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Sc BookGal & Friends host Patrice Grimball sit down with fell host Blaque Diamond 5-12-25 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
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  Speaker 1: show starts in five life eight seven six, five four
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  Speaker 1: three two one go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl sc book Gal eight
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  Speaker 2: four to three Patree Scramble, and it is another Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 2: so of course you know I'm bringing it to you,
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  Speaker 2: new book, new author. So remember our theme for the
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  Speaker 2: month of May is the Ladies of lit. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: all of our authors this month mother's and their female authors.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, motherhood and being an author, birthing the baby, and
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  Speaker 2: having a baby.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna figure out which one is harder.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I am honored tonight to have one of my
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  Speaker 2: podcast sisters. So y'all, I started reading her book today.
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  Speaker 2: This is another one of those.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know you had it in your type books.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So we're gonna talk a little bit about that later.
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  Speaker 2: Just remember the character China, and we're not saying c
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  Speaker 2: H I n A, which would make her a nice
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  Speaker 2: little sweet child. We talk about c hy any one
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  Speaker 2: of them sisters, okay, So remember that, okay, because what
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  Speaker 2: she does. And I'm only on I think I'm chapter
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  Speaker 2: three or chapter four, thinking that's chapter three, but.
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  Speaker 3: That's after one hour of reading.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, when a book holds me like that, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's on and popping and disclaimer, I was reading it
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  Speaker 2: while I was at work in the teamroom, so you
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  Speaker 2: should see me like, oh lord, I hope this little
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  Speaker 2: kid in over here reading what I'm reading. So you
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  Speaker 2: know it's one of them ones. Okay, but I am
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  Speaker 2: so honored to have one of my podcast sisters a
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  Speaker 2: part of the Crew. You could see her show on
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  Speaker 2: every other Friday night. A lot of her show is
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  Speaker 2: about social issues with the family and health and mental health.
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  Speaker 2: But that's enough of me introducing herself her. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna bring up author Black Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: Come on up, Garl, we come on up.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Mama, Hey, I tell you I am great. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining us tonight. So how we always so much,
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  Speaker 2: of course, So how we start off the show is
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  Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Oh wait, welcome said it already that I am one
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  Speaker 5: of the podcast sisters.
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  Speaker 3: Here on the Crew network. So I'm just excited about that.
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  Speaker 5: And I am if you can't tell by my accent,
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  Speaker 5: which people say I have, which I don't feel as
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  Speaker 5: though I do. You know, I am originally from New York,
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  Speaker 5: and I am currently living in the DMV area with
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  Speaker 5: my children. I'm parented well. Up until last year, I
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  Speaker 5: said twelve children. Now I'll add two more, which is fourteen.
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  Speaker 5: And I also have a bonus daughter too, so that
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  Speaker 5: makes it fifteen children as well. And I guess I
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  Speaker 5: must be crazy. Some people that say that I am,
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  Speaker 5: and I say that I am too. The young one
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  Speaker 5: is two and she's a pistol and I believe some
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  Speaker 5: of you may have met her already on some of
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  Speaker 5: my shows. She tries to take them over. I am
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  Speaker 5: a social worker here in the DMV area and I'm
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  Speaker 5: also an author. I have a candle business, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Just love life. I just love doing what I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: See y'all remember that turn off the lights? That was her,
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  Speaker 2: That was her candles.
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  Speaker 3: I missed it. I know, y'all, think of what does
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  Speaker 3: she talk about?
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  Speaker 2: So we used to do intermissions between our show, and
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  Speaker 2: we used to always have her candles and then we
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  Speaker 2: sitting up here behind seeing what was sure because it
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  Speaker 2: was a time for us to be lax, but also
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  Speaker 2: a chance for her to advertise her wonderful budding brand
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  Speaker 2: that she has coming up. I still need to give
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  Speaker 2: me a candle. I had to stop using candles because
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  Speaker 2: I fall asleep with them on.
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  Speaker 3: You got to scare up with that? Yes, so.
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  Speaker 4: Black Jiming the author? How did this come about?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Being a writer, that's not something that I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even like reading books when I was in school.
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  Speaker 5: I just I loved school, but to read I just
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  Speaker 5: wasn't interested. I was more interested than what the teacher
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  Speaker 5: or the professor had to say. I figured, history repeats
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  Speaker 5: itself anyway, so why bothered to read it? It's going
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  Speaker 5: to repeat itself next year, in the year after that,
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  Speaker 5: and yet after that. So it wasn't something that I
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  Speaker 5: was interested in doing. But I started writing a book
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  Speaker 5: about maybe thirty years ago, but it wasn't published until
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  Speaker 5: twenty ten. And it wasn't even the same book that
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  Speaker 5: I got published. What I got published was my first book,
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  Speaker 5: and that was called In my Mother's House, and that
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  Speaker 5: was basically about things that happened to me in my
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  Speaker 5: mother's house. And if you had ever come to my
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  Speaker 5: mother's house, you maybe mentioned in there, maybe once or twice.
