Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. We have this ritual called Moment of Gratitude that we employ every single day because this is a show that deals with some heavy content, not a light and fluffy show. If you want to get you know, shits and giggles, that's not, sorry, I cussed. If you want kicks and giggles, that's not this show. This show is heavy. It's news. It's all shot. No chaser. And I love that about this fact. I love the fact that we have been able to create this space. But because of that, we also want to make sure that we are going into our conversations here in Black Talklandia,

which is with as much joy, gratitude, and appreciation as we possibly can. Because, frankly,

it makes the conversation much more bearable. And it reminds us that we have the power to change

the conditions that we are confronting. So the ritual is pretty simple. It's called a moment of gratitude and it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. And when you hear the music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, deepest, most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating,

troubled mind cleansing, weary soul uplifting the most amazingly juicy breath. As we kick off

our most important segment of every single day, it is time for our moment of gratitude. Thank you. I'm going to be. I'm going to Every day, folks, every day we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, the podcast community, the YouTube

community.

We are doing some amazing co-creating of awesomeness here, and I appreciate the contributing

work that all of you do to uphold that.

I want to talk today about the distinction between making something happen and creating

a welcoming environment for a thing to happen.

We are in a time where, quite frankly, there's a lot. We got to make it happen. We're going to force it into being. We're going to wrestle it down and hold it down until the thing we want to happen happens. And that is certainly an approach. And it's not just an approach that is relevant for the societal issues in which we find ourselves today. It's also an approach that, frankly, a lot of us, myself included, employ in our day-to-day affairs. Like, I'm going to get this thing.

I'm going to make this thing happen. And while that can be effective, I would like you all to take

a listen to this clip. This is shared by Quantum Shift Academy. I actually was shared by

a system by the name of Big Terra. And Big Terra was sharing a video shared by Quantum Shift Academy.

And they're talking about a very important distinction between making something happen and creating an environment that welcomes the thing that you want to happen to be present in your life.

Take a listen to this clip and then we'll unpack it on the other

side. Oftentimes the energy of trying to make something happen is, I don't have it. So I'm going to

make it happen. It's a difference between making something happen with your mind to going to making

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