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EP.98 Embracing Who I AM with Jeanita Castille
Have you ever felt like you're on the brink of something transformative, yet the scars of your past seem to hold you back? You're about to meet Jeanita Castille, whose compelling narrative from the projects to the spotlight of entrepreneurship and photography is nothing short of a masterclass in resilience and purpose. This episode peels back the layers of a journey marked by sheltered beginnings, the courage to face social uncertainties, and a quest for self-discovery that led to the birth of Power Magazine. The road to self-empowerment is often paved with trials that test our faith and purpose. Her story serves as a beacon for anyone seeking to harness their trauma as a source of strength and inspiration.
As we celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that Jeanita embodies, we traverse her evolution from a focused brand manager to a photographer with a mission—to capture the essence of women through her lens. Her narrative is not just a lesson in pivoting with purpose but a call to action for all of us to recognize the power of our contributions. Her experiences underscore the beauty in heeding divine assignments and the magnetic force they exert on our life's direction—a potent reminder that your story, your voice, carries a weight that can shape the world.
Hey, welcome back to another episode of Lets Just Talk About it podcast. I'm your host, chuck, and if you're here for the first time, this platform was created to give genuine people just like you an opportunity to share a portion of your life's journey. So, with that being said, today I have Jeanita Castille on with me today. Share a portion of your life's journey. So, with that being said today, I have Jeanita casti on with me today, sharing a part of her journey growing up in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, and also what she's up to now as a photographer and as the founder of power magazine. So, hey, you don't want to miss this amazing conversation today. As a matter of fact, do me a favor go and grab your husband, your wife, children, or even call a friend and gather around to listen to my conversation with Jeanita on Lets Just Talk About it podcast. Hey, let's jump right in.
Chuck :Welcome back to another episode of Lets Just Talk About it podcast. Today, I have special guest brand manager, author, publisher, pusher, coach, photographer, minister and founder of Power Magazine, Jeanita Castille, on with me today. How's it going?
Jeanita Castille:Great. How are you Doing?
Chuck :good. Thank you so much for being a part of this episode. I appreciate it.
Jeanita Castille:Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for having me, absolutely.
Chuck :Jeanita, I love to jump right into my interviews to have those genuine conversations with genuine people just like yourself, and I usually start off with this question when are you from?
Jeanita Castille:I am from Norfolk Virginia.
Chuck :Wow, what part of Norfolk.
Jeanita Castille:So I grew up right in the Camp Estella area, Diggs Park, right in the projects.
Chuck :Got you Shout out to Norfolk and Diggs Park. I'm familiar with it.
Jeanita Castille:Absolutely yeah, yep, wow, that's where I grew up.
Chuck :Got you, how was that for you growing up? You know everybody has their own experience growing up. How was it for you?
Jeanita Castille:Back in the day it was the norm. My mother was raised in the same projects. Her mother was raised in the same project. Most of my family had grew up there and so my mother was a single parent and she raised my sister and I separately, because my sister and I are 11 years apart. So it was the norm.
Jeanita Castille:I was kind of sheltered. So when I tell people from there, if you don't know me, you know I'm not saying you wouldn't know, as if I'm trying to like hide that I'm from. You know that I grew up in a project. That's not a shame, that's my background. But I was sheltered. So if you didn't know my mother, you didn't know my family, you didn't see me, unless you saw me in school, because my mother was very strict. She didn't let me hang out, she didn't let me go anywhere. I could hardly go on the porch. So if you didn't know, if you didn't know what was going on in my household, it was really close to the family. It was like you know where were you? You know you weren't hanging with this person, that person, this group, that group. So yeah, wow.
Chuck :So we get older and oftentimes we can't wait to leave the house. You know we're old right so how was that for you when you finally, you know got out of the house?
Jeanita Castille:yeah. So one would think that that's what I saw as well. You know, when girls left the house who were sheltered, they just went. Look, wow, I can't say that necessarily happened for me. When I left the house, I felt like a fish out of water. I felt like a peon in a world that was so big. I felt like the world was crushing me because I didn't know how to socialize, while I was a very good student, I did well in school, and so, upon leaving the house, I went to college Well, norfolk State, right down the street, but I moved on campus, and so campus, everybody knows it's a world in itself. Street, but I moved on campus, and so campus, everybody knows it's a world in itself. So it doesn't matter if you live in the same town or the same city as the school. When you go on campus, you meet people from all over the world, and so it's a world inside of a city. And so it crushed me because I didn't know how to make friends. I was reserved, I just was, like you know, very uncomfortable.
