Feb. 18, 2025

Owning Your Power

Owning Your Power

In this powerful episode of Beyond Confidence, host Divya Parekh chats with the unstoppable Maya Azucena—award-winning artist, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian—on turning adversity into strength. With a global career, Maya has shattered barriers...

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In this powerful episode of Beyond Confidence, host Divya Parekh chats with the unstoppable Maya Azucena—award-winning artist, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian—on turning adversity into strength. With a global career, Maya has shattered barriers and uplifted communities. Tune in for insights on confidence, purpose, and lasting impact!

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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host, div Park.

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Good Morning listener is so thrilled to be here with you.

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So I just want to share a beautiful story. So yesterday,

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I'm oh, yesterday was Monday, kind of losing track because

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I had gone to Washington, DC for a few days,

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so kind of getting back in the groove and I

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was just checking my LinkedIn messages and I had this

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beautiful message from a reader and she said, Oh, my

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husband introduced me to your book expert to Influencer, and

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I've started.

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It and I'm loving it.

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And that's the reason why I do what I do,

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why I write, why do podcasts, because it is about

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forming that connections. I'm not just talking about making a contact.

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I'm talking about forming the heartfelt connections.

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And it's important that we make that connection.

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Because all of us are united in a way, especially

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with social media and technology, that it goes beyond and

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that brings us back to the kindness circle. So spend

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some time continue building that kindness circle, not only for yourself,

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but for people around you.

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And maybe even for strangers. You never know where and

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how you will impact.

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So if you've not got your copy, please do get

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our copy because it's amazing how the books can impact

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your lives. And for those of you who have got

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our copies, I so appreciate you because without you, we

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We share part of our proceeds with our key organizers.

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So so thrilled to be here with you all. And

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let's freaking our guest. Welcome, maya good.

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Day everybody here. Thank you so much for inviting me.

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Oh absolutely, it's just amazing, So so glad to have you.

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And tell us do.

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You recall a moment or a person from your youth

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or childhood who left.

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The positive work on you, who left the positive mark?

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Of course, I'm very thankful in this sense that I

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grew up in a supportive environment. I've always been an

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artist and pursued being an artist since.

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I as young as I could remember, like from age

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of four.

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And I told my parents recently, my mother and my father,

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I said, you know what, I wanted to thank you

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because when I think back in my mind, I cannot

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reach for or find any negative quote or.

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Pushed me away from pursuing my dreams or pursuing who

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I wanted to be in the world. And I do

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a lot of encouragement of other people, and I share

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with either close friends or complete strangers things like you know,

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coaching basically, and you hear so many stories. And I

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talk about the voices that dwell in our mind, the

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kind of voices that we walk around with that we

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may never have challenged, those negatives, those voices that the

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judgment voices or the doubt. And I just had an

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epiphany that of the voices that I had to contend

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with within my own mind, I don't have any of

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them negative from my parents.

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And I think that's huge, huge.

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So when you say who might be an early influence, Well,

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of course our first superheroes are our parents, especially my mom.

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My mom is my first superhero and to this.

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Day she still you know, uses whatever en orgy she

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has to encourage myself and my sister and my brother.

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Oh that's wonderful.

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And I have to say that having good parents sets

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the kids for life, and especially artists. I try to

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dottle here there or of course I cannot carry a

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tune in the bucket even if I wanted, And I

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can guarantee you that if.

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I started singing, Rina would leave their room.

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So I'm always very appreciative of artists because, you know,

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art music it's something that has no language to it.

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You said that you know, as long as you remember,

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you were artistics, to tell us, like, you know what

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kind of art form was in your life and like

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how did it blossom?

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Well, the most prevalent and the most obvious was singing.

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So I did my first play. It was in school,

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but my first play was also when I was about four.

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I remember being on stage.

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and then I started to do this on my own,

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just work on songs and try to learn them and

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put all of my effort into makeing it great, and

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then there.

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a performance.

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mean I would work on a song and then I

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would get like a milk crate, a little box, turn

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it upside down, standing in the middle of my parents' friends,

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and then I would you know, unannounced uninvited perform the song.

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So music was definitely like innate.

