 Welcome to the Partak Show with me Dominic and today we are back after two shows and I hope you had a great Christmas and that you got blessed over the Christmas. I don't know what you did. I hope you had some, you had at least some fun and get to relax. And at the end of the day remember it is Christmas. It's all about Christ. So it doesn't mean that you can only not have celebrated Christmas if there was no Christ in it. So Christmas is about Him. So it doesn't matter whether or not you are able to eat your favorite food or go to the place you have dreamt of. The most important thing is at least you got time to relax and to be with God in some form or the other. And I also want to issue a very, very happy 2020. We are in a whole new decade and I hope this new decade becomes a time for favor and blessings and becomes a time that you reach the goal that you've been dreaming about. And today I've got some great guests and first of all my favorite people from NIBS. Make some noise people, make some noise for yourselves. Yeah it's been a while, it's been a while. Even some people from NIBS are clapping but it's okay. And then we've got Dan and he's better half, I mean and the band are here in the studio. So make some noise for Dan. Dan will be performing for us and then of course I've got my guest today, Mr. Anastasiunyaga who is a youth mentor. And Mr. Anastasiunyaga will be helping us to kind of giving us some advice on how we can live courageously which is the topic of today. He's going to be giving us some advice. He's going to be telling us how we can organize ourselves and put ourselves in order so that 2020 can be that year that will be a source of blessings and will be favor and will be everything that we have dreamt about. And as I've mentioned to you we are talking about living courageously. And you know the word courageous means from the heart, like from the heart courageously, you know strongly. And I think one of the biggest problems we have is when we are too comfortable, when we refuse to take risks, when we don't want to see beyond the comfort of where we are at, you know. This year try to live a bit more courageously by getting out of your comfort zone. And the problem of living the comfort zone is it's going to be scary, you're going to be fearful, you know. And you're going to make mistakes and let me tell you something. If you are not making mistakes that means you're not living because mistakes are part of being human. The problem is are you searching for those mistakes or are you making those mistakes carelessly or are you making those mistakes in the process of doing something good. Now that is courageous. Remember stories like Abraham and Moses and even Jesus Himself and all the people that you admire. These people at some point had to be courageous. They had to stop being comfortable complaining and blaming something or blaming the society or blaming where they were born, blaming the you know how that they grew up in a family where that was broken, that their parents were fighting or that was too poor. All these for sure can affect how fast we reach our dreams. They can affect how fast. No, they cannot prevent us from getting to our dreams. And you need to be courageous and say you know what, this has been my story until now and I'm going to change this. And I'm going to change this in my own little way. And can you imagine if each one of us was to live up courageously? Can you imagine what Kenya would be if each one of us was to aim for the highest good and then direct our lives towards it every single day? That would be amazing. Amazing from the leadership to our communities to wherever we find ourselves. So you know in every new year people make resolutions and I hope you have made some resolutions and maybe you don't believe in resolutions. Please go to our Facebook page and tell me if you made some resolutions. Share with us some of those resolutions. And if you don't believe in making resolutions, tell me why you don't believe in making resolutions. I'll be reading out your comments, questions and suggestions in a few and all that will be on our Facebook page at Y254 channel. So please do that and I'll be reading those comments for you. And as I mentioned to you, we've got Dan on the show and he's going to be performing three sets, three pieces of songs for us and I hope you'll enjoy them. Dan, welcome to the show. This is the Power Talk show. It's my first time to be here and I appreciate it. And you're enjoying it so far? We want to enjoy your talent. Alright, I hope so. Yes, I'm sure you've got some great things coming. I hope so. So what kind of music do you sing? I sing Christian music. Christian music? Yeah, gospel music per se. That is my line of focus. Now that you've mentioned gospel, are you a little afraid of sometimes of what gospel artists do to gospel music or what gospel music has become? Sometimes