Real Talk Real Walk with Shawn & Rashawn

In this episode Shawn & Rashawn continue the conversation on how to effectively ask the right people for what we need. We must create value surrounding the people we are ultimately asking. How can we add value to the lives of those we are needing help from? Another key is simply asking until you get what it is that you are asking for. There is no harm in continuing to ask when you are asking with confidence, kindness, and asking the right person who can help you. Is there an area in your life where you have a need that you need met and can continue asking for?

During this episode, Shawn & Rashawn discuss how we can truly ask for what we need and have the confidence to live it out. One of the first steps is simply, ask someone for help! Remember to seek out the correct people who can actually help you with the situation you are in. Sometimes, even unintentionally, we look to people who can't, won’t or don’t have the power to help us with our immediate need. We end up making decisions that can be unhealthy or end up hurting us more in the long run. We also must be specific in asking for what we want and ask with confidence. Listen now to fully dive into this topic!

Dive in with Shawn & Rashawn and discover what it means to look at your past and declare that your future will be different. Your present situations do NOT hold the same names as your past did. You do not need to live in shame, guilt, regret, or trauma.. What name are you living out of? Are you attaching to the names of your past or are you looking to God to provide you with new names of love, encouragement, and strength for your future?

Guest speaker, Ryan Casey Waller is back with Shawn & Rashawn on this episode to further discuss what it looks like to live a life well lived, fearless and free. If you really examine your life whose laws are you actually living under when it comes to knowing what and who you are getting your identity from. When we search God’s word and seek out the truth about our identity new messages form in our brain and will inevitably decrease our anxieties regardless of the situation. How are you viewing yourself today? Are you viewing yourself through the lens of shame or freedom?

During this episode Shawn & Rashawn interview their first guest who is an author, speaker, pastor, and (recovering) lawyer, Ryan Casey Waller. Ryan helps us discover how we can exercise our faith muscle when faced with worry and anxiety. This uplifting conversation reveals how we tend to curb our anxieties through materialistic ways instead of focusing our attention on the Lord and giving our cares to Him. We crave a sense of security but we have to admit that it can never be found in our own strength or in our own created coping mechanisms. How are you asking God to move in your life? Are you willing to look outside the box you have put Him in and allow Him to move in the way only He can?

Shawn & Rashawn really help us to understand what it is like to put the word of God and the truths that it brings into our everyday life. We have to bring God’s promises and His heart into every small, mundane or huge life-changing decisions. Dependence on Him will limit our fear or unbelief which in return increases our abundance of peace. We need to take an introspective look in our lives and cut off every stressor and lie that does not line up with the will of God. God ultimately calls us to bring our worries to Him, to trust Him that He will turn them around and give us peace instead.

In this episode Shawn & Rashawn dive deeper into the very real ways anxiety rears its ugly head in today's society. We often fear missing out on social events, we become anxious about a big decision we have to make, and we can see our anxiety rise when we are faced with adversity. Shawn mentions that the body executes what the mind conceives and this is true in ways that can be discovered while you are struggling with anxiety and in ways that will jumpstart your healing journey. This episode reminds us that we have to connect with God personally and let go of our fear to really find the peace God wants to give us.

In this episode, Shawn & Rashawn wrap up the series with how we can successfully walk out our goals and accomplish our God given dreams. They discuss why consistency is vital to creating rituals that will set us up for success. Our rituals must support our dream otherwise it is just a wish. Shawn explains how we can take one large or audacious goal and break it down into bite size chunks to better equip ourselves to achieve what we desire. In this episode we are given the steps to help decide what it is that we are wanting to change which will result in forming or figuring out our dreams.

This hopeful and encouraging podcast reveals two more strategies we can take with us daily to walk out our dreams. Shawn & Rashawn dive into the concept of raising our standards of living so we can run after our dreams wholeheartedly and accomplish what God has put in our heart. We MUST also know where our identity comes from and what (or who) we are putting our worth in. We absolutely live out who we believe we are. This episode explains how crucial it is that we follow who God says we are and not what our past says we have done or who we were.

During this episode, Shawn and Rashawn discuss the “why” or the reason it is important to stay on the path of walking out your dreams. We know that ultimately our “why” is to be a presentation of who God is and to display his love and character to those along our journey. It is vital to keep this in our mind and heart when we are struggling in the process of living our dreams. Are we focusing on the promise of who God is or is our current problem overtaking our vision and determination? We have to constantly remind ourselves of God’s promises and our “why” when focusing on walking out our dreams.

Shawn and Rashawn dive into different strategies you can take hold of to successfully walk out your dreams. The culture we live in today has many do’s and don'ts, should and shouldn'ts and this episode sheds light on cultivating progress not perfection. We are reminded that we can’t let the devil distract us because he will try to veer us off the course of walking toward our dreams. God gives us our vision and motivation that truly encourages our spirit to walk out our dreams in realistic and authentic ways.

How to create a NEW VISION for your life that helps you to achieve your God given dreams? Shawn and Rashawn will share how to get unstuck!To have a new vision of our dream is to walk in faith. Too often we focus on an old dream that God is trying to restore with new vision and wonder why it isn’t working out. Who and what are we letting influence our lives? Those closest to us influence our lives the most. Are you surrounding yourself with high achieving, Godly and supportive people or negative, stagnant influences? We need to discover our dreams and give them a voice. And then seek out those who speak life into us and avoid those who spread discouragement and fear. We have a calling to rise above our circumstances and shine a light to those around us. Ultimately, If we want to get to where we’ve never been we have to do things we’ve never done. Today is your day to start walking in faith not fear.

When your dream dies, how do you find that spark again? ... Life changes, we change as people; it only makes sense that our dreams change too. Shawn and Rashawn talk about counting the cost before you go to battle for your God given dreams. Do you have a dream for your life? Most of us do but very few of us are actually willing to step out of our comfort zone and do what it takes to accomplish our dreams. Every goal and dream in our lives will come at a cost. Whether that is time, finances, relationships, vacations, ect., we have to be willing to sacrifice something to get to where we want to be. What dreams do you have that are worth sacrificing for? Many of us are so afraid to fail that we never start. But, how can you fail if you never try? Don’t let complacency and feelings of inadequacy keep you from reaching high. Shawn and Rashawn talk about how we can get over our fears and really step into what God is calling us to. What is God telling you to do about your dream?