel like.
Speaker 4:Nelly's eating a banana to my bag and they still be thinking about that Like come on.
Speaker 3:This was like two years ago.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, so that means they holding on to that girl.
Speaker 4:They holding on to that chair. That's crazy. I didn't see that chair.
Speaker 2:I'm happy to see you two years later. No, that's crazy, I didn't see that chair. I'm happy to see you two years later wearing that chair no, I'm worried about something happening.
Speaker 1:I don't move at all.
Speaker 2:Hey, how you doing bye, Okay, keep going. The fact that she still had it on her mind, she felt the way she was like yeah, there she go.
Speaker 4:There she go. That must have been an XP3000.
Speaker 1:Girl it did wonders it spun around she was like I was, I was the topic.
Speaker 3:I was like damn, I must have been the topic of y'all's conversation for the last past two years.
Speaker 4:They couldn't wait to see me.
Speaker 2:We didn't make that chair mean no seriously, they was ready to see me two years later ain't no way I'm finna.
Speaker 3:No, seriously, that was right two years later what? This was two years later and when she said it I was like damn, I forgot all about the chair you know, like I forgot even what happened. So when she came back to me about it I was like, oh okay, you was tripping about the chair, okay.
Speaker 2:But that just goes to show you your growth from Right, and we are still reminded to this day, even being on the journey, our growth Right. So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So what kind of advice would y'all give somebody that's beginning and starting their spiritual journey? Just keep going.
Speaker 4:Take your time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you learn something new every day, yeah, and do your research, because you really want to know what you're doing.
Speaker 3:Absolutely yeah, you just tap into some things and really mess your life up that's so true, because it's it's some entities there's, there's you know there's other forms of entities that you don't want to tap into the wrong stuff, because it will really backfire, and then some of those people too.
Speaker 4:in the past we had some of them entities on them to bring you even closer to that dark side.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and just be careful, you know, especially when it comes to joining all these different covens and groups and stuff like that. Do your research, find out about them before you just go jump in there, right, and don't just trust any and everybody to just tell you oh, it's okay, it's good, it's awesome, because you don't know if they're trying yeah, that's why I always tell everybody don't get readings from everyone oh yeah absolutely they can jump into your mind, your head and try to manipulate you and get you to think what they're saying like if you get readings from everybody, like that's no, that's not good.
Speaker 3:That's why I like to stick with my one, my one person. That was kind of why I went ahead and and got initiated with my Babala, you know, like I'm with him.
Speaker 1:Listen to your.
Speaker 3:Babala, I'm with him. He's like my husband. I'd be like okay, edwin, I love you you know, yeah he's my spiritual husband. That's what I've been telling him all the time he'd be like we're gonna get married, we're gonna go off to cuba and we're gonna go and, girl, we got this fairytale ass shit we be having. I go in there. Girl, he get to read me. I be like, oh, tell me more.
Speaker 3:He be like you know no more black men for you, no more black men. They didn't treat you right. He always tells me I don't need a black man.
Speaker 2:You know what, every time I can see you going to. I'm trying to see. Did mine even tell me that?
Speaker 3:And I keep trying to be with the black men y'all, and I think that's my problem.
Speaker 1:That's your problem. Maybe he's trying to tell you the truth he did. You need to start dating outside your race, outside my race.
Speaker 3:Yes, he said. The guy I'm supposed to be with is like he speaks Arabic, so I'm thinking more on the Muslim side.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Maybe you know like on that, that maybe like, not Indian but, like I said, muslim. More on the Muslim side of things, because he told me the guy that I'm supposed to be with speaks Arabic. So that means you might be doing some traveling then, mm-hmm I don't know, mm-hmm, I don't know I've been so stuck and grounded Like right here doing all this stuff I need to get outside.
Speaker 3:Well, I do want to take a vacation, Like I was telling my friend this morning. I said girl, I think I want to go to Miami for a little bit, For like a couple days, and out the country too sometimes you got your passport. I do got my passport, yeah, you got your passport ready, but I'm scared, scared for what reason I feel kind of too, I am.
Speaker 1:That's traffic and the stuff I've been hearing about and I feel like I won't come back.
