Date Yourself Instead - Why it's NEVER TOO LATE to find love, to achieve your dreams, and to start again.

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

It's all in the divine timing, baby. It’s never too late to manifest your wildest dreams, kickstart a new career path or meet your soulmate. in this episode, I go into detail and a few personal stor...y times about why everything is happening for you in perfect divine timing and how God always has a higher plan and see the bigger picture for us. if you are loving these episodes, leave a comment on Spotify and share it with a friend! Love, Lyss x

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Date Yourself Instead. Today we're gonna be talking about how it's never too late. It is never too late to start your dream life. It is never too late to meet the love of your life. It's never too late to do what you want to do. And I think we all need a little hope core so I am bringing that to today's episode because even I have my moments where I struggle with this concept of, is it too late? Should I even start? Is it worth even trying and investing my energy into this
Starting point is 00:00:37 because I feel like I procrastinated it for too long. I held off too long. Or sometimes I get in my head about being with the love of my life because I've been in a lot of long-term serious relationships but now I'm 32 and of course sometimes this fear creeps in where I'm like where is he what's going on you know what I mean? So I think it's just a common thing. I think we've all experienced this these thoughts that can creep in where we're like is it too late for me to find true love? Is it too late for me to reinvent myself? To recreate myself? To follow my dream life? To do
Starting point is 00:01:12 what I actually want to do? I feel like I've been in the same job, the same cycle, the same routine for so long and it feels impossible to get out. All of this is normal. We all go through phases in life where we doubt ourselves, we question our future, we question what's in store. It's easy to get in our heads about our timeline and our path and our future and it's easy to lose hope when we feel like we've been waiting and praying on something or trying to manifest something and it's just not happening on our timeline. The truth is, as I always say, everything always happens in divine timing.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Everything is always gonna happen in God's timing and God's plan for us. And the universe wants to see us happy at the right timing. We will always get what we want in divine timing, in the right timing when we are fully ready for it and when either that other person is ready for it if you're trying to manifest love, or when you're fully equipped mentally
Starting point is 00:02:09 for the right career, for the right job. It's just hard to believe sometimes when you're going through the everyday emotions, trying to manifest something, praying on something, and you're not seeing the results that you want. There are two pieces to this, okay? The first piece is actually believing that it's gonna happen and holding that faith
Starting point is 00:02:29 and holding that unwavering faith and remaining at that frequency and sticking to it and not wavering from it and doubting yourself every two seconds. And the other part of it is divine timing. It could take some time for you to meet the love of your life because maybe you feel ready for it, but that person isn't fully equipped or ready for it. Maybe that person has to go through one more relationship or one more situationship or
Starting point is 00:02:53 one more heartbreak in order to fully develop their character so they can be the right person for you or vice versa. Maybe you don't even know it yet but you still have to go through one more situation, one more lesson, which I know you probably don't want to hear. But it may be developing your character and building your strength and building your resilience and building your self-development in order to fully be prepared for the person you're going to end up spending the rest of your life with. Looking back at all the situations I've been in, all the relationships I've been in, all the career changes I've went through, all the transformations I've gone through in my life have always made me stronger,
Starting point is 00:03:35 have always developed my character, given me more strength, given me more power, given me more confidence. And this episode is really to encourage you, one, to keep going and to not lose your faith, and two, to give you hope in the sense of feeling like nothing is happening and you're about to give up. So I'm going to really kick this episode off with a beautiful story time. I believe I did tell this story really briefly at the end of an episode a while back so a lot of you who are new
Starting point is 00:04:09 listeners or maybe you forgot because it was a while ago I'm going to refresh your memory. It came up again because I was talking to my mom about finding my person and finding my husband and I was having an emotional moment because I feel like sometimes I'm carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders like my person and finding my husband and I was having an emotional moment because I feel like sometimes I'm carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. I just feel like I'm doing so much. I'm building a brand and a lot of the times I'm alone in isolation and I'm not complaining. I'm extremely grateful and I'm extremely blessed for everything that I've been given.