Chuck :Wow, so you had to learn how to communicate with people outside. I'm still learning, you're still learning.
Jeanita Castille:Yeah, I'm still learning Gotcha. Yeah, yep, yep, I had to learn how to come out of the box.
Chuck :Wow, is this hard for you? Like to do the interview now?
Jeanita Castille:Oh no, not at all. I do huge events, I do a lot of things and my motto is go big or go home. So if I do something, you know, I want everybody and their mama to come out, and so if I'm in control of the situation, I can put on for days. I can stand and talk in front of people and actually, you know, in school they would always pick me to public speak. You know, in school they would always pick me to public speak.
Jeanita Castille:I won first place at, like, a contest at Botanical Gardens, first place in the whole city of Norfolk for best public speaker when I was a kid. So if I'm in control, I can talk to thousands of people at once. What do you mean If I'm in control of the room? If it's something that I've gathered, if it's something where I set the tone for it, um, you know, if, if I can speak in and gain control of the room, you know, but going to places, like going into crowds, where I have to conform to what's going on, that's where I have. Yeah, yeah, that's where the problem comes, because you know that is still, you know, a bit of an issue for me, but I'm working through that, even at. You know my age now I'm still working through being social and and learning people and people learning me, you know, I think that's ongoing.
Jeanita Castille:Yeah, and it's just the grace of God. You know it's like. You know, when God calls you to do something, you know those things don't hold you back. You know he doesn't allow your past to dictate. You know your mission, absolutely the mission and assignment that he has for you, and so it's only in his strength that I get to do those things, because he gave me those ideas, gave, and so it's only in his strength that I get to do those things because he gave me those ideas, gave me ideas for the women's events that I do. He gave me the idea to stand in front of people and you know to talk or to come up with things. I'm a creative, so I come up with a lot of stuff and so, um, I go in his strength to do that and then, after I go back in my little, my little pocket, yeah, I heard somebody say he puts his super on your natural.
Jeanita Castille:So absolutely right absolutely.
Chuck :There's so many young girls that I know you inspire them, you know, because they feel insecure, like they can't do or be outspoken or do things that are creative. What would you say to a young lady right now if you was to meet her and she reminds you of you growing up, what would you say?
Jeanita Castille:Well, I would just take her back to. You know, when I found my voice. You know I didn't find my voice until I came into discovering my purpose. You know, when you discover who you are, you know you become unstoppable. You know because now you have meaning, now you have substance. Unstoppable, you know because you, now you have meaning, now you have substance, now you have value and no one and nothing can take that away from you.
Jeanita Castille:You know I went through a lot of bad relationships or you know a lot of failed friendships and things like that. You know the people used to take advantage of me. I used to feel like like I don't have any direction in life. But it wasn't until, you know, I really started seeking God, because that's where your substance comes from, that's where your value comes from, that's where your meaning comes from. It's like you can't live a life of meaning if you don't go to the person or to the thing that made you. You know what I'm saying. And so when I started putting God first in my life, when I started seeking him, you know with Tim who revealed to me OK, this is the plan for your life. You know, and so that's my advice to everybody Seek God. You know. If you're looking for meaning, if you're looking for, you know. What am I made for, what's my purpose. You know anything. You go to God and he'll tell you.
Jeanita Castille:You powerful, and so, when I found out, when I discovered who I was in him, I was able to conquer.
Chuck :Wow when you say discover, that means knowing your value. Knowing your worth.
Jeanita Castille:You know what I mean Knowing my worth, but not worth as you know I've. You know, anyone gave it to me or I gave it to myself. My worth is because of Jesus. You know what I'm saying, and so, um, and you know, giving it all back to him. I don't care what I do or what we do in this earth, it all comes from him, you know. So I always put it back on God, you know, and so on, cause I never want to be boastful, I never want to, always want to be humble, you know. And so when I discover who I am in him, you know, that's when I, when I feel confident. I'm most confident when I'm doing what God has told me to do.
Chuck :Your inspiration. I can hear it. I can hear it and I always say you never know who's listening, who you're going to speak to. You know, listen to your story of how you overcome and how you find your value in God. That's powerful, right? Yeah, I love that. So what things excite you the most?
Jeanita Castille:What excites me? A lot of people would say I'm a very serious person. I mean, I do love to joke and play around, but as far as like, when it comes to life, I take it very seriously. And the thing that came with discovering who I was, I just went full throttle. Like you know, this is what I'm doing. This is what God told me to do. Nothing's going to stop me. Get out of my way, Move, you know.