Speaker 3:I'll be a Brittany Griner. They're going to kidnap me. I won't come back. We can't do it.
Speaker 2:When you go through customs they be the coolest people. I would just say, make sure you have your translator out, Make sure that they fully understand you With somebody or something. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't need a bag. I got my passport, let's go.
Speaker 3:I just, yeah, I'm ready to go. Maybe I may need someone that's, um, uh, persian. Yeah, I like them persian guys.
Speaker 4:I think they so sexy, got them curly hair.
Speaker 3:I can see me with a persian yeah yeah, and they got that dough too. They got that big the culture. I need somebody with the big money, though, too, I can't do no broke man.
Speaker 2:But the people in other countries, their culture is so different it is. They are much nicer, it's just different.
Speaker 3:Even in America too, the way they go about. Yeah, I'm like it's startling.
Speaker 1:I'm a cool guy, but I be so stuck to my black men.
Speaker 3:I'm like I'm trying to too. Me too, I'm trying to too, but like my cousin told me.
Speaker 1:She said I don't feel you're meant to be with a black man, you're meant to be with another nationality. And I'm starting to feel like, okay, she right.
Speaker 2:I've been told that too, but like, how do you? I'm stuck to our black men.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of stuck too they're about to be renaissance in my eyes, but I'm trying to get out and experience other races too.
Speaker 2:I met this one guy, but y'all, I didn't let him get too far because it's like I had a guard up, I was so, and was he another nationality?
Speaker 3:maybe it's the swag I get with other people and I'll be looking at him like did you?
Speaker 4:just do this like come on now, like he what he too smart.
Speaker 3:He too smart. Look, if I do give a, he gonna have to have some swag Swag on the swag, yes, but you can put some swag on the bitch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know y'all see them. Videos on TikTok with the black women with the white men. Yeah, you know how they get with the black women and how they get married.
Speaker 4:It's called the, the black woman in the house. Yeah, I'll be in the grocery store looking like. Is Bryce single, like I guess he can do it. He can, we can get him money and I think I could be with a white man.
Speaker 3:Huh, I couldn't be with a white man. Why not? I tried. I've been with a white man.
Speaker 4:That's in my family, you know my background.
Speaker 3:I've been and took his whole freaking life. You know what?
Speaker 4:I'm saying they should be at home, I just couldn't.
Speaker 3:I couldn't do it. I took his whole life. He'd be like damn, I ain't got 40 acres in the mill, I ain't got no money.
Speaker 1:I don't want a keg on this business. You never get a damn thing, you know.
Speaker 3:I can't do that hey.
Speaker 1:So, it just wouldn't work with him.
Speaker 3:What about the cubans? Puerto rican to the.
Speaker 1:You know I love cubans that's why I told you yeah, everyone's cuban, you know, but you know what they got the headphones now too, where you can, you know translate yeah because I actually have a cuban lady that I'm bringing aboard to be a reader part-time at my store too, okay, so she's gonna have the earphones where she speak her language, which is spanish, and it translated to english.
Speaker 1:So because she's, also been in in the journey for a long time too, and I feel like she's going to be great because she's dealing with, you know, the Orishas and all that different stuff, yeah.
Speaker 4:So what you should do that one. Friday night do like a little speed dating thing and we have you know nationalities to come out and be like this spiritual speed date.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, okay y'all. I know it's supposed to be time for my annual too, so it might be coming up soon. It's going to have to be in the fall, though it's too hot right now. It's okay.
Speaker 3:What's the speed date?
Speaker 1:Okay, so last year I did this first annual spiritual speed dating where I advertise and get other people that are spiritual to come aboard minded spiritual people, because you know how they don't have dating. Ask for spiritual folks. Well, guess what? You can create it at your start where other people can go around the table and talk to each other for a few minutes and then switch out and go to another table and you know folks can communicate and talk.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like speed dating, but instead it's spiritual people. Have you ever been to like a speed dating event? Oh, you haven't. Oh, I have so that's why I know, cause you just talk to them for about 10 minutes and then you go move on and go meet somebody else and talk to them for about 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:We need to play in that we do yes, but hold on this time. Welcome other nationalities.
Speaker 1:So spiritual. That's the point. I don't say it only can be African-American.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did. We probably have to advertise like in a lot of different platforms and stuff.
