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Keep it Positive, Sweetie

From Seat Filler to Stellar Award Winner w/ Vashawn Mitchell

Keep it Positive, Sweetie

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This weeks guest went from seat-filler at the Stellar Awards to six-time Stellar Award winner, songwriter and worship leader VaShawn Mitchell has truly lived the testimony behind his music. In this soul-stirring conversation with the creator of “Nobody Greater” we unpack the journey, the lessons, and the faith that keeps him grounded.

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0:00.0

Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

0:02.8

I'm your host, Chris Renee Hazel, and this is the Keep It Posit Sweeties show.

0:09.8

Welcome back, Sweeties.

0:11.4

This season, we are talking about impact, not the number of likes or the number of followers,

0:16.1

but that deep down legacy level of impact that leads with pure intention.

0:21.5

The intention that changes lives, that shifts rooms and plants seeds and breaks generational

0:26.7

curses. Because it's one thing to be seen, but it's another thing to make an impact and

0:31.8

leave a lasting legacy. Today's guest is someone whose voice has literally shifted atmospheres and lifted spirits around the world.

0:40.1

He is a worship leader, a songwriter, a visionary, and the man behind some of the most powerful anthems in gospel music.

0:47.4

For nobody greater to turn it around for me, but Sean Mitchell doesn't just sing, he ministers.

0:54.0

And whether you've heard him in the pews or on your playlist or during a moment when you needed to be reminded of who you are, you felt his impact. His family, please give a warm welcome to Vashan Mitchell. What's going on, Vashan? Hey, glad to be here. Happy to have. When the team said that we were going to have you on, I was so excited.

1:12.6

I love your music.

1:13.9

So I was super excited to sit down and talk to you.

1:15.4

We've never met.

1:16.2

No.

1:16.7

Since our first time.

1:17.5

So we get to know each other tonight.

1:18.7

Absolutely.

1:19.3

Yes.

1:20.1

So tell me a little about you.

1:21.2

You started the church.

1:22.3

You are from Chicago. born and raised, born and raised, South Side, left the South Side for Sunny L.A. Tell me that journey and how you got there. So you know, growing up in Chicago, I was always around gospel music, basically, you know, from Albertina Walker to Thomas Wilfiel and all the greats, you know, who have been through there. I became attracted to gospel music at an early age. It's something I wanted to do, but I didn't know if I was good enough, to be honest. Really? Yeah. Why? When I was younger, so many others did it better than me, but like I said. I didn't know my lane, so I was trying to be everybody else. I didn't know who I was. So it took me a while studying the industry and studying how to write and write a song and how to deliver a song. I don't run like some of the people. I don't do all these things. So I had to find my lane. And it took me a while to find my lane. But once I found it, you know, I began to not only hear from God, but like master my own lane. Yeah. I love it. And not compare myself to nobody else so it took me a while

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