Fatima Bey: 0:02

Mind Shift PowerPod. This is Mind Shift Power Podcast, the number one critically acclaimed podcast where we have raw, unfiltered conversations that shape tomorrow. I'm your host, Fatima Bay, the Mind Shifter. And welcome everyone. Today we have with us Janaya Cheatham. She is a 20-year-old college student, and you have heard her before. If you look at the episode page of this particular episode you're listening to now, you can listen to the other links of her previous episodes to get her the full story of her journey. And this girl has come a very, very long way. So she was last on this podcast about a year ago, in February of 2025. And here we are a year later. We're going to follow up with her with a very different conversation. But for those of you that haven't heard Janaya before, let me give you a beef a brief background. So when I met her, I met her at a community center that I was volunteering at a few years, uh maybe three years ago now. And we she started off when I met her believing that she had no talent, no gifts, and no intelligence. College to her at the time was a ridiculous thing for her to believe in or even hope for. She had no confidence in herself. Now she's confident. Now she is in college. Now she's taking pre-law classes and hard ones at that. But we're here to talk about something different today. There's something else you did not know about Janaya. And we're going to talk about that today. So, Janaya, I'm going to dive right in. Tell us where you are right now academically. What have you accomplished over this past year?

Janiya Cheatham: 2:01

What I've accomplished this past year, so last year I was starting my spring semester, my first spring semester, and I was starting with a 3.1. And then I was also confused about my major. I wasn't sure that I didn't want to do sociology or criminal justice. But I end up finding out, and I ended my semester with a 3.7. Then I then I then I had my summer break, came back in August from my fall semester. It was really hard. And I ended my fall semester with a 4.0. Could you repeat that please?

Fatima Bey: 2:48

4.0. Do y'all hear that? That that's actually hard at any school by any, even the most genius brain. That's actually hard. And I want to point out something that you probably wouldn't think to mention right now, Janaya. Dur for during this semester where you achieved a 4.0, was one of those classes a pre-law class? Yes, it was.

Janiya Cheatham: 3:14

That you were afraid to take? Yes, I was. That syllabus scared me.

Fatima Bey: 3:21

Well, you're not the only one. That's very common, actually. It's not just you, Janaya. But you ended up on the Dean's list again with a 4.0, which is phenomenal. Um and hearing that, hearing, you know, hearing that from a person that once didn't believe in themselves at all and now is soaring in college. Now, what I want to talk about right now, I wanted to give people a brief background who haven't heard your other episodes. But today we're going to talk about some of the challenges that we actually haven't talked about on air, barely at all. Um, but it's been part of the background, and now you're ready to actually talk about it. So, what we have not talked about on air yet is the additional hurdle that you've had to climb over. Can you tell the audience what that is?

Janiya Cheatham: 4:08

Um, the additional hurdle I had to climb over was dealing with my learning disability.

Fatima Bey: 4:14

And what is your learning disability?

Janiya Cheatham: 4:15

My learning disability is stuttering, and when I'm reading something like stuttering and like understanding and comprehending, you know, certain things.

Fatima Bey: 4:28

So you have issues with reading comprehension? Yes. And I'm wording it that way because you do not have any shortage when it comes to comprehending. Somebody could just talk to you and see that. But when it comes to classroom comprehension and reading comprehension, that's where your difficulty is.

Janiya Cheatham: 4:47

Is that accurate? Yes.

Fatima Bey: 4:49

Okay. And let me ask you this: what labels did people put on you growing up because of your learning disability?

Janiya Cheatham: 4:57

Slow, retarded, sped. Um, I heard the term not all the way up there. People will like talk to me in a certain way that I didn't like because they thought since I was labeled as disability, they're like, okay, we can't talk to her like she's an actual human being. We gotta talk to her like like I like I have a disability. Like I can't understand what they're actually saying. They will really talk to me like I'm like when people talk to me, they was they would like talk to me like in like in another language. I didn't like that. Like condescending? Yeah, like they were like, um, do you want this or do you want that? Like I didn't like it. That it sounds so silly, but it personally felt like I wasn't normal. I thought something was like really wrong with me, and I couldn't do anything. So yeah.

Fatima Bey: 5:52

You you believed that about yourself when I met you.

Janiya Cheatham: 5:55

Yeah.

Fatima Bey: 5:56

Um, and now you see differently.

Janiya Cheatham: 5:58

Very unrecorrect. Very unrecognizable.

