From 'I'm Not Smart' to College Success: What Coaching Did For Me (Episode 76)

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The Transformative Power of Coaching: Janiya’s Journey


From Doubt to Determination: Meet Janiyah

In this episode of the MindShift Power Podcast, I had the privilege of reconnecting with a young woman whose journey has been nothing short of transformative. Janiya, now 19 and a college student, reflects on how her life has drastically changed since we first met two years ago. Back then, she struggled with self-worth and saw no future for herself. Today, she’s a beacon of intelligence and determination, pursuing a career in law.


The Turning Point: Discovering Self-Worth

Janiya’s journey began with a simple yet profound question: “What do you like about yourself?” At the time, she had no answer. Through our coaching sessions, we worked together to unearth her self-worth. She learned to embrace affirmations like “I love myself” and “I am so precious.” Initially, these words felt foreign and uncomfortable, but over time, they became a daily mantra that transformed her self-perception.


Overcoming Toxic Relationships

Janiya’s past included a toxic relationship that eroded her self-esteem. She believed she was nothing without her partner, who was mentally abusive. Through our coaching, she learned to recognize her value and the importance of self-love. She broke free from the toxic cycle and now understands that she deserves healthy, supportive relationships.


Achieving Academic Success

One of the most remarkable aspects of Janiyah’s journey is her academic success. She went from believing she was not “built for college” to being a proud criminal justice major, with aspirations to become a family attorney. Her story is a testament to the power of coaching in unlocking potential and paving the way for dreams once thought unattainable.


Embracing the Future with Confidence

Today, Janiya sees a future filled with success and happiness. She is actively working towards her goals, unafraid to tackle the challenges ahead. Her story serves as an inspiration for many young women who feel trapped by their circumstances. Janiyah’s transformation is a powerful reminder that with the right support and mindset, anything is possible.


MindShifting Moment: Embracing Your True Self

As we reflect on Janiya’s journey, I urge all young women to ask themselves: Do you know who you truly are? Do you recognize your worth? If you’re struggling with self-doubt or feeling lost, remember that you are not alone. Seek support, embrace affirmations, and allow yourself to grow into the person you were meant to be.


Janiya has been in several episodes.


Listen to her growth journey:

Real Change (Episode 2)

Getting Out Of A Toxic Relationship (Episode 5)

Real Change 2 (Episode 61)


Additional episodes with Janiya:

The State of Real Estate (Episode 4)

Teens In The Spectrum (Episode 12)

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    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:0:01


    Welcome to MindShift Power Podcast, the only international podcast focused on teens, connecting young voices and perspectives from around the world. Get ready to explore the issues that matter to today's youth and shape tomorrow's world. I'm your host, fatima Bey, the MindShifter, and welcome. Today we have with us Janiyah. She is 19. She lives in New York State. She is a college student. Now you've heard her before, specifically on episodes 2, 5, and 61.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:0:38


    如果您還沒有聽過這些,請務必聽一聽,這樣您就能更多地了解她的背景以及她再次出現在這裡的原因。


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:0:46


    So the reason Janiyah is on here today is we're coming up on two years since Janiyah and I met, and it's kind of an anniversary, so to speak, episode, and today we're going to talk about the value of coaching and what it has done for her and changed her entire life. So, and just to forewarn everybody, she is recording in her dorm room because unfortunately, that's what she's got to be, and so you may hear some small background noises that she has no control over, but just forgive those. I will do the best I can to edit them out, but if I don't, just, you know, be okay with it. So, janiyah, I am so, so excited to do this and for people to hear you again, but in a different way, with more particulars. So how are you doing today, janiyah? I'm doing good, good. I'm really glad to have this conversation again, so I like to dive right in. So, janiyah, we met two years ago and I want a girls blossom group where she wants to talk to like young girls before she can like connect to.


