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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _27_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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So what else do we have going on? We have the book tour.
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Yes, you guys, you have to be a part of our book
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tours. We're hitting cities across the US. Okay, me, Trevida,
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and Latania. We're representing the state of South Carolina. Y'all will be joining
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us in October. Okay. Well, looks like my author is here,
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you guys, So we're gonna bring her up in a moment. She has
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been in some anthologies that will help you with grief, the loss of a
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loved one, a loss of a family member. We have a new book
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that's available. There's a little sneak peek. Oh there you go, a
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little sneak peek of it. So this book that we'll be talking about it
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is called Finding Joy in the Journey, Volume two. So want to bring
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up missus Gardner. How you doing, girly? You? I am rat
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Now? Was that apple pie? Good? I did it? It is
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okay? It is okay. Look you're here. We here, you had
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an apple pie. Now i'mna have to find me something sweet when we get
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off. So we're gonna make it do what it do. Okay, yes,
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ma'am. So I did not want to say your first name because I
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knew I was not gonna do a justice. So can you say your first
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name for us? Well, first of all, thank you for having me
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on your show tonight. My name is French Air Gardner. Like fresh Air,
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I'm French Air. I was gonna say that, but I was like,
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now you know, I have a friend, and I kept on saying
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l shit, lache, lache. I was butchering. His middle name is
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fair beautiful. But yeah, I'm notorious, so getting nag but I got
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Gardner right. Hey, Hey, so tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Okay, So again, my name is French Air Gardner. I am
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born and raised here in Dallas, Texas. Spent almost ten years in Saint
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Louis, Missouri becoming an entrepreneur. Really have experienced a lot of trauma over
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the years and in my life as a whole. My father molested me when
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I was a child, which led to promiscuity and all that different things that
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comes from that sort of trauma. And then I've also experienced domestic violence and
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just so much homelessness and just so much I've I've over had to overcome.
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I have bipolar depression, I deal with anxiety. I have adhd uh PTSD.
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So it's just a lot going on. But beyond that, I am
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an artist. I love to, uh, you know, create and I
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like to to bring things from nothing to something and so that's what I've been
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doing. For the last five years. I started writing and most of my
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first children's book, Mommy and Daddy, Do You Still Love Me Anymore?
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Which is an ebook available on Amazon only. And then two years later I
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collaborated with my good friend Dell Chambers. She illustrated the second edition of the
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edited version of the first book, Mommy and Daddy Do You Still Love Me
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Anymore? Thank you? So yes. So I've just been you know,
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creating, writing. I'm a visual artists. I paint and do that for
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art therapy to heal from the trauma I've experience. And lastly, I have
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a podcast like you and it's called a News you can use podcasts, and
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it promotes black business owners and artists. So that's me in a nutshell.
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I love that you are all over the board, you got your hands and
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all kinds of things. Yeah, so we connected because the children's books week.
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Okay, I am a librarian and I have a nine year old,
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and there was a very vast difference between when my son who was twenty one
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and we were reading books together and my nine year old. Because when my
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son was twenty one, and I tell everybody, the books were about adult
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or a little white kid, you know, there was no books that represent
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them. And I was playing around on the computer and I saw this black
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children's book. We gonna like stop playing And the diversity of the books in
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the subject it is beautiful. So you are going to be a part of
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I think we're doing August. It's going to be all about children's books.
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So what made you want to become a children's book author? Good question.
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I didn't. I did not have a desire to be any kind of author.
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I had a vivid dream. To give you context on the story,
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my husband and I we had four children, Joseph Junior, French Air two
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malkeys that can survived, two boys, two girls, and due to circumstances,
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CPS took them from us and they were eventually adopted by another family in
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twenty fourteen, and so that was the last time I had seen my children.
