Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 28 ｜ Oh-my-rosa

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, happy Tuesday. It's Allie Stuckey, host of CRTV's Relatable. You are either listening to

00:00:07.180 this on your phone or you are watching this on CRTV.com. I really encourage you to subscribe

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00:00:19.240 what? I take the time to put on makeup and brush my hair and at least look cute from the waist up

00:00:23.620 for you guys. So it would make all this effort worth it if you guys were watching me as well

00:00:28.300 as listening to me. Anyway, today we are going to kind of do a little bit of a news roundup of what

00:00:36.960 happened over the weekend, some things that happened last week. And the common thread through all of this

00:00:42.160 stuff is going to be the media, what they decided to cover, why they decided to cover it, and what

00:00:47.500 they have decided to ignore. So here is a summary of what we're going to discuss. We're going to

00:00:53.760 discuss Omarosa's, uh, tapes, the Unite the Right rally. And, uh, we are going to discuss something

00:01:01.840 that happened last week, but was really not talked about very much. And that is the compound in New

00:01:07.260 Mexico, wherein kids were being trained by radical Islamists to be school shooters. Yes, that actually

00:01:12.640 happened. Um, I am also maybe possibly going to answer a question at the end of this from a listener.

00:01:20.320 I think I will have time to do that. Um, so this is going to make sure that you are pretty in the

00:01:24.680 know about the big ticket items that have happened over the past few days. Um, so number one, Omarosa,

00:01:30.660 Omarosa, Omarosa, I don't really know who is Omarosa. Well, her full name is Omarosa Manigault

00:01:36.600 Newman, but for some reason we all just call her by just her first name, like Beyonce or Kesha. Uh,

00:01:42.760 she used to work for president Trump as an aide. And before that she was on the apprentice,

00:01:47.080 you know, that as the show that Trump hosted and produced, and she used to be extremely loyal to 0.96

00:01:53.520 president Trump. Not so anymore. Uh, she was fired by chief of staff, John Kelly in December of 2017.

00:02:00.480 Uh, shortly after that, she was seen on the reality show, big brother, bad mouthing Trump and

00:02:05.640 Pence. Um, today she released her book unhinged where she is dishing on all of the allegedly horrible

00:02:13.360 things that went on in the white house while she was there. And she is making the press rounds to

00:02:18.220 increase the hype around the book. Uh, she has released recordings of the president and John

00:02:22.920 Kelly in an attempt to, uh, give credence to her book supposedly. And I'll get to those in just a

00:02:28.820 second, but to give you an idea of just how drastically her views of Trump have shifted.

00:02:35.140 Uh, here she was in 2016 talking about the president, every critic, every detractor will

00:02:43.440 have to bow down to president Trump. It's everyone who's ever doubted Donald, whoever disagreed,

00:02:51.380 whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.

00:02:59.060 Okay. So that's a little bit idolatrous, a little bit troubling. Uh, here she was on Monday,

00:03:05.100 of this week on the Today Show. He is known to be an entertainer, to exaggerate, but I never expected

00:03:11.740 him to lie to the country. I thought that he would take his oath of office seriously, that he would be

00:03:16.980 committed to advancing this country. But instead, as I stated, there was a report that said he has

00:03:22.240 said something like 4,000 lies since he's taken office. So he absolutely has an issue with the truth.

00:03:29.180 And sometimes he battles with reality. And in fact, Savannah Guthrie, who was interviewing her,

00:03:34.340 highlighted a different example of her flip-flopping in a similar way. Here's that.

00:03:38.300 You now say, not just because of this tape, but because of, of other matters that you believe 0.91

00:03:43.760 the president to be a racist and a misogynist. This is, this is a theme of your book.

00:03:48.540 Absolutely.

00:03:49.080 Let me play what you said on ABC about whether the president is a racist the day after you were

00:03:53.980 fired. Yes.

00:03:54.760 Do you think this president is racist? Absolutely not. I would never sit nor work for someone who

00:04:02.100 I believe to be a racist. Donald Trump is racial, but he is not a racist.

