What Every Man Want From Their Woman
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Summary
In this episode, I speak to a young girl who has been through a lot in her life and has worked hard to improve herself. She shares her journey of self improvement and how she has been able to overcome a lot of obstacles in life. We talk about her struggles with anxiety, depression and self esteem issues, how she dealt with them and the things she has worked on in order to improve.
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Trying to improve the aspect which that doesn't mean that I don't listen to people. I don't I don't care
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I'm actually very passionate. So everything is actually the opposite when I'm very passionate about something
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I just you know through my ideas. So you worked on talking less and therapy. Those are the two things
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Well, just like having this type of dialogue conversations when I don't cut people when they talk eventually. Okay, what did you do?
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Um, I also went to therapy not not for very long
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Eventually want to go back because I think it is very important. I think a lot of people need therapy
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It's it's just because you know, we've all I think everyone's been through something in life
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And I do think it it plays a role in how you are in relationships. So yeah
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Go forward. Did you do anything else therapy and then any other self-improvement stuff? Um, no, it was just for me
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Okay, what about you mine was building my confidence?
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Um, how do you how do you do that go to the gym? Okay?
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Um, so I took time out because I feel like you don't really get I'm very I'm much of a giver of life
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So I always sit on the phone to someone and give my energy all the time and I felt like gym was my space of having my energy
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Getting myself back and it was even like even now I go for a walk at lunch time just to take time out for myself
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And I couldn't do that. I realized that there was times where I wasn't by myself
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So I needed to work on myself to learn to love myself
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And I go to the temple now once a week and just pray
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So you got closer to god you did therapy and did you say that?
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I didn't know you did therapy. You went to the gym
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Yeah, closer to god just walk and I love um nature and stuff like that
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So I'm quite an earthy person. I'll actually like to walk in the park and see the trees and see little squirrels run around
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And say hi to the old people because they're really nice
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That's what I love to do to be honest and music honestly
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Is my therapy because anytime I'm sad I sing a sad song to myself
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And majority time I freestyle it forget the words and then I can't write after that
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But you know and when I'm happy is and I feel like music does help me a lot
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Uh, what did you or did you do any self-improvement and if so what?
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I have accountability partners which they're my sisters, but like they give me a lot of sisters are good for that
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They're honest. Oh, yeah, you're not going to get anyone else. Yeah, exactly
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My mom as well like literally she'll tell me the truth all the time
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So yeah, I think the things that I worked on was my patience. I used to be very impatient
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I think I still am but like I'm definitely improving
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Have you ever noticed like um because I'm not the most patient person in the world
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But I found that like my impatience is what makes me good at things because I'm so impatient
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Like I don't want to be bad at something so I'll get like good at it really fast
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But it's also like not good when it comes to relationships. Exactly
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So yeah, I think that my impatience is something that I definitely have worked on and I've improved
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And how did you know you improved? Did your sisters notice?
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Yeah, definitely and I feel like in relationships I could just find myself, you know
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I don't want to say tolerating because that's obviously a negative word to use
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But like not just lashing out or reacting or being impatient
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I feel like when people don't think fast on their feet
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So I think fast on my feet like I don't like slow people so
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But it's like it's kind of good for you though when you walk slow and like enjoy life a little more
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And I'm seeing the beauty of taking time to do things like like you said walking as well and stuff like that
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And you I know you mentioned you're on like a health journey. So I'm assuming that's one. Okay. What else?
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I thought about the type of man that I wanted and then looked at myself and I was like, okay
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How I am physically am I going to attract the type of man that I'm I I want now
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I'm not saying that I can't get that type of man because I can but it's not that I'm trying to get them
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Do you see what I mean like you need to keep you I want to keep the man I want the husband I want the family and
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Realistically speaking a lot of men. I'm not saying that you know their preferences aren't plus size women
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His preference would probably be somebody that is a lot that does weigh a lot less than me. How much weight have you lost?
