Omg I am so happy to be filming this video
okay.
I am such a rat.
Today's video I am going to be showing you
guys the vlog that I did when I was at Oprah's
the life you want weekend if you follow me
on my social media you know that I went a
couple weeks ago when she was here in Michigan
and uh it was an absolutely amazing experience
um to say the least.
I had learned so much and it's like everyday
I'm still thinking about things and reflecting..and
just aaah so basically what's happening is
Oprah she is on to show us to show people
how you can get the life that you desire and
what steps you need to do and what you need
to do to change your life and move in the
direction that you would like it to go.
She's on tour with different life coaches.
She's on tour with um Deepak Chopra, Iyanla
Vanzant, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ron Bell um Mark
Nepo so all of these different life coaches
she's on tour with.
really close.
cause we were I was considered we were considered
VIP so that was amazing because um Ms. Iyanla
Vanzant is good friends with my grandmother
so they're cool and so because she was coming
to the city of course my grandma was gonna
go and she got a ticket and another one of
their friends had got a ticket but unfortunately
she couldn't go and so my grandma was like
well hey like can my grandaughter Halimah
come? and um first off shout out to my grandma
like huh well let's take a moment of silence.
she was awesome! because she could have invited
so many other people but she didn't! she chose
me!
That's pretty dope, pretty dope like huh and
um moment of silence again for Ms. Iyanla
Vanzant yeah cause she was like yeah! cool!
she let me come!
It was a lot of truth being spoken and I feel
like we can all like benefit from it so um
hopefully you can, hopefully you like this
video um with that being said let's hop right
in.
So um we're on my way to my grandmas house
um because that's where we're going to
meet up first and then we're going to go together.
We was at the doctors office and I heard the
announcement for Oprah coming I was like ayeeee.
We're here!
Finally!
Do you see that!
We are here!
I'm Oprah Winfrey and welcome to the very
first national Oprah Winfrey Show!
It allows people hopefully to understand the
power they have to change their own lives.Do
your stuff.
The words of carma saga. how amazing is that.
every single one of us.
we made it.
I'm so thrilled that you came to be here and
let me tell you why I'm here.
I'm here to help you figure out why you're
here.
You will be able to move closer to the life
that you want.
Have a seat.
Let you push to how disconnected you are from
spirit.
Your disappointment, your disheartened, but
you're here.
You feel like you lost your way, you never
imagined some of you that your life would
turn out like this but you're still here.
You're still here.
It doesn't matter if you thought you failed,
you thought you didn't deserve to have the
life you want.
You wanted so much more, you thought you weren't
smart enough, you thought you weren't pretty
enough, you thought you weren't good enough,
you thought you were unworthy.That's the bottom
line for everybody.
You think you're not worthy but I'm here to
tell ya that whatever has happened to you
has happened for you and God is ready, the
universe is ready, the forces that created
you are ready to move your life in a new direction,
nothing that's happened to you is wasted,
nothings wasted so the times you felt alone,
and the times you felt abandoned and the times
you felt tested and the times you felt that
you were in turmoil.
I'm telling you.
You were building strength and strength times
strength times strength times strength times
strength times strength equals power and this
night, this weekend get ready to claim your
power, consider yourself in a different direction.
Stop looking back, holding up the past, look
ahead in a new direction and as far as the
eye can see, the author of the universe can
see beyond and that is where you're going
so take your power and run.
We just finished and it was amazing.
Oh these are wraps Halimah.
So the green room isn't green.
I am on my way to meet Oprah.
I can not believe this.
We were down.
So right now I'm at the meet and greet.
Hey guys we're back now we're at the hotel.
I got my picture with Oprah.
Alright I'm a little loud but yeah.
I'll show ya'll.
We have to show you guys our pictures.
This one was so wait.
She couldn't believe that I was standing in
line.
Because she's met her before.
How many times have you met Oprah?
Oh, so many times.
She said, "why are you standing in line?"
She's met her.
My grandma has already met her a lot of times.
and so when she saw her in line she was like
what are you doing? and so this is so funny
to me because she literally looks like what?
and my grandma was cracking up.
Hey!
So I'm back and we're at the hotel now it
was amazing oh my . I have my VIP badge.
