BEST MOMENTS of Ep. 138 with Durelle Bailey
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In XYBM 138, I sit down with Durelle Bailey, a motivational creator passionate about lifestyle, travel, and financial empowerment, for an inspiring conversation on building a successful life from the ground up. Durelle opens up about his journey from a challenging upbringing to creating success alongside his wife through faith, hard work, and strategic planning. We dive into taking ownership of your life, harnessing the transformative power of relationships, practical steps for financial stability, and the game-changing habit of setting goals and holding life meetings with your partner.
Tune in for a motivational, actionable, and eye-opening discussion designed to help you level up your life, relationships, and finances. Available on all podcast streaming platforms, including YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Whenever I left after high school, it was a strange feeling because I feel like I was being set free, but I also felt like I was breaking at the same time. |
| 0:15.1 | And the reason that is is because she was just the only thing I knew. |
| 0:20.9 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:21.7 | So even though I dealt with all that trauma, |
| 0:23.4 | I felt like, okay, I'm getting away from it, |
| 0:26.5 | but I'm also like leaving the only thing |
| 0:28.8 | that I know even how to manage my anxiety, right? |
| 0:33.4 | Like she would help me calm down in certain situations. |
| 0:36.1 | She was the one that was we moved together. |
| 0:37.8 | We went through a lot together. You know, and so when I left, um, that was tough. And I had to learn |
| 0:44.1 | how to lean on God. That, that's when I found cracks. That's when I had to like take a deep dive |
| 0:50.1 | into that relationship, um, to sustain me through that time period, right? Because, um, and, |
| 0:57.6 | and I believe he, he allowed me to go through that because he needed me to know that, |
| 1:03.0 | hey, I'm your foundation. Like, I'm going to sustain you through the rest of your life. |
| 1:06.9 | Right, right. Regardless of who started with you, I'm going to sustain you for the rest of your |
| 1:10.6 | life. Some people go through their childhood and they look at their problems as like, okay, my life was unlucky or it was unfair or it was whatever the case may be. I look at it as God strategically allowed me to go through that so that I can be this person that I am today so that I can help the |
| 1:28.4 | people that I help today so that I can be a tree that gives fruit to everybody that needs it. |
| 1:34.7 | I used to think like why couldn't I just have two normal parents grow up in a good household |
| 1:39.4 | folks that nurtured me that took care of me and made sure I was good. |
| 1:46.8 | But I realized that that wasn't for me. |
| 1:51.0 | I had to play the cards that I was dealt. And a lot of that is just a part of me understanding that. And this is after I joined the military, I realized that I have to do and control what I can |
| 1:57.3 | control. And that's me in my perspective and how I respond to situations. |
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