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For anyone who bet on themselves and feels like they’re moving backwards .
Stories to remind you that your hardest seasons are actually be your greatest setup
What if the hardest season was actually your greatest setup? There's a moment, maybe you know exactly what I'm talking about. When life just stops. Everything you thought you knew about yourself gets stripped away and all you're left with is a question. Now what?
Speaker 1:I'm Taiba Limuna. I've sat in the silence. I've had to rebuild myself from the ground up more than once. And I've learned that rock bottom isn't the end of your story. It's often where the most important chapters begin.
Speaker 1:This is Rockbottoms to breakthrough, a podcast about the messy, beautiful, deeply human journey of starting over. Every week, I'll bring you real conversations about resilience in your career, your faith, your relationships, in business, and your sense of self. Stories that hopefully remind you you're not alone and you're more capable than you know. My hope is that every episode leaves you feeling a little less alone, a little more clear, and a lot more ready for whatever is next. Pull a chair.
Speaker 1:Let's talk.
Speaker 1:Hello, It's been a minute. I have been trying to record an episode, but so much shit keeps on happening. There are three episodes that I'm going to release this week, but the first one is going to be about, that's the most important. And I feel like that's the one that I have been very emotional about. So the first one would be dealing with my dad's death and how it affected the family.
Speaker 1:So for those who don't know, I lost my dad in a plane crash last year. And ever since that happened, life has been crazy, like extremely crazy. Good too, can lie, but also crazy. So we will first talk about how he died, how I found out and how I ended up embracing his death. So basically I was in Canada at that time, was in Toronto and I was in my apartment.
Speaker 1:I was unemployed. So I was on my bed doing my own thing. And then I start to get like messages and calls and people like checking on me. So I get nervous and I'm like, what's happening? Because my friends will call, they don't say anything.
Speaker 1:They'll call, they don't say anything. They're just like, oh, how are you doing? Just checking up on you. So I was like, what's happening? And then this girl comes, she says to me, she's like, oh my God, Tyrone, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Speaker 1:He was at my grandma's funeral. So at that point I stopped and I was thinking like, I don't know why that thought occurred to me but I was thinking it was one of my brothers. I was so nervous. And fast forward, I ended up finding out that my daughter was dead and the whole Ghana knew about it because eight other families were involved my heart goes out to all of them. So, wow, this is still hard to talk about, but it's like, this is honestly my story, my truth.
Speaker 1:Before I continue any further, just want people to know that like, I am like on my podcast, I'm not necessarily sharing popular opinions or opinions that would make me seem likable because that's not the point. The point is to share who I am authentically. And if let's say information comes out that is misconstrued in another way, I will explain what I meant, but I just want you to know that I'm not here to be liked. Like my compass or my forte is not to be a girl's girls or liked by everyone. Because if you're liked by everyone, that means you're kind of fake or you're a shape shifter because even ice cream sellers still get hate.
Speaker 1:So that's not my goal. That's it. My goal here is to share my opinions. Let it resonate with those that resonates with and those doesn't resonate with. That's fine.
Speaker 1:You don't all have to have the same ideas. But back to the story, that was how I found out. And then personally, I reflected a lot since my dad died because before he died, he and I didn't have the best relationship. We're always fighting because he wanted me to come back. And I was like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Don't want to come back. Don't know. He kept on putting pressure on me, pressure on me. And I look back on those moments and I was like, wow, if only I knew, if only I had the foresight that he wasn't going to be there, I wouldn't have wasted so much time fighting with him. I would have used that time to create good memories, to have bonds.
Speaker 1:Like, do understand? We wasted that time fighting and now I cannot get that time back. So how did this experience shape my first year in Ghana? Because I moved back initially, moved back when my dad died last year And how did it shape my life in Ghana? So I always saw Ghana as my comfort zone, a place where I couldn't grow.
Speaker 1:A place where like, if I came, I would stay the same. Some of these things are true and some are not because I'm noticing that the Ghana you experienced or the Ghana that you feel is based off the kind of people you surround yourself with. And now I don't have my dad to take care of everything. So I am getting challenged a lot to do things by myself. I guess that's how our conversation with my friend today came up on like this whole Papana thing.
Speaker 1:And I told her that like, I don't see anything wrong with a man supporting a woman. And I saw a 100000% stunned by that. But when I talk, I think everybody's so shallow. When I talk about relationships, I'm only talking about either you're single or you're married. Like when I say papa no, I think it means sugar daddy.
Speaker 1:But for me, like I'm talking about your husband as a sugar daddy, because why should you go and have somebody's man as a sugar daddy? That's it. So it's either you're single or you're married. I only see things from like a, is that a religious point of view? So I don't even consider like sugar daddy relationships and all these other relationships because it's not even in my forte, right?
Speaker 1:So I just thought I mentioned that and moving back and getting to know my family again, how did that, like that's been very interesting. Like I didn't realize I was gone for almost ten years. And like I sat down with one of my cousins, we had a conversation. I was talking to him about how like ten years everyone has changed. Everyone has formed like, he was talking to me about how military people even change after eighteen months.
Speaker 1:So talk about ten years. So I'm now learning like everyone's character in the house, who I can vibe with, who like to avoid, like, you know, and it's very crazy because I've always seen them as my family, but we didn't know each other. And There was one thing that I wanna talk about. I think the last thing on this podcast is going to be very quick as all my episodes are, that I felt guilt around when it came back to now living with my family was like, not knowing the struggle, like trying to carry the struggles that they might have experienced when I wasn't around. Don't know if I mentioned this, I'm the first one.
Speaker 1:So I always want to be responsible for my siblings and always want to like take care of them, give them so much love and attention and all of that, right? But I realized that they also have their soul contracts. They also have their life paths. They also have their commerce and they need to go through their experiences to shape who they're supposed to be. So as much as I try to control, to protect, I need to also let go and trust that like their stories, are on their part and their stories may or may not be written.
Speaker 1:And it's really just up to them to make a life for themselves. Yeah. So today, music wise, I haven't really thought about what song I would want to recommend because I have been busy. So let's just randomize this and see what comes up. Oh, so the song here is praise the lord by Asap Rocky.
Speaker 1:That's the song that came to mind. So I don't know why, but I can't play it because of copyright things, but that'll be my recommendation for today. So love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1:Before you go, I just want to say something. Whatever brought you to this episode today, I see you. And I want you to know that what you're carrying right now doesn't have to be carried alone. This community exists because of stories like yours. If you're in the middle of something, a season that's testing everything you thought you knew about yourself, a setback that's left you questioning what comes next, or even just a question you haven't been able to answer or say out loud, I want to hear it.
Speaker 1:Write to us. Rockbottomstobreakthrough@gmail.com. Tell us what you're facing. Your story could become the episode that shifts everything for someone else. And we'll work through it together.
Speaker 1:The mindset, the tools, the perspectives shifts that turn surviving into actually thriving. Because here's what I know for certain. Rockbottoms isn't your destination. It's your foundation. You're not behind.
Speaker 1:You're not broken. You're in the middle of becoming. Until next time, keep going. Your breakthrough is closer than you think.