Finding Meaning in Adversity: A Journey Towards Self-Discovery

Welcome to my Blogger With a Twist—a podcast about lifestyle, self-improvement, and personal stories.

Hello, everyone.  Hopefully, you are all experiencing a wonderful day.  For this episode, I share my perspective on not giving up, including my current situation.

As the inspiration for this episode - I hope my words can be a source of encouragement for anyone going through a rough patch in life.

That said, grab your snacks, and let's get this episode started.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:00 Welcome to the episode
• 2:07 My perspective on never giving up
• 11:23 Ending

Transcript

00:08
Hey everyone, my name is Brooke, your fellow podcaster from the East Coast, content creator,  creative artist, and entrepreneur,  and welcome to my podcast, Blogger  with a Twist.  So basically on my podcast,  I'll mainly be doing topics about lifestyle.

00:28
I may do a couple rants or story times about my life  or whatever comes to mind  that is the gist of this podcast.  So if any of you guys find it interesting,  definitely share the podcast,  subscribe,  also tell your friends or family.  And last but not least,  get your favorite snacks, your popcorn, whatever  you like to eat,  sit back and relax and let's get this episode

00:58
popping.  Hey you guys it is your girl Brooke and welcome back to a new episode  and hopefully  you guys out there having a good day good week and just living  your best life. So for this episode  what I want to talk about is  not giving up  even when you feel like  life

01:25
is not being fair to you or maybe you feel like why is this happening to me?  And you know what inspired this week's episode  is something that I'm currently going through right now. And at first I was a little hesitant to make this episode, but then I thought about it and I realized that

01:50
This episode could be hopeful to any of you guys out there  that may need some type of encouragement  or some words of wisdom.  So that being said,  grab your snacks and let's get this episode popping.  So basically what happened is that I found out Tuesday of this week that I got terminated from my job at the gas station.

02:19
And so  how it unfolded was  last  Saturday,  I was scheduled to work  the second shift,  which was from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. But my boss called me later on.  No, my boss called me  earlier in the day to tell me that I was suspended and I can't come into work and that he would give me an update.

02:48
next week meaning this week because HR was closed for the weekend. Now I'm not going to go into detail about why I got terminated from my job. I'm just going to say that I made a mistake that unfortunately cost me to lose my job. Now  when my manager gave me the news  this Tuesday, I had mixed emotions about it.

03:18
Because on the one end of the situation,  I felt kind of sad because I do not have a backup plan  and the jobs that I had been applying to  even before I got terminated had not got back in contact with me.  And then I started thinking about, I still have to pay my bills and also have to get

03:45
my tooth taken out which is infected this Friday and I have to pay for that and other bills  and also started thinking about I cannot afford to be  unemployed for three months like I was the last time before I got my job at the gas station and just everything  about how am I going to pay for stuff.

04:10
So that was the one end of the spectrum about me being stressed out about my bills and stuff because like I've said it before,  no matter if you're sad or depressed, bills still have to be paid. Okay. But then at the same token, I was kind of relieved that I did get terminated because

04:33
I've said in my previous podcast episodes that I really wanted to leave the gas station  and  after,  like I said, that customer got into my face, I really was done with the gas station. So I've been trying to leave there for months and I told myself that...

04:53
I did not want to be there any longer than a year  because I got hired back in  October, I believe, of 2024.  So it's been, I think, exactly six months of me working there before I got fired. And so  I will say that this is the first job I've ever had that I've

05:15
gotten fired from in such a short amount of time because I'm not one of those people  that hop from job to job. And so, um,  yeah, you guys just thinking about that and how everything  happened.  The best I can really do is to move on and just keep pushing forward, which is what brings me to this week's topic  about not giving up. I feel like when it comes to life,

05:45
you may be put or given situations that may be unfair, but I think sometimes it can make you a stronger person. So I'm giving you guys another example about myself. When I was younger,

06:02
I did get sexually assaulted and so for a long time I did not go to therapy because I felt like it wouldn't help me and for a lot of years I blamed myself for what happened to me and I kept telling myself well if I wasn't there or this, that, and the third it would have never happened and so yeah a lot of years of having shame and guilt but after I went to therapy about two years ago

06:32
I think that's when I finally realized that it was not my fault and what these people did to me it was wrong. But at the same time it definitely made me a stronger person and made me realize that if I can get through that I can get through anything.

