Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
Daily Darshan with Ezina
Daily Darshan with Ezina is a short-form daily podcast designed to bring clarity, inspiration, and spiritual alignment to the start of your day.
“Darshan” is a Sanskrit word meaning a moment of sacred seeing—a glimpse of truth that shifts perspective and opens the heart. Each episode is a brief transmission of insight drawn from prayer, meditation, or passages from the books Ezina is currently reading.
In just a few minutes, you’ll receive a powerful reflection, mantra, or contemplative thought designed to center your mind, elevate your awareness, and support you in making aligned, decisive choices throughout your day.
Whether you are leading a business, pursuing a vision, or simply seeking deeper connection with yourself and your purpose, Daily Darshan offers a quiet moment of wisdom to guide you forward.
Pause. Listen. Receive.
This is your daily moment of clarity.
Hey, family. Welcome to another edition of Daily Darshan. Today, I'd like to talk about something, the elephant in the room that people aren't talking about with their neighbors or in their communities or with their casual acquaintances. They're only talking about it with their very close friends and family, and that is the geopolitical climate right now. I want to talk about this and how it relates to spirituality and just progressing as a human soul because war happens every day.
Ezina LeBlanc:It happens everywhere on different levels. Now what we're seeing right now is we're seeing on a global scene, like, what war is looking destruction of lives. We've got so many wars going on. The Ukraine war is going on. The Venezuela war Venezuelan war is going on.
Ezina LeBlanc:We have Iran war going on. There's just a lot of stuff going on, and we wanna The US wants to take over Greenland and take over Canada. And what all war stems from is hurt feelings. Someone got their feelings hurt. Someone got their ego bruised, and so now they wanna scorch the earth.
Ezina LeBlanc:Right? So I want to talk about this in a developmental stage. I want to talk about how it all begins. It really begins with each one of us internally getting our feelings hurt, being bullied, and then what we go out and do with that in the world. Right?
Ezina LeBlanc:So I want you to think about a time where someone has perhaps bullied you or you've gotten your feelings hurt or your ego bruised. Like, just think about that and think about all the thoughts that went in your mind after that occurred. What you wanted to do, retribution. Oh, I'm gonna show them or I'm gonna do this to them or whatever whatever. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how war gets started on that very, very simple level.
Ezina LeBlanc:I have a friend who has been broken up from a man at least four decades. And every decade, she comes up with a new plot to get back at this man. And on social media, there are several of these things going around, where you'll find people getting back at people, Oh, I put dog food in this food, or I did this, or I glued this shutter. It's all this retribution. And that is all just war on a basic, basic level.
Ezina LeBlanc:Now, as we think about ourselves and how we have been bullied, had our feelings hurt, how we reacted, just think for a minute, like on a global scale, like what you could do if you had the power and the means, you know, to retaliate against the individual or individuals who bruise your ego or hurt your feelings. And I wanna talk about we're talking about leadership. Right? Like this whole series is about leadership, spirituality, and what have you. And what I see with a lot of people that I work with is overachievers.
Ezina LeBlanc:Oh, yeah. You didn't think I was going go there, did you? Overachievers. So how did I go from war to overachieving? Overachieving is a war within the self.
Ezina LeBlanc:You're going to push and you're going to pull and you're going to do whatever you have to do to climb that corporate ladder to get that C suite, to get that promotion, to get whatever at the expense of your health, your family, your community. And at the end of the day, most of you that I talk to are not even happy once you get to that goal. You know, you get there and you're like, Oh, I thought it was going to be this. I thought it was going to be that. I didn't realize I was going to have to work so much.
Ezina LeBlanc:I didn't realize, you know, I was going to have so many decisions to make on a regular basis. I didn't realize the fatigue. I didn't realize the guilt I would feel for not spending more time with my family or not being able to empty my inbox or not being able to take a vacation. So I really want you to think about the internal war that you fight in overachieving. Because overachieving, workaholism, all of that is trauma responses to getting your feelings hurt, getting your ego bruised, being bullied.
Ezina LeBlanc:It's all a trauma response. So I'm going to go back to people of color because that's the majority of you in my community. We have so much in our history. We have slavery, we have poverty, we have, you know, lack of education that we've had. We want to be the first to get a college degree.