Starting point is 00:04:40 And I thank God every day for these blessings, for the opportunity I have to create to live my dream life, to have my dream career. But I do feel like sometimes I'm exhausted and I'm like, if only I could come home to someone and have my person and have that comfort and feel that way. I know that I preach about independence and loving yourself and dating yourself. I stand by everything I say,
Starting point is 00:05:07 but I'm still a human being too. And I just want to share that with you guys because it's completely normal. Even I deal with these things still from time to time where I'm like, I've been working so hard. I've been putting my blood, sweat and tears into the podcast, into creating new things. I'm starting a new chapter of my career now
Starting point is 00:05:25 and I'm putting all my energy into myself and yet it's like crickets. It's like crickets in my love life. And sometimes you're like, oh, like what is going on? What is happening? But I'm gonna tell you a story time and my mom reminded me of this on the phone and it really made me happy.
Starting point is 00:05:44 So I was at a party for a family friend about five years ago and one of my mom's friends was also at the party and she was in her late 60s. Okay she had been divorced. I believe her husband was unfaithful to her. divorced, I believe her husband was unfaithful to her. She was not in a happy marriage and she was left behind with her children, essentially. So she was telling me and going on and on about her life and her dating life and how she was losing hope and there was no one out there for her. And she was older and she felt like she had already gone through so many different types of dating experiences. And because she had previously been married
Starting point is 00:06:31 and had a really traumatic divorce, she just wasn't really sure if her person was out there anymore at this point. She said she was looking on dating apps and she was meeting up with people, but it just wasn't clicking. Nothing felt right. Nothing felt aligned. I could tell from her energy, was looking on dating apps and she was meeting up with people, but it just wasn't clicking. Nothing felt right. Nothing felt aligned. I could tell from her energy, she just felt
Starting point is 00:06:49 a lot of discouragement and she just felt discouraged and a little bit depleted. And it's totally understandable and valid because especially when you're much older, when you've already gone through a divorce and now you've been single for many years, I believe she was single for 20 years, which is crazy, right? Cause you're like, oh my God, that's a long time to be by yourself, to be on your own and to do everything independently.
Starting point is 00:07:16 So of course she was used to her independence. Of course she was used to being alone at that point. And it was just acceptance where she was telling me like, yeah, I don't know if my person's out there I've tried I've done everything I possibly can type of thing. Me and my mom were looking at each other and my mom and I both at the same time had this vision of this woman matching perfectly and being very compatible with one of my dad's friends who was also single. So basically my dad's friend is an amazing guy. He's super kind and just a really great person.
Starting point is 00:07:54 His wife passed away pretty unexpectedly many years ago. He had basically been alone since then. Both of them had very similar timelines in the sense of they were both pretty much alone for many years after their last partner. And I think they were both at the age in their late 60s where they were like, there's no real point in investing energy into the dating process and to really thinking of finding the love of my life again or finding someone again. It's been so many years, which once again, logically from a logical 3D perspective and narrative makes sense because if it's been 20 years since you've really been in love and felt that light and that spark in your life, it's almost like you're bound to give
Starting point is 00:08:44 up. And to think of it from my perspective, I'm like 20 years, that's crazy, right? I'm sure a lot of you listening to this, you're probably gonna be like, what the fuck? Cause it's, I know a lot of you are in your 20s. So think about that. So my mom and I are looking at each other and my mom says, I think you might get along with so and so.
Starting point is 00:09:06 And I was like, that makes sense. I feel like their energies are very similar because I had met my dad's friend many times and now I was just meeting my mom's friend. From my perspective and from my intuition, I could tell that they had very similar energies that would probably compliment each other because they were both looking for similar things.
Starting point is 00:09:26 My mom's friend, I could tell was skeptical and my dad's friend was skeptical, but eventually my mom and dad planned a double date with them and their friends and then it was history and they fell in love and they've been together ever since. That is proof in itself that it is never too late. It is never too late to start again, to find new love, to start a new relationship, to start a new experience, even though it may take a long time. And I'm not saying it's gonna take 20 years, okay?
Starting point is 00:10:03 I'm not saying that at all. The point is to never lose your faith and to understand that it's never too late to start again, to start over, to begin again, to find someone that could light your spark again, to reignite your life again, even when it feels hopeless, even when it feels like nothing is clicking and nothing is happening,
Starting point is 00:10:22 and there's years of silence and seasons of stagnation. I truly believe this with all of my heart and also because of this specific story that I witnessed in real time, God always has a plan with his timing. And if my mom's friend and my dad's friend had met 10 years ago, 15 years ago, I don't think they would have worked
Starting point is 00:10:43 because of their difference in mindsets based on their storylines, based on their timelines. I don't think it would have worked. But because they were both in a place where they really just wanted a partner that they could be themselves with and be authentic with and be comfortable with, the timing made sense and the timing was perfect.