00:04:07.760 In other parts of this interview, Omarosa claims to have a recording of Trump calling African-Americans

00:04:12.980 on The Apprentice the N-word. In multiple interviews, Omarosa says she heard this tape.

00:04:18.660 But according to NPR, that's not what her book says. Her book says that someone told her about the

00:04:23.920 tape, but she's, that she's never actually heard it herself. Uh, now she's saying that she actually

00:04:28.640 did hear it for herself and that hearing the tape is what changed the game for her and what freed her

00:04:33.600 to go out and tell her story. Um, so she's inconsistent in her testimony for one. And also she's just kind

00:04:41.760 of sketchy anyway for how she's gone about this whole thing. Remember I said that she has, uh,

00:04:48.280 released recordings of the president and John Kelly. She recorded Kelly firing her in the

00:04:53.660 situation room, which as you know, it's kind of a big deal in the West wing. Uh, and also recorded

00:04:59.260 phone calls with president Trump. The record, the recording of Kelly shows him telling her that

00:05:04.320 there are integrity issues with her and she needs to leave. Uh, lawyers were also in the room. 0.96

00:05:10.380 He also encouraged her to have a friendly departure. So things go well for her. And so she won't have

00:05:16.780 difficulty, uh, with her reputation in the future. It's a long recording, so I'm not going to play it

00:05:21.920 here, but if you would like to go listen to it, you can go to NBC.com. It's in its totality there.

00:05:27.680 Uh, Omarosa said on meet the press that this was a threat. She also said on the today show that being

00:05:34.200 put in the situation room was false imprisonment. Um, now why Kelly even took her to the situation

00:05:41.740 room for this firing, which is usually reserved for national security matters is beyond me and how

00:05:48.200 she was able to actually record something in this room is also beyond me and also, also really

00:05:54.200 troubling. Uh, but she did, which a lot of analysts are saying is a major breach of security, which could

00:05:59.860 have her in legal trouble. I mean, that seems like it would be obvious that that would be not okay, that

00:06:04.800 that would be illegal, right? Like otherwise any low level aid could presumably go into the White 0.84

00:06:10.340 House and record whatever they want, which would be a major threat to national security. Uh, Omarosa,

00:06:16.020 however, claims that she is a whistleblower. And so there are protections from her. I'm sure that's 0.97

00:06:21.400 what her lawyer told her. I don't know if that's true. Maybe it is. I don't know for sure, but I

00:06:26.700 kind of doubt it. Um, also the recording itself, uh, isn't even that bad. In my opinion, she released

00:06:34.380 the recording of John Kelly as if it was some bombshell. And like I said, called it threatening

00:06:39.220 and called the meeting a false imprisonment. Like I, my response to that is just get a grip,

00:06:45.600 get a grip saying we want this to be a friendly departure. So you don't have problems with your

00:06:50.940 reputation might be a warning. Yes. But is that really different from a lot of other jobs? If you

00:06:57.520 leave a job and you didn't leave, uh, well, your employer, uh, your employer could possibly say that,

00:07:04.720 uh, Hey, you're not going to be able to expect a good reference from me. Uh, that boss might

00:07:10.820 actually warn his or her other friends in the industry that, Hey, this person can't be trusted.

00:07:16.920 Uh, I would stay away if I were you, that would actually be a service to your colleagues and

00:07:22.580 competitors. It would totally be within their right. Uh, now, of course, if general Kelly was

00:07:28.480 talking about spreading lies about Omarosa in order to keep her unemployed, then that's no good.

00:07:33.020 But saying, Hey, please leave with respect and with dignity. And we won't tell everyone what

00:07:38.280 an awful person you've been in about the integrity issues that we have with you. Um, that is not out

00:07:43.680 of the norm in business and probably not in politics, especially in the swamp that is Washington,

00:07:49.540 DC. Um, I'm not saying it's a kind thing to do, or even the most ethical thing to do,

00:07:54.160 but it's not nearly as big of a deal as Omarosa is making it out to be. And I am quite sure that

00:08:00.160 she knows that. I mean, there is a reason Kelly brought lawyers in the room with him 0.89

00:08:04.560 to have accountability and legal protection. Uh, I doubt that he was going to say something

