Melodee Rhodes

Oh, she's the sweetest person.

Everybody who meets my mom says she's the sweetest person they ever met.

But she did not play about my gifts.

She always said that the biggest... I guess the biggest...

failure in anyone's life or the worst thing you could do is to not utilize your gift.

And she told me mine was that I was smart.

And so I've kept that in the back and the front of everything I do, knowing that I am smart.

So maybe no one else around me knows it, but they will know it, right?

When I'm done, they're going to know it.

I think that you have to realize that everything that you're going through is a stepping stone to something greater, right?

And so maybe you're just eating a few breadcrumbs on the table.

But those breadcrumbs are building blocks, right?

And so you cannot really take for granted the spaces that you're in.

So if right now all you're eating is crumbs, it might just mean because you're putting together your big piece of bread for later, right?

So I think a person can go from being an appetizer to like, you know, from appetizer to main course by really appreciating where they're at, but never losing sight of where they're going.

Right.

And know that even on the days where it feels like that you're working, because I've been there on days where I felt like I've poured so much into my life.

And why am I only here?

Right.

But that was just because there was something working in the background preparing me for the next steps.