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You know. I came into the world with that in

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my soul. And then as you've become more conscious of

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what you're doing, you know, you're a teenager, et cetera,

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I started to think about career paths, and somewhere in

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there I was also thinking, oh, well, I like to act,

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and I really love the full body experience of expression

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of expression, and so acting includes that. So I was

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pursuing acting and music. But to make a long story short,

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music is my calling. Music is so intertwined with my soul,

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the way my soul shows up in the world, and

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so that and being a songwriter, being in a position

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to express what I think of the world I see

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around me, and to have the power to respond to

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the chaos of this world or the penes that we

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have endured, and to bring a voice to that. I

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find that as a songwriter and the singer that for

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me that feels so empowered.

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Yeah, and on that is beautiful just the way you

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express yourself. And as you're saying that, you are giving

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voice through your music. And I know that you know

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you have toured forty plus countries and being on HBO,

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MTV and a lot of you've been at very high

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and so tell us about your journey, like you know,

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the rise of that musician, and what were your learnings along?

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What did I learn? You said?

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Yeah?

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Like, no, first, share your journey with us, like you know,

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how did you? Yeah?

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I got you.

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Well.

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The cool thing is that as long as someone is

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willing to be a student, then it is as long

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as you will continue to learn. So I have a

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theory or a philosophy, like a way of life that is,

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as long as I remain a student, I will continue

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to grow and for the extent of my life on

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this plane, right, So I'm always learning.

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So I work backwards from the question that you asked.

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I'm always and I've learned quite a lot of cool

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things going all around the world. I'm an independent artist,

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which means that I operate my music career very much

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like an entrepreneur does. Is it career is a small business.

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I primarily manage myself. I have to book myself, I

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have to create the packaging, the branding and everything. And

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so I'm so fortunate that music is the vehicle that

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has brought me to more than forty countries because being

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in all of these wonderful environments, and those environments are

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incredibly diverse. So let me explain what I mean is

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I have toured all around Europe.

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So let's say places you might.

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Think are obvious, like London, in Paris and Berlin, but

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I've also toured to very unusual locations because i am

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a cultural envoy. So what this means is that the

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US State Department and various American embassies have a budget

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to bring American culture around the world. Be a cultural

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envoy another term that's uses cultural ambassador. I have been

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invited to more than twelve countries at the invitation of

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American embassies, and in those environments, they bring me into

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places that do not have a lot of exposure or

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do not have a lot of favorable.

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Exposure to American art.

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So not only have I toured all around Europe, but

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I've been to places like the Kingdom of Lessutu, which

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is in the southern part of Africa. I've been to

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Honduras and El Salvador. I have been to Surinam, I've

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been to me and mar I have and I'm talking

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about music tours. I've toured at concerts in Philippines, China, Russia, India,

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Sri Lanka, and these are environments that maybe you don't imagine,

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you know, an American artist from Brooklyn generally going. But

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I have been in these diverse environments. So what I

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have learned is how not only that music it is

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a universal language, but also that the divides that we

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are told are between us are so much smaller than

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we imagine.

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We are truly united by a human experience. And I

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mean that being.

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In front of diplomats and royalty to former gang members

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or people in jail who are all connecting to the

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same songs that I'm singing and the same thing, and

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singing along and realizing that.

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We are really in a world that.

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Relies on us staying separated and staying divided. And I

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am able to see kind of like this life is

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a social experiment. My life is a social experiment. I'm

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seeing in all of these crazy diverse environments, how all

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of us are having a human experience. All of us

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want to feel safe, all of us have pain and

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have gone through emotional trials or trauma. And it's not

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so wildly different in Tanzania as it is in Brooklyn.

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MM hm, oh that is beautiful.

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And you mentioned something that you know, you are invited

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by masses to help people connect with the American culture.

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So from your perspective, you know, as you have been singing,

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what would you say for a couple of things that

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you shared connected with people and what would be those elements?

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Okay, Well, I will clarify that as a cultural envoy,

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I'm not really given any sort of directive to make

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people believe in American culture. I personally, I'm already American

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culture in that in the way they view it. Right,

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So I am an artist from the US, and therefore

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I by nature am American culture. So I have never

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been prepped or told, you know, please try to get

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people to understand something or any I was never influenced

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to kind of give any force any perspectives. It's just

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to be myself, Okay. So I'm going to try to

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think of because I have some really cool stories. So

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to answer the question, though, would you like me to

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share a story that specifically shows like American culture.

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Was stories are amazing, like you know, how people connected

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this one, I'll tell you about my trip to China.

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To China, I had I had a mo of freaking

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out before I went, because they needed to have translators

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for literally everything, literally everything we needed translation. That means

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every sentence I would say, I would have to stop

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and they would translate, right. So I had an anxiety

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before going, like, how are these Chinese audiences going to

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connect with my unique songs? These are not cover songs,

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my original songs if they can't understand what I'm saying.