Fatima Bey: 6:03

Yeah. Let me tell you, let me tell the audience this real quick. When Janaya found out she got a 4.0, she thought she would be slick. She texted me. She texted me like she was sad. I forgot how she worded it, but she texted me like, oh, I got my GPA this semester. And I'm like, oh no, does she not do well or something? Because she knew. She knew I was gonna react. She's like, oh, by the way, I got a 4.0 because she was just waiting to see my response. And I was like, what?

Janiya Cheatham: 6:32

I sent a whole bunch of so quickly. I was like, what?

Fatima Bey: 6:39

Um, I was expecting her to have a good GPA or one that was raised up, but not a 4.0, because that's not easy.

Janiya Cheatham: 6:46

At all.

Fatima Bey: 6:47

Um and especially in you, you're at a good school, so especially, especially there. Um I thought you have really good support there, though. So now that you got your you got you on the dean's list twice in a row so far, you had a 4.0 GPA for the last semester, which brings your full GPA at probably 3.8 or 9 something, which is pretty good. Um, what do you think when you look back at the people who called you slow, stupid, retarded, not all the way up there, and all the other derogatory terms they used?

Janiya Cheatham: 7:20

That was just bullshit. And they just don't understand me. And that doesn't mean anything to me. It's just like uh it's just like water. You know, when someone throws water at you, it don't hurt. It don't hurt anymore. It it it's just it don't mean anything to me. Why not? Because it's not true. And I I know I'm capable of doing anything that I want to do. And anytime I made a goal, I achieved that goal. So that proves that I can do whatever I want. Yeah, I have a learned disability. Is it more harder to not is it more is it harder to um learn and achieve your goals? Yes, but it doesn't mean you can't do it because you can do it. They said I couldn't, and I did.

Fatima Bey: 8:05

You're living proof of that. Yeah. And I'm so happy to see that. Now I want you to talk to the I want you to talk a little bit about what those labels mean. We we understand what they meant for you, you just said it. But what do those labels mean for other people out there who might be getting called slow or stupid and whatever else?

Janiya Cheatham: 8:27

Um so if you have a learning disability, if you have IEP, there's another plan. I forgot what it's called. Um it doesn't mean you're sped or slow or retarded. It just means you learn in a different way. And it's that's totally okay. And it's interesting to me that you can learn in like such different ways. It's not one way, there's different routes of learning.

Fatima Bey: 8:57

There really is. And we're gonna talk, we're gonna dive into greater detail then in a minute. But let me ask you this, because most people don't know the answer to this. What's the difference between having a learning disability and being unintelligent?

Janiya Cheatham: 9:11

Like I said, having a learning disability means there's another path of learning. Unintelligent means you just can't do it. Like you just you're just stuck. Like you can't do it. Like low IQ, you can't under you can't do math, you can't read. That's like you just can't learn. That's what unintelligent means.

Fatima Bey: 9:34

So I'm gonna rephrase what you just said. Disability means you have the intelligence.

Janiya Cheatham: 9:39

Yes. Like you have the potential, you can learn.

Fatima Bey: 9:42

But yeah. But your ability to use to get to that intelligence is different than the standard. Yes. And let me tell you, I gotta break in a comment here. The the the standard, at least in the US, I can't speak to other countries, but at least in the US, the standard education system is so whack. I'm not sure why I just used that word, but it's so broken. It's so oh corrupt. It's so it's so the reason I call it whack is because it only the education our current, the standard. When I say standard, I mean traditional. I'm not talking about some of the other systems that people are coming up with now that actually work, but it only caters to 40% of the population. And I don't even know if it caters to that much. One learning style, so we have a lot of failures in our society who are actually winners that didn't keep trying because the school system told them they were failures. And now I'm off my soapbox. Um so, Janay, I want you to walk us through what studying looks like for you. What strategies or accommodations do you use? Because you mentioned accommodations earlier, but what does that look like for you? What has made you so successful? What have you implemented that made you so successful with studying?

