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SEASON 2 EPISODE _104 _ DA CREW PODCAST _HOST BLAQUE DIAMOND · DA CREW Podcast

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Welcome, Welcome. This is Black Diamond with Basic Black After Dark.
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And I am so happy that you are here tonight to join us this Friday.
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So if I didn't see anybody yesterday, happy belated for auth of July,
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and I hope everybody had a wonderful time and everybody was safe. Red
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pedals undoubtedly symbolized passion and love, while white roses petals let me just mix
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you on, while white rose petals highlights the virtues of purity. Depending on
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setting and content, the colors of the pedals can take on very different meanings
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and the message you're trying to express could become ambiguous if not lost. The
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author of the Other Side of the Storm and author of Standing on Faith a
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New Beginning was not lost when they co authored The Precious Pedals of God.
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Please welcome the Angelus Angie b and welcome back to Basic Black After Dark.
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Visionary author Diana Hill. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
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you, thank you. Wow hearing you talk about thank you. That's beautiful.
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I'm just so excited to have both of you ladies here. I can't
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hear you, and you may have to go out and come back in.
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I can hear you, I can't hear you. Go out and come back
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in. There you go, there you go. So we were just you
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know, So, Angie, this is her first and many Angie, this
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is your first or many interviews to come with Basic Black after doctor, because
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your bio from what I've read, is something. So I'm gonna have you
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back over and over and over again as much as I can, and I
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hope that you would love to come back. Thank you. I would be
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honored anytime I get to talk about the goodness of the Lord. Yeah,
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thank you, thank you, thank you, because it ain't even about me.
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Yeah, I don't know how I can. It's gotta be in some
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setting that you're in, so you may have to move around in the location
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in your home. Hello. Yes, I can hear you, y'all can
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hear me, but I can't hear you, right, so you may Yeah,
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she's gonna have to go out and come back in, but we're gonna
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go forward. You ladies have such a unique perspective when writing. Tell us
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what you and join most about writing. I enjoy writing on the same theme
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when we're all writing about flowers, like you just said, Okay, you
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take the white, I take the red, she take the you know,
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and then when they all come together, they're literally a beautiful bouquet. I
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like writing with co authors that give me a different perspective on the same topic.
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Again, we could all be talking about the same thing, but WHOA,
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the way you saw it, that was good. That was good.
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So sometimes when I'm writing, it's almost another way of looking at something.
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Sometimes when I'm writing solo books, I feel like, is it coming out
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of my head correctly? That people understand what I'm trying to say. I
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don't feel that way when I'm a co author when I'm working with because you
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have other pool to feed off of it, and you know, everybody have
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a different set of lens right now, and then sometimes you can get a
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glimpse in their lens and they then open your lens up to bigger and better
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things to induce you that I did maybe that push to add more or to
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see it in a different way. It's wonderful. It's wonderful, and I
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get excited about I get excited about working with visionaries like Diana because she she
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she is so enthusiastic, but she does have a vision a way that she
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wants it to look and sound and feel. So that keeps us on our
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toes. You know, how do you know what to write and when is
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the right time to write? My answer may not be what folks want to
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hear, but truly, truly, I can't write it until I'm like,
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Lord, what you want me to write? And then hey, do no,
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Diana? Still Nope, still okay't here. So I truly write based
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upon what the Lord tells me to write. Now, there are times when
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I'm okay, I'm working on homework right, Like I'm working on a dissertation
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one hundred and fifty pages. I'll just go through and be like, Okay,
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this is what I think, that's what I say, that's what I
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feel, this is what I and you know, luckily, there'll be a
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power surgeon and I'll lose it all and then I'll come back and say,
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Okay, Laura, what do you want me to just It'll just go through.
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I got to give a shout out to my brother Marcus Latimer out of
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Detroit, Michigan. He said, hey, but we went through this during
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the pandemic where I called him and I said, I need you to write
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a story for our pandemic book. He's like, I don't know what to
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write. I said, well, just pray of it, just okay,
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fine, And his story was beautiful. So I tell people, if you
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don't know how to pray, you don't know how to be inspired and to
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be led, and you don't know when you're finished writing, because there are
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times I could go days and not write something, or I could go,
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you know, nineteen twenty hours, just straight just mad that I got to
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take a bathroom break because this is gonna be good. You know this is
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I'm just so, do you feel the stories writers block? Do you think
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it's writers block? Or you just need a break because you know that that
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thing that you want to get into your book is dead, but you just
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need to step back. I don't know what writer's block is, because I
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write what the Lord tells me to write, so it could be writer's black.