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Celia Cruz.

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Celia Cruz, of course, is.

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A famous Cuban artist who has traveled all around the

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world and inspired people. While I'm reading Seilia Cruz's book

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and listening to her music, I realize how deeply impacted

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by Celia I am.

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Spanish, and I was thinking, Okay, if Clia can connect

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to my heart so deeply, then I can connect to

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other people's hearts very deeply, simply by projecting my intention

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to the listener.

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So what it is is that the words we speak

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are not the only communication that happens. The actual intention

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of what you want this person to feel from you

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is the true communication, right. So before I went to China,

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I was committed to that. I said, Okay, I'm going

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to make them feel me. I'm going to make them

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feel my story. They are going to understand where I'm

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coming from, even though they cannot understand the words.

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And I learned something incredible because at.

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Every single show I was warned before the show started,

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the American MSc said, listen, Chinese audiences are very subtle,

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and when they clap very lightly like this, it means

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they love.

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And they said, I know, I know you're from New

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York and they're very expressive there. But in China, if

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they're like it means they love it, don't feel sad, okay.

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So I go in with this commitment. I'm going to

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make them feel me.

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Every single show, the Chinese audience stood to their feet, shrieking, cheering.

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Lapped in the same part of the songs as somebody

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who understands English.

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It was so incredible, What an experience.

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Another interesting thing about that time is before each show,

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some people from the military Chinese Military Police would come

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and stand in the back with military rifles held up

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to watch my show to be ready to take me

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off the stage if I said anything disrespectful to China.

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would just exit. A lot of my audience for students,

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the students went bananas.

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They loved it.

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I had the philosophy already that we can connect with

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people by being clear about the story we hope to

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transmit and be clear about the feeling that we want

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them to understand. But to exercise it in a place

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where they don't understand my language at.

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All was so so amazing. It was incredible. It was

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eye opening, not just for me but for everybody.

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What a beautiful story, Maya and just.

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It fills my heart because the way I see it

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is we are connected more than we are divided, because

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at the end of the day, every human being wants

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to live a life of joy and take care of their.

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Family and be happy.

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And in that, in real life, our dreams, we are

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so much more connected and united than we are not.

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So that's love that story. So now that brings me

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for our audience, And this is a request only if

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you feel comfortable, how would you feel open to sharing

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one of the songs that come them going and maybe

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minutes of singing for us.

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This is an audience because well, I'll tell you something

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the songs that there is a song that I wrote.

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The name is called cry Love, and the meaning that

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I have within the song is essentially like there's a

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battle cry. But the battle cry is for more love.

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That we need more love in the world. Not just

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romantic love, of course, but love in the way we

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move in the world, love in the way we create policies,

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love in the way that we show up. And so

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I was invited to write this song for a documentary actually.

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For the Independent Film Channel, And so cry Love is one.

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Of those songs that really people have responded to all

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around the world.

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So I'll just sing a little bit.

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I appreciate that.

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Yeah, if justice had waves, she would sing cry love.

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In everything. If justice had.

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Waves, she would sing cry.

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In everything. Can you hear me?

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With so much pain and suffering, he need more, with

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so much ground.

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That makes me cry. We need more, with so.

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Oh many hungry you know they just my die.

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They need more. All we do to each other only

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for a dollar, yo? You know what make me make

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me one holler?

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If justice had wings.

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She would sing, cry love in everything. If justice had wings,

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she would sing.

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Cry love in everything everything.

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Oh, oh that was beautiful, beautiful, thank you, thank you

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for sharing that. Oh that's my heart really think you yeah,

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I know this is so beautiful and just.

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Oh, thank you.

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I appreciate you, you know.

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I mean, i'd say to the.

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Audience, I'm like, love is probably the only thing, one

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of the only things I can think of that you

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cannot overdose on.

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There's never too much love.

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We can always challenge ourselves to show up more in

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terms of how we express our love.

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And so like cry love and cry love is an

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act of defiance. Also, cry love is a spons to,

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you know, the things that are destructive, and so that's

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what it is.

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I mean, that's and it's interesting because that song, as

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I've sung it all around the world, it never feels irrelevant.

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It always feels relevant wherever I bring it.

