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you know? So having that constant support system growing up I do believe is
a huge part of both of our personalities
now. We have each other’s back. We’ll do
anything for each other. Nothing and no
one can come between us and that’s just
what it is.
MADE: From a woman’s perspective,
what advice can you give for a lifebalance perspective?
Meagan: Purpose first.
LaMyia: Family first.
Meagan: I would say you have to have
that balance. I feel like when we look at
our careers, we don’t look at it as just
“careers” for fun or for enjoyment, although we do still have fun and enjoy it.
But they also come with a lot of things
that happen behind the scenes that people
don’t see. If you look at whatever you’re
pursuing in life, it has to be part of your
purpose. It has to be part of who were
called to be and who you were created
to be. So I think that’s the number one
thing. And also, family is a number one
thing because when all of this other stuff
isn’t here, and it’s up and down, you gotta
remember what you’re doing it for and
who you’re sharing it with.
LaMyia: Having that foundation I think for me especially - keeping family first is
the top priority, and it kind of just levels
out everything else. Everything else just
falls behind that and I know that’s the
same way for Meagan. It’s keeping that
priority, deciding what that priority is, taking a look at your life and where you’re
at. It’s really prioritizing. Taking a look:
“Where in my life am I now and what is it
that I want?” And when you have that, you
stay focused on that goal and obviously as
you evolve and change, you can reassess
and reevaluate that.
Meagan: Don’t rush to have both. Let it
happen at its own time. When you rush,
you make compromising decisions that
can really be a part of the outcome of
how your entire life goes. So definitely let
things come as they may, stay consistent
and stay focused. Stay believing and purposeful and let God do what God does.
Also, ask God. Always ask God. Anything
and everything along the way, before you
make major decisions rather it be in your
marriage, in your relationship, in your
career, ask God first. Because when you
know when His blessing is on something,
you know it will succeed exactly the way
it’s supposed to. Even if things go awry
for you, it’s exactly what it’s supposed to
be because God has his hand on it. When
he says “No”, you know that he said “No”.
You can feel that in your spirit. You’re not
confused. The confusion is really what we
want to do and what we’re supposed to
do are conflicting. But if you talk to your
spirit, if you talk to God and you trust
your spirit then you know which one it’s
supposed to be.
MADE: Do you feel like you’ve made it?
If not, what does that look like in your
future?
LaMyia: That’s a tough question because
I feel like our lives are a series of different
journeys and you have a marker at each
place. We’ve both accomplished many
things that we’ve wanted to do in our
lives. The beautiful thing about having
God in your life and being guided in that
aspect, is that you go from victory to victory. So, have we made it? Yeah. Because
there’s so many things that we wanted to
accomplish. Are we still making it? Yes.
Meagan: I think it is a lifelong thing. I
think yeah, we made it in a sense.
Success is how you measure it. We’re happy and we have peace of mind, and we
have joy in our hearts. So in that sense,
yeah, absolutely we made it. But we’re
continuing to make it because we got so
much more of we what we want to do
and what we’re going to do.
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