In this short motivational video, the speaker greets viewers with a light‑hearted, South‑Florida‑themed introduction that references Mother’s Day, local culture, and a playful “show me you’re from South Florida” game. He then delivers the day’s “moment of yes,” urging listeners to consciously lean into any heavy emotions they are experiencing rather than distracting or suppressing them. Drawing on his own history of avoiding difficult feelings, he explains that such emotions are often attached to a sense of loss—whether it’s the loss of a person, a role, or an opportunity. By identifying the specific attachment, one can recognize that while the concrete source may be gone, the broader feeling of connection, love, or camaraderie is limitless and can re‑emerge in new forms. The speaker frames this process as a permission‑granting practice: feel the emotion, ask what it’s attached to, and then envision the possibility of regaining the feeling in a different way. He concludes with a weekend well‑wish, encouraging viewers to apply this “yes” mindset over the coming days.
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Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for Friday, May 7th. Hopefully you guys have some good weekend plans for all the mothers out there or all those with mothering qualities. Happy Mother's Day coming to you on Sunday. Do I look angelic? I feel angelic in my white workout shirt. Yeah? You know the whole social media thing, show me your— so I would do like, show me you're from South Florida. Florida without telling me you're from South Florida. And so this is— I don't know if you can see that parking job right there, or even better, that parking job right there. South Florida. Or I could just show you palm trees. Palm trees? Palm trees. Yeah, there you go. So happy South Florida. And I was just listening to Pitbull on the radio. It doesn't get more South Florida than that. All right, don't hit each other, guys. Okay. Your moment of yes for today is lean into it. Lean into it. I've had a few different sessions this week, coaching calls and things like that, and I think our tendency when we are feeling an emotion deeply— and I am someone that has, has built a lifetime of avoiding difficult emotions, but hopefully has learned how to lean into them a little bit better— but when you notice yourself feeling heavier emotions Our tendency is to want to defend ourselves, to avoid, distract. Our society is good at distraction. And so we don't really feel them fully, or we feel them and then we quickly want to dismiss them or fix them. And I think there's a happy solution, which is when we allow ourselves permission to lean into them. Whether it's sadness, whether it's frustration, whether it's fear, discouragement, whatever it is, can we allow ourselves to lean into them, meaning just feel them? And then even while we're feeling them, asking ourselves, what is this emotion attached to? What is this heavy feeling attached to? And often it's going to be, it's attached to loss. Right. Not seeing a person again or not being able to be a part of a team or be a part of a group or be connected in the way. It's like we're losing something, we're missing something. If we allow ourselves to look at the attachment, the attachment is often a finite thing, but the feeling is a limitless thing. The feeling of connection, the feeling of camaraderie, right? These things that we're missing when, when a person is gone or, or an opportunity is gone. But those feelings of connection, of camaraderie, of love, of all of those things are not limited to, to specific people, or they have to stay with that people. Those are universal qualities that we can feel in lots of different ways. And so when we give ourselves permission to feel things deeply, To ask ourselves, what is this emotion attached to? And then as we explore what that attachment is, it actually opens us up to, oh, I know that I'll be able to still have that feeling again. It's just going to probably be in a different way. And that's okay. And because when we deny our emotions or run away from them, we deem them as bad and we never allow ourselves to feel them or move move through them and see what's on the other side. So that's your moment of yes for today. Lean into those emotions and then ask, what are these emotions attached to? See what's on the other side of that rainbow. That's your moment of yes for today, everybody. Have an awesome weekend.
