You don't know how it even got that big. Like, sometimes you created these glasses against yourself. Sometimes they come out of nowhere. Just life is crazy, man, right? But as I was kind of just learning about myself and just kind of going through different things, I was like, yo, what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? Right? These things, you face them, okay? But what is going to be your slingshot?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:27
In fact, I've had a few really deep private messages with people to kind of sort of self correct a little bit with another voice witnessing or giving me some guidance because life is really layered. You have the deeper layers of your own personal conversations, and then you have the outer layers of taking out the garbage and getting to work and being a good citizen and having fun. And there's all these layers in between that really are a bit noisy
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:13
This is too much, this is too challenging. This is too hard, I want to give up. I think back to my father's accident and how he fought through even though he didn't survive his injuries, he still fought through what I can't even mentally imagine was a very painful and frightening experience. Enough to be able to let someone know, to call us so that we knew what happened to him
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Zaire Ukuu
@zaireukuu · 4:31
What's going on? Elijah, thank you for tack the value me to this swell. First I want to say you asked a very d*** good question. I'm like that's a very interesting question to pose. What is my swing shot when I first heard you swell? And I'm like, that's a good question. I couldn't think of anything. But then I had a whole bunch of things rambling my head and I finally put it all together
Zaire Ukuu
@zaireukuu · 2:11
One of the things that I just wanted to mention was that listening to the story and how you told it, it's actually quite beautiful, because the first thing that stuck out to me ultimately, after process and everything, was that we tend to follow or we tend to move towards that which is in our heart. That which is in our heart will ultimately take precedence over anything. Pain, anguish, hurt, depression, whatever. It doesn't matter
We got seasons when there's storm and havoc. And we have to be prepared. God wants us to be prepared. He wants us to be focused and sober minded, to know when those times do come, when those times do come to just basically rely on Him, and he's going to see us through it. We're going to still be in the storm. We're still going to go through the test and travel
Pedro Pena
@MSLpodcast · 4:46
And because I couldn't talk on the telephone, because I couldn't talk to people, I couldn't ask a question, I had everything in my head, but the words were just coming out. And for five years, I was isolated. I lived a life of isolation until I woke up one day on my 40th birthday. And by the way, happy belated birthday
Eric Owens
@EricG · 4:54
Some were exceedingly difficult when my young years in my 20s experience deep personal loss because of the circumstances. I spent around 20 years of my life raising two sons and a daughter by myself as a single working dad. Working being the key word and what you have to do with the initial part of it prior to going to work and raising the kids. The first part, of course, the personal loss. To say that that was extremely difficult would be a gross understatement
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:46
And I know that Maya spent years just like you did, not as many decades as you, so I hope the two of you are connected. She has a podcast as well. But I'm really happy to hear you here on Swell, and your perspective is so invaluable, and I look forward to listening more to your Swellcast. And I've heard some of your replies and other people swell. It's such an important message. It just put a big smile on my face for the Sunday morning