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If he ain't giving me nothing to write, then either I'm not supposed
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to contribute to that project or but but I get it. There are times
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when people have self imposed deadlines, or even the deadline from the the visionary,
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and they got to get it finished. Just like with homework in school,
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students, you know you got that paper due, but you waited till
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the night before, so that that could be that could be a problem.
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I don't recognize writer's block because I don't think I know what it is.
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I can write constantly, I can write. It's a one that I don't
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have carpal tunnel. Well, no, it ain't a wonder. Lord don't
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want me to stop writing right about now? So yeah, I could.
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Are you with us now, Diana? Can you hear us? Yes?
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I can, yes, yes, I hadn't changed the bite. That's fine,
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you're here with us now. I was just telling evangelists Erjie that you
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ladies have such a unique perspective when writing, and asked her to tell us
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about what you enjoying most about writing. I enjoying my writing because it's inspired
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by the Lord. I'm an inspirational writer. So I don't write fiction.
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I know there are those who write fiction, but all of my books,
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even me being a co author, has always had something to do with uplifting
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and uplifting women. So that's where I'm at. I love to empower women
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for us to be like on a different, on a higher level my writing.
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I became an author from being a co author and other books before I
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even became an author. Yeah, most people start that way. So let
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me ask you, how do you know what to write and when is the
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right time to write? Well, it's no set time, because, believe
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it or not. When Precious Pedals came about, I was in the process
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of if you can recall from last year, I was in the process of
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putting the Other Side of the Storm together. And it was on a Saturday,
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and I was doing that, and I think I was trying to do
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my podcast or something else. I was trying to do something else, and
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it for me that Precious Pedals just came up. I didn't even get to
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God gave me that title. I never even knew that precious pedal, that
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women are precious pedals of God. I read up in First Peter chapter three,
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you mentioned Angie about school, and you spoke about, you know,
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writing that paper. I'm gonna throw a question in it. When writing,
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do you follow the who, what, where, when, and why of
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your story? Diana, you want to go first with that one? Or
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is that that fun? You know what? I don't know. That was
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a question that I really didn't know how to answer because I was going to
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ask you, can you elaborate on that a little bit for me? Why
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I can? I can answer it. I can answer it. I studied
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mass communication at Wilberforce University one hundred years ago, and we learned to write
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a press release and to write a story. Now they call them blogs and
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things, But you had to you had to go there. You had to
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write who you're talking about? What are you about? That about? Why?
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How? You had to That was the outline. It was like the
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title, and then you had who, what, when, we're and why?
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And then you had to fill it in and then you had to bring
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it together as a story. I still use that today. I still use
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that concept when I when I produce a commercial or I'm working with an author
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to produce their audiobook. If it if it doesn't fill in all those blanks,
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something's missing, something somebody is not gonna get it. I believe we
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become very arrogant when we think I'm gonna write this story and people all around
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the world are just gonna buy it and they're gonna love it. And half
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the time they don't understand it. English is not their first language, or
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we didn't get the who, what when we're why? And the how we
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Oh, okay, I got you, I understand Yeah, oh somebody.
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You have some people who, as you mentioned Evangelist, that they don't get
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it. Some people will write just to write and look at the audience or
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who they're trying to read. That difficult for some when they're writing, they
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get frustrated and saying, no, they don't like my book. You have
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to make sure you know your target audience because if you don't, you reach
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people you hadn't thought of, or you may not reach people at all.
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So you know, my who is is women, That's who my who is.
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You have to even as being a as being a life coach is for
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women who have esteem issues or empower on women how to refine themselves. Again
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that's the that's then you definitely have to know your audience. If you don't
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know your audience, like the precious Peddles of God is geared towards women,
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men will get it, but they won't get it because men's not the pedals
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of God. Women is the pedals to God. I want to I want
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to say something about that too a little later on. But as a writer,
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if you can only choose one, would you rather be a commercial success
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or a critical success? That was a question that I never even really thought
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of critical for me, because you could be successful but still not reach the
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audience that you need to reach a critical success, you can always learn more.
