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600-Copy-Paste Culture vs. Sacred Work— The Episode 600 Throwdown · Spiritual Homegirl

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  Hey, y' all.
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  You are listening to another episode of the Spiritual Homegirl podcast where we better self in spirit and make peace with the day through wisdom, education and practical, easy to follow tips.
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  I am your host, Maria, your spiritual homegirl, who's also a mental health professional.
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  And baby, today is a very interesting episode because today's episode is about everything I just told you in the last 18 seconds.
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  The episode 600, 600 of them things since September 15, 2016.
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  Episode 600 is going to be about how, you know you got a really good idea and it was inspired by yet another trademark thief.
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  And I'm not gonna call this person out by name.
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  Y' all know I don't use my platform to drag people.
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  But episode 600 topic is so is so aligned, right?
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  Because for the 600 episode of my podcast, I get a reminder of of how viable my work is.
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  It's so viable that people want to be me even if they aren't me.
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  People want to be Spiritual Homegirl even if they can't be Spiritual Homegirl because I have a fairly protected trademark.
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  People would like to be Spiritual Homegirl because even though this has been in existence for nine years and a Google search will have me all over the results, people will disregard that and say, you know what?
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  I like the name.
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  I want to do what she's doing so bad in my own way, I'm going to take her name to do it.
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  And that just let me know.
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  I used to get really mad at the first.
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  The first three people we on number 16 now.
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  But the first three to four people, it's made me so mad because I'd be like, out of common courtesy, I wouldn't do that.
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  I wouldn't take an idea that somebody has that's protected and say, you know what?
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  I'm gonna take the chances of starting a brand and ultimately getting a snatch because I am so entitled, because I want to do this so bad.
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  I've just never been in that.
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  And honestly, if we're going to kick it from a spiritual standpoint, that lets me know, anybody that will steal something from you has an issue with lack of abundance, scarcity, mindset.
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  Rather than making shake with your own name, rather than make it shake with doing your own type of content, creating a cool name that's true to you.
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  You are so scared that you cannot have no motion on your own that you will use a name that's already been built for the last nine years.
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  Legendary guest.
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  Shut that back.
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  Dick Gregory, Afia Ibamu.
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  I've had Some really dope people that I've had on my podcast over the last nine years.
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  I've done a lot of groundwork.
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  I've been outside LA to Atlanta doing my thing, building up spiritual homegirl.
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  So I can see why somebody would say, you know what?
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  This is already established.
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  I'm just gonna slide in here and say that this is who I am in my own way.
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  And hopefully her people will want to fool with me because I am doing something similar.
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  They're like, both of us right, what to say on Friday.
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  I guess it's both ours.
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  No, it's not.
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  And now at this point, I just laugh because after 15 people coming up and trying to do what I do, literally the way I do it, with the name that I own, it's almost like I.
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  It's almost like I'm not offended, but it's just like, y' all really want to put y' allself in these situations because I don't play about my ip.
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  Y' all know me.
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  Y' all know I defend my brain with my life.
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  I'll exhaust every resource I got to get you up out of here.
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  So I don't play when it comes to people stealing something that my ancestors have literally blessed for me to do.
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  I don't play those kind of games.
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  So episode 600 is going to be about protecting what is yours, protecting what is ancestrally guided for you to do, protecting what is ancestrally blessed and protected for you to do.
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  And a lot of times, what I don't like about spirituality on social media over the last 15 to 16, 17 years.
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  Well, realist is 2008.
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  I've seen social media spirituality go from genuine community to cult followings, literal cult followings to influencers.
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  Look at how pretty I look.
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  Spirituality is an aesthetic.
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  Then it turned back into cult following.
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  Oh, I'm a spiritual influencer now.
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  I'm going to tell you how to live your life.
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  And now I want you to give me money so that I can survive.
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  And off of you, off of you.
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  I'm an energy harvester.
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  I'm going to harvest you all the way through.
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  And some of them folks still got followers and some of them got taken down is what it is.
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  And now it's the copy paste era of social media spirituality.
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  I don't care how fly you think you are, if you got a copy paste off of what somebody is doing to make you shake, you don't have no motion respectfully.
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  And I know that doesn't sound very spiritual, but I've stopped being A bigger person a long time ago.
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  Let's just call it what it is.
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  Because the problem with copy paste society, whether it is a spirituality or now, is that people are so scared to be themselves, they'd rather be somebody else or a variation of somebody else.
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  And we are so much better than that.
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  God did not put you on earth and give you an abundance of talents and skills and gifts for you to go ride off somebody else because you want to get some motion in an online world that's a simulation
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  anyway.
