00:00It doesn't always have to be a bad day.
00:01It can actually be one of the best days of your life.
00:04Man, we should give a class on transitions.
00:07That's all I'm saying.
00:08And luckily, we don't have to be the teachers
00:11because we have an educator who's not only going to educate us,
00:15but she's an international speaker.
00:16She's a community wellness educator, an author,
00:20and a soon-to-be graduate.
00:22What? I didn't know this part.
00:23Give it up for that over here.
00:25Yes, yes, yes.
00:25We are talking to Miss Christy Love.
00:28Good morning, everyone.
00:30How are you?
00:31I'm doing great.
00:32Apparently, it's going to be one of our best days of our lives today.
00:34It's already one of the best days of our lives
00:35because I'm here with y'all.
00:39The name of the book.
00:40Let's start right there
00:42because I feel like if more people said it every single day,
00:46you'd probably have a better day.
00:47You probably would have a better day.
00:48Where did it come from for you?
00:51Really, I started to take some time in my busy 20s
00:54just to experience better days.
00:56I'm like, okay, what does that look like?
00:57I might look like going out to eat, spending money on myself,
01:01getting a pedicure, getting my nails done,
01:03and just simply being able to relax or do whatever I feel like
01:06is the best day to pour into me.
01:08That can simply sometimes just be being at peace with things.
01:12So I just started to say it like, you know,
01:14if today was going to be one of the best days of my life,
01:16what would I be doing?
01:17And it just became like a post, a mantra, a tattoo,
01:22like all of the things.
01:24So I was like, now it's a book.
01:26I love that, especially because I think
01:28as I'm getting closer to 29 and to 30,
01:31I feel like I'm starting to like rewire my brain a little bit.
01:34And I saw someone, whether it was on TikTok or somewhere,
01:37say that you have to choose happiness.
01:39Like happiness is not just something that's going to happen to you.
01:42And I don't think that it registered to me growing up until then,
01:46where it's like, no, I have to choose to be happy today.
01:48Like even if something goes wrong,
01:51you have to choose to see the good side that comes from that.
01:54So when you were creating this book, that's out now,
01:58going by it, y'all.
01:59What was your inspiration?
02:01Like, what did you want people to receive
02:03when they are reading your words?
02:05Really, that despite, like you were saying,
02:07despite the things that go on throughout the day,
02:09like, you know, sometimes we have things happen.
02:11Your car stops, you know, you have a flat tire,
02:13you lose your job.
02:14All of these things happen.
02:16Life is going to happen.
02:17But there is always still some good in the day.
02:20I would say 98% of the time, right?
02:23So even though somebody, you know,
02:25you may have lost your job today,
02:27today is still going to be one of the best days of my life
02:29because I'm able to reroute, I'm able to redirect,
02:31and maybe I'm just being taken in a different direction
02:34that leads me to some of the best years of my life.
02:37Sometimes it leads people to opening up businesses
02:39or moving across the country
02:41and meeting the love of their life.
02:42Like who, you know, we never know.
02:44But everything that happens to us
02:46leads us to the better quality days.
02:48I just wanted people to understand that and know that.
02:51And then I wanted people just to experience
02:54like the creative process,
02:55like just around better days and how we get there.
02:57So that's kind of where my question is
03:00because you said it started as a mantra,
03:02then a tattoo that, how does it get to a book?
03:05And when you're putting it into a book,
03:07how do you do it?
03:09You know, where's that come from?
03:11Yeah.
03:11Trust the process.
03:14Really, it was years worth of,
03:1710 years worth of knowledge, research,
03:19things that I've been teaching,
03:21things that I've learned.
03:22So I kind of just grabbed all of my journals
03:25that I've had over the last 10, 15 years
03:27and I put them together.
03:28A lot of watching videos and studying
03:31and just my own experiences.
03:33But then we also have the creative process, right?
03:35Of like, okay, we have all this information.
03:37How do we put it together?
03:39Since I was a little girl,
03:40I've been a huge fan of like music
03:42because I feel like music,
03:43it just brings words that sometimes you can't
03:47like really put out and feelings and experiences.
03:50Like, it's such an amazing feeling.
03:52And if you have been around an artist
03:53that has created music,
03:55it's just like, that is genius.
03:57That's amazing.
03:58So there are a lot of albums that I listened to
04:01and I dedicated those albums to 14 of the chapters.
04:05So we have Nipsey Hussle's in there,
04:09Sade, Lauryn Hill's the first chapter,
04:13Adele, I feel like I'm forgetting some people,
04:16Beyonce's, The Lounge, Earth, Wind & Fire.