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That's it. That's the key. That's the keys about elevation with the
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critical. It's about elevating your mind and having your mind being critique. You
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know, I'm a critical thinker in your way, so me Heaven, it
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doesn't matter. If I can reach the masses with a critical mindset, then
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that's to me, it's more successful. I'd rather be successful that way than
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to have a whole massive and nobody really understand the critical pray. I want
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you to understand where the flowers of the Bible. I want you to be
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able to understand and draw and they zoom the writings of my co authors,
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their stories, how they compare and contrast, or even why they even chose
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that particular flower, or why they even chose that particular woman. You,
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ladies, you were to write ladies to write this book. Because the evangelers
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said the same thing that you're saying now with each other. I didn't even
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know. I wasn't even on the line. I here and this is the
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same thing that she had just said. You've both written several books. How
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do you feel about or how important is your book reviews? I haven't had
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that many book reviews, but it is important in the future. Moving on
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from now, I would I'm going to reach out to others. I think
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I had been scared to get reviews. I never really thought of it,
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but I love how you are Black Diamond, how you pull stuff out of
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me like you just pull stuff out of me. And I am going to
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be moving forward on as concern. And I know people that do reviews.
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I do know. I know angb she does reviews, and she's the publisher.
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She's the publisher of Prescious Puddles. Oh my gosh. See this is
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where one of those questions coming. I told you earlier, Evangelist that I
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had to ask you. She's just throwing it a little bit. So I'm
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gonna get to that too. From Which authors do you draw inspiration from?
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And good Thomas Smith and Shane and Gorden. I love them too, so
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inspirational, ok, Angie, And I'm in an evangelist Angie too, But
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she is, that's why she's up here. But other than her, I
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have high self esteem with her. Oh and clean clemmy clem m hm right,
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you know lemmy clem right. Wonderful, Yes, I do. Yeah,
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power say that again. Sorry. How do you approach your visions?
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How do you approach revisions and editing? And how is your manuscript evolved throughout
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the process? Mmm? So Evangelist Angie is doing my editing and when she
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bring it back then I then I whatever she told me that it might have
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to be done, I take that on. When I'm doing editing and books.
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Everybody already knows that that's my number one thing because editing is the biggest
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part of writing a book. You can write the books, send it over
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to your to your publisher, but when that editing come back out. I
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remember when I wrote my first book, Marriage, Your Life's Journey, The
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editing process had me ripping my hair out, you hear me? Because I
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was a new author, nobody prepared me for and my publisher at the time
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went through page by page by page and I had it. I had to
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get it right. I had to get right. She said, I need
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you to change this around. Now I have grammarly. Oh goodness, yeah,
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she said, So, evangelist, is there any type of book that
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you just would not edit. You would go through it and you'll see where
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it's headed. But it's just something that you just don't want to touch.
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Anything that's gonna bring put me in a fresh and a flesh their mindset,
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you know, anything that's going raised my temperature, my libido or something,
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because then I'm all distracted. I can't focus because you know, one of
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my dearest dearest friends writes erotica, and I know it's very good because i've
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heard her, you know, Donna Gray Banks. I've heard she's one of
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the women that I truly look up to in the literary world because of what
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she's done. But I it is difficult for me to read erotica because I
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need to keep some self control. You know, if you bring in a
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play of chocolate, that play is for me, not just one piece.
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And you know what, and I know my I know publishers that won't touch
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that type of type of writing, and it doesn't have anything and it doesn't
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take away from anybody. It don't take away from them, but where their
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mindset is at, and especially if you're want woman of God, it's some
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women that just won't. I know a couple of publishers personally that will not
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touch Erodica at all, will not even they were like, it's not that
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serious for you. I understand where you're coming from. I could pass this
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on to somebody else, but I can't do it. And that's not taken
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away that that book may be good. The book may be good, but
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in their mindset, for their piece of mind, for their spirality, they
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won't touch you. Of God, How did you choose the title? And
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what significance does it hold for you? I'm telling you God actually gave it
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to me. I was telling I was telling evangelists Angie. I said,
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I can't believe I didn't come up with this, this would happened. I'm
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in the process of getting the other side of the storm and God told me
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to put that down and and and touch and start on prescious. And I'm
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like, huh, I only had one anthology. I did not know that
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I had another anthology and I have another anthology. The scenes anidot. Can
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you stee behind the scenes antidote or interesting fact about the creation of this book.
