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The Art of Going Deep: Remi Roy, the Introvert Entrepreneur

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Remi Roy shares her journey from being a painfully shy child in Nigeria to becoming a driven introvert entrepreneur and podcast host.

• Growing up as the quiet, reflective child who would make a beeline for the back of any room
• Learning to "go deep" with thoughts, studies, friendships, and faith as an introvert strength
• Finding inspiration in books like "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield
• Pushing through resistance when pursuing creative work and personal goals
• Starting and stopping her first podcast "Follow Your Feet" before launching "The Driven Introvert"
• Building confidence through trying new things and learning that failure isn't the end
• Creating ShePacked as a platform for introverts to connect and grow
• Developing PodGround, a learning and networking platform for podcasters
• Encouraging introverts to start in their comfort zone with things they already love
• Taking small steps with trusted people before expanding your circle

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Speaker 1:

Welcome back to one on one with Mr you. Of course I'm your host, mr you in studio with a podcast driven introvert entrepreneur. A whole bunch of stuff. Remy Ward is in the house. Remy, how?

Speaker 2:

are you? Hey, I'm doing good. Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1:

Awesome, awesome. There's more accolades to add on, but let's do those ourselves, of course it's our interview, but great to have you in here.

Speaker 1:

One of the things that we talk about. A lot is podcasting and all the behind the scenes and how to push through a lot of the confidence issues and things like that. We're going to talk about all that stuff soon, but customarily I always ask our guests to come in and kind of share about their upbringing, their childhood. How did you get from there to where you are right now? Go ahead and share that with us.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my God, it's a long story, but we we have a few minutes so I'll condense it. Um, my name is remy roy I. I grew up in nigeria with, um, my mom, a single mom, and two sisters and a brother, and I, yes, I was always the very quiet kid. I was the shy kid who will always be in the corner, never talking, talking to anyone, just make a beeline for the back of the room wherever I enter. That was always me, but I was very I love to reflect.

Speaker 2:

I've always been a very driven person, but I didn't know what to do with that drive Right, right, because I it felt like it felt like two sides of a coin, so to speak.

Speaker 2:

Like here was I having a lot of reflection and thinking very deeply and contemplating and having many ideas that I felt like, oh, it'll be cool to do this or that, but on the other hand, I was the shy kid, and if you're shy, you don't want people to see you, you don't want to be out there, so possible that you kind of struggle with, okay, what do I do with all these ideas that I have? So that was me 100%. So I spent many years trying to figure that out, but I think one good thing that came out of that time for me just my childhood being somebody who is very quiet is I learned how to go deep. Somebody who is very quiet is I learned how to go deep. I learned how to go deep with okay, um yeah, with my thoughts, with my studies at school, with friendships, with even God. I learned how to go deep instead of you know, sort of spreading myself thing. I was just that person that could spend a lot of time by myself reading, figuring things out, tinkering.

Speaker 1:

I never get tired of doing that. So, um yeah, Tell me what going deep looks like, because I know it sounds deep if I say in deep it sounds deep, but in practical applications what's going deep? Look like for you.

Speaker 2:

To be honest, it's not that deep. It's just spending time paying attention like I.

Speaker 2:

I I feel I'm that kind of person like I can spend hours doing one thing and it just has to do with attention, like being able to pay attention, given time and effort and um, just just mind space, to whatever needs to be done at that time. So if it's work, I'm ready to lean in. If it's a conversation, I don't want to be distracted. I'm ready to lean in right. If it's whatever it is, if it's even reflection, because I think there is an amount of self-awareness that comes when you are able to reflect. It only comes through reflection. So if you are not able to really spend time being by yourself and asking yourself questions, almost like coaching yourself, it's difficult to be self-aware. And if you're not self-aware, oh my gosh, like life is going to be I don't know Right.

Speaker 2:

So that's what deep means for me. That's what deep means for me. That's what deep means for me just being able to spend time whatever time is needed to go through something.

