- Host Phoenix Ash returns to "Life is P" and thanks both repeat and new listeners.
- Discusses the importance of recognizing one's own power and not giving others control over personal blessings.
- Encourages listeners to share their goals and needs, despite fears of negativity from others.
- Emphasizes that intentions from others cannot hinder God's plans for an individual.
- Advocates for focusing on positivity and personal growth rather than dwelling on others' misfortunes.
- Shares a personal story about a negative comment from a tenant, illustrating the impact of others' words but affirming resilience.

- The speaker reflects on a miscarriage and believes it was not caused by someone else's negative intentions or prayers.
- They assert that one's destiny is not controlled by others and emphasize personal agency and resilience.
- The speaker discusses overcoming challenges, including a difficult divorce, by focusing on self-growth and financial independence.
- They encourage continuous effort and collaboration with others to achieve personal goals and joy.
- The message highlights the importance of not giving power to adversaries or obstacles in life.

- Don't give power to obstacles or challenges; overcome them with faith and action.
- Embrace the journey and support others while figuring out your own path.
- Life is about making plans and moving forward despite setbacks.
- Find strength and purpose in experiences, and use them for growth.
- The speaker encourages listeners to pursue their best selves and offers support.
- Promotes their books available on Amazon and Audible for further engagement.

- Host Phoenix Ash expresses gratitude to listeners of "Life is P."
- Emphasizes recognizing personal power and not allowing others to control one's blessings.
- Encourages sharing goals despite fears of negativity.
- Asserts that others' intentions do not affect God's plans.
- Advocates for positivity and personal growth over focusing on others' failures.
- Shares a personal story about resilience against negative comments.
- Reflects on a miscarriage, emphasizing personal agency over external influences.
- Discusses overcoming challenges like divorce through self-growth and independence.
- Urges continuous effort and collaboration for personal goals.
- Highlights the importance of not giving power to obstacles.
- Encourages embracing the journey and supporting others.
- Suggests finding strength in experiences for growth.
- Motivates listeners to pursue their best selves and promotes their books on Amazon and Audible.

You know Beyonce is my friend in my head.

You know when I was a kid, I had an imaginary enemy.

Hey y'all, I know I fell off for a second, but I'm back.

It's me, Phoenix Ash, and welcome to Life is P.

If you are a repeat listener, thank you so much.

If you are a new listener, thank you for checking me out.

I appreciate however you came by the show, whoever referred you or how whatever social media platform you founded on.

So I think sometimes when I'm speaking, cause you know, I'll be cussing sometimes and if you follow me on Twitter You know, sometimes I could be reckless with my mouth or images or whatever or if you read my books, you know, they sometimes they could be a little saucy or whatever, but I think sometimes people forget who I'm rooted in or what I'm rooted in.

And if you know me, you ain't never gonna forget that because it shows up in so many parts of me.

But if you are not a believer in God, you might want to skip this episode or you might want to stick around because you're curious.

If you are a believer in God but don't feel

like being convicted, you might want to skip this episode or you might want to stick around because you're curious.

a believer in God but don't feel like being convicted, you might want to skip this episode.

But I'm trying to be obedient to the Spirit and I ain't have time to think about it and really shape it in whatever way that was going to be gentle or soft for anybody.

So I'm just going to give the message that I got.

And if you've been here before, you know that I read the universe, right?

Like I read the writing on the wall, what is leaning, but sometimes something gets deposited in my spirit and I gotta say, all right, I'm gonna get to it.

Pause on the power that you're giving to everybody else.

And for a second, you need to stop misusing your own power.

And when I say that, I say it to myself as well to you.

And actually what was the positive in my spirit is you need to do a podcast about this.

If you know me, like I'm just getting to do TikToks.

And I'm like, I really rather not be in front of the camera, but whatever.

I'm just going to do what's in my spirit.

So Anywho, you know, sometimes when we are religious or spiritual, connected to God, feel like we have a relationship with God, God has turned our life around, we've made it through some things and all this or whatever.

We could get so righteous that we think that we can decide who God is going to use to bless us and what God is going to use to bless us.

You know, I've heard so many times that, you know, don't let certain people pray for you because you don't know what is on their spirit.

You don't know if they got a relationship with God or we're judging their life or judging wherever they've been or whatever.

And just like, nah, stay away from me, I don't want you to pray for me.

And what's in my spirit is that that is giving too much power to the empty spirit, to the demonic spirit.

Here's the thing, If God is truly with you within you and you so connected and he has empowered you, if these are the things that you believe, then who cares if the person don't mean you well, praise for you.

That weapon formed against you is not going to prosper.

Like I feel like sometimes in our spirituality we're a little inconsistent, right?

With our messages that we give to ourselves.

And you know, if the weapon formed against you is not going prosper, why do I give 2 craps about, see I was about to cuss, and go somewhere else.

But like why I care about the weapon that you got for me?

Because I don't know, even somebody who doesn't mean me well can bless me if God is in the picture.

If God is using them or using the situation or knows what I need and intends to bless me, You, whoever you are, are not powerful enough to stop what God intends in my life, right?