there is a bit of criticism that gospel artists they have become a bit too secular, they have hidden lives that sometimes come out in a very scary way. Do you get worried about this? Yeah, definitely I get worried because I'm concerned as not only a musician but a minister of gospel. But again when we look in the scriptures it's clear that even Jesus said let the weed and the tear they will grow together. But it's only him who can make the right judgment. But again we can see again and we can be able to tell by the fruits that they bear. You can tell obviously who is serving themselves and who is serving the Lord. That's amazing. So you go for it, let's see what you've got. Alright. Hi everyone. My name is Dan Kaya and I'm happy to be here. So I want to play the first song. It's a song that I'm still struggling with learning the lyrics rather. But it's one of my favorite songs. I thought it could be a really nice song to start the year with because it's called You Made Away. Pretty popular, isn't it? So I think we know it. So you guys will help me sing along, right? Yeah. Go for it. Alright. Let's go. You're working it now Let me sing. Let me sing. Good stuff man. Very good stuff. Thank you. I hear you praying that God will make away and he is making away and I hope he is making away for you. And I can see also there is already a few comments that have come in and I'm going to actually read them even before we start our conversation. I ask the question, are very happy new year 2020, do you believe in making some resolutions? Share with us some of your resolutions. And I read a few. And one is quite interesting. So there is Anthony Kabya saying Maini kuwacha pombe maze. Ya, ya muhumu maze. 2020 na punguza pate aftapati by now ngekuwata one of the taikuns. Ya, that's a good one. Ya, that's a good one. Even for your health. Okay. Aisha aji to accomplish the resolution, to accomplish the resolutions I made last year. Koi vove Aisha your resolution is to accomplish last year's resolutions. Nice one. Okay. Mumia isaya banawe bonvencha. My resolution is not to make any resolution that I can't keep. Okay. No, that's a good one that you're not going to make a resolution that you cannot keep. Good one. Doris denikn yamesema hapa. Mesema in 2020, why 24, please change your boring programs. Aki anani. Ya ni. Ata yandasoma tu. Means nice, you know, Bayan. Doris change kidoga manze. Your resolution should be kind. Okay. Rez muzik. He, he indioi anakam interview hapoko Bayan. Welcome Reza. I'll be very happy to interview you. Share with us some of your this Astoria or the song or whatever you do and definitely I'll host you. Kale kamze maniu. Buying two madrizz. And hope God will give me courage to do it. Definitely I'm sure God is going to give you the courage. I hope you'll take advantage of the courage he's going to give you so that you can do something. Remember we're talking about living courageously. How can you live more courageously this year? And as I've mentioned to you today, I've got Anastazio Nyaga, who is a youth mentor and a lecturer. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Welcome back. This is not the first time you have been here. No, first time of course. Yes. Yes. I hear Meguna Meguna is back. You hear that? Yes. That's the news that I've just come. I'm not sure. Yes. But I'm hearing he's back. Maybe a rumor, maybe a true rumor also. Maybe a true rumor also. Do you think it is fair so far what has been the case according to you? How much do you machine? To watch a machine for now. We don't start the new year with machine of course. Then let's speak about something even more important. Yes. Iran and USA. Yes. That's more important? Yes. Very important. Me, I'm just fearing the third word. That's a thing. Fearing the third word. So it's not so important actually. If it happens. Yes. And we pray that it may not happen. You remember that story of when two bulls fight. Yes. Who suffers? The grass. Yes. That's why we are praying that it may not happen. These are not good news at the beginning of the year. Ebuana. Yes. We've gone for a bit. Good for a bit. Yes. So for you, I'm sure it's 2020. First of all, happy new year. Same to you. Being 2020, it means you have lived across four decades. Yes. For you in your 40s. Yeah, four decades. Four decades. Yes. And two centuries. Of course, yes. Because last century, this century, yes. Of course, not these people. These people are this century only. Yeah, this century. This century. The year 2000. So where I can see now seated, they may not see starting. Oh yeah, for sure. And actually that's why you're here to help us understand that. Yes. Because it's said the old man seated can see way far than a young man on a tree. On a tree. Yeah, that's a good African proverb. African proverb sometimes they're just crazy. So you don't know where you're from and not a birdie. You don't know where