Invisible Weight | DISC 5: Restoration | 411 Podcast🍾Reading Between The Wines (Episode 12)
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411 Podcast🍾Reading Between The Wines
DISC 5: Restoration
Track 12: Invisible Weight
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Song of The Day: "Diamonds" by Lil' Kim Featuring Kelly Price
Released 2000 | Unreleased
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411 Podcast🍾Reading Between The Wines
DISC 5: Restoration
Track 12: Invisible Weight
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00:00Thank you so much for watching.
08:47Thank you,
09:17thank you.
11:23Thank you,
11:53thank you.
15:00that you want, giving you that extra that you want. So just be very careful of that.
15:07Luke 14, 28. For which of you intended to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the
15:16cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it. Right there, plain and simple. For which of you
15:25intended to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient
15:34to finish it. Now, I was a victim of that. I can sit here and tell you this here today,
15:40and I say it with conviction because I was that type of person that I'm a dreamer. I love to dream
15:47and I love to vision myself in bigger and better places than I am here today. And if I didn't do
15:54that, I wouldn't be here podcasting and giving you this 4-in-1 podcast because before all of the
15:59lights, cameras, action, before all of this came about in 2020, I was dreaming big prior to that.
16:07I was dreaming big. I was thinking big and I was coming up with the game plan. But I will tell you,
16:13I didn't sit down first and I didn't count the cost first and I didn't go through all of those
16:18things first. And it caused a lot of stress. It caused a lot of extraness. And I had to
16:26do some backflips to make sure that we're still here today. And I wouldn't have it any other way
16:33because without all of that, we wouldn't be here. And I wouldn't be here speaking of the things that
16:40I'm speaking of and stepping into my purpose and doing the things that I'm doing. So everything
16:44happens, happens for good. But now that I know better, it's just my job, you know, give to the
16:50people, give to the community so that you don't make the same mistakes that I've made. Now, for
16:55those of you who don't want to listen, you want to do it your way, that's fine. I get it too. Cause
17:00you know, I was that person too, where, you know, let me just go ahead and find out for myself. And
17:05sometimes there's nothing wrong with that. That is the best way to learn is when you bump your head
17:11and you make mistakes. But if you can learn from somebody along the way so that you don't make
17:15those same mistakes, that's also a plus as well. But we all learn differently. We all pick up things
17:21on different terms and different timelines and different frequencies. So, hey, I get it.
17:28But on that note, welcome on in to the 411 podcast, track 12, Invisible Weight, Disc 5 Restoration.
17:35We're going to get into the song of the day. Diamonds by none other than the Queen Bee.
17:43Miss Lil' Kim featuring Kelly Price. Now, this song was not actually released. It's sort of a hidden
17:50gem. It's an unreleased song. And I believe that it was dropped somewhere between her hardcore album
17:58and Notorious K.I.M. somewhere in between. So we're just going to say 2000. If I'm wrong, it is what it is.
18:04The real Lil' Kim fans out there. If y'all know exactly when this came out, you can also let me
18:10know that as well. But one of my favorite albums too, Notorious K.I.M. But this song is Diamonds
18:16featuring Kelly Price. And we're speaking about Invisible Weight. This is Mental Mondays. And of
18:24course, this song speaks of the lavish life, living big, wanting diamonds. You can hear Kelly Price in
18:32the background saying over and over again that she wants diamonds. And that's what they speak
18:37about. All of the luxury, the high living, high price life. That's what I call it, the high price
18:44life. And if you were able to experience it, great. We all have fallen into this trap at one
18:53point in our lives of living beyond our means, living that high price life, buying expensive things,
18:59whether it's jewelry, cars, clothes, whatever the case may be, focusing on the outer more than we
19:06focus on the inner. Listen, I don't know who I'm speaking to. I'm just speaking from experience,
19:11but I've been there and I can relate. And some of us are stuck into this trap. Some of us have just
19:21gotten out. Some of us are swiping our way into this situation right now as we speak with credit cards
19:27and personal loans and debt that they might not even know what they're doing. They're just doing
19:35what they were told. They were just doing what they were taught. You know, more is caught than more is
19:40taught. So they might be mimicking and they might be subconsciously picking up some things that they've
19:47seen their parents, their grandparents, aunties, uncles, siblings, who knows. But some of us
19:56will escape. Some of us will never escape. And just like the Pussycat Dolls, one of my favorite songs
20:05from them, their line is, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. You just might get
20:11it. So, and when you get it, just make sure that you're mentally prepared to be able to handle it.
