Living in the Hallway: When Doors Close and Others Haven't Opened Yet

Guest: Bonita Jacque, Holistic Life Coach & Infinite Possibilities Trainer

Episode Summary:

What do you do when one door closes and another one hasn't opened.

Joni Leigh and Bonita explore the metaphor of "living in the hallway" that uncomfortable, uncertain space between what was and what's next. The hallway was never meant to be decorated, sat in, or turned into home. It's a passageway. In this episode, they discuss why we get stuck there, how to recognize the signs pointing us forward, and why taking the first step even a small one is everything.

Key Moments:

• [0:05] The Hobby Lobby hallway metaphor — why there are no decorations for the hallway
• [1:48] Welcome to Big Talk at the Table & introducing Bonita
• [2:50] "The hallway is not a destination"
• [4:40] Dabbling, experimenting, and trying things to find what lights you up
• [5:30] The "stuck on the runway" analogy — sometimes you have to go back to the gate
• [6:50] Bonita's story: how "na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" became a sign to leave her job
• [8:14] How do we stop treating a pause like a failure?
• [10:00] Recognizing God nudges and learning intuitive awareness
• [13:36] The beekeeping class that became The Hive — how one "failure" transformed into purpose
• [15:07] Trusting yourself again after disappointment
• [17:04] Journaling as a tool for asking "Who am I now?"
• [18:35] Joni on faith and inner security during uncertain seasons
• [20:30] "You just have to take the first step, the first action"
• [21:00] Bonita's workshop story: what happens when only one person shows up
• [26:53] Don't steal other people's joy — celebrate what lights them up
• [29:07] Book recommendations segment
• [32:08] "One Thing I Know For Sure" — Joni's closing reflection
• [33:43] "It's never too late to trust yourself again. It's never too late to begin again."

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley
• Higher Purpose by Robert Holden
• Your Soul's Plan by Robert Schwartz
• I Am the Word by Paul Selig

One Thing I Know For Sure:

"You don't have to know where every door leads. You don't have to have your next five years figured out. You just have to keep walking because nobody lives in the hallway. It's a passageway." — Joni Leigh

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Be Honest Segment — Quick Takes:

• Joni: Higher Purpose by Robert Holden (she owns it in three formats: Kindle, Audible, and hard copy)
• Bonita: I Am the Word by Paul Selig (had to move it off her nightstand — the energy kept her awake)

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:04

Who loves Hobby Lobby? I know I do. I don't even have a house anymore. I don't even have a place to decorate. But you know what? I love to go there and I love to go up and down the aisles and look at all the decorations for the seasons or the different colors for the rooms. I actually was there just walking around looking at all of the pictures and all of the decorations. And as I was walking through Hobby Lobby, something kind of hit me. They have decorations for every room, your porch, your kitchen, your bathroom, your bedroom, the living room. They even have decorations for the laundry room. But do you know what they don't have decorations for? The hallway. Yep. Because you know what? It was never meant to be decorated. It was never meant to be sat in and lived in and being a place of your home. It's a pass-through, right? And so the place between where you're coming or where you're going and where you're coming, or the other way around. Anyways, I, to be honest, I'm going to tell you, lately I've kind of felt like maybe I've been living in a hallway. And so I don't know if I'm coming or going. Clearly, you can tell because I just couldn't even get the sentence right. Some doors have closed on me, others have not opened yet, and some days just feel kind of uncertain to me. And so I think many of you might be there too. And wondering what's next and asking yourself, have you missed your chance? Is it too late? Maybe you're standing in the hallway waiting for a door to open. Welcome to Big Talk at the Table. I'm Joni Lee, and today, today, my guest and I, Bonita, are going to be talking about living in the hallway and is it too late? How do you trust that it's just not too late? So welcome to Big Talk at the table, Bonita. So we're going to talk about the hallway, and I have to tell you, lately, we kind of even felt that before we even recorded this episode. Um, it was let's not maybe do it today. I felt kind of off. Um, and I do feel kind of off, and I think that's what's the real thing about this is that I don't want to say living in the hallway, but I definitely am in the hallway.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