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  It's crazy to me how people will do that.
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  You got your own style, you have your own way of talking, your own way of dressing, your own way of kicking things.
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  And you would rather do it like somebody else because it's working for them or because they have something that you like.
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  Sometimes the SWOT analysis be doing too much, sometimes the SWAT turns into like again, copying.
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  And there's nothing wrong with me personally, I don't do this, but there's nothing wrong with being inspired and looking at different creators for inspiration.
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  Again, like I said, I don't have time to look at other people and I just don't.
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  And to be honest, I'd rather just do things as best I can.
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  There are folks that have been inspiring, but there's not a person on this earth that I can say, oh, they gave me the blueprint and on how exactly I want to talk, how I want to post.
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  No, this is all me and me and my ancestors and God, that's it.
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  Now what I will say though, we're going to get credit when credit is due.
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  A lot of the, the boom with the social media spirituality is because of the hood, witch hood, which had a whole community and hood, which inspired a lot of women to do their own thing on these apps and
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  she has her own lane and that's good for her.
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  But I've seen a lot of copy pasting of people and it's like, you don't have to be that way.
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  Now does people.
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  Do people own concepts of spirituality?
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  Do they own the law of attraction?
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  Do they own manifestation?
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  Do they own things that are in the cabalian?
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  Do they own the four agreements?
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  Do they own sacred geometry?
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  They own Christianity?
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  Do they own certain aspects of Buddhism?
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  Do they, do they own certain prayers and things like that?
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  No, the concepts themselves are here for everybody.
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  And that's where I think people get it twisted.
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  Like I remember someone saying, oh well, they're here.
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  These, these things are here for everybody.
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  To a degree, yes.
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  I think the concepts are here for everybody.
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  But how you uniquely deliver your knowledge or your wisdom or education or training on the matter, that is where it gets tricky.
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  And that's where people be copying and pasting because they can't do it themselves.
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  I've seen folks buy coaching programs and literally steal coaching programs off of folks and repackage it as their own.
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  Seen people copy and paste captions on Instagram and do it as their own.
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  Like, we've gone through this before.
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  A lot of y' all have somebody out there now that's impostoring you now trying to scam, like the TikTok folks and the Instagram folks.
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  They'll copy all your whole profiles and go into people's inbox and say, hey, sweetie dear, I see that you have a blessing and intuition.
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  Told me to get you a reading and you can send me $35.
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  Like we see now.
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  Copy paste is easy because capitalism makes it seem like if you do what you got to do to get on, you'll be successful.
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  Even if that's at the cost of backstabbing or portraying people that you know or people within your own community.
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  Because if you going to keep it a buck.
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  As embarrassing as I am to say it, it's just so embarrassing to say.
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  But out of the 15 that's tried to steal spiritual homegirl from me and try to be spiritual homegirl who have told me, and I'm going to tell you how to how the cycle goes too, in a minute.
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  But out of most of that 15, they've been black women.
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  And as a black woman, I'm.
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  I feel disrespected and I feel hurt not to where it's going to ruin what I got going on.
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  It's going to stop my mission.
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  Because don't nothing stop the mission because the catalog is there.
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  We're here on episode 600.
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  So it's not that, but what it is is it's like, wow.
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  As a black woman creator, you would think that other black women creators would understand how hard you have to work to not only secure your idea, protect your idea, distribute your idea, maintain and sustain your idea, evolve and
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  grow your idea.
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  There's a lot of people that have not been doing what I've been doing for almost nine years.
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  Some people get kind of burnt out over what, three year, three year four.
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  They're like, okay, this is cool, I'm done.
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  And some people just.
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  They just dip out.
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  But to not respect that type of work that another black woman will do and then be crying about how black women aren't respecting and things like that.
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  You literally disrespect black women creators when you steal from them.
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  So how can you say that you're a champion of black women and black people when you literally.
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  Do you colonize an idea?
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  You colonize.
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  If somebody has an idea and you take it and you want to become that idea or you want to use that idea, you're a colonizer, black or not.
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  And that's what people don't like to talk about.
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  And yes, it's very much homegirl rant today.
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  Vintage homegirl.
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  Because I'm tired of seeing people do this.
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  Not to mention I'm gonna speak up about it.
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  Being the bigger person is out.
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  I stopped being a bigger person a long time ago.
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  Not because I wanted to be like, oh, I'm just this spiritual loving light.
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  I've never been that type of spiritual person.
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  I'm very much a person that's like, live your life, get your joy, be healthy, be happy, set your boundaries, and protect whatever you hold sacred in near and dear to you.
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  This being said, you all spiritual homegirl.
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  How I interact with y' all, that's sacred to me.
