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 recognize that Black Talklandia can be heavy. It can be kind of tough. It's hard. It's not the

easiest thing to do. And so because of that, we have a ritual on this show that allows us to

intentionally curate a sense of joy, gratitude, and appreciation because we have come to

recognize and the science has confirmed that when we are rooted in joy, gratitude, and

appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

That means things.

And so we have this ritual.

It's called a moment of gratitude, and it goes a little something like a yes.

Hit it.

In just a minute.

You're going to hear music.

That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart, invigorate,

and troubled mind cleansing and weary, so 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. every single day. It is, we got to do it and every day it matters because quite frankly we could either be down trodden and sad or

we can be optimistic and empowered either way we got to go through a day ending and why so let's make

sure we are as empowered and as encouraged as possible shout out to the team appreciate you shout

out to the urban view family the nubians so good to always be in this space with you. And yesterday, we spoke about

Josh Johnson's quote, and that really was a quote that asked us to consider what the world

would look like if we could see ourselves in the ways that those who love us see us. And I think

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