Houseless Trash, Marginalized Dreams & Why You SHOULD Meet Your Hero!

This week, let's talk about houselessness and let's talk about egos, and let's talk.

About excuses, and let's talk about the.

Importance of dreaming, especially for marginalized people. All of that in this week's blog post review. Hello everybody, it's Sandy Boucher here once again with this week's blog post review. Not a sneak peek, but actually reflecting back on the blog posts that were shared this week, adding in a little bit of extra context and of course encouraging you one more time to jump into the membership so you can check out these blog posts anytime you want. And the members get to see blog posts even before they're released, which is kind of cool. They are actually the first ones to see my blog posts. As soon as I write it, put it in the membership, which I do right away. As soon as I write it. Poof. They have access long before it might be scheduled. Just saying more on the membership at the end of this video. But let's jump into this week's blog post review. And this was for the blog post for May 1st to May 5th, 2023. So first off, May 1st houseless trash. Do not even for a second think I'm referring to the people. And that was why I use that title, of course. But instead, what I was talking about is the fact that I do live in an inner city area and sometimes that means if you dare to look out the window, you might see the reality of houselessness and what that entails. But in this blog post, I wasn't talking about that per se. I was talking about the ever never ending amount of trash outside and how I noticed one of the workers that support the houseless people out cleaning the sidewalk and I was so thankful. And then it hit me. If I was houseless, if I was living on the streets, if I was discarded by society, if I was looked down on by everyone who walked by me, would I care two beans about picking up my trash? The answer is no. At the end of that blog post, I shared one of my mom's teachings. And I'm not going to reiterate here, but it's definitely worth checking out. Whether on social media that's the May 1 entry or by being a member. You know the drill. But something to keep in mind the next time you're tempted to go to judgment of someone that teaching from my mom will smart new up every single time. Now on May 2, I reiterated something I've said in the past that I am not an excuse. I have met people they want to use Me as the stick to beat other people with. If she can do it, why can't you? I've been, and I'm, I've been called unique and I really don't like that. And it's. We all have talents, we're all unique. But what I do, fighting every single day to make a difference is a choice. It's not something I was born with, it's something I choose to do every single day. And in this blog post, I call out the people who want to dismiss it as, that's just what Sandy does. No, that's what you could do too. And in fact, it's what I need you to do because it's going to take many, many, many, many, many of us to make a difference. And we can't keep expecting the activists and, and the, the influencers to do all the work because I'm not always in the room. So the onus is on you to call out the racist comment, to make sure indigenous are sitting at the table, to make sure they have a voice, to make sure they're not just heard and then dismissed. I am not your excuse either if you're indigenous and saying, well, I could never do that. Yes, yes, absolutely you can. And I'm not the reason to judge people either. That was Tuesday's message. Wednesday, I had a chance to emcee an event for Nan again. I do that quite often. I love doing that. Such amazing people working there. Nan Nishnawe, Asking Nation. And this time I was absolutely pumped because Pam Palmeter was the keynote speaker. And I followed Pam's work and admired her voice for years. In fact, I shared with her that when I didn't have mine, she was one of them. That inspired me, inspired me and got me believing that maybe I could one day that I could get that strong. I was on my way to the event, which was about a 20, 25 minute drive from my home. It was about five minutes from the event when I realized I lost my phone. Now that I lost my phone, I forgot my phone at home, which happens normally. It's no big deal, but I was kind of really counting on a picture with Pam. But I did the debate. Do I turn around? If I turn around, it means I'm going to be late. And that wouldn't be very professional. And maybe, just maybe, in line with my teachings, there's a reason for this, a reason I shouldn't have my phone today. No idea what that was, but I decided to find out. I found out pretty quickly there was a change in the agenda, the gathering I was at was in response to the inquest into the seven youth that died here in the city of Thunder Bay. While they were here to go to school, they were from our remote communities. Every single one of them died tragically, which triggered an inquest. Well, I guess the families had to fight hard to get the inquest. This was a follow up on that inquest and more specifically, the recommendations that came out of the inquest. When I got to the event, I knew there was going to be a change in the agenda. One of the presenters, I had been told the day before, wasn't going to be able to be there. What I didn't know until I arrived was that the time had been set aside to let the families speak, the families of the seven fallen feathers, the seven youth. And I stood there thinking, that's not the kind of presentation you should sit and play on your phone. That's not the kind of presentation that you should be distracted. It's probably why my phone was at home. And by the way, Nan staff were so amazing. They were nice enough to take a picture. So I'm glad I followed through with my teachings. Thursday, May 4th. Have you ever heard the phrase you should never meet your heroes? So you're going to be disappointed? Who are these people putting out these quotes? Either they're privileged people wanting to keep other people marginalized, or they're marginalized people so negative because they haven't bothered to do their healing. Meet your heroes. And if you are disappointed, good, because then you realize you need better heroes to look up to. I got to meet Pam. I got to hear her keynote, but I got to talk. More importantly for me, I got to talk to her beforehand and after. We got to laugh and converse and talk about our work and our shared commonalities and it was amazing. She's human like everybody else and she has, you know, time restrictions and doesn't know how to figure out everything. And she is beautiful as a human being. So I want you to meet your heroes. I want you to have heroes. I want you to have someone to look up to you, because that's who you hang on to on those days when it all falls apart, when everyone else is telling you it's never going to change, realize that's the voice of oppression talking. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to them when they say you shouldn't meet your heroes. Meet them every chance you get. Listen to them. Have them. That was the blog post for Thursday and Friday along the same lines. Obviously this was a week of empowerment. The Friday blog post was called Dare. And what I was asking is if you have a dream, any dream, several dreams, a bucket list, if you will, do you dare to dream of more? And again, that gets dismissed. But you know what? It's dismissed by people who have accepted or settled for their circumstances and who love to complain about it rather than do something about it. I would still be impoverished, marginalized, like an abuse victim, no doubt, if I did not have my dreams to drive me forward on the days I was tempted to forget. And in the blog post, I shared what some of my dreams were and the ones I have achieved. So Brene Brown. We all know who Brene Brown is. This isn't in the blog post. I'm just adding this in an extra bonus for watching my YouTube channel. She always says that. Tell your story to someone who has deserved, who has earned the right to hear it, who deserves to hear it. And it's the same with your dreams. Don't just go spinning them out. Some other people can spin, spit on them and discourage you. Hold space and share them. Keep it to yourself for a while. I did. For the longest time. People would have laughed at me when I told people I was going to write a book. I literally had people tell me, who's going to read a book you wrote? Welcome to how disempowering my life used to be. Guess what? When you've now written four, no one says that anymore. Success shuts those people down. So keep going. Keep your dreams to yourself. But live them. Think about them, dream about them. Envision them as often as you want to. It's like a mini vacation I used to daydream. I'm standing on the stage in front of an audience sharing my truth. It's kind of what I do for a living now, just FYI. So keep those dreams alive. And then when you do find someone who you know is going to encourage you, grandmas are really good for that. Then share your dream and give it even more energy and life. Share it with the people that will protect it as much as you do. But never ever stop having your dreams. So there you have it, my friend. This week's blog post. All about empowering the masses. I'm about to jump on a plane. That's why I'm shooting this early. I'm off to do some nation building. Anishinaabe. Nation building. Nation building from an indigenous perspective. And that gets me fired up every single time. Until next week. I love you. Take care of you. Bye bye again.

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