Starting point is 00:11:02 And they've been happily together for many years now since that interaction at the party when I met my mom's friend. The point is regardless of how long it takes there is a reason for that. There is a reason for that because both people on both sides needed to develop their character or need to develop their character in order for things to click and work ideally and perfectly. On this TikTok post, I saw a lot of different story times and comments, and there was one story.
Starting point is 00:11:33 I'm going to keep everything anonymous because I want to respect people's privacy. I'm not going to drop their usernames here, but I was just so inspired, and I'm going to read you some more story times, but this one really stood out to me. This woman commented, I'm in my mid thirties and had fully accepted being single
Starting point is 00:11:51 for many years to have it be right, which is a good thing, okay? So this woman wasn't going to lower her standards and settle and that's a beautiful thing, which I respect so much. She said, I fully accepted being single. I was in my mid thirties. A cute retired couple moved into the condo next to me
Starting point is 00:12:10 and became my good friends. I was hanging out with them one day and their son came to visit and I found my soulmate. Their son was my soulmate. And that was such a cute story and such a beautiful story too, because you never know, okay? You never know who you're going to meet based on the people
Starting point is 00:12:26 you interact with based on your community based on the relationships you build the fact that she made friends with this retired couple and their son came to visit that ended up being the love of her life what are the odds of that stories like this have made me believe in God and higher power just orchestrating all of these beautiful things and happenings because stories like this miracles like this happen every day. This concept that people place on us or that the world places on us saying oh it may be too late you're too old things just don't work that way, life doesn't happen that way. The thing is miracles happen all the time but we choose to focus on the troubles, on the things
Starting point is 00:13:13 that aren't working. We're choosing actively to seek out stress, anxiety, doubt, fear, and problems instead of seeking out the miracles. Another, my friend's long-term boyfriend moved out without even telling her. So she went all out, renovated her kitchen, and fell in love with her contractor, married six months later, and he built the house of her dreams. See, God can turn things around in a hot second
Starting point is 00:13:39 if you're fully prepared for the miracle. If you're fully prepared, believe that it's never too late, and you believe that at your core things can flip around and turn around very quickly. It's also about changing the narrative in your mind and understanding that it really is never too late. The more you tell yourself that and the more you believe with urgency that miracles are on their way for you, that everything is happening in perfect their way for you, that everything is happening in perfect divine timing for you, that you're going to meet your person at the perfect
Starting point is 00:14:11 timing, it's bound to happen, it's going to happen, it's inevitable that it's going to happen. When you truly ingrain that in your soul, regardless of the timing, it's going to be, it's going to happen for you. And you never know, the beauty about it is that you never know how or when it will. You're not gonna know the exact timeline or details, but all you need to know is that it is going to happen. And it'll be probably when you least expect it, like my mom's friend and my dad's friend. They were out of options, okay?
Starting point is 00:14:45 They were truly at their last straw with, I think, seeing people and just had given up on this concept of finding true love again. And what did God do? He turned that shit around when the timing was right for both of them. In a world obsessed with timelines
Starting point is 00:15:03 and milestones and achievements, it's so easy to get hard on yourself and beat yourself up and believe that it's never going to happen for you. We're always bombarded with expectations. We have to graduate by this date. We have to get this dream career and make this amount of money by the time we're 25 years old because all of these social media people are making millions of dollars now. We have to be married by 28 and pop out a kid by 35 and we have to have everything figured out at the perfect timing because that's what society tells us to do. Let me tell you right now that narrative is cancelled. That narrative doesn't even make sense because God has a very specific timeline and plan for each individual person. It's not going to make sense if you're constantly comparing your timeline to everyone else's and I've made an episode about this stop comparing your timeline to everyone else's.