So you gonna try to hurt me, but you gonna bless me.

You know, think about jobs who have let you go and supervisors who have manipulated things and been underhanded and coworkers who talk about you, gossip about you, and you either get promoted right in front of their face or you detached from the job, whether the job lost you or whatever, you decided to become an entrepreneur or whatever.

And how you thought that it was the end, but then something greater came right behind it.

And I'm not even talking about biblical stories.

I see it, and you know, people are like, oh, but you know, people only give 10% of their lives, only share what's good.

You know, if I can help you through your misery, absolutely.

And let us keep sharing what's good and deposit what's good in each other's lives.

Sometimes I feel like we too interested in each other's misery.

I'm interested in your survival and your thriving and your turning things around.

But stop giving power to these entities that you believe mean you know good, right?

People will say, oh, don't share what you're doing or what your goals or what your dreams are.

And I've said this a number of times, if you don't share it, the people who have what you need, the tools, the resources and all of that, they don't know that you need them.

Stop worrying about who's going to try to challenge you or get in your way or throw a monkey wrench in your plan.

So you trying so hard to hold things close to the chest and can't figure out why you're not moving at the pace you want to move or at the speed that you want to move or not moving at all.

It's because you are not communicating to the universe.

You're not communicating to God uses people.

So like, you're not communicating to anybody what resources you need, what your intention is, what your goal is.

And so those resources and tools, they're there already.

They have already been provided to you but you have not spoken up so you can't get them because you're so concerned about the person who is gonna cut you off at the knees.

The person who is gonna try to burn your stuff to ashes.

I ain't supposed to be cursing in this, but, but burn it to ashes if you got to and watch it be reborn bigger and stronger and fly higher.

Like stop acting so scary, you know, and stop being so self-righteous because you have prayed for somebody, right?

You have pushed somebody, but not without your own sin in the background, not without your own grace, not without your own stepping over the line, under the line, coward and in the dark or whatever.

And so like we get so righteous that we like, oh no, that person I don't name it now, I don't want you to pray for me.

You can pray for my downfall and it will have no weight.

I remember, and this is probably a complicated scenario because somebody gonna be like, well, this don't really prove your point, but whatever.

I'm gonna go ahead and be complicated because that's who I am.

So I remember when I lived in Brooklyn and I had a tenant who was a little off the wall mentally and I was trying to, you know, start a family.

I was married and wanted to have a child or whatever.

And She found out that I was pregnant at the time.

So she found out I was pregnant and she repeated to somebody, she hopes that I lose my baby.

I know, what a terrible, terrible thing to say.

But I said she was like, she was, she was off her rocker.

Because when she had taken her medicine, she probably would have apologized profusely for even allowing that to come out of her mouth, but whatever, it was in her spirit at the time, right?

And she just wanted me to lose the child.

I really don't believe that she envisioned me bleeding out or me going into preterm labor or me having a miscarriage.

I truly believe it was strictly about me not having what I want, right?

Just disliking me in the moment so much that you did not want me to have what I wanted.

And it wasn't long after that that I did suffer a miscarriage in that pregnancy.

And I feel like it was very easy for me or anybody to say that, see, she shouldn't have known about my pregnancy and she prayed for it.

Who she prayed to that was powerful enough to have that happen?

Who answered her prayer and was like, yes, I'm going to give her a miscarriage?

Because The God I believe in wants me to live a joyous life full of prosperity and joy.

And I'm like, yeah, I don't feel like he granted that wish.

So I'm like, I don't feel like he granted that.

And, you know, my point is, even though it happened and she spoke it, I don't believe, like God wasn't in that, right?

The pregnancy was not something I was supposed to carry to term.

She don't have or didn't have, because I believe she passed away, but she didn't have the kind of power to make me miscarry because she spoke it.

I will never attribute that kind of power to her, ever.

I went into preterm labor after that, all of that.

But I also had a healthy child after that.

And I don't even believe, you know, some people be like, well, sometimes God will, you know, make it so da da da da so that you can learn to do the, what's a bill your, is it that?

I don't believe that God designed that for me?

Do I believe that God was able to use it and make something come out of it for me, make me find the positivity, the thing?

You know, my first miscarriage, I had a couple of miscarriages and I had like my first preterm labor forced me mentally to be like, you know what?

I need to stop BSing and I need to write.

And I'm gonna go to school and get me a degree in writing because when I decide to do something, I'm doing all the research.

And if I'm gonna take it seriously as a piece of my life, I am going to try to do it some justice and not foolish enough to know that, oh, whatever's in my mind is so golden and so wonderful.

I always, you know, there was a time I haven't said it in a while.

So if you've been following this show for a couple of years, you'll remember that I've said it, but I think it's time to say it again.

I do not believe my destiny is tied up in 1 person's pocket.

There is no 1 person walking this earth that can decide my destiny.

Even if somebody decided to shoot me, I might survive if that is my destiny.

If my destiny is to survive, even if you believe that you are the person to take my life, if I'm supposed to survive, if there's still work for me to do, I'm going to survive.

I don't believe that my destiny is tied up in 1 person's pocket when I go to work.

