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ADDING NEW HARDWARE & LEGACY THANKS RBC BOOKSTORE · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: My picture, I know to think my coming. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: my song. I just wanted to play that song real quick.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to it before I came home, so
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to play that, y'all. Did y'all hear
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  Speaker 1: what he said? He said he carried the cross for us, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just reminded. I had went off with my mom
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  Speaker 1: on today, but I had an opportunity, had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to step away from the house and come back, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I come back and this is what I find. I
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  Speaker 1: find this shout out to KBC Company's KBC Bookstore. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is
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  Speaker 1: said that's Angela Smith. Congratulations. It's in a book award.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to jump on. Still giving shots out, still
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  Speaker 1: giving shots out for all those that supported this weekend, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: guys that supported us with the event this weekend. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we are on the move. We're yet still working,
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  Speaker 1: we are yet still out here. Headed to Chicago, headed
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  Speaker 1: to some more places. Got a couple of things going on,
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  Speaker 1: got some stuff coming up that I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: sharing with you guys. Y'all, I'm ready because I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of school. I have some time on my hand. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to get some things started. So first off,
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  Speaker 1: and today, y'all, today is Monday. If it's Monday Morning motivation,
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  Speaker 1: y'all want y'all to go check it out. I uploaded
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  Speaker 1: it to my substack, so it's over on my substack
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  Speaker 1: as well. If you're not following me on substack, please
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  Speaker 1: go over. Follow me on substack, follow me on substack,
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  Speaker 1: and stay connected, stay connected to the crew podcast A
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  Speaker 1: A L A C. Stay connected to the one hundred
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  Speaker 1: author movement, y'all, because there's a lot that we are
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  Speaker 1: about to do. There's a lot that we are about
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  Speaker 1: to do. I'll tell you God, it's truly amazing. He's
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  Speaker 1: yet making some connections. He's yet allowing us to utilize
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  Speaker 1: these gifts and these talents that he's given us. So
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  Speaker 1: shout out, shout out, shout out, shout out. Not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on loan. I just want to jump on and
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  Speaker 1: really just give a shout out for my trophy. Wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give a shout out, what about trophy? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you for my trophy. And
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to jump on remind you guys that
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  Speaker 1: we are still going to be live tonight on the
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  Speaker 1: Crew podcast. Snett is going to be on tonight. We
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  Speaker 1: are yet celebrating National Poetry Awareness Month. So if you
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  Speaker 1: are a poet, get connected, because we have some opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for you to allow your brand to speak. I am
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  Speaker 1: definitely looking for some poets to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the virtual event that we're having on the twentieth. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the Hot Seat. I am looking for twenty five
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  Speaker 1: individuals to come on and be in the hot seats.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have an opportunity to share your brand and to
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  Speaker 1: share some of your poetry and connect with some of
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  Speaker 1: the other poets as a part of the event. So
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  Speaker 1: you get an opportunity to connect, You get an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to cut, an aborate, you get an opportunity to create,
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  Speaker 1: and you get an opportunity to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: a community, helping build a community as that because yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are definitely building a supportive network over here where
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  Speaker 1: you can support each other. I tell you the support
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  Speaker 1: the love that was in the room this weekend was
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  Speaker 1: left and shy of amazing. I tell you, God know
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  Speaker 1: what you need, when you needed, how you need it.
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  Speaker 1: If you just align with that that you need, remove
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  Speaker 1: self out the way, and think about those things that
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing, y'all. I am getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for the podcast for tonight. I just jumped on because
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to give a shout out to KBC Companies
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  Speaker 1: the Bookstore for my amazing award. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. It gets added to the collection,
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  Speaker 1: it gets added to the collection. So, y'all, these are
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  Speaker 1: the things that we are doing over here in the group.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be able to highlight individuals and provide
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  Speaker 1: them with opportunities where they can be highlighted. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at all of the amazing authors that have taken opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to share their books to be a part of some
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  Speaker 1: of these platforms where you can get your books reviewed
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  Speaker 1: and they get selected to be a part of awards
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  Speaker 1: that they give out. So it is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for you to connect with resources like this, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get an opportunity to do interviews, you get an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to be featured in magazines, and it's just all over.
