Faith and Discipline. Ash Brown of AshSaidIt.com joins Power Up! for another powerful conversation. She and Tonya Dawn Recla talk about taking action and believing in yourself.
Hello everyone this is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Expert. And I am thrilled to have with me back on the show, Ash Brown. She’s delightful. Those of you who listened to her previous interview. And if you didn’t, I’m not sure why not. So, go listen to it now.
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She’s just a blast! And so I’ve invited her back on the show. We’re going to we have a topic that we want to mull over in your presence, so you can hear what it looks like when two different perspectives collide around the same topic. So, Ash thanks for coming back and playing.
Thank you so much time. I always love coming on Super Power Experts show!
So, the topic we’re talk about today is this whole conundrum of leaping with Faith, but at the same time like be really clear about what’s yours to do. So, Ash I want to turn over to you because you have such a brilliant perspective on that.
Yes, definitely. Taking that leap out on Faith, while being disciplined and staying in your lane. It is so important and pertinent to your being, your destiny. That’s just really the basis of everything that AshSaidIt.com is taking that leap.
I was my own cheerleader. There was no one else that was backing me that was saying “This is Great!” Everybody was like, “No, just go get a regular job. Stop trying to be special, stop trying to be something extra.” I use and all of that. So, it’s a good thing that I didn’t listen to those negative mindsets, that I did not appeal to those people that said that it wasn’t ever going to be anything, it wasn’t ever going to go anywhere. Taking the leap out on faith for me has been tremendous, and has been everything that has come to this point. And Tonya, I just have to announce that today I signed my very first contract for my television program Ash B TV in the Atlanta market. We’re going to be on charter cable! I’ll send you guys all that information as it comes available. But this is definitely taking that leap.
I was scared. A part of me, Tonya, I’m not going to lie, I was possibly thinking about not doing it because it was so scary. Like oh my God, this is so much pressure. What if things don’t go the way it’s supposed to go. And I said, no, I’ve got nothing to lose. I’ve never done a TV show ever. Well, I should say I’ve never done my own tv show, I’ve done television before. But this show is a 30-minute program that’s going to be on Charter Cable in Atlanta Georgia. It’s going to be in the southern market, so close to 2500,00 people are going to get to check this program out. And in addition, I’m going to make it available on AshSaidIt.com, for all of my supporters, everyone that loves me, everyone who’s been pushing for me since day one.
And this is just a testament to that because, let me tell you, I do a lot of just not necessarily guerrilla marketing, but just out of the box nontraditional marketing. And I had contacted several stations about featuring myself and some of the products some things some of my sponsors on their program. Well, one of the program directors for KBN Network, here in Atlanta, hit me up and said, “Hey, we don’t typically do that sort of thing, but I checked out your Website, I looked at your sources, I checked your resume. I’m very impressed. I would love for you to do a program on our station.” And I was just like blown away like What! Little ole’ me?
But that’s what happens when you stay in your lane, when you don’t try to overcompensate and be something that you’re not. When it naturally comes to you, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing. And I’ve seen far too many times people try to compete with others. People try to copycat what other people who are doing it. It’s not meant for you. It’s not going to work. It’s not going to happen. But it’s true, it’s so true.
Like you can’t sit up there for something to be that’s not supposed to be. And the sooner that some people learn that and understand that, the better their life will be.
I agree. And I really particularly appreciate the piece of this conversation that includes that discipline part because it’s so easy for people to say, “Oh, you just have to have faith and trust.” But any of those without action without discipline, without self-control, without all those pieces. It is a complex game, and it’s like you can’t just pick one component to be and be like, “This is the secret.” No! I’m pretty sure all of them are! You have to have all of that.
And I really appreciate everything you say because we’re all seeking that holy grail of like life should be easy and I should be wealthy and all these things should happen in this life. Yes absolutely. And, what does it take to get there? Because it’s our most natural state of existence. But can you really traverse through all of the de-programming and ripping off the layers. And you even testify to that yourself. It would have been so easy to stop. So easy. And everybody around you would have affirmed that you made a smart decision. Like that’s a responsible choice. And everything around us is encouraging us to stay in our little boxes. So really, the question becomes how badly do you want this, and do you want it badly enough to operate in faith and to force yourself to be very disciplined and focused? And it’s all of that. Anybody who tries to tell you it’s like a single pill, like a multi-vitamin maybe. You have to have it all.