you're from? Oh, yeah? How are you? It's a good proverb. It's a good proverb. Were you born? Yeah, when? When. Yeah, when? When the land was so great, that the land was so beautiful, the land was so rich, and beautiful, that you could become a kid. You could become a kid. Mutu mwizi. Mutu mwizi? Oh, let's come back. Sorry, that was just one of the national languages that we have. So, living courageously. We are talking about that in 2020. We are still in the beginning. Yes. It's a very fast week. Yes, very fast week. And what we want in this conversation to help young people to everybody who is watching anyway to make the most of 2020. First of all, one of the most common practices is making resolutions. Do you believe in making resolutions? Sure, I believe in making resolutions. Resolutions actually are like a road mark, a path that guides you where you are to go for a particular period. Like now when I was living home, I had my road mark to come here. So the solution is like a road mark that I make. A map, a road map. Yes, a road map that I make, that helps me. So if I make a resolution, maybe I've been making a resolution since 2015. I make resolutions in 2015. By the 3rd of January, I cannot even remember those resolutions. I'm not practicing them. It happens in 2016, in 2017 and 2018. Why should I continue doing these things? I can't remember those resolutions. It happened on Tuesday, but it happened on 1st January. Why should I? I should not say that you should stop. There's a saying, never give up. You see, what I was not able to accomplish yesterday, I may be able to accomplish today. I keep hoping and striving for the best and making more resolutions. When I am weak and strong, when I fall, it's only that I can get up. So I should not be afraid of breaking the resolutions that I made. The only way is to see why I broke it, and then see in which way can I pick up the pieces again and move. So if I break my resolutions, what do I do? I try again, that's what you're saying? I try again, yes, I try again. Or maybe I made a resolution that was not practical. Do you think that's a good example of the question I wanted to ask? Yes. So what are some of these reasons that make people not to keep the resolutions? I think one of them is that people make too many? Too many, that's one. Also you make a resolution that's not concrete. So concrete? What do you mean by that? For example, if you say by the end of this year, I want to go to America. Okay. I think that's a big dream. It is. Maybe better say, I want to visit maybe Tanzania, or even insurrection garden. Maybe I've never been to insurrection garden. What you're saying is for making a resolution, like to go to the US, and all my savings are 100 bob, or 1000 shilling, and flying to the US maybe is 120,000. I return 200. So you're saying that is not very realistic? It's not very realistic, because I'm comparing it with my capability of reaching there. Okay. So first of all, I should make a resolution of something that I can... That I can achieve? You can achieve. That's achievable. That's achievable. Okay. So for you, you're saying they are important because they provide a roadmap. So that you're not just groping in the dark. Yes. You have a guide, a compass. Okay. Very good. And some of the resolutions, that good example, that you can give, that young people can make, that can help them to live more courageously. Some of them. For example, a young person can make a resolution to change friends. Okay. Maybe I have been working with a group that is not making me realize my dreams. That's always making me... Maybe not the way to keep what I promised myself. Okay. And therefore, I need to choose friends. Friends who can encourage me, for example. Friends who can even uplift me. Who believes in you. Who believes in me. And who can criticize you? Even who can criticize me positively. Yeah. Those who can criticize me also positively. Perfect. Yeah. So in this year, I want to be careful about choosing friends. And that takes a lot of courage. Yes. That takes a lot of courage. Because it means I am moving from people and finding others. And these people I'm living, they can judge me for being proud. Squeeze na jifanya. Hangout na sisi. And then you're moving to new people that you do not know. And you don't know if they will like you. It's a risk. So it takes courage. It delivers risk. Wow. Okay. So changing friends. So we can say high quality friends leads to high quality life. Life. Okay, fantastic. Aha, number two. Number two, I think also believing in oneself can contribute to the, to living in courageous life. You see, I read in one book, bans, bans, dege, fly because they believe they can. They think they can fly. So you're saying a chicken doesn't fly because it doesn't believe it can? Possibly. Possibly. Possibly. So the story of a chicken you know. Tell me about it. That story that