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  Speaker 1: You get to connect with those that are connected with
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  Speaker 1: different platforms so that you can can share your brand, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's all about, a stand visible. How many
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  Speaker 1: times have you shared your book today? How many times
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  Speaker 1: have you shared your brand today? How many times have
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned what it is that you do today? Like,
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  Speaker 1: if we don't talk about what we're doing, how do
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  Speaker 1: people know what we're doing? If we don't talk about
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  Speaker 1: our books, how do people even know we got books?
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  Speaker 1: What other things do you have that can bring in
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  Speaker 1: revenue around your books? Do you have t shirts? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have hats? Do you have pins? Do you have notebooks?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have work books? Do you have journals? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have planners? Do you have something digital? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have something interactive? Do you have something you can do
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  Speaker 1: an app? You can do all kinds of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: can engage people with your book. So these are things
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about inside of the group. We share
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  Speaker 1: in our We have a group chat through Messenger where
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  Speaker 1: all of us are. We engage every day. Somebody's posting
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  Speaker 1: something hello, good morning. We post challenges, we share each
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  Speaker 1: other's stuff, We have contests. We just do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things that can help you gain visibility, that
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  Speaker 1: can help you even get comfortable with the different things
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  Speaker 1: that you do on a personal level, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us we are new authors and sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do. So being around other people that
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  Speaker 1: have journeyed through some of the processes that you have already,
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  Speaker 1: they can kind of share the things that have worked
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  Speaker 1: for them and then the things that have not worked.
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  Speaker 1: So these are the things that we're doing. So again, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on here today talking about the one hundred at
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  Speaker 1: the movement getting involved and sharing with you guys a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about what is all about. So it is
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  Speaker 1: not a competition. It's not an award platform where we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be handing out the awards, but we do try
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  Speaker 1: to share with you opportunities where you can be nominated
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  Speaker 1: for awards, where you can be featured in magazines, blogs,
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  Speaker 1: various things. So it is an opportunity for you to
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  Speaker 1: just be a part part of a community that's supporting
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  Speaker 1: each other. You can ask some of the current one
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  Speaker 1: hundred authors movement who and you asking what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: over there, how they like it, you know, the vibe
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  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. I can't promise you that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna walk away with a million dollars that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna walk away with a million books sold. But I
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  Speaker 1: can't promise you that you're gonna feel like you've gained
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  Speaker 1: some resources that you didn't have before you came. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel like you're a little more empowered because we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna encourage you. We're gonna we're gonna lift you up,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna inspire you because we want you to be
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  Speaker 1: encouraged to stay on this journey. So I feel like
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  Speaker 1: being a part of the movement will help you do
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  Speaker 1: just that. And if you need an idea about what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, please go visit our blog, go look at
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  Speaker 1: some of our YouTube's and you can see what we're
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  Speaker 1: doing over at the one hundred Authors Movement. We are
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot of interviews, we are sharing a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna start back we have We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: showcasing our men. Our men celebration is coming up, y'all know.
