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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #65_HOST LISA HOPKINS_(SHOW #9) · DA CREW Podcast

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  M b b b b b b b Bye, high closing chapters. I'm
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  turning pages. Glory to glory, I faith to faith, I'm boring on,
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  I'm mooring on, I'm mon on, I'm it and over, so
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  I'll keep it. Welcome to Sient Reactions with Lisa Hopcasts, where we explore
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  our ability to overcome our trauma. Welcome, good evening, everybody. It's
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  a beautiful, beautiful day here in Treeport, Louisiana. I am blessed to
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  be here with each and every one of you. Welcome to the sixty fifth
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  episode from the Crew podcast. And you are now with me the Triggered Reactions
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  Conquered Podcast with Lisa Hopkins. At this time, I will be going forth
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  in a word of prayer and I will be sharing the scripture with you that
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  is coming from Philippians for nineteen. Father God, in the name of Jesus,
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  Lord, I come before you right now. Thank you for this opportunity,
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  Thank you for this time of podcasting. Lord God Lord, we just
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  asked that you would bless everybody that will come on this platform today to listen.
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  Bless my special guest, and bless miss Angela Thomas as she goes forth
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  to take us on this journey with triggered reactions conquered with Lisa Hopkins. At
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  this time, I will be reading my scripture and it is from Philippians for
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  nineteen and it reads as us and My God will supply all your needs according
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  to His riches in glory. Today, my special guests is Miss Juanita Green.
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  Miss Janita Green is a resident of Free Court, Louisiana, and she
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  has some amazing things to share with us on today. Hello everyone, Thank
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  you for having me. Lisa. I'm excited about the questions that I don't
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  know yet, but I am excited to be here. Thank you for inviting
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  me. Well, I thank you, thank you so much for just gracing
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  us all with your presence. We're looking forward to a good time with you.
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  First of all, I would like to start by asking you to just
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  tell a little bit about your your upbringing and on through college. Okay,
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  that's that could be a very long story. Did you bring a lunch?
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  Um? So? Raised in mainly Pasadena, California. UM, I say
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  my upbringing was pretty normal, surrounded by family, raised with my mom a
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  single parent, U one sibling, and was always taught you know, just
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  to work, work, work, So I am naturally a workhorse. A
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  lot of times people will ask me or tell me, hey, you need
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  to calm down or you need to rest, and I tell them, hey,
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  if you see me resting, uh, there's probably something wrong with me.
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  So I enjoy moving around, working, being productive, always progressive and
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  um, that was just how I was raised. We were always up at
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  six am. Everybody had something to do and um following my mom around.
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  She would sell clothes at UM. It was a swap meet, so we'd
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  have to be up early in the morning to get all the clothes in the
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  car. And that was alone with her job with the government, and so
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  she was always working. So I grew up with always surrounded by somebody who
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  was working. But yeah, But as I grew older, went on to
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  college, got a bachelor's in Human Development, Masters in Educational Psychological Education and
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  Guidance Counseling with a PPS credential. Studied abroad for a year or no,
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  I'm sorry for a month in New Zealand, learned some therapeutic techniques there,
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  went into becoming a therapist and did therapy in the United States, New Zealand,
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  in China, and I don't know what happened, but for some reason
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  I ended up getting into property in Shreveport and left all the therapy stuff behind
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  and just went with God's plan which was not mine. Well, but I'm
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  okay. I thank you so much for sharing that. And one thing I
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  would like to say is about my scripture that I shared. I actually share
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  that spiritual because of my beautiful, amazing cousin. This is my cousin.
