GP After Dark with Moving n' Grooving with Nikki
GP After Dark with Moving n' Grooving with Nikki
Manifest Week
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Your week can change when your words change. We’re back and we’re setting the tone with “Manifest Week,” a real-life conversation about manifestation, mindset, and what it takes to rebuild momentum after a long pause. From the jump, we talk about why we teamed up, what’s coming next, and how we’re keeping the energy honest, uplifting, and useful.
We get practical about personal development: positive affirmations that actually stick, the hidden power of what you say on repeat, and how meditation can support better sleep and a stronger morning routine. We share what it looks like to start small, set goals, and keep going even when you don’t feel “ready.” If you’re working on self-care, mental wellness, or trying to stay consistent while building a brand or business, you’ll hear simple habits you can borrow today.
We also go deeper into purpose, leadership, and grief, including the pressure of being selfless and the decision to stop sitting on the bench. The message stays clear: keep moving, take baby steps, and remember success isn’t only money or fame, it’s becoming who you’re called to be. If you’ve been feeling stuck, tired, or unsure of your next step, this one is for you.
Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review with one thing you’re manifesting and one step you’ll take this week.
We’re Back And Collaborating
SPEAKER_00Hey everybody, thank you for joining us for another episode at GTF the dark. I am your host, Movin' and Groovin' with Nikki, and I'm and I currently have with me today Tasha Mack and Artist Beauty.
SPEAKER_01Hey, I'm Artis. I'm a hairstylist. Follow me on Instagram, artist.beauty underscore. Artist Beauty is the brand.
SPEAKER_02Hey everybody, my name is Tasha, and I am located out in the Midwest in a personal care industry. And hey, with Nikki, ready on the group.
SPEAKER_00That's what's up, ladies. That's what's up. Hey y'all. So listen, we back, we back, we back, we back. I know it's been a while. We have took a long COVID break. You know, they use COVID for everything, so we're using COVID as well, too, you know. But guess what? We took that COVID break. We had to regain, regroup, come with some new fresh material, and we was out here working, you know, keeping it together, doing what we do. But some exciting news is, you know, GP after dark is collaborating with moving and grooving with Nikki. Why? Because you know, GP after dark started at GP when it was dark, and now we starting GP after dark with moving and grooving with Nikki because it may be daytime, nighttime, whatever time. But you got your girl here, so get prepared and get ready for what's new and what's coming. All I can tell you right now, what we got coming up, we're gonna be having some hot, new, fresh guests. I will be taking you on a journey of life, business, fun, love, and whatever the talk will be. And it may be some tea, it may be some juice, it may just be, you know, fun and it may be serious. But just be prepared because we got it all, we got it all coming, and I'm just happy to be back in action because I know people have been like, When are you gonna get back? When are you gonna get back? So that's been bothering me because I'm a
Manifest Week And Listener Updates
SPEAKER_00consistent person and I like to stay consistent. And hey, you know, things happen, but at the end of the day, I'm glad I got you guys back, and I'm glad we back at it like nothing other. Other. So let's talk about the week. So I started my week off over the weekend, like, oh my god, I think I was talking to Tasha. I said, Tasha, this is manifest week. I don't know what I was feeling, I don't know what was coming through. It was just, you know, one of those feelings that I'm always manifesting. That I said, this is gonna be manifest. Everything that we do this week, and everything that's post, everything around it, um, is just manifesting. We manifesting this week, and all I can say is the energy has been great, you know. I've been doing what I naturally do day by day, but just knowing that I'm going doing it with the manifesting, and it's just been awesome, and all I can say is I've been manifesting and I've been receiving all week long. So, man, I hope you guys feeling this, and I hope that you have been manifesting too. Because when you manifest, great things will happen. What we can create and what we can imagine and envision is just it's awesome. But I know you guys are gonna be looking for some updates, some tea, and some gems. So don't worry, we have a lot of that in store for you. But in the meantime, I need you to follow GP After Dark on IG, follow Nikki MNG, and follow artist.beauty underscore. Also, you guys, I need you to subscribe. I got a YouTube channel, it's going down. You're about to see a lot of fun and a whole lot of stuff, but hey, hey, you know, we're doing what we do, so I need you to subscribe to Nikki Mng whenever you get time. So definitely
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SPEAKER_00do that. Also, you guys, if you have comments, questions, or topic suggestions, hit us up at gpafterdark at gmail.com. We will respond when we can, you know, in an appropriate time, or just so we can see what do you want to hear, what do you want to listen to, as well as what we bring into the table, too. But other than that, you know, um,
Artist On Goals And Manifesting
SPEAKER_00artists, how was your week?