20:21Because the heavy load, sometimes it's real heavy and it's hard and it takes multiple people to pull
20:29you up and try to uphold and keep it going. So just be careful because whatever you wish for,
20:37you just might get it. And the 10th commandment says, thou shall not covet. And I'm so thankful
20:46that I obey this today and I understand and I know that I don't want anything that anybody else has.
20:54Prior to that, the older version of me, I always wanted what everybody else had. And I had an attitude
21:01when I couldn't get what everybody else had. And if my car didn't look like yours and my clothes didn't
21:08look like yours and I didn't go to some of the places that you went to and my house didn't look
21:13like your house and this and that, the next, the other, I was very unhappy and I was very
21:21just a not nice person. I'll put it that way. So, and that came from me wanting, and that came from me,
21:29it came from just the spirit of covetousness. And I am so thankful that I have been delivered from
21:35that spirit. And we all have to go through our journey. We all have to, we all have to experience
21:42it at different times. And listen, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
21:50There's a price to live that high price, lavish life. And it comes in the form of debt. It comes
21:59in the form of sleepless nights. It comes in the form of needing to work extra. It comes in the form of
22:06not being the person that you were put on this earth to be and living the life that somebody else
22:16wants you to live. Just plain and simple. Anyway, welcome on in, welcome on in. And hopefully,
22:27you know, that message that gets to one person. I'm not here to try to move the masses. As long as I
22:35get to just one person, there's a breakthrough on one end. Listen, we're on Facebook, we're on
22:40Instagram, we're on X, we're on YouTube, we're on TikTok, we're on DLive, Twitch, Dailymotion.
22:46And I must say that I am very thankful because we had some restrictions on a specific platform,
22:54but we won the case and videos are now available to the public. So the full episodes of Disc 5
23:02Restoration are up and running on all platforms. No need to worry about anything being restricted.
23:08No need to worry about signing into a specific account and only being able to see this video,
23:14that video, this video. So listen, there's a message out there for anybody who's out there.
23:20Listen, no matter what platform you're on. Also, we're on Spotify, we're on iHeartRadio,
23:27we're on Deezer, we're on Amazon Music, we're on so many different platforms. So this is a big
23:35movement. This is a big step. This is a big, it's big for me compared to where I was in 2020 when I
23:44had 19 people, 19 people following only on Instagram. And then from there, we've expanded
23:53to so many different areas and so many different levels. So again, I could not do any of this without
23:58each and every one of you out there supporting and rocking and liking, commenting, sharing,
24:04stopping by. It's never a dull moment. And I want to say thank you all for that.
24:09So now tonight, we're going to head on over to one of my favorite states.
24:15Remember Dreaming Big, one of my favorite states.
24:17We're going to be in a desert one day. We're going to head on over to California. We're going to help
24:24out Miss Sabrina tonight, 33 years old. Sabrina is a mental health advocate and she is a social media
24:32content creator. And some of these stories, some of these burning questions, they just start to be
24:42real similar to some places that I've been. I don't know who I'm speaking to tonight, but I'm speaking
24:49from experience. Some of these scenarios just be so close to home. So if I start to get amped up about
24:57it, that's only because I have that true, real experience and I know exactly where we're coming
25:03from tonight. So Sabrina talks positivity, positivity, I'll back that up. Miss Sabrina talks
25:11positivity online, but silently battles depression and $38,000 in credit card debt.
25:20She's addicted to online shopping and buys news to avoid facing her loneliness. She feels like a frog.
25:28mentally she's strong on the outside, but mentally fragile on the inside. I'll take us through that
25:36scenario again. Miss Sabrina talks positivity online, but silently battles depression. And she is in
25:46over $38,000 in credit card debt. She's addicted to online shopping and buys new things to avoid facing
25:55her loneliness. She feels like a fraud, mentally strong on the outside, but mentally fragile on the
26:02inside. So we're here to help tonight. And we're here to have some breakthrough moments, not only for
26:11you, but only for, you know, before myself as well. So I get it because I've been here before.
