Hey. Welcome to the Stephanie Stevens show where
I help you discover the power of communication
and the keys that unlock the doors to
freedom
in every area of your life. Well, hi
friend, I am so honored to be connecting
with you spending some time with you today.
Thank you for letting me. Man, where do
I begin?
So we talk about a lot of different
kinds of things on this podcast. I've shared
my personal story. I've talked about my advocacy
for individuals with special needs, especially autism. I've
talked about my journey in therapeutic
my own personal struggles with panic and anxiety
and some really hard situations in my life.
I've talked about my years and broadcasting and
what I learned about being in the media.
I've talked about being a mom, a single
parent and all sorts of stuff. I typically
don't talk a lot about politics
which is kinda funny because I have a
degree in political science. So I have a
degree in communications and also degree in political
science because if you'll recall in my story,
I thought It was going to be a
very famous talking head pun.
On some all news channel, 24 hour news
channel somewhere,
and I was gonna be just preaching with
as though from the gods, and I was
gonna be an oracle of truth, and everyone
was gonna listen to me, and I was
gonna help change the world in that way.
I yeah, you can laugh off. It's okay.
You should. I was totally
delusional. It only took me a couple of
years in television to realize how un
jade cynical sarcastic and downright,
untrue, most of it is.
But I did get to see at firsthand.
So when I speak to you about things
pertaining to the media, you have to remember,
I spent over 25 years in the media.
I worked in television news first for about
5 years, and then I moved into radio
and worked there for about 25 years. I
know that age is me. But I've had
experience at the point, and I did work
for a national news channel. In fact, after
I left the small town and that I
started my Tv career. I was immediately hired
at a 24 hour news network, and it
was the second 1 of its kind. There
was 1 that I had started the trend
that was pretty popular, and then I was
working at the 1 that actually owned all
of the satellites, but that was not yet
quite as popular.
Nonetheless.
The point is it was a 24 hour
news cycle, and I worked there. And I
saw all of the raw video that would
come in from all of the news feeds
around the country. And that in and of
itself can be a little bit traumatic because
anytime a horrible event would happen, where in
life was lost and tragedies were occurring, we
would see the raw video. We would see
what the cameraman was seeing. Unfiltered une edited
and that was all of the feed that
would come in into that what was called
a feed room. So in order to do
the kind of job that allows you to
take that video in and then go ahead
and edit it, you have to be very
disconnected.
That was not my job. I was a
news writer and an anchor. And so I
had to be in the feed room all
the time asking the production guys for video,
but I didn't have to sit there and
go through every frame and edited down. I
cannot imagine having that job. Nonetheless, the job
I had was difficult
enough. But I learned so much. I learned
that you could con try
absolutely anything
by sp and editing in exact ways.
You can literally can try any story out
of a couple of pieces of video. And
I know that this has been going on
for a very, very long time. And now
on top of it all, decades later we
have Ai that can literally put someone's face
onto someone else's body and match their voice
to things that they didn't actually say, which
is beyond terrifying. We should be terrified by
this. Is it funny when we see funny
videos and memes that people have created it
sure is, it's really funny and unless until
it becomes about us. Right? And thank goodness,
we're not public figures enough, At least not
at this point. I'm not where I don't
think anybody would be interested in taking my
likeness and image. And hurting it in such
ways to make me do stupid dances or
say stupid things. I don't know. Maybe maybe
I do that without the help of ai.
But the point is is that we're living
in a very bizarre time my friend where
it's hard to know what's real.
It's hard to know what's real.
And tragic
things have happened lately,
regarding political violence, we have a presidential candidate
that was almost killed live in front of
the world on television.
It goes beyond saying that there are faults
and in discrepancies in the stories that we
hear now. In terms of how something of
that nature could be allowed to occur or
how something of that nature could be facilitated.
We're not gonna bury our heads in the
sand and pretend to be silly and ignorant
and thought
and right brain, we do need to use
our logic and we do have to discern
when dozens if not hundreds of people come
forward with video tape and timelines,
and we can see negligence very clearly for
what it is. We call it that. We
need to call it that and say what
it is. I have my own personal views
on what happened that day. I know you
do too. And that's why I wanna come
to you today and talk about truth.