Janiya Cheatham: 11:08

So, for one of my accommodations that have been working that have been working for me effectively is during my lectures, I am allowed to record the lecture. And I can record it for the whole entire class. And then right after it's over, and when I when it's ready for me, when I'm ready to study, I can just go back to my recordings and re-listen to it. And right after that, I'll take some notes. I would even re-listen to it if I have to. I also because I learned off of reputation. Um, another thing that also been another strategy strategy that had been helping me is um time management. So I go on my computer or my iPad and I make a schedule out for myself and tell because in college you do have tons of free time. So you to keep yourself like stabled and like keep yourself structured, you want to really like um man you really want to manage your time and put the times when you want to study and just just lay out, I can't say just lay out everything that you you want and need to do. Um also I go to office hours and I always ask for help and email I always ask for help, I'll email my professors or I'll go to office hours, like I said, and I would just keep asking them all these questions and I would not leave their office hours. I would not get off a Gmail until I am done, till I'm done asking, and once I feel fully confident, asking questions always help me. And the more I ask the questions, the professor would break it down. And the one-on-one time helps me a lot. Another thing I do, and actually you taught me this, I go to Chat GPT, I will copy and paste the instructions, and I'll be like, hey, put, hey, break this down to me like a five-year-old. And then ChatGPT will start breaking, will start like explaining to me like I'm a kindergartner. And they would start using analogies, fun little examples, and then right after I read the examples, I'll be like, oh, okay, I get it. Because I'm not gonna lie, the big wordings and a lot and the long, the long um words be really confusing me.

Fatima Bey: 13:34

Right. Well, that's not unique to you, honestly. That's part of the reason why if you look at my website and a lot of my material, I will remove big words on purpose. And I will simplify terms on purpose because I'm more interested in people understanding than impressing people with my vernacular. Oh, look, I know big words. I'm smart. Um that you know what I mean? Uh you know, in the professional world and in corporate world and college world, they do that a lot. And it's not as helpful as they think. Um, so are there any other strategies you want to tell us about?

Janiya Cheatham: 14:11

Another strategy I do is say that I have a paper I have to do, and it will take me tons of time. So say that this paper won't be done in two hours. I will take breaks in between. So while while I am typing my paper or writing my paper, I will put on a 30-minute timer. Right? When that timer goes off, I take a break for a good, you know, 20 minutes or 30 minutes. After the break is over, I put my timer on again. And then I will just repeat that strategy instead of just trying to finish it, finish it like as soon as I can because I'm gonna burn myself out and I'm not gonna wanna do it no more. Um, another strategy that also helped me is I have I got approved for extended time. So instead of me going into the classroom, I go straight to the library, I and I do my test. I take as much as time as I need it. I put earplugs where I can't hear anything or anyone. And that helps me because I don't like getting rushed. When I get rushed, it messes me up. And I can't I personally feel like I can't do anything when I'm in a small time frame.

Fatima Bey: 15:46

I you just said you just really said a lot. So you we're like, yeah, you got a 4.0, you're on the D's list, you're doing great. And we're about to tell them another accolade that's probably gonna blow their socks off. And yeah, that's wonderful. But now we're hearing the the nooks and crannies, the details of how you made that happen. You didn't just do one thing, you just named five or six different things. I didn't count, but a whole bunch of different things that you implemented because to make it work, because you were determined to make it work, right? Right. Did you have moments of doubt? Absolutely. I know because I got a call every time, but but what I want to point out is that that's normal. You know, just because, and I'm saying this to the audience for a second, just because we hear about Jania's highlight reels, we hear about the greatness that she's achieving, especially from where she came from, and she's more confident now and she's moving forward, that doesn't mean if you build your confidence, it doesn't mean that you're not gonna have a moment of not having that confidence. You're not, it doesn't mean you're not gonna have moments of doubt. If you don't have moments of doubt, you're probably not confident, you're probably arrogant. The moments of doubt are normal. But the key thing is the moment of doubt needs to be a gas station. Meaning, you stay there for a minute, but then you drive off. You do not stay there. You don't pull out a bed and make it a residence. Am I right, Janaya?

Janiya Cheatham: 17:19

Yeah. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not ashamed of it anymore. Because I used to compare myself to a lot of my peers, because a lot of my peers don't have that, and they'd be like, yeah, like I have a 3.7, 3.8, 4.0, AAAA A. And I'm like, dang, I can't do that because I have a learned disability. But that was not true at all. No, it was not.

Fatima Bey: 17:46

And you're living proof that that that's only true if you believe it's true. Yeah, I was able to I was able to get there.

Janiya Cheatham: 17:53

It just I had to just dig deeper, that was it. I had to do a lot more work.

Fatima Bey: 17:58

It was worth it though. Absolutely. Oh my god. I let me tell y'all, I lit when she sent me that text message, I literally cried. I was so I've watched this girl. I've watched this girl for the past few years grow as a person and grow academically. And it's been I don't even have, I don't even, there's no adequate words for it. It's been amazing to watch and see how far she's come and see where she's headed. Speaking of which, let me ask you this. What Janaya, what's the average amount of credits for most sophomores in their second year, uh uh sorry, their second semester of the c of the school year?