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And so in December of twenty nineteen, I had a vivid dream and
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in that dream, uh, it was the my peer was telling me that
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I needed to do more to let my children know that I love them,
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or to let them know that I care. So that was the precipice and
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the catalyst for me writing the book. The next day, I wrote the
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book and published it in the in the same thing, Wow, my god,
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I don't want to see this, but I'm one of Wow, what
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if they read it? How would you? How does it make you feel
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to know that one of those copies might have gotten in the hands of your
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child. Your volume went out? Can you hear me? Okay, So
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we might have to drop her down and then bring her back up, because
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when you get a phone call, it'll kind of push it away. So
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go ahead, drop down and come back. So in August, you guys,
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we will be featuring African American authors for Children's Books Week, the study
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of the let's just say our kids don't read. We're gonna be totally honest.
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Me working at a public library. I see African American children come and
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they go straight to the computers. I rarely see them come and grab a
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book. But you had their counterparts who will grab books, who parents would
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make them grab books to ensure the knowledge. So my daughter, for the
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whole month of February had to read books. Every single book. Book was
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pertaining to African American history, every single book. So some parents might have
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thought I was being hard, but I went to her school and actually read
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a book. Her teacher came up to me and said, I don't know
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what you're doing. But we had another parent coming here and they read a
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book. And the book was about Brianna Taylor. Your daughter stood up and
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told us everything about Brianna Taylor. We asked her, how did you know
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this in for me? She said, my mama read it to me in
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the book. You guys cannot imagine the biggest smile that I had on my
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face. Okay, so August, we are dedicating back to school, back
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to reading. Okay, so all right, she's back. All right,
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you did baby, Yes, I'm sorry, Right, you're fine. So
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how how would it feel to think or how does it feel to think that
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your kids might have read your book. Powerful it's it's for them, it's
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a love letter to them, and and it's it's really you know, a
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dream, you know, for them to read it, because I want them
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to know that I love them, you know, I care for them,
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that I'm still thinking about them. And that's what that's what the whole message
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of it is about, not only to my own personal children, but to
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any child's adults, you know, who've experienced a foster care or adoption systems,
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to remind them that their biological parents still love them, still care for
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them, to think about them. So it gives me gives me great hope.
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And that's something that these kids would need to hear because sometimes I feel
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that if they're in the system, the system doesn't let them know that,
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you know what, we parents were human. We make mistakes, okay,
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and let us be able to carea correct the mistakes. And that's why I
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think the system doesn't show that opposite side of the correct thing of the mistake.
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So I applaud you for being able to do that. I really do.
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And I knew, I knew it was hard to do, but the
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fact that you did it, so you're affecting your life, your kid's life,
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and all other kids, those in and out of the system, because
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there are kids who moms or dad are really not in the situation, not
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in their lives, and they might be thinking the same thing. Now,
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you also have some adult inspirational books. Can you tell me a little bit
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about those? Yes. So, after I wrote my children's book and published
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it in the second edition, I jumped on an on a collaboration book project
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with Vanessa Blackwell, doctor Vanessa Blackwell. Now and the theme and the title
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of the subject, the title of the book. It's called Finding Joy in
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the Journey, Volume two, And yes, it really resonated with me.
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The subject really resonated with me, Patrice, because with with what I go
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through with the depression and anxiety, it really it really messes with me.