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  Speaker 5: But it was just I wanted people I wouldn't even
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  Speaker 5: say people. At the time that I wrote the book,
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't living in New York anymore. I was living
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  Speaker 5: in a DMV area, and I wondered if I ever
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  Speaker 5: had any grandchildren, who would tell them about me? And
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  Speaker 5: I figured the best person to tell them about me
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  Speaker 5: was me. So I wrote the book in my mother's house,
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  Speaker 5: and I wanted my grandchildren to know who their grandmother was.
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  Speaker 5: So I wrote the book. I got it published, and
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  Speaker 5: I just gave a copy to one of my children,
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  Speaker 5: and each one of my children had one, so I
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  Speaker 5: figured that was it. But then I realized that people
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  Speaker 5: were buying it, and I said, oh, people are actually
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  Speaker 5: buying the book, and I just started writing. But I
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  Speaker 5: always write things that either I experienced or.
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  Speaker 3: Things that I threw myself into.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say that, see, your writing was from experience.
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  Speaker 2: So which one of those books have that experience of
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  Speaker 2: motherhood in it?
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  Speaker 5: I would say the first one in my mother's house,
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  Speaker 5: it does, I would say the series of children's books
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  Speaker 5: on foster can adoption, that's all about parenting. It takes
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  Speaker 5: people on the dream of no one giving you more
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  Speaker 5: insight into adoption and forced to care. Because a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people say that they want to be a Forster parent,
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  Speaker 5: but I don't really think they know and understand it.
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  Speaker 3: So I put it in Layman's terms.
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  Speaker 5: But the idea came when my then nephew who's now
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  Speaker 5: my son, asked why was I adopting him and why
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  Speaker 5: was he enforced a kid? And he didn't know, and
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  Speaker 5: I thought they told him at ten years old he
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  Speaker 5: should have known.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 5: And I told him what I knew of his story
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  Speaker 5: of how he was enforced a care and why I
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  Speaker 5: was adopted him. And afterwards I asked him was he
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  Speaker 5: okay with what I had said, because what I had
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  Speaker 5: told him was his truth? And he said that he was.
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  Speaker 5: But I wasn't okay because I just didn't like this story.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't like his story. I didn't like the way
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  Speaker 5: that his life was going. And I had to sit
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  Speaker 5: and think for a while. And when I looked, I
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  Speaker 5: saw his younger sister and I said, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: you may ask me the same question someday. So I
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  Speaker 5: want to be prepared. I want to be more prepared
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  Speaker 5: than I was for him. I started writing it down
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  Speaker 5: and I said this could be a book, and I
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  Speaker 5: made it a book. It was supposed to have been
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  Speaker 5: just one book, but it wound up being read books
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  Speaker 5: in addition with a color and activity book. And that's
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  Speaker 5: to engage children because it's so hard to engage them
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  Speaker 5: as a social worker when they removed and separated from
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  Speaker 5: their home. So I get the series of Stacey f
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  Speaker 5: Children's books on force they can adoption.
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  Speaker 3: So it didn't end there.
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  Speaker 5: We decided to go a little further and talk about
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  Speaker 5: the teenagers that are hard to adopt. People don't want
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  Speaker 5: to adopt teenagers because they get such a bad rat.
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  Speaker 5: We know what we were like when we were teenagers,
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  Speaker 5: and we were a little authorok, but right about now
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  Speaker 5: it's different. But they still need to be in loving homes.
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  Speaker 5: No one acts to be abused, No child acts to
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  Speaker 5: be abused. And I know the intent is to be
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  Speaker 5: a parent, but sometimes some individuals don't have the stools
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  Speaker 5: to be a parent too's children. So we did a
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  Speaker 5: book called thirteen eighty prospect Avenue and that book came
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  Speaker 5: about what the title came about, because that was where
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  Speaker 5: my siblings and relatives grew up in the Bronx in
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  Speaker 5: New York at thirteen eighty Prospects and they would always
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  Speaker 5: talk about the fun they had, and how you can
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  Speaker 5: walk away from the door and leave it open and
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  Speaker 5: nobody would going home, and you can ask the nable
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  Speaker 5: to watch your children and don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 5: your children, and it just life was good. And I
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  Speaker 5: just wished that all that light and the things that
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  Speaker 5: they were doing and the places going. So I took
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  Speaker 5: the address and I made my own thirteen eighty Prospect
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  Speaker 5: as if I was there, and we did the book
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  Speaker 5: thirteen eighty Prospect Avenue, not another brouncetail, because it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: just another Bronx tail.
