Love your own journey #podcast #fyp #mentalhealth

1 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, the independent musician (Speaker A) shares how she stopped comparing herself to others and began to love her own progress. She discusses releasing her third album independently, selling it directly to fans, and taking control of her career. She recounts rapid milestones: headlining City Winery three times, opening for Lyfe Jennings, and moving from dreaming of performing on stage to actually doing it within a year. She emphasizes the importance of being a trailblazer, embracing the challenges (“smell like smoke”), and staying focused on her unique path. Speaker B briefly affirms the trailblazer metaphor. The overall tone is reflective, motivational, and celebratory of personal growth and mental well‑being.

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It's so many— your journey is your journey, and I had to learn not to compare myself to anyone else. Once I stopped comparing myself, that's when I started loving where I'm at. I am so— if God said today, Bonita, this is it, you're done, you know, this is, this is the pinnacle of how far you're going to come in your music, I would be like, okay, guess what? I, I— this is my third album that I put out. Independently, no label. Come on, like, you know what I mean? Yeah, I could physically— I physically sell. You can buy it directly from me. I can set my own thing. My— I'm doing small shows, but guess what? I've headlined City Winery 3 times. That little girl, I went— I remember 2 years ago, I literally went to a show and was like, I want to perform on the stage. Fast forward to a year later, I opened up for Lyfe Jennings Fast forward to the year, the next year, I had my own headlining show. So when I— when they say it's levels to this, it really is levels to it, to it. When I see something, it's nothing— when they say— when like Katt Williams has said this, and I, I resonated so much with it, he was like, it's nothing in this world that I, that I want that I haven't got yet.
I like that. Thing about being the trailblazer, you're gonna smell like smoke.
Going city to city, we turning corners. When you with trailblazers smelling like smoke, pay attention to the joke.