    Janiya Cheatham: 2:15


    她想和十幾歲的女孩們建立聯繫,但女孩們不來,女孩們不來。所以只有我一個人參加她的「嗯」課程。然後我們,然後我們只是在談論一些事情,然後不知怎麼的,她突然問你,你喜歡自己什麼?我就像她一樣,你喜歡自己什麼?我?她直視我的靈魂,我就像她現在到底在說什麼?她為什麼要問我這個?但當她問我時,我真的不知道我是誰,我真的不知道。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 3:01


    So diving into that. So we met. I was doing volunteer work at a local community center and I was volunteering to do a teenage girl group because they really needed help with teenage girls, and so I decided to do that and that is how I met Janiyah. But, janiyah, I want you to tell the audience, go back to the Janiyah that I met. How did she see herself back then?


    Janiya Cheatham: 3:23


    I did not see myself. I didn't, honestly, I didn't picture a good future for myself at all. I just thought I was someone that's going to have no sort of education, not know who. I am no self-love, just someone that has no goals. I just see myself like a bum.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 3:44


    Did you see yourself as intelligent? No, I did not at all, did you see yourself as desirable or worth anybody wanting to be around?


    Janiya Cheatham: 3:53


    不,我沒看到。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 3:55


    And how do you see yourself now?


    Janiya Cheatham: 3:57


    I see myself. That is very I see myself. That is very, very intelligent. I see a good future. I love myself very much. I wouldn't want to be nobody else. I'm grateful to be who I am, yeah like.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 4:16


    So there's a big, drastic difference between the Janiyah that I met and the Janiyah you are now and back then how did you see your future?


    Janiya Cheatham:4:26


    我以為我是。說實話,我看不到未來,沒有美好的未來。我沒想過自己能完成學業。我沒想過自己能上大學。我甚至都沒想過要上大學,因為我覺得自己根本沒上過。我覺得自己不適合上大學。我覺得自己又蠢又笨又遲鈍。這些字根深蒂固地刻在我的腦海裡,所以我看不到未來。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 4:52


    The other thing I want to ask you is you were in a relationship back then.


    Janiya Cheatham:4:57


    Yes.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 4:58


    And how was that relationship just very?


    Janiya Cheatham: 5:01


    briefly, it was very toxic. That's one of the reasons why I didn't see no future as well, because that person didn't have no future. So, like you know, that caught on, that caught on to me and um, it was really he. This person like was mentally abusive to me and said, like bad stuff to me. That's one of the reasons why I had like low self-esteem as well, so I didn't know who I was and I thought I was nothing without him. So I felt like I needed him to feel special.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 5:41


    There's a lot of young girls out there right now who are thinking in the same situation and thinking the same way. Would you be with that same type of person today? Oh, no, no, no no no, I love how quickly you just jumped out your skin. Oh hell, no, she's like no. So you see your future differently now, correct? Yes. How do you see your future differently now, correct, yes. How do you see your future now?


    詹尼婭·奇瑟姆:6:06


    I see my future, oh I can. I see success, like tons of like success. It's like I just everything. I just get goosebumps Like I can't explain. I just can't explain. I just see lots of. I see a lot of happiness and a lot of success. I freaking love that.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 6:27


    So I'm sorry. What did you say?


    賈妮亞·奇瑟姆:6:30


    That's just what I think about every day.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 6:32


    Yeah, I know, and I, I. It brings me joy to see that. So you thought years ago. When I first met you, two years ago, you thought that you had no future. You didn't even see yourself finishing school, much less going to college. That was like a pipe dream out in the cloud somewhere at the time and I asked you about your future. But what specifically are you working on right now about your future?


    詹妮亞·奇瑟姆:6:55


    Currently I am a criminal justice major but I'm thinking of switching to sociology. So, since criminal justice and sociology has a good connection, my counselors didn't want me. They didn't want to put me in sociology right away, so I'm just taking sociology classes. So I for my sophomore year I there's a huge chance of me taking major in sociology and then maybe having a pre-law as a minor to help. What's your?


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:7:27


    eventual goal. What's your eventual my?