Chuck :Yeah.
Jeanita Castille:Because I was so passionate about, you know, just doing what God says. I'm very passionate about timing. I'm very passionate about, you know, when God says, do you know, do it. I'm very passionate about execution and that's one of the no procrastination. I'm not saying that I don't get stuck in seasons where I'm wondering or I'm doubting, but I can say that I'm known for execution because I believe when God places something on your heart for you to do, you know that he has a timing for that to happen.
Jeanita Castille:And a lot of people their you know mission, their purpose is also connected to what you're doing. So if you don't do what you're doing, then you may be holding somebody else up Right, and so I'm very serious about doing those things. And so that's really what I think about every day. All day it's like okay, god, am I doing what you told me to do? Am I doing it right? You know, fix my character so I can be a better person. You know what I'm saying. Fix all these traumas and wounds from the past so that I can be the best person I can be for the people you called me to. And so, you know, daily I'm thinking you know, how can I be a better Christian? How can I be a better woman? Because he called me to women, but I had a very strained relationship with my mother and so I'm like okay, so you chose me to speak into women's lives? Talk about it. I need everything that you want me to give them.
Chuck :I need also that's the way it usually goes, though.
Jeanita Castille:That's the way it usually goes, and I'm like Lord, I keep feeling it at this stage, but he keeps giving it back to me Double, double, double. Like you know, I feel one person and then he sends me, you know, 20, 30, 100 more, and so you know it's like this is what he's called me to and I don't want to miss the mark. That's what excites me, you know, just being on mark with God.
Chuck :Could you say that what you needed, you're giving to other women?
Jeanita Castille:Could you say that Absolutely what I needed. I'm learning to give because, as he fine tunes me, you know, now I'm able to help fine-tune in those areas where he's working on me, so powerful. You know what I'm saying. A lot of people would say you can't start things or go into things until you're fully healed.
Jeanita Castille:But from experience I know that God put me out there and I would have never really discovered some areas that I still needed healing in or where I was hurt or where I was guarded and where I had an issue with women that I didn't even know, because my mother, you know she was very abusive, emotionally, physically, verbally, and so you know that woman that was supposed to love me, nurture me, care for me, you know, and God rest her soul. I don't have anything against my mother, I love her. I love her still to this day, but she had her own issues, she had her own traumas that she, you know absolutely that she put on me, and so it took me a while to really even dig deep and say man, I deal with this. You know, I still have this hurt, I still have this pain, I still have this scar, I still have this wound that I covered and thought that time healed all wounds, but it absolutely did not. And so, um, it would show in the way I would come across to people, it would show in the way I dealt with people.
Jeanita Castille:You know it showed and I'm like God, why'd you call me to this? And I just keep, you know, I just keep feeling that it. I mean he called me to it because I had to see. You know, Janita, this is what you deal with, this is what I want you to work on. You know what I'm saying and God, in all of his grace and all of his mercy you know what I'm saying Allowed me to see myself and still caught me.
Chuck :Wow, that is so powerful. This is considered mental health month. So when you talk about trauma and, like I said, you never know who's listening, who's dealing with the same thing, how do you walk through that? How do you grow through what you've been through? You know what I mean, right? Yeah, how do you? How do you go by day to day dealing with that past trauma?
Jeanita Castille:um for one, you know, like I said, allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you. You know asking, okay, show me, you know, holy Spirit, show me, um, the areas that I need work in, show me my heart. You know, know and reading. You know reading the word Um, I did, you know, seek out some therapy, um, for a while. And a lot of people say, oh, you know Jesus and therapy, as if you know what I'm saying, I, I, I definitely agree that we need, you know we need therapy, but you know, I don't think god was ever against or the church was ever against you know, therapy.
Jeanita Castille:I think now people are just discovering that you can really go talk to someone, and god is okay with you talking to someone you know, but I absolutely will not go to someone that's not, um, that doesn't know god. You can't help me steer my life if you, you know, if you don't know the one that you pray, if you're not connected to the source. And so I believe in therapy, I believe in you know talking to someone. I believe in you know the Holy Spirit revealing to you, hey, you deal with this. Hey, this is why, and get into the root of it.
Jeanita Castille:You always have to get to the root. If you see some fruit in your life, that isn't good, you got to get to the root. You can't just pluck the fruit off the tree. You got to cut it at the root. And so I read a lot of books. You know, just all of those things combined. And then having people around you that point out things to you, you know, having people that say, hey, you know, you could have dealt with that a little better. You know what I'm saying. Or you did great. You know we need people to tell us that we did a good job also, absolutely.
