Season 4 Premiere: Stepping Into Authenticity - My Rebirth Journey Begins

Welcome to the Season and Self Love Podcast. I am your host, Namibanks, and I am thrilled to have you joined me on this transformative journey. You see, every day we dive into a powerful conversation about self discovery, healing and empowerment. This podcast is brought to you by Ax Naomi and Elevate Me Self Discovery or we believe that loving yourself is the first step to live in a fulfilling life. You can expect insightful discussions, practical tips, and inspiring stories. Plus were occasionally welcome special guests who will share their unique perspectives. On self love and personal growth. So get comfy, grab your favorite beverage, and let's embark on this journey together. Because it's time to embrace the beautiful person that you are. So let's elevate our lives one episode of time. Now, let's get started. All right, Hey, hey, my beautiful people who will welcome back so to the Season and Self Love Podcast. I am your host, Naomi Banks, and if you are hearing me right now, I'm gonna just take a breath with me. Let's breathe it together because you know where y'all we made it. We have made it. Let's welcome season four. I want to welcome you all to season four. And this season is this season of intentional healing. And I want to take a moment right now, just to take a nice moment right now, because right now we are two years, two years of celebration, two years of the Season of Self Love. It was two years ago, my fifty first birthday month that I created the Season of Self Love as as a limited series on ACX Diaomi Bridginal cap And it was only supposed to be for one month. And now we are two years later, three hundred and fifty, three hundred and sixty episodes in just two full years of us just showing up and growing and healing and crying and laughing and all those transforming together here. You know, this podcast has been a truly a sacred space, not only for me, but for us. It's been our sacred space. And then it's celebrating this two years anniversary. I just want to thank you all. I want to thank you all for just trusting me Monday through Friday with your healing journeys and with the rebirth stories and all of that good stuff. You know, this journey has for me and I have to keep reminding everybody when I say this, because they said, this is such an amazing podcast, this is our podcast, this is our journey, and again it's not mine. And as we step into this new season, I just want all of you to know that that when you look back from the first time we did this podcast again a limited series, where we are now I can tell you right now is that I am not the same woman who started this. I'm not the same woman that started this podcast two years ago. And if you've been here on this journey with me from the very beginning, you are not the same either. So there's going to be a new format too this season something so I want to explain. I want to talk about it right now now this season that I told you that this is the season of attentional healing, and I want to talk to you about what that looks like because we're doing something a little different and attentional for season four. We were shifting to a temporary format and so for the next few months it will be Mindset Monday and Wednesday and Wednesday. And you know, I want to be real with y'all. Y'all know I am very cabin candid on here and I tell you exactly why. And as many as many of you know that I've recently just undergone expert surgery, I remove my breast impluse, and with them, I remove years and years of silencing my body's truth and years of not listening, you know, years of choosing what I thought I should be over who I actually am. So right now I'm healing not just physically, though yes, my body is doing miraculous, but energetically, emotionally and spiritually. And I am actively right now in my rebirth. So as someone who teaches self love, authenticity and intentional living, I realized that I had a choice. I could push through and force the full five day schedule and be burnt out, be tired just out of the name of just being perfect or consistent. But I can practice what I preach, and I can show you what authentic healing actually look like. So that's what we're doing. We're doing two day a week, deep, intentional, powerful content. In season five, we'll be back, we'll be back with the full Monday through Friday schedule. But right now, this is what we do about honoring ourselves, honoring myself for what it looks like. This is what boundaries look like. This is what self love and action look like. So y'all know I told you it's my birthday, my right and our It's also our theme of stepping into authenticity. And today I'm just gonna talk to you about authenticity and intentional healing and I want you to realize that I am living it in real time with you all now. So I want you all to bucket up, buckle up for this beautiful ride, because this season is going to be raw real. So let's take a quick break of right the shagartty God is going to be making own this season and self Love Podcast and we'll be right back in Sugart. You got it now, me Banks and make sure you tune in every three Thursday night. Need ag in Naomi PG. We have podcast. Were we talking