SPEAKER_01My week has been great. Um, it's been very busy, going by really fast. Um, I've been here with you, moving and grooving. Got me in mode. I love it. Um, yeah, that's about it. Doing my thing, um coming, working, doing hair, and continue to build my brand and clientele, and I love it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you moving and grooving. Yeah. What you been manifesting this week? Have you been manifesting?
SPEAKER_01I ain't gonna lie, I have not been manifesting. What? I don't know. I I think about stuff, but I don't like be like, well, I I don't know how to put it. I don't just sit and say this is what I'm gonna manifest. I don't. I ain't gonna lie. I have not done that recently and I have not done that this week. But I will take that into consideration and that's my goal next week. I'm gonna manifest something.
SPEAKER_00But just because you don't say, today I wanna manifest a million dollars, that don't mean you're not manifesting. What have you been meditating? Have you been like Yeah, so have you been just just you know, um uh setting goals and saying positive affirmation. So that's manifesting your your day. Today I'm gonna have a great day. Today I want my health to be good. Today it's gonna be love in the air. Today I'm about to look great. Today I'm about to get this unit going. So that's what I'm saying. You don't have to say you waking up, the kids looking at you, you like, we I manifest you to sit down. You don't have to get general out there. You're right, you're right. You don't have to get general. Absolutely, absolutely. You know, we gotta manifest.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I actually meditate at night before I go
Night Meditation And New Routine
SPEAKER_01to sleep. So um, yesterday, day before yesterday night, I tried to go to sleep just, you know, in peace and quiet because I'm starting this new routine where I'm getting up at five, my body is naturally getting up at five. Um at first it was the first day I just try to get up at five. I got up at five forty-six. Then the next day it was like five forty-two or something like that. And then it was like five sixteen and you know, stuff like that. But I actually um back to the meditation, so I listened to these um this sleep meditation before I go to bed to help me fall asleep fast because I'm not used to go to bed at 8 39 o'clock and stuff like that. So I tried to go to sleep without it, and I just was laying in bed at night like I cannot go to sleep. So then I said, I'm gonna turn my meditation on. I turn my meditation on and I promise I was out of there real quick. So yeah. And I like the meditation because it gives me, I think, uh, you know, and I do meditate then in my head because I be saying what I'm gonna do, what I want, and it's been helping me too. So I like it a lot.
SPEAKER_00Great, great, great. Thank you so much for sharing. That was an awesome artist. What about you, Natasha Matt? What's been going on?
SPEAKER_02Of course, definitely to say the least, um I love the draw that I can get from uh Jack, so of course I'm always moving and growing.
unknownUm as you love as lovely as I could put it.