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So I'm always trying to find ways to find joy during difficult times. It's
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like I'm always going through some kind of difficult time. So that that really
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resonated with me. Yes, I'm telling you, and I understand that because
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the past two weeks, if you only knew, yes, I understand that
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seems like you can be on this high of life just going up and next
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minute that curveball is right there week for you to swing around. So yes,
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yes, So what would you say to someone that is still grieving but
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the grief is not fresh? How would you give them advice in what to
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do? I would say, I always feel your feelings. Don't deny like
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any of your feelings that you're feeling, even though it's been some time that
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you've been grieving. I think that grieving is definitely our process and there's different
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steps of it, and so I would say, hey, maybe you might
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want to talk to a counselor our therapists. You might want to tap into
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that. I always believe in the professional services because I've been going to a
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counselor our therapist since I was about twenty two years old, so there's almost
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twenty years, and I really see value in them. I would also say
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journal Journaling helps to process your thoughts and your emotions. Another thing I would
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say is to meditate. Meditating is really a powerful thing when you tap into
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the stillness of your mind, tapping into being present, and so there's a
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lot of power in that. And then I would lastly say, just to
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tap into and this is kind of random and it has nothing to do with
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really with grief, but just with life. Just tap into being grateful and
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having gratitude. Yes, yes, yes, I have a purple gratitude journal
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that is right next to my bed. I got the gratitude journal. Put
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you off, my kids, put off my friend. It's all right there
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next to my bed. So once I get up in the morning, it's
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first saying I say, oh God, is thank you you? And I
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looked at my side and like, all right, crew, we're gonna make
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this do it to do. But you guys, we're gonna take a break
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real quick, and we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk to miss Gardener
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a little bit more. And Miss Gardener, the second half of my show
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is the fun part of my show. So we're about to have us some
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fun. Okay, Okay, I'm looking forward to it. You guys come
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back in a little while. Okay, Wait a second, Dallas, what
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work A A L A C. The Chance of Your Dream Book Tour in
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ex Fo is coming to your area. Mark your calendars. May eighteen,
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eleven a m. To three pm centralting the time. We have some amazing
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authors, some amazing business owners that's going to be sharing about their brand we
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have some workshop facilitators that's going to be coming out. They're going to be
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teaching on branding, marketing, and network I want you to plan to be
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in the building to be educated and power in in church, come out,
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support and we are da Miss Gardener. I have to tell you you have
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a very beautiful smile. Oh thank you so much. Like I'm looking at
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your smile and everything you said you've gone through, I would have never seen
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it. With that beautiful smile, it is like lightening up your whole face.
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It's like cheek the cheek like here it is so on the second half
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of the show, we have fun thank you, ask crazy quirky questions that
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doesn't have to do with the books, that doesn't have to do well,
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yeah, does have a little bit to do with the author. But we
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want every wanting to see you and be like, oh she's cool, or
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like oh my god, how can I follow her? So? What's your
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favorite cartoon? Good question. Favorite cartoon I would say at this time of
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life will be South Park. You know, I've never looked at that show.
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I've looked at South I mean I'm still sitting up there looking at the
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flintstones, you know, what I'm saying. Okay, So yeah, South
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Park. The closest I would get to South Park might have been renting Stimpy.
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Okay, so you remember renting Simpy, I do? That was the
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cartoon back in the day. So oh, Latonia said, she watches South
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Park. Well, I'm gonna have to look at a couple of episodes,
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you know what I'm saying. So you are relaxing, and you can't just
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read any book, any author, any TV show. What would you do?
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So I'm relaxing. I'm watching All Queens Men on Amazon Prime, so
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that Power on stars me. I'm reading this book called this other book that
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I'm reading and it's taking me a while to get through it. But it's
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called Ritual Power, Healing and Community and it's by Maladoma Petris so Main.
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So that's what I'm reading currently. Oh I love the cover. Oh my
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god. Oh man, see, I'm a cover girl. I love cover
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of books if the book is beautiful, which that golden butterfly on you guys'
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book cover is beautiful. So that already tracked me to the book. Now
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you're talking about you like power. You are my friend, You're my friend.
