UMM.....Entitled or Confused: The Art of Confidence and Support

In this episode, we’re diving into the tricky balance between support, entitlement, and personal effort. I share my thoughts on what it really means to receive help, my experience with having parents who struggled with addiction, and the hard truth that God isn’t a magician—we have to actually put in the work to get the things we feel we “deserve.” Let’s talk about accountability, faith, and the reality check we all need sometimes. ✨ Subscribe for more raw and unfiltered conversations! 🔗 Follow me on socials: @itstheumm 💬 Drop a comment—let’s talk! #TheUnscriptedMosaic #Entitlement #Faith #PersonalGrowth #Podcast Transcript:  Hey there beautiful messes. Welcome back to the Unscripted Mosaic because adulting is hard and we're just gonna vibe through it together. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you're new here, thank you for joining me. I hope you subscribe, like, and comment and start this journey with me. If you are returning, welcome back. I'm so glad you're here again. Today's episode is going to be very exciting. The title is Entitled or Confused? The Art of Confidence So let's talk about it because today I want to get real about something that I didn't expect to hit me so hard and maybe you felt this way before too. As we all know, starting something can feel scary, especially when it comes to support. We often want those closest to us to support us. and rally for us, but I have found that it's the strangers. Yes, the strangers that are supporting us the most. Now, this is not a jab nor a personal attack at anyone in particular. This is going to be a direct experience that I've had. There's a mass following trend on TikTok where essentially you see someone's video come up and it will say like, wealth 10k or not hashtag mass following trend. So you're just following people and expecting a follow back. It's all this sort of empowerment for small creators, which is amazing. It's good to see small creators supporting each other. But where it lost me is, I know that this is a great opportunity for most, especially whenever you have the opportunity to make money on TikTok, um, and other platforms. That's fine and dandy, but most of the time it's, you see someone's video come up where they're asking for 10k, they're asking for follow back. You follow them off that video, but you don't go look at their other content. You don't know where their content is. You're just. A number, essentially. And so, I decided, you know, I love this trend, but I also want to make sure that people are actually showing up because they want to be here. You know, they actually are interested in my content. They enjoy it, and they're interested in who you are. They're not just here to be a number. On your account, you know, they're here to be a supporter, a part of your community. And so it's important that you make everyone feel special in your community. And so how are you going to do that? If you're just following people back and you're not really getting to know them. And I get it, you know, it's social media. You don't really have to know these people, but I think it is important to make sure that your values and beliefs align, um, person, um, posted a follow train and they did true crime podcast. Um, me virtually, I'm not. I'm not going to follow them because I don't, I'm scared of horror and true crime and all of that. So that wouldn't be my niche. That's not my vibe. I don't fit into their category. So they would need to find someone who does love true crime, who, who that's for, not just following just to get a number and, you know, to increase their following. You have to want people to support you because they want to be there, not because you're forcing that onto them. Which is where some of that entitlement comes into because you feel like oh, I followed this person back now They have to follow me. No, they do not you might you follow them because you're a kind person You're nice when it helps one out. They might not be that kind and nice They might actually be someone, you know more realistic kind of like how I'm you know telling you I'm not gonna I'm not gonna just follow you just because you know We want a number and I wouldn't expect you to do that for me either I want you to follow me because If you like my content, you want to be here, you're interested in what I have to say and the things that I talk about and show. Um, so, I know this show is like super old, but I just started watching it. Um, but this show is Empire. Y'all, don't spoil it for me. Do not put anything in the comments about what's going to happen because I'm only on like season 2. But Lucius. Talk about entitled. Entitlement