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  Speaker 3: And then we did the.
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  Speaker 5: Book trail and Teler was supposed to be moving, but
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  Speaker 5: we ran into well here, so we have to stop
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  Speaker 5: feeling from the trailer, and we just left it that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say thank you because working at the
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  Speaker 2: public libraries, we do have a lot of parents that
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  Speaker 2: call and ask for those difficult topics, those difficult subjects,
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  Speaker 2: and to have a book to give them so.
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  Speaker 4: They can read with that child.
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  Speaker 2: It's so so helpful, very much helpful. I've had parents
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  Speaker 2: acts about I don't know how to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: loss of my mother to my child. There's a book
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  Speaker 2: called I Love You Grandma, I don't know how to
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  Speaker 2: talk to my child about.
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  Speaker 4: Them being in foster care. Here's a book about that.
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  Speaker 4: You know that. I really feel that that reading.
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  Speaker 2: Is the bridge that helps have those hard conversation become
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  Speaker 2: much easier.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you doing that because I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 2: it makes I don't want to say it makes life easy,
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  Speaker 2: because it won't because of the situation, but it makes
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  Speaker 2: the situation easy to be talked about.
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  Speaker 5: If that makes it does it makes it related because
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  Speaker 5: we decided to make it generic and not use terminology
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  Speaker 5: that only a social work or someone in that profession
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  Speaker 5: would now, So it does meet families where they are.
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  Speaker 5: So if you are in the process of adopting a child,
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  Speaker 5: then you can talk about it in that book. If
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  Speaker 5: you are in the process of wanting to be a
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  Speaker 5: foster parent, then you have the book. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: matter where're at in journey of foster care adoption and
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  Speaker 5: you can pick up the book and be able to
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  Speaker 5: talk about it. You can talk about it to your
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  Speaker 5: significant other if you want to make a decision. You
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  Speaker 5: can talk about it to the child that's in your
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  Speaker 5: home because they can relate to the character and this
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  Speaker 5: couple of the books of characters, and there's just regular
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  Speaker 5: things that happen with kids, you know, growing up, of
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  Speaker 5: being around family and going places and doing things. So
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  Speaker 5: we just wanted to make it that simple for them,
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  Speaker 5: for them to get a better understanding of maybe who
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  Speaker 5: they are and where they need to be. So we
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  Speaker 5: just wanted to meet them where they were at. And
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  Speaker 5: everybody is not in the same place at the same time,
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  Speaker 5: so we just made it in a generic way.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say it any better. It meets you where
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  Speaker 2: you're at. So of course here and at Book Down
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  Speaker 2: and Friends, we are focusing on motherhood. So my question
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  Speaker 2: to you is what traits of motherhood help you you
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  Speaker 2: with your writing process?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they put me through it every day. My children.
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  Speaker 5: They put me through it every day, each and every
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  Speaker 5: one of them. With the different personalities. I can pick
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  Speaker 5: and pull and maybe write a story on each and
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  Speaker 5: every one of them, my biological children with them growing
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  Speaker 5: up and I have three, two men and a young lady,
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  Speaker 5: and growing up they would always say your mommy's favorite,
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  Speaker 5: your mommy's favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Your mommy's favorite.
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  Speaker 5: And I said, you know what, you are absolutely right,
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  Speaker 5: I do have a favorite and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: sit here and lie about it, and that's I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: be honest. I'm probably one of the only mothers that
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  Speaker 5: will tell their children that she do have a favorite.
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  Speaker 5: So I turned into my own this son, and I
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  Speaker 5: said to him, you are my favorite because you're the
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  Speaker 5: first child I ever gave her to. And I turned
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  Speaker 5: to my daughter and I said to her, you are
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  Speaker 5: my favorite because you're.
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  Speaker 3: The only daughter that I can bring.
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  Speaker 5: And I looked at my youngest, which is my son,
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  Speaker 5: and I said, you are my favorite because you are
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  Speaker 5: the last child by my husband. So you all are
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  Speaker 5: my favorite in different ways, because you all also have
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  Speaker 5: different needs in different and believe me, they're different ones.
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  Speaker 5: But they even the foster care once now adopted, in
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  Speaker 5: custody and guardianship, it's the same thing with them.