26:20Um, I started in 2020, started the 401 podcast. I had no idea what I was doing. And when I started
26:29this podcast, I was in all types of debt. Sabrina has $38,000 worth of debt. I was in far more than
26:37that. Had no idea how I was getting out. Didn't think that I would ever get out. Um,
26:42and I was in a tough situation. Depression is sounds very similar. Didn't like myself. Didn't like the
26:57situation. Didn't like anybody. I, I, hell, I didn't like myself. So I didn't like anybody around me
27:03either. Um, she's addicted to online shopping. However, I wasn't addicted to online shopping,
27:14but let me tell you peer pressure, you know what they say about peer pressure. Um, I was fighting
27:22to try to do the right thing, but I was surrounded by a bunch of people who wanted to do the wrong
27:28thing. Excuse me one second.
27:33Definitely had to get that together. Cause I'm sure y'all didn't want to hear me coughing
27:45all over. So had to take a little break with that. Hold on one second.
27:49That's, that is one of the worst things when you were in radio, when you have to cough,
28:03when you're recording. But so I was surrounded by a bunch of people who wanted to do the right,
28:11excuse me, wanted to do the wrong thing. So I wanted to do the right thing and I wanted to
28:16get out of debt and I wanted to experience this debt-free living. Like I know that it's about,
28:24I didn't know all of it, but I didn't know some of the basics about debt-free living.
28:31And I was just surrounded by the wrong people. And because of that, it became fighting for my life,
28:37literally fighting for my life. And so it wasn't necessarily online shopping for me.
28:46It wasn't buying extra things. It was trying to stop it from happening. Now, when you're not in
28:53control of your finances and you have other factors that are draining your pockets, whether
28:59it's people, places, things that you've signed yourself up to, it's, it's a rough situation.
29:07And this one here seems like Sabrina is in complete control. She don't, again, I just know what this
29:14scenario is right here. She doesn't have anybody leeching from her. She doesn't have anybody stealing
29:18from her. She doesn't have anybody encouraging her. Maybe she does. Maybe she has some friends that
29:24she's trying to keep up with because all of the online shopping and things like that and buying new
29:28things to avoid loneliness. That could be a problem. There are people who shop when they're
29:38depressed. Clothes, jewelry, they think that those things are going to make them feel better, but
29:44the work starts within. And you can dress it up on the outside all you want. If you don't take care
29:51of what needs to be taken care of on the inside, the minute after you buy that, the minute after you
29:57swipe the card, you may wore the dress one time, you may wear the sneakers a couple of times. After
30:01a while, that's going to fade. I used to do it with cars. I'm going to be like, I'm kind of bored
30:08of this car. And I think the car, I want to go get me another one. And about like a week or two,
30:14it would fade after people stopped saying, Oh my God, you got a new car. Oh, it's this and that.
30:19And you know, I thought that that was like making me feel better. But after that faded,
30:24I was sitting here, not only falling into more depression. Now I'm looking at this bill that I
30:32have, that's going to be coming in every month. And now we just signed ourselves up for three years
30:36worth of nonsense. Now it's so easy though, to sign you up for five years worth of nonsense.
30:43And the prices have gone up compared to what it was years ago. Most people that I talk to when I'm
30:52going through my coaching sessions, they're paying about anywhere between 800 to a thousand dollars a
30:56month for car payments. So for those of you out there who are buying things to avoid loneliness,
31:08like Sabrina, you won't be lonely after a while because you'll definitely have some bills that'll
31:18be coming in the mail that will keep you some company. So I'd be very cautious about that.
31:25Now with her feeling like a fraud, mentally strong on the outside, but mentally fragile on the inside,
31:32it's because it's backwards. See, we have to feel good on the inside and then we start to feel strong
31:40on the outside, but it starts with them first. Everything starts with self. So instead of trying
31:46to dress up the outside, making the outside look good, you know, that's what man does. We want to
31:52look at the outer appearance. We don't focus on the inner. We focus so much on the outer. This person has
31:58this. This person has that. This person looks like this. This person looks that. I want to look like
32:02this. I want to do that. Instead of focusing on the inner, naturally, that's what man does. Focuses on
32:09the outer appearance. So anybody out there who might be experiencing anything like Sabrina,
32:17you want to focus on the inner first. Heal yourself first on the inner.