Janiya Cheatham: 18:45

Like what how many credits do they usually have? For sophomores, it ranges around 24 to 53.

Fatima Bey: 18:52

Okay. 24 to 53 is average. How many credits now I wanna let the audience know, as of recording right now, the spring semester, which is her second semester of her sophomore year, starts tomorrow. So her first classes start tomorrow. That means that the number we're gonna give you doesn't even count this semester. How many credits do you currently have? 71. Did y'all hear that? 70 freaking one. That's what made me cry, actually. What she okay, Janaya sent me a screenshot when they informed her of her having 71 credits. So that changed the status um uh her uh of her of her college, I don't know what term to give it, years. So what did that email say?

Janiya Cheatham: 19:42

It em the I think it was one of my advisors, it stated, I am now due to my credits, I'm a I'm considered a junior. And I'll be graduating.

Fatima Bey: 19:55

So not only I'm sorry, go ahead.

Janiya Cheatham: 19:57

I'll be graduating in 2027 instead of 2028.

Fatima Bey: 20:01

So not only did Jania get to college, she was just happy to survive to college. Now she's exceeding her c her her um peers. Because that is not average. That that is absolutely not average. And you have a learning disability on top of that. And you were still working on your confidence when you went in. That's just crazy. And it's beautiful. So you already talked about how you managed to accumulate all of these credits. So this, I want to break that down a little bit more because I want people to understand why that's such a big deal. It's not just about the number. 71 credits is a lot of class time. Yes, it is a lot of homework, it is a lot of studying, it is a lot of pressure, it is a lot of stress, but yet she still did it. And she just explained to us some of the ways in which she did it. So let's go into your stuttering problem. Because I I think people are gonna find this even more interesting. So you've been dealing with a stuttering problem your whole life. And you had it when I met you. And it's interesting because it didn't even phase me. I'm like, she'll grow out of that. She's gonna be great. So I would say stuff like that to her, and she would just kind of be like, Miss Bay, you're crazy. Yeah, I'm crazy. Crazy enough to believe in you, and then have it come true. So, how did that affect your confidence? Uh, the stuttering, how did it affect your confidence in school, especially in situations where you had to speak up or present like in front of a classroom?

Janiya Cheatham: 21:34

Honestly, um, that's public speaking really affected my confidence because um I had to do group presentations and everyone would present really well and very is and they was very well spoken, and I'm like, damn, like I'm not even on that level. So it made me really feel like bad about myself. And it made me question like can I even Public present. Oh, how can I even public speak? Like, and it made me think about like, because I want to be an attorney, and an attorney, you have to have good public speaking. And I'm like, I'm not even near that. But are you on your way there? I'm on my way there. I'm still learning. I still have some hiccups with that.

Fatima Bey: 22:20

And that's wrong. And that's okay. Progress is a process. So that's why it's okay. How do you handle the moments when your stutter does come back? Does it still shake your confidence or have you learned to work through it?

Janiya Cheatham: 22:32

Um, I take I I stop for a minute. I do take a deep breath and I would like read my notes and I will slow down because my I do have bad anxiety when I am public speaking, my heart is like actually beating. And I'll speak fast, but then once I start speaking fast, I mess up. So I'm like, okay, let me take a minute. And then I would keep going. Um, another thing that would help me improve my public speaking before I present, I would practice by myself in my room, and I would keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it. Because once I know what to say and what to do, I'm less nervous. So yeah.

Fatima Bey: 23:14

I also want to point out another key component in that that sits in the background, but it's a big part of why. You know, uh, I don't remember when it was. It was sometime last year. We were having a conversation on the phone. And you're like, you were surprised that someone at school, uh, maybe an advisor or you know, some adult, didn't know that you stuttered. They're like, What? I've never heard you stutter. And you just were shocked that it like they didn't know that I'm that I stutter. And I just kind of smirked and I said, Yeah, because you're more confident now. So you stutter less. You only stutter when you're nervous or, like you said, rushed. Because I've I've seen that. You definitely stutter a lot more when I first met you. But the confidence piece, do you see how that plays a part?