SPEAKER_02Um to me, uh definitely what is really, really important now. What do you see in the benefits of actually manifesting certain things in your life? And for me, just like getting up and and and walking up. It's been one of my things that I was like, I'm gonna start having a
Tasha On Walking And Readiness
SPEAKER_02lot because the weather here in the winter's been a little iffy this week. Um it kind of you know slowed me down, but I definitely have been thinking it's a horrible thing, you know, my little third 45-minute walk um in my area and definitely have this opening just for everything, you know, it's hard to really sit and think about life and take up, you know, disconnect and just focus in on what you're doing and it really frees your mind. So I'm really loving what it's doing, um, not only for health wise, but it's really just um helping me to see things differently and uh open my mind to different aspects that I didn't really want to touch down into because I'd be so you know easy about trying new things sometimes. I'm like, you know, what what what's the what's the harm and how we try it? So that's been my my my thing and uh put you know, I'm I'm loving where it's open. So I'm just ready for more right now. I'm just ready to take home. I I I've been saying like coach put me in the game, that's been my thing in the past. Like on like put me in. I don't wanna be no bench rider no more.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02Put me in, pass me the ball when you put me in too. So that's how ready I am for whatever, you know, it's to come.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. And we're gonna pass you the ball because we are team players, so you better say it. You better say it. Thank you so much for sharing, Tasha, and I'm loving that energy. I see y'all. I've been seeing you walking and moving and grooving. I said this week I hit y'all with a little something different. I got the running, so I said, let me challenge the let me challenge the team. Let me challenge the team with the running. And I challenge myself because not only was I running, I was actually, you know, um, me and my husband, we went out for uh we did a run, and then each pole we
Self-Care Fitness And Prom Weekend
SPEAKER_00did some other type of um exercise, but we was working more on like our legs and core. So I was doing a jump rope, I was doing planks, I was doing um jumping jacks, and boy, that next day I felt the planks, the jumping jacks, and the running. I was like, Whoa, okay, this is a different type of feeling. You know, my husband says, You cheat yourself going to the gym, you know, and it's a hardcore. We hit the pavement, and I'm like, No, I don't think I cheat myself, but it's it's just the motivation. Sometimes when you're self-doing it, you your routine is kind of like off, you know. When I'm at home exercising, I'm like, okay, what to do next? You know, so you got to set a routine. When you're at the gym, you can be like, I can get on this treadmill, I could do these abs, lift these waists, it's all right there, and the machines can control it right now. You building all of your your little items of what to do. So I said, you know what, I like it. It was hot, and it was hot, hot. We in A Z. It was it was about almost eight that morning. So, but um, it was great, and we felt good all day long. Like, man, we we did a great workout, and I was like, We sure did, and um that was part of the my manifesting, you know, your your mind, body, and and spirit, just to know that um as we get older, we need to take care of ourselves, we need to do eat right, exercise, and it don't even take much, you know. I tell people all day long, just 30 minutes, 15 minutes, just knowing that you are dedicating some time towards self-care, you know, because that's you know, being in an entrepreneur world, that's a lot of things. Um a lot of times we miss out on is self-care because we always move and groove and you know, and taking care of the family is so many movable parts in your own world that you don't even know what's happening. If I explain to you guys all what I have just completed and it's only Wednesday, you'll be like, What? You know, over the weekend I had I'm on I don't even want to call him baby boy no more because he is graduating, my firstborn went to prime, and oh my god, he was a hot ass. Oh, excuse my language, but he was a hot mess. I'm like, dang, I didn't know my son was just like this, you know. He looked so handsome, I was just like, dang, my son is fine, but I can't even tell him because he already just sewing to himself. He already knows, and it just be like, oh, Jesus. And he always like, but mom, mom, Tasha, you know, you can do them better than anybody can, but I always down his throat. I be down his throat. I give him a lecture so much. I know his friends, like, dang, your mama, you your mama always giving you. I I don't call it fussing or complaining to him. I call him, I call it motivational speaking. They like, why are you talking loud? I said, No, I'm motivational speaking with you, you know, to you, with you, whatever. Because you need to understand everything. I always turn it into a whole sermon, you know. Listen, pay attention and understand, you know, just get it. So him and my niece, um, they went to prom together. Um, I don't want to put his business out here about why, you know, he didn't go, you know, he went with his cousin and didn't go on a day, but I don't know. Maybe because he had to figure out who to choose. I'm just throwing it out there. So listen, ladies, if y'all are dealing with him, y'all better tell him to choose up. But he like he thought it was gonna throw his A game off. So him and my niece, you know, um decided to go to prom together, um, choose the same color. So um, me being an A Z, him being in Texas, trying to like I seen Kayla dress and trying to figure out like the different colors, the pinks and matching it up, it just came out perfect. You know, it came out perfect. So I had to go there because I'm my boy's stylist, so I'm like, I gotta get you right and tight, and let me get you cracking right now. But um girl, he put that suit on and it was all over. So I took that little two-day trip and um it was awesome. And I got back in action and was back and prepared for work, family, and everything else, you know, so nothing didn't stop. You know, one thing about us, we have to keep things going, and I manifested a great week. I had some really exciting news that had um happened on Monday. I'll be talking about that soon. And um, it was deep, it was really deep. It was really deep. Yes, I forgot artists was right here. She was just like, What's going on? What's going on? I screened a drop my computer or whatever, and I don't think people can really understand. I didn't get a million dollars, you guys. I didn't open up the 20th business. It just was something way more, you know, touching and emotionally touched to my, you know, for that happened. That
Words Energy And Daily Affirmations
SPEAKER_00when you understand my journey, you'll understand that. But I'm gonna just sit it right there and let me get off of it because hey, I'm moving it, grooving. And we manifest and it's manifest week.