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And I really agree that there is no limits to

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expressing love and experiencing love because I had the fortune

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just the past few days. It was sort of a

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family gathering and there were a lot of young kids,

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and the way the young kids open their heart, it's

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you know, you haven't seen them for quite some time,

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and you just kind of sit down and you're playing

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with them, and then they just open their arms and

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they'll give you that hug and it's so priceless, it's

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like nothing. They are the massadors of what human beings are.

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Nature sensus, but full of love. And I agree that

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the more love we spread, the more we can bring

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joy and bring the humanity together and take our young

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generations to be the next leaders who can just change.

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The trajectory of humanity. So I know you taught.

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You've written beautiful songs around like Fear and I'm Enough

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and warriors. So tell us you know, in today's world,

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especially after pen that make so many people are experiencing fear,

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there's God's doubt and they.

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Just kind of let that uncertainty and doubts stop them.

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What message would you give them?

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Well, first of all, one of the things that I

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like to share is that it's okay not to be okay.

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We create layers of stress on top of the issue.

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So there may be an issue that we need to tackle,

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but then we lay on top of it other unnecessary things.

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So something that's unnecessary is making our beating ourselves up

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that everything isn't perfect, you know, beating ourselves up that

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we are not feeling perfect today.

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So instead of actually nurturing.

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And dealing gently with the issue that we're trying to navigate,

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we end up also battling this.

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Self abuse.

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And so one of the things I like to say,

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I'm going back to it is it's okay not to

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be okay, to give yourself grace when everything isn't.

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Feeling perfect, and know that when.

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We don't feel okay, it's actually a message to us

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to consider.

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It's calling us to pay attention.

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So there's some part within us I call it like

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my little me, that is just asking for attention and

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asking you to consider, like what's really going on here?

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And there are so many things that make us doubt ourselves,

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including comparing ourselves to others, And I think that it's

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very important for us to.

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Okay.

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Saying to love ourselves almost has become cliche. But loving yourself,

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the act of loving yourself, not like the ego of

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loving yourself. The act of loving yourself includes self care.

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That is, being willing to eat in a healthy way

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so that your body can go where all these places

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where you really want to go, you know, hydrating, meditating,

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sitting down and considering all that has to do with

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your life, giving it the time and attention it deserves.

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You know, if you ignore a child, you see how

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a child, or you can imagine if you don't have

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a child, how a child would start to become very

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fussy and rebellious if you just ignore the child, right,

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And so, what do you think happens when you continually

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for years and years and years and years ignore yourself,

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your inner self? If you turn and have and consider

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gently and lovingly, hey, what is really needed here? What

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can I do to bring this sensation of safety or

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balance back to this my inner self?

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And what are the steps that need to happen for that?

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So?

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I mean, yes, so that care is kind of the

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thing that will empower us to feel more confident as

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we show up in the world, because instead of ignoring

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and being distracted and constantly running away from that inner work,

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when you go towards it, your inner self becomes more balanced,

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and then you can show up more fully in the

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world and more confidently in the world. You know, I

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just there is something that I read in the Dowdy

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Ching by Laos Su I'm ancient Chinese spiritual text. But

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one of the things that really touched me it said,

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be really whole, and all things will come to you.

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We have all of these things that we want to achieve,

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and we're going after them. Right, Let's say I'm an

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overachiever female from business person from New York.

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I mean like, we don't sleep and we just always go, go, go,

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go go.

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However, it occurred to me, be really whole and all

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things will come to me.

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What does that even mean?

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Well, it means to me that I am allowed to

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put myself on my to do list. I am allowed

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to be sure that I am okay, and that's not

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selfish or irresponsible.

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It's healthy. And the more whole I am, the more

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possible it is for those things which match me, in

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align with me to find me. And it's not just

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like energy attracts like energy. It is literally like if.

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I am a destination and but I don't have an address,

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If I am a destination and I don't have any

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way for you know.

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Any identity.

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If I'm a planet and I don't have any gravity,

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how are the things that are looking for me going

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to find me? So I'm talking about it like there

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are all these like layers to building up two and

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they're not so hard.

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It just literally requires us to show up for it.

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And in that being really whole, then our ability to

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shine brighter, to be more confident, to feel like, how

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can I be confident if I don't know who I am?

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How can I be interesting if I don't have any interests?

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How can I expect.

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Anybody to celebrate me if I don't not only.

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Don't celebrate myself, I don't have any offerings. All of

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this development causes us to show up with greater confidence

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and greater trust and I am enough. But we got

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to like start to look and consider the way we

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look and consider and study everyone else out there that

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we want to be. We can look and consider within

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and that is in and of itself empowering. And you

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start to see this gravity start to increase, and the

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more that happens, the more you enjoy it.