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  And I defend this with whatever I got.
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  So going back to the cycle, the cycle of how this stuff goes down, I'm gonna talk about it now.
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  I remember being advised by lawyers not to.
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  After 16 people trying to ste name.
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  Let's just spill it all, shall we?
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  The cycle usually goes like this.
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  A woman gets an idea and she likes it.
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  She says, oh, okay, I'mma be Spiritual Homegirl.
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  She may or may not do a Google search.
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  If she does, it obviously don't matter because now she'll start branding things as Spiritual Homegirl.
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  I guess she could be the.
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  I remember this one girl, she was Mexican.
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  She was like, oh, you can be the black one, I can be the Mexican one.
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  That's not how that's going to work, sis.
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  And.
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  But anyway, they'll take the name.
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  They'll start branding it.
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  One of y' all my boo friends all across the world.
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  And I love y' all for that because y' all keep up on stuff that I don't have time to.
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  And I'm really busy.
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  I'm busy writing this book.
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  I'm busy helping people.
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  Literally boots on the ground helping people.
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  And somebody tells me, yo, there's another person that is trying to use your name doing xyz.
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  That's usually how it goes.
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  Y' all will give me the drop.
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  Y' all give me the links.
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  So at this point, I'm gathering evidence for Whatever case I got, if I got to go sue them or take them to court.
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  So at this point, I'm gathering evidence.
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  I will always reach out kindly first, because sometimes you got to get the benefit of the doubt.
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  You got to give grace.
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  Some people may genuinely not know.
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  Some people may just want to create stuff and not Google stuff.
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  Couldn't be me, but I'll reach out and I'll say, yo, and I'm nice.
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  I'm nice about it.
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  I'll be like, peace, you know, because I come in peace.
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  I always come in peace.
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  Even my protection comes in peace, even if it doesn't come off that way.
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  But I'll usually say, hey, I noticed that you're using my name spiritual homegirl for XYZ.
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  I've owned this trademark since 2020 19.
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  I put the application in 2018.
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  I own in 2019.
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  And I have been branding spiritual homegirl since 2016.
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  And I'm kindly asking that you rebrand to avoid any type of future cease and desist illegal paperwork.
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  And I'll say, you know, respectfully or kindly or, you know, thank you, you know, in, you know, Maria, owner, Spiritual hunger, whatever.
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  Because I am the owner.
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  I own Spiritual Homegirl.
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  So that's what I'll say.
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  And then I always, every single time, every single time, I think I said that back 99% with the exception of one time, one person was like, oh, my bad, sis.
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  I'm so sorry.
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  I didn't realize that.
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  I didn't realize that's how federal law worked.
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  I'm going to go ahead and change it.
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  I'm so sorry.
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  That's the only time everybody else, well, no, I got an attorney.
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  The attorney told me I could use it.
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  I'm like, that's a lie.
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  That's a lie.
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  Ain't no attorney they salt is going to put that license on the line and tell you that you could take a federally protected trademark and build a whole brand off of it.
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  Because that's not how that works.
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  You can't do that legally.
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  You can't.
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  So they'll usually lie and tell me that an attorney said it's okay for them to use it.
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  Or they'll say, oh, I'm going to talk to an attorney and secure my intellectual property.
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  You cannot secure what's already secure, babe.
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  Like, you can't secure something I own.
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  You're never going to be able to do that unless I expressly, explicitly give it to you.
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  And even then, it still has to be federally done.
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  Like, it's.
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  It's ways it's ways to do that.
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  Like, I would literally have to.
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  Well, it ain't gonna happen, so we can't go into that.
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  But there's no way that I would literally give somebody permission to use the trademark so that they could brand themselves.
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  And not to mention the reason why I'm so protective of it is I don't know your ethics.
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  I don't know how you get down.
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  I don't know if you're a scammer.
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  I don't know if you're using it to build a cult following to be a flock leader.
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  I don't know what you got going on to where I don't want any confusion of anybody thinking I'm associated with you at all.
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  You could be a good person, but I don't know you like that.
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  So, no, I'm not going to tie my brain into somebody else's and be like, okay, well, this is the spiritual homegirl in California, and I'm the spiritual homegirl in Atlanta.
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  That's not going to work.
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  So to me, I shut down as best I can all confusion so that people understand who I am in the brand that I built, and that's not that same brand.
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  And I don't want any confusion with that.
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  So they'll usually say, no, I'm not going to change the name.
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  And I'm like, all right, cool.
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  At that point, we have nothing to talk about.
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  If you're not going to change the name after I clearly tell you and I show you that this is where I own the name legally, then we're not going to talk about it anymore.