SPEAKER_01So you manifested that.
SPEAKER_00I did, I did, and you we we manifest everything. All I can say is what you think about all day is what is what you end up. So if you think bad, you're gonna be bad. If you think negative, things are gonna be negative. You wake up saying, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, you're gonna be tired, you know. So our words are so strong, and I don't think people even understand how strong that tongue can be, and how we can really hurt or help ourselves with with what what we speak out, you know. So um everyone has to learn that. I have to learn, I had to learn that. And growing into leadership, yeah. Growing into leadership, I I really had to learn it. And then with like my mentors, coaches, or people I looked up to, and they used to be like Nikki down my throat. And y'all got me down your throat.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and I want to say uh thank you. I want to say thank you. Gifted me with that Joel speaker because that really, really helped change my mindset, my mind, and everything within a day or two of just listening. It helped me understand life and people and your train of thought and stuff like that. So I do appreciate that. That really helped me. I feel like it's like part of growth.
SPEAKER_00Wow, I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_01I really listened to it like faithfully. I think I went like it seemed like because it's it's like I started hearing the same ones again, but I'm like, it saved 365 days. I don't think it's been a year.
SPEAKER_00I did give that to you a while ago, but it hasn't been a year. Right. So yeah, me and my um mentor, which is my um bestie buddy and everything else, my sister girl, my mama girl, whatever. She's gonna be, you know, that's our thing. We gift Joel Osteen um cubes, and um, I think we really try to gift it to those as you're gonna utilize it and that you feel it in that energy because it does help you change your life.
SPEAKER_01I asked myself, what's that sneaker was listened to that morning when we woke up at the hotel?
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, I kept thinking about that.
SPEAKER_00You see, I had to travel with it, you know. Um, I had to travel with it until I get into my own self, then I can do my own um affirmations, you know, daily. But at the end of the day, it does keep you positive. When you when you start your morning off positive, everything else go. If you start off just ugly, you you your day is just slum. So, you know, it's so important to wake up on a positive uh wake up on the positive side of the bed and just wake up feeling positive, wake up just happy, you know, and also you know, doing what you have to do. Your family is looking at you too. When you just we don't want to send our kids to school angry and having them, you know, things going on in our household. It can be a lot of things going on in people's life, but when you walk in the door of school, work, um, remote work or stores or just get on the telephone. You want to walk in with positive energy, you know. You don't want people to see what's going on.
SPEAKER_01And energy is real, like a person don't even gotta say nothing, you can feel the energy. Absolutely. So, yeah, I really believe in that. And yes, I listen to the affirmation, the sermon, and the uh Daily Inspiration. Daily inspiration. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yep. I normally listen to the daily inspiration regularly, and um, because I know the sermon can be real, real hard.
SPEAKER_01The sermon is about 20 minutes, but I do that while I'm brushing my teeth, doing my makeup, in the shower, whatever I'm doing, and it I like it.
SPEAKER_00Yep. Well, I am so happy that you are benefiting from it, and that's always the goal. I've been knowing you all my life, your family. I'm like, I've been knowing you like I just met you, but yes, artists is my family, but um, I have definitely been um involved in her life for forever, and I'm always on her about just growth, life, change, mainly change and develop. Mainly you want to go somewhere, we gotta change, you know. So um I definitely have my proud moments, I definitely have my disappointment moments, and she's gonna hear it all. But exactly.