about everything you love, sex, relationship, coastal differences and so much more by bridging the gap between them all and we even talk about the spiritual Moody. You need to stop by me and Dot Commcock as well as the BTG Greue. You have some. Amazing guests that come from and never know. Just make sure you tune me at Thursday night six pm or six percent of time, go to Aksnyoma dot com and tell them. Nami Washington Well was into two focuses on healing always for me, if I look good, then I feel good. If I feel good, then I share the good. If I share the good, then I celebrate the good. If I celebrate the good, then I live the good. So I can be paid to be my greatest. But I have to learn the good to be the good. So what does it take to be the greatest. It's as simple as a free fifteen minute consultation. Be kind to yourself. If you'll always, I'll write my beautiful people will Welcome back to the season A Cephalove Podcast Again. I am your host, Naomi Banks, and we are in our fourth season. We are celebrating our two year anniversary. Here on the season A Soft Love Podcast Again. We started this all two years ago and October it was my fifty first birthday. Was a gift to myself just as again as a limited series on as bridging podcasts and as I as I continue to say, I said it my altar, and I heard it say daily and I've been rocking daily with this podcast and we're just coming back from a quick break. And as I mentioned, before the break is that I'm just recovering from my ex surgery. So we're kind of doing a new format starting today, is that we're only doing two shows a week and that's Mindset Mondays. Doctor World will be joining me on some of those Mondays as well as Wednesday and Wednesday when we bring some amazing guests in to tell that story. But we still say I'm staying with the full thing, the same thing with the monthly series topic series that we're talking about, and this month we're talking about stepping into authenticity and how right is that for me to come back with my authentic self during my month birthday and just really being able to show a lot of things that have been going on with me, but also to help you all just get through it, if that makes sense. If that makes sense, so. You know how we do it. Before we get into our topic and hand, let's just take a moment to ground ourselves, all right, So if we can just bow our hands at this moment time, if you feel comfortable, all right, okay, now I want you to take a deep breath in through your nose. Now really slowly through your mouth. I wanted to close your eyes. If you feel comfortable to and I want you to place one hand on your heart in one of your building. And I want you to breathe in authenticity and breathe out pretense. Now, for this next breath, I want you to breathe in courage and breathe out fear. And on this next breath, I want you to breathe in self love. And I want you to breathe out judgment. Feel the heartbeat. Beneath your mind. That is your truth, that it's your. Power, because you are exactly where you need now, I want you to whisper to yourself. I am enough, I am authentic, I am I take one more deeper them be the house, and when you are ready, shouldly open your eyes. All right, my beautiful people with things you. Thank you for sharing that moment with me. And if you are new here too, the season and stuff love. That's something that we do every show, every single show here, just to help ground us before we get into the top of your hand. All right, So y'all ready to get into it. Let's get into it, you know. So I'm currently right now, I'm officially tomorrow, I'll officially be eight weeks post explant surgery POSTO and I'm not going to sugar coated about my recovery because it has been one of the most humbling, one of the most humbling experience in my life. So when when I made the decision to remove my implantse I thought I understood what I was signing up for. I did my research, I talked to other women, I prayed on it, I prepared mentally. But you know what, I don't think you could ever truly prepare for it. You can't truly prepare for what it feels like to just reclaim your body after years of not fooling being yourself, you know what I mean. It's like the physical healing has happened, which has taught me patients and when I say patience, I was down for like six six or seven weeks actively with the search after the surgery, but I was down way before that. But through this whole thing, it has truly taught me patience. Truly taught me patience, and especially now, I didn't know that I needed. I know now, excuse me, I know now, But before I didn't think that I needed. But I'm so glad that I did go through that transformation. You know, there was days after the surgery that I could not left my arms. I could have left my arms over my shoulders at all. You know. There was days that I had to ask people to help me to do the simplest task. There was days when I looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the swelling and abusing that changed my body. But here's what I learned. Healing is not linear. There are some days that I felt strong, ready to conquer the world, you know what I mean. And other days I just needed to have that cry, that moment, or just to be in that discomfort. And both of those