Speaker 1:

To get through something, um yeah okay, I love that we talked a good bit about our offline conversations are usually about some level of introversion yes, we talk about that a lot.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm. I'm learning and evolving in that space because I know that. You know I've I've leaned on that title for a while. Nobody that knows me or watches any of our shows believes any bit of that, but yeah, I do get my energy from a different place than people do that are extroverted. You want to be around people and crowd, like you said. That's not me. I want to get in and out as fast as possible. Yeah, I'm looking for the exit, so that's when I get into the entrance I'm trying to find yeah, I love it that's, that's where I'm at, but for you as as a deep thinker that's how I see you anyway.

Speaker 1:

You're a deep thinker. I feel like you are deep as a reader. What do you do to? I should say this. Let me phrase what books or pockets have you watched or listened to or read that have moved you recently? What do you listen to? What do you read?

Speaker 2:

what do I read? Um, I have had um so many like favorite books. I'm actually doing kind of like a mini series kind of thing on my podcast right now.

Speaker 2:

I'm going through yes, I'm going through books that I've loved, you know, and sharing excerpts and insights from those books, just bringing out principles like what can we learn? And one book that I always go back to is the War of Art by Steven Pressfield. I love that book. It's a very simple book, it's an easy read, it wouldn't take long at all.

Speaker 2:

But one of the things that I mean the main crux of the book is he talks about resistance, and this is the idea that when you decide to do your work and I put work in air quotes, because work means anything that you set your heart to do, it doesn't matter what, it is Right. When you decide to do it, you will experience resistance, and that resistance is the thing. It's like a force that keeps you from doing that thing, and we all experience it, and I think the reason why a lot of people. Unfortunately, if we look at the whole population of the whole world and we do like samples and all of that, most people will not achieve their dreams and their goals. It's sad to say it. The reason is and it goes back to being going deep the reason is there is resistance, which is a force that will keep you from doing that and it will come up as all sorts of things. It might come up as, I don't know, distractions.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

Because you prefer to just relax after work every day and watch TV instead of spending that extra time getting caught up on the business, on the studies, on whatever it is you want to do, right, or it might just be, who knows, it could even be hardships, just the difficult things that happen in life, but the only way that you get through is by pushing through and not giving up. So I love that book, because anyone who has any dream, any ideas, any goals, anything you really want to achieve, that book is like an eye opener, so that really, it really motivates me to know that, yes, I will experience. So I'm looking for the resistance, so I recognize it for what it is and I can move past it. So that's one book that I really love. In terms of a podcast wow, there's so many of them, but I love the Guy Raz. What is the title? How I Built this. How I Built this by Guy Raz.

Speaker 1:

What is the?

Speaker 2:

title how I Built this. How I Built this by Guy Raz.

Speaker 2:

I love those stories because these are just stories of entrepreneurs, people who have built, you know, companies, movements or whatever it is, and really digging deep into their journeys. You know their struggles, the things that they had to work through and all of that. And I know that sometimes when you're telling your story it's very easy to sort of sanitize it. You know you're not going deeply into all the things that you had to go through Because somehow when you've experienced success it colors the way you see the struggle, right, it call us the way you see the struggle, right. But I try to piece through all of that to really get to the meat of what can I learn from this person's experience? Right, because I know everybody has a story and there's something that we can kind of bring out of it to inspire our own lives in whatever it is we're pursuing or doing. So I really love.

Speaker 1:

So that's one book and one podcast that I really love, I love it, and both the book and the podcast are in the comment section in the live chat for those that want to follow it sure. Speaking of podcast, though, you do a fantastic podcast called the driven introvert you didn't change the name right no, I didn't yeah, I'd love to hear how it got started, why you decided to do it.

Speaker 2:

Go for it oh gosh, um, I, I, I'm a creative person, so any way that I can, any way that I can sort of use my creativity, I will always kind of lean into it. 2016 was the first time that I heard of the word podcast, and it was a friend of mine who had a podcast at the time and she had it on SoundCloud and I remember listening to it.