We just don't know what to do, what to how to be, where I'm where am I supposed to be. This it just doesn't feel right.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Right. Well, and I think I think the biggest mistake is, and I know this is one that I have to keep coming back to myself, is that the hallway is not it's not a destination. We were never meant to live there. Just like I said yesterday as I was walking through Hobby Lobby, they don't make pretty little pillows for the hallway that say like home sweet home or anything like that. So it's not meant a place for us to stay, live, take root in, right? And so why do you think so many of us? I mean, we do. That's what we we get in the hallway and we just think that that's it.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Yeah, well, for sure, because there doesn't appear to be anything around us. There's no door that looks like it's ready to be opened. So what do we do? We just sat there and wait. Um, but perhaps if we had a different mindset of, oh, this is just temporary, it will show up. But instead we kind of sit there and stew because it's not here yet. And we got it now, and we don't like this feeling, so we want to pick any door that we can to go through.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Well, I think that's the problem, right? Is you're trying to pick a door, maybe, or open a door that's not open yet. It's maybe it's not even unlocked yet.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Yeah, it's not ready. We're not ready. We have to do something to get ready so that door will open.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

So let's talk about that because I think that that's where a lot of people just get stuck is that they they're in the hallway, they're they're not supposed to decorate the hallway because they're not staying there, but then they stay long enough that they start feeling like maybe they need to make it home. And so, how do we go from that feeling to I need to try doors to see what's unlocking for me?

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Well, I think that's exactly it. You have to try some things. Um, so you know what looks fun, what looks fulfilling, what looks exciting, what might bring you joy, and you can dabble in those things to find the right thing for you for this period of time. It's like there's never one right thing, it's the right thing for now, and then there'll be another right thing for now and another right thing for now, and that's how you move forward in your journey when you're kind of well, I'm here now, I want to go over there, but I don't know how to get there directly. So it's like a lot of layovers, like yes, that just happened to me, too.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Not a layover, but I was stuck on the runway. That's another great episode, right? Yeah, I mean, that's kind of being in the hallway. You're stuck on the runway, like you don't so this literally just happened to me. And we got stuck on the runway for so long that we had to go back to the gate to get more fuel because they had rerouted our route and we didn't have enough fuel to get to that destination, and so I feel like it's such a like it. I felt like it was my life. Like I'm stuck on the runway, and I really don't want to go back to the gate. You don't want to go back, right? But sometimes you have to, in order to get what you need to get to your destination, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:14

You wouldn't have had enough fuel to get where you were going. So correct, you know, it's it's a higher um a higher consciousness that's guiding us and saying, Oh, hold on, hold on. Um, we gotta do something else first. And you don't know what that's gonna be either, but it shows up, but you have to be aware enough to think, oh, that that's for me. That's for me. And so, how do people get into that awareness? Really paying attention, there's all kinds of signs. Um I can tell you a story of when I knew I had to leave the job I was in, and I wasn't even looking to do that, but I was uh working in a pharmacy, it's a small town, and when I went to work that day and punched in the alarm code, I pushed away instead of off, and I thought, oh, that was weird. And then later that day, the door must have been opened, a group of boys are walking down the street, teenage boys, and they're singing na na na na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye. And in that instant, I knew that was for me. And you know, just putting those things together, and it's like, I have to leave. I have to leave my job. And I did.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

And you did, and just like that. Some boys saying na na na na goodbye, and you're like, I gotta leave my job.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Well, it was with the combined with the away, because I know that was just it was just a message for me. I mean, what are the chances that they would be singing a song from my era? Right, right. And um, I I just knew. I was just new.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

So here's the thing that I think I'm kind of stuck up on, and I think that a lot of people probably might feel the way if I feel this way, I'm sure other people do. We're in this hallway, and it's a it's a pause, right? It's a it's um you're not at your destination. It is just a holding pattern that you're in. How do you get out of your mindset of it's just a holding pattern to wait for the what the right door is or the opportunity to open and not failure? Because I take pauses. I mean, you know me, I go full speed almost all the time. And when I'm not going full speed, and when I'm pausing, I'm learning to get better about it, but I always go right. My brain wants to immediately go to you failed at that. You suck at that. That's what immediately, that's what my brain wants to tell me. So, how do we get out of that thinking that a pause is a failure?