days were very necessary, especially when you're going through a transformation like this. Both of those days were a part of my reaper. They truly were. I've had to just a lot of my expectations, not load them down, I had to adjust them. And I'm so glad that that we went through this journey for two years on the season and self love, because I don't know, and I'm honest, I don't know if I would have been able to know how to adjust because in this time, I had to honor my body's timeline and not the timeline that I've already always created. In my head. I shared with you all millions and millions of time about me being a sprinter and that now I'm learning to be a long distance runner, a marathon runner, and in this process of me healing, this is something that I truly had to do. But again, I am thankful for this journey that I've been through because it prepared me for this very moment, because it's been one of the greatest, one of the greatest acts of self love that I've ever practiced. So if you are in your season of healing, whether it's physical, emotional, or spiritual, I want you to hear this. Your healing is not behind schedule. Your healing is not behind schedule. You are not broken, You are becoming. You are becoming. So let's talk about the part that don't always get told. We tell about those emotional layers you see. Removing my implants wasn't just a physical procedure for me. It was shedding, It was a releasing. It was an unraveling or every belief that I held on about my worth, about my beauty, about my enoughness. For years, I wore a mask and I looked at my implants as part of my costume of the mask that I had been wearing for years. You see, for years I didn't realize that I was carrying shame as well, Shame about my body, Shame about the choices that I made to get my implants in the first place, Shame about admitting that something once that I wanted was now making me sick physically and spiritually. You see these breasts implants, you see, they're real. But beyond the physical symptoms, there was that energetic weight. I wasn't fully in my body, I wasn't fully in my power. I was performing a version of myself that I thought the world wanted to see. And when I finally said enough, I'm taking my body back, I'm taking my voice back. That's when the real healing, when the real healing when it begun. So there were moments, there was moments in my recovery where you know, I cried. And let me explain this. When I say about me crying, it was and I'm trying to find the right words to say it. It was truly a humbly and experience. I remember the very first time that I saw myself in the mirror, naked, without the without the tape, without any of the gods of none of that, and I remember standing in it in my mirror, and I remember looking at myself and I remember just ailling out my body because now I'm getting ready to do lymphetic massages. And I remember this overwhelming feeling of gratitude and relief, and it just felt like my body was glowing. And I just said, thank you. I just told myself in the mirror, just thank you, thank you for being obedient, thank you for listening to your body, thank you for being raw, you know, to this whole experience. And as I sat there, and I'm not trying to be nasty here, but I felt them. I had to because I hadn't excuse me, because I hadn't felt my chest, my breast, my natural breast in over twenty twenty one, twenty two years. My breast is older than one of my daughters. The breast impulse that I had was older than one of my youngest baby. And when I got my impluse done, I believe my middle baby was six months old. So I lived the whole life with the men and so me seeing that it was very emotional, and I went through a stream of emotions with that cry. It was a cry of gratitude because my story is not like the like a lot of other women's stories. You know, I was blessed for my story, but also there was a moment that there were the shame and guilt that came through, like why would you ever do that to your body? But then I had to remember the conversations that I had right here on this podcast, and I have to remember the healing that I went through myself and understand that was a part of my journey, that was a part of my past. But also I had to get through that to understand what my purpose is in life full around to make it so complete. But again, there are moments in our breakthrough moments that I look at the mirror and I saw me. I saw the real me again for the first time in years. You know. I can say this one thing is my new practices, of my practices of my altar that saved me during this time, lighting my candles, praying, meditating, asking my ancestors and God and spirits to just guide me for strength. That connection kept me grounded when everything felt uncertain. I want to share a story with you a real quick and I want to thank my Auntie and I'm gonna say her name and my uncle Tank my Auntie Sue and my uncle Tank, who has opened up their home to me and my family when I was going through when I was having surgery, and I just remember being in the bedroom and I remember my husband and her you know, they were, you know, really serving me, bringing me food and stuff like that. But it was a moment, and I'm about to share with you that I felt so