Waking Up Isn't Enough–Stay Awake! with Iyanla Vanzant
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today, Michael welcomes back Iyanla Vanzant. Iyanla is one of the country's most celebrated writers and public speakers of our time, dedicated to facilitating the growth and evolution of human consciousness. She's the author of 19 books including six New York Times best-sellers. She won an Emmy for the NBC/Bunim Murray daytime drama "Starting Over," and was the executive producer and host of the critically acclaimed, award-winning unscripted series, "lyanla: Fix My Life," which became the No. 1 reality show on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. As the Founder of Inner Visions World Wide, Iyanla is actively engaged in personal development courses and on-going training programs for spiritual life coaches and ordained ministers.
During Michael and Iyanla's powerful conversation they cover:
-Iyanla's self-directed program, "Awakening One Million," including four stages of spiritual development: Awake, Awakening, Awoke, and Awakened
-Repetitive daily practice—whether breathwork, prayer, or reflection—as the path to spiritual mastery
-The deeply personal loss of Iyanla's daughters—Gemmia in 2003 and Nisa in 2023—and how the trauma and her spiritual practice from Gemmia's transition prepared Iyanla to face her grief over Nisa's transition with grace
-The importance of aligning heart and mind and staying in our own spiritual lane rather than being consumed by others' journeys
-Digital misinformation and how consuming false narratives affects our frequency and creates energetic baggage
-How grace literally saved Iyanla's life after her suicide attempt and creating sacred internal space, an altar for surrender and a sanctuary for listening deeply to divine instruction
-The relevant lyrics from "Wake Up Everybody," legacy, and why change begins within
Finally, Michael leads a guided meditation on transcending the mind.
🪷For all things Iyanla, including her "Awakening One Million" program, visit https://iyanla.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | For all these decades, you have not shied away from and actually used the different things |
| 0:08.5 | you've grown through as platforms to teach people. |
| 0:13.6 | Because they're common. |
| 0:15.2 | We just don't talk about them. |
| 0:17.0 | And that was my purpose. |
| 0:18.5 | That's not everybody's purpose. |
| 0:20.3 | That was my purpose. It's, you know, |
| 0:22.7 | the ascended master, the ascended spiritual master, Serapist Bay, teaches one, how to, how to |
| 0:30.9 | transcend trauma. How to transcend suffering. Right. So my suffering has become a majestic platform. Right. |
| 0:44.1 | People know you're not alone. Right. And I think it was Dr. Maya Angelou who said someone was left |
| 0:51.1 | before you. Someone was abandoned before you. Someone raped before you. Someone was left before you. Someone was abandoned before you. Someone raped before you. |
| 0:55.4 | Someone was left before you. |
| 0:57.5 | Yes. |
| 0:58.0 | Happened before you. |
| 0:59.5 | Now, now that it's happening to you, how is it going to grow you? |
| 1:03.4 | Right. |
| 1:05.2 | Peace and Rich's blessings. |
| 1:06.8 | I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. |
| 1:09.6 | Listen, easy, easy. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Peace and radical blessings everyone and welcome to take back your mind. |
| 1:50.0 | I am Michael Bebeckwith, founder of the Agapa International Spiritual Center. |
| 1:54.0 | I am your host. |
| 1:55.0 | And week after week I get to have this wonderful conversations with people who have done just that, opened their heart, |
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