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  Speaker 1: Every month, every June, we always celebrate our men. It
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  Speaker 1: is our Men History Month for Aspire Authors magazine, and
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing this for the last five years. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear a lot about anybody doing anything for men,
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  Speaker 1: so I say, you know what, I am my brother's keeper,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do this. So I dedicate June to
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  Speaker 1: the month to celebrate our men, because it's more than
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  Speaker 1: just that one day. Father's Day is not just about
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  Speaker 1: those that happen to have help father or bring a
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  Speaker 1: child into this world, create a child, but it's those
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  Speaker 1: that take care, those that spend time with, those that nourish,
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  Speaker 1: those that pour into those that are leaders by examples.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the individuals that we want to highlight, those
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  Speaker 1: that we want to showcase. So if you are a
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  Speaker 1: mail and you are an author, you're a speaker, you're
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  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, whatever you are, and you are leading by example,
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  Speaker 1: we want to share you in the month of June
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  Speaker 1: in the magazine as well as the podcast. There is
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  Speaker 1: a flyer floating around somewhere. I have to grab it.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a fire floating around about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: We have the poetry that's coming up on April the twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is something that I need all of my
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  Speaker 1: poets that get involved in. It is called the hot
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  Speaker 1: seat and you get three minutes and thirty three seconds
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  Speaker 1: to spit some poetry, talk about your brand, how they
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  Speaker 1: can connect with you all that gets stuff, and then
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  Speaker 1: if you want to hang around, you get to hang
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  Speaker 1: around to the end. And once all of the poets
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  Speaker 1: have gone, we're gonna open it up for those that
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  Speaker 1: want to ask questions, those that want to engage in
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  Speaker 1: conversation with the poets that are hanging around, because we
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  Speaker 1: want you, guys, to be able to connect with these
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  Speaker 1: amazing individuals that not afraid to share their journey, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's through poetry, whether it's through books, podcasts, magazines. However
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  Speaker 1: they're sharing, they're being transparent, they're being real, they're being
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  Speaker 1: down to earth because guess what, y'all, it's all about
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  Speaker 1: us healing. It's all about us going to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: And y'all, how sweet will it be if we could
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  Speaker 1: help those that we call friends, those that are in
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  Speaker 1: our circle, those that support the things that we do.
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  Speaker 1: If we could just be our brother and sister's keeper,
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  Speaker 1: If we could just support one another, if we could
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  Speaker 1: uplift each other, if we could just pour into each other.
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  Speaker 1: How amazing it could be if we could build a
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  Speaker 1: platform where everybody is winning, everybody is supportive, everybody is
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  Speaker 1: able to engage, everybody is able to bring something to
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  Speaker 1: the table and everybody is able to eat in there,
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  Speaker 1: able to take a to go box, just like going
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  Speaker 1: to Olive Guard. Huh, just like going to Olive Guard.
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  Speaker 1: You can go to Olive Garden right now and you
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  Speaker 1: can sit there. They're gonna give you that all you
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  Speaker 1: can eat salad or soup. You're gonna get all you
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  Speaker 1: can eat breadsticks, and then of course you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: your meal, and then you get a to gold plate.
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  Speaker 1: They give you a to gold plate, and that is
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  Speaker 1: the by one, get one, the eat one here and
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  Speaker 1: take one to go. So that's just like when you collaborate,
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  Speaker 1: when you partner with people. That's like you bring in
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  Speaker 1: something to the family table. When you go to corrobas
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  Speaker 1: and you sit at the family table, everybody bringing their meal,
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  Speaker 1: like you go to a pot that you bring your
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  Speaker 1: pot what you're bringing, and then you're able to sample
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of what everybody else brought to the table,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're able to get full. And then because
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  Speaker 1: everybody brongs something, guess what, it's more than enough. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to take something with you, you're still
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  Speaker 1: able to take something with you. And that's when you grow.
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  Speaker 1: When you come together, you collaborate, you partner, and you
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  Speaker 1: grow together as you grow and develop, as you're lifting
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  Speaker 1: each other up, and you're becoming a leader, and you're
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  Speaker 1: developing your own circle. As you develop your leaders, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna develop leaders one day, and they're gonna branch out.
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  Speaker 1: But just if you're doing your job, the individuals that
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing up, those that you're coaching, those that you're
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  Speaker 1: showing the way, they're never ever ever going to depart.