low because I couldn't even put my arms around excuse my language, and wipe my ass. And even though I knew what I was going through to better my life, just in that moment, I'm like, wow. So it's like this whole experience. That I've had. From my body being disabling to me now not even able to wipe my backside, having to have someone else to wipe my backside. What I saw from them, that's love. That's unconditional love when you find somebody that will come and wash your back because you can't. Those are things that I learned in these last six weeks. I learned about the unconditional love. I learned about the strength of my family, and I learned about my strength. You see, this experience is that has deepened my understanding of everything, of love, of authenticity, in ways that I couldn't even imagine, and because of authenticity isn't just about speaking my truth, isn't about living your truth even when it's uncomfortable, But it's also allowing yourself to be vulnerable when you want to be strong, be vulnerable enough and humble enough to allow somebody to wipe your ass because you can't do it. Did it feel scary? Yeah for a moment it did. But I'm all good now, I really am so. I know. The question is is why did I choose to reduce the schedule. Well, one thing is because I refuse to burn out in the name of perfection and consistency, and I refuse to just show up half present, half had it. I couldn't do that anymore. I refuse to continue to keep preaching and talking to you all about self love and how to treat yourself. In treating myself like I'm disposable, then I wouldn't be authentic. I would be alive. It would be a performance. If y'all been listening to this show from day one, especially from the first day of this year, you know that we do this real route and uncut here. Authenticity is all that we have here. I know that God in the universe is using me as a vessel. So when I go through things in real time, I share those experiences with you all and my prayers that you can resonate, that you can see a solution for you through my journey, or even if you were to step into your journey, that now I can maneuver because I listened to Naomi on this season of Self Level, I listened to one of her guests there on the season of self Love. So but what I chose to take my in plans out. I chose that the only performance that I was gonna do is when I'm acting, and meaning what I'm acting in a movie or doing something like that. But when I'm here, no no more. This season is truth from inside out, from inside out, So me saying no to my full five day schedule. It wasn't easy, but it was needed. I had to confront my fears of disappointing you all, my fear of not being enough, my fear of being judged for resting. But here is what I know now is if the most powerful thing that I can teach you is not perfection, but it's enter, y'all have to excuse me right now, because this is the first day that I'm back, and it's so emotional right now because I do feel anew and I want to go back a little bit because I know I'm talking about perfection and integrity, but I want to go back a little bit because I remember wanting to do this every day, five days a week. And I remember when Doctor Will came onto this show, joined me almost two years ago, and I remember saying, you really want to do all that, knowing that I had another podcast as well, and I said, yeah, I got it, I got it, I can do it, and I could be very honest. Some days it was very draining, but I knew I had to do it, and a lot of times when I came on here, this is what motivated me and kept going was talking because I was literally going through my own teaching, through my own learning at that moment and at that time. So remember I used to say that I'm a retiring perfectionist. Yeah, but now it's all about the integrity of what we're doing here. It's the willingness to live my message and just not speaking. So I'm asking you, all of you that's listening right now, what does authenticity look like in your healing journey. Where are you performing when you could be resting? Where are you saying yes when your body is screaming now? And where are you deming? Where are you deming your truth to make others comfortable? You see this season with stepping into our authenticity together, and it starts with permission, with permission to heal at your own pace, permission to change your mind, permission to choose yourself. So now I want to share something with you. Know, in the October my birthday, I always do something special. I always do something special, and I'm kind of excited to share this with all of you and those that follow me on social media, kind of know a idea of what I'm getting ready to talk to you about again. My birthday month. This is my birthday month, and I released see a new project under a new alias name. It's the God's spelled d A God is of Self Love and the album is called Soundtrack to the Rebirth, sound Track to the Reaper, the Rebirth, the Rebirth, however you want to say, be that, but it's called the Soundtrack to the Rebirth and it's my album. I know now some of you thinking like okay, Naomi, now you got a podcast. You're a healer, you're a speaker, you a cold to your mama, your wife. You know you're doing all this and so since since when you're