Speaker 2:

And I'm like this is amazing, this is fascinating, I want to do this and I just and that's me Like I just jump straight into it. I don't contemplate things for too long. If I know that this is something, I think about it in very simple ways. Right, I ask myself a question when I get a new idea is this something that will help somebody? You know, is this something that other people can get something from Positive? Is this something I'm able to do? I have the skills to do it, or I can learn? And is this something I'm excited about? And if I can answer those three questions, I am diving deep into it.

Speaker 2:

So I just started that podcast. It was called Follow your Feet and I was talking about purpose. Yeah, I was talking about purpose and you know, living a life of passion and all of that. And for, I think, about seven months later, I gave up up on that podcast and that's the story for another day because I didn't know anything about podcasting. I didn't know how to grow it, I didn't know how to get people to listen. It was like a black box. I didn't understand.

Speaker 2:

But I was just excited, I just went in with passion. But, um, I gave up on that and I thought, okay, I really love this medium, so I want to come back to it someday, right, but maybe I would need someone like a, maybe a co-host. Maybe I just don't know how to hack it by myself or whatever, but I gave up on it and it was last year, 2024, at the beginning of last year, that I um started my current podcast now but I came at it now with fresh eyes and a new perspective and like renewed drive, like I'm gonna make this work.

Speaker 2:

But in terms of the content, the driven introvert podcast is essentially it's essentially sharing principles and insights from my own journey through life you know, how I mentioned, like I used to be a painful, painfully shy introvert, like, oh my gosh, like I would never do this that we're doing right now, right. So, but going through that and having different experiences in life most of them were hardships because there was something about a difficult experience, maybe a tragedy, maybe a failure we learn more from those things than when everything is going well, and that's one thing I've realized in my life. I learned a lot, a lot, lot lot from the difficult experiences I've had to walk through and that, in a weird way, built my confidence right. So I ended up going from this person who is like mousy and I never want to talk to anyone, to figuring out what are the things that I'm passionate about, what are the things that I want to do, and the more that I tried those things and the more that I realized that even when I failed, it wasn't the end of me when I failed at things. I learned a lot more and I had more wisdom and more insight to apply to the next thing. It built my confidence Right.

Speaker 2:

So I wanted to share that experience with people. I wanted to share that experience with other introverts who might find themselves in that situation in that headspace where they feel like gosh, because not all introverts are shy, not all introverts experience social anxiety, but I had all of that, the whole thing right. So essentially the podcast is it's like an encouragement and inspiration for anyone who might find themselves in that position, who really have goals and ideas and things that they want to pursue in life but feel like they don't have the personality to match. You know the kind of person because when you think about, oh, that person is driven, driven. You're usually thinking about an extrovert, somebody who is like charismatic, and they enter a room and they're speaking and talking and everyone is just enraptured. And I am not that person, right, I'm just. I'm not the life of the party, I don't think I'm ever gonna be, but I I had to figure out I had to figure out how to build my confidence and be that person I know that I could be.

Speaker 2:

I needed to be, to be able to go after my goals and dreams. So that's what I talk about on the podcast.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I love the evolution of you starting to follow your feet and then deciding to step away. You talk about getting a co-host. So tell me what changed there, because you kind of let me know what you've been doing since you stepped back into the podcasting foray, if you will, but I don't know what changed. So do you have a co-host now? Do you still want to do that? Do you feel like you need it now? What's different?

Speaker 2:

Good question. So and this was something else that I feel like the Lord really opened my eyes to is the fact that I found myself always wanting somebody to do something with me, like I didn't want to do things by myself. And it was a story I had told myself because I had done so many things that I felt like didn't work, and because I did all of those things by myself that I felt like didn't work, and because I did all of those things by myself, I naturally began to think, maybe I'm not built for these, maybe I'm not built to succeed at any like creative thing by myself. So when I was gonna start the podcast, I was like, hey, maybe I need a co-host, maybe I need somebody, maybe I'm boring, right, maybe, if I have somebody else on the show with me and then we're talking, maybe it'll be fun for people to listen to.

Speaker 2:

And I remember I wrangled one of my friends I love her, um, and I'm like, let's do this together. She was like, uh, I mean, this is your thing. I'm like, come on, let's do it together. And he's like, okay, fine, let's do it. And I remember we recorded the first episode. I thought it was fun, but she was not having a good time and that was and it was not.