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:7:29


    eventual goal is to go to law school and become a family attorney there you go so you went from someone that thought she was dumb, thought she had no value, no gifts, no talents, didn't see yourself as ever even being remotely possible for you to go to college to. You are now in college, actively working on working towards your degree so you can go to law school and become a lawyer, and you really haven't faltered from that. You've waved back and forth a little bit about how you're going to do it and which classes and all that, but you haven't wavered on your end goal, and the Janiyah of two years ago didn't think she was capable of that, correct? Yes, you really actually believed that. And so now I want to ask you because we're talking about coaching on this episode For those of you listening right now, we're talking about coaching and what it has done for her.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 8:26


    So just giving you a little bit of background about where she came from and where she is Now we're going to dive into how that came about. So, janiyah, what have you accomplished? I just named one, but I want them to hear your own words on it. What have you accomplished that you thought you never would?


    Janiya Cheatham:8:45


    Something that I things that I have accomplished that I would never would is the first accomplishment I made into like to now how I am is finding who I am and finding who I am and then accepting who I am and then, after that, accepting who I was. I had no other choice but to love myself, because self-love is important, because if I don't love myself, how can I love anyone else? And that's very important and we should value ourselves.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 9:21


    沒錯。這不僅關乎愛別人,也關乎你所取得的成就。我認識你的時候,你還沒有那種自信去踏出那些步伐。以前的賈娜雅絕對不會憑著自己的意志去做到這一點。我之所以這麼說,是因為現在還有很多年輕女性在聽我演講,她們還是跟你一樣,不相信自己。她們覺得自己笨,覺得自己醜,覺得自己一文不值,沒有任何天賦和才能。不只是你一個人。成千上萬的女孩,甚至可能是數百萬,因為我們面對的是全球的聽眾,她們都這樣看待自己。但這永遠都是錯的。永遠都錯。永遠都錯。細節可能不同,方式可能不同,但永遠都錯。所以我想讓你告訴聽眾,這就是你發現自己的一點。


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:10:19


    Another thing which I already mentioned is the fact that you're in college and you mentioned earlier. Thing which I already mentioned is the fact that you're in college and you'd mentioned earlier. You never thought in a million years that that would be you. But you've accomplished that. You got out of a toxic relationship. You have self-esteem now that you never had before at all. You are actually actively in college and doing well, and you never thought that any of that was possible because that's just not where you were when I met you. Those are major, major, major, major things. There's a lot of other little micro accomplishments that you've made, but I would name those as the big ones. So now I want you to tell the audience in your own words, and then I'll explain it afterwards, but I want them to hear from you. How did that happen about your, your difference between the Janiyah of two years ago and the Janiyah of today?


    Janiya Cheatham: 11:09


    Well cause, I met you.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 11:11


    Yes, but you met me, but, and you got coaching from me. But what are some of the specific things that have really helped you to develop into who you are?


    Janiya Cheatham: 11:21


    I remember the first, the first thing, the first. She gave me a homework and the homework was she. So she made homemade lotion and she gave it to me and she told me when you put this on, say, say I love myself. And then I did, did that. And then the next time I seen her she said okay, are you still doing she's, are you still doing the homework, are you still taking your lotion and rubbing you on yourself saying I love yourself? I'm like yeah. She said okay, I want you to change it and saying I am so precious, so I'm like okay, I questioned myself in my head, but I still did it. And when I, it hard for you to do it first.


    Janiya Cheatham: 12:06


    It was. It was so weird. I'm like, yeah, I love myself, I am so precious. And I'm like who are we talking to? Yeah, probably, and day by day, it was just a normal thing. And then I started to actually believe it. So that's how I. That was like the first thing I've ever done was basically telling myself I love myself, I'm so precious.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:36


    Let me ask you this when we first met, I asked you questions that made you uncomfortable, correct?


    Janiya Cheatham: 12:43


    Yes.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:44


    But did they work?


    Janiya Cheatham: 12:45


    Yes.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:46


    But I also. I asked you those questions, but I also did not shove it down your throat, correct?