32:22Get yourself together on the inside and then it'll start to pour on the outside and you won't need to
32:31worry about loneliness. You won't need to worry about any of that because you're going to have so
32:35many people and so many opportunities and so many things that will be coming to you that sometimes
32:41it'll be exhausting. So many people will want to hang out with you. So many people will want to be
32:47around you because you will become a blessing to so many people in different ways because you've done
32:54your inner work first, especially if you're a content creator, especially if you are speaking
33:01positivity, especially if you are coming from a place of love. There's a bunch of people out there
33:08that has all kinds of nonsense on the internet, all types of stuff where they're bringing people down,
33:13all types of evilness. And I just sit back and I look at all of the people that follow them
33:18that are in that same mind frame. So now if they can do it and they're coming from trolling,
33:25they're coming from trying to tear people down, they're coming from reposting stuff that's
33:31ignorant, they come from lower vibrational standpoints, lower vibrational frequencies,
33:37there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to do it, especially when you're trying to uplift and
33:41help people get to the next level. But it's just backwards. Ask me how I know.
33:51I've done it before. I've been that before. That's why in 2022, I had to step away because I knew that
34:01it was going in the wrong direction. Saying one thing, but then behind the scenes, whenever the cameras,
34:10whenever the podcast wasn't recording, whenever I had to face reality, and then I had to look and say,
34:17okay, I've come this far. I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I want to help people. I enjoy it,
34:25but I don't enjoy my own current circumstances. So how about we fix that first so that I can come back
34:32and then truly be able to help people in a right aspect because I'm speaking from truth now,
34:38not just speaking a bunch of nonsense before, like before. Then on the other aspect of it,
34:46if I wanted to stay where I'm at and have some long-term stability, oh, you really got to get
34:54this thing together because then not only is it going to come crashing down one day, Sabrina,
34:59you got to be careful because what's done in darkness will come to light. And either you won't
35:05be able to handle the pressure of it or something's going to get exposed or listen,
35:13I would say focus on the inner and then all of that other stuff will come on the other end,
35:20on the outside. And there's nothing wrong with the coach being coached. I have plenty of mentors.
35:27I have plenty of people that I look up to, and there's no way that I could be where I'm at here
35:32today if I didn't sit down and listen to somebody else. You don't always have to be the smartest
35:40person in a room. And actually today when I'm the smartest person in a room, that only works well for
35:46a little while. After that, I'm trying to get out. I want to get into different rooms where I'm not the
35:51smartest person in the world. Somebody please teach me something because most of my life, majority of my
35:56life, I thought it was cool to be the smartest person in a room. And exactly what happened was
36:03I was the smartest person in a room and the people who were around me, either they didn't want to
36:09elevate to the next level. They weren't on the same page as me. So you got to be very careful when
36:17you're always the person who's giving advice. You're always the person that people are running to.
36:23You're always the person that people are looking up to. Because as you are giving out that energy,
36:30when do you get replenished?
36:34So as you wake up, you're giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, and you don't have anybody in your
36:41corner that say, oh, hold up. Maybe you might want to do it this way. I see that this is happening,
36:47but there might be a better way that you can do it. Let me show you how you can turn this thing around
36:52and double and quadruple. Don't be so quick to jump into a situation where you became the expert
37:03and everybody's just seeking and pulling and taking from you and you don't turn around and
37:11replenish your own situation. And also, I used to be a know-it-all. Some people still think I'm a
37:21know-it-all. But I learned to listen more than I speak. And that was a big lesson. Because when I
37:33look back at how I used to operate, I used to do a hell of a lot of talking and not a lot of listening.
37:39And I used to do a lot of over-talking. And that was hard for me to... But I had to get with self,
37:46and I had to say, okay, yeah, you were doing a little too much. Doing a little bit too much there.
