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Ease into your day with a grounding and inspiring experience on the ESSENCE Festival main stage. Join Dr. Cheryl P. Williamson for a morning of reflection, intention, and motivation. Whether through gentle movement, mindful breathing, or words of encouragement, this session is designed to help you center yourself and step into the day with clarity and purpose. Start your morning in community, and set the tone for a meaningful ESSENCE Fest experience.
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00:00First, we have somebody to help kick the day off with a little bit of fitness.
00:04It is so important that we get up in the morning and we set our intentions first.
00:09So this morning, we're going to get up, we're going to get our mind and our bodies right in the right place and in the right space.
00:15Here to help us do so, for the very first Rise and Recharge session, please help me welcome Dr. Cheryl P. Williamson.
00:30Super, super, I love you.
00:44Super excited that everybody is here today and as you heard the song when I came out, it was I'm Every Woman.
00:52How many of you have listened to that song and felt like you needed to be Every Woman?
00:58Well, I'm here to tell you today that it's time for you to stop being Every Woman.
01:05It's time for you to be the woman that you are called and purposed to be, boldly, fiercely, and unapologetically.
01:14It is time.
01:15It is time for you to take your place and do the thing that you know that you're supposed to do
01:21without waiting for permission from people, places, and things that are not even tied to your destiny.
01:27How are we going to do that?
01:30Well, I want you to take a soul reset with me right now.
01:33Is that okay?
01:35Let's take a soul reset.
01:37So if you want to sit, you can sit.
01:40But if you want to stand, I want you to stand with me in this moment and commit to your soul reset.
01:46I want you to place your one hand on your head and the next and your other hand on your heart.
01:53And I want you to repeat after me.
01:56I am worthy.
01:59I love me some me.
02:02I am intentional about living my purpose and my dreams.
02:07Today is a day that is devoted to my reset.
02:19You can have a seat.
02:22Was that good information just in those first few minutes?
02:26So, you know, when people give you information, I always want to give you the road map to how you get there.
02:34So I have some tips for you.
02:36The first thing that you have to do in order to lose that syndrome of being every woman to everybody except you
02:45is your mindset has to become your superpower.
02:49See, when you control your mind, everything that you want will manifest in your life.
02:57I stand here on the stage today from a manifestation that I made 11 years ago.
03:04It was on my vision board.
03:07But see, every time I would come and see different people, it didn't make me feel like, oh, it's never going to happen for me.
03:14It let me know what was possible when I allowed my mindset to remain my superpower.
03:20See, when your mindset becomes your superpower, nobody can talk you out of your dreams, your purpose, and your destiny.
03:29When your mindset becomes your superpower, you will move forward even when there's no money in the bank.
03:35When your mindset becomes your superpower, baby, you'll learn how to clap for yourself.
03:41You don't wait for the world to clap for you.
03:44So how many of you right now, your mindset after today will become your superpower?
03:52The second thing, you have to make your yes, yes, and your no, no.
03:57Period.
03:59Because when you feel like you have to tell the world yes all the time, you don't have room for your dreams.
04:06You're constantly trying to fulfill the dreams of other people.
04:10And I can tell you as I stand here that you should never live so deeply in other people's dreams that you never fulfill any of your own.
04:20So you have to wake up knowing that you have to do this for you.
04:25When you say yes to you, make the time to do it for you.
04:32The third thing, boundaries.
04:35Boundaries are so important.
04:37How many of you right now, you feel like you have to answer every message, you have to respond to every post, baby, free yourself.
04:48Your cell phone is for your convenience.
04:51You do not have to answer every message.
04:54You don't have to answer every email.
04:56See, that's how you recharge your soul.
04:58When you connect with who you are and you realize that you cannot fulfill your gift and your calling and your purpose if you feel like you have to let everybody step over the boundaries.
05:14Is there anybody in here right now where you allow people every single day of your life to step over the boundaries with you where they have no respect for what you have been called and purposed to do?
05:32And they feel like you should put everything that they want first and put you second?
05:40That ties me into where I want to take you next.