Speaker 2:

She was not having a good time and the the lord really showed me that this is, this is not the way this is supposed to go. Like. I know what I've given you, I know what I've given her and it is not this right. This is for you, this is your responsibility and I decided okay, I think I have to really dig deep into myself and find the confidence to do this by myself, because it's possible. So that's really where I am.

Speaker 2:

So right now I don't have any plans of having a co-host. I'm actually enjoying working on the podcast by myself and actually when I started the podcast, working on the podcast by myself and actually when I started the podcast, I was doing one guest episode and one solo episode. But after the first season I realized that every time I did a solo episode there was one. The responses that I got from people and also how I felt after that experience it made me realize that this is actually a tool for me to continue to hone my voice. Right, there's nothing wrong with having a guest, but for this season I want to dig deep into because I felt like I'm still kind of figuring it out I want to dig deep into finding my voice. So I want to create episodes that require time and effort. So I want to create episodes that require time and effort because it helps me.

Speaker 2:

There's something about thinking about an idea from beginning, middle and end that gives you such a perspective Right, and it builds your thinking, critical thinking and your communication skills. I remember I used to tell people that some people find it so easy to express their thoughts, like you think something and you just say it and it's like oh, it just comes out straight, it comes out wonderful and you convey whatever it is that. I struggled with that for so long, like I would try to say something, I would use so many words but I was never getting anywhere. But, to be honest with you, doing this podcast and really leaning into um, doing it by myself, has really helped me build my communication skills.

Speaker 2:

So that's where I am right now I want to continue to do that uh, but yes, I will. I I will have um guests. I really have some ideas of uh like like a guest series that I want to do, but I'm enjoying um working on the podcast at this time I love it.

Speaker 1:

I love it. I got a little small handful of questions left. I'm gonna ask you one couple questions real quick. This is kind of a two part question here. So let's put numbers on where you were in your evolution as a podcast host when you first started and you kind of just getting your feet wet to right now put a number on it from a scale of one to 10. As far as confidence and feeling like you understand you got together, what was the number then when you first now we're following you people when you came back to the podcast, oh, yeah, oh yeah, and to where you are right now, currently, now.

Speaker 2:

Hmm. So when I came back I would put that kind of like a 4.5 because at that time yes, 4.5.

Speaker 2:

I was actually starting a platform for introverts at that time. So I felt like I was getting a lot of downloads from the Lord and he was giving me so many great ideas, but I never know how long something is going to last, and that's another thing that I used to be afraid of. But I leaned into it. But at that, at that time, I was, I feel, like I was gathering my confidence, because I felt like, remy, you can do this. I remember sitting on my couch, um, the day before I pulled the trigger and I posted everything that would be working on the back end and I and I kept, I kept praying god help me, should I do this? Should I do this? Should I do this? And I remember being on Instagram.

Speaker 2:

I was, I wanted to post the thing on Instagram and I saw a post by some other lady. It was like a quote. I cannot remember the quote right now, but it was something about at some point you have to stop praying, you have to stop asking and just do it. If the Lord has called you to do it, just do it. And I thought, okay, I'm going to just do it, right? So at that time time, I was still gathering my confidence right. But I think, till now I think I can put myself at a solid 8.75 8.75, that's, that's amazing I think they're still trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1:

That's a high number for somebody who's still trying to figure it out.

Speaker 2:

You sure I'm. I'm telling you and part of it is is one being okay with discomfort. I used to be very um, I didn't like ambiguity, like I want things to be clear. If I'm doing this, I want to know that is exactly where I should be and everything is going to work out. But how many times do we get that kind of assurance in life? A lot of times we don't. You just have to do it right. So I'm a little more okay with uncertainty now. I'm a little more okay with you know a little bit of things not looking. You know, perfect the way it should be.

