(00:00:04): Hello Everybody, Hey Guys - Thank You So Much for Taking the Time out to Join Me Today for Our Fireside Chat
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(00:00:04): Hello everybody, Hey guys - Thank you so much for taking the time out to join me today for our fireside chat. So first things first, just to make sure sure. We are all on the same page. And everyone can hear me. Can I get a quick hello in the chat. Can I get a quick hello in the chat everyone. Hello? Hello, hello, hello. Awesome. I see Latrina is here. She never misses anything, Caitlin's here. Caitlin always makes the time. Thank you so much Caitlin. I know you have a lot going on. Good. Kendrick's on here. Awesome. He's cycle 11. Awesome. Thank you guys so much for popping in. Thank you guys for waiting. I wanted to give everyone a minute to be able to see my post. We have a lot to chat about today. Well one topic, but we need to dive deep and get very serious about it. So I'm so glad you guys are all making it. Thank you everyone for popping on, for giving me this time. (00:00:53): I know that Saturday is universal peak friend time. You know what I mean? Like, this is peak friend time. And not only is it a reserved on the calendar, but there's also so much going on in this world. So for me to come to you in the middle of your Saturday morning I, it's not lost on me and I appreciate you guys taking out the time. I promise you I will use this time well because it's necessary. So for those of you guys celebrating Passover, like ms Rosenfeld, our good friend here, I thank you so much. Illa for joining us in from Jerusalem next year. We'll all be in Jerusalem, right? I'm so happy Passover to all of you guys. And for those of you guys, we're getting ready for Easter morning. There's a reason why we're having this chat now because you know, for those of you guys who are of the, you know, Christian faith, you understand that tomorrow is a very big deal. (00:01:48): And as we are going into this new, right and we are refreshing ourselves and resurrecting and starting new. Yeah. I, I wanted to, I've addressed the old and talk about change and talk about transition and just share some news and all that. Good. So I'm very excited. I love you guys. And, I want you to know that this is a uplifting discussion, meaning it's all positive as we always try to be, but I also want to let you know it is a serious conversation. So I say all this because you know, I just, I was on TV but real with you guys. So first things first, how are you on a scale of one to five, five being I'm having a whole nightmare and one being like, you know, everything is totally fine. On a scale of one to five, let me know how you guys are doing. (00:02:43): Perfect. Good. Lots of threes in the middle, which is kind of in the middle fluctuating. Okay, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. I care about you guys. So, so that's really, really good to hear that everyone's at least running in the middle. I think that this is the type season right where right in the middle is a thing, you know thanks for asking. Michelle, how am I? I am a 3.5 maybe and I would honestly like to let you know that the 3.5 is because I needed to have this conversation. Have you guys ever felt like something is on your heart to say, but you're not sure how to say it but you know, it needs to be said. And that's where I've been for the past week. If you guys noticed for the past three days, I haven't really gone live. I haven't really posted much on social or anything like that and it's because I have been in a reflective place. (00:03:39): I care about you guys so much and and I have been really reflecting on how to have this conversation with you and I have the team pull it together because we knew it needed to be said and and so that's what we're doing right now. If this is not a breakup and I, my health is fine. I know there are a lot of moms on here, so I'd, everybody's helps with finding the household. So I was like, let me just say this cause I was like, I know where this is sounding like it's going, let me just mom, all of you guys real quick. Everybody is fine health wise, everything is fine. Life-Wise all that stuff. But I did want to pull you guys together because I, I want to have a grownup conversation and there's things being said and I'm not ready to say them publicly yet until I, to the masses until I figure out how that conversation will go. (00:04:29): But I have to say it to you guys first because that's part of, and this is important, I think this is a great time to just to explain kind of where we are. So I'm just going to jump right in. So and if any of you guys have any rich friends that are not here, text them, you know, and ask them to join in because we don't do these normally. So this is important. So I believe in covenants, and I know that word sounds really kind of scary and churchy and things like that. And it's not that covenant is a word that just basically means that you are in an agreement with someone that is more important to you than something that's even contractual. Does that make sense to you guys? Like it's more important than a something that's just on paper and it's not something you extend to everyone. It's not something that you take lightly and it is something that is more important than a M. (00:05:26): It's more than just business. And whenever I think of 'em and it's just like, so understand that you don't have to be a Christian to have a covenant relationship with someone, it is. And that is, I want you guys to understand that that's how I've always looked at my relationship with my, my students. And the reason why is sure there's paperwork, there's money exchange, there's all of that. But all of those things are elements, commitment to the covenant, right? And and the same thing applies like with a, with a marriage, right? Like with a marriage. Sure. You have the wedding, you have all those things. Yeah. But let's just be honest, okay. Marriage is not just the agreement you to sort of cohabitate, right? For some people you can tell, when it's just a piece of paper, you know? I think that in our society, marriage has become very watered down and casual, you know, and if you have a covenant marriage, you recognize that there is something there. (00:06:28): It's why when people are like, Oh yeah, we just got that. We've been together for 10 years, but we just got the paper and made it official. It means something when it is a covenant relationship, right? It's more, it's, it does change. It's not just like, Oh, we were already living together, but this just kind of made it official. No, no, no, no, no. When you have committed before your friends, your family and God, it should change. It should change and it should be different. It should not be the same. And and that means that the way you approach each other and the way that you guys approach problems together and the way that you guys approach the decision to become parents. And the, the way that you guys approached change in your life is all different. And so because of that, it also means that you just take it very seriously. (00:07:20): And, and I say this to you guys because I want you to know and I just want everyone to calm down on nerves. Everything you guys know, I always have some positive, right? This is not a negative thing. I am not sick. I am not about to cut you loose. It's none of that stuff. So you have bring it down, bring it down. But it is a serious conversation, which is why you're feeling what you're feeling now because I am, I'm a Puffin, right? Allie, she talks about this all the time and the other day she came to me just to address the feeling in the room right now. She came to me and she said, mom, sometimes I feel like you guys don't like me when I do something wrong. (00:07:59): And I said to her, well we do role playing a lot. And I said to her, I'll just to help her communicate cause she's little and she doesn't have all the words.