farmer corrected an egg of a nigo. And went and put together with the eggs of a chicken. Okay. And eventually, they asked together with the eggs of the chicken. And they were growing together as chicks. Okay. But remember one of the eggs was an egg of an nigo. So there was a chick of an nigo. And as they were growing together, every chick thought is like a chick. Okay. Yeah. One day there was a person who came and told that chick. You know, you are not a chick. You are an nigo. Okay. Yeah. And also it could not believe. I mean this is a story, right? Yes, a story. Of course it is a story. I'm wondering this ego is speaking. Abumani pateza ki dog. It's a story, of course. Okay. It could be a picture story or so. Yes, yes. But there is a great reason. Yes, please. Sure. And when that farmer raised that ego, you know, somewhere on top, the ego was trying to... To fly. To fly. And it realized that it could... It could fly far. And the chicks were just looking at it like this. I tend to think even the chicks themselves, if they believe they could do so. They could fly. They could fly. That's a good point. So believing in oneself can make great things happen. Can make great things happen. Yes. So I think this point is actually connected to the fast. Insofar as if you are an eagle and you are staying with chicks, you will never fly. You will never fly. All right. So you need to believe in yourself. Yeah. And look for other egos. And look for other egos. So can we say in this story of yours, this man who comes and reminds or teaches this ego that you are actually an ego, is kind of a mentor, someone to work with you. That's a good point. Yes. In fact, yes. It's a mentor trying to help this ego to realize its potentials, potentialities, kebabiritis. And I think also the young people need to have mentors who can help them also when their life is becoming too kapa some for them. Because as young people have also gone through the same. You have gone through the same. Absolutely. Their times life is very, very difficult. Absolutely. Even very discouraged so to say. We are talking about being courageous but life itself just turned the other way around. Absolutely. So that's the moment that we need to have someone who says, look here. I find my life is just getting torn. And what can I do? So I need to look for someone I can open my heart to sometimes. Yes. And speak to you about the challenges that I'm going through. And I think if you cannot get someone like this you can even write it down I guess. You can write it down. It works. Yes. And a mentor as I've mentioned I think even here before I've mentioned that a mentor can be someone also who is online. It can be videos that you watch on YouTube or books that you read. Books that you read. And that person becomes a sort of your mentor. That's fantastic. Now there is something that has come to my mind about this ego and chicken. Sometimes when you want to fly away but the people who are willing to accept you and love you are the chicks. You want to be an ego. Yes. But the people that love you are chicks. Yes. So sometimes when you fly it becomes very lonely. Very lonely. It becomes lonely and you are getting criticized. Yes. And sometimes you want to go back to the comfort at least of being loved by even this. It's like let's say you're in a bad two people in a bad relationship. So one of them does not want maybe let me say lady realizes that she's in a bad relationship. Yes. But she's like I've been in this relationship for five years. Okay. If I go out there I might show if someone will love me and then maybe she even tries to break up for a while. Then goes out there for two, three months. She's not able to get into a new relationship and all that. She knows the relationship she's in is bad. Yes, bad. But it's better than not having somebody. Comfort. Than not having somebody. So in this context what can one do when the discomfort of trying to fly away becomes lonely and tiring and become criticized. What should you do in that? Yes. One of the things I assure and defies young people is to join groups of clubs that help him or her to journey in the right path. In these groups sometimes or not sometimes many times there are workshops, there are seminars and you realize people who share their experiences that's where sometimes you realize maybe my story is like the story of another. You may think that you are alone suffering alone but you realize that there's another person having the same story. Absolutely. And then sharing the experiences you find a way out. Maybe the person shares how you or she was able to come out of the problem. And from there you say this is also how I can try to come out of this. Living a so to say lonely life is very dangerous. Dangerous in the sense whatever you think becomes right. Because there's no one to challenge you. There's no one to challenge you. In fact there's another