Starting point is 00:15:56 It's one of my recent video episodes you can go check that out as well but life rarely unfolds the way you're going to expect. And that's why the concept of surrender and just believing that it's gonna happen in your perfect timing is going to change everything for you. The most powerful transformations, the most amazing, miraculous, godlike love stories, the most legendary stories happen
Starting point is 00:16:22 after the supposed deadlines have passed. Do you know how many deadlines I've set for myself in my career about how much money I was supposed to make by this specific age? When I was supposed to launch my music career, which I put off for so many years because I had some major setbacks with that. When I was supposed to release my book, which could have technically happened two years years ago but I also put that off because other things got in the way when I was supposed to be the number one podcast in the world and I put these crazy heavy shit ton of expectations on myself because I thought if I didn't do it by this date if I didn't do it by this age that I was a failure that's it I chalked it up to me being a failure if I didn't get these certain things done by this age that I was a failure. That's it. I chalked it up to me being a failure if I didn't get these certain things done by this deadline because I also saw other people who were younger
Starting point is 00:17:11 than me having more success and material success faster than me. And for someone who's been in the social media game and the social media industry for over 15 years and have seen people who have been in the social media game maybe one or two and then have skyrocketed to success in a much bigger way than I have. It is hard for me to see that sometimes because I'm like, I've done so much and I feel like I'm always constantly falling behind. I was the first one of my friends to do Facebook. I was the first one of my friends to do Facebook.
Starting point is 00:17:45 I was the first one of my friends to do Instagram. I was the first one of my friends to do Snapchat, et cetera, et cetera. I was always on it early, but then I always felt like I was slacking behind. I put so much unnecessary pressure on myself because I was like, am I a failure if I don't get everything accomplished in the same rate
Starting point is 00:18:04 or in the same way that everyone else is. Okay? The other thing is like with my love life, there are so many things I could say where I thought I was gonna get married by the time I was 30 and have this like massive house and live in my dream home and live in my dream city and XYZ, all of these things I had written down in my notes and I was like, I'm 100% going to manifest this right now. But what I realized is if I had received everything at that age, at that time, I wouldn't have built anything I have today. And that's how I know that not everything is going to happen in your timing because there are still so many unwritten chapters of your story that you have to write before that thing happens. It's just a part of your story and your journey. You have to go through some more things that you don't even know about yet in order to be prepared for the blessings you're trying to manifest.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Sometimes it's hard to hear that and accept that because you're like, I want it now, I want this thing right now, I want the love of my life now, I want this to happen in my career now. But as I said, God's timing is always greater than yours. It really is. And you may not see it that way right now because it's frustrating and you're like, think I'm ready for it which I understand but at the same time you may not even know you need to learn something else before you receive the blessing. Another example of this is coming back to London recently and telling myself it's only one way or no way I'm only dating for the love of my life or nothing I'm not dating at all. Even having like small moments where I had a married man try to pursue me
Starting point is 00:19:50 and I was like, what the hell, absolutely not. Even those moments were tests for me to see how strong I was to cut people out immediately when they tried to entertain me or they tried to come into my energetic field or they tried to enter my space, okay? Every little experience I've had here over the last few months shaped my character even more. And I didn't even think I needed it. I was at the point where I was like, I've done enough healing, I've done enough inner work, I've been through so much,
Starting point is 00:20:21 I don't need more lessons, I don't need another chapter of my life. I don't need any of that. I know what I'm looking for. But there were definitely some tests recently where I was like, whoa, like there are still things that need to be addressed here in myself in order for me to fully be ready for the next chapter of my life. I was still clinging on to some immature mindsets and behaviors that I didn't even know I had until I was faced with a totally different experience I'd never experienced before. I'd never experienced anyone that was married to approach me and try to, I don't even know what he was trying to do.
Starting point is 00:21:02 It just felt inappropriate. And I was like, I've never ever had a situation like that happened to me before So that was eye-opening for me and it actually awakened something different in my brain That needed to be addressed because a lot of inner child things came up and it was the last thing I was expecting I was like, I thought I healed this I thought I already dealt with this stuff but having new experiences sometimes forces us to dig deeper and actually work on ourselves even more so when we come out of those situations then we're fully ready for what we thought we were ready for before that so yeah okay so the beauty about trusting that it's never too late too is that time is not something to be afraid of.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Like the passing of time is something that you shouldn't be afraid of. Time feels like it's moving really fast this year. I don't know what's going on. I don't know how it's doing already, but instead of being afraid of that, it's just inspiring me to go after what I want even more now.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Divine timing follows no clock. The thing about linear time and manmade time is that we get so caught up in this idea of, oh, if we don't do it by this date or whatever, blah, blah, blah, it's over. Like we're supposed to do something else if this isn't working out because it's not happening on our timetable and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Divine timing follows no clock. Your soul isn't working on a nine to five. Yes, sometimes timing is important if you have a business meeting, if you're scheduling something with someone else, okay. Technically, yes, timing is important, but the divine timing of your life follows no clock. It's not on a schedule.