00:08:09.680 incriminating in the presence of lawyers in the situation room. Um, Omarosa released a

00:08:15.600 another tape. This one was of a phone call with Donald Trump after her firing in which Donald Trump

00:08:22.360 claims to not have known that she was going to get fired. He said that he doesn't like,

00:08:28.040 actually, I think it was, I, I don't love that at all, uh, that she was fired and that he knew

00:08:33.300 nothing about it. Omarosa has been inconsistent on this about whether or not she thinks Trump was

00:08:39.440 lying. She's tried to make two contradicting claims about this. A, that president Trump

00:08:44.220 doesn't even know what's going on in his own white house, that she was able to be fired without his

00:08:50.040 knowledge. And then also be that president Trump was lying to her during the phone call.

00:08:54.720 It's either one or the other. It can't be both. Uh, he either knows or he lied. My personal opinion

00:09:01.360 is that he was lying to her. I think that he did know that she was being fired, but didn't want to

00:09:06.220 take personal responsibility for it and wanted to make sure that he was still in her good graces.

00:09:10.720 So she wouldn't go and bad mouth him. Why do I think that? Because this is what president Trump

00:09:17.180 does. He looks at, he looks out for himself. He cares about his brand more than he cares about

00:09:23.600 anything else. And even though I think Omarosa just wants attention and is being deceitful in a

00:09:28.300 lot of her reporting of white house events, uh, I'm sure she has seen some sketchy stuff during her

00:09:33.960 time spent with Trump. And I wouldn't be surprised if Trump didn't want her to reveal his secrets.

00:09:39.100 Uh, here's what president Trump had to say about it on Twitter on Monday. It is a, uh, three part

00:09:46.440 thread wacky Omarosa who got fired three times on the apprentice now got fired for the last time.

00:09:54.420 She never made it never. Well, she begged me for a job tears in her eyes. I said, okay,

00:10:01.580 people in the white house hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her, 0.99

00:10:09.540 but heard next tweet really bad things. I told him to try working it out if possible,

00:10:16.060 because she only said great things about me until she got fired. Third tweet.

00:10:22.600 While I know it's quote, not presidential to take, uh, to take on a low life like Omarosa.

00:10:28.680 And while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication. And I know

00:10:34.140 the fake news media will be working overtime to make even wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible.

00:10:40.420 Sorry. Oh man. Oh man. The president of the United States. Uh, the president has,

00:10:46.060 uh, has had a very busy week on Twitter so far, especially on Monday morning, but we can't even

00:10:52.700 get to all of that right now because it's just too much, too much. We got to stay here. Uh, my

00:10:57.120 favorite part about all of that, those three tweets is that he admits that he wanted to keep her on

00:11:01.820 because she said good things about him, which just goes to support my view and the view of a lot of

00:11:06.860 people is that Trump is about Trump. And as I've said many times, I voted for Trump. I like so much of

00:11:12.360 what he's doing and I will probably vote for him again, but that doesn't exclude legitimate criticism

00:11:17.960 and observations. Trump loves Trump and he loves people that love Trump and he hates people that

00:11:23.880 hate him. It's not about principle or policy for him. It's about affection. Now, all that said,

00:11:30.120 I do think that Omarosa is in his words, wacky. I think she is wacky Omarosa. Not only that,

00:11:37.460 I think that like Trump, she only cares about herself. She wants affirmation. She wants

00:11:42.500 attention. She is inconsistent. She lacks integrity. She pays no heed to national security.

00:11:47.820 Sarah Sanders and other members of the White House have condemned her as a liar,

00:11:51.000 which I think is expected and possibly may be justified. And you know what? I think for the

00:11:55.920 most part, actually, so far, surprise, surprise, the media is doing an okay job of pressing her.

00:12:02.520 The media has this tendency, you've probably seen, uh, to demonize people until you criticize the

00:12:08.280 president. Then when you do, no matter what other values you hold, the media calls you a vigilante

00:12:13.540 and loves you like Stormy Daniels, like Jeff Flake, like, uh, John Kasich. Uh, as long as you speak

00:12:19.380 out against the president, you are blessed in highly favored according to the media. Um, but there have

00:12:26.000 been some good pressing interviews with Omarosa. I think that, uh, Savannah Guthrie of the today show did

00:12:32.420 a really good job on Monday of a asking her tough questions and calling her on her, you know what?

