Rewriting The Narrative - Owning My Evolution

What if the story you’ve been telling yourself isn’t the one you have to keep?

In this empowering episode, Rewriting The Narrative - Owning My Evolution, we explore what it means to shed outdated identities, challenge internalized beliefs, and step fully into who you’re becoming. This is a conversation about growth that isn’t always pretty—the pivots, the setbacks, the uncomfortable truths—and the courage it takes to keep going anyway.

Through honest reflection and personal insight, this episode dives into reclaiming your voice, honoring your journey, and letting go of versions of yourself that no longer fit. It’s about choosing authenticity over expectation and recognizing that evolution isn’t something to fear—it’s something to own.

If you’ve ever felt the pull to start over, redefine yourself, or take your power back, this episode is your reminder that you’re allowed to rewrite the narrative—on your terms.

Transcript

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Hey y'all, welcome to the Wealth Within Podcast, formerly known as the Now Girl Podcast. I'm your host, Lonzea, and every conversation we have here is designed to elevate your perspective and support your growth with no judgment. Oh my gosh, we are so back. It's been a little over a year since the last episode. Um, but before we dive into what's new with me, let me update you guys on what's new with the podcast. You guys can now leave me messages, you can leave them in the form of a text message or voicemail. And I am so excited for this feature because I want the community to grow. We need more connection that's not through Instagram and not just when I see y'all out. I really want to connect and build this community, and I want to know how I can support you in things that you may be going through or things that you may want to talk about or want me to talk about. You need a little bit of clarity on. Please let me know because I am just above and beyond for connecting. I need it, I need it. It's it gives me life. Now we could get into everything else because there's so much, there's so much to unpack. Firstly, I want to get into the reason for the rebrand. So this name, Wealth Within, this is actually the name of one of my other businesses that I've had for a while now, like eight or nine years probably. And just in this time where I'm at in life, everything is from within, and I was trying to figure out a way to incorporate all my ideas and all my thoughts under one brand because that other business that I have, it's my heart, like that's what I'm gonna pass down to my kids, you know. I'm not gonna lie to y'all, one day I was just so in my head about everything that I just wanna do. Like, I'm a mom now, and I'm just trying to figure out God, where are we going? What are we doing? And I I kid you not, he gave me the blueprint to like my life. I feel like, but it's definitely he definitely gave me a lot of insight and understanding and wisdom on this next season of my life. This is this is what the rebrand is because this is me, like I'm totally wealth within, and I'm spreading it to everybody. That's I embody that I believe. So when that was in my mind to change the podcast name to that, I was like, that is so fitting for where I am right now, and that is just the energy that I want to give it, just fit perfect. That is the reason behind the name, and then you know, always just promoting and rooting and moving towards growth from within because we're just out here trying to be our best selves, and the only way we can do that is from starting from within, and that's just like I said before, I'm just embodying that and I'm living that and I'm giving that out to the world, so that is the reason behind a rebrand. What is rebranded in my life? I am a mama, I'm a mommy, mama Sita. I'm really somebody's mama, and I still be in disbelief to this day. My baby girl is five months, and I cannot even believe that because you were just five days old, like she just had her first snack yesterday, and I'm just like, what are you doing? Trying to have a snack, girl. You drink milk that is your primary source of nutrients. Now you're trying to eat food, you are not a big girl yet. Like, it's so true what the moms say about time going by even faster when when you become a parent, because in our regular lives, time is flying, but when there's a kid involved that you're looking at every day, you notice every little thing, you notice every little thing that's different. She's a little longer, her hair's a little longer, like she's just all the developmental milestones, just scream times moving way more faster than we ever thought. But it's such a bust, and she would never understand how much she has changed my life in a matter of just from the thought to her actually being here. My life has did a complete 360, and I'm saying my life like me as a person. Of course, a lot of things have changed on the outside, but on the inside, she has birthed me in a way, too, and it's just uh it's so fulfilling, it's so fulfilling. I have so much of a new respect for moms. This is my first kid, so I'm just amazed every single day by how much capacity us as women have, and even for the women who are not moms, just our level and our depths of a love for something is unimaginable because I don't