    Janiya Cheatham: 12:52


    Yeah.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:53


    So I'm saying that to the audience because I think it's important to point that out, because real coaching you're going to be, if you're going to be with a coach or therapist or anything in between if they only want you to be comfortable all the time run Because they're not helping you grow, if you want a person to grow, there's going to be discomfort. It comes with the territory. So if you don't want that, then what you want is to go to a diaper station and have your bottom powdered because you want to be babied. That doesn't help you grow. So my point in saying all that is that I said things that made her uncomfortable but they worked because they made her think, they made her realize oh my God, I don't have anything good to say about myself, I think there might be something wrong with that and she didn't realize it at first.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:13:41


    It took her a while. I had to kind of coach her out of being quiet and reserved and not you know, she. I had to coach her out of holding everything back all the time and got to a point where she was freely willing to express herself to me, you know, kind of like for the first time with anybody in that manner and it was. It was beautiful to see there are many other ways that I was able to coach you. So have we had a lot of conversations.


    賈妮亞·奇瑟姆:14:10


    Yeah.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 14:12


    And what are some of the things that I've said to you that haven't clicked or made a difference for you?


    Janiya Cheatham:14:17


    所以首先,就像我說的,一開始她就問你喜歡自己什麼?我說不出來。我的腦子一片空白,無法回答這個問題。我不想撒謊。我想不,這並不混亂。我認為這完全是一派胡言,因為我就像。我想,好吧,這怎麼會,這會如何幫助我?我什至不知道答案。我想這是什麼問題?這就像某種 BS。答案我想這是什麼問題?這就像某種 BS。然後她還問了我的另一個問題是,是的。


    Janiya Cheatham:14:57


    所以她說你小時候她常做什麼?我說我不懂跳舞之類的。她說不,不是那樣的。但是你小時候最喜歡做什麼?我說她在說什麼?孩子們做什麼?他們只是玩。所以我問她在說什麼?我無法回答這個問題。是的,我無法回答我的問題。我花了至少兩三天才弄清楚。所以我只是坐在沙發上。我只是在思考,這是什麼?這是什麼樣的問題?我以前常做什麼?我小時候常做什麼。


    Janiya Cheatham: 15:33


    Something I used to do when I was a kid a lot was just always something I used to do was explain myself all of the time. When I say all the time, all the time I say something that's not right and it bothers me so much, I will give an explanation. And my family they will think, like you know, she's just being a smart aleck, she don't know what she's talking about, whoop-de-whoop-de-whoop, all that stuff, and yeah. And then it starts to build up and I'm like, well, wait a second, I like to, I know what I like. I just like I like talking, like I just love talking to people. I like I like to talk to people and give and still like, if they ask me a question, I'll be more than I'll be more than happy enough to like explain it. And then another thing I also do is I like talking to my I like talking to myself.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 16:31


    There's been a lot of different ways in the conversations that we've had. So we've had a lot of conversations over these past couple of years and I want the audience to understand also. Did these changes happen overnight?


    Janiya Cheatham:16:43


    No, it took. It was like.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 16:45


    This was like around Januarybruary through all the way to like may well, that part, yeah, but what I want to point out is that you are, you've changed and, yes, you're still changing, you're still growing, you're still advancing, and that's exactly what you should be doing now. Have you had moments where you wanted to just quit and punch a hole in the wall and go away?


    Janiya Cheatham: 17:13


    Yes.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:17:15


    每次她有這種感覺的時候我都會接到電話嗎?是的,是的,她有這種感覺的時候我都會接到電話。


    Janiya Cheatham: 17:24


    Anytime discouraged.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:17:25


    I always call Ms Vang because yeah, and but you haven't given up, you haven't quit. Now, the thing I want to point out is I may have coached you out of quitting, and coached you in those moments where you were feeling down and defeated and weak, but at the end of the day, you're the one who's still running. I didn't run for you. Have I ever let me ask you this? There are times where you would seek my advice for things and then I wouldn't give it to you.


    Janiya Cheatham: 18:00


    What did I do? Oh my God, I hate when she does that. What would I do instead? You just question, you just ask me questions.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 18:11


    And do you 100% of the time you come up with the answer? Yeah, and it's annoying at first because I'm not just handing you an answer on a silver platter and sometimes I will because of the situation, because of timing matters, depending on what it is. Sometimes I will just give you an answer, but most of the time I do not. I make you figure it out for yourself, and the reason is you can't grow if I'm doing all the growing for you. You can't grow if I'm just handing you answers. It's important to me that you actually grow and become the woman that you were created to be, and you're not going to do that by me holding your hand and petting you all the time. You're going to do that because you're going to seek out some answers for yourself, and not only that, but when you find the answer for yourself, it's actually far more effective at you staying there and staying on that stance or believing in the decision that you made, because you made it. I didn't tell you to make it.