Ezina LeBlanc:But we can't just get a college degree, you overachievers. Oh, we got to go and get a master's degree. Or in my case, you got to get two master's degrees to prove that you're good enough. Okay? And then you can't get this job over here.
Ezina LeBlanc:You gotta get that job over there. You gotta move to this state or country or whatever. You're just constantly grasping, grasping, grasping, grasping for stuff instead of being able to enjoy each moment. The goal should always be joy. Instead, we're still trying to put a band aid on those wounds from being beat up, from being bullied, from being, you know, humiliated.
Ezina LeBlanc:You know, you're always trying to prove to someone that you are worthy, that you are good enough. And I am asking you to drop that. I'm asking you in your work with me, in your work with yourself to drop that. Because here's the thing that I've learned in my 50 on this planet is that you win when you are happy. You win when you are rested.
Ezina LeBlanc:The war to win is the war of self freedom, freeing yourself. It's not how much money can you make. It's not how big of a car you can get. It's not how much designer bag shoes you can get. It's none of that.
Ezina LeBlanc:None of those are the goals. Those are the distractions. Right? That's the shiny thing. That's the distraction.
Ezina LeBlanc:Like this country is so distracted with trying to get as much wealth as possible to be the wealthiest. How can we go and steal everybody's oil in the planet? How can we take the oil from Venezuela? How can we take the oil from Iran? How can we take the oil from The Middle East?
Ezina LeBlanc:And all of that is a trauma response. Trying to heal a wound from a country, from a state, from a city, from a county, from a home, from a ghetto, from a apartment, from a slum, from slavery, from birth, from I mean, it just goes it keeps going back. Do you see where I'm going with this? It just keeps going back. It keeps going back.
Ezina LeBlanc:It's all of these wounds compounded that haven't been healed. So you keep doing more and more and more and more bigger and bigger hurtful things because of that wound that is unhealed. So I want you to think about how you have set out in war against yourself. What have you done? I remember being in school at the University of Michigan not sleeping.
Ezina LeBlanc:I remember working around the clock because I had to have the best grades, and I had to have the best apartment, and I had to have the newest car, and I had to have designer bags, and I had to have golden diamond jewelry. Going after all of those things set me back so far. Because now here I am at my age, and I am just now starting to realize what real freedom and joy is. It's not working around the clock. No.
Ezina LeBlanc:It is not all the designer bags and clothes and shoes. No. It is none of that. It is the freedom to rest, the freedom to relax, the freedom to have fun. Okay?
Ezina LeBlanc:When was the last time that you genuinely had fun where you weren't worried about the time, you weren't worried about where you were going, you weren't worried about where you were eating, You were just having a good old time. You're like, yes, let's just go. Oh, that restaurant looks good. Let's go there. Oh, this country looks good.
Ezina LeBlanc:Let's fly there. Where you had that kind of freedom, where you didn't have to check with someone for two weeks off. Can I have this time off? You didn't have to struggle, you know, to make sure you flew ultra first class. Right?
Ezina LeBlanc:You didn't have to struggle to go out and buy a designer wardrobe that you knew was gonna set you back a little bit so that you could go on vacation and floss? Like, when was the last time you had that kind of freedom where you could just be you? And do you even know what it is to be you? Well, I would like to help you get there because I'm I'm trying to tell you. I can't even tell you.
Ezina LeBlanc:It feels so much better than that striving, that constant trauma of trying to get the next thing. And I look at all these celebrities, you know, they go and they get their Oscar, and they think, oh my gosh, I got the Oscar. Everything's gonna happen for me now. Or I got the Grammy. Doors are gonna open everywhere for me now, and all these things are gonna happen now.
Ezina LeBlanc:And then it doesn't. It doesn't because it wasn't about the shiny thing. You went to war with yourself in order to get the shiny thing. You know, how many actresses say, oh, I wish I wouldn't have taken my clothes off, but I knew I had to take my clothes off to get the Oscar. Right?
Ezina LeBlanc:You know, how many musicians and singers you know, I come from the entertainment industry as a singer. How many singers wish they didn't sleep with this lazy producer in order to get the track? You know, we have to stop going to war with ourselves. And part of our work is I want your intuition to be so high and so on point that you know when something is not right for you and you are not willing to give up your time, your energy, and your sleep. None of those things are renewable.
Ezina LeBlanc:They're not. They take a toll on your body. They break you down. They break you down. The more you go without sleep, the more you're like constantly like overwhelmed and stressed out.