think that I've ever loved like this, I've never loved this deeply, and I think that sounds crazy saying it out loud, but just honestly, and it really is a reflection to me of God's love for us because I feel like God has been teaching me love through her, and it's just been five months, like the way that I love her is the way that He gotta love us, it's no way, not even to be self-centered or anything like that. I don't because I don't even think I've loved myself this much as much as I love her, it's a life-changing experience. I love it so much, it's so fulfilling, but it has its difficulties, of course, just like anything else. But we're gonna get in more in-depth with my experience in motherhood in the next episode. But that is a big rebrand for me. Other than that, me just trying to do all the things, all the things that are on my heart to do. I have this newfound drive, it's such a deeper drive than I've ever had in my life to just create that life that you want. You don't have a choice, and I think that has been so humbling for me because before being a parent, I thought I was doing everything that I could to make my dreams come true, but then I had to confront myself and be like, No, girl, you're being a little bit mediocre, you're being a little bare minimum towards yourself. But thank you, Lord, for your grace. Now that we're here, I have to do everything. There's no such thing as settling. No, absolutely not. We have to get the ideas out the brain, just try. It doesn't matter how you look, it doesn't matter how you you know, it doesn't matter what your mind is telling you that it's that you can't do it, that nobody's gonna support it, that maybe you should wait until you look this certain way, or maybe you should wait until you've reached this amount of accomplishments, like, no, we're doing it now. We have the idea, and it's crazy because I've all of these things that I like I'm itching to get out to the world, have been ideas of mine for years, some even as a kid, and I'm at a point where I'm completely surrendered to the steps that are ordered for me because I'm just tired of doing life on my own, I can't anymore. I'm so serious, I need God involved in every single part of my life because there's nothing that I can do without him, and I'm not e I don't even want to try no more. Like, I don't even want to try, I don't even want to think that I know more than what he's telling me. So I'm just at a point, just do it, and I hope that we're all I feel like we are though. I feel like we're all at that point where this is because this is the part of life where if you don't make a move, you snoozed, you snoozed real hard for the next 15 years hard, like where we're at that age where you better make a decision because this is how your life finna be. And I just can't, of course. I haven't had a bad life, I'm sure we all haven't, we all go through things, but life is not like a bad life, but it can be so much better, and I just feel like everybody feels like that. We all know that this is not it, so we're not gonna keep settling, we're not gonna keep settling, and I'm just here to remind you that all things are possible, and whatever you put your mind to is gonna happen. So make sure that you're planting great seeds in your garden of a mind because all that your life is is a reflection of what you think about yourself and what you think about your capabilities, and what you think about you know how you perceive yourself. How you perceive yourself is what your life reflects, and that's a very humbling concept to unpack and to realize, and just sit with yourself and talk to yourself about how you really feel about yourself and why you're really not executing on the things that you need to be executing on because of that self-doubt. It's a no-no, we're just not doing it anymore. And I'm speaking from experience because the anxiety, the depression, all those things just come out of nowhere, and they really will try to hold you down and strangle the life out of you to make you not move, and it's very paralyzing, but it's something that we can overcome, and that's why I was so adamant about getting back to the podcast because I realized in this season of my life too that this is really a healing thing for me. I heal from speaking, telling y'all, speaking how I feel about stuff, or how much of a realization things are every day. Like, I just feel like everything is so deep all the time. Like, I need to get it out, and I just hope that um it can help somebody in the process. But we're here, we're doing it, and we're so back. Like I said before, I am looking so forward to connecting with you all and growing this community to the max. Like I want it to be the best it can be, and really continue to create a safe space for us to be present in our growth and just have a place to mentally rest because this work is not easy, it is very hard, you know, trying to make your better your best every single day. But I'm so proud of us for putting our best foot forward. If this conversation gave you clarity or shifted your perspective, share it with someone who needs it and make sure you're following the Wealth Within Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for more. As we continue to grow together in this journey, remember to be gentle with yourself because you are still always becoming.