Janiya Cheatham: 24:01

Yes. Because the last time I stuttered, it's kind of a this is a story. I was doing a presentation with a friend, and me and her, her and I was the last people to do the um presentation towards the end of the class. So we was in such small time. So she went first. She did her part, she did her part first. Then it was my turn. And when I was presenting, the class was over, but the professor, everyone was getting out. The professor was like, No, no, no, no, no, sit down. And I'm like, uh-oh, they're gonna hate me. So I was so nervous because I'm like, oh no, the class is over. The professor still wants me to present. So we're in such small time, and I was stuttering so bad. It was embarrassing, but I'm still passed.

Fatima Bey: 24:48

Because you still gave the effort. But on a regular basis, you it really is true, you don't stutter like that anymore. Yeah. Like when I first met you on a regular basis. Um, and and it's okay that it it pops up here and there. Um, nothing that we're working on ever just goes away magically. Progress is a process. So progress is progressive. So, you know, you have to you you have to take it bit by bit, and you can definitely uh grow with it. So if a student with a learning disability is listening to you right now, Janaya, and they're thinking, college isn't for me, what specific realistic advice would you give them right now?

Janiya Cheatham: 25:30

Um, that's all in the head. Your doubts, like your doubts is literally gonna hurt you and hold you back from your own potential and don't let your weaknesses define you because it's scary at first, but you can't you can't you you you can do it. Like you can do it. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard, and you know, but it does just because it's something is hard doesn't mean you can't do it.

Fatima Bey: 26:01

And coming from someone who's proven that, because adults say that kind of stuff all the time, but you're living it. You're living it right now.

Janiya Cheatham: 26:08

Like, yes, you gotta do a lot of like obviously like I don't have to say regular students that don't have disabilities. I don't want to say regular. Ooh, students that don't have disabilities, okay, they can just sit down in class, do sit sit down in class and take notes, and they could just uh they could just comprehend quickly. You know, people like us, we may we have to keep asking questions. We have to, you know, get certain things break broken down to us. We gotta do a lot of work just for us to understand. But that's totally that is totally okay. That's just another way of learning and don't feel less than or don't let people think that they're better than you and believe that because they're not. But something that I learned is people with disabilities or IEPs are are very, very intelligent and are actually like one of the most smartest people.

Fatima Bey: 26:58

Yes. I I do find that some of the bit some of the most expensive brains are are labeled differently. The average person is not as intelligent, honestly, as the ones who are labeled. I I just really believe that because it's what I've seen over and over again. Between doing this podcast and just stuff in life. Um, I I just I really think that. And um, Janaya, I am, I just I just am so happy to see how far you've come. And I want to ask you one last question. What advice do you have for for your peers in the world right now? But let me be more specific. What advice do you have for college students in the world right now?

Janiya Cheatham: 27:39

I would say, like I said earlier, anything, especially to anyone that is coming into college new, anything new is not easy. It takes patience. Um, you have to have patience for patience for yourself and don't be too hard on yourself. Um like I said earlier, manage your time because a lot of people a lot of students come into college and they get it takes up that big freedom. And it don't go, you know, it it's not, it don't it's they don't go too far. They don't go too far. Um take these four years very, very, very, very seriously. Please work your asses off. Do whatever it takes. It's not easy, but it'll it's very, very, very rewarding at the end. And just never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever give up. I wish I could say more. You already said. It's like a lot. There is a lot. There is a lot. But lastly, just perseverance. Have perseverance.

Fatima Bey: 28:37

Perseverance. Yes. And it's not just true in college, it's true in life. Those who succeed in life at whatever their goals are and whatever they want to do, uh success, by the way, I don't mean if they're rich or famous. That's not success. It's achieving, achieving a goal. So for those who are successful in life, they implement all the principles that Janaya just told about. They practice time management, they invest, well, they invest their time wisely. Um, and practice discipline. Because that's what half of that is. It's just practicing discipline. People who don't practice discipline complain about life and still end up nowhere.

unknown: 29:16

Yes.

Fatima Bey: 29:16

Because they ain't disciplined to get anywhere.