And somebody acts like, Oh, you can have your job today and not have it tomorrow.

If I say so I'd be like play yourself if you fucking want to.

Because if I'm supposed to be here, I'm gonna be here.

And If I'm not, all that's gonna happen when you do whatever treachery you got going on and all this foolishness you got going on, if I'm supposed to be someplace greater, you just gonna watch me go be greater someplace else.

You know, when I got divorced, my ex said to me very clearly, ooh, I'm going to get you.

And very threateningly, and He did a lot of things to try to get me to have a reaction emotionally and when he saw that I Was not emotional enough in my responses he decided to go after you know me financially and It hurt and I think to some degree he thought that it would be more traumatic than it ended up being.

That my bounce back would take a lot longer than it ended up taking.

But I had already put it in my mind, like, you know, this is a finite amount of money that he wants and my earning potential has yet to be seen.

So if I get hung up over this 1 amount, I prolong my double and my triple and my quartal that's coming behind it.

So go ahead and take this and get out the way.

I was like, this mother, something right here.

And, you know, just was so disgusted with him and everything.

But eventually I just was like, I kind of feel sorry, like that You have to go through this length To try to hurt someone who was just trying to free themselves from Consistent hurt.

I was trying to free myself from trauma and I just was like, come on, you know, you know what we've been through.

You know that this is not the life I want to live.

And like, I just don't even understand why you wanna punish me for freeing myself or something that's unhealthy for me.

But, and unhealthy for you and I want you to be free.

And despite all the things that I feel like you've inflicted on me, I still want you to be free.

Because I feel like you've done those things because you didn't feel free.

I don't wanna be the thing that stops you from being the greatest you.

I don't want her to be able to look at her father and be like, yeah, that's my dad.

I don't want her to be like, yeah, that's my dad.

But I don't believe that anybody has so much power that they can stop what's for you.

I don't care who tries to fool your plans.

Keep working for you and keep sharing and keep finding your resources and keep communicating and keep getting investors and keep just keep going.

And you cannot decide who God uses to bless you.

You cannot decide if this is the situation you gonna be blessed in, okay?

Your blessings gonna come find you when they need to, okay?

Just raise your hand and tell them where you at.

And when I say raise your hand and tell them where you at, I mean, don't stop doing the work.

Like, go ahead and just work in it, because nobody has enough power to stop what's for you.

Nobody has enough power to, and nobody has enough power to give it to you.

You have to participate because it's when it's 2 or more.

And just, You know, when you think of roads to riches or roads to, you know, career success or true joy is never just 1 path.

You know, people think, oh, I fell in love with this man and my life became so wonderful.

It was you intending to make your life wonderful too.

So it was 2 of y'all working on your joy.

And I'm praying that both y'all working on his joy too.

And you know, and if you're a man, you know what I'm saying the other way around as well.

Be out there, or become somebody's 2, whatever.

And when I say the enemy, I ain't be like the devil, whoever, whatever, whatever's coming up against you, the obstacle, the challenge, the whatever.

Like, oh, this is going to stop me from doing this.

Oh, this is going to make me, man, bump that stuff.

And when I think about it, I'd be like, I might have had this message a couple years ago before, but it's time.

And if you don't know what that is, then become somebody's too in the meantime.

Cause Maybe you'll figure it out in the journey with somebody else.

Maybe something will be revealed to you as you journey with someone else.

But if you can't figure it out, go ahead and be somebody's too.

I'm not usually, I can't say I'm not usually a preacher because when the spirit moved me, the spirit moved me.

And like, oh, this stopped me from doing this.

You know, you get a little bit to complain.

You get a little bit to wallow over what happened.

And after that, we be like, gotta make a plan.

Because this ain't about to be the thing that take us out, right?

I'm like, I am like, you are not going to take me out, okay?

And if you are, you're going to work damn hard at it.

There's been too many obstacles that I've overcome.

It's too many tragedies that I have to live with, not even that I've overcame, that I have to live with mentally because I've experienced them and there's no taking them back, no taking them away.

But I've let the spirit use me and be like, okay, well, if this is, if you can find strength in me, if there's strength to be found, If there's a gift to be found, if there's a tool to be found, come on, open my eyes and let me find it.

Because if I have to experience it, please don't let it be for vain.

So I'm trying to roll it with you, you know, so that You could be the best you, you could be the freest you, you could be the joyous you, because that's what I want for you.

And I know it ain't about me and what I want for you, but hopefully you want that for you too, and I could be here too.

If you wanna support and be my too, My books are all available on Amazon.

I have my novel and her makeup is also available on Audible if you're an Audible listener.

I can run down some titles for you in case you run across.

I have a book called Delectable, a sweet romance.

I have in her makeup, like I just mentioned, I have Savage Fever, which is a series.

Like just read the 1 book and you got the whole series is broken down in the series.

So like you understand, but I fool with it.

I got Cookies and Crumbles and Soil Sheets.

Soil Sheets is the mother's story, Cookies and Crumbles is the daughter's story.

In the meantime, I need to go do what I'm supposed to do.

And I'm a right to, because that was the positive, too.

So until the next time when we can exchange power, I got...

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