April 21, 2024

Living the dream with author, speaker, and founder of relentless Phoenix Yahne Sneed

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Discover the Power of Resilience with Yahne Sneed on 'Living the Dream' Podcast In this deeply inspiring episode of 'Living the Dream' with Curveball, we sit down with Yahne Sneed, the force behind relentless Phoenix and author of 'Manufacture Your Canvas'. Yahne opens up about her tumultuous journey, from surviving abuse and battling depression to finding her calling in life coaching and writing. Her story is a testament to the power of emotional resilience, self-love, and the unwavering belief that adversity is not the end, but a catalyst for growth. Tune in as Yahne shares her invaluable insights on overcoming life's toughest challenges and the tools that can help you manifest your own path to empowerment.

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> Speaker A>Welcome, um, to the Living the Dream podcast with curveball. Um, if you believe you can achieve Chee Chee.

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> Speaker B>Welcome to the Living the dream with Curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today I am joined by author and CEO of, uh, relentless Phoenix, Yane Snead. Today we're going to be talking about perseverance and not letting nothing stop you.

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> Speaker B>Yanne has faced a lot of challenges, but she made it through and she's got a book out there and she's got her business, so we're going to be talking to her about her story and about everything that she's up to. So, Yane, thank you so much for joining me today.

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> Yane Snead>Thank you, I appreciate it.

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> Speaker B>Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself and also, uh, let us know about your name. That's a pretty name.

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> Yane Snead>Well, it's Yanne. Nothing really to it. Um, mama had a funny story about it, but, uh, yeah, she created it, ah, all on her own. So I definitely appreciate that. Um, a little bit about me. Well, I'll give you the, give you the strip version.

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> Yane Snead>Um, I didn't have an easy road in life. Um, I was dealt with a bad hand in life. I didn't have a lot of support system when I was younger. Um, my mom was a single mom that tried, uh, to raise me the best way she could. Um, there's no really no handbook on how to parent, but she did the best that she could.

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> Yane Snead>Um, throughout my younger years, I was emotionally abused by her. Um, so I lost my, I didn't see any purpose in this world, didn't really know how to function in this world. So I was just going through this world, really doubtful. I'm, um, always asking why I have to go through this, uh, experience or this experience being bullied. So, um, I had a very negative outlook on life and about myself. My friend owner, which is my actual dad, I don't want to be calling that because he also mentally, emotionally abused me, along with sexually abusing me as well, um, in my younger years. So I really had a lot of void that was inside of me. I filled it up, um, with aggression.

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> Yane Snead>Um, I didn't really know which way was up when I was going older, so I didn't really have a best guide on how to be my best self, my best version of myself. And throughout that whole entire time, I did feel like this wasn't what I was meant to go through, just the trauma alone. Um, I was very religious back then.

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> Yane Snead>So I believe that God wasn't through with me yet. I had a purpose. I didn't know why I was still questioning why I had to go through these things. But I later on found out once I got into high school, I get into this mentorship program where I saw this spark in me when I started being around, uh, other individuals and helping them, um, advocate for themselves. And what I found out that I was connected with them through my pain. I, uh, saw that I was feeling, um, the void in a positive way now, before I was doing it negatively. So now I'm at a position where mentoring kind of helped me see how I can use my pain and, uh, my negative thoughts about how I overcame my obstacles and adversity is not going to help someone else out. So when I started seeing that spark throughout my mentorship, I started feeling belonging and purpose. So I started, um, when I went to college, I did social work, um, because I wanted to help individuals, um, just because I wanted to have that still and keep going, um, through me. The fact that I'm helping individuals through my pain because, um, it was healing me as well. Um, after college, um, well, before that, I was going through a lot, but I finally graduated. Um, I was going through a lot of depression and I was getting ready to drop out and a whole different things. But I finally did graduate after five years. Um, I graduated and I wanted to do more, um, outside of just social work, being a social worker. So in 2022, I started my own business card, relentless Phoenix. And around that same time I started, ah, which is a life coaching business. And then after that I did, uh, my novel called manufacture cancer that's on Amazon that talks about a lot of the tools that I use to get over a lot of my adversities and, um, speak heavily, heavily on, um, emotional resilience and, um, purpose.

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> Yane Snead>And now I am, uh, doing my life coaching business for a while now, helping individuals get over their adversities and it's been great.

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> Speaker B>Okay, so tell us some of the misconceptions, uh, of emotional resilience in the face of adversity.

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> Yane Snead>Yes. So, uh, two things. Um, individuals think that it's easy to have emotional resilience.

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> Yane Snead>It's not, but I believe that it's, uh, important because we need emotional resilience in order to get back up, to fight the next obstacle.

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> Yane Snead>We can't just be, once we fall, stay down. Emotional resilience is all about getting back up and it's not easy to get back up. So we have to really, um, want it and commit to fighting, um, another day. And when it comes down to emotional resilience, the whole commitment of emotional resilience is important as well, because life is going to happen. And if you don't have building those. Those strong muscles to keep continuing, then you're going to let life overcome you. Which is one of the things that I speak about heavenly in my, uh, book, is the fact that how emotional resilience plays a strong mental part in growing and adapting and learning from your experiences.

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> Speaker B>So define your definition of self love and let the listeners know how you practice that in your daily life.