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Well, I think you just have to remind yourself, I don't know what's next. And then be aware, be aware of those signs that that show up to say, um, okay, well, just hold on, you know, there's something coming. Um, and you know, you can take action. I know when I've been in the hallway and I scramble to find something, which which door, and then maybe I'll sign up for a class. I'm like, well, yeah, that wasn't it, but you know, I did learn something. And so, you know, there, I guess there's a method to the madness, but we just have to know that it's temporary. We are not going to be living in this hallway.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

So I'm gonna talk about a little bit more about kind of personally what's going on with me, because that's exactly I call them god nudges, and I feel them or I I experience them a lot, and I'm very in tune to that. I'm very, you know, I can put like you did, like you put together the away and the voicing in that song, and you were like, that's for me. And I can do that most often. What about the person who can't? What about the person who's like, you keep talking about all these things and notice the signs and God nudges and all this, but I don't see any of those things.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

I was there too. I didn't see any of those things when I started, and I started taking intuitive um development classes because I wanted to have my best life and I didn't know how to get there, and so it was just learning and you know, being okay with not knowing. That's really tough for a left-brained person. I don't know. I wanted, I want to know, and I want to know now, and I want to know it. Um, I remember years and years ago, I kept asking Spirit, what's my title? What am I gonna be when I grow up? Me, this was already, you know, I was already grown up, but when am I gonna be? What am I gonna? I you know, I asked for like two years. And four o'clock one morning, I heard in my head spiritual change agent. And I said, that's perfect, but you can't put that on a business card. So now what? And so then that was the you know, the next 15, 20 years of my life.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

So it's funny that you said that because um, as you know, I it's almost been a year that I have actually it's been over a year that I've left Michigan. Um, not quite a year that it's been since I've been on the road in the RV. Um, and this kind of all has just been transpiring as I feel like doors keep opening, right? Like start podcast, I'm working on a book, and you know, um, what is it all transpiring to? And I had one of those kind of like the door opened a little bit today for me, and it's exactly what you just said. What do I want to be when I grow up? And I am grown up, so the same thing, you know. It was why is that coming into my mind? And I'm thinking, because it's the thought of which always intrigues me. I'm like you, I like to take classes, I like to learn things, I like to be adventurous. That's it. Like, I don't know that I want to be just one thing, and so I think I want to go experience like all the things. Not that I'm gonna want to be that as a career, but how do you know what brings you joy unless you experiment, try things, right? And explore.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Exactly. You have to you have to try it or learn about it. I've taken so many classes, I'm like, yep, that was great, but yeah, I'm not gonna do that. And you know, to then find what's what's really the right thing. Did I jump the gun too much? Well, I'm not gonna say they were they were mistakes, they were an experiment. I think we've used that word before. It's an experiment. And it works or it doesn't. And I like that, or I didn't like that, but okay, it took me someplace. It told me what I didn't want. So now let's find out what I do want.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

So we talk about classes, and I love to take classes, and that's really how the theme for the hive and the community that I want to build came from because I took a class on beekeeping, and my dad was a beekeeper, and I thought, well, maybe I want to be a beekeeper. So I wanted to go learn about bees because I think they're just amazing animals. So I went and took this class and I walked out of there going, I am not gonna be a beekeeper. That is not what I want to be at all. But little did I know that it was gonna transform into all of the brand of what I wanted to build as a community. I didn't know that when I took the class.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Absolutely. That's one of those god nudges you talked about.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Yes, yes, and it just has turned into something absolutely incredible as far as what the community I would like to create for us to be able to uplift each other. And um, bees are just fascinating, and I would have never ever put the two and two together if I wouldn't have taken that class. So again, it wasn't a failure because I'm not a beekeeper, it just the way I went into it wasn't what came out of it, but something really great came out of it. Yeah, surprise. Yeah, just not me in a white suit. Well, um how do we trust ourselves again? How do we trust that that door, that thing when you kind of lost trust in yourself? Because I think sometimes when we're in the hallway, the pause, we start second-guessing ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

We sure do. And you just kind of have to set with it and be patient. I I don't know that there's a way to for myself that I can identify. I just know that something's coming, it's just not here yet. And maybe it's just having an outlook of, well, I wonder where this takes me. I wonder what's next, without getting down on ourselves for not knowing.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

And so when you're in the patient, I'm not that's not me. See that I try very hard at that, but that's so not me. How do you get to talk to yourself again, to believe in yourself again? And I'm talking about after something that, you know, usually something comes when you're in the hallway, when there's a great transition in your life. It's usually when, you know, it's been you've experienced some kind of loss, you've had some kind of disappointment, um, something that you thought was going a certain way doesn't, and you end up in this big pause. How do you begin again after that?