point I want to really put forward to young people that we need very much to control our thought life. What we think of ourselves and also of the others. What we think we become. You become sure. And what we think the others think of us. You see like now if I think you are not appreciating me it may be a false thinking that you are not appreciating me. Such that even if I appreciate you think I'm lying. Yes you are lying. Or I think that maybe you are bluffing. So I need to take positive thinking about myself and sometimes I don't need to care too much what other people say about me. As long as I know that I'm striving to be on the right path. Absolutely. It's a good point. There's someone who say that I'm not a Facebook page you don't have to like me. I'm not a Facebook page you don't have to like me. So I can be independent. I can think for myself. I don't have to be a sheep. That's what you're saying. Before we go for a break one more piece of advice on living courageously that you want to give? Yes. Courage is a gift of the whole spirit. And this is to say we can get this courageousness or courage from God himself. It's a gift of God. And so I usually advise young people to get connected with God. It's a nice word get connected. Not in the phone or online but spiritual online. Ultimate source. Yes, ultimate source. The spiritual connectedness. So that God can take control of my life. When I'm completely down when I find nobody appreciates me nobody realizes even what I'm doing that's the time I need to come down and say where did I come from? Who brought me? I think I have to turn to him. And that's the greatest source of courage. Absolutely. There is one young man here who has said he is going to reduce alcohol and party too much. It's a good resolution. Very concrete one. Very concrete one. So when you say about the spiritual connection about rooting yourself in God I think it's a way of taking care of yourself so that God can see you through suffering and can open ways for you. So is it like reducing alcohol? Do you think it's a good suggestion to take care of your body no more? Is it a good thing to actually take care of your body no more? Absolutely because what alcohol does it stimulates you. Actually it's a drug. It is. It's a drug. And it does not give you good health of mind. If you take too much. I take a bit of it. You take a bit of it. Will you describe it? Yes. You know the other day I was talking to someone who told me kathre kai teki ritu. But you know that ritu the way it was. That guy was even not knowing what he was saying. And he was saying I take it. So what I want to say is someone takes a resolution that is going to leave hako. It means that you have seen hako as a drug. With growth. And therefore what I mean is when you take a resolution like that in fact you are taking and delivering a kind of action to concentrate more on well being than only stimulating yourself. There are many reasons for taking hako. Like I know it should be for leisure. It should be for leisure. But sometimes it could be greater leisure. So you are avoiding something. Perfect. So I think it is a very good resolution because such a person is actually reflecting as hako is not doing good to him. Anything good to them. Very good. So awesome. Thank you so much Anastazio. So what I could say from this point is any pleasure that becomes a prison is no longer a pleasure. So if something that you have been doing for pleasure has imprisoned you it's no longer a pleasure really. Wow. Okay. So I hope you have gotten a few points from Mr. Anastazio what he's been sharing with us. We're going to take a short break and when we come back we'll take a few questions and read out the comments that you've been making. I'll be having a conversation with my audience also. So keep those comments coming on Facebook page some of the resolutions that you have made something that you are learning from this conversation that we are having today. I would like to hear from you. Right now I'm going to take it back to Dan who is going to give us another piece of his beautiful, beautiful music. Alright. So this second song I will sing is called Praises. It's really a song about giving back the praises to God. So it's very simple in the way we sing. So if you guys can help me. So I will be saying trying to get the tune. So When praises go up Sorry. Jingode He's a blessing from above Sorry, let me get this. You're just here I shall bring it. No, no. Let me just get it. I mean it. Jingode He's a blessing from above Leave your life today Like you know what is done Let's take a break. Okay. Alright, alright, alright. So just give him a round of applause. Don't worry. It's alright. We're going to take a short break. Don't go and we'll come back with the second part. As Dan prepares we shall take a short break. So don't go away. Keep those comments coming. We'll be back in a few.