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It's spiritual minded because and it also I guess sometimes when you're trying to
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get women close to God, he'll get you to do something that's unconventional.
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Everybody that's in, all my co authors that's in this It forced them to
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open up the Bible, and it forced them and go deeper. It forced
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them a little bit to look up whatever flower they chose, and in it
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they had to have the flower where it came from, the scripture he came
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from. And then at the end an encouragement word. Same thing with the
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woman. I can't give away too much, but same thing with the woman.
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It's like, why did you choose the woman? Three sixteen and seventeen
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and Zacharyan Now we got three three sixteen and seventeen and Zacharian nine and sixteen.
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In his own words, God tells us the people of Israel were to
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him as valuable real jemstone setting gold. They were precious to him. You're
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right about the precious pedals of God. What are the precious pedals of God?
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And how important are those pedals to you? I am a pedal of
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God, because that's what the world tells me. That's what First Peter tells
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me. That women are pedals of God. And there are fifteen flowers in
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the Bible. That discusses the flowers of the Bible and where it came from,
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like, for instance, I found out that the Lord is is the
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ultimate flower of the Lord. We're gonna go for a break, and I
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got some questions for you ladies. When we come back, we canna take
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a quick quick break and ask some questions for you. Okay, m hmm.
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We are back here with co author's angb, evangelist Angib and visionary author Diana
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Hell and they're talking about the precious pedals of God. What was the most
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rewarding moment you experienced during the writing process? Hello, Yes, can you
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hear me? I could hear you. Somehow, some way I checked out
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again and I can barely hear you, but I could hear you. What
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was the most rewarding moment you experienced during the writing process? Me knowing that
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I'm really starting to fill with God had for me. I have always been
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a co author in other women's books, but me knowing that God had put
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inside of me that I have it to be a visionaire. I never even
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thought in a million years. If you would have asked me eighteen months ago,
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would I be a vision visionaire of my own anthology? I would have
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told you you crazy, Angie, the same question I just made. I
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just think filling in the gaps, being able to read what my co authors
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wrote and build upon that really elevated elevated my writing. It really helped me
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to see things more clearly after after, and I think that will happen with
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the reader. It's like a stair steps. They'll read one story, Okay,
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that was good. Oh, I didn't think about it that way.
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Oh you know what, that makes a lot of sense, you know,
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just kind of build upon it. And I think that's I think that made
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the difference. That made the difference. And that's what brings me into my
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next question, or what points or messages do you want to communicate to your
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readers? Diana, can you ask me again? I can badly hear you.
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What points or messages do you want to communicate to your readers. I
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just want them to be able to have an impact full moment and bring it
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to that to let them know that it's okay. Because I'm an inspirational writer,
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so I'm all about empower women. Same thing with Precious Pedals. When
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they read Precious Pedals, they will get something out of Precious Pedals rather it's
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from me, or rather it's from any of my other co authors, because
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they will understand about the flowers of the Lord. They will understand the women,
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the positive women that's in the Bible. And at the same time they
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will have any encouragement words. Because see, first of all, somebody wrote
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today on one of my Facebook friends was going through something, and I had
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to give her a word of encouragement. And my basic thing is be blessed,
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be encouraged, and be strengthened that you will come out whatever darkness that
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you are going through. Amenen, do you hear from your lunch kind of
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feedback dough they give you. Everybody that had read my books, read my
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anthologies, they got some they got something out of it. They said that
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they are encouraged from my testimony and others testimony. It's all about testimony,
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because when you have a testimony, it's not for you, it's for others.
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You deal with the testimony. You know what I'm saying, like you
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deal with the testimony. I just have to add to that. I was
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telling a friend of mine today that I feel like I'm in a job season,
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not that I'm losing everything, like job lost everything. But I'm the
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one that survived to come and tell you that all your children are dead.