SPEAKER_01 16:28

One step at a time. What looks interesting now doesn't mean you're gonna do it forever, but maybe it will take you someplace. It's it's trying new things and seeing who who are you now. I think we've talked about that before. You know, when something comes off and up and knocks you off kilter, it's like, well, what do I want? Who am I now? What's my next step? Doesn't happen overnight.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

I find a lot of these times when I'm asking myself those questions, something that I have found that has been extremely helpful for me is keeping a journal and writing things down. Because when you're asking yourself those questions, who am I now? You kind of might think to yourself, what do you mean? I know who I am. Well, you're really not gonna probably answer it the same way that if you would have asked yourself that question five years ago, you're not gonna answer the question the same way as you would in who you are now because you've experienced things, you've had life happenings to you, and things have shifted, things have changed. So I don't think you're gonna answer the question fully the same way, even though your brain might want to tell you, well, you're the same person you were five years ago. You're not.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Well, we have to take the time to get introspective and and do that and look back and see, you know, what was I doing then and what was I interested in then? And does it still light me up now? Is there, you know, I'm I'm a different person now, and there's other things that I didn't even know about then. There's been so many things that I didn't know about back then that I know now. Would would I want to trade places with my old self? No. For sure. This is much more fun.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Yes, I would agree. There are some things I'd like to tell my old self, but I don't think I want to trade places with my old self. No. No, not at all. So I would say for me that one of the things has been when I can't see the door opening, when I can't, I don't know what lies ahead. Um, it's been my faith. I mean, I think that that is something that I stand grounded in, I stand rooted in. I think that's where my unwavering um sense of security comes from, is from that. And I know that's not for everyone, but that's what helps me. Um, and I do know that there's times, I mean, it's so, you know, traveling and and um doing the RV life, and everyone's like, oh, that's what I my dream to do. It's a lot of work. And when you're very uncertain of where your next place you're gonna rest your head is, or you know, what where your next state you're going to or where you're going to stay. I mean, there's so many questions that come up. It becomes a lot of work and very, it can be very anxiety, very stressful. Um, I know I have a lot of unanswered questions, and I just kind of have to go with it because I'm just going where I'm supposed to go.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

I think that's it. We just kind of follow the clues. I mean, do you go up to the door and do you sh do you try to turn the handle and you shake it and you know it's not gonna open? Or do you set back and go, All right, I know I'm okay. It'll come.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

So I used to be the girl that would go and sh open, like, I wouldn't just shake it. I would like, I try and get a credit card out and try and bust the lock. That doesn't surprise me. But I've got a lot better with I'm just trusting. And I feel like when I'm at that stage, um things start coming together and I see it. It's like I told like an aha moment, you know. And I think it goes to say that when you plan something, it's kind of like what we say all the time. It's like you just gotta take the first step, you just gotta take the first action. You know, some of the great podcasts that you listen to today, guess what? They started with zero listeners, right? They started with nobody. And so you but you have to do it because if you don't do that and put yourself there, then you're never gonna know what that possibility could turn into.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Well, that's exactly my story with having a workshop. I had a workshop workshop scheduled for May. One person signed up. Okay, well, I met with them in my office instead of the venue that we were gonna do. I've got another one scheduled for this weekend. We'll see what happens. It works or it doesn't. It's an experiment. It's okay. I'm good either way, and I'm gonna learn something from it.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