00:12:38.560 And B staying cool when Omarosa was so rude to her, like so awkward and uncomfortable. Everyone

00:12:43.780 should go watch that interview. She was really rude to Savannah Guthrie. Uh, now speaking of the media, 1.00

00:12:49.180 they are, as you know, very funny. They're very particular about what they cover. Uh, many, not all,

00:12:54.960 but many and the press only like to cover stories that paint Trump in a bad light. Uh, they have loved

00:13:00.740 the Omarosa story because even if she's not credible, it shows the chaos of the Trump White

00:13:05.540 House. Uh, they also loved, absolutely loved, just fell head over heels for, uh, the Unite

00:13:12.500 the Right rally that happened in DC over the weekend. Uh, you all probably remember the original

00:13:17.020 Unite the Right rally that occurred in Charlottesville last year, where white nationalists

00:13:21.580 marched with tiki torches chanting things like Jews will not replace us. Uh, it was condemned

00:13:27.120 by people on the right and the left as really stupid and grotesque, which is what it was. 0.99

00:13:32.560 Uh, there was a counter protester, Heather Heyer, uh, who was run over by a car and killed, 0.99

00:13:37.840 which is terrible. Um, and then president Trump responded to all of this by saying that there

00:13:42.020 were good people on both sides. Uh, he didn't take any kind of strong position against these

00:13:46.900 white nationalists, which I, and a lot of people on the right said, Hey, president Trump,

00:13:51.060 that's not cool. Um, it's really not difficult to stand up against white nationalism and say,

00:13:56.020 Nope, these are not the kind of values that we represent. But I think Trump knew that a lot

00:14:01.820 of people at the Unite the Right rally last year were wearing NAGA hats and Trump didn't want to

00:14:06.220 alienate his base, uh, which is pretty reprehensible. Like I think we can all probably

00:14:10.260 admit that, uh, he was, it was his reaction to the rally last year that people have cited over and

00:14:15.460 over again since then when they accused president Trump of racism. I don't think president Trump is

00:14:20.380 a racist. I think that he is self-absorbed, but not a racist. Uh, but the media loves the

00:14:26.800 narrative that Trump is not only a racist, but that he is also stoking racism in this country. 0.94

00:14:32.740 And he is the fodder for white supremacy and he is causing a racial divide. Uh, that would be why 0.98

00:14:38.660 they saw it fit to breathlessly and relentlessly cover the Unite the Right rally number two that

00:14:44.260 happened in DC over the weekend in which legitimately legitimately 20, 20, 20, 20 people marched seriously

00:14:53.920 like a couple dozen, maybe at most, maybe, uh, people marched for white nationalism. And the media

00:15:00.540 thought that these guys deserved nonstop coverage and whether they know it or not, the media, I kind

00:15:05.700 of think they do. They give a megaphone to these kinds of views and they just add fuel to the flame

00:15:11.620 of racial division. They are, in my opinion, purposely amplifying these bigoted, but very

00:15:16.720 rare views in order to drive the gap between Trump supporters and non-Trump supporters. So they can up

00:15:22.920 the animosity against Donald Trump and make support of Donald Trump seem more and more morally

00:15:27.460 reprehensible. They take the views of 20 people and say, this is Trump's America. This is what it means

00:15:34.480 to support president Trump racism. This is who you are. If you vote for Trump, a white supremacist, 0.73

00:15:40.460 this is the kind of America. Trump is creating one of white nationalists and you Trump supporter, 0.98

00:15:46.640 you are complicit in this bigotry. That's the story the media is telling. They're screaming racism

00:15:51.880 so loudly that if you dare interject your points about low unemployment, uh, or economic success,

00:15:58.820 that you are accused of not only ignoring racism, but of being racist. Uh, you are not allowed to care

00:16:06.320 about your family's wellbeing or even the economic wellbeing of minority communities, all of which 1.00

