some people call me a dreamer other
people call me crazy but I call myself a
visionary a vision of me look at me
vision boarding is an amazing thing
right now sitting in your seats you are
visualizing things that can manifest I
want to ask you guys close your eyes for
a minute do you see yourself on this
stage do you see yourself on this red
circle open your eyes
vision of me who do you see I grew up in
a household of visionaries of dreamers
my parents are from Trinidad and Grenada
they came to this country and they had
dreams of living that American dream
and I had to get this speech all the
time my siblings and I and I know you
got the same speech Karen we came to
this country for you to be the best you
can be and I want you to go to college I
want you to get a degree then we want
you to get a job not just any job you
know a good job then you get your house
then you get you a partner and then
bring us all those grandbabies and the
Bible says honor your mother and father
that your days may be long
so we’re visioning iGPS what my life is
gonna be like I went to high school I
went to prom with the handsome guy I
graduated I left home and went to
college and I got a degree in love yes
my freshman year I met an older man at
the ripe old age of 19 mm-hmm and I
asked my dad we approached our parents
and said we want to get married he loves
me he loves me and my dad said no but I
say he loves me you’re messing up my
vision now you’re messing up my vision
and my dad said just wait four years
what’s wrong with waiting four years but
no I was in love that was fire division
that was my dream so we got married we
were the it couple handsomest can be oh
my goodness
everybody looked at us like oh look at
them black royalty as you can see and I
was on cloud nine when I tell you
traveling loving life loving each other
learning each other he’s going to
college getting two degrees I’m
struggling to get one but yeah I had I
had the best treat
I had six kids six kids they’re adults
now beautiful kids their ages of 26 25
25 and they’re not twins
don’t judge me 24 23 22 yes they’ve gone
off to college they have their own lives
and they’re doing wonderful things and
him and I celebrating our royalty family
and my cloud9 all of a sudden started to
become a dark cloud my vision ended up
getting glaucoma so this wasn’t on the
plan and when everything started
changing I started to go into something
people call depression but I wasn’t
claiming it because it’s a mindset if
you allow those words to sink into your
head it starts to mess up your vision
and with vision boarding what you’re
doing is a law of attraction you’re
attracting beautiful things into your
life but you can also attract negativity
so it’s up to you to make that decision
so I found myself in a place that I just
couldn’t understand and when he said he
didn’t love me anymore after 23 years
and I gave you six beautiful kids I
found myself on the train with a
suitcase in Armani suit some great heels
I was looking good but I was broken on
the inside all I had was my mindset
and my vision I’m on that train and I
had no place to go I’m going from one
end to the next and if you know in this
city there’s a train called the a-train
it’s the entertainment train you get
singers dancers everything on there so
at the same time that I am in a
depression these visuals are kind of
helping me because I want people
watching and I’m sitting on this train
and it’s going from one end to the next
from one end to the next 3 p.m. turned
into 3 a.m. and I’m on the train with
homeless people but you know what I
started to realize they’re homeless
they’re without a home but they’re
hopeful and I was just as hopeful and
something mustered up in me to speak to
one of the gentlemen and I said excuse
me excuse me can you just tell me what
happened and he said I was a professor
at Columbia University and my wife died
and I just crashed
he lost his mind had a breakdown he said
I couldn’t recover and now I’m on this
train and I just watch people and I go
back and forth and I don’t want to deal
with the world and in that moment I had
a wild moment and I swear to you it was
God it was God sending an angel to tell
you Karen you have your sanity you have
your two arms you have your two legs get
up and do something stop crying about it
some man’s hold you hidden love you
instead of saying why me why me say yes
me yes me I started to dig deep into
myself and start to realize Karen you
love yourself you’re good enough I ended
up calling a friend do you know how hard
it is for people to look up at you and
then you go to the bottom and then you
have to reach out to them and say I need
help I reach out to my friends and I
said I need a place to stay she said you
know what all I have is my couch I went
from a big house to no house
from a lot of money to no money from two
cars to no cars
I had to humble myself inside and say
I’ll take you I got off that train and
before I left I told the man god bless
but that visual in my head just reminded
me how grateful I was in that moment I
got off on the stand and I on that
platform I looked at my purse and I had
three incredible things that the
homeless people didn’t have my hopefuls
I had a MetroCard which legally got me
on the train
I had a Planet Fitness card which I
could go take a shower and I also had a
picture of my children that visual of my
children gave me hope Karen do not give
up you have five daughters and one son
they are looking up to you and women
when you have daughters just realize
it’s your actions when your sons are
watching you they are preparing
themselves to be somebody’s husband so
it’s what woman are they gonna go to and
how are they gonna recover so I had to
put on my jacket tie up those shoes walk
in that house sit on that couch and I
said this feeling right here I don’t
ever want it again
so I started opening up magazines I
started cutting out pictures I started
just thinking Karen next year this year
you are not gonna be in this position
you are not gonna be in this position my
vision board became my action board my
action board is something that gave me
movement everybody around this season
starts doing vision boards where there’s
an urgency to lose weight or I’m gonna