37:54Bottom line,
37:58start in the inner. And it'll appear on the outer. But you got to start with self first. Don't try to
38:06dress up the outer. Don't try to put on things. Don't try to purchase things. Don't try to put it
38:13all on. Because that stuff is temporary. That stuff's going to fade. After the clothes are done,
38:19after the jewelry, after the cars, after the makeup, after all of that stuff is gone,
38:25you still are going to be facing you. You are still going to be dealt with the inner conflict.
38:30You're still going to be faced with all of that stuff that you didn't heal from, that you didn't deal
38:37with. Anybody out there, if you feel differently, if you want to chime in, you want to let me know
38:45what you think about tonight, text me 609-200-1098. Again, that number is 609-200-1098. That is the
38:54official 411 Podcast Reading Between the Wines hotline. Now we're going to head on into burning
39:04questions. And it just flows right on end. So again, same concept. Text me if you want to chime
39:13in tonight, 609-200-1098. You can email me at info at laryngaines.com. You can also DM me on any of my
39:22platforms, Facebook, Instagram X, TikTok. I believe those, yeah, those are the ones you can DM me on.
39:33Facebook, Instagram X, TikTok. Everything is at laryngaines. Burning question for tonight.
39:46Are your thoughts making deposits or withdrawals from your peace of mind? I'll go ahead and say that
39:59again. Are your thoughts making deposits or withdrawals from your peace of mind?
40:06So this is a deep one. And I can just put it this way. There's a younger version, which is the person
40:19who you have been experiencing since 2020. And then there's the older version. The older version
40:29is the person that was running the show majority of my life. Younger version is the person who was just
40:38born in 2020. So for those of you who knew me before, you don't know me today. I'll say that again.
40:49For those of you out there, anybody, whether it's friends, family, old coworkers,
40:55for those of you who knew me before 2020, you don't know me today. And depending on the situation,
41:07I don't know you either. And I'm going to take it even more deeper, not to be disrespectful,
41:15but I'm just keeping it real. And just like you may not know me today, I may not even want to know you.
41:21You may not even want to know me.
41:27So my thoughts from previous, I was overdrawn. So many withdrawals from my peace of mind
41:35because I was living from a lower vibrational place, constantly seeking validation,
41:47doing some of the things that Sabrina was doing. Of course, this sounds so familiar.
41:51I was out here podcasting and doing certain things and behind the scenes, it wasn't what it
41:59was really all cracked up to be. And I hear that a lot when it comes to content creators
42:05because we see what other people have and we want what other people have.
42:12And we put on a show for people. And sometimes it's not always cracked up what it's been. I've heard
42:21that there are certain people that are posing, they're renting cars, they're living in their cars,
42:28they're sleeping on people's couches, all types of stuff. It's been a lot that I have seen and heard
42:37when it comes to some content creators. There's some sort of get rich quick scheme thinking that
42:43they're going to go viral and have a whole bunch of followers and become famous and all of that type
42:50of stuff. I never fell into that trap. But I do know from the aspect of producing content
43:01and trying to uplift somebody else before you even decide to uplift yourself.
43:08So I was always trying to uplift somebody else. I was always trying to pull somebody else up.
43:15And here's another analogy that I came across about a week or two ago.
43:20That it is so easy for the enemy to pull you down off the ladder.
43:28You're climbing up the ladder. It's so easy for the enemy to pull you down off the ladder.
43:35Because he's already on the ground. She's already on the ground. You're up high. You're climbing up
43:40high. And you're reaching your hand down trying to help them get up to where you are. But it takes far
43:46more strength for you to try to pull somebody up on your level of the ladder. It's going to take
43:53you far more upper body strength for you to try to pull somebody else up that has their feet flat
44:00planted on the ground. It's going to take you far more energy and far more strength to pull that
44:07person up versus what it's going to take for them to pull you down. So I was always trying to uplift
44:14somebody. I was always trying to help somebody get to the same level that I was.