You do. And what you said is key, it’s hard work. It’s not just sitting on your butt, just hoping and praying. And you got your Amethyst jewels.
Doing the chanting.
You got the threaded garlic. No! You’ve got to put in work. This is not me saying, I decided to do Ash said it one dayI was blessed this opportunity and that opportunity. I’ve had to bust my butt.
Yeah. Let me tell you this whole the whole month of December, I was working like triple overtime. There were days and I didn’t even sleep not because I wasn’t tired or exhausted. Like literally my body could not rest.
Yup. I’ve been there.
Go ahead.
It reminds me of that joke or whatever about the references to future of the show. But it’s like the town’s flooding. The guy’s on the rooftop praying to God, like come save me. Then God sends a boat. “Come get in the boat.” And guy says, “No, no, no, God’s coming to save me.” Then the helicopter comes, “No, no, no, God’s coming to get me.” The dude dies, and goes to heaven, and God is like, “What’s this about?” “Well, God you just you said you were going to come save me.” “I sent a boat, I sent a helicopter. What did you want from me?” You can’t just sit back and be like, let go and let God. It’s like you have got to give them a little help. You’ve got to do your thing here.
I love that you’re speaking to that because too often, especially when I started talking about Super Powers, everybody wants to levitate and do telekinesis and bilocate, and all the fun stuff. And it’s like, are you willing to do the work that it takes to get to that? That’s the question. It’s like it’s not magic. Maybe at some point in time and will be able to blink your eyes and that will just occur. But we have to work through all of the pieces that impede that. Before we can get there.
Yeah. And unfortunately, we’re in this microwave society where everyone just wants everything immediately. I just want one it as quick as 30 seconds. Then if it were that easy people. Everybody would be super-duper successful. It would be easy.
And that’s the irony is that so many people when they get to the stage where you’re sitting or it’s like t is easy like it it’s the easiest most natural state of our existence. The challenge was working through everything to get there. Yeah. and then that’s where people see like oh it’s like an overnight success. It’s like, yeah, for the last 10 years. like let’s just be clear. But it is so good at it. And here’s the flipside of that folks. It’s not. Oh, my gosh this is so hard and you have to really want it and it’s not worth it because we don’t want to send that message either. But you know if you want it badly enough to do it.
Yeah. And unfortunately for the people that try to downplay what you’re doing they try to discourage you or whatever the case is. Most of them let someone talk them out of their dreams and they don’t want to see you live their dream because they don’t want to live your dream because they’re not living theirs. And if you’re living your dream that oh my goodness they could have lived theirs. That’s the reality. They want to set up there they want to play the blame game. Oh, my mother didn’t love me enough. Oh. No! At the end of the day we all have free will. You do what you want to do. Now whether you put in the work to do it that’s another question.
And everybody gets that choice.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I had heard someone say one time like they only take advice from. So, they don’t take advice from people sitting in the stands they take advice from people on the ground doing that. And I thought that was so powerful it was such a cool imagery like I’m picturing like the Coliseum. It’s like I don’t want people throwing rotten tomatoes now like I want the ones who are battling the giant the beast with me like I don’t know that’s valuable material like oh when with I did that step this is what I use. Awesome. Thank you. Not let me tell you all the reasons why you shouldn’t do it.
No. No. Because even though there is some I heard somebody say this on social media a couple of days ago, they said that you’ve got the same 24 hours in the day that Beyoncé has. She’s the Eighty-five million dollar, billion-dollar woman. And guess what. You’ve got the same 24 hours that she has. So, no excuses.
What are you going to do with it? Exactly. I love that. Well, it’s easy to sit back and judge I think that one thing that social media has done for us. we can we can point fingers all day long and say how it’s the bane of our existence. But I think what it’s really done for us it’s brought out some characteristics and it’s forcing us to choose.
Do we want to sit behind a screen and have our opinions and throw them out there and lobe them at people do we want to listen to that? Do we do we like the impact that that has on us. Do we want to opt out completely? in some level, opting out is the easier. Like can you exist in it. And maintain your center. it didn’t I like to look at those kinds of things is just more opportunity to test our conviction.
Absolutely.
What are you going to do with it? And I think that that’s. that’s the million-dollar question. What are you going to do with it? And I love you’re a testament to the fact that when you persevere and you have that faith combined with discipline. Especially as it comes to hearing your own internal guidance on really where you shine and having the faith to stay in that space is so powerful. So, powerful. Kudos to you.
