Hey everyone, it's your girl Breene Lee and welcome to the pep talk podcast where we have real, raw, relatable conversations with the pep talk you need.

You have the power to create your future with the choices that you made today.

What do you bring to the table? Baby, I am the table.

Fuck yourself a little bit more than that, ladies. Come on. Dust settles, queens don't. And don't

forget, know your worth and then attacks. Period. So today we're talking about overcoming

the mindset of poverty, how to break the spirit of poverty or poverty mindset.

And to be quite honest, I never knew I had it till about two months ago, right?

And you may think that you don't have it.

You realize that you do have a mindset or a lack mindset or a spirit of poverty.

And so, quick story, I grew up poor, okay? I grew up

poor and I only realized looking back. At the time, I knew we didn't have a lot, but I never

thought we were poor. But looking back, I grew up in poverty and I'll share more about my story

later. But for instance, we were so poor. My mom put Vaseline in our hair.

Our hair styles were already crazy. Our hair was never looked after. So that's the level

I'm talking about. And often a lot of us, we don't like to talk about it. Like, but the truth is,

I was born into poverty, right? And so with mom, single mom, four children, never had enough.

She also suffered from poverty mindset.

My nan has always worked and has always been quite well off, but she's also had a poverty mindset.

I remember going to her house one time and I wanted to have a bath and she ran the water for me and she legit put this much water in the bath.

I was like, what is going on? But there's always been in my family a, don't waste electricity, don't waste water, don't waste food, don't waste that. And I too grew up like that. And how that manifested to me in my younger years is, okay, I don't have money. I'm too young to get a job. I'm going to go out and steal what I want. I'm gonna go out and steal what I want I'm gonna go

and steal what I want my mom was to have money to give me and I remember the one time that

I was traveling me my family were going to Antigua and the night before we was traveling

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