    Janiya Cheatham: 19:05


    Right.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 19:06


    所以,對於正在收聽節目的各位,我希望你們明白,這期節目的意義遠不止於此。法蒂瑪是一位出色的教練。沒錯,我的確是一位優秀的教練,而且,我來這裡就是為了告訴你們這一點。但這並不是我要告訴你們的唯一內容,因為我並非世界上唯一的優秀教練。無論你來找我還是其他人,事實上,教練的指導在很多時候都是必要的,尤其是對青少年來說。每個教練都不一樣,我們並非都適合你,沒關係,但我並非世界上唯一的優秀教練。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 19:38


    需要教練的幫助,是因為這樣你才能更快地到達更好的地方,在生活中有所作為,取得進步,而不是等到有了三個孩子、經歷了兩個前夫之後,才恍然大悟,而這種情況在很多人身上經常發生。如果你在高中時找到一位好的教練,並且認真聽取他的指導,你就能避免很多你周圍一些成年人後悔犯過的錯誤,因為這種情況經常發生,無論你身處哪個國家,來自哪種文化,我都百分百相信。那麼,你認為你從中獲得的最大價值是什麼?你的自尊心得到了提升。我們知道這一點。但說到價值觀,你認為與我共事,你獲得的最大價值是什麼?


    Janiya Cheatham: 20:23


    A great sense of humor.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 20:27


    I never crack jokes. I'm always so serious, oh no.


    Janiya Cheatham: 20:31


    有時候我沒辦法這麼嚴肅。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 20:36


    Tell the audience what you told me earlier about my sense of humor.


    Janiya Cheatham: 20:40


    她上了我的節目。她來參加我2024年6月的高中畢業典禮。我當時就坐在那裡。畢業典禮上,大家都在發表長篇大論的演講,距離每個人上台領取畢業證書還有五分鐘,所以我很緊張,因為我坐在前面,我的大名是以C開頭的,但我的姓也是以C開頭的,她總是給我發短信,總是給我發各種荒唐可笑的短信。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 21:16


    So let me tell y'all what I was doing. I'm sitting here I hope her mom's not listening to this episode because I'm sitting here knowing that she's nervous. I know that she's nervous cause she's going to walk across the stage and I just knew she was nervous, like a lot of people are, and I didn't want her to end up tripping and falling or making a big mistake or making a crazy face because she was nervous, nervous. So I started texting her. Talking real stupid. So I was texting her, spelling things really bad, talking like I'm from the streets and anybody who knows me. That is not my normal mode of speech, so it's even funnier coming from my mouth because I don't talk like that. So I'm talking to her. Talking about you is be edumacated now when I spelled edumacated out. Edumacated now when I spelled edumacated out. I is proud of you Just really.


    Janiya Cheatham: 22:18


    I don't know what else I said, but I said all of these ridiculous things? Me is so proud of you.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:22:22


    Yes, and I was just and it wasn't just that what I was saying. I was spelling it as bad as I could. I was trying to find the absolute worst spelling of spelling things phonetically and sending it off to her. So I'm texting her and everybody around her is like why is this chick giggling? But you know what, when she got up and walked across to receive her diploma, she had a big old cheesy smile on her face and arrived with confidence and the principal even was like wow, she's really happy to get her diploma. But little did they know I was actually being a little little comedian, making her laugh so that she would have good pictures, be relaxed and receive a diploma without tripping or doing something else out of nervousness. So, even though I was being utterly ridiculous and like why would you ever send somebody those kinds of texts? You haven't met me.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 23:20


    I say crazy stuff because humor is sometimes needed and with me you're always going to get that because even though I'm very serious and very deep, I'm equally goofy. That's actually what makes me work well with teenagers, because I am not all deep and serious all the time. I'm also really goofy because sometimes it's needed, and in Janiyah's situation. It was actually needed and it did crack me up because her mother's sitting there, apparently. She told me her mother was texting her, like why are you laughing?