05:43You need to put yourself at the top of your own to-do list.
05:50If some of you in here right now today, you have a to-do list of 12 things, but you have yourself no place on the list.
05:59It's time for you to move yourself up to the top.
06:02It's time for you to start doing what you know you're supposed to be doing.
06:06And you can't do that if you're putting everybody first.
06:11If you are not good to you, you can't be good for anybody else.
06:17If you don't love and recharge you, you cannot love and recharge anybody else.
06:25So ask yourself.
06:27Check in with you.
06:28Ask yourself right now, even today, am I on my list?
06:32Have you ever done that?
06:37Let's be honest.
06:39Let's have that candid conversation.
06:41Have you ever made a list of things that you needed to do and then you look back at it and realize that you are not even on the list that you made?
06:54Everybody is going to the spa except you.
06:57Everybody is going for their checkups except you.
07:00Everybody's rent is paid except yours and it's because we put everybody above us.
07:12I just have to sit in there for a minute because, see, some things you can't just let go because I know for us, we feel like we got to save the world.
07:22But who's coming to save us?
07:29See, when you rest and you recharge, you realize that we are responsible to save ourselves.
07:36See, when I realized that nobody was coming to save me, that's when I realized that I had to be number one on the list.
07:43After God, it came me.
07:45The next thing that we want to make sure that we do is we know that when there is a dream in our heart, we have to do everything that we can to fulfill it.
08:08We cannot let other people talk us out of it.
08:13We cannot move away from it.
08:15We cannot run from it.
08:17We need to embrace it.
08:19So ask yourself, what is the dream that's been in your heart, twins?
08:27What is the dream that's been in your heart?
08:30And I want you to take a moment right now, because I don't believe in just glossing things over and just throwing out a few things.
08:40I want you to take just a moment right now and ask yourself, what is that dream that's been in my heart?
08:48What is that thing that I've been putting off that I know that I'm supposed to do?
08:52But as a result of being here today in this rise and recharge moment, I'm going to make sure that I move with intention, with purpose to make sure that I fulfill it.
09:07And then I want you to put it in your cell phone right now, because we're going to come back and visit it.
09:12What is that thing in this rise and recharge moment that I am going to do for me?
09:22You all are looking at me, but I hope you're looking within.
09:38I hope you're looking within your heart and that you're embracing every word that I'm saying to you.
09:45I hope that you are taking this very seriously.
09:47That's why I'm on this morning, so that you can walk throughout your day and embrace these words and let them penetrate your heart, mind, body, and spirit in such a way that you don't leave this place and this space like you came in.
10:03That you know that your mindset is your superpower.
10:07That you know that you must operate with intention.
10:09That you know that you must love yourself and what that looks like.
10:19I want you to go with me on a journey in this moment.
10:24I want you to take out your cell phone.
10:27I want you to turn the camera on yourself.
10:30The reason that I want you to do this is because right now in this moment, we're going to do something together that you're going to be able to take out on those days when you feel like the world has beat you down.
10:47Like you need some encouragement.
10:48Because I can tell you the greatest encouragement you will ever get is the encouragement that you give to yourself.
10:58I'm going to say that again.
11:00The greatest encouragement that you will ever get is the encouragement that you give to yourself.
11:11Because when you do that, you don't need the world to tell you what I'm about to say to you.
11:18You're going to be able to take out your cell phone every day and do it for yourself.
11:22Say to yourself right now, I am worthy.
11:26I receive preferential treatment.
11:30I receive God-inspired ideas that produce millions of dollars.
11:36I receive God-inspired ideas that produce millions of dollars.
11:41I am responsible for my destiny.
11:47My mindset is my superpower.
11:53You have empowered yourself in that moment where you should never have to reach out to anybody else to do what you can do for yourself.
12:06You have the power in your phone when you're at your cubicle or when you're walking down the street when people are talking crazy.
12:17In a space and place and time in our country where people have absolutely lost their mind.
12:23You take out your phone and encourage yourself.
12:28Speak life over yourself.
12:30And remember that your mindset truly is your superpower.
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