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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And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going, like this increment of small determined moments. And so I think that as well as coupled with Taking that negative talk out of your space, like being very conscious, it happens, it's in your head, you hear it, you're like... Tell yourself the opposite thing. I mean, that's how I started to really get into affirmations, which...
I realized that I had to create what I wanted to hear. And oftentimes it's so many times it's the barrage of everyone else's doubts and fears and your parents, you inherited theirs and you inherited all your peers' things and you got all these things inside you that are not even yours. And so I had to create this connection with affirmations that allowed me to say what I wanted to hear.
And so I had to become very mindful to notice the negative so that I could replace it. And when I did that, it really changed everything. It changed a bunch. And I had to stop saying things that I heard my mother say. I had to stop saying things that I heard whoever else I trusted say, because it wasn't serving me. Because she had picked up some stuff that I didn't need to pick up.
I didn't need to hold it. Stuff like that has been how. How many marathons have you done now? I've done two. Okay, that's impressive. I did Greece and I did New York.
And I realized the craziest thing. I realized that what I was experiencing, that ache, that pain, that lower back, the thing was childbirth. I didn't know that because the first time I hadn't given birth. But when I gave birth, I recognized the sensations. And it was similar to a marathon.
Wow.
It was kind of crazy. But there was a strength there that, you know, was really empowering. So only two. My brother's trying to get me to do another one. I'm like, nah, B. I'm not doing it.
When you do it, it's phenomenal. And you really discover that your mind is stronger than your physical being. And you really can find this place that you didn't know you could.
My affirmation depends on the day, right? So today my affirmation is just, I'm going to be on time. I struggle to get my kids to school on time. It's killing me. My youngest son has just changed schools and he's going to another school. So now I'm taking both kids to two separate places. I'm struggling. And my second affirmation is I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace for yourself.
You're trying your best. It's not like you're messing around and doing whatever. You're really trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Have some grace.
It's more than a notion. You think, I could do this if I just leave by this time. And for whatever reason, that time comes and goes over and over. So it's all good.
And it all comes from a good place, but I think sometimes we can beat ourselves up so badly about things that, you know, we can just give ourselves a little bit of a break and we can start again and try again and it's okay.
You know, I really try not to do that. I really do. Like I really, I feel like I have a pretty good sense of self. And I feel like I have a pretty good sense also of like reality. And so I don't over obsess myself. And I don't over kind of like, I'm not overly mean to myself, but I did think about that the other day. And I said, I did this. I didn't put it up yet, but I did this.
I do these things called piece of peace. And, and I call this speak to me nice. Cause I, you're not gonna let someone else talk to you just any type of way. You're like, excuse me, how did you just, you just speak to me nice. But you yourself will speak to yourself in these crazy ways. And so I kind of was like just reflecting on You telling yourself, me telling myself, speak to me nice.
Like talk to me with kindness and love. I learned that from my son a lot because my youngest, he's like, he's a little tough on himself. And I'm like, hey, speak to yourself nice. And so... I think that is something that I've learned how to embody and I really try not to spin out too much. But there are times, of course, you just, but I'm like, this is really doing no good.
I'm really freaking out. And I was just like, why? What are we doing in this space, in this cycle? Sometimes you got to freak out, though. Yeah. Because you got to learn something from it. You have to take away whatever that is or that energy or that person who's spinning you like that or that trigger that's triggering you like that.
And you do have to kind of spin out just to be like, whoa, that actually gets to me a lot. Why? Why? I've been learning a lot of that too.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, it was forever. It was literally forever that I really struggled with my skin. And, you know, you're a teenager and your hormones and you get it and it's cool. And then all of a sudden I was like 18 and then I was 24. and then I was 28 and then I was 30 and then I was like 35. And I'm like, whoa, when does this thing stop? Like when? I thought like 16, 18, 21 maybe. Why is it continuing?
And it was really hard to, especially to be in spaces where you would present yourself and you would feel just so self-conscious. I just felt so self-conscious. And I'm like, but there's a big bump right here. And then most people are like, I don't even see the damn bump, but I see the bump right here and it's huge. And it feels really uncomfortable. You know, you just feel uncomfortable.
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