00:16:10.920 are doing better under Trump, by the way, because doing so would be to minimize what the media tells

00:16:15.720 you is more important than anything else. Racism. So you see the irony in that, right? That highlighting

00:16:22.320 the success of black and Hispanic communities under Trump is racist because it minimizes the fact that 0.99

00:16:28.180 Trump is racist. And if you minimize the fact that Trump is racist, then you are racist. And you wonder 0.99

00:16:34.940 why you wonder why these people on the left avoid debates with conservatives because all they have

00:16:43.060 is a catch 22. So that's what the media wanted to cover over the weekend. This tiny protest of white 0.71

00:16:49.080 nationalists who don't even consider themselves a part of the conservative movement and yet are portrayed

00:16:54.000 as representative of the right and specifically as Trump's right. Uh, meanwhile, people are getting

00:17:00.600 shot and killed in horrifically high numbers in Chicago just last weekend. Uh, I think it was 66 people

00:17:06.420 were shot. 12 people were murdered, including two teenagers. Um, it's really a state of emergency

00:17:12.820 in Chicago right now. Chicago has been plagued by what really can only be described as warfare for years,

00:17:19.100 despite the city's strict gun laws. Uh, they've been plagued with gun violence. Democrat Roman

00:17:23.760 Emanuel is the mayor as someone who has shown relentless antipathy toward the police force.

00:17:29.780 People are calling for him to resign for dereliction of duty. Uh, this has been covered, but not nearly

00:17:36.180 enough and not nearly as clearly as it needs to be to really highlight the heart of the problem.

00:17:41.540 Um, and there's another story that the media has shied away from covering. Um, you might have heard

00:17:48.600 about the compound in New Mexico where investigators, uh, found 11 emaciated kids dressed in rags and

00:17:54.760 the remains of a dead child. Uh, these kids were being trained by radical Islamists to be school

00:18:00.720 shooters. Yes, you heard that right. That actually happened on American soil. This has been reported

00:18:07.040 on. Yes, but conveniently left out has been the fact that these were Muslim extremists. There's this 0.61

00:18:12.700 long CNN report on this. And only once do we read, uh, the word Islamic and only once do we read the

00:18:18.940 word Muslim, but way into the article and neither in connection to a motive or anything like that.

00:18:23.920 Uh, the guy in charge of this horrific compound in which these, uh, kids were basically starving to

00:18:31.120 death is named Siraj Ibn Wahaj. I don't know if that's how you say it. Uh, his dad is a famous

00:18:37.700 imam and the leader of Muslim Alliance of North America. He also alleged allegedly connected is

00:18:43.800 connected to, uh, the world trade center bombings in 1993, though hasn't been convicted for a crime. Uh,

00:18:49.200 the government has had its eye on this guy for two and a half decades, but I guess his son somehow slipped

00:18:54.920 through the cracks and, um, was able to start this compound, uh, starving children and training them to be

00:19:00.680 school shooters. Super comforting. Uh, why is this not the biggest story of the year? Why are we not

00:19:06.580 talking about 20 people at a white nationalist rally and not radical Islamists kidnapping kids 0.99

00:19:13.220 and training them to kill people? Can you tell me that? Because it doesn't fit the media's narrative

00:19:20.820 and it doesn't match their agenda. Their agenda is like I said, to portray Trump and Trump's America

00:19:26.260 as chaotic and racist and bigoted and divided and awful. It's only white people and only Christians 1.00

00:19:32.320 that can be portrayed as problematic. We can't talk about Muslim extremists because that'll just 1.00

00:19:38.280 stoke the flames of Islamophobia that Trump has worked so hard to spark. They say, uh, the media

00:19:43.720 is more concerned with Islamophobia than they are radical Islam. That's just the truth. Um, now I

00:19:49.760 realized the irony in all of this, that I spent the majority of this podcast talking about Omarosa and

00:19:54.700 only a few minutes on the New Mexico compound, despite saying it's the biggest story of the year,

00:19:59.600 which I think that it is. Well, that is the conundrum. The media often puts us in the only

00:20:05.240 information that I really have access to as someone who doesn't actually go out and report on these

00:20:10.100 stories myself. I'm not a journalist. That's not my job is what the media gives me. Um, I can research

00:20:15.500 thoroughly. I can dig into the background, but I can't get much deeper than what's being reported.