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  Speaker 3: They all in at different times in my life.
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  Speaker 5: And to tell you the truth, they may not realize it,
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  Speaker 5: but I think that I needed it at the time
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  Speaker 5: that they came into my life. So they are my
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  Speaker 5: favorites in different ways for different reasons. And they work
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  Speaker 5: on my nerve in different ways and for different reasons.
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  Speaker 5: So parenting them it opened me up to a lot
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  Speaker 5: of different things where I could have been closed, but
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  Speaker 5: it opened.
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  Speaker 3: Up to a lot of different things. So I do.
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  Speaker 3: I don't thank them enough, but I do appreciate them.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I yelled, holler, screen, complain and everything else because I
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  Speaker 5: want the best for them in ways that I would
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  Speaker 5: give my knife for it, and I don't think that
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  Speaker 5: they get that from me. For those children that had
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  Speaker 5: not been on that journey that my children were on
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  Speaker 5: with me when we had to basically run for our lives,
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  Speaker 5: they don't understand it, you know. And for those who
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  Speaker 5: were with us, the two that was with us, they
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  Speaker 5: thought I was the mean auntie because I wouldn't let
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  Speaker 5: them go out. But I couldn't let them go out
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  Speaker 5: because we were in the witness protection program, so I
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  Speaker 5: just had to be limited on what I could do
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  Speaker 5: with them. And then there was a time that we
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  Speaker 5: had a hit put out on us so we could
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  Speaker 5: we had to run and escape for a live. So
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  Speaker 5: there was different things that I have experienced that I'm
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  Speaker 5: still a little lary about the things that they do.
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  Speaker 3: Even still asks where are you, where you going? Who
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  Speaker 3: you with? You know, and I said, that's just a
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  Speaker 3: part of who I am. Am.
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  Speaker 5: I don't mean any harm by it. But when you
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  Speaker 5: lived the way that I've lived, you you really have
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  Speaker 5: no other choice but to do that. But I try
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  Speaker 5: to ease up sometimes, but it's just it's just that
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  Speaker 5: my kids and I remember hearing the celebrity say I
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  Speaker 5: brought you in this room and take you out. If
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna go out, they're gonna go out with me,
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  Speaker 5: not at the hands of somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the way that I feel. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not trying to be this big bad person.
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  Speaker 5: It's just that I've experienced enough and I don't want
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  Speaker 5: any harm to come to them because they're treasured in
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  Speaker 5: a way that I don't think that they would get
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  Speaker 5: until they become an adult. And my son brought that
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  Speaker 5: to my attention. Mind, now I know what you meant
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  Speaker 5: by this. So I smiled when he said that because
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  Speaker 5: I said he gets it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't. I didn't understand my mom.
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  Speaker 2: I was twenty twenty when I had first left the house,
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  Speaker 2: and always where are you going?
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  Speaker 3: And who are you gonna be?
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  Speaker 4: How your min in my business?
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  Speaker 3: Going back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: But then I now have the twenty two year old
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  Speaker 2: with the car, will you go? I mean to ask
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  Speaker 2: you that, oh mym' going to store.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be right back, Okay. Cool. And it's like, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Wanting to be that way, but i have to because
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  Speaker 2: I'm your mother, and I feel like if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: like that, then that to me, it doesn't make me
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  Speaker 2: feel like I'm being your mom the way I would
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  Speaker 2: like to be your mom, not the way you need
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  Speaker 2: me to be, but the way I want to be.
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  Speaker 2: Because if I'm being your mom the way I want
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  Speaker 2: to be, then am I am meeting those needs? You know?
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  Speaker 3: And with the ten year old.
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  Speaker 2: If you want another one, I got one for you. You
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  Speaker 2: want to.
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  Speaker 3: Know, right, and I have I have an eight year
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  Speaker 3: old that she can hang out with.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, see me address.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I tell my mom, you know, at her
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  Speaker 5: age and my age, I still tell her where I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: You know, even just now I said, Mom, be back,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going downstairs at a podcast. If I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: the store, I say, mom, be back, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: the store. That's just a force of habit. But it
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  Speaker 5: makes me feel good. You know, the only thing I
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  Speaker 5: would feel bad about it is if I don't come back. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and at her age and the stage in life.