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  Everybody one, Nita. I shared that God would supply all of our needs
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  according to His riches and glory. Because many times I speak to my cousin,
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  as what you're doing, Oh, I'm listening to the Holy Spirit,
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  Well, what the Holy Spirit say? And she'll tell me. And many
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  of those things that she speaks about, they've always come to pass. So
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  I use her as a model someone that I can look up to in learning
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  how to really really use the Holy Spirit and let the Holy Spirit does do
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  what it's supposed to do in leading guiding us and directioning us into all troops
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  on. Nita has a little love story that she's going to share with us,
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  and it stems from back when she was in elementary school. All Right,
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  we did not go over all of this, Okay, So yeah,
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  so you're talking about how I met my husband that part, okay, So
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  how I met my husband was we were in preschool together in Pasadena, Washington
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  Children's Center, and he used to make fun of me a lot, and
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  so I guess at three year old three years old, I really had an
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  impact because I remembered him throughout my entire life. And we ended up having
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  a fight in preschool. And technically it wasn't we had a fight. It
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  was actually I fought him. He was sitting down watching like the guys play
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  I think it was like tag football or something like that, flag football,
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  and I just went up to him and started socking him. And I remember
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  Miss Valerie picked me up and took me away, and she was busting up
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  laughing because when I was hitting him, I was saying, you better not
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  ever due, and I was talking, so she just thought that was the
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  funniest thing. And so throughout my entire life I would see him like that
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  in middle school or high school, but I don't think he ever really remembered
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  me, or we just weren't in the same groups. But I would see
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  him, but it was just in passing, like we never hung out together,
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  so I ended up I'm sorry, I'm outside so if you see me
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  doing this as well. But I do remember him. He stuck out in
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  my mind my entire life. He was actually one of my stories of childhood,
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  my entire life, and that was because I've never actually been in a
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  fight except for with him. So when people would ask me, have you
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  ever been in a fight, and I'd be like, whoa, There was
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  this one guy back in preschool that I had a fight with, but that's
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  pretty much it. I've never had another fight with anyone. So when I
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  saw him again in my thirties in the store, I was like, are
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  you lea Green? And he was like yeah, and so that was pretty
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  much it because he didn't know who I was. So but when I went
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  outside to get in the car, he was helping his mom get in the
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  car, and his mom was the one who said, um, excuse me,
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  miss um, you sure are pretty leon get her number, And because
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  of something about her voice in her just her demeanor, we both were like,
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  oh okay. So we ended up exchanging numbers and that was actually my
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  only time ever talking to his mom. She ended up passing not you know,
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  not too far after that, but that it was his mom who got
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  me to give my number to him. And I've known him since free school,
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  and I honestly don't think he remembers, but he says he does,
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  and he says that he made fun of me because he liked me. But
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  I don't know. But anyhow, that that is my love story. So
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  I have known my husband since free school a man. Thank you, thank
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  you, thank that story. And one thing I would like to say on
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  behalf of your mother who is deceased and his mother who is DC. During
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  the reception at the wedding, I gave a tribute to them at that time
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  and to this day I can say that I am so grateful for the relationship
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  that you have with your husband, and I love the way that he treats
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  you and he makes you smiling. You guys play. You guys are so
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  adorable, and I thank God for that. Thank you, thank you.
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  So can you tell the people about the day that the Holy Spirit told you
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  to move to Louisiana. So the Holy Spirit, I will say this,
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  And before I got married, I told my husband, I said, the
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  Holy Spirit tells me to do some crazy things, and I'm gonna listen to
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  the Holy Spirit. So I need for you to not question me, to
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  not like, you know, say anything against what the Holy Spirit is telling
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  me, because I'm going to do it. And so he was like,
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  okay. So one morning, I mean, here, we are living in
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  Marino Alley, nice house, kids are fine, you know, we both
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  got good jobs, whatever, And the Holy Spirit tells me on a Tuesday
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  when I wake up, and we knew that we wanted to move to Shreveport
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  for a little bit because we had properties out there, but we didn't want
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  to move then because it was COVID and my youngest one was in her last
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  year of high school and so she wanted to graduate with her high school friends
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  and so all these all the things, and I wake up on Tuesday and
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  the Holy Spirit says it's time to move now. And I was like,
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  okay. So literally it didn't I didn't toss and turn with it. That
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  morning, I looked at him and I said, hey, the Holy Spirit
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  said it is time to go, and he was like, you've got to
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  be kidding me, which is a whole other testimony because he was in line
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  for a really big position at his job and this would have essentially knocked him
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  out of being in line for that that he had worked really hard for that
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  position, and so he was like, Okay, you know, if that's
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  what the Holy Spirit told you, then let's do it. So we had
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  a meeting with the kids and like, hey, we're gonna move. They
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  were crying, they were upset, and I was like, I don't know
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  what to tell you. We listed the house on Wednesday, so that was
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  on Tuesday. We were in a bidding war by Friday, and the house
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  did sail and we took a nice little road trip all the way to Louisiana.