And it's not failure, right? Oh, no. And I think that's the hardest part, is what we put so much pressure on ourselves to perform. Who are you performing for? You know, I mean, like you said, if one person showed up, what if you changed that one person's life? And that person then in turn did something, you know, unbelievable. That you don't, and you don't, you may never know. You may never know how your light shines onto other people and what ends up impacting them or not impacting them, but you have to try and do it because if you don't, you're just hiding your light, you're just hiding your gifts, you're hiding. Your talents, and I think the fear part of that is what it's just so ingrained in all of us, you know.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Well, you know, I had joy just in working with that one person because I got to use my gift, I felt fulfilled, even though it wasn't 10 people, it was one. And then we did have a second session, she wanted to come back for some more. So I know that there was there was benefit there for her.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Um, and there was joy for you because your joy is getting to do what you do, right? It's kind of like me with the podcast. If one person hears it, I have my joy. If nobody hears it, I guess I hear my joy, anyways, because I get to have the experience with the guests that I have with you in the RV, the adventures, and that's my joy. And I want to tell other people's stories. So whether there's one person listening or thousands of people listening, you're right. I still got to experience my joy of what brings me joy. And hearing about other people and learning about other people and sharing and being able to uplift them and highlight them, that's what brings me joy. So you're right. And the fear is the piece that squashes so much of that for so many. And I wish there was something that we could do, like perfume we could make where you just put it on and like all of that would just go away. But there isn't. But it is doing things that we're talking about and having action and getting out of your head and stop having limited beliefs and all of those things that can take you to a point where you're ready to see the door that's open, you know, the next door that's open.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

Yeah, we have we have to trust that it will show up. And I know that it's not easy when you first start out on this journey to set and wait because we're so excited about we're going somewhere, but then we go, I don't know where that is. And maybe you will be surprised and delighted. Most of the times you will be, because if you're not surprised and delighted, it's not the right door.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

And I think that even I mean, I was excited on a year ago at the beginning of this journey, and I can tell you that that I'm still excited, but I also can tell you that I've had a lot of peaks and a lot of valleys through the last year. It has not been just, you know, unicorns and uh candy throwing at me. Um, and it's how you handle those moments when you're in the valley that matters for how your peaks come out.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

You can't get down on yourself.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

No.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Because there's nothing you can do about it. So you just have to be patient.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Right. The other piece, too, is that it's it's believing in yourself enough. Other people don't know, don't have to know what you're doing, they don't have to agree with what you're doing. Um, in fact, most of them probably won't. It's your dream, it's your destiny, it's your journey, it's finding your joy, finding your purpose. It's not about somebody else's because Bonita's is not the same as mine. Mine is not the same as anyone else's. And it's getting out of your head to understand that because social media put so much pressure on us that you should be like this or you should be doing this, or and that's not true, that's not true.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

No, we want you to be true to yourself. Yes, you have to be your own best friend here, have your own back, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Well, it's funny because this has been coming out about, you know, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I want to, I really do want to experience um as I go into traveling this next year, um, jobs or you know, lifestyles that people have that maybe I've never experienced, and I want to see what that's like and what brings them joy and what makes them happy. I can tell you that something that makes somebody happy probably isn't gonna be what's gonna make me happy, but being able to highlight their joy, because you can tell when somebody is really into something, excited about something, loves something, it just like oozes out of their body, you know, and that makes me happy. I don't have to like it, but it makes me happy to be able to share that with other people.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

You know, I remember seeing a Facebook post about like, I don't know, John Lennon's mother asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said happy. Um, yeah, that's what we all want. Yes. I want to feel happy.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

And the other thing, too, is and I think as women, we need to kind of learn how to like navigate this, but don't steal other people's happiness. Just because something isn't your cup of tea or it's not something you would do, it doesn't mean that it's like you should knock the person for doing it or making fun of them for if that's their joy, like let's embrace it, let's make a light shine on it, let's lift it up instead of knocking it down and making somebody kind of feel lesser than because their thing of joy isn't what yours is.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Right. We need to um celebrate other people's successes. Yes. Where they find joy. I mean, it may not be my way, but hey, I'm really happy for you that you've found what lights you up and what you're bringing out to the world.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Well, and that's the next thing I was just gonna say, because when you find what lights you up, usually those are the people that actually are doing something. They've taken an action, they've started something, they're trying something. And what you when you start putting yourself out into the world, you start you start finding that people start criticizing you or you know, trying to knock you down off of whatever it is that you're trying to shine your light for. That is what human nature people do. And so the more that you put yourself out there, the more be ready for it that will come at you, but just know it's really not an attack on you, it's more on those people and their insecurities and their set lack of self-confidence that they're putting that against you.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Yeah, some people don't um don't know how to find their own happiness, so they steal others. They're gonna just kind of stew in that themselves. Yeah. Yeah. And we want we don't want that to happen. We want you to to move forward and have your best life because we feel like we're having our best life. For now, there might be another step up on that best life coming up. We just don't know, but that's the fun of it. What's next?