Ezina LeBlanc:It breaks down your body and shortens your life. So our ancestors went from being slaves where we were forced by beaten by being beaten and to now beating and mistreating ourselves for that golden thing. You know, the slaves just wanted freedom. They're like, okay, Massa. I'll do whatever you want.
Ezina LeBlanc:I just want freedom. Right? I just wanna be respected. I just wanna be loved. And they were willing to do whatever they had to do, and they already paid the price.
Ezina LeBlanc:So we don't need to pay the price by overworking ourselves and to exhaustion, you know, stressing ourselves out over inboxes and meetings that should be emails. That is my biggest pet peeve. Oh, for the love of God, I was in corporate America, I would scream every time they would waste my time for a meeting that should have been an email. You could have told me that in a phone call, in an email, anything. You could have given me a piece of paper.
Ezina LeBlanc:You didn't need to waste my time, my nonrenewable time for this meeting so that you could flex and feel like you were important because you called the meeting and you got your superiors and sometimes the people beneath you to come to a meeting. No. No. No. No.
Ezina LeBlanc:We're done with that. Done with that. Done with that. So am I telling you to go quit your job? I am not telling you to go quit your job.
Ezina LeBlanc:What what I am telling you to do is to search within yourself and find out where you are at war with yourself. Are you taking on extra assignments that they're not going to pay you extra for or give you a promotion for? Are you doing too much? Because let me tell you something. They will just skirt by, And you can skirt by too.
Ezina LeBlanc:They're not going to give you the promotion because you did extra. The more extra you do, the more work they're going to pile upon you because they're like, oh, look what they can handle. Because in the back of their minds are still the black slaves can handle more. They don't have feelings. They don't have emotions.
Ezina LeBlanc:They don't value their families. They don't value themselves. So let me work them to death. Okay? By just piling on piling on and not giving you the shiny things.
Ezina LeBlanc:Always making it with you know, just there. It's just right there. Just take on this one extra thing. It's just right there. It's just right there while you get passed over for the perks and the fun things and the promotions.
Ezina LeBlanc:So I say to you, I want you to look at where you're at war with yourself. I need your intuition to be strong. I need you to check-in anytime someone tries to put more on you than you already have, and stop signing up for shit. Stop raising your hands. Sit on your hand.
Ezina LeBlanc:I can't tell you overachievers enough. You always want, pick me. Pick me. I can do it. I can do it.
Ezina LeBlanc:I can stop doing that. That is time you can be spending on yourself, on your family, or sleeping. Like, stop signing up for extra stuff. Okay? So we're gonna end today with I want you to think about how you have warred against yourself and how you're gonna shift that in the fur future.
Ezina LeBlanc:And here's an exercise to begin. Anytime a request is made of you, take a deep breath. I would take that under advisement. I'm pretty scheduled at the moment. Is there someone else you can give this to?
Ezina LeBlanc:Or if you're in a position to say no, you say, I cannot handle that. I am already overwhelmed with my current schedule. See, people are afraid to say this because they think it makes you look weak. No. It makes you look human.
Ezina LeBlanc:I am already overwhelmed and have multiple things that I am working toward deadline. I cannot take on anything else at this moment. Well, can you just I cannot at this moment, if you want my level of work that you're paying me for, I cannot take on anything additional. You're not gonna get fired. Now for that, they'll fire you for being black and female because if you haven't noticed, 300,000 black women have lost their jobs since this administration has come aboard.
Ezina LeBlanc:So that's not why they're gonna fire you. They're gonna fire you just because. So I want you to really, really value you, and I want you to rest more. I want you to take that PTO, all of it. Figure it out.
Ezina LeBlanc:Schedule it if you have to. Take all your PTO. And just do what you're hired to do, not above and beyond overachievers. Just do what you're supposed to do. Because you know what?
Ezina LeBlanc:Just doing what you're supposed to do is already overachieving. So don't put added stress to yourself to do more, to raise your hand more, all of that. No. You're already doing so much. So I leave you with this today.
Ezina LeBlanc:You are enough. I know you've heard it a gazillion times, and maybe this is the time that you will take it in. You are enough. You are enough. There's nothing to prove to anybody.
Ezina LeBlanc:You're enough, and I wanna leave you with that. I love you, and I'll see you tomorrow. Until then.