06:49
And so that's why I say that when it comes to life, the cards that you are dealt are not always going to be rainbows and sunshines. OK. But even so, I feel like it's more so how you answer to it, how you answer to it and how you will continue to live your life. Because I remember I came across a video on YouTube  of this young woman talking about her story of getting COVID-19.

07:18
And after she got COVID-19, she ended up being hospitalized. And I think she lost a good majority of her limbs to the point that she is now in a wheelchair. Now, mind you, before this young woman got COVID, she was hiking, doing her regular routine, life routine. And then in a blink of an eye, her whole world turned 360. And so when you...

07:48
look at situations like that where people  have to learn  and basically adjust to their new life and this new challenge or whatever that they have to overcome  and they still  make the best out of it. You start to think, well, if they can do that, then I can do the same thing. Think about how many people  were born with an illness that did not ask to have that.

08:14
but they still manage to make the best out of their life. They work hard because the worst thing that you can do is give up on yourself. Like if you give up on other people, I'm not saying that is good or bad,  but.

08:31
When you let your own self down, I feel like that is worse because sometimes in life you have to be your own cheerleader. You may not always have people around you that's going to cheer you on or tell you, oh, you can do this. You got this. Not everybody  has that.  Or in some cases, you may have some people in your life that  are haters and they do not want to see you succeed or grow or prosper.

08:59
And I feel like those are the people that you really have to watch out for and keep them at a distance. Because the one thing that you do not want to do is let what these people say get inside your head. Because I feel like the moment you do that, then it can make you feel like, maybe I shouldn't do this and maybe I'm not going to be successful. And having those negative thoughts, negative connotations and stuff like that.

09:28
it can make it difficult for you to  believe in yourself  and  want to give up so easily. Because when all boils down, if you are not going to put your own foot forward for your own self, for your own sake, then what makes you think that somebody else is going to care about you? I know that sounds kind of harsh, but that is how life is sometimes. I remember...

09:55
a few years ago and I probably may re-upload this story time but when I was booked as an extra for Creed 2 I remember  I had sent probably over 50 submissions because I believe this was the last scene that they was casting

10:17
paid background actors and I really wanted to be in the scene. So I remember I sent like 10 applications in every day for  probably like a week or so.  And it got to the point where I actually got an email from them saying that basically we got your application, like you can stop emailing us  and.

10:39
To my surprise, you guys, actually did get booked because I kept submitting and I did not give up. That's why I say this all goes back around to you can not give up on yourself because I think I made an episode like an old episode that I took down about you should not care about other people's opinions and stuff like that. At the of the day, people are always going to have something to say and you may not always get somebody that's going to agree with what you say or what you

11:09
do, but you don't have to worry about that. Just worry about your life and keep it pushing. Let these other people live their own life. And you know, if they don't want to support you, it is what it is. But I guess to sum up the topic of this episode, I just want to say that whatever you do in life, do not take the shortcut, work hard, do not give up.

11:37
And most importantly,  listen to your heart, listen to your instincts, listen to your mind and do not let what other people say cloud your judgment. so that being said, you guys, if you enjoyed this episode, definitely share  it. If you guys would like to write me an email, tell me what you think of this episode. I believe my email is in the description, but hopefully

12:05
The message in this episode helped out somebody that maybe felt like, I don't know what to do or have some self doubt. Hopefully my words encouraged you to not give up on yourself and just be  the best version of yourself that you can.  And so  thank you guys again for listening. Also, I think I already said this.

12:31
I am having my surgery to get my tooth extracted this Friday so I don't know if I'm making an episode next week but hopefully I will  and  talk to you guys my next episode and remember to  be positive, don't give up and just be you. Peace.