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Yes. But my be honest question for you is this What book have you read lately that you absolutely loved? Um Be honest.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

There's so many. Uh Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley, uh Higher Purpose by Robert Holden. Um Your Soul's Plan by Robert Schwartz.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Um there's just so many interesting ones. Anything by uh Paul Selig. Um, I Am the Word, A Man's Consciousness of Self and Transitioning Times. That was a huge one for me. That was the only book I ever had to move away from my nightstand because it was giving off so much energy I couldn't sleep. Which one was that? I Am the Word.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Yes, that's a great book. Yes. So how about you, Jim? Mine, mine is um, well, mine is Higher Purpose by Robert Holden. In fact, I'm gonna tell you, I'm probably gonna put this at the top of my list. Um, I first got it because you sent me a page out of it that had something to do with bees. And of course I was intrigued. So I got it on my Kindle, and I was in my RV in Savannah, and I started reading it. And I am not a big Kindle reader, I like a book book. And as I was leaving Savannah, I was gonna be traveling for eight or nine hours, so I wanted it on Audible, so I bought it on Audible. I listened to it. When I got back in Tennessee, there was so much on Audible that I had listened to that I wanted to remember or highlight. That's how I remember things. So I bought the book, the physical book. So I now have the book, physical book, on Audible and on Kendall. Um, but it's a book that for me made so many things come together and make so much sense about your higher purpose and your purpose in general. So it's gonna be things that we're gonna be talking about here, along with infinite possibilities. I love that book, as well as I am word. I have read that also. I loved it so much that you what became a certified trainer in it. And so are you. And we haven't even scratched the surface of that yet. That is something that really resonated with me as far as your the world is full of infinite possibilities. You just have to have the action, you have to have the belief, you have to have um all of the things in order to make your life whatever it is you want it to be. Because you really can. Yes, you really can. And so my last segment that I want to leave you with is it's gonna be called One Thing I Know for Sure. So, Bonita, what is one thing you know for sure?

SPEAKER_01 32:18

That I haven't found all the things that excite me and make me happy yet.

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And that is true. And I want to say one thing I know for sure is mine are many. Mine is not just one, but one thing I know for sure, you don't have to know where every door leads. You don't have to have your next five years figured out, you don't have to have a game plan, a timetable. Um, you don't even have to know what comes after this season. You just have to keep walking because nobody lives in the hallway. It's a passageway, and we need to remember that. And even when it feels dark, and even when it feels like none of the lights are on in the hallway, God's still working in the hallway. And infinite possibilities don't disappear just because you can't see them. Sometimes the hallway is where we have to learn to trust ourselves, and sometimes the hallway is just where we need to sit for a minute and heal. Sometimes it's where we discover who we really are. And sometimes it's simply there because we're passing through on our way to something we never ever could have ever imagined.

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Well, I say amen to that. That's sure my life. No idea I'd be doing this work, just like you had no idea you were going to be doing podcasting.

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It's a fun life, and um, I can't wait to see where this takes us. We they say that uh for a podcast to be successful, you have to do at least 10 episodes, and I'm getting really close. That that's exciting in itself. I am excited to be on this journey with you, and I appreciate you um taking time today to sit with me and talk about this. So thank you, Bonita. Is there anything you want to leave with us in closing?

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Just don't close your eyes to what's around you because there is so much possibility out there of things that will light you up, and you've got to be brave enough and trust enough to notice them and then take action.

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Maybe that's just what we need to remember this week, and maybe you needed to hear it because I'm gonna tell you this is the episode that I needed to get out there into the world because I needed it. And the hallway is not your destination, it's not mine for sure either. We're not to meant to unpack our bags there, and we're not to decide that that's just as life as good as it gets, because it's just a passageway. And when it feels dark, and if you're unsure of which door is gonna open next, you don't have to have all the answers. Just keep waiting for the nudge, keep waiting for the signals and the signs. Just keep walking. Maybe there's something even better ahead. And if you're living in the hallway right now, I want you to know something. It's not too late. It's never too late to trust yourself again, it's never too late to begin again, it's never too late to have a dream. It's never too late to believe that infinite possibilities still exist for your life because they do. And until the next time we gather around the table, keep leading with love, keep looking for the light, and remember you got this.