04:18There's two Stevie Wonder albums that are in there.
04:20Huge Stevie Wonder fan.
04:23Olivia Dean's in there.
04:24I think that's all of them,
04:26but I feel like I know I'm missing somebody.
04:27But just so you have a taste of some of the music creativity
04:31behind the chapters.
04:33I love that.
04:34I know our listeners are going to love that too.
04:36But when you were creating the book
04:39and making sure that, you know,
04:41your personal experience was given,
04:43but also trying to make sure that it's a universal book
04:46so that anyone could read it,
04:47what was the most like thought-provoking
04:51that moment for you?
04:52Like what was a lesson that you had to learn
04:55that's now in this book that you're like,
04:57whoa, like, I don't know if I would have shared that
05:00if it wasn't supposed to be the purpose
05:02of putting this book out?
05:04I would definitely say survival mode
05:07and then teaching people about survival mode
05:09and then also teaching people about grief.
05:11Those are the two biggest things that I went through
05:13like in the last year.
05:15And so chapters one and seven are,
05:18yeah, one and seven are dedicated.
05:20One is dedicated to survival mode
05:21and then seven talks about grief.
05:23And I think the biggest thing is that grief
05:25is able to coexist with joy.
05:28Just because you're grieving,
05:30that doesn't mean that you still can't have joy in the day.
05:32So a lot of the times, you know,
05:33people are, we go through our experiences,
05:35but we may be laughing too much
05:37and we'd be like, wait, like, I'm still guilty.
05:39I'm feeling guilty for having joy.
05:41But the biggest thing that I've learned
05:43is that grief and joy can coexist in the same day.
05:46No, it's so true.
05:47Yeah.
05:47The name of the book is
05:48Today's Gonna Be One of the Best Days of My Life.
05:52Where can people find it right now?
05:54People can find it on Amazon.
05:55You can get a paperback copy
05:56or you can get a hardcover copy.
05:58Either way.
05:59What about some signed copies for your people over here?
06:02I mean, what's that?
06:03I got you.
06:04I got you.
06:05I brought two books.
06:07Okay.
06:08You know I love a book.
06:10Last question I have.
06:11Obviously, when Lisha B was introducing you,
06:14you've done a lot of things.
06:15Yes, I'm doing a lot of things.
06:17Where do you feel like the message gets across
06:20for you the best?
06:22When you're trying to tell your message,
06:24I mean, is it through the book?
06:25Is it when you talk to someone?
06:27Is it as a teacher?
06:28Where do you get the best?
06:29It's a number of different things.
06:31Most of the times,
06:32it's really just with interacting with people.
06:34When I'm telling people,
06:35just giving them words of inspiration.
06:37Even when I run into people on the elevator,
06:39I'll be like,
06:40today's gonna be a great day.
06:41I hope you have the best day.
06:43What do you have planned today?
06:44A lot of the times,
06:45it comes just through natural interactions.
06:48I feel like I really, really shine
06:50through my natural interactions with people.
06:52And then people are like,
06:53oh, well, what do you do?
06:54And my sister,
06:55she'll come right next to me and be like,
06:56well, you know, my sister wrote a book.
06:57And it's this.
06:58That's a good sister.
06:59Yeah, that's a good sister.
07:00You gotta have a high band.
07:01That's for sure.
07:02Yes, we were in New Orleans this weekend,
07:03and she told everybody at the hotel,
07:05like, go buy my book.
07:05And they did.
07:06They went to go buy my book.
07:07As they should.
07:08As they should.
07:10That's good stuff.
07:10So where can people follow you?
07:12Because obviously the book isn't the end-all be-all,
07:15but go and buy the book right now.
07:16Don't play with me.
07:18But where can they find you
07:19so they can stay up to date
07:21when the next book comes out
07:22and the next ventures happen?
07:23Absolutely.
07:24So you can follow me on Instagram
07:27at Christy Love with two underscores.
07:29So it's Christy with a K.
07:31K-R-I-S-T-Y-L-O-V-E with two underscores.
07:35Same thing on TikTok as well.
07:38And Facebook.
07:39All right.
07:39The book's on Amazon right now.
07:41Once again, it's called
07:42Today's Gonna Be One of the Best Days of My Life.
07:45Christy, thank you so much for taking time to come in.
07:48And most importantly,
07:49thanks for spreading the message that positive.
07:52That's important right now.
07:53We know that.