making music? Since when you're making music. Now, if you've been with me for a while listening to this show, I want to remind you remember a few months back back when we did this series, and I think I took it was every Tuesday of that series, we did like a tune Tuesday where we took it was like four or five songs and we broke down the lyrics and exploring on how you know, we can truly applied them in our lives, of how healing music can be or how power or it was right. And then there was also an episode that me and doctor Will talked about in the I think it was May, about creating and about we talked about the soundtrack to one's life. Well, that conversation was planted in my seed, unbeknowns to me, and now I am definitely living at it. But here's what I learned in the process that just like there are chapters in books and many books in a lifetime, right, well, there are soundtracks, multiple soundtracks, and in this season of My life. Rebirth is my soundtrack, and I'm gonna tell you this, it would not be my last. So I know I shared with you all before. If anybody just listening for the first time, now, music is my first love. I was signed to Columbia Records many many years ago. I formed a girl group with my sister and my cousin, and I actually had my own record label called Family boot Camp Records. This was towards the end of my adult career. I think for the last three or four years I had Family boot Camp Renpers. I had several artists. I think I had about four or five artists on that record label. And I just always want to be a part of music. But somehow I convinced myself that somewhere along the way, that I wasn't good enough to do that, that I wasn't good enough to do music again, that I couldn't sing anymore, you know. But here is what I discovered. That I don't have to be a vocalist to be the artist. My gifts are in my words, my artistry is in my story, my power is in my testimony. And I am so so very happy that a few years ago that I had read the full agreements, and in that first agreement, it's about being impeccable with your words, but not only that, it's about when we talk on here, about having compassion for yourself, about using positive words and affirmation to be able to talk to yourself, to have that communication with yourself. So I'm gonna tell you how this started off. Okay, So this album actually started off as a melody. I woke up out of my sleep. It had to be like maybe two three o'clock in the morning maybe, and I never heard this melody before. The words who just started to flow, and it's just I guess it's just something that I needed to say to myself. And you know, in my head, I was like, you know, dear dear me, love letter, dear me, and that comes out to be my first song. Then fast forward twenty four hours late, I literally wrote I want to say twenty two songs in twenty four hours. Twenty two songs and my testimony, my healing, my journey, my transformation sent to music. So while I am writing the lyrics as I'm sitting there, so I want to go back some. I want to go back some because this is another scene that was put in my head I remember one of my good girlfriends, her and my best friend, came and visited me in Chicago when I was at my aunt's as I was recovering, and I remember her telling me about this app that will take your music, your songs, your lyrics, and turn it into music. You let them know what generally you rather. You want to mail a fever and sing it when you put your hook, your bridge, your verse, you know, all of that in there, and it will come out to be an amazing song. So when I did this, So when I did this and I heard the very first song, which was Dear Me, y'all, I cried. I cried because I heard my voice so loud and clear. You know a lot of times that we writing our journal, of putting it on paper, putting it in music, and allowing somebody with an amazing voice to sing it. Oh my god, it put it the emotion of it. It gave it a whole other persona for me. But it was so much healing that came with that. And then I kept writing. They kept writing, kept writing, and it came very therapeutical for me, It really did. So as I was writing the music, I had a revelation about the buying timing that I needed to share with you all right now, now, this happened on Thursday. This happened on Thursday, and if again, if you follow me on social media, I had posted a video explaining that because you know, I was supposed to started everything last week. I was supposed to started on the first with everything came back with a brand new season with ask Naomi, the season of Self Love. You know, all of that my projects. I had two other projects that I was going to drop, the Daily Love Letter and Elevate with Naomi, and I had everything planned. I was ready. I was ready. But during my recovery, I had to put my computer in the shop for a full upgrade. I needed a new drive everything, you know, get all the bugs out. And so when I went to go pick it up two weeks ago, I was decided to get back to work. But when I tried to use it at home in my studio, there was nothing, nothing, nothing like I would bring it up, I would see a little screen and I would try to go into some of my files and it would not allow me to go into my files. Any of the programs that were still on