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  Speaker 5: I always try to tell her my I'll be back,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm just running to the store. And then
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  Speaker 5: when I come back through the door, I see I
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: head pick up and then she said, oh, you're back,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: and I'll say yeah. So I tell her where I'm going.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I'm going to work, I'm going to the store. I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: heading back up to New York. I'm going here, I'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: going there, And this is who I'm with, you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I I tell her that's just the way that I feel.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: You know, I would hope my children will do that,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: but if they don't, I'm still going to worry no
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: matter what. I'm still going to worry where there's few
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: that's not around me right now. And I tend to worry,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: and they say, stop worrying. You just can't, your mother,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: you can't turn it off.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: You can't turn it off.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm checking my ten year old's phone to see
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: where the bus is at. I know she's on that bus.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I know she's safe, but it's just the mother and me.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I gotta follow that little bus book. And I never
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: knew I would be this way because I remember when
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I was younger, my mom was stilling this to me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: My first words, I will never.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Be a mom like this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and look at me now.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: So if you can recommend the book that you wrote
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: for a mom, what book would it be?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Now? When I said mom, I really didn't.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I really do not like saying Mother's Day.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I like to say Women's Day because I have one
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: sister that has no kids, but she treats my daughter
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: like her human Barbie doll.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Every time she go.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Her and Naya are in ultra Why that's not me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: But I don't want her to not have that experience
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: of going perfume shopping and stuff like that. So tig
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: her bring her back in one piece. This is so
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: let's just say, if you could recommend any book of
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: your books to someone that's taking care of a child
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: or an adult or just being a caregiver in any
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: type of way for him and fashion, what book would
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it be and why would you cheat that book?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I would say Stacy f My Forever Mommy. And I
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: think the title says it alone. It's it's the children's book.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I would say that Stacy f my Fearoly mommy, because
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Stacey finds her forever family, her forever mommy, and that
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: mommy finds her forever child. So they have each other
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: in there, and you see the process of what someone
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: would go through just to be able to share their
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: love with a child that they didn't birth. So for
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: those who did birth and for those who have their
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: biological parents, you see what this person went through to
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: have this child, and you understand it a little bit
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: better of the process. So I'm hoping that both sides
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: will see it growing up. Maybe it's eleven year old
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: or thirteen year old, and if they're adopted, they'll see
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: what their adopted families may want to go to. We
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: also what we did with that book, We did the
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Forever Candle. So we celebrate that every November for National
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Adoption Day. So we create the Forever candles for all
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: the families who have adopted children and they get the
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: forever candles. So yeah, I would say it be that book.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Alright.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: So now it's fun.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Time to say I didn't sing you those questions.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: So we always have a period.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: We have fun with our authors. Okay, I love music.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I love I want to say pop cultural, but I
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: won't say I love TV, but I do like some
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: shows on TV. Okay, I'm gonna put a pitch, y'all
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: go look at the pit. I did that Sunday, mind blowing.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: So if you can get any actress to play China
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: from Habitual Liar, cool, did it bend and I'll tell y'all,
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: I'll let her tell y'all a little bit about that book.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: But who would it be?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Instantly, Well, who came to me was Regina King. I
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: would say Regina King. Now, the only thing that's different
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: is because China. If you look at the cover of
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the Book of China, you can't tell her culture. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: that's the way I wanted it. You cannot tell because
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: for one, I didn't want to insult anybody's culture, so
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I wanted it to be specifically done and it was
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: very detailed in the way that she had to look.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: But I would say Regina King. Well, for one, I
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: love Regina King, and for two, she would bring that part.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna say that part for those who didn't
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: read the book. When you say really, they'll know what
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: part I'm talking about. But I remember Regina King was
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: on an Awards show and she was introducing Angela Bassett
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: and she did the role that Angela did when Angela
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Burned Burned the clothing and the story.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And Rgina came out and did that.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: I just fell apart and I had to stand and
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: get our standing all. And I said, thinking about it
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: now looking at her, I said, she would give that
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: no disrespect, Miss King. She's a little older, but she
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: would still fit the role because my character China is
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: younger than Regina King. But I think that Regina would
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: be the person that I would love to choose.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: You got me with that one, did I did not
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: see Regina King, But now that you're describing.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: And I too, I was seeing.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Kiki Palmer.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I don't like she would be no disrespect to her either,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: but I don't think she would be up for that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: And I would love to keep Kiki for who she is,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: for who I see how she is. I still see