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  We stopped every and every state, and then we did move out here
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  and everything just lined up. My cousin had a house that she had just
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  moved out of, nice big, four bedroom house. She rented it to
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  us for five hundred dollars a month. So I was able to keep my
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  job in California because of COVID, I was a therapist and everything went on
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  phone, so I was able to keep my job because I didn't have to
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  see clients face to face anymore. So everything worked out and then just like
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  jump into this year, even though that was like two and a half years
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  ago. That job, that he was upset about leaving because he knocked him
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  out of the position. He got a call about four months ago and they
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  said, hey, that position is open and we want you to be the
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  national security manager trainer or something like that, National manager training security, something
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  like that for this huge company. And they said, we have to hire
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  somebody who lives out of state. So he would not have been eligible for
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  the job if he stayed in California. So he had to be out of
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  state to be eligible for the job. So he has now been working in
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  that position for like four months, and I can just see that he is
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  where he wants to be. So that's like a whole jump. But yes,
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  so I thank you for sharing that. That's awesome. Now, when
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  you first got here, what was the very first thing that you did.
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  I know that you're a serial entrepreneur, and we're gonna get into some of
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  those things that the Lord has blessed you to be able to do and how
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  you are able to help many people in the community. So let's start with
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  the story of the spin cycle. So, of course, the Holy Spirit
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  tells us to move here in Shreveport, and I do. I was a
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  spin teacher in California. Fell in love with spin, and so I became
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  a spin instructor. I worked at a couple of studios out there, like
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  La Fitness was one of them. I worked at multiple La fitnesses, and
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  so when I got here, I was looking for a spin studio and could
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  not find one. So and so when I was going in some of the
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  gems, I was asking, haiti have spin? Do you have spin one?
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  I wanted to teach them too. I want to take the class.
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  And so it ended up happening was I couldn't find any because spin is not
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  huge in street sport. We like to eat out of year. Actually,
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  UM, tell the people what spin is. So spin is a stationary bike.
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  It where you cycle. It's a cardio class in your high intents,
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  it's it's an amazing class. I love Spinum. Some people call it cycling,
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  some people call it spin, but it is an indoor cycling class.
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  And so um, the Holy Spirit said, I want you to open up
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  your own spin studio. And this is where you're gonna open it up.
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  Where it ended up being one of the gyms that I visited that didn't have
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  spin is where the Holy Spirit told me to open the class the or the
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  studio rather, and so I went back there and I entertained the idea of
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  opening a studio. I googled, like, you know, what's the easiest
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  way, all kinds of stuff, and the lady ended up showing me another
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  area of her stute, of her gym that I didn't even know that she
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  had, and this area had its own entrance, it had an office,
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  it was it was huge, it had a bathroom. So it ended up
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  being like a duplex to the actual gym, and so I was able to
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  open that up as a studio. I ended up getting twenty five really high
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  end bikes and then we opened it up to kickboxing and a few other things.
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  And that was where I really started to grow in Shreveport. Because of
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  course, me coming from California, I only knew my dad's side of the
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  family, so my ability to meet people was very limited because I wasn't from
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  here and I only knew a small group of people. But opening that cycling
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  studio, I have met so many people. It was literally my link of
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  networking in so many different avenues in Shreveport. All of my connections today started
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  in that studio. Outside of my family and who they know. Well,
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  I'd like to thank God for I thank God for the leading of the Holy
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  Spirit and him leading you there so that you can gain wealth through the community
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  as you guys all work together, networking and everything like that. It's a
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  wonderful blessing. I understand that you and your husband have a company in which
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  you live houses. Yeah, so we have Greenhouse Rehab and that company started
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  when we lived in California and basically we buy houses. So one of the
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  things I know it is fast report when we got here is that a lot
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  of the houses are run down and very old. Louisiana is one of the
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  oldest states in America. Therefore, their properties are very old and some are
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  just left behind for various reasons and they're just sitting there. So we had
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  already decided that we were going to start to put money into these properties and
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  make them really nice and move people into them. Well, we did start
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  to do that, and people actually started following us, and I don't I
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  don't know, but people are coming from different states, different countries and they're
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  buying our houses. So we would flip these houses and honestly, they would
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  be sold before we could even finish flipping them to someone who did not even
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  live in this area, and then they'd be rented out or turned into essentially
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  airbnbs, which started a whole other business called str Solutions, which is short
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  term rential solutions, and that business runs twenty seven Airbnb, well twenty nine
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  now twenty nine airbnbs out here, and we have a housekeeping team that cleans
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  forty three airbnbs and we are growing. I say, we add at least
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  two airbnbs and we just added leases Airbnb. Yeah, so congratulation on that.