be rich next year but that’s not what
it’s about
I’ve decided to create action boards
because when you have a dream it becomes
your vision when your vision has a date
it becomes your reality in life you
don’t get what you want you get what you
picture so I’m asking everybody to take
time out and visualize the things you
want put it in a shoebox and when you
get a chance you’re gonna get the tools
to build your vision board the two
fools are a construction paper or canvas
that is your foundation your foundation
has to be solid it’s like building a
house you don’t want to crack foundation
you’re gonna build a ten bedroom house
on a crack foundation that doesn’t work
it doesn’t work that’s like your
relationship when you see those red
flags leave it alone you can’t build a
relationship off of that didn’t you have
the scissors the scissors cuts away the
negativity get those negative people out
of your life
leave them alone if they’re in your
phone delete them it’s your choice it’s
your mindset you understand what I’m
saying
get rid of them positive and negative
cannot live in the same place then you
have the glue the glue for me is God you
put God first everything starts to fall
into place once you put your pictures on
that board and you glue it together
everything starts to come together then
you have the dates you put the dates on
there and it gives it that urgency I
have to get this done next year this
time I’m gonna have this amount of money
now when people do regular vision boards
they’re just pulling out pictures and
they’re saying oh I’m gonna get a boot
cut a Bugatti but you live in the hood
you can’t have that Bugatti it’s gonna
get stolen or told I’m gonna get a big
old ten bedroom house but I can’t even
clean my bedroom you understand it has
to be real it has to work with each
other and then you build steps with an
action board what you’re gonna do is put
steps I’m gonna get up tomorrow morning
I’m gonna walk one block I’m gonna build
my dreams and that’s what we want to do
last year this time I said I’m gonna get
up and make a difference and I’m gonna
have forgiveness in my heart and when
the world is grabbing at you you have to
have gratitude and be thankful in that
moment you have to ask and you will
receive you have to acknowledge and
opportunities will come you have to
believe in yourself
in order to move forward you have to
share your story cuz you’re one
door-knocking away from saving
somebody’s life last year this time I
said I will be on the TEDx stage if you
go to my facebook or my Instagram you
will see it popped up yesterday I am
standing on this red circle like they
said in the beginning I do have a
business called vision vegan soul but
the meaning of the name is what’s
important
the vision is how you GPS your best life
the vegan is how I eat but it’s also how
I live the things I see the things I
hear the things I put in my mouth and
the people I surround myself with that’s
a vegan lifestyle good things in and
good things out and the soul is all this
flavor right here talking to you so my
question to you is you see the vision of me what’s the vision for you
people call me crazy but I call myself a
visionary a vision of me look at me
vision boarding is an amazing thing
right now sitting in your seats you are
visualizing things that can manifest I
want to ask you guys close your eyes for
a minute do you see yourself on this
stage do you see yourself on this red
circle open your eyes
vision of me who do you see I grew up in
a household of visionaries of dreamers
my parents are from Trinidad and Grenada
they came to this country and they had
dreams of living that American dream
and I had to get this speech all the
time my siblings and I and I know you
got the same speech Karen we came to
this country for you to be the best you
can be and I want you to go to college I
want you to get a degree then we want
you to get a job not just any job you
know a good job then you get your house
then you get you a partner and then
bring us all those grandbabies and the
Bible says honor your mother and father
that your days may be long
so we’re visioning iGPS what my life is
gonna be like I went to high school I
went to prom with the handsome guy I
graduated I left home and went to
college and I got a degree in love yes
my freshman year I met an older man at
the ripe old age of 19 mm-hmm and I
asked my dad we approached our parents
and said we want to get married he loves
me he loves me and my dad said no but I
say he loves me you’re messing up my
vision now you’re messing up my vision
and my dad said just wait four years
what’s wrong with waiting four years but
no I was in love that was fire division
that was my dream so we got married we
were the it couple handsomest can be oh
my goodness
everybody looked at us like oh look at
them black royalty as you can see and I
was on cloud nine when I tell you
traveling loving life loving each other
learning each other he’s going to
college getting two degrees I’m
struggling to get one but yeah I had I
had the best treat
I had six kids six kids they’re adults
now beautiful kids their ages of 26 25
25 and they’re not twins
don’t judge me 24 23 22 yes they’ve gone
off to college they have their own lives
and they’re doing wonderful things and
him and I celebrating our royalty family
and my cloud9 all of a sudden started to
become a dark cloud my vision ended up
getting glaucoma so this wasn’t on the
plan and when everything started
changing I started to go into something
people call depression but I wasn’t
claiming it because it’s a mindset if
you allow those words to sink into your
head it starts to mess up your vision
and with vision boarding what you’re
doing is a law of attraction you’re
attracting beautiful things into your
life but you can also attract negativity
so it’s up to you to make that decision
so I found myself in a place that I just
couldn’t understand and when he said he
didn’t love me anymore after 23 years
and I gave you six beautiful kids I
found myself on the train with a
suitcase in Armani suit some great heels
I was looking good but I was broken on
the inside all I had was my mindset
and my vision I’m on that train and I
had no place to go I’m going from one
end to the next and if you know in this