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  Speaker 1: They're always gonna be there. They're always gonna be there
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  Speaker 1: to support, and they're always gonna be there to bring
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  Speaker 1: other people to the circle. Because guess what, just as
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  Speaker 1: you may have led them, they may need you to
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  Speaker 1: lead someone else so that they may be able to
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  Speaker 1: go to the next level. Because guess what, in order
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  Speaker 1: for us to elevate, who, thank you, Holy ghosts. In
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  Speaker 1: order for us to elevate, y'all, somebody got to take
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  Speaker 1: your place. So if you're not raising nobody up, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Holy ghosts. If you're not raising nobody up, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: that's not gonna be anybody to take your place when
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  Speaker 1: you elevate to the next level. So while you're you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting on stuff, and you're trying to hold stuff in
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to horwer stuff, and you're hoping that
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  Speaker 1: if you kick them right there. Guess what, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: venture out And they're gonna eventually find that. And when
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  Speaker 1: they find that that that mentor that coach, that will
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  Speaker 1: allow them to grow and will allow them to venture out,
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  Speaker 1: and then they can begin to grow other people. Guess
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  Speaker 1: what they gonna be in the wind. They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in the wind, and you're gonna be wondering where they at.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all stop stifling your people, Let them grow, let them learn,
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  Speaker 1: But never forget, never forget, never forget the one that
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  Speaker 1: help you get where you are. We can never forget
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  Speaker 1: those that helped us along the way, those that assisted us,
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  Speaker 1: those that crawl or so that we could walk, those
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  Speaker 1: that ran so that we'll be able to spread, so
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  Speaker 1: that we'll be able to loan, jump, so that we'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to jump hurdles. See, it's somebody that paid
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  Speaker 1: the way before everybody in order for them to get
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  Speaker 1: to the next level. So don't just think that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna arrive overnight. Know that there's a process. Know that
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that you gotta go through. But just
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  Speaker 1: as you go through them, you got to know that
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  Speaker 1: there's the other side through. So now that you got
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  Speaker 1: to get through, so that you can get through the
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  Speaker 1: other side of through. And when you get through the
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  Speaker 1: other side of through, you can begin to praise them,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can begin to share it with somebody
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  Speaker 1: else so that somebody else can get to the other side.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he said, we overcome by the sharing of
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  Speaker 1: our testimony. Yeah, it's only a test just for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: just so we can get to that testimony so that
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  Speaker 1: we can tell somebody else how we got through, and
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  Speaker 1: then we can share with them how we went through. See,
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  Speaker 1: if you never go through something, you can't tell nobody
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  Speaker 1: how you got through. See every lesson that that that
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  Speaker 1: that's an experience. See I post a question, and the
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  Speaker 1: question was do you live to get the lesson or
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  Speaker 1: do the lesson teach you to live? Which one come first? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a revive or a reciprocal? Is it a Uh?
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  Speaker 1: If you do one, the other is the result. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: In it's vice versa and then repeats itself and it
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  Speaker 1: turns the circle. I mean it it is an every holder.
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  Speaker 1: So I can say life taught me lessons, or I
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  Speaker 1: can say lessons taught me life. It's all and how
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  Speaker 1: you say it and who said, I guess, but to
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  Speaker 1: me it all means the same. But it's how you
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  Speaker 1: interpret it and how you give it. So what are
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  Speaker 1: you giving out and what are you taking in? Y'all?
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all, just been he even over here, downloads
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  Speaker 1: some things and I just been taking it in and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to share it because I just want
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  Speaker 1: my people to know that they can't get through whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is that they're going through, like a lot of us.
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  Speaker 1: We have books in us, but yet and still we
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  Speaker 1: continually just continue to continue to continue to continue with
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  Speaker 1: join somebody's anathology. When you have an anatholis, you're in
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  Speaker 1: you like it's time for you to allow that gift
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  Speaker 1: that He's given you. But he allowed you to come
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  Speaker 1: across individuals that can assist you, that can help you,
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  Speaker 1: that can lead God and direct you for a reason
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  Speaker 1: because one thing about the Holy Spirit and the one
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  Speaker 1: that created us, he said he would never leave us
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake us. So he can't physically be here with
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  Speaker 1: us because he's not coming back down out the sky.