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> Yane Snead>Yeah. So self love is just being authentic to yourself, being true to who you are. Um, I practice that by not really tuning into a lot of media, social media, that I can really put, uh, a damper on your identity, put a damper on your mental health, trying to fit in, into this little perfect world that's not really a perfect world. I also meditate. Um, I do affirmations. I make sure that I, um, give myself grace and forgiveness if I make mistakes and learn from them.

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> Speaker B>Talk about how important empowerment is to you, and also talk about what you do to help empower others.

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> Yane Snead>Yeah. So, other than helping individuals in my life, culture business, I also am a mother and of two girls. Um, so they look to me a lot to know how to function in this world and how to handle themselves in this world, especially when they have something that is tough or challenging.

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> Yane Snead>So I show them what it looks like through me. So I'm there, their leader. I have to leave first and face my fears or empower myself to get through different situations that I have to go through as an adult. So I show them by leading them. Um, one is eight right now. So she's going through that whole stage of really, um, feeling her way through this world and who she is. So I really teach, uh, her how to love herself, first and foremost, because you can't empower yourself and be a best friend if you hate yourself. So I started teaching how to love myself internally. And then outwardly comes your confident empowerment.

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> Speaker B>So talk about how important spirituality is in your life and the practices that you use to connect spiritually.

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> Yane Snead>Yes. So I found my spirituality very common. And Steven, um, spirituality is always asking about looking within, and that's very important when it comes to dealing with life. You don't want to be external with how you feel. You want to be very internally, want to be self aware. You want to have empathy. You want to, um, be very mindful of your thoughts and your behaviors.

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> Yane Snead>Um, that's that's around you and around others as well. So being spiritual always, um, put you in the forefront in a way so you can look internally at yourself and how you interact with the world.

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> Yane Snead>It also keeps you accountable as well, um, to what you need to do for yourself and keep the end to find your best self and purpose.

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> Speaker B>What advice would you give someone struggling with self love and having trouble finding their purpose?

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> Yane Snead>Yeah, usually self love and having. And finding your purpose, struggling with that usually come from, um, state of confusion and being lost. So what I tell some of my clients, um, is that the past is gone, the future is never here. You only have this moment, and you have to stay in this moment. The next choice is yours. Do you want to keep on feeling doubtful and full of self love or do you want to be in a state of happiness and wholesome? Now, the choice is you have to be committed in that choice, regardless of how hard it is. So you can try to find self love. Start with the small things, start building your confidence up to what you wanted to be, what it looks like for you, depending on, you know, how you want to be shaped into this world and how you want to be, um, interacting as well. So it's all about looks or you just want to feel beautiful on the outside and get your hair done. Do small things towards whatever that goal is. Make sure when you sleep good at night that is authentic and it's not because you are basing yourself off of someone else. No need to compare yourself, just improve yourself.

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> Speaker B>All right, well, tell us about your book, where we can get it and what listeners can expect when they read it.

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> Yane Snead>Yeah, so, um, as I said before, manifest your canvas is on Amazon. It's all about emotional resilience and mental clarity, um, finding a purpose, affirmations. And these are the same tools and tricks that I use in my own daily life. Um, and I also have different stories in there as well, other things that I have to go through in order to reach them, whatever the chapter you read, and have my stories in there. So we're talking about purpose.

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> Yane Snead>I have a story in about that, how I found my purpose, or talking about different things about spirituality. Everything is in there. And it's easy to use tools and resources that you can implement today in order to be the individual that you wish to see in this world.

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> Speaker B>Tell us about any upcoming projects that you're working on that people need to know about.

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> Yane Snead>Yes. So one of the projects I'm working on now is also doing a podcast. It's going to be named after my business, relentless Phoenix.

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> Yane Snead>It's going to be airing on YouTube. If you would you like to know to more about want that you can, um, definitely reach me on my website which is yannasmooth.com or my social media handle relentless phoenix Zero.

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> Yane Snead>Zero is for Xfinity sign which is talking about always beginning, never ending and those where you can reach me after my podcast.

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> Speaker B>All right, we just gave out your website yannasnead.com dot. That was my next question. So close us out with some final thoughts. Maybe if that was something I forgot to talk about that you would like to touch on or any final thoughts you have for the listeners.

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> Yane Snead>Yeah, um, two thoughts I always want to leave the listeners with.

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> Yane Snead>Um, the first one is a quote that I always say to my clients and it's age does not determine your maturity, but what you learn from your experiences justifies your growth. No matter where you are in life, you're meant to be in exact moment. Learn from it and then grow from it. And the second thing is, if you really want to love yourself, find grace within yourself and also forgiveness. And then everything else will work itself out.

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> Speaker B>All right, ladies and gentlemen, yanesnead.com. Please be sure to check her out. Follow rate review share this episode to as many people as possible. If you have any guests or suggestion topics, see Jackson 102. Net is the place to send them.

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> Speaker B>Jump on your favorite podcast app. Leave us a review. Hit that follow button. As always, thank you for listening and supporting the show. And Yanne, thank you for joining us and sharing your story.

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> Yane Snead>Yeah, thank you. No problem. Have a blessed one.

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> Speaker A>For more information on the living the Dream podcast, visit www.djcurvefall.com.

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> Speaker A>Until next time, stay focused on living the dream.

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> Speaker B>Dream.