Sandi L Boucher (Red Thunderbolt, Loon clan, Seine River First Nation) delivers a short motivational YouTube monologue urging viewers to stop standing in their own way and to allow themselves to evolve and be authentic. Prompted by a TV interview quote praising Willow Smith for allowing herself to evolve and reinforced by a Marianne Williamson passage about fear and light, Sandi asks listeners to permit themselves to be intelligent, funny, opinionated (assertively), compassionate, grateful, happy, beautiful, sexy, and culturally proud. She frames this as personal empowerment that also supports Indigenous cultural pride and reconciliation.
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In case you haven't noticed yet, and if you're new to my channel, maybe you haven't noticed yet, stick around. Please subscribe. I guarantee you it's going to be worth your time. For those that have been here for a while, I'm wondering if you've noticed that I'm constantly observing my environment. I was going to say I react to it, but I don't. It's the fact that what's going on in my environment is constantly triggering my. My thought process, my. The building of my wisdom. How does that fit with my teachings? Which is why I do reaction videos. Because I will hear something and it's like that just blew my mind or it made me think of you and that's what happened or what we're going to talk about today. Something happened that made me think of you. A comment was made, a quote was given, and I definitely thought of you. So let's talk about it. Foreign. Additional Cosmon no dam. Hi, everybody. My name is Sandy Boucher. I'm Red Thunderbolt, woman of the Loon clan, a proud member of Seine River first nation in Treaty 3 territory in Northern Ontario, Canada. And I am dedicated to Indigenous Canadian reconciliation by sharing the. My Indigenous world view. So it helps all of us build some bridges. Now, during my downtime, because, surprise, I'm not always working. I think I'm always on YouTube, mind you, not like on my channel. I'm always observing and watching and learning. And I love YouTube. Do I get points for that? Sorry, yawning here. I'm on my last video for this week, so I'm good. But I'm always on YouTube. I love YouTube. Thank you, YouTube. Anyways, I believe it was a Kelly Clarkson clip, a little excerpt from one of her shows. And she was actually interviewing Willow Smith, who is a dynamic, powerful young woman. And Questlove joined them on set and he's just blown away by Willow, remembers her when and. And the quote was, I want to give a shout out to Willow Smith for allowing herself to evolve into this artist. Shout out to Willow Smith for allowing herself to evolve into this artist. Where do you think my head went? You got it. What are you allowing yourself to become? If there's one thing I've Learned in my 60 years is just how often I was the one standing in my way, that I was the one hanging on to someone else's opinion or someone else's criticism or some past limitation that for some reason I thought still applied to me. Nothing else applied to me still from my past. I Wasn't that size anymore. I wasn't that age anymore. But. But somehow I thought the limitations still applied. So what are you allowing yourself to be? Do you and females watching this, I'm thinking of you right now. Do you allow yourself to be as smart as you actually are? Like in your circle of friends at work, whatever. Are you actually sharing your true self? Are you allowing yourself to be as funny as you are? Or are you hiding that from the world? Are you allowing yourself to have an opinion? And are you sharing your opinion not in the attacky way that we see so often, but in a true, respectful way, Assertive, not aggressive? Are you sharing what you think you could help someone you know? Are you allowing yourself to be as compassionate and as kind as you believe you should be? Or are you getting caught up in the negative rhetoric that is today? Are you allowing yourself to be grateful even for the challenges that help you become strong? Are you allowing yourself to be happy? Oh, there's. So it's a trauma response, Right? There's so many people out there that not allowing themselves to be happy because they're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Right. Well, I don't want to be happy in this moment because something bad's going to happen. It's life. There's rocks in the river. There's a really good chance something could happen. Guess what? That's more reason to be happy in this moment. I hang on to my happy like crazy because that's the reprieve and the fuel I need to handle the bad stuff. So don't rob yourself of your happy. Life's hard enough. Hello. Are you allowing yourself to be beautiful? And not by some society standards, the most beautiful people I know has everything to do with their heart and nothing to do with their physical shape or face or makeup or hair or whatever their clothing, whatever the case may be. And. And for us that are getting older, are you allowing yourself to be sexy? Are you allowing yourself to be the vibrant individual that you were born to be? Or are you putting barriers up instead? Right, like it makes me think of that Marianne Williamson quote. Hang on, let me look that up. I'm calling up. Well, I was going to say Dr. Google, but that's not. I'm not sick. So that's. There it is. Okay, I want to get the wording right. I'll just click on one of these images. That should work. There it is. Can I. Yes, I can. I can put it over here. So here it is. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest Fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You're playing. Small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And it is. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others and. And I know that to be true. My confidence encourages people to be confident. And I get asked all the time, how do I help indigenous people be proud of their culture? My answer has been the same for more than a decade. Be proud of your culture. Share with me your cultural practices. And then you create a space where it's safe for me to share mine. Don't shrink. Don't be small. Get out of your way. Make sure you are conscious of who you're allowing yourself to be. Don't allow yourself to be your worst version. Don't sing to your lowest common denominator. That's too easy. I want to dare you to be the best you can be. Because that's why Creator sent you. We need you. The real you. The best version of you. Until tomorrow with Friday's flashback video. I will see you on Monday. I love you. Take care. Bye. Bye.