there, they wouldn't come up and then I realized majority of my files and content was erased from my computer. Yes, so then I took it back. I took it back to the shop, and the crazy thing is, as soon as we took it back to the shop, the tech plugged it in and it worked perfectly. Everything, everything worked perfectly. The mouse was running, every every file opened up, every every program opened up, every software opened up, and me and my husband sitting there like, what the hell? It's like, wow, what is what is? What is happening here? So I was excited. I'm like, well, lep, now, let's go home. I can't, you know, get up and do it. So I brought it home thinking everything was great. And so the next morning I come downstairs to start working on the two major projects that needed to drop in five days now, and guess what, the computer would not show up on the monitor at all at all. So I'm like, wait, hold on, what's going on. Maybe it's the maybe it's the screen, maybe it's something. So I grabbed my laptop. I plug my laptop in. Everything everything is working. So I'm what is happening? So I took a dig breath and I asked God, I said, God, what are you trying to tell me, am I moving too fast? What am I missing? What am I missing? So the next day I took it back to the shop. Well, that Monday, I took it back to the shop, and then the tech told me that they had to hold my computer for three to five days. Remind you, when I took it in, I only had really three days for the official release, the drop of the two new projects. So I remember sitting at the shop, in that store, and I looked at her and she said, well, what do you want to do? I said, well, I can't do nothing. Believe it here, That's the only way we're going to get this fixed. We already spent three four hundred dollars on it, you know, fixing it. So I'm being told to sit down in some way pay attention to something, you know, when I think about it, At that moment, I could have I could have spiraled, I could have gotten angry. I could have got anxious about missing the deadlines. But the thing is I did. I didn't get angry. I didn't get nervous because I knew deep in my spirit that God, the universe, my ancestors. Was trying to tell me something. And as I was sitting at my altar and I was writing these lyrics. That is what it hit me like, God shut me down. God shut down my computer so I can hear my music. God shut down my computer so I can hear my music. He had to take he had to take away what I thought I was supposed to be doing, so I can remember a gift and a love that I've forgotten. You see music in that gift, that was a part of my true essence, That was a part of me, not just listening to it, but creating it. But creating it. Music is a part of my soul again, not just for listening to dancing to it, but also to give it a voice. You see, this process for me has been truly incredible, very incredible, and healing healing from me spiritually, emotionally, physically. And this is definitely something that I will be doing again. But more than that, this, this is a part of my ministry, has been given to me yet another voice to serve others. So let me tell you about the soundtra The soundtrack they rebirth is exactly what it sounds like, the soundtrack to my transformation. Every track represents a different phase of this journey. The pain, the reclaiming, the awakening, the celebration. This is probably my most vulnerable work and I cannot wait for you all to hear it. So let me tell you about these songs real fast. So I told you about the first song, Dear Me. That's where it all began, and that's the moment that I decided to write myself. That love letter. Is very tender, it is vulnerable, and again it's the beginning of everything. And then the next track is Mirror Mirror, and it's about looking in the mirror and finally seeing myself clearly, not through society's eyes and not through shame, but through love, through the love of my eyes, a reflection of me. And this song is about reclaiming your reflection. Now the divine nine. This one right here was deeply personal for me because, as you know, my spiritual number is five. And as I was writing, I remember sitting and writing this story, and I remember getting up and going to I have a picture I have a friend with my father's obituary, and I've took several different of his obituaries, and you know, and tore it open, so we kind of put it in a picture atte and something would say go, look at the date that you all laid them the rest, and we laid my father the ress on March fifteenth. March is the third month of the year. Fifteenth is one plus five. That equals nine. And then this year twenty twenty five two plus zero plus two plus five is nine. And then my year, this is my year to rebirth. And then I was born in seventy two. Seventh plus two is what it's nine. So you see all of this adds up to what to nine. When I tell you that I truly went deep into this song, because that is this divine nine in the song, in the way that it was written, it was truly a healing moment. But that was an AHA moment for me because even in my mother's womb, I was a humanitarian, I was someone of love. I was a divine nine. This song is about ancestral healing. It's about generational patterns. It's about stepping into