Speaker 2:

But another thing that I can really and the reason why I put it at 8.75 is I walk into rooms now, rooms that I've never been, rooms that I didn't have to sort of prepare my mind for, and I don't have anxiety. I don't have that fear that used to sort of grip me and I will think, oh, I'm gonna make a mess of this or people are gonna think I'm like I don't belong here. I don't have that anymore. But I know that there are still rooms that I will get into where I need to prepare for and I need to really prepare my mind and my heart. That's why I'm not giving myself like a nine or ten or anything, because I still have. There's always room to grow. But yeah, it's. It's been a great journey.

Speaker 1:

So far, I love it. I love it. Uh, now in in this discussion of introversion and it, it feels like it means different things, different people, yeah, so it's really, it's really hard for me to put a stamp on it because I feel like I'm just different from the normal introverts. I don't have the same situation going on, but how do you?

Speaker 1:

as somebody who considers herself an introvert. How do you encourage another introvert? Because the name of your podcast is the Driven Introvert and introverts the ones that I, I know, don't want to be driven anywhere, especially when it comes, especially when it comes to creativity motivation yeah yeah, if I have a coaching client introvert, I'm doing extra work with them because I have to almost not babysit but I have to kind of walk every step of the process with them. I totally understand that. Being an introvert and being driven, it's like wow, what?

Speaker 1:

a dichotomy so tell me how you encourage other introverts. I know you talk to many of them through your show. How are you helping to drive them? How does that look? How does that look? How's that working?

Speaker 2:

uh, one thing I, I, I decided, oh, I learned, and then I decide myself is you cannot change anyone, you cannot, no, you cannot, so you don't want to. Uh, you don't want to go into any sort of that kind of relationship, feeling like, oh, I'm gonna make you something, you're not. If somebody is not, um, naturally driven or wanting to pursue things or do things or be out there, whatever, it's fine, right, it's fine, they don't have. If it's not their makeup, if it's not part of their purpose or whatever it is that God has for them, there's no point, right. But if there is even a sliver, even a sliver of a drive, like maybe maybe I want to do that I'm like okay, maybe, maybe we can work with a, maybe we can work with maybe.

Speaker 2:

And with that, the way that I try to encourage people is take one tiny step at a time. Right, think of what is one thing you love to do, because, the truth is, the way to build confidence is just by trying. The more you try things, the more you do things, the more you're like oh okay, I did that, that wasn't so bad. Yeah, maybe I could do better next time. And then you do better next time. I remember walking into a speaking engagement and there was a young lady there, I think she's probably about 19 or 20. She's in college and after I finished and I talked to you, she came to me and she said you said you're an introvert. I'm an introvert too, but, like, every time I want to you know, talk or whatever I get this lump in my throat and I can't do it. I'm like oh, I feel you, I feel you. And then I asked her okay, what is one thing you love? What is one thing you love to do? And she said I love to read. I'm like yeah, I can work with that. I'm like one thing you could do right now is take the thing that you love doing by yourself and share it with other people. Find one or two other people who you already know, who you're already comfortable with, and do that thing with them.

Speaker 2:

There is so much power in that. It will build confidence, one tiny step at a time. So you say, okay, I have this book that I'm reading right now. Do you guys want to read it with me? Maybe let's do a book club and then we discuss and talk about it. There is some level of of confidence, even if it's very little, that will come out of that, and then maybe the next time the other friend invites somebody and then you have more people. So it's, it's. It's. It's a little step at a time, and you don't want to rush people like that because they will shut down. Like this is too much, I can't take it. So it has to be something you're already comfortable with. You know how we say we need to get out of our comfort zones. Sure, the truth is, you need to start at your comfort zone. For people like that, you need to start at your comfort zone and then you can walk your way up from there. That's what I would say all right, I love this.

Speaker 1:

All right. So you got a handful of questions left, not a whole lot but yeah what's the food that you miss from your home?

Speaker 2:

oh my god, to be honest with you, none and the reason is because none. The reason is because we have, we have. I'm from nigeria, we have african and nigerian stores here and we eat all the things, all the things. I'm amazed, I'm, I'm amazed, I'm telling you, I miss nothing.

Speaker 1:

So there's nothing. You have access to all of it now.