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  But I know that at this point, whatever happens at this point happens.
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  And usually I get an attorney, I shut them down, and then they accuse me of doing rich craft.
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  But that's not until after they do some kind of spiritual work or spiritual intercessor work, ancestral intercessor work, thinking that's going to protect them.
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  If you have anything type of spiritual compass, whether it is the 42 laws of my eye, where it's the 10 commandments, whatever it is, stealing is wrong in virtually every type of religious or spiritual system.
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  It's.
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  It's unethical.
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  You're stealing.
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  It's not right.
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  It's usually frowned upon.
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  So what I never understood is that when the ones who would never understood never understand where I was coming from, or they just didn't want to, or they would just tell me flat out, no, I'm not rebranding.
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  Do what you got to do.
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  I'm like, all right, baby, that arrogance, Eric, is gonna hurt.
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  Cause you're gonna keep building that brand, and once it gets snatched, you're gonna be mad at me.
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  But they always do some protection work afterwards.
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  And I always wonder if you really was ethical and you really was at peace with what you was doing.
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  You wouldn't need to do no bath.
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  You wouldn't need to do no spell.
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  You wouldn't need to do no ancestral intercessor intercessor work.
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  And you wouldn't to do no type of prayers or no cow tongues or whatever you did to try to protect yourself.
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  And these are things that have actually happened.
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  I remember this one chick thought she was gonna send me a message.
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  All I did was get that as evidence.
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  Thank you very much for showing me that.
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  You gonna put my name in a cow tongue for legal.
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  For legal stuff and try to somehow freeze me in a freezer, not realizing that what you're doing is you starting to activate some stuff on your own.
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  Because I'm telling you that my work is ancestrally protected now.
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  You're playing with some stuff that's above you.
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  So it's like, okay, you want to play these games and play these spiritual games and use spirituality to protect you stealing, which is already wrong anyway.
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  And then you're surprised when everything blows up in your face because I'm not playing with you.
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  We can talk about it now, because the majority of the 15, everything has been handled.
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  But I just never understood why people do that.
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  Y' all sit there.
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  When I say y' all, I mean them.
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  15, 16, y' all will sit there and take people's stuff, and they'll tell you, hey, that don't belong to you.
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  And you'll say, nope, I'm gonna take it anyway.
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  It's mine now.
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  And then when somebody literally snatches everything up under, then it's like, oh, you attack me.
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  And I never understood that.
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  To steal from somebody, to steal somebody's ideas, to steal somebody's money, to steal somebody's man, woman, person, to steal a purse, a bag, some clothes, to steal that from another person, you've already been on the attack.
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  You're the.
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  You're on the attack.
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  You're the attacker.
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  And when somebody does something back to rectify or adjust the scales of balance and power or put you in a position to where you kind of have to atone by force because now you don't have anything because they
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  took it back from you.
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  Now it's, oh, y' all attack me.
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  And I'm over that.
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  I've seen that.
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  So Much on social media.
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  People will literally throw the first rock at you and then get mad when the mountain come back on them.
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  You probably shouldn't have thrown the froze rock.
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  You probably should have thought about it first.
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  You probably should have been like, you know what?
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  I need to cut my losses.
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  But because of our society, we so dang on proud and we're so stubborn and, and we're so entitled, we will think that everybody else's advice, even if it's to help them, even if it's against a person that we
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  know we stolen from, we'll still think that they're wrong somehow.
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  Imma do what I want to do.
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  And that's exactly what gets everybody screwed up in the game.
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  That pride coming before the fall is very much real.
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  And people think they could throw a slam at folks and do all kinds of spiritual stuff that hurt people not even realizing they don't even know what they dealing with.
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  You don't even know what kind of stuff people is dealing with.
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  And so episode 600 is this.
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  Never be afraid to defend what you know is rightfully yours.
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  Fight for what's yours by any means necessary.
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  Don't let anybody see or interfere with your intellectual property.
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  Don't let anybody interfere in your relationships, your marriage, the relationships with your children.
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  Don't let anybody play with you on your job.
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  Don't let people think they could play with you, period.
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  Am I saying go love and hip hop and throw drinks and get the supporter strap up and all kinds of stuff?
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  No, I'm not saying that.
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  But the era of bullying is over.
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  The era of just being a bully, thinking that you could do whatever you want to do.
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  The era of.
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  Of shooting first and playing victim later, that's out.
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  The veil is pretty much the veil over with.
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  Everybody keep saying the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
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  What if I told y' all all of this mess?
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  What?
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  The veil is done, okay?
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  We're seeing a lot of crap for what it is.