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  Speaker 1: So since he can't physically be here with us. He's
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  Speaker 1: placed people, he placed is angel. He's placed people for
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  Speaker 1: us to come in contact with, for us to cross path,
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  Speaker 1: for us to align with, so that those things can manifest,
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  Speaker 1: so that these things can come to pass. Like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us, things have been spoken over our lives
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of us we've been in church all
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  Speaker 1: of our life. That's all we know is church. All
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  Speaker 1: we know is the Word. But just because we know
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  Speaker 1: the word and that's all we've done all our life,
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  Speaker 1: does not mean that it's been in us and that
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  Speaker 1: we have lived that and that we have been living examples.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'll be the first to tell you that I
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  Speaker 1: have not always I've not always been this person that
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  Speaker 1: would be doing the things that I'm doing, Nor did
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  Speaker 1: I think I would be that person. Because me, I
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  Speaker 1: thought I had to be perfect. I thought I had
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  Speaker 1: to be a certain way in order for God to
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  Speaker 1: use me. But He showed me. He showed me that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to have all these degrees. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to have all these titles. I didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: have all that for him to do what he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do in my life. When he raised me up
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  Speaker 1: off my better of affliction. He gave me the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to use my voice. He gave me the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: use books. He gave me an opportunity to use platforms
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  Speaker 1: like this to share his goodness, to let people know
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have to be a certain way, and
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  Speaker 1: that He is everywhere. Everything that we do we cannot
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  Speaker 1: deny him, and nothing that we do. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to take the garbage. He see everything.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: When we think we escaping, we ain't escaping nothing, because
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: guess what, He see everything. So when you think you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting down on people, know that you're not sitting down
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: on people because people didn't give you that gift. God
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: gave you that gift. Some of us are so talented
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and we have so much that we can offer the world.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: But yet we will make excuses. We will make excuses
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: for why we can't do this, why we can't do that,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Why this happened, why this happened, why this is going on.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: But yet if we sit back and we look at it,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: we are the excuse. We are the reason why things
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: are not moving forward. We are the reason why things
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  Speaker 1: are happening the way that they're happening, and it's decisions
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  Speaker 1: that we're making. Half of the time, we're not even
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: making decisions, We're just allowing things to just happen right
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  Speaker 1: before us. Like I asked this question all the time,
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  Speaker 1: are you allowing life to happen around you? Or are
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  Speaker 1: you living? And if you are allowing life to happen
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  Speaker 1: around you, then shame on you. Because all He requires
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of us, it's a love, a little more, to be inspirational,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to inspire somebody, to show that we have the fear
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of Him in us. And how do we do that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: by educating the power and encouraging those around us, leading
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: by example, being that voice, being that outlet. Like some
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of us, we have so many things that God has
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  Speaker 1: done for us that He's delivered us from, that he
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: set us free from we were able to overcome, but
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  Speaker 1: we will never testify about it. We never share it.
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  Speaker 1: We never we never are transparent because we true consume
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  Speaker 1: and to worry about what other people think about us,
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  Speaker 1: when at the end of the day, it does not
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: matter because all of the stuff that we have done,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: all the stuff that we've done to try to please people,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna matter because if that dash everything on
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: that dash. If it does not line up with what
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he has called and purposed us to do, it's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna matter. It's not gonna matter at all. So if
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  Speaker 1: you are not walking in that that he's called you
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to and you are not aligning with what he's purposed
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you to do, I challenge you on today. Check your circles.
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  Speaker 1: See why you are not being encouraged by the people
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: that call you fred people that call you supporters, people
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: that say they got your back, because if they truly
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: had your back, some of them would do a little
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: more than they do. Like I love I love my podcast,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I love my podcast family because when nobody else shows up,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: they're always there. Trevina, that lady will travel anywhere, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I love her for that. That is one of the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: things that I fell in love with her because we
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: didn't really even know each other and she was willing
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to travel four and a half almost five hours away
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  Speaker 1: to help me celebrate. Yes. For that, I will forever
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: respect her and she will always have a special place
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in my heart. But she's not the only one. Shenett.
