Alicia Keys
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Alicia Keys’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you're going to get to that pole. You see that light? After the pole, you're going to get to that light. You see that tree after the light? You're going to get to that tree. And I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. If there's something that you love, go after it, because it's meant for you.
That's so weird. Like, when you do all of that, there's something about it that's just so... fascinating. And wow. And thank you for having me. And I can't believe we're in the flesh for the first time on this show.
You know what I mean? This is so good. And I love your show and I love your life's purpose. It's so beautiful. So thank you for having me in your space. I'm loving this.
Like, you lyin'. Like you lying, right? I mean, you know, as a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions and desires and wishes, but you just don't know what is gonna come for you. You don't know what's in your world or what's gonna come into your world. And I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves.
And so for self-preservation and protection, we say, I mean, it's probably not going to be that way for me. Or, you know, you know how it goes for me. You do these things. And I remember doing these things. And it wasn't until I stopped doing those things that things really started to change.
So I still have a piece of inside of me that that is that little girl that's kind of like, you know, you protect, you want to protect what might go wrong. And so I find that I do that sometimes, which maybe is what happened when you just rattled off all those things. And I was a little bit like, that is so crazy and weird and strange and amazing at the same time.
Yeah, what do you mean about... When you were growing up. How about yesterday? You know what I mean? How about like three days ago? As a kid growing up, I think some of my fears really circulated around. I remember I felt fearful that I wouldn't... Or I felt like I had to protect myself from being hurt from people that I loved. I remember that. That was a thing.
And I had to figure my way through that. There was a sense of lack that I... was worried about. I was worried about this state of lack or not having enough money or not having enough, not being able to hold on to what you started to get or things like that. I had to do a lot of work around that.
That was a big one because I mean, you really can perpetuate that cycle just simply by the fact that you believe it can happen. And so that was a big one. I think that there was a lot of fear or anxiety or worry around rejection. There was a lot of that, especially as I started to become more a public figure where people could kind of choose to like or dislike.
It was a difficult journey to understand that you're never... going to please everyone, period. And you're going to spend your, you're going to tear yourself apart trying to like make sure every single thing is the way someone else wants it to be. But I had a lot of fear about that. And I really, it was, it was a struggle for me. And I, you know, I wanted to be accepted. I wanted to be liked.
I wanted to be, you know, I wanted to hear a positive reflection back to me, you know? And so it took a long time to kind of be like, Yeah, I don't, I can't depend on that. You know, I have to find my own stability. I have to find my own intuition. I have to find what I believe in. And at least I can stand on that.
At least I can say I really believe that one, you know, if it didn't work out, but I really believed it. And I'm proud of it. You know what I mean? And that's a big one. You know, talk about even yesterday, I mean, Hell's Kitchen, where we talked about Hell's Kitchen, which is my musical, which has been a big dream in the making. There were moments where I'm like, is this going to work?
Like, what if the whole... I have this whole vision. I know what I want. But what if for some reason the whole thing doesn't go the way I want? What does that mean? I mean, you have... Many, many, many dollars. You have investors that you promise them to trust you. Can I carry this? Can I hold this? Can I manifest this? Terrifying.
I mean, I would speak to my kids about it just because I wanted them to know that it's scary. You know, it's scary to dream. But does that mean I'm not going to dream it or not going to try it? No, I have to. So tons of things have been that way.
That's a great question. I think one of the things that I had to come to terms with is that pretty much nothing is going to come in a timeframe that you think is going to come.
So that's, and that's helpful because I think a lot of us are, you know, I mean, we're in such a digital space and we see all these things and we're bombarded with all these images and we're bombarded with all these kind of like carefully crafted posts of perfection and You get freaked out about it. But I'm, you know, and fortunately, I didn't really have to grow up looking at that.
So I empathize deeply with this generation. We have to we have to evolve as young people on a whole other level. than I even had to navigate. But what I mean by and why it relates is I felt like I grew up in New York City. Everybody's a hustler. You got to go fast. You got to make it happen. You got to stay up all night and get up crack of dawn and it's not going to happen if you don't.
And I realized, wait, you know, as hard as I try to push the thing forward, When it's time, it's time. And if it's not time, it don't matter what I do. It doesn't matter how much sleep I don't get. It's not going to be time until it's time. And so I think that that steadiness of like kind of you just have to put one foot in front of the other is just as simple as that.
And I remember when I did my first marathon, I ran in Greece and I figured I'd never do another marathon. So I might as well do something unforgettable. But I couldn't figure out how I was going to make it. Everything hurt. My feet hurt. My back hurt. My lower back hurt. My abs hurt. My body ached. And I couldn't figure out how am I going to get there?
And I remember I was running with my friend who trained with me and helped me. And he said, you see that pole? you're going to get to that pole. You see that light after the pole, you're going to get to that light. You see that tree after the light, you're going to get to that tree. And it was literally that step by step.
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