00:20:19.720 Um, there are a million and one stories on Omarosa and probably five stories on the New Mexico compound.

00:20:25.360 I want you to be informed of both because I do think that both are important, but I also want

00:20:31.100 you to see the completely lopsided nature of the media, um, that they want to control what you know

00:20:36.680 based on what they think is important. And what they think is important is that you see Trump as

00:20:42.100 an incompetent racist and that you don't pay attention to the radical Muslims, literally kidnapping 1.00

00:20:47.280 kids and starving and radicalizing them. Um, it takes a lot more effort to know the things that the 1.00

00:20:53.700 media don't want you to know, to draw your own conclusions, to do your own research.

00:20:57.640 The media know that they understand most readers are lazy. We all are really, which is why they put

00:21:04.620 up a catchy and misleading headline, put their narrative at the top of the article, then all

00:21:08.780 the inconvenient details at the bottom. Um, I get this question a lot about where I get my news.

00:21:14.380 Uh, I do read a lot of the mainstream media because I like to see how they portray things and what people

00:21:19.380 are going to be talking about. I read the New York times and the Washington post every day,

00:21:23.240 but I also read Fox wall street journal, national review. Um, a lot of times New York times and

00:21:28.260 Washington post will give you the story. You just have to really dig for the details and then you

00:21:33.000 have to use what you already know to make reasoned conclusions, which is why it's important to read

00:21:38.920 outside of the news at, to study history, to understand the bigger picture of politics and

00:21:43.520 morality and all of these things that help us put current events into context. Um, I think that too

00:21:49.680 many people today don't have a foundation of knowledge. So their worldview is basically shaped

00:21:55.000 by headlines. It shouldn't be actually, that's really dangerous. I would say that's why a lot

00:21:59.400 of young people skew to the left because all of our news leans to the left. Uh, you should already 0.98

00:22:03.960 have your worldview based on principles that don't really change. Uh, then each headline and news story

00:22:09.160 is viewed from that lens. Now that doesn't mean that you're not open to new ideas or that you're

00:22:14.580 unwilling to be challenged you are, but you need to have an anchor of knowledge and wisdom that holds

00:22:19.620 you steady even as the news changes. Um, okay. We have time for one listener question. Uh, this

00:22:26.980 question is, do you have advice for those of us who want to make content, but aren't as natural with

00:22:34.160 extemporaneous speaking as you are how to, uh, practice moving away from complete scripting,

00:22:41.280 but not rambling to the point of boring everyone. That is a great question. So first of all,

00:22:49.000 let me say this, that this is true for me. I'll say what I'm good at and then what I'm really

00:22:53.880 not good at. So speaking comes pretty naturally to me. I've just been talking for a really long time,

00:22:59.820 probably since I was, uh, born. I have always enjoyed and have been pretty good at writing,

00:23:05.400 performing, being in front of people, improvisation, that kind of stuff. Um, I'm just a really verbal

00:23:10.360 person and all of my energy goes to that side of my brain, which is probably why the math side of

00:23:15.260 my brain just doesn't function. Um, now that said, I still have a lot, a lot to improve upon. There

00:23:21.600 are a lot of people that are so much better than me at this. Um, and I have and do practice really

00:23:26.400 hard before every time that I speak. Um, I prepare a lot for TV hits for this podcast, for interviews,

00:23:33.580 for public speaking. I'm not the kind of person that goes up there and wings it. I'm just not that

00:23:37.240 confident. Um, for public speaking specifically, I first figure out what I want to talk about.

00:23:41.820 Uh, then I do a lot of research to make sure that I have my facts straight. Uh, my favorite source for

00:23:46.720 statistics is Pew Research. Uh, then I write everything out. I am not a bullet point person.