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Um, so I've been on the fitness journey since February
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So it's new. I mean it's okay. You have to start somewhere. Yeah, I just started yeah
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But um since I've since the ending of February, I've lost nine pounds. Okay. Yeah
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Okay, do you have a goal weight there? Like you don't have to say the weight but like a goal number like amount of pounds
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You're trying to lose and I want to lose around 50 pounds. Okay, that's great. That's awesome. Yeah
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Anything else that you've done self-improvement and no, okay
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Um, just this is I know that stuff guys always say
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So I would say I'm currently still trying to self-improve myself
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So I'm just trying to spend more time with myself just trying to do things that makes me happy
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So I just go on solo dates myself and just spend more time alone. I pray more as well
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Yeah, that's what I'm and I'm trying to get get into the gym as well
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But other than that it's just what I've been doing is just spending time for myself and my son as well
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So, um, I'm curious for you. Um, because you seem very in love
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What do you feel like you brought that other girls didn't?
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Um, I don't know God put me in a place where my match was there
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You didn't think you brought like anything that other girls didn't?
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Um, I don't know well well my partner essentially he's like I said he's very intellectual
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So he likes a female that is very intellectual that can hold conversation
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Um, who isn't just pretty that brings more to the table than just that
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I feel like a lot of um modern day females are very like
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Um, what are you eventually after you weren't at first?
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What we're gonna do is outright so he needs to show me that there's a reason for me to be submissive
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Um, so he has to show me different qualities to why I need to be submissive or why I should be submissive
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I think it just comes it plays in trust really and um
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Knowing somebody being able to empathize with that individual
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You know just understanding their different attributes
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And once I've understood that I feel like that's when I became wholeheartedly me
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Put like cooking clean, you know any of the traditional like housewife stuff like I don't think did anyone say that?
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No, I asked like it approved at it like to to get in a relationship
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Well, you I speaking for me. I come from an African household
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So I have to cook and clean like you know as a woman my brother sits there and does nothing
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As women, that's just my culture whether it's wrong or right. That's just how we've been brought up
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We cook and we clean my mom cooks for us every single day
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If it's not every other day is every single day she feeds us and that's just how we were brought up
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So you know when you're conditioned to something
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Do what you're conditioned to that's what I'm conditioned to so
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I'm always going to just do what I've all I've known
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Okay, so you feel like you were raised to be a wife so you didn't need to improve at that
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My whole purpose in life is not just to be the wife
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There's more to me than just the wife, you know
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I'm intellectual, I'm small, I'm pretty, you know, I have more to change
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I have so much to put in this world than just to be a wife
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It's not just a wife if you're proud of the man you're with
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Because you know I'm speaking on like, you know, in Africa for instance
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Let me give you that sort of scenario, hypothetical situation
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In Africa, you know, I feel like they're brought up to be just wives
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That's what they know, you know, but here I know more than just a wife
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I can be a working wife and my mom showed me that
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No, but I'm saying like in the west our outcomes are terrible
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I don't know I'm not going to tell you the stats of like Africa
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But what I'm saying like in terms of our divorce stats, they're horrible
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So being raised to like it seems like being raised to be just a wife
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Seems like a better outcome because you have an intact family
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Which I would argue you you're going to be happier if you have a family
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I agree, but then when we're in a western society
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You have to include the whites, the black, the Asians and every other
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When I'm speaking in Africa, I'm talking about all the black Africans
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It is good, but it doesn't always happen that way, you know
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In regards to me, if I'm getting married, I'm marrying forever
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And you know, completely different to what I see what men do now
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Because my grandad was working in some serious labor work
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And he's always worked his whole life being here
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So it does depend on the country you're from as well
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But even if I had the opportunity to be just a wife
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I want to make sure that I portray the image of having your own
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Hey babe I really want you to be home with the kids
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And I feel like it's personal preference as well
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You don't think that's like having one foot out the door?
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Covid taught us you need to have more than one income
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If you think it's okay for someone else to raise your kid
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I think it comes down to circumstances as well though
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I'm not saying like what you should or shouldn't do
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That's if they're allowed to get overtime though
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The trip or spending time with their mom every day
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She doesn't want any teacher talking to her kid