Janiya Cheatham: 29:18

A big thing, a lot of one of the another reason why college students do fail, especially like incoming ones. This was me. I almost failed. A lot of college students come in with the high school mentality. You cannot come into college for high school mentality. You because in high school, you can have straight A's and or have like decent grades while doing the bare minimum in college. No, you gotta bust your ass in college because you're not gonna get nowhere doing no bare minimum. And no matter what. Yeah, that's right. If I if you get an F, it's not the end of the world, but you gotta learn for it, just keep going. You didn't you you didn't get a good grade on a paper. Okay, just keep going no matter what. Just keep going. But learn while you're while you keep going. Don't make the same mistake. And if you some people don't know how to study, some people don't know what they're actually doing wrong. Actually, like find your hiccup. Like what is like preventing you from passing? Like, what's what's your biggest obstacle? Try to find that obstacle and like work on it. And when you do, you'll see a difference. Like for me, I I remember I took my first tests as a freshman and I didn't want to study. I'm thinking, like, okay, this is I don't gotta study. I got it. F. That did it again. F. I was like, oh, this is not good. And I went to the professor and I was talking to her about my grades, and she's like, listen, you get one more F, you might as well just withdraw from this class. And I'm like, oh, she was like, This is not high school. Uh she was like really honest with me, but she was right. And I I didn't know how to study. I asked her. She gave me some studying tips like the ones I shared with you guys. And um, yeah, and once I studied, I'm like, oh, okay, I passed my tests. And I was like, oh, all right, you all you gotta do is just study.

Fatima Bey: 31:08

I want to point out one more thing that I didn't mention earlier, um, because I think it's important. When I met Janaya, her reading and writing was very subpar. It was definitely not, even when she graduated from high school, it was definitely not at a level of a high school graduate. It was it was very subpar. But yet, this girl who came in and really was writing at a much lower level is now getting 4.0s in college and pre-law classes. That to me is one of the biggest tell-alls of possibilities. It's just amazing. So, what did you do? What what did you do that um helped you to get better at at uh writing?

Janiya Cheatham: 31:55

Honestly, I went to tutoring. They would um point out the things that I need to work on. They would show me how they would show me like an example of um their writings and yeah, they'll show them an example, they would just like pull up their drafts. I can't explain it. Like they would like log into their Google Docs and show me their previous writings. And when when they wrote when it was a freshman or sophomore, and that's how I got better at it. Like I said earlier, I went to office hours and my professor would sit next to me and she would tell me, okay, like cross out this and instead of um saying this, you say that. Like they would just always, they would just always help me with that. I just reached out for help that I just reached out for like academic help.

Fatima Bey: 32:42

So you've put a lot of work into getting to where you are. You've talked about the methods that you've used, um, and really going after the tools that are actually available. And unfortunately, there's a lot of college students that actually don't do that, even high school students that don't actually utilize the tools that are in front of their face. And if you start doing that, you might you might do okay. You might get better. But I I the reason I brought that up is I want those of you listening to understand that because somebody listening right now is like, yeah, she did well and she did better, but you haven't seen how bad I can barely read right, and I can't write correctly either. So she was there too. And look at her now. And she doesn't have super special powers. Do you have super special powers, Janaya? No. Did you like fall out of heaven in a beam of light? No. Exactly. So she just broke down the details of how she did it. And if you are going into college, you're in college, even if you're in graduate school right now, listen to the principles of everything this girl just said, because you can do it too. She did it, you can do it too. Janaya, thank you for coming on again. And we're probably gonna have you come on this podcast for the rest of your life. So I'm never gonna let you go. No. It's it's been it's been so amazing be to be able to really document your growth publicly. And I'm and I know I've said this to you repeatedly, but I am so, so proud of you, more than words can say. And it makes me incredibly uh emotional and happy that to watch you grow, to see you succeed, and to see you get to the place you never thought you could be. And for you to finally learn and see and understand that your previous self what she thought was a lie. And I'm hoping that other people out there who are younger Janiyas can see that too. Thank you. And now for a mind shifting moment. I want to focus on one of the overarching principles of today's episode. You heard a lot of what Janaya did in order to accomplish what she's accomplished thus far. And she's not even done yet. She's got more to go and she's gonna do it. But what have you decided is your disability? You see, sometimes we have disabilities that are genuine. And sometimes we have disabilities that have been put on us that we've been told that we have, and we chose to believe it. What lies do you believe about yourself? What lies do you believe? What lies do you believe about your capabilities? What have you told yourself that you can't do? What obstacles have you decided to sit under instead of climb over? What have you not done that you can actually do if you put your mind to it? What we can or cannot accomplish is primarily what we decide. We may have to work hard for it. We may have to go through non-traditional methods to get there, but so what? You can get there. And Jennai is living proof of that. I want you, listener, right now, at any age, what are you holding yourself back from that you can actually accomplish if you decide? It's not a feeling, it's a decision. Decide that you're going to accomplish that thing. You've been listening to Mind Shift Power Podcast for complete show notes on this episode. And to join our global movement, find us at FatimaBay.com. Until next time, always remember there's power in shifting your thinking.