the divine assignment that you were born into that I was born into. And then my next one is probably one of my favorites. It is I call this reclaiming unashame. It's about my this will be my experian anthem. It's about my body's sobriety and removing what never belonged to me and reclaiming my original self. This is for every woman who's ever felt less thin because of how her body looks. And it's always been you. That's another beautiful track. This is a spiritual awakening song. This is where my three AM downloads came in back in a very critical year of everyone life. And this is a realization that everything that I was searching for was already inside of me. It's always been me, It's always been you. And s S is another song. This one is an amazing one. This was a nice little twist and I can I can tell you this I was actually I don't want to say that I was afraid of it because of verdicts still out on that if you know how it's going to go, but it's as sexuality central and spiritual spirituality, and you know, when I truly begin on my healing journey, is something that I wanted to do, was the few spirituality and sexuality. Knowing that I've come from the adult industry, It's been part of my life, but all of my life, but I'm also a very spiritual individual and understanding and knowing that sexuality, spirituality, and central are part of our core, is a part of our essence. One of the challenges is that that when you trying to combine and fuse those three, that's one of the challenges. Everything that society told me about being sexual and spiritual that it is not. In this song is says I do not have to choose. They are all part of me, they are all sacred. And God never left me, even when people said that I left God. So this is a very very transformational song, is very spiritual. It's good. It's a good one. It's playing in my head right now. And then it's God is rising, you know, I had to say speaking on that. So this is a nice little fuse because it's a nice little hip hop R and B type of fusion. And it's about elevation. It's a glow up. It's a moment when you step into your power and you refuse to you refuse to play small. And as I know that trump stamp on my back of me, God in spirit, the God in me. That's what makes me the goddess, and that's what makes my persona, my character, the goddess of self love. And then the finality. The last song is the rebirth, and this is a triumphic closing. That's the declaration and that I am reborn at fifty three, stronger and wiser and freer and unapologetic to me. So when I created these nine core songs with multiple versions of different viyes, different energies, different healing frequencies, because healing isn't one size but all. Sometimes you need you need that tender version and sometimes you need that bold one. And so all of these are free. All nine of these are free. It's a part of my ministry, it's a part of my service. This is my offering to anyone on their healing journey. Now here's how I'm rolling it out, all right. So I started a few days ago leading up to my birthday October fourteenth. I'll be releasing one track snippet per day on Instagram. At the Goddess of Self Loving is da Goddess of self love, all one thing, nothing in between. And so when I talked about it, when I thought about it sitting at my altar, it was nine days, nine songs for the rollout and just building it in the four release. So again when I was sitting at that altar and just going through it. I had to laugh when I was writing them songs come and said, okay, this is what I'm supposed to be paying attention to. I was awaking out of my sleep on Thursday morning to write that very first song. I was done. I'm not even gonna say twenty four hours. I was done by ten o'clock at night. The next day, I think it was that I post the first song. It was the next day or Saturday in one of those days. I think it was Saturday that I posted the first one and I said, okay, I'm going to release this. I'm gonna release this. So again, each post will feature the song at them and some of them I might get a give a little story behind it. But I'm just inviting you all to just walk this journey with me and just to hear my words, to feel the transformation. And here's my only ask is that no distractions when you're listening to it. Just close your eyes and hear my words. Now, on October fourteenth, when that's gonna be when the full album drops, I'm gonna give you a little surprise. But again, remember this is completely free, so there will be a link in everything that you can download the music or you can go to the link and get it and just enjoy it. And here is a very beautiful part of it. I wrote that those songs in twenty four hours. And I know you yourself can write your own soundtrack to your own life. To that. You don't need to be a trained singer. You don't need to have a record deal. You just don't need. You just need your story. You need your truth, and you need your words. When I tell you, listening to your words and real time to music, to soul for my soul for to soul for music, it's a healing process. Just yesterday, I had one of my good friends over and I had him listening to the tracks, and before I knew it, he was into it. He was like, wow, like this is very healing, Naomi, Like