SPEAKER_01But I learned to change the company. You gotta sometimes change your company. I learned that a lot. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00Right. And um, that's it. We got my girl, uh, Tasha Mack, been um
Grief Purpose And Not Getting Left
SPEAKER_00man, manifesting, been down her um her back, but you know, not as much, not as much. Um, I do want to, you know, say rest in peace, sister mama, mom's Tracy. Um, um Tasha lost her mom some months back. So that was like a hard, how do you say that? A hard pill to swallow for for I'm gonna say forever for life. And um just, you know, being being present, you know. I was actually present, uh not physically. I'm on the phone, you know, when those that that that last breath was taken, you know, and I it was kind of, you know, it was it was rough. All I can say, it was it was rough, and um, yeah, that'll be a whole nother topic. But you know, we definitely want to um say our RIP RIP, rest in heaven. We love you, miss you, moms, and um also give some prayers to Tasha because she has been being strong, pulling through it all, and she has her ups and downs, but at the end of the day, she's still moving and grooving. So yeah, so moms will want her to do some stuff because we always be down her throat about doing a lot. Moms like, hey, get her out. I said, I got her, mom, I got her. But she better get she better go because I be like, listen, I am just I act like her mama now. And I'm like, listen, I'm tired of fussing and uh fussing, fussing with you and trying to uh get you to move. I say, hey, last year I think I told Tasha, I said, um, what'd I tell you? I said, You about to get left behind. I don't know if she knew what I meant by that. But what do you think I meant by that?
SPEAKER_02I don't know what you meant by that. And um and it is more so not that you're leaving, it's the fact that I'm missing out on me and what I can be attaining in my life personally. So, and that's the the the gap that I'm experiencing is that uh you become so used to doing things a certain way or operating in a certain mindset so you become certain. And not to say that it's harmful um in any aspect, but like it can keep you in a place of competience. And I wouldn't be inconvenient about my life. Yeah, and I think a good way to say at least I want to be inconvenient because I think that you know, the stuff that's still stirring inside of them, the stuff that I still think about and drink about, the stuff that I still write about and pray about, but the hypermessing that I reveal to me that's not a little bit more about purpose. His life in this world. So therefore, I gotta start to move these little feet and realize the two hundred plus pair of tissues that I got in my room.
SPEAKER_00Put them in a exactly.
SPEAKER_02Put them on and walk and walk into my destiny, walk into my purpose, walk into what God wants for me. Because there's so many people that be so connected to your life and to your destiny that if you don't move, they will fail. So I'm like, let me get over because I don't want to I don't want that blood on my hands. I don't want lies to me. So because I'm supposed to sit back and what God told me to move on. Now a lot of things, you know, I I'm still trying to figure out the the the the mud and trying to be with the surface of those things so I can see God, what does that have? What do you have to do? What am I supposed to do? Because sometimes you get lost in the works.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02But I God's looking at revealing different things. And I'm a person who reveals other people, and I know God will reveal me when I ask me to rule what he has me to do. So whatever that looks like, that's a Tasha and I and I know that because the fact that I'm choosing to walk in what I should have been doing, and the fact that he gave me a chance to somehow we are figuring it out, but we back in action.
SPEAKER_00But um I definitely um what are you saying again, Tasha? Summing it all up, getting back to action.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just getting back to you know, me as a you know as an individual because I got so lost in what I was dealing with, what I was doing, and everything outside and I couldn't focus on me. I couldn't focus on me. I'm a very selfless person.
unknownUm I'll I'll put my needs on the time to tie for it for the person.
SPEAKER_02Um but I don't know. I want to be a little self- You know, because now I have you know, my mother's gone and now I I thought to be able to now feel the top of it all. And that's not okay. I'll bring it for the colour. I don't know how to talk about the top. I don't have a lot of whatever I can learn how to learn. Um definitely write uh what I think the training is and I have to write it out and I'm afraid on and that's what I mean for myself that can't bother me and I can't stop. So I you know I know that there's still something there and I and I and I appreciate the opportunity to be able to still go after that. So hey, I'm I'm on, I'm ready.
