Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
hey Zarow, And this is vocal D frag. Asking the
questions and then questioning the answers. We usually do the
vocal D frag while I'm on a transition walk. A
transition walk is taking for me.
Speaker 2: It's taking a walk through this beautiful forest, and I
wish you could hear the beautiful music. Even though the
temperature is barely forty three degrees. It's been raining all night.
It's even raining even as we speak. But you still
can't stop yourself from doing the transition walk. Because it
is my mission, it is my goal, it is my
calling to understand the transitions, to study the transitions, to
know how it moves through each and every one of us.
And so when we do a vocal D frag, we're
breaking down everything that is taking place. Ask the questions,
question the answers. Heavy subject today, the subject as we
walk through this day before Easter, the storms that we
move through in order to get to the storms that
we move through, in order to get to there's not
a soul on this planet that doesn't move through mental storms.
Everybody goes through them. We all just digest them differently,
and we seek a lot of professional help in order
to understand what that storm was about.
Speaker 3: Some people use those.
Speaker 2: Storms as keys to awareness and or to rebuilding or
replenishing their personal lives. But we all go through storms.
You can do everything you can to push it away,
it'll keep coming back. It just does that because storms
have a mind of their own, and storms have the
strength to turn everything that you own into something that's
being washed away by a creek on a rainy day
the day before Easter. But the storms that we move
through in order to get to my question to you
would be where are you trying to grow? Where is
that destination that you're trying to reach, and what are
the storms that are standing in the way. Not walls,
not mountains, storms. We can walk through storms. I'm living
proof of that right now because I'm walking through a
rainstorm right now, and I know that my destination is
to take this transition walk. But in your own personal life,
the question is where are you trying to get to?
That's like asking somebody, so, what's your favorite song, who's
your favorite artist? And if you only knew how many
people look at me and they go, I don't know,
I don't know. I guess I'm old because I grew
up in the tail end of the Beatles becoming solo performers.
Speaker 3: The rolling Stones are still around. I went through the Beg's.
Speaker 2: I've been surrounded by the most incredible music. And if
somebody were to say, what is your favorite song? I
could answer that question. But it seems like people today
can't answer that question, which takes me right back to
where are you trying to what is the destination that
you would like to see yourself in? And I think
sometimes the reason why we don't answer is because we're
all rolling the dice. We want to see if we
can get the lucky seven, we want to make sure
that we get the snake eyes.
Speaker 3: We're rolling the dice.
Speaker 2: I have a very good friend who became a manager
at the essential job that I show up for, and
his roll of the dice was he was leaving the
food industry to take up a job at a grocery store.
He had no clue was a roll of the dice,
And to this day, even though the two of us
have worked together in the store for a couple of
years now. He still says, I don't know if this
was the right decision, But he's not making the move,
he's not making the choices to find that place. So
the storms that we move through to get to what
is your two And the question would be how are
you going to get there? How are you going to
move through the storm? And what happens if the storm intensifies.
It reminds me of a story about a martial artist
who is stand on the top of his house every
time the wind would blow in these storms. And the
reason why is because he solely believed in what's called
the front stance, and he wanted to make sure that
his front stance was unbelievably strong, so he would stand
on his roof during a windstorm to test his strength.
What sort of tools do you use to test your
personal strength? What is that one part of your mind, body,
and soul that you go to when the storms get
a little bit too much to handle? Do you retreat?
Do you race to get home? I fall into a
gigantic notebook full of writing. I have so many frickin'
journals because I'm asking the questions, and I'm questioning the answers.
I do have a lot of storms, and I openly
admit that I'm willing to listen to your storm. The
storm doesn't have to last the entire time.
Speaker 3: Time.
Speaker 2: You are in the power of choice, and the question
is what is your choice of recovery? If we're gonna
move through the storm to get to what is your
choice of recovery?
Speaker 3: What are you trying to improve?
Speaker 2: I get it. I might as well be asking you
what is your favorite song? Because I'm still getting to
glossy eyed?
Speaker 3: Look?
Speaker 2: What are you trying to do? How are you trying
to heal? What is the recovery time? Is it worth replenishing?
The questions are there? Are you asking yourself those questions?
Speaker 3: You know? Some people would.
