XYBM Clips: That breakup might be the best thing that ever happened to you
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
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In XYBM 137, I sit down with Wolf Taylor, an engineer at the largest Black-owned podcast studio, WTF Media Studios, and the host of the 'Half Way Up' podcast. We dive deep into the importance of failure, intentional dating, the essence of true leadership in a relationship, and the spiritual and emotional aspects of self-growth.
This episode is for anyone who has felt lost on their journey toward becoming the best version of themselves and is looking for guidance on embracing failure, cultivating healthy relationships, and finding purpose in the process.
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| 0:00.0 | So sometimes you need to lose your girl. |
| 0:01.5 | You need to lose your man. |
| 0:02.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:03.2 | You need to lose your connection, whatever that's tethering you to that thing. |
| 0:06.8 | It needs to be cut. |
| 0:07.7 | And sometimes you're not going to like it. |
| 0:09.2 | It's going to suck because you're going to, nobody ever wants to put their comfortability second. Right. You know what I mean? Because if we feel security in that, but the real security is not to be that dude, but I'm that dude, the real security is in God. |
| 0:21.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:22.1 | So I got all my faith in like tangible objects and stuff like that it's like that's where you fucked up you know what I mean so this what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take the road from right underneath your feet you're gonna fall you're gonna hit your ass and then the impact that you hitting your ass is gonna wake you up it's like yes thinking. You know what I mean? And I start living because you was just sleep behind the wheel. You was |
| 0:41.0 | doing all the emotions, but you wasn't conscious. Yeah. So I wouldn't endeavor by Napoleon Hill. |
| 0:45.0 | Please check that out. Three hours on YouTube is free. Nah, that was a beautiful breakdown of how |
| 0:51.1 | failure helps us to propel us into new behaviors, new thoughts, new habits. |
| 0:56.6 | And you spoke on losing partners. |
| 0:59.3 | I want to pivot a little bit and talk about relationships. |
| 1:01.6 | It's something that you said that I think was really interesting when we talk about |
| 1:04.1 | relationships. |
| 1:05.1 | You're talking about making women feel safe again. |
| 1:07.3 | Indeed. |
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