Speaker 3:Okay, so could y'all see y'allself dating an Asian?
Speaker 4:Absolutely no.
Speaker 3:I mean you could, I could see you with an Asian.
Speaker 1:I see some white, I would have a.
Speaker 4:Spanish. I could see her with an Asian, hispanic or white.
Speaker 3:Hispanic or white? Okay, what about you? I don't know, you got some Asian friends. I do have asian friends, okay, and I was looking at tony like baby, I can't be your girlfriend. I like I like extra shit hanging down there and you're a little short for me. I don't know, asian men ain't tall.
Speaker 2:And a little short. That's probably why I can say Caucasian Hispanic and maybe those other nationalities.
Speaker 1:Maybe those other nationalities, caucasian and Hispanic, you know, that's the Puerto Rican, cuban, mexican, See, I have Puerto Rican in my family.
Speaker 4:I have Caucasians in my family.
Speaker 3:See if my daughter was here she would have told me no, Puerto Ricans mom. No, she had a bad experience with this person, but I told her. He was more black baby. He was a black Puerto Rican. Okay, he was hanging out with the niggas. He got kind of messed up and grim Hanging out with the wrong people. She was like no, you may be right, Mom, I know I am right. He was kicking it with the niggas.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be a mommy tree. He should have been over there with the other people. Okay, niggas doing the, I'm gonna be a mommy too, okay. Well, ladies, I'm gonna go ahead and get ready to wrap this up. So what is something that y'all would like to leave with the viewers and the listeners?
Speaker 2:that's listening to the podcast or watching in regards to just the dancing or just being spiritual on our path, I would say keep going.
Speaker 3:You're gonna have good days or you're gonna have bad days right keep going um, I feel like you know, everybody has a spiritual awakening down the journey of life right it's all about how you go about your awakening, because everybody's is different and everybody's comes at a different time of your life.
Speaker 3:So I really feel like once it does hit you and it comes to you, take heed to it. Yeah, okay, you know, because I feel like that's the message, right, and I feel like the ones that don't take heed to it. That's when certain things happen, or like bad things happen. You know, like I feel like my friend that just passed. I think she was hitting that spiritual awakening. She wasn't taking heat to it and I and it directed her to the dark side of things more than going into the light, right, and so god was like you know what? Let me call you home because I need you to go to the light.
Speaker 3:I need you to be an angel on this other side and right now I feel like she's guiding me, that's good guiding me down this little journey I'm on because ever since she died. I've been pushing like forth so much even getting this book done. I've been I've been writing this book for five years oh, wow like I.
Speaker 3:I have a. I have like a, a like. I want it to be perfect because I want it to be a classic. The book that I'm sequeling off of which is Pimpin' Ken. I don't know if y'all know. Pimpin' Ken, so I'm sequeling off of Pimpin' Ken's 48 Liles of Pimpology and so.
Speaker 3:I'm sequeling off of him. And his book was a classic. You know everybody had this book, you know. So I'm like dang you of him and his book was a classic, you know everybody had this book, you know. So I'm like dang, you know McKinnon gave me this recognition and I want him to be like dang, you know I gave the right person, you know, that recognition to go ahead and carry on my legacy, right? So I didn't want to just put something out there and be like, oh well, I got a book out there, here it goes, right, and I'm giving out the wrong information or maybe I gave out too much information, right, you know. So I feel like you know down your spiritual awakening, like, really, really like, tap into that, you know, on where god is trying to lead you to go okay, what about?
Speaker 4:janice um Along with what she just said too. Never backtrack, always. My little favorite thing is moving silence with that, as well as never second guess yourself, but always take your time and listen to what's going on and take advice from people that actually are close to you, that know they experienced those events that's been going on and you know, always ask, ask, always ask for advice and stay away from those. They're not good for you.
Speaker 1:A little bit of negative. I totally agree. Well, I mean, the only thing I can basically say is for anybody that um want to come aboard in spirituality, just take your time, don't rush, do your research, speak to other like-minded people that are on the right path and that are serious about it, and you'll get to go to wherever you need to go. But, like always, drop your feedback down below, like share and subscribe, and to the next episode. Bye.