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. The stories we talk about are challenging. It's not always the easiest space to be.

This show has been described as all shot, no chaser, because we deal with the heavy stuff.

But because of that, we also have a ritual on this show that helps us navigate these topics in a way that's going to allow us to root more in a sense of joy, gratitude, and appreciation so that we are not

trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

And that really matters because again, Black Talklandia work is hard. It's heavy. And we want to

make sure that we're doing so as boldly and as optimistically as possible. So the ritual that we use

to ensure that that happens is called a moment of gratitude and it goes a little something like this.

In just a minute you're going to hear music.

And that music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us, because when we hear it, we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, the most joyful heart and vigor, rate, troubled mind cleansing, and weary, soul, uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath. As we kick off our most important segment of every single day, to do it and every day it matters.

And on a day like Monday when it's rainy and dreary and chilly outside, it's really

important to be mindful of your emotional well-being, your spiritual well-being, your mental

well-being.

Today we are looking at a quote following along in the similar Buddhist text that we've been looking through.

And this is a text as quote taken from a speech at a women's division leaders conference on February the 10th of 2006.

And the quote was the following.

And this is going to be really important, particularly when we get into the stories that we're gonna discuss today.

And the quote goes as such,

quote, life is best lived by being bold and daring.

People tend to grow meek when they taste failure,

face a daunting challenge, or fall ill.

Yet that is precisely the time to become even bolder.

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