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: an innocence in Kiki. Fact, I would not want to
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: not to say that Regina isn't. But she's older, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I'm quite sure she's probably more experienced in in in life,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I'll say, and I don't think that Kiki has. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: in order for to play the role of China, you
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: would have to do what I did, and you would
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: have to go into the character. That's how I developed China.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: You have to go into the character.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Tianna.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: This could.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Tianna could, but Tianna I I can see it, but
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: it's a It's just a I would like a little
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: softer but with that edge.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: So you guys, I'm only on chapter I want to say,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: three or four, so I haven't gotten deep in it yet.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: So the chapters I've read so far, all, like.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I say, is I didn't know she had it in them.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Y'all know me?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: You know what, Let's hear from the author herself. Tell
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: us a little bit about this.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: One, the habitual liar. I honestly hadn't planned on writing that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I was really sitting in my car one day, and
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: that's how I usually write. Things will come to me,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: and it'll come to me, and I can write a book.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: You could be talking about something. You could be at
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: a conference and somebody can talk about whatever the subject is,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: and by the end of the conference, if something grabbed
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: the wold of me, I can just finish the book
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: just in my mind, and I'll go home and I'll
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: just start writing and just be a book. This book
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: took me five years to write, and I had to
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: go into therapy for it. I was seeing a psychiatrist
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: and the therapist to do this book because I almost
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: lost to myself because I put myself in this character
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: in order to develop this character, and if you're not careful,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: you can lose yourself when you do certain types of books.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: So that's that's one of the reasons why I took
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: so long, because I had to. I had to get
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: into that character and come very close to a lot
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: of things that occurred in that book.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: So I haven't read the book. I never do.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: I never read my own books. I write them and
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: I just let it go. But there is something I
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: want to show you. I'm not sure if you're at
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: that part yet, but there's a little something that I have.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, I have gotten that. What's that else? Y'all don't
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: laugh at me.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I can't see because this is something that I've taken
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: from the book, and this is something that I've used.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I'm.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: So you're gonna rewind and rewatch and you're recording, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: so you'll blowed up a little bit. You start to
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: get to a certain part of that and then you'll
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: understand what that is.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: See, I was gonna go back and finish I can't
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: do it. I was supposed to go back and finish
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: my review book, and I ain't even worry about that
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: book no more. I'm gonna have to I'm sorry, off
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the frame. I'm gonna get through your book, but I'm
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: gonna have to finish this because see she got she
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: she's got demonstration and stuff and things, and.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: She okay, yeah, I ain't gonna.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Sleep to let We'll take you there. So you know,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I just I would just tell the people.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't suggest everybody do what I just did as
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: far as putting yourself into it, but that's what I
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: do with my books.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: As far as the children's books. I'm a forceter parent.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: I'm adopted fan, so I already lived that life. In
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: order for me to give the readers what I'm expecting
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: for them to get, I need to make sure it's
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: right because I don't want to give you junk. And
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: in order for me to give you present you to China,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: I had to go there in order to give her
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: to you, because I wasn't going to hand China to
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: you in a garbage can. And I'm very very protective
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: of China and some of the other characters in the book, so.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be alone. Yeah, no, might to be read
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: list is just growing every day. And maybe first it's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the producer who had the poetry book that be wanting
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to jump people bones.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Now we got China over here, y'all making life.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: So beautiful for Scie book.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Gall I just love it and then I get to
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: go and I get to tease people.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: So I didn't do any teasers for a Viitual Liar.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And the reason why I didn't do any teases is
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: because I just started it. Okay, y'all know how I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: will put reading this and then put oh my God
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So be prepared for some of
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: those tonight because I will stop in the middle of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: reading and.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I won't give it to you. Now, I'm not gonna
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: give you the book.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Just make sure you watch out for the interviews because
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you know I'm bringing them to you.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Okay, So you know what, there's a book trailer out
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: for the Habitual Liar and now she could tell me
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: now on Facebook. So it's a book trailer out for
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: the Habitual Liar.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna go on her Facebook phases for me,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and then when I find it, I'm gonna share it
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: with you guys.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Oh oh, somebody said, what about Carrie Washington?