this is he said, will like you? You got me and my feelings right now. And he asked me, he said, when you first heard your words, how did you feel? I said, I felt it through my soul. I felt it through every single one of my chakras. It was so much healing to it. And I said, I was gonna wait to stay, but I'm gonna say it now i'm i'm, I'm, I'm working on uh, I'm working on a program right now, and it's gonna take me a few months to do it, but I I definitely want to do a healing module using music, especially when it comes to my clients. And i'm i'm, I'm back in the next few weeks taking you know, getting back into my one on one coaching. But I definitely believe that's gonna be one of the h healing modules for you know, my clients, as well as doing other amazing things with it. But I know, for you all, I know a lot of times we write in our journal and sometimes it feels flat. But maybe if you take some of those words and then your feelings and you put 'em into a song and later I'll share, you know, what the app is and all of that stuff. But it's so good to just share your rebirth story, share your what you're going through at this moment in this time and your transformation, and you create your own soundtrack of the reperth. So also tell me what you're reclaiming, you know, once you hear it and come back and I'll do some post up or something like that. I want you to tell me what you're becoming, all right, all right, So again follow my alter ego, the Goddess of Self Love. That's d as a Dog d a Goddess of Love on Instagram for the Daily road Out, and I want you to market all calendars for October fourteenth, and get ready to receive this soundtrack. Get ready to see this contract. All right. So before we get off, I want to remind you all about October. It's not only my birthday, but it's also Breast cancer Awareness month, and this year it holds very deep meaning for me. Is because my ex Journey and breast health advocate has connected. So because here's what we don't talk about enough, right it's women's bodies are not commodities and our health should never be compromised or our aesthetic for societal expectations for profit. Right, So breast implant is much larger than that. But I want to say this because I'm running out of time right now and I hate to do this, but we're doing a fundraiser. You can go to the Season and Self Love now right now. I'm right here telling the story because I'm still working on that website now. But you go to Askniaomi dot com and it'll be right there on the front page. Our slogan this year is Body Love and Hope United. That is what it is. And our goal is one thousand dollars. Our goal is one thousand dollars. And also I want to tell you all about this too. Is for one week is Men Breast Cancer Awareness Week. But October seventeenth to the twenty third is always the third week on tobe word. There's something that we're going to definitely talk about over their asks Naomi this month because that's something new I really never heard. I mean I heard of men having breast cancer, but just us to make aware of this. I want to make sure that I'm able to use my platform, you know, for this. And again again it is one thousand dollars. Is up there right now. It's called Body Love and Hope United at aks naomi dot com. And hopefully by the end of this week, I've been revamped the season and self Love and it will be there as well. And again our goal is one thousand dollars. A thousand dollars, okay, a thousand dollars. You know, we want to go beyond the fund raiser too, you know, we want to go beyond that thousand dollars. All right, all right, all right, so again I'll be back here for Wisdom Winnesday here on the season and self Love. We got some amazing guests that's coming on on Wednesday. I'm excited. I'm just so excited to be back. I'm excited to be back. Oh, let me give you this little tipbit why going through all of this, there will be a new launching in twenty twenty six, body Choice and Voice Podcasts. It's going to be a space where everyone from women, men of all of us can speak our truth with our fear of shame, of judgment, of space where we can talk about body autonomy, medical advocacy, and reclaiming our power. All right, but right now, I just need your help. I need you to go donate right now, share the campaign when I posted, Tag people who need to hear the message, and let's create a movement. Okay, all right, So I'm just thinking, I'm just going through my notes right now. One more thing that we need to say. No, not really, not really, I'm just so excited to be back. Remember to rollout for of the soundtrack to the Rebirth. That's about it. That is about it. That is about it. Oh no, no, yeah, that's about it because I'll be back on Monday. I'll be back next Monday to talk to more. Right, I write my beautiful people, as I always say, be good to one another in yourselves and I always keep it sexy. Thank you, my beautiful people, for continue to support me here on the Season and Self Love so let have gone. Thank you for joining us on this journey of discovering and empowerment here at the Season and Self Love Podcast. Remember, embracing self love is a continuous journey and we're so glad to have you with us. 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