Starting point is 00:22:38 You're creating your own schedule. One of the biggest things I've learned through the history of my career and social media and my podcasts and everything that I've been through is that everything I've learned through the history of my career and social media and my podcasts and everything that I've been through is that everything I've ever received, everything I've ever gotten out of my career, everything I've experienced has always happened in the perfect divine timing,
Starting point is 00:22:58 even when it wasn't on my timing. I always look back and I'd say, oh, that's why it happened at this time. Oh, that's why it happened at this time. Oh, that's why it happened at this date instead of two weeks prior when I wanted it. That's why I found out so-and-so betrayed me and cheated on me at this time instead of two years ago. Because God has a plan for the timing of your life and He'll reveal to you at the perfect timing what you need to see, what you need to learn and that's a beautiful thing.
Starting point is 00:23:28 There are so many people that are super successful that have bloomed and blossomed in their 50s, okay? I think Vera Wang, I read something, she started her career at 40. The founder of KFC, I think he started KFC when he was 65. There are so many people that have experienced massive success much later in life because before that it just wasn't their timing and that's okay. Writers publish their first book in their 60s, okay? There's tons of famous
Starting point is 00:23:59 authors that started writing in their 60s. There have been relationships that have fallen apart when people were teenagers and they get back together when they're in their 50s after two failed marriages. There are so many examples of this where people think it's too late, it's too late, it's too late, but it's just not the right timing and that's okay. The idea that it's too late is just something
Starting point is 00:24:23 that's rooted in deep fear and not truth. Your timeline is yours and it's sacred and you have to trust in it. Just because something's delayed, just because something's not happening right now in your timing, that doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean that it's not happening. Doesn't mean that all hope is lost.
Starting point is 00:24:42 It just means that it's not happening right now and that's okay because there's a reason for that. Getting something you want out of life later or starting later could be extremely beneficial and a blessing because you're clearer on who you are. You're more authentic, you're more aligned with who you are. You know yourself better. You're not following trends.
Starting point is 00:24:59 You're not trying to be someone you're not. You've already lived so many experiences. You've already healed, you've already grown, and you've already evolved, and now you're coming. You've already lived so many experiences, you've already healed, you've already grown, and you've already evolved. And now you're coming from a place of such deep peace and self-assurance and authenticity. You're rooted in your truth and you're creating from deep alignment.
Starting point is 00:25:15 Not your ego or not trying to be someone you're not or chasing after a dream that's not yours because you think it's what you're supposed to do. I think the beauty of basically starting over, which I feel like I am right now in my early 30s, I'm clearer on who I am now than I was when I was 25 because I've been through so much more. I don't even know the person I was at 25.
Starting point is 00:25:35 I don't remember because I was such a different person. I was such a different human being, a totally different woman. And I kept saying to myself recently, I was like, I feel like I'm just starting my life over. I'm starting my life over at 32. And people go through this at 42, people go through this at 52, people go through this at 72. Okay, it's never too late. You can have a spiritual revelation when you're 60 years old, wake up and be like, I want to completely rebrand and change my life right now. I haven't been to the gym in five years.
Starting point is 00:26:05 I'm going to start going again. I'm going to take better care of my health. I'm going to get a facelift, whatever you need to do, okay? It's never too late. You could always start new, start fresh, rebrand yourself. Number two is because you've built such a strong foundation for yourself as you've gotten older, I know for me, I have a much stronger foundation
Starting point is 00:26:25 than I did 10 years ago, even four years ago, even three years ago. If I look back at some of the text messages that I sent guys that I was interested in three years ago, I could absolutely die and cringe at myself. Before I started Date Yourself and said, before I started this brand, I had so many insecurities where I would just
Starting point is 00:26:46 go off on people or just give them an attitude, a cold shoulder. And it was just like all silly dating toxic games where I thought I needed to portray this certain bitchy woman in order to get the guy to like me or to manipulate my texts and do certain things energetically to make someone like me or make someone chase after me. But at the end of the day, I'm like, I had no foundation.
Starting point is 00:27:12 I had no foundation of myself and that's why I thought I needed to do that because I was insecure. Now, a few years later, when I've done all this healing work on myself, I've built this rock solid foundation and I'm like, I'm a warrior now. So now when I go into new phases of my career,
Starting point is 00:27:28 new chapters in my life or new relationship, it's given me that grit. I think that's the best way to describe it where I'm not shaken by silly bullshit anymore. I'm strong. I feel like confident going into any big career moves, any big changes or any big relationships that I may be in or new friendships, new connections.