Chuck :Yeah, absolutely. And here's another one. Not beating yourself up because we can't be perfect Absolutely not.
Jeanita Castille:Right Right, right right. We are our own worst enemy Right, because God's grace is available to us. You know his mercies, I knew every morning, and so why am I beating myself up when?
Chuck :God, you know, doesn't look at me that way. Yeah, yeah, love this conversation, so kind of switching gears. I looked at your page. I love what you put on. When you was identifying the things that you do, you know you put her at the end of everything.
Jeanita Castille:I love that.
Chuck :I saw that you said brand manage her.
Jeanita Castille:Author her.
Chuck :Publish her Pusher. I saw all of that Photographer. I love that.
Jeanita Castille:Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's powerful.
Chuck :What made you do that? That's dope. I like it.
Jeanita Castille:Because everything I do is for women, everything I should get that. You know, since the beginning I'm like okay, so, and then it just played out like every word was had the. You know er, where I could put the h in and say her. You know, photographer, because I take photos of women, we're going there. You know, I hope women publish their stories, you know. So I, um, yeah, it just worked out that way it was. You know I'm a creative, so that's very creative. You know a lot of people have done that, though, you know. So it's not like you know I came up with it, but first time seeing it so yeah, so it's a bunch out there.
Chuck :Yeah, I love it. You're a photographer. I'm learning how to do that, too, in videography, so let's talk about how did you get started with that?
Jeanita Castille:So I started off and well, long story short, in 2018, god had impressed upon me to leave the workplace, and so I was a deputy sheriff here. I moved to Northern Virginia. I was working with children in detention and I was in a transition period because I've been saved since I was 16, but I hadn't always had a very personal relationship with God. He always. He has always kept his hand on me and always preserved me in certain areas of my life, but I had a large portion where I was just out there being crazy, and so I mean, I wasn't I don't want to say that I wasn't too far out there, but you know I was just I was not walking with God, and so, right, right, absolutely. And so when I moved to Northern Virginia which I think this was really God getting me away from, you know some things I was dealing with here, and you know I didn't know anyone there I had started a new job and I had, you know, cut some ties with some things here and I just really started to dive deep into God, and so I only worked 14 days out of the month there at that job, and so the other two weeks I would take these long road trips to just nowhere. I would just go drive New York, drive to the mountains, drive to the mountains, drive to Atlanta, drive everywhere, and so on these road trips. God would meet me in the car on these road trips and I would. I fell in love with worship, music, and I would just drive in the car and just worship and, you know, god would speak to me and it was just like that's how I started to develop my relationship back with God. And so, on one of those road trips well, it wasn't a one time thing, it was just a deep, heavy, nagging, impressing, you know, impression that God wanted me to leave my job. And I'm like, ok, well, what am I? What am I gonna do, you know? And so it got to the point where it was so strong, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do it when and he actually gave me a date, and so it was June. It was June of that year, um 2018, and he said leave in October, october 12th. He gave me the date and so I went to work and in June, I put a notice in to leave in October and, um, they were like, okay, so what? You mad today, you know what's going on. Talk about you leaving in October, right, you and your feelings today. So are you leaving in October? Just leave it like, hit us back in October? And I'm like, no, I gotta do this now. You know, I have to put it in now and make it official, right? And so I'm like God, you got all these months to tell me that this just me and not you. And so October came, right. October came and I left.
Jeanita Castille:I moved back here to Virginia and I'm not gonna say I didn't have an entrepreneur mind, but I just wanted to live in purpose. Whether that was entrepreneurship, whether that was entrepreneurship, whether that was the workplace, whether that was selling all my stuff and go sit on a mountain, I don't know. Whatever it looked like, that's what I wanted to do. And so when I left, I said, ok, you know what now? And so he started putting women in my life who had these ideas for me. You know someone I had become friends with upon moving back home. They were like you know what you're good at? You're good at marketing, because you get all these people to these events. You know, all the women come out, you get hundreds of people there at a time and you can start marketing for other people. You can start marketing for women. So that's how the brand manager came about, because I started helping people market and taking over their social media pages and all of that other stuff, right, and it was just from an idea that someone had given me. So now I'm making money from an idea that God gave someone else to give to me, something that I didn't even know I knew how to do for other people. Yeah, right. And so, um, I was doing that, I had a contract somewhere where I was helping people, you know, do their social media, brand management and things like that. And then the contract ended and, um, this was in 2020.