SPEAKER_00Let's go as long as I gotta run. Right. God God wants us to revive our light, manifest our dreams, and realize our worth.
SPEAKER_03Yes, ma'am.
SPEAKER_00Yes, so yes, yes, yes, manifest, manifest, manifest. This has been manifestation. I am in man, I'm keeping it going. I think
Leadership Team Growth And Closing
SPEAKER_00we need to manifest not all week long, but all lifelong. Manifest, you know. All lifelong. All lifelong, all lifelong. Um, and it has definitely been great. Um, definitely been great, you know, being out here in AZ trying to get my foot uh feet wet, my team back home, doing their thing. I'm definitely proud of them because it's definitely a big, big jump to transition to another state and have your business left in the hands of others. But I definitely have a very great leadership team, and we have so man, we have some great tools, great resources, great um software setup, spreadsheets processes. We have a lot of great stuff that's set up to where it's like I'm still present there, like you know, like I'm never missing a beat of what's going on, and then just the leadership team itself. Oh, they they awesome, they dope. I got a dream team that just they don't let up and um be prepared, but um that's what's happening, you know. That's what's happening at GP. So GP after dark, moving and grooving with Nikki, you know that name is gonna be combined. We're gonna change that up and get it going. Um, but other than that, I just hope everybody out there that's been listening, that's you know, in the world has been have been doing great. Um, I know we have our challenges in life, I know there's some room for opportunity for a lot of things we have going on, but you guys, you hold on. And what I always say to people, keep moving. You know, if it haven't broke you yet, it haven't broke you yet. You are not broke. You have not you cannot be broken, you know. The choices we make when you look in that mirror, that's your competition. It's me. I always say it's me versus me, it's you versus you. Life ain't gonna be perfect. You don't have to jump from one to a hundred. You could take your baby steps at one, two, three, but just take those steps and move forward and manifest what you want, make your plans, set your goals, and just believe in yourself, you know. And don't don't always look at it. Oh, for me to be successful or achieve at life, I need to be a star, or I have to be a millionaire, or I need to own businesses, you know, because everybody has their own passion, their own vision of what their purpose is in life. So you will find your purpose, and as my coach says, it's it's in your DNA, you know. Everybody is wired totally different, so you're gonna find your different, and you're gonna find that purpose, and you set it off when you do, just all gas, no breaks, all gas, no breaks. So I'm definitely happy to be able to encourage people every single day, and you know, the days I don't even put up affirmations on my social media page, I get hit up like, hey, what what happened? I was looking forward to that, you know, and I'm like, wow, you know, I didn't know it was reaching people or and um having people feel you know great every day because I was doing it for myself, you know, and for others because I have to keep myself motivated and encouraged if you know it or not, you know. Every day I have to like boost, I boost myself up to make sure I can make it happen, you know, every single day. And you know, you have your challenging days, you have your great days, you have your not so great days, but all I say is I'm gonna always end the day great because God gave me the the this position to still continue to move, and at the end of the day, I'm thankful and grateful for that to still be able to make it happen. So, right now I'm gonna be working on these um these eyes because I'm like, oh shoot, my my time is a little different here in AZ, you know, this two-hour difference. I'm up, you know. Of course I get up early, but I'm up probably 4 a.m. 4 30 a.m. because I'm still dealing with um central standard time to keep up with them, and then I'm ending it a little bit later. Behind um, I still have work to do. I come get the kids together, I still I'm still cooking, I'm still organizing, I'm still planning and projects, and we put it all together, but now I have a a a team, and my team, they is just they moving and grooving on all of that, you know, to definitely support the cause, and um they great at it, they great at what they do, so I just can't wait to see what's next for them and see what the what they have out here to set their lives to do um for they, you know, sideline hustle. So, you know, you guys need anything, hit us up because listen, we got the team for everything you need right here, baby. So that's about it. We're gonna end it off and we're gonna talk to you guys later. So, again, thank you so much for uh joining us today. Uh for I was gonna say today, but for another episode with GP after dark, moving and grooving with Nikki, and also artists beauty.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, Antosha.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, ladies. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_01You're welcome.
SPEAKER_00Y'all take care and keep it real out there.