    Janiya Cheatham: 23:48


    Are you okay? But sense of humor is very important because, like coming from like a teenager, I wouldn't want to like talk to someone that has like no personality, like give you like sort of like robot vibes, like oh my god, yeah boring no robot here, but anyway, the point is, um, I point is I'm here to talk about coaching and I'm using myself as an example.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 24:13


    Yes, you can contact me to to receive coaching, if you want. I coach people of all ages, not just teenagers, but teenagers are my specialty. Not going to lie, I do have a woman right now that I'm coaching who's in her 60s. So I just I go across the spectrum because I acclimate my coaching to the people I'm coaching, who's in her 60s. So I just I go across the spectrum because I acclimate my coaching to the people I'm talking to, regardless of age and regardless of culture or country. So humor is something that you're always going to get with me, because it's an integral part of who I am. If you want robot vibes, there's so many robots out there already, so go pick one. Now, janaya, I want to ask you what'd you say? Got chat, gpt, exactly, exactly. Do you think it's a good idea for teens to get coaches?


    Janiya Cheatham: 25:03


    Yes, Even if you don't think you need it, get one, because you sometimes a lot of teens and I was one of these teens you need help and you don't even realize you need help and a coach is not a parent.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:25:16


    I think that's important to point out. A coach is not a parent, so we can say and do things that a parent is not going to A parent. Their position is a parent, not a coach. So they're not going to do everything a coach is going to do, because it's just not in the nature of their position as your parent. They're going to freak out more than we will because you were their child. I mean, that's just, that's normal, honestly, it's really normal.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:25:39


    And sometimes, if you're a parent listening, it's a good idea to get a coach because, simply, your child's not going to tell you everything. You might have a relationship where they do, but count your blessings, because that's and I do mean extremely rare. It is a good idea to have a coach, a counselor, a therapist, somebody I don't care what title they are somebody that they can talk to to help flesh out their thoughts, advise them or guide them in the right direction, because you're their parent. They're not always going to listen to you, even though you might say the same exact thing that I would, and I have coached people whose parents told them the same thing, but it was magical when it came from me, it's because I'm not their parent.


    Janiya Cheatham:26:27


    您可能認為您了解您的孩子,但實際上您並不了解,所以這很重要。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 26:32


    Good point, janiyah, very good. As parents, half of y'all really don't know your kids. There's many reasons for that and not all of it's your fault. Sometimes you shut them down so they shut you out and they just don't share with you, but some of it's just simply because you're their parent, you take care of them, you want to make sure they're safe, so you go the extra mile that the other adults won't do. That's the normal part of parenting. Okay, it's the normal part of parenting.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 26:57


    So sometimes you don't know your kids because they're not opening up to you and it's helpful to have somebody else. You could have an aunt, that favorite auntie, who that might be your, your coach for them, and honestly, that's sometimes. It's okay. It depends on who they are. But in some families I've seen that absolutely work or an uncle or grandmother or somebody at the church, whatever it is, and that's okay. But they need someone who's not their parent that can help guide them, because they're not going to listen to me, they're not going to listen to you the same way they're going to listen to me or someone else who's not their parent. That is just a fact. You might not be comfortable with that, you might not like it, but it's true, and if you really want to be helpful for your child, it's a good idea to seek out a coach or someone in their life that can help guide them in a way that you can't, because they will listen to them, because you're a parent, so you don't know nothing At least that's what most children think, and even though it's, like 80% of the time, not true.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 28:01


    But you know, when you're dealing with teenagers, that's just the nature of the beast for most of them, because we can help you to curtail some of the mistakes that dramatically change your life and cause you to delay progress for 10 or 20 years, because that happens a lot. And I know a lot of adults are listening to me right now, shaking or nodding their head because they know it's true. Now, what do you have to say, janiyah? What do you have to say to teens around the world? This is an international podcast. We're talking to teens all over the world. Right now Do you have an opportunity to say something to them. What do you want to say?


    Janiya Cheatham:28:43


    你們知道自己是誰嗎?


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 28:45


    Do you?


    Janiya Cheatham:28:45


    know what you like about yourself? Do you know what you want to be in life If you don't just know?