44:20Going in lower vibrational places. Taking myself to lower vibrational states. Finding people in lower
44:27vibrational frequency levels. And trying to pull them up to mine. And it just didn't work. And what
44:35happened? They pulled me down right down to their level. And now I was vibrating from a lower vibrational
44:41frequency. Ready to cuss everybody out. Ready to turn into the Tasmanian devil. Had I just minded
44:50my business, which I know how to do today. I know how to mind my own business. And that's not coming
44:56from an arrogant standpoint. Just listen to, I want y'all to read between the lines. Mind your own
45:02business. But I learned how to mind my own business and stay exactly where I was. Now while I'm climbing up
45:08the ladder, how about I meet somebody along the way who is either on the same page on the same level
45:16or they're inspiring me to climb even higher because I want to get to where they are. Instead of looking
45:23down, looking down on a lower level, lower vibrational level, trying to pull somebody up to my level.
45:31And then even if you were strong enough to get them up to your level for a minute, what says they're
45:39going to stay there? If they didn't do their workout, if they didn't build their upper body strength,
45:44how are they going to be able to hold on? So you place them there with you, but you think that they
45:50have everything that they need to go ahead and sustain it and maintain it? So yes, I used to have
45:58plenty of withdrawals overdrawn. They might as well have just closed the bank because I had nothing
46:04to give to anybody else. I had nothing to cash or repay anything because I was completely withdrawn.
46:17But sometimes we got to go on a negative. Sometimes we have to get so far back.
46:22And what do they say? Boomerang? You have to be pulled so far back that that thing just starts
46:33to swing around and comes back in the other direction. So today, my thoughts make deposits.
46:42And I'm on point when it comes to those deposits. And I'm not saying that every day is a perfect day.
46:49There might be a little withdrawals here or there, but I know that we're not going to go into the
46:53negative because there's a lot of things that I understand. And once you know things,
46:58it's kind of hard for you to unsee them. Once you see things, it's kind of hard for you to unsee them.
47:03And I'll take it there. And I say this plenty of times.
47:10Good morning, gorgeous. Mary J. Blige. She has a song called Love Without the Heartbreak.
47:14And then I got to take it to my mentor, too. There's two people.
47:20Shout out to Mary J. Blige and shout out to my mentor in the Bronx, New York.
47:24Mary says, I never claimed to be a genius, but I lived long enough to see this.
47:29So even though every day might not be a perfect day and there might be some withdrawals,
47:35because sometimes you may not know everything, you may not see everything, especially when you meet
47:38people and you're in new environments. It might take a little bit before you are able to see
47:43certain things. But once you see it, you know it. And I never claimed to be a genius, but I lived long
47:47enough to see this. So whenever I see the signs or somebody starts to remind me of some of the places
47:53that I used to be and some of the places that I never want to go, that's when that kicks in.
47:59I never claimed to be a genius. Like I ain't the smartest person in the world, but let me tell you this
48:03right here. I lived long enough to see this. And this thing right here, I want no parts of it.
48:06So now I have the strength. I have the courage. I have the energy. I have the
48:11understanding to get up and take responsibility for myself. See, before when I knew that something
48:19wasn't right, I would sit in it and I would be stuck in it because I didn't know how to get up and take
48:25responsibility for myself. And I always was worried about the other person. I was always worried about
48:30somebody else's feelings and what would they think and what would they do? And today I cannot be
48:36responsible for anybody else's nervous system. It is a full-time job managing my own. So I cannot
48:43be responsible for nobody else's feelings, but I'm going to take responsibility for myself.
48:50So the question that I have to ask each and every one of you out there, are your thoughts making
48:54deposits or withdrawals from your peace of mind? And I told you today, I give people a peace of mind.
49:00This version of this person that you are hearing today, this is me giving you the peace of my mind.
49:06Diversion from the past. I would give people a peace of my mind. I would give you that get
49:11right energy. I would give you that, who are you speaking to? Who are you talking to like that?
49:16That type of person. Oh, well, I know that they ain't say nothing to me. I know they ain't looking
49:22at me like that. Who that person think they is? I used to do all of that. 10 times worse than what
49:31anybody could ever imagine. I don't even want to think about that anymore. I don't even want to
49:36take it there anymore. And the beauty about it is, is that no one can make me take it there.
49:43The only person that can allow that to happen is myself. See, before I thought that people were
49:49doing things to me, but they were actually doing things for me. They were teaching me a lesson
49:53about how to have some self-control, which I had none of it. And I had a conversation yesterday
49:59with somebody about self-control during this conversation. I won't name the individual
50:05because they, it's just too much. I'm not going to do that, but it was a close family member.