00:23:52.360 I want everything out on paper and then I spend days editing and finessing it. Then I read it over and

00:23:58.140 over again until it's basically memorized. I actually prefer to memorize the whole thing,

00:24:02.140 but I just don't have time to memorize a 30 minute speech. Uh, same with my videos. I pick a

00:24:06.180 topic, research, write everything, say it a couple of times and go. Um, that's pretty much true for TV

00:24:12.120 hits as well, which I personally think is probably my weakest point in this industry. I'm just not as

00:24:17.160 good at the two minute TV slots as a lot of other people, but you know, most people aren't as good at

00:24:22.720 public speaking and writing. So we all have our strengths. Um, but I would say that no matter how

00:24:27.780 naturally good you are, you still have to know your stuff and you still have to practice. Uh,

00:24:32.120 when my nerves kick in, which they always do before I do anything in front of people,

00:24:36.420 I have the tendency to forget. Um, but if I practice a lot, then it's kind of like muscle

00:24:40.980 memory and I can fall back on what I've practiced. Um, now for this next part of my answer, the last

00:24:46.880 part of my answer, um, I'm not speaking specifically to this person who asked because I don't know you,

00:24:52.600 so I couldn't possibly assess your talent. This is just kind of some free career advice,

00:24:57.440 something that I've learned. Um, and it's some tough love. Okay. Too many people nowadays want

00:25:04.480 to create online content who are not suited to create online content. Uh, too many people want

00:25:09.920 to become famous bloggers or bloggers who are not talented in that realm. Too many people think that

00:25:14.660 success equals being an internet personality. And that's just not true. Um, having influence and a

00:25:20.480 lasting impact on those around you doesn't require you to have a large social media following

00:25:25.280 or require you to make videos online. Um, and having influence is not necessarily the definition

00:25:32.340 of success. Uh, for me, I knew that I wanted to be in front of people and I always knew that that was

00:25:38.100 just something I enjoyed. Uh, most things in life I would say I'm not good at. I am not athletic. I'm

00:25:43.860 not really, I'm definitely not that academically smart. I was never that hard of a worker at school.

00:25:48.700 Um, I was not most liked or the most likely to succeed, but I was always good at articulating

00:25:54.480 complicated ideas in a simple way that compelled people to listen. Um, so when people kind of

00:26:00.640 question, you know, motives for my career, I just say that this is something that I've always, uh,

00:26:06.380 that I've always wanted to do and that I've always been interested in. Um, so everything I do now

00:26:11.860 is just kind of a manifestation of what I've always loved. Um, and what I've been told that

00:26:16.480 I'm good at. Um, so what I would advise you to do, um, what I would advise you to do is first ask

00:26:25.580 yourself, what are you good at? And then ask yourself what the world needs instead of trying

00:26:30.920 to fit into someone else's definition of successful and to figure out what you're good at. You can usually

00:26:35.720 figure it out by asking yourself one, what do I really enjoy doing? And two, what have other people

00:26:41.140 outside of my parents told me that I do well? Um, if you like something, but no one has affirmed that

00:26:46.340 you're good at it, then you're probably not really good at it. Um, then once you found that what you're

00:26:50.760 really good at, you should ask yourself, what does the world or even just my small section of the world

00:26:54.860 need? Is it a good teacher? Is it a good financial advisor? Is it a good honest publicist? Or maybe it's

00:27:00.740 a blogger, media personality, maybe it's a politician or an actor, maybe it's an electrician. Uh, what do you

00:27:07.320 do well? And how can you use what you do well to meet the needs of others, to make a positive impact,

00:27:12.620 no matter how big or small, uh, do that to the glory of God. And that's it. That's really all of

00:27:19.260 life. That's what you'll do from point A to point B. Uh, there are all of these other branches that

00:27:24.180 kind of shoot out from that trunk, like charity, service, evangelism, love, marriage, all that stuff.

00:27:29.360 Uh, but glorifying God by stewarding the talents that he gave you for the wellbeing of the world around

00:27:34.360 you is going to be what predominantly defines your life. Um, so that is it for today. Hope that you

00:27:42.020 guys enjoyed this and I love you and I'll see you on Thursday and have a great week.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 14, 2018

Ep 28 ｜ Oh-my-rosa

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