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  Speaker 1: We travel the world together. We get on the plane.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Woman getting on the plane. She don't mind getting on
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  Speaker 1: the plane. She don't mind meet me in Texas, she
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: don't mind meet me wherever. And I need people like that,
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  Speaker 1: people that was willing to go and being a part
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: of something and not worried about who else is gonna
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: show up, but knowing that we on a mission and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that we're going to do that that He's called us
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to do. Y'all. When we go to Chicago, I hope
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to see a lot of y'all. I hope y'all show
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: up because it's gonna be an opportunity for us to connect.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be an opportunity for you to share your brand.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be an opportunity for us to celebrate an
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: amazing individual that's dropping a powerful book that's gonna bless lies.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an opportunity for us to celebrate, y'all.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: What better time to come together than to celebrate us,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: because so many times they have tore us down. They've
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: said that we wouldn't be doing the stuff that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But yet we rise, Yet we allow our voice to speak,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: because yet we not our ancestors. And the reason why
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: we're not our ancestors because our ancestors went through what
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  Speaker 1: they went through so that we don't have to go
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: through it. And now it's our turn. It's our turn
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to take the paton and ride this out and go
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: through so that the next generation don't how to go
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: through what we're going through. So will you pick up
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: your paton? Will you wear it? Will you be greater
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: than your ancestor? Will they be able to say, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: ain't like my ancestor because my ancestor went through that
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't have to go through it. And that's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: why we do what we do, y'all, because we are
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: not our ancestors. They went through all of that. They
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: bore all of that so that we wouldn't have to.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: They did it so we would have a better life.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They did it so we wouldn't have to sacrifice the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: things that they sacrifice. Why would they sacrifice that for
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: us to have to keep sacrificing it. They sacrificed it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so we wouldn't have to. So don't get mad when
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: people say I'm not my ancestors. They went through what
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: they went through so we wouldn't have to, So you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: should be proud that you're not them. It's not a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: dis because we can never we can never replace what
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: they did for us. It's because of what they did
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for us to allow us to do what we do,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: so that will never be forgotten and that can never
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: be overlooked. It can never be erased, It can never
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: be nothing because it's all ways down in here because
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: we know, we know our history, we know what we've
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: been through. They can try to take it out the books,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they can try to take it out, the libraries, they
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: can try to wipe it out, the Smithsodian, they can
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: try to wipe it out or whatever, but you can
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: never take away what it's been done. Because it's been done.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It's always gonna be a part of history. And as
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: long as we tell it, we can tell our story
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: because it's our story. They can't tell us what we
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: can tell our children and what we instill in them,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: because they not instilling nothing in them. All they want
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to do is brainwash them and think that make them
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: think that they are not when they are more than enough. Honey,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: we are over there in Genesis twelve, I mean twelve, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: We over there in Genesis where they say the chosen one.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: When they talk about the chosen know that You're chosen
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: because you are that one over there in Genesis. So
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: when they start talking about we munkets and we all that, yeah, huh,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: go look in the mirror because I'm chosen and I
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: can be what you want me to be. But I
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: know who I belong to, and y'all, I didn't jump
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on him for that. But I tell you, when God
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: do what he do, he do what he do. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I go back and look at this, I'm gonna be like, wow, Angela,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I know I went all the way around, but I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: thank God. I did not plan to be on here
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes. I look up and I say thirty minutes.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I say, well, okay, Lord, and I'm sitting here like, okay,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: come on, let me come on down. So y'all, I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: appreciate y'all for just allowing me to come on here
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and share. Sometime I just jump on. I have no plan,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I have no mething. I just want to be used
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: by God. I just want to be a vessel. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: just want to be an outlet, to be able to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: share our goodness and to let people know that, you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: there's some perfect people in this world. We're never gonna
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: be perfect people. He already know the mistakes that we're
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: gonna make. He already know the paths that we're gonna take.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He already know this decision that we're gonna make, because
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: He know our thoughts before we even think them. But
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: we have the choice. We have the free will to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: make the choices that we make, and we have to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: understand that with every choice that we make, there's a consequence.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So when we make those choices, we have to be