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  It's a lot of mess going on that is harmful to people.
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  We always say, you know, God is love, God's love.
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  And even with Christianity, you know, there's love, there's love, there's love.
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  But there are so many hateful things that we do to each other.
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  We backstab each other, we attack each other, we fight each other, and we somehow don't see that we perpetuate some of the mess that hurts the people next to us.
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  So I'm over it.
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  So I'm gonna call it how I see it moving forward.
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  So with that being said, going back to why I decided to do episode 600, because I was inspired even by the.
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  By the tfin, as my elders would say, by the tfin of my name.
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  Don't let people play with you.
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  Stop wanting to look like the bigger person at the expense of your self esteem and your self respect and your peace of mind.
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  Stand up for yourself.
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  Never be afraid to protect what you know deep down in your heart is sacred.
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  Because what's sacred is yours.
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  So I just wanted to put that on you all's heart today.
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  So let's catch up.
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  I've been busy writing a book and adjusting to some very awesome life changes, right?
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  And I have not been on camera as much as I would like to be.
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  But homegirl's here and the red dress is coming.
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  I know I've been talking about that rages for the longest, but I'm like, oh my gosh, look, I'll be looking at me like girl, but shout out to hubby but.
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  But yeah, the red dress is coming soon and I will be doing other episodes.
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  The perversion episode is coming up and for those who don't know, on my broadcast channel on Instagram, we were talking about how there's perversions in virtually every aspect of life.
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  And I was inspired by some things I saw in the news and things of that nature.
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  A lot of stuff we live in.
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  It's a, it's a odd thing, right?
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  It's, it's like we have these black and white rules for how to conduct ourselves, but managing the gray seems easier said than done.
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  Like again, like I said how the black and white rule is, you know, oh, somebody attacked me, they attacked me back.
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  And then it's the gray area of well, what did you do that started it?
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  That's what people don't like talking about, the gray.
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  So the perversion of things is the gray example.
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  I'll give you a little sneak peek.
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  So the perversion of again, social media spirituality, the example I gave you earlier, people are so fake spiritual.
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  They'll say, oh well, these ideas are for everybody.
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  And even though you own it and you're able to do business with it, it should be for everybody.
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  That is an example of spiritual bypassing gaslighting and also how people will pervert the idea of abundance to say that because you have created something from your God given talents, again, abundance and gifts, that they should be entitled
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  to it because they want a piece of it, cuz they like it.
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  So it's, it's a difference between wanting to help with the mission and wanting to just colonize it.
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  But so.
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  Well, that's how we.
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  That's how we kind of do as a society.
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  We kind of like some and then we colonize it.
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  The line dances.
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  I've seen line dances get colonized.
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  I've seen other people ideas get colonized.
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  The pop.
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  The balloon idea, that.
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  That was colonized.
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  There's a million pot.
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  The balloons now I forgot who was the owner.
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  I had to do my research to determine who actually came up with that idea first.
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  There's just so many perversions.
• 21:37
  And again, never be afraid to defend what's yours.
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  And it's always going to be light and love here, but it's never going to be pushover or doormat ever.
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  It never gave that in 2016.
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  It never gave that in 2015 when I was sketching the ideas out of how I want to launch.
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  And it definitely ain't giving doormat or pushover in 2025.
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  So I just wanted to again, put down each other's hearts.
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  Times are too rough right now to be getting knocked down.
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  Times are too hard to not defend yourself.
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  Times too hard not to protect yourself.
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  So by all means, do what you got to do.
• 22:09
  So that's episode 600.
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  So with that being said, y' all, I thank y' all for listening.
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  Y' all could have listened to any other podcast, but y' all chose listen to mine.
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  So y' all know I gotta do my usual gratitude notes.
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  Thank you all for listening.
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  Out of the tens of thousands of podcasts out there in podcast land, you've chosen to limit your ears every episode for 600 of them things.
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  Those episodes since September 15, 2016, whenever you feel like tapping in with your girl.
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  And I really appreciate that from the UK too, the United States to South Africa to Korea to Japan.
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  I appreciate y' all for listening to your girl, and it means so much to me.
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  And I look forward to to speaking more in the future.
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  So don't forget, 601 will be about the perversions of everyday life that we don't quite realize.
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  So with that being said, y' all, this has been another episode of the Spiritual Homegirl podcast.
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  My name is Maria, your spiritual homegirl, the only spiritual homegirl that can be a spiritual homegirl per the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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  And remember, boo, friends, trust the journey.
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  Trust yourself, and whatever you do, love defending and protecting your intellectual property or your ideas or what's sacred to you included.
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  Okay?
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  Love y' all.
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  Peace.