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Harmony: Cultivating Inner Peace
with Jackie Gouché
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In this episode Jackie and I, talk about:
[00:07:31] God as a real person.
[00:11:11] Raising Kings and Music Dreams.
[00:32:45] Finding peace in life.
Do you want more out of life? Are you ready to live boldly in pursuit of your dreams?
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About this episode
In this episode, Jackie Gouché, mother of DSmoke, Inglewood SIR, and Davion Farris (all Grammy-nominated artists), shares her personal journey of not truly knowing herself until her 50s. She encourages women of color to regularly spend time alone, searching within themselves to discover their true desires. This process of self-analysis allows women of color to identify their strengths, capabilities, and potential, empowering them to effectively use their voices.
Jackie also emphasizes the significance of gratitude, acceptance, and spiritual connection in moving forward and achieving goals. She discusses how expressing gratitude for what we have and accepting our current circumstances can empower us and prevent us from succumbing to negative emotions such as sadness and depression. She acknowledges that desiring something other than what we have can create suffering and hinder our progress. However, she also emphasizes that being content does not mean we should never strive for more. It is important to have goals and dreams and work towards them, but not at the expense of disliking our current situation.
God as a real person.
Jackie: “Music actually is what saved my life. Coming off of a binge, I would go to the piano and sing and pray and talk to God and so music was like my salvation. I talk about my experiences as a mother of three boys, a single parent, or my husband was incarcerated, all the struggles and being on welfare. I appreciate every struggle, every trial, all the hard times, the addiction, the welfare. I appreciate all of it because it developed a strength and a resilience and a wisdom in me that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. And the stabilizing factor in all of that is my relationship with God. And I don’t mean that in the religious sense of what church tells us or what religion tells us, but a real actual relationship with a person who was there with me and there for me through all that I went through.”
Raising Kings and Music Dreams.
Jackie: “All of my sons have been working towards their dream of music for their entire lives. I started teaching them when they were three, four, and five. Daniel (D Smoke) was playing classical piano at age eight. I just wanted people to know the process that many of us go through to get to where we are. There’s a story behind it. I wanted to share it, especially for young people who, who have dreams and aspire to do things like my sons are doing. This microwave generation think they can jus get on YouTube and get a bunch of followers and just become famous. No, it’s a process.“
Finding peace in life.
Jackie: “Life is not complete if you don’t connect with a spiritual community and if you don’t have spiritual support and if you don’t understand that there’s more to you than this body that you live in. You are living inside this body that the real you on the inside is so much more than this world wants us to realize. And so I can’t stress that enough. Getting in contact with your own spirit, your own heart, spiritual community, support from people who are like-minded and you all want to grow together. That is the most important thing in life. That’s how you find peace.”
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About Jackie Gouché
Jackie Gouché is the mother of DSmoke, Inglewood SIR, and Davion Farris (all Grammy-nominated artists). Despite her fighting drug addiction, battling self-image issues, and being married to the same man 3 times, she raised hip-hop/RnB stars. Jackie herself has been singing in studios and on stages behind some of the most notable names in the music Industry including Elton John, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Chaka Kahn, Quincy Jones, Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, Yolanda Adams, and a host of others..In this memoir, Raising Kings, #ad she shares in detail how she made it happen.
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Email: jgouche@gmail.com
Website: https://www.jackiegouche.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackiegouche
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jgouche/
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