So this is like awesome.
So we were like VIP like super close.
I think we were in like the fourth or fifth
row.
Really really close.
So it was awesome being in the VIP section.
So blessed.
So blessed.
So blessed.
so thankful.
um so we got. one of the things about being
a VIP is that you get a gift bag and like
we got a lot of stuff in the gift bag.
Alright so hey everybody so we are in the
hotel.
it's um 6 o clock.
I got up, prayed, now we're about to start
cleaning up, getting dressed, start cleaning
up, wrapping up so that we can get ready to
start the day of festivities.
Goodmorning.
Goodmorning.
Alright one, two, three happy birthday to
ya, happy birthday to ya, happy birthday.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!alright we'll see you in a
little while.
Yes.
This morning?
It was an awesome morning.
Yes.
we had a nice little conversation with Iyanla.
Yes I'm going to be able to ask a couple questions
so I'll I'm about to go over them with her
on which ones I want to do.
So that's really amazing because I'm putting
them journalism skills to work.
Okay, so we're here.
The Palace of Auburn Hills.
So of course Oprah started everything off
and it was pure fire OMG She said you have
to give yourself the time to be still because
you can't know what your calling is if you
have let the voices of others drown out the
voices of your soul.
So Mark Nepo he spoke and one thing that I
love that he said was that what you focus
on expands. which is absolutely true and it
really reminds us to really keep our minds
focused on what's most important because that's
what will be our reality.
um Elizabeth Gilbert she spoke she's the author
of eat, pray, love there was no luck in that
story she wrote it herself.
There was no luck in that story she wrote
it herself.
and um that can relate to so many different
things because I don't believe in luck I believe
in God and I believe in blessings and I believe
that we all have the light of God within us
and that we can control our reality and control
our lives.
Ron Bell said that was amazing was he said,
pause, breath and then ask yourself it's all
a miracle isn't it?
Absolutely it's all a miracle.
so yeah.
Thank you darling. and you know today is my
birthday.
Oh alright sing it baby sing me happy come
on.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Iyanla happy birthday
to you.
I was like Iyanla do what matters because
it comes a moment when we all just want to
be a better person have you got to that moment
yet?
See I was born in dysfunction I was born in
dysfunction every single body in my family
was crazy as hell.
They didn't call it dysfunction back then
they just called it purely crazy.
You know crazy ole uncle Leroy that was.
You live in dysfunction but that I became
addicted to it that I became loyal to it and
that because it was familiar I expected dysfunction.
I expected a fight.
Hell, if it wasn't no fight I would pick a
fight.
I'm looking for the fight, anticipating the
fight.
I would pick a fight with people, things,
for anything because that's what I had become
used to, had become used to and it just comes
a moment when you have to be willing to break
the patterns that you seen and were given
to you, you've got to believe beyond that
and do something different and what life taught
me was Iyanla do what matters to you.
do what matters to you.
That matters to you and serves other people.
You know how life told me that? with a michael
kors dress.
I didn't want it.
I just did what I thought I was supposed to
do, how many of us go through life doing what
we think we're supposed to do because of what
we heard or what someone told us because of
the dysfunction that we grew up in.
Right on the other side of doing what you
think you supposed to do, is the courage and
the power to do what matters to you, do what
matters to you and when you do that, you put
your heart in it.
You see we're so busy sometimes trying to
outlive our past that we don't realize if
you made it through the past you passed.
We closed out the day with all of the speakers
answering some twitter questions.
So once we got back I was able to do the interview.
I'm really happy to sit and ask a couple of
questions to and then after the interview
we went downstairs for dinner and I uh dinner
was really awesome I had a caesar salad, I
love salad. and then we came back up and we
were able to watch the season premiere of
Iyanla, Fix My Life episode with Ms. Iyanla
Vanzant so it was pretty awesome because she
was able to give us like real behind the scenes,
notes and different things that uh you wouldn't
know just watching it but you would know if
you were watching it with Ms. Iyanla Vanzant
the star of the show and executive producer.
So that was a pretty amazing opportunity and
it was a great episode.
Hope you guys enjoyed that love you so much.
bye!