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kerry Washington. You know, certain people for me when
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I see them and the wonderful actresses, it's just something
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: about them that I just like to keep their innocence.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: And I know they can do the work, but it's
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: just certain people that I'm looking for.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: And as far as this book is concerned, we're looking
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: at making it a movie.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: We're looking at it because there's other things that's going
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: along with it. Did you just say make it a movie? Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We're working on book three right now. So the two
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: of the books. Is there another book right after this.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: One, right after this one is called It's I'm not
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: gonna say it's a book. I'm gonna say it's a thing.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: So we have book one, then we have a thing,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: and then we've got book three.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Can you in box me and tell me what the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: thing is so I can be prepared. I can't do
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: that now, my nephew said, you know, my friend, no more.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I just want to take people by surprise.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: It took me by surprise when I when I came
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: up with it, and I was I was shocked. I
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: was actually shocked. And I said, yeah, this is it,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: this is this is what I need for this thing.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: And that's why I just, right now i'm calling a
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: thing just Thing two. It's not I can't take Book two.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I gotta say thing too, because I was really surprised
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: and shocked with it, and I'm really proud of it,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: and I'm really proud of the way.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: That it's going.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: So I'm just waiting to see more reviews of how
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: people's accepting Book one. I know they're gonna love Book three,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: but I think they're going to be over the top
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: with Thing two. So it's a thing right now, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just so in love with it that
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I'm bursting with it. And I'm just I don't think
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: it's gonna take another five years to do it. I'm
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: still in therapy behind it, and I know this thing too,
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: I'm definitely gonna have to be in therapy for it.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: So I'm looking forward to it. People ask why do
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: you put yourself through it? Because I want to give
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: this to you.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say. I mean, it's like,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: you know, broke a leg trying to get you this
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: ice cream.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Cooe Wow, you have somebody that's saying an embodies to intelligence, seduction,
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: and the ability to lead in morally gray spaces, much
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: like China. Yes, so this person must have read the
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: book and they understand where I'm going, So they may
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: even know after they've read the book where I'm going
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: with it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Man, Okay, I don't go to work till eleven forty
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: five tomorrow.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: It's all good. I'm supposed to go to my daughter's
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: school for outreach and.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Then I work tomorrow night. So hey, it's it's all good, y'all.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Reading the book for me is just like TV.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: So I think I'm.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Gonna be out tonight. I don't know if I wanted
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to do now. I hope I learn how to put
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: my screen on my TV, so I don't know if
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: I want to look at her on.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: My TV, my phone, on my kindle.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you all decide tell me which one
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I need to look at it on. I'm thinking the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: TV because I'm gonna need to make sure I read
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: every word that off the Black Diamond is placed in
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: this book. She worked hard on it, and I need
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to make sure I catch every single word. So I
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: know you got some events coming up. How about you
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: tell us about those events to follow.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: You on social media? Howbout you give us the run down.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Well, in June, I'm going to be celebrating Juneteenth and
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: I'm going to Georgia for that, and I'm really excited
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: about it because this is the first time that I've
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: ever celebrated it in a way that they're going to
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: celebrate it, So I'm really excited about that. In August,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: I'm heading up Top where people say up Top, that's
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: New York. They're having an event up there and I'm
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: gonna be very happy to be a part of that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: In November, I will be in Chicago, so I'm excited
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: about that as well. And I jumped up into next year.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: We're doing a conference and we're doing a retreat and
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: what follows the Habitual Live, which is our workbook. It's
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: called I can't even think of the name of the book.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I'm drawing a blank of over my work, my own workbook.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: We just developed it. Both of them came out this year.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: It followed the Habitual Lie and it's I can't believe
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: them joining a blank. It's in the completely drawn a
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: blank because it was right corracks in the surface, strengths
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: in the core not easily broken. So we have a
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: panel that comes on the third Friday every month on
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Basic Black after Dark. And the panel discussed a lot
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: of mental health concerned, a lot of trauma.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: A lot of.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Thought provoking responses in the panelists, Oh my god, that
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: were so wonderful. They're doing the work in the work book.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: We have people following us doing the work in the workbook.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Someone said that they didn't even think they would be
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: doing it, but they're doing the work and they're enjoying it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: I'm even doing the work in my own workbook and
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at it and it's just taking me the
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: places that I didn't even think that I would go.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: And it's my own workbook. And that's a book that
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: I can actually say that I've written that I actually
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: have to keep going through because of this panel. And
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: this panel is put together mostly by doctor Carolyn Stevens.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: She is also the consultant.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: She is on the panel, and she's working with our
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: viewers and our listeners who are calling in and if
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: they have concerns, and she's the person and she's also
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: gotten me through the habitual Liar as well, because this
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: is a rewrite as a matter of fact, the Habitual Liar.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: So she's working with me with that, and we're doing
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: a conference next year and we're also doing a retreat
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: and it's going to be based on China as well
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: as cracks in the surface, strengths in the core, not
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: easily broken, because people are not easily broken. We do
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: have cracks and we do have strengths in our core,
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: but you're not broken. We're doing this confidence in this
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: retreat and we're going to be in Chicago as well,
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: and we're filming the commercial there in Chicago with the panelists.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Who's going to be.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: A part of the commercial, So I'm very excited about that.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: So we're just working on a lot of projects and
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: a lot of different things surrounding this book, both books,
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  Speaker 5: the Workbook as well as The Habitual Liar. And there's
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: no mistake in the word habitual lie. The way it
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: is spelled, there's no mistaken. So people say, oh, you
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: made a mistake, there's no mistake in that, and there's
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: no mistaking anything that's in that book. So everything that
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  Speaker 5: I said was intentional. The title was intentional, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: quite sure that some people have friends that they may
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  Speaker 5: consider to be that word.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really happy about where I'm at with it.