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  We are going to go out tonight and celebrate for her purchase of almost
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  three thousand square foot house, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, newly remodeled.
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  I couldn't be prouder of her. And it's a it's a beautiful home,
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  and it too will be used when as she's not here as a short term
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  rental and we'll be managing that and taking care of her baby. But yeah,
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  so that's what we do. I have two of my own lake front
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  of property lake front properties, and we rent them out for people to come
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  and enjoy Shreveport. And like I said, the business is just those are
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  some of my guests. Now I'm sitting in my backyard. Um, but
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  yeah, so that is what we do. So we have the Spin Studio,
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  which we change the name to the Cardio Spot, and we have Greenhouse
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  Rehab, and we have u str Solutions and everything is growing and I don't
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  know how we do it. Well, I'm not gonna say that. It's
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  definitely God definitely yes. So why don't you tell us a little bit about
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  your cleaning service. Yeah, So, basically we are a system that is
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  in place for people who own short term rentals Airbnb's vrbo, vacation homes,
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  people corporate living type of homes. And what we do is at checkout,
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  we show up. You have a team of people who show up, They
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  go in, they clean, they report anything that's out of place. They
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  basically rate your guests for you, because of course you're not there, so
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  they let you know like how your guests did, how well they did,
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  whether they left a mess, will send pictures if anything's broken. We do
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  a safety assessment to make sure that the house is safe for the next guest
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  to check in. We do a thorough cleaning, we do a restocking,
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  and we make sure your house is ready for next check in. So basically,
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  your short term rental never has to be closed because we come in as
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  soon as check out and we make sure it's ready for the next check in
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  and so, which is really huge me being an airbnb owner, that's a
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  huge thing because you lose a lot of money when you have to close down
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  to clean and things like that. So to keep an airbnb constantly rolling in
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  people don't have the time they want a vacation. Usually an airbnb is supposed
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  to be a passive income, but if you're cleaning and you're doing all these
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  things, it's not as passive as it was anticipated to be. So we
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  have we do all of that, and so it allows for people like yourself
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  to go back and forth home when need need and then come out here and
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  not have anything to worry about. Okay, that's awesome, that is really
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  really huge. I'm so grateful for every single thing that the Lord has blessed
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  you to to do. I remember when I was before I came out here,
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  and I was telling you that I really really was feending for your mom.
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  I wish she was here, I wish she was here, and you
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  guys just don't know. God made a way for me to wind up sitting
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  by a lady on the airplane that had the same name as her mother that
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  was coming to Louisiana. I left a week later and that same exact lady
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  with the name of her mother, Evelyn Williams, was sitting in the seat
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  next to me one more time. So I look at it as God letting
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  me know that that Juanita's mother was letting us know that what we're doing in
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  these days and times was okay. So that's how I look at it.
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  It was amazing to me. So Juanita has been blessed to live on a
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  property that has a Well, you want to share with the people whose house
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  this is that you're living in that has a you're talking about my whale system?
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  Yes? Yes, why do you want to talk about the whales?
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  Well, it's amazing just to know that you moved in someone's house that was
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  higher, was a well known person. And if you don't want to talk
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  about it, we don't have to do that. No, are you talking
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  about I live on whales? Was that what you're talking about? Yeah?