Starting point is 00:27:49 I have that foundation and having that foundation is everything because you could build faster. You can literally build what may have taken you five years to build when you were in your twenties. You could build it in one year now because you're way much stronger, you're more intelligent, you're more developed
Starting point is 00:28:05 and you're more ready for it. The next thing is you have more depth as you get older and you have more life experiences. It gives you more depth about, it gives you more depth as a person. Usually, if you choose to do the work on yourself and you choose to show up every day and work on yourself, you're gonna inevitably carry more depth with you as you get older.
Starting point is 00:28:30 And yeah, there's a lot of people who've peaked way sooner than you have, who have had explosive things happen in their career way sooner than you have. But stop comparing yourself to people that are in their early 20s that have had more success than you technically on paper because it's not getting you anywhere, number one. And two, usually it's all smoke and mirrors. I'll tell you right now, okay? I've been in the social media industry.
Starting point is 00:28:56 I've been in the entertainment industry for a very long time, for a huge chunk of my 20s and into my 30s. A lot of famous people, a lot of very successful influencers. It's all smoke and mirrors. No one's truly happy. Like they're not truly happy because they haven't developed enough to build a foundation to sustain what they have. And I'm not applying this to everyone.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of people who are happy too, but a lot of the people that you look up to, you'd be surprised they're not all that they seem online and I've met a lot of people in this industry. I'm also speaking from personal experience people always look at me like I have my shit together 24-7 when that's also not the case and I'm glad that I have a podcast so I could speak on these things and be open and transparent and more vulnerable here but people on my Instagram sometimes are
Starting point is 00:29:44 like oh you just traveled the world and you stay in these luxury hotels and you have this like dream life and your life is perfect and all this stuff and I'm like you have no idea there's been so many nights where I've gone back to my hotel room in dead silence and just bawled my eyes out because I just mentally felt empty inside and I felt very empty and you don't see these things, because I'm not gonna post a video of me bawling my eyes out on Instagram, because that's just not something I would do.
Starting point is 00:30:10 Some people do that, I wouldn't do that. But you have no idea who you're looking up to or who you're envious of, who you're trying to be. Like you don't really know who these people are unless you actually one-on-one have met them. So that's something to also note, okay? So stop comparing yourself to people who technically on paper have more success than you
Starting point is 00:30:30 because success isn't just about the external, okay, I got an award, okay, I'm number one on Spotify, okay, I have a hit single, I have a bestselling book, I'm number one in this, I'm number one in that. Success doesn't always have to come in the form of big career moves. I think true success is a balance. I think true success is yes,
Starting point is 00:30:52 achieving your goals and getting everything you want and manifesting your dream life, but it also comes with having a balance of having good people around you and taking care of your mind, body, soul and nourishing yourself and your heart and making sure that you're protecting your energy, and you're still having that balance
Starting point is 00:31:08 where you maintain your peace. Because there's a lot of billionaires out there. There's a lot of very successful entrepreneurs that you may be looking up to right now that you think they have everything, and they go home, and they're depressed, and they're crying, and they're not happy, and they're depressed and they're crying and they're not happy and they're empty. So yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:28 The next thing is the beauty of starting later too, is that you're more intentional because it's not that you're in a rush, but you're just clearer on what you want. So you're more intentional with your time and where you're placing it and you're more intentional with your energy and where you're placing it.
Starting point is 00:31:41 Every decision you have is strategic because you know who you are even more now. And I think that's something that I've experienced directly where now when I'm planning everything out for a date yourself instead for the brand, for the direction that I'm headed in right now, I'm like, I know why I'm making the decisions that I'm making.