Jeanita Castille:And I was like, okay, god, what's next? I went to sleep and he spoke to me and he said use what's in your hands. And I said, well, what does that mean? Use what's in my hands. And so I had recently bought a camera off of this guy in Maryland for like 300 bucks, only because the women that I was doing their social media for, I would have to send them out to photographers to get their content and to get their photos. But they weren't necessarily posed the way I wanted them to pose, or they just didn't look the way I wanted them to look. And so I said, well, I'm sorry, I'm going to start learning myself to do it. And so I had a friend at the time who was kind of trying to teach me to do it or whatever. But he had all this high tech equipment that I I couldn't learn. I had this little small $300 Canon camera, and so I had the camera. I hadn't used it in a while, and when he said, use what's in your hands, and I'm like what? And then all of a sudden the camera was kind of like highlighted to me. I'm like, yeah, I don't even know what I'm doing for real. And so a contract had just ended.
Jeanita Castille:I was in need of some money and also asking God what was the next thing? And so he said and when I say, he said I know you know how God speaks to you, but for people who don't know the voice of God you know what I'm saying it could be an audible voice. He could speak to you in a dream. He can speak to you by you know, prophecy. It's just so many ways God can speak to you in a dream. He can speak to you by you know, um prophecy. It's just so many ways god can speak to you, and so I've had all of those experiences. And so, just listening to you know the holy spirit, you know, you hear that voicing spirit. And, um, I got this idea to do empowerment photos for women because everything I do connects, it all connects, it's all to help women expose their gifts, expose themselves by photography.
Jeanita Castille:You expose your gifts, your talents. You get what you need for your god-given business with the photography, you know. And so I said, okay, empowerment photos. So I put out a post on social media and because I know what to say, I know how to market, I'm like come on and get your empowerment photos. You know, come feel, come, feel beautiful, come in. You know, get business photos. I said it's time to step out, it's time to step out of your box and, you know, really stand up and be the woman God called you to be. And so I put a $50 price tag on it.
Jeanita Castille:I didn't have a link or website at the time, I think I just put my cash app up there, or something like that. I took a nap. I woke up I had 100 bookings. Wow, I had 100 bookings. And I'm like, what am I going to do? First of all, I don't know what I'm doing, ok. Secondly, wow. And so at the time, of course, I didn't have a link, so I'm writing down names like OK, calling people, ok, so you come at this time, you come at this time.
Jeanita Castille:And so I set up downtown Norfolk in one spot right in front of the Icon apartment building, and I set up there. I was there the entire summer and I was booked almost every single day from a $50 empowerment photo shoot and so people would come out there. I had people lined up. It would be 10, 15 people out there at a time and they would all be talking to each other and getting to know one another. I mean I was out there praying for people, people were praying for me. I mean it was just a whole experience for the most part out there and I never stopped, and so I'm still doing photography for me. I mean it was just a whole experience for the most part out there and I never stopped, and so I'm still doing photography for women.
Jeanita Castille:You know what I'm saying. But that's how it started, just really got just giving me that idea, and I didn't know much about photography. You know, people tell me all the time how beautiful my pictures are. I mean, you know, beautiful is subjective. You know what I'm saying. However, you know, I'm like if you only knew. I still really don't know what I'm doing. I'm like if you only knew. They're like you've been doing this for a long time. I was like, no, I have not. And so um, but yeah, and so that really transitioned into the magazine, you know.
Chuck :And so power 100 god spoke to me at the power 100.
Jeanita Castille:So god spoke to me about doing the magazine and, um, you know, I used the photography for the. For that now, because I, you know, love being the photographer, the editor, you know, just putting everything together and having the know-how and creativity to do it myself.
Chuck :Yeah, I love it. Wow, you never know where you'll end up if you just take that first step right, right, right, absolutely wow. What do you see yourself in the next five years with all of?
Jeanita Castille:Five years, or maybe two, Two years, so in two years. Well, my goal for Power 100 magazine is to travel around the world, you know, just interviewing women on their stories, and I believe that's a way of getting people really to heal. You know, we're in a time now where you hear a lot of stories, a lot of people doing interviews, a lot of people doing podcasts. It's just like you know a thing that people say, oh saturated, everybody doing the podcast. But I believe God is really wanting people to overcome. You know what I'm saying by our testimony, right, and so it's like absolutely. And so as you talk about the things that you've gone through and the things that God has healed you from, then you heal the next person, you know. So I think a lot of those are popping up now and it's on our hearts to do that, because it's time for people to come out of hiding and really share what God has done. You know what I'm saying. It brings glory to God for one, For two. It continues to free you. When you continue to talk about what you've been healed from and what you've been delivered from, you're in a constant state of deliverance from it because you're not hiding it and you're able to free other people and you create is just to simply, you know, travel and to really gather stories. You know, and really bless women with the things that I offer with the magazine.