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And I'm the one that survived to come and tell you that all your cataly
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is lost. Your testimony shows that you're the one who survived to be able
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to tell it, and I am. I am grateful for that. I
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am grateful. H Yes, LEVI said, hello lady. So I guess
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you know, LEVI. I remember when I was in the job season,
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when I had my house fires. I was in the job season for for
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a couple of years everything when nobody really knew. I was in the state
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of depression. But God kept telling me to write. He kept telling me
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to write in my joke season, That's all I knew. I was in
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a couple anthologies in my job season, like right after my fire, and
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the the visionaries kept pushing me and pulling on me when I wanted it to
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get out, and I was like, I'm ready to give up. I
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don't have the strength to write both of them. I was in three actual
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out in actuality between the middle part of twenty twenty and the beginning of twenty
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twenty one, and one of them, I didn't you that I had a
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dead balance and I wanted to go and do that with marriage life and faith
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work. How do you you know with your visionary, how do you balance
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your marriage life and facing your work. There's a time for everything for me,
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you because one thing, the world says you had to have a balance
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in everything that God's give you. I know that it's certain times that I
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had to put this away and focus on this, and then it's certain times
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that I had to pick my book up and focus on you, on my
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book, and etc. Etc. The word says you have to be able
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to balance everything out, including your marriage. And I thank God that I
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have a husband who encourages me and supports all my endeavors, so he knows
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and understand if I had to pick this book up at three o'clock in the
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morning with the light on. Sometimes I'm in a room within my bedroom or
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I go in another room, But that don't take away from him. He
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won't get mad at that because he understands the assignment that I have on me.
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At that particular time, you had mentioned that you were in the middle
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of writing On the Other Side of the Storm, and that's the other side
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of the Storm is a series of inspiring, unique stories from women who triumphantly
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overcame all obstacles. Is the Precious Pedals of God a part of the series.
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No, actually, I'm starting on part two in September, and that
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one is called The Blessings on the other side of the storm. Yes,
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you know that you're gonna be here with me right, Yes? And evangelist
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is in that book as well. Yeah, Blessing on the other side.
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There's a blessing on the other side of the storm. Yes, it is,
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yes, and that's the man. In fact, that was inspired from
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one of my best friends who's also a co author, and she told me,
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she said, right before the book launch, she said, well,
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right, why don't you do a part two? And at first I was
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like no, and then I had to think about it. I said,
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you know what, I'm going to do it, and I came up with
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that title, The Blessings on the Other Side of the Storm. Angie.
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During depending you launched the inspirational audiobook anthology series Confinement Chronicles. Tell me about
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that. Well, I got to give a shout out to Kim Glover who's
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watching she's in that project, and Sandy Green, hey girl, hey girl,
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my my alopecia sisters are all checking in. So I appreciate y'all for
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watching tonight. But that that book truly was you know, everybody was freaking
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out, everybody was locked in. I was trying to figure out what to
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do and how to do it. And it seemed like every time I walked
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in the room, the news was talking about, you know, we got
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to get over the curve, we gotta do this, and and I just
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God, what do you want me to do? And so I started writing.
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And then you know, sometimes I understand I'm beginning to understand algorithms,
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but now I'm truly feeling algorithms through the Holy Spirit, when I can say
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to God, Okay, who's supposed to help me with this? And then
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somebody's name will just pop up randomly or on Facebook or something, and then
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I ask them. And it wasn't like it was an income producing project.
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I think everybody paid maybe fifty dollars to be in it, So it wasn't
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like I was trying to get rich. I just wanted people to express themselves.
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Pastors talked about shepherding their flock in a whole new way. I remember
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seeing the marches all over the world for George Floyd, and I remember thinking,
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ain't we supposed to be six feet apart? You know? So there
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are different chapters in confinement chronicles. Out of the mouths of babes. How
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did the kids deal with it? My mental health in the pandemic. How
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do you what do you do when the doors of the church are closed?
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It just it laid itself out. It almost felt like creating a good dinner.
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You know, you got your roast in the oven and then the beans
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come out good, the potatoes, and that's what the book feels like.
