Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to Trust and Believe. I'm your host, Sean T. And today, you are going to feel the light with my guest, Miss Danielle, formerly known as Danny Star from the radio. She is incredible fun. We talk about a lot of things from postpartum to how to deal with losing a baby, which is really, really tough for a

lot of people out there. But most importantly, we're going to talk about how to live your

authentic life. And she is going to give you the power to continue to thrive. Get ready to

trust and believe.

Somebody says, oh yeah.

No, no, no.

What's up?

You're better than Oprah.

Come on, y'all.

This is Sean T, and it's time to trust and believe.

I just want to start out with saying thank you so much for just using the words hope and joy when we spoke a little bit ago because I have literally been through

the ringer in my life. And I'm at a point where I'm just like, you know what? I don't

got time for all that over there. I already know what this like. I already know what the

visiveness is like. I already know how to argue. I grew up in the hood. I already know how to fight. Let's bring some positivity and love to the world. So let me just ask you, I'm going to ask you a straight up question. All right. What was the catalyst for you to be like, you know what? Like, I can't. Like, I can't just talk about the thing of the negative anymore. Buckle up, Sean, because you are not ready. It was a transformation. I think it started back in 2011. I know that's crazy, right? So it's been a decade long of, like, really getting to my, oh, I don't care. No, I won't do the negativity. I won't do the toxicity. If I'm not, if I'm going to put something out into the world, it better be meaningful. It, like, I've learned to think before I speak because I don't want to harm anyone, right? And intention and impact are different. You can have the best intentions in the world, but the way that that's going to land to somebody else, and we're all walking around the world looking through different lenses, right? And so I try really hard to unlearn some of the things I've been taught, right? Because so many of those things were packaged by society and the people who raised us. And we don't believe all those things. So I've spent the last decade literally just stripping away these things that were given to me that I realized didn't belong to me. And that has been my catalyst has been transformation. I didn't want to stay the same, which is let me tell you something. And I know I don't have to tell you this, but in the black community, sometimes that's tough, right? Because people are like, oh, you too good for us now? No, you can come too. Come on. Let me tell you something. Back in the day, you know, when I first lost a lot of weight, like, it was like frowned upon in my community and my family. It's like, or even when I see some black women lose weight in our community, sometimes people are like, oh, she too skinny now. And I'm like, wait a minute, why are we focusing on, wow, that person is healthy now? And, you know, it is what it is.

You can continue. I just wanted to co-sign on exactly. No. I love the co-sign. You know, I think it was just like,

I started to really understand projection also. And when people are sad or when people aren't

feeling good about themselves, the easiest thing to do is to pick somebody else

apart.

So when I started seeing that in myself, Sean, when I started to realize that why, why am I

focused on what she's doing, what he's doing, what they're doing, what this and that?

I'm like, what I need to do is turn all that.

I got so many, so many opinions on everybody else.

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