city there’s a train called the a-train
it’s the entertainment train you get
singers dancers everything on there so
at the same time that I am in a
depression these visuals are kind of
helping me because I want people
watching and I’m sitting on this train
and it’s going from one end to the next
from one end to the next 3 p.m. turned
into 3 a.m. and I’m on the train with
homeless people but you know what I
started to realize they’re homeless
they’re without a home but they’re
hopeful and I was just as hopeful and
something mustered up in me to speak to
one of the gentlemen and I said excuse
me excuse me can you just tell me what
happened and he said I was a professor
at Columbia University and my wife died
and I just crashed
he lost his mind had a breakdown he said
I couldn’t recover and now I’m on this
train and I just watch people and I go
back and forth and I don’t want to deal
with the world and in that moment I had
a wild moment and I swear to you it was
God it was God sending an angel to tell
you Karen you have your sanity you have
your two arms you have your two legs get
up and do something stop crying about it
some man’s hold you hidden love you
instead of saying why me why me say yes
me yes me I started to dig deep into
myself and start to realize Karen you
love yourself you’re good enough I ended
up calling a friend do you know how hard
it is for people to look up at you and
then you go to the bottom and then you
have to reach out to them and say I need
help I reach out to my friends and I
said I need a place to stay she said you
know what all I have is my couch I went
from a big house to no house
from a lot of money to no money from two
cars to no cars
I had to humble myself inside and say
I’ll take you I got off that train and
before I left I told the man god bless
but that visual in my head just reminded
me how grateful I was in that moment I
got off on the stand and I on that
platform I looked at my purse and I had
three incredible things that the
homeless people didn’t have my hopefuls
I had a MetroCard which legally got me
on the train
I had a Planet Fitness card which I
could go take a shower and I also had a
picture of my children that visual of my
children gave me hope Karen do not give
up you have five daughters and one son
they are looking up to you and women
when you have daughters just realize
it’s your actions when your sons are
watching you they are preparing
themselves to be somebody’s husband so
it’s what woman are they gonna go to and
how are they gonna recover so I had to
put on my jacket tie up those shoes walk
in that house sit on that couch and I
said this feeling right here I don’t
ever want it again
so I started opening up magazines I
started cutting out pictures I started
just thinking Karen next year this year
you are not gonna be in this position
you are not gonna be in this position my
vision board became my action board my
action board is something that gave me
movement everybody around this season
starts doing vision boards where there’s
an urgency to lose weight or I’m gonna
be rich next year but that’s not what
it’s about
I’ve decided to create action boards
because when you have a dream it becomes
your vision when your vision has a date
it becomes your reality in life you
don’t get what you want you get what you
picture so I’m asking everybody to take
time out and visualize the things you
want put it in a shoebox and when you
get a chance you’re gonna get the tools
to build your vision board the two
fools are a construction paper or canvas
that is your foundation your foundation
has to be solid it’s like building a
house you don’t want to crack foundation
you’re gonna build a ten bedroom house
on a crack foundation that doesn’t work
it doesn’t work that’s like your
relationship when you see those red
flags leave it alone you can’t build a
relationship off of that didn’t you have
the scissors the scissors cuts away the
negativity get those negative people out
of your life
leave them alone if they’re in your
phone delete them it’s your choice it’s
your mindset you understand what I’m
saying
get rid of them positive and negative
cannot live in the same place then you
have the glue the glue for me is God you
put God first everything starts to fall
into place once you put your pictures on
that board and you glue it together
everything starts to come together then
you have the dates you put the dates on
there and it gives it that urgency I
have to get this done next year this
time I’m gonna have this amount of money
now when people do regular vision boards
they’re just pulling out pictures and
they’re saying oh I’m gonna get a boot
cut a Bugatti but you live in the hood
you can’t have that Bugatti it’s gonna
get stolen or told I’m gonna get a big
old ten bedroom house but I can’t even
clean my bedroom you understand it has
to be real it has to work with each
other and then you build steps with an
action board what you’re gonna do is put
steps I’m gonna get up tomorrow morning
I’m gonna walk one block I’m gonna build
my dreams and that’s what we want to do
last year this time I said I’m gonna get
up and make a difference and I’m gonna
have forgiveness in my heart and when
the world is grabbing at you you have to
have gratitude and be thankful in that
moment you have to ask and you will
receive you have to acknowledge and
opportunities will come you have to
believe in yourself
in order to move forward you have to
share your story cuz you’re one
door-knocking away from saving
somebody’s life last year this time I
said I will be on the TEDx stage if you
go to my facebook or my Instagram you
will see it popped up yesterday I am
standing on this red circle like they
said in the beginning I do have a
business called vision vegan soul but
the meaning of the name is what’s
important
the vision is how you GPS your best life
the vegan is how I eat but it’s also how
I live the things I see the things I
hear the things I put in my mouth and
the people I surround myself with that’s
a vegan lifestyle good things in and
good things out and the soul is all this
flavor right here talking to you so my
question to you is you see the vision of me what’s the vision for you
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