Speaker 2: Say, well, you're just setting yourself up for something bad
to happen. Not true at all, Not true at all.
I was doing some research today on the fear of
being fearful.
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of that? It's called phobia phobia,
the fear of fearing.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people don't make changes in their
life for the positive or even for the for the bad,
because you have to have bad choices in order to
measure out to what your good choices are. But the
fear of being fearful is very real, and you have
to understand that fear is an instinct. You need fear
in life when it comes to being aware of what
could bring harm or some sort of pain to your life.
It's okay to have fear. But the thing is, though,
and I've heard this from so many people and you
may have said it too, I've become numb to oh
the word numb. Oh yeah, man, that everything is happening
in the headlines, I'm just numb.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking we should do everything we can to get
back into a level of fear so that we can
be aware of what really does bother us, because if
we're going to be numb, then what is the reaction
and are we bringing injury to ourselves.
Speaker 3: Now I'm not a professional here.
Speaker 2: I only study so that I can learn about and
when you learn about, you're moving toward moving through the
storms to get too answering the question, questioning the answers.
I'll tell you one of the things that I fear,
and I'm just being open and transparent with you. I
fear being spotted at a grocery store. What Oh yeah,
forty three years of broadcasting on terrestrial radio. I host
these amazing podcasts, and I fear someone's going to come
in and go, hey, aren't you What are you doing
at a grocery store. I have an answer, and I
do fear that answer being received because the answer that
I have is I've never been in front of real
people before. Sure, when I'm out doing promotions for the
radio station. Sure, when I'm out there, you know, wearing
the mask of an on air radio talent, Yeah, I'm
that guy. I can handle people. But when you're yourself
and you're there to study the habits of yourself with
other people, there's a lot of fear. It's the fear
of being accepted, the fear of being enjoyed because you
try to share stories, you try to make a connection,
you know. Being in radio, we envision people being the listeners.
We envision they're not there with us. We envision it.
But at a grocery store, you're right there in front
of me, and we have conversations, sometimes too deep, sometimes
not deep enough. A man was standing next to me
yesterday and he was telling me that his business failed
and that he was in really deep pain. He explained
that the reason why his pain was so strong was
because he invested so much of his personal money in
this business and there was no way for there to
be a recovery. The reason why is because the competition
became too strong. He looked at me as if he
trusted me in radio, I wouldn't have had that opportunity.
I would have feared such a conversation without seeing some
eyes or like I said on my podcast yesterday, zoom
is a great tool, but it's not the texture of
the conversation, as foolish as it may sound. Moving through
the storm, my mental storm, I don't want to be here.
Oh my god, you mean I like being comfortable inside
my studio. The sound is perfect. I get to talk
with people who are very creative, and now you want
to put me at a grocery store? Why do I
doing this to myself?
Speaker 3: See? Moving through the mental storm.
Speaker 2: To get to okay last night, I had to get
to that man who was filled with so much fear,
and you could feel that he wasn't happy with the
decisions that he had made about his business because he
had no idea what his future was going to handle.
He didn't know how to get to what he needed
to do, so he was feeling a lot of fear
on Facebook, Instagram as well as Twitter. I read a
lot of your stories about what's going on at your
place of business. I see the mental storms right there
on the page, and as positive as you would like
to try to do, or maybe you're just trying to
relieve yourself from the pain that you're feeling. I have
to go back to the original question, what is your
two I see your storm, you're moving through it, but.
Speaker 3: Where are you moving to? In other words, what is
the solution?
Speaker 2: What is the goal, the ambition, the dream? What is
it that you think you're missing in life that you
think that you've got to have when in reality I
read about this today doing my studies. The reason why
so many people live in their past because they think
their past is greater than where they are right now. No,
that is not true. You are certain that it happened
because you have a better understanding of why things happen.
But the reason why you don't like being in your
moment of now is because it's uncertain, it's undisciplined. It
creates that fear, and it creates moments in your heart,
where you're going.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: I can't plan this out, whereas when you live in
your past, Oh, it's already been written. It's like reading
a book. Can you hear the rain? It's raining hard
in this forest, this storm I'm moving through while walking
up Heartbreak Hill, I'm trying to get too two. And
I challenge you to locate your two, moving through the storms,
to get to ask the questions, question the answers. I
marrow and that's vocal D frag