Jay-Z Wants You To Trust Your Heart

We get to return to love as we grow from our experiences

Joel Leon.
4 min readJan 23, 2021

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“Red or green pill, you live and you learn…” — Jay-Z “Excuse Me Miss”

Looks like we are riding off to the sunset… want to thank everyone who has read their column and shared their love for it on the interwebs. For now, the weekly Medium column “What Would Hov Do?,”, written by me, Joel Leon, will be on hiatus. I’ll still be on here writing and sharing my thoughts and words, but in a different, more personal way, so stay tuned!

For those who may be stopping by for the first time, the format has been fairly simple: you share with me something that you’re going through or that is troubling you, and I help you get through it, with a little assistance from jay-Z’s catalog. While the column may be on pause (for now) you can still feel free to drop your question here. Who knows, this column may show itself in another lifetime.

Anyhoot, for our last edition, I think it’s important we tackle a topic raised by someone we’ll just call “Returning Lover”. Returning lovers asks:

I recently left a toxic relationship that we could not fix together. Now a few months passed, and we have both made healthy and positive changes to improve ourselves. We have admitted our still strong love for one another…Would

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Joel Leon.

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