Find Your Voice (Monday Moments ep. 183)

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John O'Leary

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our “Monday Moments” segments.

“You may not control all of the events that happened to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

Today, I share the story of Marguerite Ann Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou. Maya endured horrific adversity as a child before finding her voice which has been heard all over the world.

We have all endured our own challenges and there is no doubt we will face more. When the next challenge arises, remember this: “you may not control all of the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the live-inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday moments.
0:17.2	We create them to help start your week on fire with a quick burst of inspiration.
0:23.1	The great poet Maya Angela wrote,
0:24.9	You may not control all of the events that happened to you,
0:28.7	but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
0:33.1	That's great advice as we step into this Monday and through our week. So I'm going to share with you a story
0:39.1	about a little one who in her life decided not to be reduced by the events that happened to her.
0:46.0	Marguerite Ann Johnson's earliest memory is from age three. The year was 1931 and she was walking
0:53.2	with her mother and her five-year-old brother to a train station.
0:57.2	When they arrived, her mother bent down, told them to behave, and handed the little boy tickets.
1:03.0	She then tied wristbands on them in the case they got lost.
1:06.8	The note on the wristband read,
1:08.6	Marguerite and Bailey Johnson, Jr. from Long Beach, California,
1:12.8	in route to Stamps, Arkansas. The children's mother was pursuing a career as a dancer in California
1:19.3	and felt she could no longer take care of her children. So she shipped them back to be raised by their
1:25.3	grandmother. The trip to Stamps, Arkansas was difficult to say the least.
1:29.5	Arriving safely there a couple days later was just the first hurdle of a long, lonely, painful
1:36.4	journey.
1:37.5	Four years after returning back to Stamps, Marguerite was abused physically by a family friend.
1:44.1	She shared what happened with her brother
1:46.3	who happened to tell their uncle.
1:49.5	Two days later, the abuser was dead.
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