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 28:58


    you are not alone and you will figure it out if you decide to help yourself.


    Fatima Bey《心靈轉換者》:29:00


    If you don't, you're going to continue to feel like a lost soul. Well said, janiyah. I can't even add to that, because you said it so perfectly Well. Thank you, janiyah, for coming on. I really, really appreciate you doing another episode. She was really excited to do another episode because she just wants to give updates, but I will tell you y'all, listen in for real.


    Fatima Bey 心靈轉換者:29:19


    I have absolutely loved watching this girl grow. I have absolutely loved watching this girl grow and watching her become the leader she was born to be, because she is a leader and it's already started to manifest herself, manifest itself in college. And I can tell you, as a coach, as a surrogate mother, whatever you want to call me, I love, love, love, love watching people grow. I love seeing people become themselves and recognizing the beauty that's within them. And if you want me to do that for you too, my website and everything will be in the podcast description, the show notes, they call it, so you can contact me. If I don't care where you are in the world and I want to mention this because this is an international podcast and I'm talking to teens everywhere in the world I don't care if you're Chinese, if you live in Saudi Arabia or Guatemala. También yo hablo español, so I do services in Spanish as well. By the way, I don't care where you are in the world. I'm able to actually still help you Because something that you might not realize about me because I don't talk about a lot in my podcast is that I actually have a lot of experience in working with people from other countries, and this experience has happened in different capacities and different positions that I've had in my life, and working with people of different cultures is something that I actually specialize in and understand. So, even though I'm American, please don't assume that I have an American mindset. I really, truly do not. I understand if you are in Saudi Arabia and you're a woman. There are certain rules that you must abide by. There are certain parts of the culture that you live by, and I actually particularly understand that, and I can coach you to work within the culture that you are actually in, just like you heard me work with Janiyah within the mindset that she was in, to help her move on to a better space or a better place.


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 31:17


    我相信要根據人們的實際情況與他們相處,而不是試圖把你美國化,或把你的思維模式改變成美國人的思考模式。我不會這麼做,因為如果你不是美國人,我不會強迫你成為美國人。如果你住在厄瓜多爾,我會根據你的厄瓜多爾文化,幫助你在當地取得成功。我認為這一點很重要,因為我不想讓聽眾以為我是美國人,就只會用美國人的方式或美國人的思考模式來對待你。我不是,過去不是,現在也不相信這種說法。所以,所有聽眾,請務必喜歡並訂閱我的播客,也請瀏覽我的網站,看看我的輔導服務是否符合你的要求。但我還要說,即使你不需要我的輔導服務,或是我不適合你,也沒關係。如果你還是青少年,請找一個能指引你人生方向的成年人,他們不會因為不是你的父母就把你當小孩一樣對待。這點非常重要,因為我們當中很多人會真心關心你,希望你做到最好。盡力而為吧。我們這樣的人有很多。所以,即使我不是那個人,也請務必抓住你的良師益友,而不是讓別人來指導你,這樣你就可以避免十年來犯下的錯誤。說了這麼多,再次感謝janiyah的到來,我們下週再見。


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 32:55


    And now for a mind-shifting moment, I want to talk to specifically young girls right now. Out there, anywhere in the world, no matter where you are. Do you feel about yourself the way Janiyah once did? Do you think that you're nothing now, have very little hope or no hope for your future? Do you not believe that you're nothing now, have very little hope or no hope for your future? Do you not believe that you're worth anything, that you have talents or gifts, or that you're worth more?


    Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 33:28


    如果這就是你,就像Janiyah說的,你並不孤單。很多人都有同樣的感受,你們每個人都錯了。如果你想獲得幫助,找到克服困難的方法,如何打開你大腦的開關,了解你的真正價值,請給我打電話,如果不是我,你也打給我。給我打電話,如果不是我,你也打給我。讓別人來幫助你,因為你的價值遠遠超過你的想像。感謝你的聆聽。請務必在我們的任何全球平台上關注或訂閱MindShift Power播客,這樣你也能參與到改變世界各地年輕人生活的對話中來。永遠記住,轉變思維的力量是巨大的。