Speaker 2:

All of it. I can just go to the store about 10 minutes or 20 minutes away and get it. It's amazing. Wow, that's great. I know I love that.

Speaker 1:

I love that. I love that. Is there anything you miss about home? I?

Speaker 2:

love that, I love that. Is there anything you miss about home? Oh yeah, I miss. I lived in Lagos, nigeria, lagos is a crazy city, crazy, I tell you.

Speaker 1:

I miss that in a very weird way. Right, I remember Crazy meaning hustle and bustle. Is that what we're talking about?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Hustle and bustle People, bodies everywhere. I miss a little bit of that Because going to work every day and kind of you know that hustle. I miss a little bit, not a lot, because I'm still an introvert.

Speaker 1:

I don't miss any of that from New York. None of that. Oh, you don't.

Speaker 2:

No, I miss it a little bit. I miss it a tiny little bit, but of course, mostly I miss my friends.

Speaker 1:

I miss my family I miss my friends and my family okay what's the biggest breakthrough that you would say personally, you've had this year so far?

Speaker 2:

oh gosh, it'll have to be concerning, uh, the startup and building. Okay, yeah, because, um, last year was actually when I got the idea for it and, like I said, I'm not one to sit around on ideas for too long. As long as I know that, okay, this is something here and I pray and I I feel the lord giving me peace about it, I will just jump into it. But it has been, it has stretched me in ways that I I never would have imagined, because these are, I'm having to learn skills that I've never really had to use, right, I'm having to really think, uh, critically and think like a leader which is a different dimension.

Speaker 2:

You know, if you're used to just doing things by yourself or you're used to following and you've never had to hold such a big responsibility in your hands, you have a learning curve and that learning curve is steep. So I'm still on that journey, trying to learn, but it's really stretched me. I think that's probably the biggest. And the fact that I could get to the point in my life where I'm like, oh, I thought about, I want to build a company and it happens to be a software company, where I'm going to build software and tech and people are going to be a part of this I would never have thought it was possible for me.

Speaker 1:

So that's a big one, absolutely yeah, well, you're, you're amazing thank you so much I mean to have to have two things going on like that. It's like I want to hear about both about sheet packing, about power ground, because you're doing something amazing, that I would think that people who, like I said, this is my previous conception of introverts they would never do this kind of stuff because it's too much involved.

Speaker 2:

Too much yeah.

Speaker 1:

Too many people aspects involved in this. Yeah, yeah, you're not doing this and you're doing that not once, but twice. This is the same person a few minutes ago who was saying you know what? They don't want to be around people. They want to yeah, yeah glide to the back of the room and kind of stay out of sight. I know you found it. You found it. Two organizations talk about those. What's going on? Why'd you do this? What, what are they? What? What are you doing?

Speaker 2:

Okay, so ShePacked is actually that I started about three or two years ago and it was a platform for introverts and it was under the ShePacked that I sort of launched the podcast, because I felt that was.

Speaker 2:

That was one really powerful way I could reach, you know, the people that I wanted to reach. You know, listening to a podcast, you can do it by yourself and you can keep learning and growing and whatever. And I've connected with a lot of amazing people through it and and I continue to sort of you know, work on that with a podcast. But PodGround everything's kind of like in the podcast and industry, right. So PodGround the idea came to me because I started to sort of observe the industry, especially podcasters who are not celebrities or who don't have like a huge, you know, audience or whatever, and trying to figure it out and feeling very isolated. Because podcasting is a lot of work. I know, you know this, it's a lot of work.

Speaker 2:

So, being a podcaster and not having not knowing how to get what you need remember my first experience with, uh, follow your feet. I didn't know how to get what I needed to succeed with that podcast. I didn't know how to lean into community. I didn't know other people who were also podcasting. So that is what I'm trying to build right now with pod ground. It's essentially a learning and networking platform for podcasters, right? So we're going to have a community aspect of it where you can meet people from all over the world, you can connect, you can share ideas, you can collaborate, you can guest on each other's shows. We're going to have like events and classes and things like that.