Jeanita Castille:I want it to be, you know, a household name. You know. I want really God to shed a light on it for people to see. Hey, you know, literature isn't dead, Magazines aren't dead. You know, a lot of people have cut their magazines off because, like, oh, no one's reading anymore. I don't believe that to be true. You know, I don't believe people aren't buying magazines. They'll buy the right magazine. Yeah, you know, something that's going to add value to them, you know, and so that's it. I just want to add value to the world.
Chuck :Amazing.
Jeanita Castille:That's it.
Chuck :So where can people find you? You know social media.
Jeanita Castille:So people can find me real easy on Facebook, janita R Castile, and on my Power 100 magazine page, and also on Instagram at PowerBag100.
Chuck :Wow, amazing. So I'm really glad that I had a chance to have this conversation with you before you travel all over the world Africa, asia. I can say I had an interview with her Catch me now.
Jeanita Castille:catch me now, you know.
Chuck :Yeah, as we wrap it up, two quick questions. Janita, what would you say to the younger you if you could go back right now and say anything to the younger Janita?
Jeanita Castille:Jeez, would you want me to cry? Would you want me? What is this? A therapy session? Oh, would you have just sprung that on me. You could have gave me that beforehand and told me you were going to ask me that. Just sprung that on me. You could have gave me that beforehand and told me you're gonna ask me that. Man, I listen, that's a loaded.
Chuck :That's a loaded question wow, because she's powerful now. So would you change anything?
Jeanita Castille:oh yeah, I absolutely, um, would change things, to be honest with you. Ah, man, that's sensitive. I can't even say right now, I can't even say Gotcha, I can't even say.
Chuck :Gotcha, wow, all right. Last question If you could describe the Janita today, right now, what would you say about her?
Jeanita Castille:Hmm, so the Janita today she is powerful, but not powerful because of my own doing, because of my own strength. She's powerful because she's found the one who gives her power and that's Jesus Christ. You know, she is confident, she is courageous because she's had to walk through some things and she is growing, yep.
Chuck :And evolving. I love it and evolving, I love it. Thank you so much for being a part of this episode. Man, I'm excited to have you on. So thanks again, thanks again.
Jeanita Castille:anything you want to say before we get off, you want to say to the listening audience I, I just appreciate you for you know, calling me and asking me to to be a part and, um, you know, my message to everyone all the time is to seek God for your assignment.
Jeanita Castille:I believe we all are put here on earth for a particular reason and I think we spend life searching for that reason. We explore a lot of things searching for that reason. But when you seek, you know, when you seek God, he'll give you that reason and he'll send you out on an assignment, and that assignment is vital to your life and is vital to the lives around you. And your calling your assignment, your purpose, is connected to many other people who are waiting on you to step up to the call, to step up to answer and say, yes, I'll go. You know, and so I put a charge out there for people to really open their eyes and see that, no matter what you've gone through, no matter what you've experienced, no matter how fast life is going, that God has something for you to do. And I just want everyone to know that you have purpose and you have meaning and you have value and the world needs what you have inside of you wow, yeah, amazing wisdom, amazing wisdom.
Chuck :Thank you so much, janita castell, for being on. Let's just talk about it podcast. I really appreciate you thank you.
Chuck :Thanks again. Wow, what an amazing conversation. Shout out to Janita for having this dialogue with me. You know Janita shared so many amazing things in our conversation today, but the one thing that I love, that's woven throughout this whole conversation, was her ability to not allow the obstacles she experienced in her past to regulate nor determine her future success as a photographer and founder of Power Magazine. So shout out to you, janita, for being an inspiration to us. Again, thank you so much for always tuning in to let's Just Talk About it podcast, and please check out my website. Just Google let's Just Talk About it podcast dot com and then hit that subscribe button to receive all the new episodes every Friday. You can also find me on Facebook. Just type in Chuck L-J-T-A-I, which means let's just talk about it. So, as always, until next time, don't hold it in, but let's just talk about it. Talk to you soon, you.