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It just laid out so nice. Well, you know, I had spoken
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to you earlier and I mentioned that I saw a bio off you ones and
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it's just so much with it that you. I noticed that you've also coursed
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over and wrote children's books, and you have inspirational books. What genre are
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you most comfortable writing? If testimonial is a genre, that's me. I'm
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gonna tell a story. I'm gonna tell a story the way I remember it,
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the way I lived it. It may not be spelled right, punctuation
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may be wrong, but I'm going to all right. My son in law
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tells me that I write like I talk, and so for me, I
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guess writing is an extension of who I am and what God has allowed me
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to go through. I don't want it to be like Big Mama. And
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then would say just running off of the mouth, just like you said,
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earlier writing to be writing. But now my cousin said the same thing to
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me, that I write like I talk. And at that moment, I
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was kind of insulted when she said that, But then I had to take
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a step back, but because I wanted to go at her and say,
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you know, we come from two different worlds. But I had to remember
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that I'm in college and I'm here to be educated and she's sitting here educating
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me. And I had to look at some of the things that I've written,
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and then I had to read it again, and I said, she's
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right. I am writing the way that I speak, and some people don't
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understand the way that I speak, like I wasn't born and raised in the
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state that I'm living in. And when I first came here, people would
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pick up and they would say that I have an accent. But I look
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at them and say, no, you have an accent, and it's just
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the way that I speak. And it just was a whole thing that it
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came about, and it just resonated on me with what my professor had said,
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and to this day, I thank her. I thank her for saying
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that to me. I may have been it then, but I don't even
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know the years, maybe fifteen years later, I'm thinking about it, and
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it's just it's just amazing that she was able to say that to me,
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and I was able to pick up on it and bounce around it, just
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like you were saying. You know that we write sometimes m that's and that's
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how came about. It was a part. It was a chapter and confinement.
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So the publisher said, you know, this chapter would be good just
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by itself as a children's book. We also did the same thing with the
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chapter on alopecia awareness alopecians who have been wearing hair pieces and wigs. I
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mean, if the pandemic didn't stop you from spending that kind of money,
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you you was a strong somebody. There were a lot of us that just
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couldn't get in the salon or couldn't couldn't buy you know, I couldn't do
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anything. So it was like, Okay, I got a rocker. I
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got and that book. That book was pulled out of Confinement Chronicles. It
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was a chapter. I like what you said that the children's book are part
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of the chronicles. Have you thought about going into the schools with that because
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a lot of these children are going to miss out on the fact that we
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were in a pandemic. You know, as time goes on, some of
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them won't even remember it, you know, because we're talking about you know,
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maybe the Black plague and things that was so far away and we've heard
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of it, and some of us may not have lived in that time,
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but right now we've lived in this time. You may have a five or
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six year old that won't know anything about it and just figured that they was
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at home for months, for years, just mainting, you know, But
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that's something that you know, should go into the school system, your chronicles,
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you know. As far as actually Black Diamond, I have to give
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God praise again because the children's chapter was taken from a virtual writing workshop that
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I did with a class of fifth graders, and they wrote their stories which
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were so emotional. I lost my grandmama during the pandemic. My daddy lost
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his job, so we can't have seconds for dinner, you know, my
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favorite basketball player died. I have to take care of my little brothers and
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sisters. I mean, we think that's nothing, but for a fifth grader,
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that's a whole lot. And so because of them, yes, so
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because of their stories. And then their subsequent book. Each of them became
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an author. They have their own books that they can you know, sell
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uh to folks. But now we continue to teach that writing workshop. We
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call it YEP y e a P, which is an acronym Youth Entrepreneur Author
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Program. We we get on camera with them and teach them how to write,
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write their bio. We teach them how to take a selfie, We
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teach them how to read their their peers work to be the first round of
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editing. And this is a program that we we work with in the schools.
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We've we were working with school district out of Yeah, yeah, I
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want to know about it when I bring you back, I definitely want to
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know more about that. The Diana, you said that the intended audience was
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for women because we're talking about the precious pedals of God. Do you believe
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that it could be intended for men so they can learn how to treat those
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precious pedals of God. Yes, even though that my target audience is for
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the women, this is still a lesson learned from the men as well.