Speaker 2:

If you want to level up, maybe you just launched and you want to figure out you're going to have events with people in them absolutely real human beings, not imaginary ones, oh my goodness yes, absolutely, and we're also building um kind of like an uh a directory of experts, so people who really know what they're doing, who really know what they're doing with podcasting.

Speaker 1:

You've been holding out on me, man, you've been holding out on me. I didn't know about any of this. We need to talk.

Speaker 2:

We need to talk. Yeah, so we're building all of that right now, and there are other things we want to down the road, kind of like a roadmap that we want to build into PodGround, but we have to start somewhere.

Speaker 1:

So right now we're building the MVP which is like the minimum viable product for the platform. So we're working on that right now and it should be ready in the fall. We're talking to a genius today. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you guys recognize this. This is incredible. I'm excited. Sorry, the description hasn't come to an end. This has been fantastic. We've got to talk more.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. But this is our final question for the show. All of our guests come through and answer the same question.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

I don't let anybody off of the hook ever. Somebody tried that one yesterday, but I don't do that. You got to answer the question. So not to diminish the work you've done You've done incredible work up to this point but temporarily we're going to take an eraser and erase everything you've ever done, career-wise, mission-wise. If it's a hobby and you did it, I'm erasing that off of the table. What do you think Remy's doing right now, today, outside of all the things she's already done? What?

Speaker 2:

do you think you're doing right now if you haven't done yet, I haven't done yet.

Speaker 1:

Gosh, I don't have any Jeopardy music, so I'm going to have to just curse you to keep time, okay have any Jeopardy music, so I'm gonna have to just push you to, uh, keep time, okay.

Speaker 2:

I mean, I'm not sure. I guess maybe travel, if I, if I didn't have all of this or haven't done all of this, and I just have my family and I can travel with my family, I think I'll be content.

Speaker 1:

I think I'll be content would you really be content, really all you heard about you today. That's already out here, live now, everywhere. Now it's gonna be in listening platforms in less than two hours. Would you really be content with just traveling anyplace?

Speaker 2:

that's it it's, it's tough to say it's tough to say because I'm not in that position, right, but maybe I'll be content for a year and then after that I'm like, can we get back to work, please?

Speaker 1:

that makes sense. This has been fantastic thank you so much here, and you made our show better today, so thank you for being here I appreciate you a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1:

No, thank you, appreciate you. We'll give you a couple of minutes to kind of, uh, right over there can find your work. I posted some of your uh, your websites in the chat so they can find those, hopefully. But you can go ahead and shout them out and at the end of that you can just encourage the people who are watching and listening. I know, hopefully people are watching that. You know too, friends and family. You know colleagues, whatever, live on the replay. Shout them out, give encouragement. However, you want to go out, so floor is yours, go ahead thank you so much for having me um.

Speaker 1:

I am on instagram.

Speaker 2:

I'm on linkedin, remy roy and, um, if you're a podcaster, the platform we're building is at podgroundio and you can check it out. And um, yeah, that's me, and I just want to encourage everyone. Um, there is a seed of greatness in every human being and, like I said, unfortunately a lot of people will not pursue that. A lot of people will not give life what it really takes to go from where you are to where you actually can be. So, lean into seeking the face of god, let him give you direction for where he really wants you to go, and commit that you also want to do that, because it's one thing for God to give you the talent, the skills, the gift, the purpose, the promise, but the most important part is for you to lean into it and give life everything it takes. So I hope that encourages you as you go out there and pursue your life, your work, your family, whatever it is. Do it with excellence and all the best.

Speaker 1:

I love this. I love this. Thank you again for being here, remy, it's been fantastic.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1:

Excited about our other conversation about the other stuff that you know about today live in front of the whole world. Oh my goodness, thank you for being here. I appreciate it so much. You're doing fantastic work. Thank, thank you for being here.

Speaker 1:

I appreciate it so much. You're doing fantastic work, thank you, and I'm excited about the area that you want to drive yourself. Yes, some new realms and new levels. Yes, and I'm excited for you. So thank you for being here. Thank you, remy and Mr U. We are out of here. Have a fantastic day you.

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