50:14And as close family member says that as I get older, Laren, I get angry. I get, I get, as I get
50:20older, I'm able, people were able to make me. They basically worded as they easily angered as they
50:28get older. They get easily angered. And I'm thinking to myself, well, that's just, that's
50:34incorrect because I think about my older, just think about a little child having a tantrum tantrum.
50:42I used to do that, but it didn't stop. It carried on until I was 30, 39. I didn't start to really
50:53like stop having these fits until I was like 39 years old. And I said, I'm going to get in my life,
50:58maybe 38. Last end of 38, my birthday, December, around that timeframe, December 38. I said, absolutely
51:07not 39. I was calmed down. I wasn't having major crazy tantrum tantrum, but my mouth was, it was a
51:14trip. I could bring several people down to their knees immediately. And without even raising my voice,
51:20it's just a slick words that would come out of my mouth will make a grown man cry.
51:26Not proud of it, but that's reality. So I'm thinking to myself, well, as you get older,
51:34you're easily angered. That's a problem because see, we have been commanded that our job is to have
51:42self-control. So now if you let some outside source, people, places, material things, whatever
51:49the circumstances may be, get you angered. And then easily on top of that, you already lost the
51:56game. I tell my daughters all the time, the minute that you go back and forth, round and round, debating
52:04or arguing with somebody about something that is outside of you, you've already lost the game.
52:10So once you argue and debate, go back and forth, round and round, lowering your vibration,
52:21screaming, yelling, cussing, wanting to fight somebody, you've already lost the game and you've
52:25given up your power. See, the true power comes in when you start to learn how to have self-control.
52:32And I don't care what you say. I don't care what you do. As long as you don't put your hands on me,
52:35you're not going to have me step out of my character and start becoming somebody that I know
52:41I'm not. Now I'm glad and I'm thankful and I'm proud that I'm able to say that today, but I couldn't
52:48say that before because I was everything but that. You said something, I was ready to go upside your head.
52:54You said this, I was ready to just go in and let you know. And I'll only let you know, but let
53:01everybody around you know, let the wave keep rippling until everybody knew. We don't have
53:08to do all that today. So I don't know who I'm speaking to tonight. I'm just speaking from
53:13experience, but if you're easily angered, people, peace of mind. They're just taken with all's left
53:23and right. And we are all energy. Like I said, we're all interconnected. We are all one in the same.
53:29Whenever you get angry, all that energy that you are releasing, you're giving somebody else power.
53:37That's how that works. If someone is doing something on purpose and angering you on purpose
53:42and pushing your buttons on purpose and doing things to get you angry on purpose. And if we're
53:48all energy, we're all interconnected. We are all one in the same. We're all in this universe together.
53:55When you release that good energy, you become depleted and the other person takes your energy.
54:05They're energy vampires. Now you don't have to believe me if you don't want to. Like I said,
54:11I don't know who I'm speaking to. I'm just speaking from experience, but one moment of anger
54:16gives you, I believe I had this written down. One day of anger gives you 40 days of sorrow.
54:28One minute of anger will give you 40 days of sorrow. And all you're doing is poisoning your
54:34own system. All you're doing is digging your own grave because anger, all that does is poison your
54:41system, your own system. Having said that, I'm so thankful that I'm still here
54:46because I've done enough for a lifetime. And I believe that that is the reason why
54:52I'm not easily angered today. I don't think that there's anything that anybody can do.
54:59And I'm not trying to tempt anybody because I don't want to experience it because just as I'm saying
55:03this, I do know that the older version is still within me, but the younger version of me
55:11is in control today. I have self-control today, but I'm not going to put myself in environments.
55:20I'm not going to put myself in situations where there's people who are willing to and ready to
55:25withdraw from my peace of mind because my peace of mind is everything to me. So because of that,
55:33I'm going to protect that and I'm going to nurture and I'm going to do whatever I have to do to make
55:38sure that we don't go back to where we used to be. With that, I want to say thank you all so much for
55:49joining in and hanging on in there with me tonight. I see y'all out there. Thank you so much.
55:53Again, I am on Facebook. I am on Instagram. I am on X, YouTube, TikTok, DLive, Twitch, Daily Motion.
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