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So in your book you talk about how the precious pedals of God extort the
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divine purpose between the outer beauty of a flower and the inner beauty of a
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woman. Is that one of the things that you're talking about. Yes,
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actually, because see, first of all, the flower, the flower is
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the outer beauty, but the woman's pedal of God comes from the inside that
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enter us. You know, this shows us how the Proverbs the one woman
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is that's and that's an inside work. That's not an outside work. That's
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an inside work. When the world see us, how the world see the
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women, how our husband is supposed to see us as a precious pedal,
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and it shows how we are supposed to be treated, each each flower,
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each woman delicately. I hope that they're listening, Angie, what is one
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of the most transformative experiences you had since you're awakening as an evangelist And how
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does that play a role in you're writing The Precious Pedals apart if it plays
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a role at all. Oh, yeah, it plays a role. But
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transformative for me is okay, I'm going through it, but it ain't for
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me, so let me just write it down. That made a big difference
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because it removes the old woe is me? Oh why me? Oh Lord
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get me? Just like okay, God, I'm going through this for the
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person who can't do anything about it for themselves. I'm going through this for
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the woman who thinks she don't have enough self esteem, like Dan always talks
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about her. She don't think she can make it. Okay, well I
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need you. See. If I went through all this, I know you
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can too. So let's just keep it together right and tight for Christ you
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know, Well, that's right, that's my model evangelist the same thing,
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like I had to go. I had to live through that storm. It
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couldn't have been the woe was me because I still had a family to take
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care. I still had myself to take care. I still had to believe
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on the Lord, even though he put me through this, you know,
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just like evangelists said earlier Joel, and through it. I went through that
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storm. I had to live through that storm. I don't think there's anybody
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here on this earth that can say they go through some form of storm.
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Now, it may not have been as great as somebody else's or as bad
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as somebody else's, but I think we've all been through it in some way.
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And if somebody's going to say that they haven't been through it, then
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you haven't lived. And also, what I do know is it's not what
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you go through, is how you go through it. I was in my
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storm, still serving church, still serving in church through my sickness, with
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my head held high, and still praising God, not questioning him. But
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I just knew that He was going to make it better at some point.
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So my faith had to be unshakable, even when I didn't know where it
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was going to come from. I still was praising God, and I still
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was serving God with gladness in my heart, because the Word tells me you
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had the blessed God in and out of season in every area of your life.
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You can't blessed I when everything is going well. You have to be
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able to bless God even when you murmuring, because God knows the matters of
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your heart. But you still had to praise God even in that storm.
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Was a hard Heck, no, I guess it was hard. It was
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very hard, because you know, the enemy comes at the enemy know how
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to attack you. If the enemy can separate you from everybody else, he
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know that he have you. You know how they say you almost gave up
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on the Lord, but you didn't. The part that didn't give up on
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the Lord or the part that nobody gave up on the Lord is because God
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is pierced on you, your heart. And when you know that, you
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know that he brought you out one thing, no matter what it looks like,
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He's going to bring you out of everything in your life. Ladies,
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in one word, how symbolic are the precious pedals of guard to you?
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Say that again, in one word, how symbolic are the precious pedals of
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guard to you? It's very symbolic. I would have never thought that because
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God. The inspiration came from the Lord. It didn't even come from me.
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I never even knew that we riched precious pedals of God until I looked
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into it. He gave me. The inspiration came from him. He gave
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that to me, and I just took it and I ran with it,
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and I looked up all the scripture. That's what I'm saying this right here,
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Your one your word would be your one word would be inspiration it.
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Yes, And I wasn't worried transformation transformation. Wow, So what part of
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transformation is another one? But yes, because it's transformed transforming your mindset.
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It was transforming your mindset and it has been seffects in this book right now.
51:25
Evangelists will tell you we had and I'm learning how to not put a
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tie. This book taught me not to put a time. I was supposed
51:37
to have this book done and ready by March and it didn't have. What
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projects are you currently working on and can you offer any hints or teasers for
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your upcoming work? Mm? Well, I know she's working on, uh,
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that other side of the Storm and ANGB Productions, which is one of
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my agencies. They're going to be producing the audiobook for that, and I'm
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excited about it. We're going to be producing the audiobook for Precious Pedals as
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well, and we're really excited about that. There again, so many for
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those that have ears to hear, let them hear. And sometimes you can
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read a line and not really get it until you hear it. And so
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who does your graphic art work for your books? Well as the publisher that's
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working with Diana, I have a team and I'm grateful for them that they
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are graphic designers that specialize in creating book covers, editing formatting. They'll put
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it through grammarly before the editor gets it. The editor get it, and
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then come back and we go back and forth in a timely man. But
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the video production, the audio and the video production part is my baby.