Starting point is 00:31:59 I know where the brand is going because I'm being more intentional with my time and my energy. And I'm moving with strategy, being led by God, which I didn't believe in God. I don't want to say I didn't believe in God a few years ago, but I was questioning my belief system a few years ago and I didn't really know. And now that it's more affirmed and now that I do have a sense of faith and I am more religious and tied to my faith, it's propelled me further quicker and it's built my foundation faster and it's
Starting point is 00:32:30 made me more confident in my mission. I think starting later could be better too because when you understand how you can actually quantum jump into your reality and I'm laughing because for those of you who don't know what that means I'm gonna explain it in a second but quantum jumping is a real thing, okay? And that's when you collapse time. What took other people 10 years, it could take you 10 months because you're operating with clarity and confidence and faith. You're moving in a way that's different from everyone else. For example, when I started my podcast a few years ago, I had a guy tell me that it was gonna be really hard to grow because there was 5 million podcasts
Starting point is 00:33:09 out in the world already and he's, you got some competition. I was like, I don't know about that. I envisioned my podcast scaling fast. And I was like, I'm not gonna take anything less as an option. My podcast is gonna grow fast. I put my mindset there and I never listened to anyone
Starting point is 00:33:26 about anyone else's podcast. I didn't compare myself to anyone else. I didn't listen to anyone else's podcast. I focused on my thing. I was laser focused on my one goal and I blocked out the noise. I think that led me to where I am today because if I had started comparing myself to everyone
Starting point is 00:33:44 and getting all worked up about how many podcasts there were and getting consumed in other people's businesses, I think it would have significantly blocked me and blocked my blessings and held me back. But quantum leaping is essentially becoming the person that you want to be already in real time and operating from that vibration. And that's what I did. When you start later, especially in your 30s, and I've heard in your 40s and your 50s, it gets even better. You just move with such ease because you care less
Starting point is 00:34:14 about what people think. You just move differently. You don't need to prove anything to anyone. You just feel so grounded because you don't give a shit about what people think or perceive of you. You just move and you live and you operate and you can get things done faster that way and move quicker that way and move more efficiently that way
Starting point is 00:34:31 because you have nothing holding you back energetically. And when you have nothing holding you back, you move way faster. I think a lot of people, they move slower because they have a fear of being perceived, they have a fear of being seen, they have a fear that they're gonna fail. But the truth is, when you clear all those
Starting point is 00:34:47 energetic blockages and you could start it right now, the world just opens up for you and things start moving very fast. Life gets so beautiful when you trust and lean into it. The more you just surrender and understand that your journey is your journey, your path is your path, your timing is divine for you. path is your path, your timing is divine for you and that's all that matters. When you truly embrace that, the world will open
Starting point is 00:35:12 up for you, miracles will happen for you and everything you want. I've heard this before and I truly believe this. If you're asking for a lot, if you're waiting on something big, if you're praying for a lot of miracles right now, usually after a long period of feeling like nothing is clicking, nothing is happening, everything just starts happening all at once. I always think of these stars like Dochi for example. I had no idea who Dochi was a couple years ago.
Starting point is 00:35:41 There's a lot of people who did know of her, but out of nowhere, it seemed like she just blew up overnight. I'm lot of people who did know of her, but out of nowhere, it seemed like she just blew up overnight. I'm pretty sure there was an interview of her saying something along the lines of everything just happened in two weeks, like rapid speed, so fast, everything just flooded her life all at once,
Starting point is 00:35:58 and all of her manifestations just exploded all at once after years and years of putting in the work. You have to put in the work with the faith that eventually it will all pay off. And I've seen this happen with many people who have taken off and blown up basically what you perceive as overnight. You're like, oh, where did they come from? Their success happened overnight. No, their success rarely happens overnight. It's after years and years of them putting in the work and the effort and in their divine timing and in God's plan and in God's timing, everything happens all at once. God will just throw a million blessings onto you that you've been praying for all at the same time, once you've waited it out, once you've really been patient and put in the blood, sweat and tears in the works.
Starting point is 00:36:40 So this is your reminder that it's never too late to start. It's never too late to fall in love again. It's never too late to forgive someone that you need to forgive. It's never too late to become the person that you want to be. You're not falling behind because you're operating in your divine timing.
Starting point is 00:36:58 You're right on time. I am blessing you guys with all the miracles happening all at once for you. I love you. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Date Yourself instead. If you've with all the miracles happening all at once for you. I love you. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Date Yourself Instead. If you've been loving the podcast, if you've been loving the episodes, feel free to comment on Spotify, rate it on Apple and Spotify, and also feel free to send me a DM as always at list or on the podcast account at Date Yourself Instead.
Starting point is 00:37:20 I love hearing from you guys. I love connecting with you all. It means the world to me. And get ready, there's gonna be a lot of amazing changes happening to the brand and a lot of big things coming later this summer, a lot of different exciting ventures. So be sure to follow on Instagram, at dateyourself, and set an at list for all of the updates
Starting point is 00:37:40 so you don't miss anything. I love you, thank you again, and stay tuned for next Monday.

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