Because I'm gonna argue that it is harder
today to know truth than ever before. In
terms of who's is behind what how things
really happen who helped who do what, how
this was allowed ABCXYZ.
You can take any situation. You can take
any
single situation that you see in the media
today. And you have to run it through
your own series of filters and questions because
you just cannot know. You can't know anymore.
The agencies that are contracted to keep us
safe, don't appear to be able to do
that. And we can't appear to be able
to trust really who is in charge at
times. And friend, the truth is we really
don't know who's been in charge.
For a very, very long time.
That's not specific to the country I live
in. It may be true in the country
you live in as well. We live in
a time where up is down and down
is up. And I would also argue that
in most cases and in many cases right
is wrong and wrong as right. And if
you have the spirit of the divine living
on the inside of you, you're feeling it.
You feel it. Things feel out of alignment.
Things feel skewed. Things feel
uncertain.
Things feel downright right wrong in some and
many in many areas in many ways. We
feel deceived.
We feel lied to. We feel as though
our voices
really don't matter.
And that is upside down. We the people
at least in the country I live in
are p to be in charge. That's not
the case.
But that's how it was designed in our
country in the country I live in. The
idea was,
there would be freedom to worship our creator
in the way we chose best, and that
we the people would contract with something called
the government and the government would do duties
and perform tasks in an effort to help
preserve and protect our god given rights, not
our constitutional rights, not our government allowed rights,
but our god, given
ina
or una.
That means can't be taken away, rights.
Do they do that?
Do you feel that they do that for
you?
So back to my whole up is down
down as up right wrong the whole thing.
How are we gonna be able to know
then, how to navigate ourselves in a climate
wherein you cannot trust what you see or
hear from the very people who are hired
to keep your god given rights safe.
But then? Well, I think this is an
inside job, and I mean you and me.
I mean, we gotta get clear. On truth,
we have to have eyes to see. We
have to have ears to hear. We have
to have a heart that knows and can
discern truth because we know how to and
are willing to drown out the noise. We
need to be able to silence the noise
long enough to check the spirit that lives
on the inside of us, the spirit that
gives life. The spirit that creates that lives
on the inside of us,
we need to be able to hear it
friend.
We have to be able to lean into
it. We have to wrap it around us
like a mama bear hug, and we better
lean back into it. Lest we be deceived.
If you're a fan of scripture all, you
know that in Matthew 13, 16, it says,
but blessed are your eyes if they see.
And your ears, if or because they hear.
And it goes on to say for truly,
I tell you many profits and right people
long to see what you see, but did
not see it, and they long to hear
what you hear, but they did not hear
it.
Why not? They were deceived. So this then
goes into a story about or parable of
the sow. And this is where a farmer
starts sow seeds, and there are 3 different
things that come along to damage or destroy
the seed. If you've never heard the parable,
look it up its matthew 13 18, it's
fantastic. The point goes to the need to
hear truth, receive truth and hold on to
it and not let something someone or some
news entity knock you outside of truth. When
you hear something that sounds off chances are
it is, but see we've been so trained
and so programmed not to trust ourselves, but
to trust somebody in a white coat or
somebody who's
face is front and center on a big
screen somewhere as though they are some sem
of credibility or authority.
They're not. You can do just about anything
to get your face on a big screen
somewhere.
Doesn't have to be good. Doesn't have to
be noble.
We have got a responsibility to ourselves to
our families to our communities to our tribes
to know, perceive here, see and comprehend truth,
so that we can act accordingly
so that we can know how to filter
out how to sip and how to really
educate ourselves
so that we can put our own house
and order and help others do the same,
so that we can learn to rely on
those of us who are like minded and
who seek truth. Who's knowledge and wisdom and
understanding and the ability to
support and help others and raise the collective
in truth because at the end of the
day, end. What do we have? If we
don't have truth, If we can't operate in
truth. If truth cannot be revealed when it
needs to be so that changes can be
made then what do we really have?
So my invitation to you today is, please
take time daily to drown out the noise
and the chaos
put yourself under the protective covering in a
quiet space,
go in,
let the spirit that gave you life speak
to you and guide you in all truth
because that spirit promises to do so if
you will seek, knowledge and truth.
I am with you in it as always
my friend. So much love to you, and
I can't wait to see you on the
next episode.
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