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Okay, I'm excited that they're gonna go back and do when Tommy and
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Ghosts were in the years bring it and yes, And then you told me,
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you like all the Queen's men, we're gonna hang out with me and
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you're gonna have to hang out together. One day. We can hang out
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by zon, we'll do a little work and then we'll catch an episode of
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each one. How about that? I like that? All right, we
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gotta do that. So you have you were in the military. What means
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you want to go in the military. No, not me. You weren't
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in the military. So my father was your father was? Okay, okay,
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okay. So did you ever think you would if you could, would
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you have gone in the military. I actually just full transparent moment. I
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like ran away from my kid Like when I first had my first my first
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child, and I was married, I ran away from them, trying to
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get away from all the responsibilities to go into the army. And I actually
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took the ASVAB I because I have a degree two degrees actually back from arts
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and so I would have came in into the military as an officer and with
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my ASVAB score, I was going to test out to be in the Intelligence
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Department, but I had I had been doing too much smoking, so they
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told me I had to come back in three weeks or so after I had
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detox. But I never made it back three weeks to dig docs, you
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know, two weeks ago? Yeap, Oh my goodness. Okay, okay,
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okay. So you are now at this beautiful place of life that I
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see that you are that emerging butterfly. What's the one thing that help you
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get to where you are right now? My children are my inspiration. Really
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knowing that even though they're not we're not we're I'm not present in their life,
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I feel like I'm still an example for them. And my goal is
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to really do all the things that I feel is part of my purpose and
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my passions and my goals and and be very intentional in that and that and
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doing so hoping that when they get older and you know, they come across
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you know, me and my life and my experiences and what I've accomplished in
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life, they'll say, oh, well, maybe I should go ahead and
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go ahead and go forth and do whatever it is that I feel like I
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should do. And I really want them to lead with their hearts. And
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so that's that's that's my they're my passions and my and my motivation. That
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is beautiful. Oh my god, you got to be right here, you
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got me right here. Well, I want to thank you for joining me
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tonight and I hope to see you in Dallas when we come down there.
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Come on now, huh, come on now, let me know our visionary
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and the one, the Queen of collaboration, the queen of them all,
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she is our producer. I will make sure I get that information to you.
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And before we ended out, you got to tell us how we can
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follow you, how we can get your book, how we can keep in
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touch with Mother's Gardener. Okay, thank you so much again for tapping into
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you know, allowed me to come in on your show today again. My
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name is French Air Gardener. That website on there on my name tag is
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linked app dot com forward slash French Air. That's gonna be the best way
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to get us l I n q A p p dot com forward slash f
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r E n c h A I r E. All of that. You
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can say my contact information, you have my email, my website, my
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phone number, and also you'll be able to tap into my portfolio of websites.
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I am very social, so you can tap in with me. On
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Instagram, I have two pages. My first and last name, French Air
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Underscore Gardner is my main page. My second page is that I'm really working
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on building up. Is p R French Air like public relations, so p
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as in public are As Enriched French Air f r E n c h A
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i r E. On Facebook, we are under French Air Gardener, and
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then there's a public Relations French Air Gardener page. And then if you want
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to tap into my artwork and my paintings, that's Frenchie's Wonders f r E
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n c h y apostrophy s Wonders w O n d e r s.
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If you are a black business owner and you want to like share your products
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and your stuff with us, you can. I have a group on Facebook
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called ouja my market. It's called you j A m A A Market.
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And then lastly I'm on Twitter h and miss Frenchy's zero six and i would
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say, uh, oh, TikTok, TikTok. I'm at French Share f
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r E n c h A I r E, and I think that's it.
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I'm on Clubhouse, but not really so under friend heir Gardner. Oh
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and the last thing I want to say is tap into my podcast. It's
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streams and you can watch the videos on Spotify. On the free Spotify app
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it's called a news. You can use podcasts and its streams wherever else you
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listen to your podcasts. Peace you guys, We will have all of that
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for you. Guys. You know how it is when you can go to
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sci book Gals of Friends, look for her name and you could click each
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one of her links to follow her. Again, we thank you, We
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applaud you. You keep on doing what you do. And remember now,
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it doesn't stop right here. We keep connecting, We keep on working and
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doing with each other because we all in this together. Okay. I love
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that. I look forward to future collaboration with you, and I really do
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appreciate you having me on your shoulder day. Thank you, Thank you for
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coming you guys. That's it. It's another Saturday night. The books.
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You got, the author, you got, the book, Go hand and
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grab it, read it, read that review, and you guys have a
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wonderful Saturday night. Oh look at the kids book always so cute. Yes,
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so y'all go grab it, go garrab it, read it to your
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kids, give it to a kid, or you know what, don'tate it
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to a local shelter or hey, even a group homework. You are okay,
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So thank you guys for another Saturday night. Have a great evening.
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Bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a new
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book to read or a new author to explore. Join us again in two
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weeks for sc book gaus and friends chat. Have a good evening.