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: willing to go through those consequences as well. So y'all
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: don't pretinude to sit down on your gift. If God
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: has given you an outlet, if he's given you opportunities
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to share your brand, to share that that He's placed
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: on the inside of, you'll get those books out. If
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you're not ready to write a whole book, look for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: opportunities where you can join collaboration projects. There's always people
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: out here doing collaboration projects. And if you're not If
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you want to put on a collaboration project and don't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: know what to do, look I am a publishing coach.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Will coach you along the way, and I'm not gonna
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: charge you on thousands and thousands of dollars. I start
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: out at five twenty five, and I coach you along
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the way and different things that you won't done. I
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: tell you what it costs, you can do it, or
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: we can work through it. I can show you how
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to do it, I can coach you on how to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: do it, or we can third party it out. Because
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: there's so many people out here that do so many
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: different things, and their prices are reasonable, so you don't
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: have to be overwhelmed with all of this trying to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: just do stuff on your own. So utilize the different resources.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: But if he don't give you something, y'all put it
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: out there. Y'all with books that should have been out
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: three or four years ago. What you wait now, I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna call your names, but you know who you are.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Some of y'all had books that was supposed to have been
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: out in January. Get your books are not out. Stop
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: making excuses. Excuses are for that company and none of
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: y'all are in company. So get up off your hind parts.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: As they will say, shout out to Black Diamond, doctor Keeba,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: doctor Debora Franklin, and Pharaoh. That is their book. That
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: is the name of their book. Get up off your
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: hind parts. Y'all, that book is out, some of y'all
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: might need to go grab that book and read it,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and and and and and and see, you know how
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you can get up and get going. And then some
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of us got books out here, and then we act
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like the book gonna sell itself, like it's gonna do
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: what it's supposed to do by itself. No, it needs
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you to to get out here and be a voice
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: for it, and and and to to to to be
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a light for it so that people can get to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: know you, so that they can truly follow and support
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the platform. Because trust me, there's so much more in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you that needs to come out, and there's so much
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: more that people need that's gonna help them get through.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: It's somebody out there right now that needs you to
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: get through what they're going through. That's gonna help them
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: get through the other side. So I challenge y'all, let
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: this be the week that you decide to step into
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that that you're supposed to be walking in In the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: next thirty days. I want some of y'all to come
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: back to this very video and say, I'm working on
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: my book. I got a book coming out, And if
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: y'all don't want nobody to coach, y'all. If y'all just
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: want to go, pick up the book, y'all, it's eighteen
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: dollars on walmart dot com. Go to walmart dot com.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Learn how to publish yourself. It's outlined in a book.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: You got notes, right, notes down and go to work.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Give you timp to give you stuff that you can
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: go and you can research and you can find out
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: stuff for yourself. You don't have to let people keep
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: taking your money. Y'all. Things are getting rough, things are
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: getting tough. So these are opportunities for you to really
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: utilize these resources, these things that you have amongst you,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: because y'all, we gotta keep living, We gotta keep providing,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: we gotta keep going. So if we keep this money
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: going within our community, because y'all, we gotta live. So
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: why not support each other. Why not support each other
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: on this mission, on this journey we call life. Y'all
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: gonna get on out of here because we getting ready
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to go live at eight o'clock. So I got to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: get ready to get the studio ready for the hosts
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that are coming on to do the show. So thank
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: y'all for jumping on and spending these last thirty six
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: minutes with me. Anyway. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all again.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Shout out to what it's this RBC Book Awards. Thank
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you for this amazing trophy. I appreciate you, guys, Thank you,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you again, thank you guys for tuning in.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, and I hope that you will
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: tune back in. I think Chanette is going to be
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: on at eight o'clock, so I would see you guys
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: back at eight o'clock. Y'all have a great risk of
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: your evening. If I don't see you back here at
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock, y'all have a great rest of your evening
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and I will see you guys later. Y'all have a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: great one.