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  Like the whales at pump Water? Yeah, okay, you want to talk
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  about the whales? Yeah. I enjoyed listening to the story when you told
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  it to me, So I figured that maybe our guests would like to know
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  about it, Okay, can you okay, mind No, I'm just trying
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  to figure out, like, what was the story, so I can tell
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  you, Oh, you've moved in the house and you didn't know who had
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  the house before you, and you came to find out that it was higher,
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  high up person something like that. Yeah yeah, yeah, but I'm
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  okay. So basically what ended up happening was we bought this beautiful estate,
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  I mean gorgeous estate on the lake on Cross Lake, and so we kind
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  of lived like on an island. Um and um uh. The house ended
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  up basically was owned by a mega pastor, which I did not know was
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  a mega pastor, but he's huge. He's so huge. His church has
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  a Starbucks in it. So yeah, so there are scriptures. What I
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  did learn is there are scriptures in each wall in the house. I don't
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  know if I told you that, but um, I don't pay a water
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  bill if that's what. So one of the things about buying this house is
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  I was really scared because this house costs a lot of money. And when
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  I got approved for it, I was like Oh my god, but the
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  whole way, the whole thing happened. Um. So there are three houses
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  on this estate, and two of them we do use a short term rentals.
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  But what we didn't know is that, and this was not discussed until
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  after the sale, that we had mineral rights. What we knew we had
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  mentoral rights, but we didn't know that they were actually active. Like you
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  receive a check every month, so we do get a check every month for
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  them using the minerals on the land, which we were not aware of.
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  And what ended up happening was a check came in the pastor's name and we
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  were like, we own the house now, so call these people. And
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  I had taken a real estate class and kind of knew some things too,
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  So right before we bought this house, I was actually in estra Wa.
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  I was taken the real estate class, which taught me a lot of stuff
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  like latorial rights, which I know now how like my rights to the lake
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  and stuff like that, which I would not have known how to not taken
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  that class. But anyhow, yes, so we do get that I don't
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  I guess I mentioned I don't pay water because we have three wells. They're
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  filtered they're on electric pumps, So yeah, there's things like that, I
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  don't have to pay parish taxes because we're not in the city of Shreveport.
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  So like all these breaks that God was just constantly I think when we were
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  in escrow, they were like, oh, we have a thing where the
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  bank is now paying this cost and that cost, which ended up saving us
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  like almost forty thousand dollars on the down payment. It was just like one
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  thing after another where I just constantly, even in my own stress and anxiety
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  of how is this going to happen, but allowing also for the Holy Spirit
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  to do his thing and for God to do his thing, you know,
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  keeping myself still even in my worrying, which is like the hardest thing for
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  a human to do is, especially when you think you're smart, is for
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  you to sit still and watch God work in something that you feel like you're
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  feeling at or that you're making a decision that is bigger than something that you
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  can do. So even in those moments that were bigger than me, I
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  was sitting still and every time God just kept revealing himself over and over and
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  over again. And we've been here for a year and a half have never
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  been late on this huge mortgage. We live a good life, and when
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  it was all happening, I was just like, this is crazy. And
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  even sometimes I still get like, oh my God. But every month,
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  every day, I watch him work it out smoothly, smoother than I could
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  ever work it out, and so I'm thankful. But I think that's the
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  story that you're talking about. Yes, Yes, the reason why I have
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  had you to share all these stories is because, like I said at the
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  beginning and throughout our podcast time, you have often mentioned the Holy Spirit.
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  I would admonish anybody, even myself, to always rely on the Holy Spirit
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  and let him leave God and direct you into the ways that you should go.
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  You can't be wavering, and you can't be trying to take care of
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  things yourself, because a lot of times when we take things into our own
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  hands, we may be digging a ditch that's bigger than we can even attempt
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  to get out of. And I'm saying that from experience, because my cousin
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  had to dig me out of a ditch that I had dug for myself.
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  Since I was here in Louisiana this time trying to do everything I needed to
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  do on my own and my plans were no good. So I'm using her
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  as an example to show everybody that operating in the Holy Spirit, you cannot
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  go wrong. As you can see, she has been blessed far beyond measure,
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  and I am so grateful and so thankful to have had Miss Juanita Green
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  on my platform today with Triggered Reactions Conquered. I would like to thank her
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  so much for sharing with the people. It's been my pleasure and I just
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  love you, love you, love you so much with the love of the
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  Lord. And to our viewers, I'd like to thank you for tuning in
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  to Trigger Reactions Conquered with Lisa Hopkins, and remember, go with God and
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  operate in nothing but the Holy Spirit. Amen. Welcome to Suerent Reactions with
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  Lisa Hopkins, where we explore our ability to overcome