Thank you. I don’t remember if I saw this on your show or not but before I was about to leave for basic training. And I don’t know if I think I heard a little bit about my story about how I was going to go for basic training. My mom was in ICU. Doctors were not very hopeful of her recovery, and I was two days before basic training. People were asking, Ash are you going to go, or are you not going to go. I said, “No, I’m going to go because she would want me to go.” She would want me to go and push forward.
And I had an older relative that called me the day before I left. My mom’s in ICU and I’m stressed out. I’m trying to get my mind right to get ready for basic training. And she calls me up and she’s like, “Hey, I heard that you joined the Army, you joined the Service.” I said, yeah. “I don’t know why you would do something like that. I was just so ridiculous. You know they’re just going to send you overseas so that you can get killed, right?” And I didn’t need that in that moment.
Now, if I was a person of lesser character or had no respect for my elders whatsoever, I would have gone off on Granny. If I was in my mind right mindset, I would have gone off on a granny. But I had to let it go because her anger or frustration or me doing something that she had never had the ability to do, is not my fault. That’s something that she’s got to deal with eternally and internally. And so, I had to step away from it because this is someone that never had the opportunities that I have and would never be able to do the things that I’m doing rather than her being. Supportive and saying hey that’s a great thing that you’re doing. She wasn’t right because. She didn’t live out her dream whatever that was.
So you have to learn to just repel the negative because it’s coming. And the more success that you have in life and what you are doing the more you’re going to see more and more resistance from people resistance from others. And it’s not that you’re doing anything wrong or anything bad. It’s more about them than it ever is about you.
Well and I like to look at those. A lot of times that comes up once we’ve set our sights on something we have conviction around it. I call it the post-test. And so, it’s an opportunity to really see that conviction. And if we operate off of universal principles like it only shows up in your external environment if an aspect of you resonates at that level. Just because a piece of you resonates there and attracts to you to test that conviction doesn’t mean that you have to slip into it. You get the choice of saying OK I hear you. I hear that piece of me. Got it. You don’t run the show anymore. I’m making a different decision.
And there’s so much power in that. It’s like, let’s not ignore the fact that that exists in the world but not pretend that you’re not going to get people telling you that your ideas don’t make any sense or that you’re or you shouldn’t be doing it. Let’s instead give people the tools to manage that. And just like what you’re talking about, what if it’s really about there be a what if that’s more a reflection of where they’re sitting? You don’t have to go into agreement with that. To me that’s where our power lies.
Yeah. You don’t have to go into agreement with it and you also don’t have to go into disagreement. So just I love and accept people for where they’re at. It just does come to that understanding. OK that’s where they’re at. OK. Leave them there because that’s what it’s like we let them let them stay. You continue on your journey. But like them I can stay. They want to be miserable and stay mad. You keep going forward and do what you want to tell. Let them stay. They wouldn’t be I’m miserable existence.
I love it! I just came to that conclusion here lately. It’s like, wait a second. They want to be there. OK. Like go for it. What do I care! But it goes back to what we talked about like. So many times, we want to make ourselves right by making other people wrong. It’s like if you have conviction in your choices and your decisions, you don’t need to make anybody else wrong for them, for choosing the opposite or whatever. So, it is a big wide world and it’s full of all kinds of choices and decisions that can be made. Like what do we care? Exactly. I love it.
Well awesome it’s a good thing that we run the world.
That’s got to be true. Queen B said it.
That is one of my favorite songs of this house. We also break out into it. So, that’s it for my seven-year-old and I, we’re pretty clear we’ve got a grip of things.
So, as always. and it’s such a pleasure to have you on the show. Let’s remind people where they could find more information about you.
Yes, you guys can find everything that you need to find about Ash at AshSaidIt.com. If you’ve got questions, comments, concerns for me, you can e-mail me [email protected]. Want to give us a call at 1.800.274.4936. Tonya, thank you. As always, it’s always a pleasure to come on with you guys. And tough love.
I love it. Well, we will do this more and more. And so kudos to you and good luck with everything. Keep us posted on how we can support you and me and my lover as well. Thank you. And we love know when you’re out there in the world doing cool stuff so. Very close to all of you out there as always, we appreciate your loyalty. And until next time go out uncover your Super Powers and change the world. Take care everyone.
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