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Very true, I don't know, I think that's my answer.

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Yeah, No, that's beautiful, and it kind of what I'm

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hearing is that creating that space for yourself to allow

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giving yourself that permission it's okay when you're not okay, Yes,

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And understanding that how that inner voice is serving you,

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and then through love, gently moving out of there from

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uncertainty about yourself and doubts to being confident for showing

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up for yourself and having the opportunities and people find you.

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We get stronger. It's like muscles, you know.

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And I like to say, like there's physical muscles within us,

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but there are metaphorical muscles to everything.

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So when you do something, your muscles get longer. Right, So.

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I like to say, you know, oh, someone may be

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really shy about speaking in public, but the more you

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speak in public, the stronger that muscle becomes.

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And then it's not like what am I doing? It

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just flows out. It certainly suddenly doesn't become a scary

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thing anymore. So, you know, we need to work.

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On our metaphorical muscles of the things that we hope

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to achieve in this world. But if it just remains

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as a cloudy idea in the back of our mind

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that we hope will become a dream come true, it's

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like it doesn't always work like that. You need to

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show up for these things, need to exercise those muscles,

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and then when you do, you're capable of stepping into it.

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Absolutely, and that's very very powerful, So share with us.

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Right can people find you and how can they connect

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with you? And anything that you would like to share

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with her audience.

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Thank you well.

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First of all, once again, I want to say thank

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you for having me and for anyone that's tuned in.

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You know, I appreciate you, We appreciate you. The best

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way to find me is by knowing my name Maya Asana.

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If you put an at symbol a backslash a dot

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com Maya at maya azusana dot com, you can find me.

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Okay.

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I am most active on Instagram as far as daily updates,

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which is just literally my name m A y A

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A z u z e n A. And I have

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my website. I have a new masterclass. It's actually based

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on the name of my last album, I Am Enough.

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So my I Am Enough Masterclass goes.

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Through four lessons that cover everything from stepping into our confidence,

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to alchemizing negative energy, to healing from trauma. It's discovering

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your superpower.

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It's all in there.

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So if you go to my website there's it'll link

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you right over to that I Am Enough Masterclass.

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So again, my name dot.

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Com and yeah, I hope you will stay in touch.

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I am here for it.

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Beautiful and where can people find your albums?

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While I'm on all of the places people like to

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find music, So I am on Apple Music, I am

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on Spotify, and then any other platforms where you might

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get an album.

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I have four full length albums and singles digital singles

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that I've done. As I said, I am enough.

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I recommend that if you're just getting to know me,

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maybe you would like to hear my I Am Enough album.

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To just put my name and I am enough and

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you'll find it. And my most recent song is actually

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dedicated to women as Women's Month is coming up. It's

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called Dear Precious Women, and it's a song I wrote

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together with two Iranian composers in support of the women

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in Iran and around the world whose voices you know,

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deserve a space to shine.

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So well, thank you so much for joining us, Maya

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and sharing your heart with us, and I really appreciate

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you singing for us.

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It was so beautiful.

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My heart is full and we wish you all the

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best in continuing to share this beautiful message of love

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and may love come to the whole humanity.

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Indeed, and same to you div I.

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I so appreciate you and I look forward to staying

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in touch with.

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You and with your audience.

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Thank you as everyone, Thank you Maya, and thank you

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dear audience for being part of our show.

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Because with you, the show would not be possible.

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And I hope that in this month of Valentine's Month,

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that you are hearts fulfilled with love and that you

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share that love with everyone else. Thank you one for

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making the show technically possible. Be well, take care and

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see you next time.

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Thank you for being part of Beyond Confidence. With your

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host v Park, we hope you have learned more about

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how to start living the life you want. Each week

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on Beyond Confidence, you hear stories of real people who

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have experienced growth by overcoming their fears and building meaningful relationships.

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During Beyond Confidence, Vpark shares what happened to her when

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she stepped out of her comfort zone to work directly

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with people across the globe. She not only coaches people

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how to form hard connections, but also transform relationships to

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mutually beneficial partnerships as they strive to live the life

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they want. If you are ready to live the life

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you want and leverage your strengths. Learn more at www.

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Dot vpark dot com and you can connect with v ANT.

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Contact ant dvpark dot com. We look forward to you're

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joining us next week