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  Speaker 5: And now we have the habitual Liar candle, So the
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: candle is is out and that's they.
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  Speaker 3: Can get the candle as well.
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  Speaker 5: And I have something else that's coming along with it
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: with the candle in the book, so I'm not going
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: to disclose that right now. It's gonna well, we're just
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: about ready to release that. So it's a lot of
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: things going on with China and surrounding this book. And
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: I'm really proud of her, and I'm talking about her
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  Speaker 5: as if well, I won't say that, but.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of realness with this book and I'm
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: just really.
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  Speaker 7: He Now, I gotta go get the candle. I gotta
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: go get the work book, and you.
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  Speaker 5: Can join us Friday, because it's this Friday. We're gonna
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: be there and we're gonna be discussing. We're on session too,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: so we're gonna be doing it for six months. So
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: it's session two. They've been doing the work and we
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: discussed the work and a lot of it. A lot
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: of things come out in this and I can't be
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: more proud of each and every one of the individuals
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: that's part of this panel, and it brings so much
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  Speaker 5: to it and I'm just sitting there saying, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: it to.
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  Speaker 3: Take the truth.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: This panel, along with what I've been experienced, has changed
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  Speaker 5: a lot of direction for me, and I'm just just
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: in a space, in a different headspace with it, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just really happy, and i just haven't been this
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: happening a long time, so I just I'm just grinning
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: from what people say, ear ear with this whole this journey,
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: and I'm just loving it and I'm just putting putting
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: everything that I have into it. So and people can
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: catch me on Facebook under author of Black Diamond, Black
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: is spelled b l a q u E. You can
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: catch me on Instagram. Well, I guess I can take
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: my daughter on Instagram because I barely know how to
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: use it. I post things every once in the moon,
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: but I'm a Facebook. On my website, it has to
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: be done over. It's under construction so because there's a
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: lot going on, so we have to do that over.
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  Speaker 5: So you may still see the old one up and
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: with some things that's being added to it. But we're
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: still working on that. Link tree. I don't even know
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: what my my link is for that, but I'm quite
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: sure it has Black Diamond in there somewhere, and Twitter
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: as well. I think it's Black Underscore Diamond. So that
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: that's how you can catch me what I'm usually on Facebook,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: or you can email me under Basic Black Essentials at
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: gmail dot com and black again.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: It's like my name b l a q u E.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: So those are ways that people can catch me.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: On YouTube also the crew, and that's why that's how
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: y'all y'all heard the rundown. So remember I will have
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: her section up most likely Friday or Saturday, and you
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: will see this podcast.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: So you see the links.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Get her book it's on Amazon, work Book, The Habitual Liar,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: her interview all also being on her landing page on
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: sc book, Guards and Friends, because anytime you do an
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: interview with me, I give you a landing page so
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: people can figure out who you are. You got that connection, Okay, I.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: See, I'm gonna show it again. I'm gonna send it
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Oh lot of Lord Jesus.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: I love her. You guys.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Know each other like almost two. What is the season three?
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, this season three?
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Get ready to go into season four. So yeah, it's
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: been almost four years.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yees, y'all should go back and check out other shoves.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Cook especially a the end of the year when we
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: all get together, when that's fun. I love that.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, together we're talking about potato salads.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Or something holiday.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a lot of fun when we all
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: get together, because I think we're at our best at
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: that point because we are in our regular ourselves. We're
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: not a podcast, we're not mommy. We're just sitting and
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: just having fun with people who are who've been following
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: us for the year or the years, and just laying
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: it out. So I enjoy it, and I've been enjoying everybody.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I thank you for being with us.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Author, podcaster, mother, granny, great cranny, soon to be director.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I'm calling the actress in her future she might get
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the cdo y'all talk about the lady branded candle line
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  Speaker 2: off the light telling you she is hold up family.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: She is that person, And I thank you for being
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: here with me tonight. You guys remember another Tuesday Night.
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  Speaker 2: In the books, like I always say, there's no such
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: thing as an old book, because every book has not
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: been read, so see you guys next week. Tuesday, when
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: a neighbor, another mother, and another author. Good night everyone bye.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Now it's time for me to be an