53:05
That that's my baby. I love to create the book trailers. I love
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to create the commercials that are going to air on shows like yours and radio
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shows like we do in the morning. I love to do that. I
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love to do the interviews with the authors and the conversations and so it as
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long as everybody stays, you know, in their zone, we're good.
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Well. I both that I haven't finished yet, and I'm definitely gonna try
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to get to you to do all of that because I did sitting. I'm
53:37
not gonna say I've been sitting on it up to maybe I have one more
53:40
chapter. And I've been holding onto this book for maybe about two years.
53:45
It's my baby, and i've been I've been with this book. I'm gonna
53:51
be honest, and I said it to other people. I had to see
53:52
a psychiatrist to write this book because you will lose it if you don't.
53:58
And I wanted to make sure I was okay because if I wasn't gonna be
54:01
okay, then the readers won't be okay. So I had you did,
54:05
because it was taking me there. So I said, I couldn't take care
54:07
if it took another five years because of the steps that I have to take
54:12
with this. So well, I give you a piece of advice that that
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somebody gave me years ago. A publisher gave me. She said, Uh,
54:21
you may think the book isn't finished, or you only have one chapter
54:24
left. Send it in. Let us start editing and making change, and
54:30
then when we send it to you to look at, you'll be like,
54:34
oh, I need to add this in here. Oh yeah, that makes
54:37
sense. I need to put this, and it'll be finished before you know
54:39
it. But as long as you're sitting on it, it's like as long
54:43
as you're sitting on a baby, if you never send that baby to school,
54:46
the baby ain't gonna grow. As long as you sing on to the
54:51
baby, you'll you'll never feel like the baby's gonna be what the baby needs
54:54
to be. So yeah, I'll send you my information because I'm definitely can't
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help it to you. There's a divine there's a divine purpose of God.
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Let's begin by reminding ourselves the God of the Bible is a God of purpose.
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If you want to know more about God's precious Pedals connect with visionary author
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Diana Hill and evangelist ANGB. Ladies, please tell our viewers and listeners how
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they can connect with you, Diana, How can we contact you, dear?
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Oh, I think she's frozen. Say that again. How can our
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viewers connect with you? Huh? How can the viewers getting connect with you?
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How can they connect with you? Oh? I'm sorry, y'all.
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The connection is so bad here. I don't know what's wrong with the connection,
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but the connection is very bad. You can be I can be found
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on Facebook under my name Diana Hill. I can also be found on on
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I G under Diana Hill seventeen eighty eight and my email address is Diana Hill
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six seven seven one at gmail dot com. Well, I want to thank
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you, ladies for gracing us with your presence and presenting what I do believe
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will be a best seller. The Precious Pedals of God joined us on Friday,
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July nineteenth for the return of Blossom Rogers from under a Bridge to Underguard's
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Plans after eight after Dark. Wonderful. Thank you for having us. Thank
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you. You know you guys are coming back. Yes, I don't listen
56:45
when I tell you that I had a trying day. But you see,
56:50
we pushed through. We pushed through, We pushed through because today was one
56:53
of them days. It was those precious pedals that was floating all over the
56:59
place that to get us through. I'm looking forward to speaking to both of
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you again, and I'm definitely gonna get that over to you because i think
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that I've had just about enough time. Yeah, you know, I have
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chapter seven not finished with chapter eight is That's where I'm at. And you
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actually also in get Ready be a co author and Shane and Goodine's upcoming anthology.
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I can't give too much information because it's her baby, but I'm going
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to be on her platform as well. So I'm still writing and that will
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happen to you that happened to your sister Diamond. You'll be in chapter ten
57:45
and then the Lord to give you a whole different book with a whole different
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outline. So just keep writing. It may not it may not feel like
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it fits in this book, but you'll never know. It could be perfect
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for the next one. So just send it to evangel and GB at gmail
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dot com. We'll take care of you. I thank you Evangelists for even
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bringing me down when I was on the twenty and you done brought me down
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to a ten and a five. We both was there because this right here
58:19
was the doozy. But it's going to be. But I had to also
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understand when you putting something together for the Lord and the Lord is connected,
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don't think it's going to come easy. You want to have your bumps and
58:34
bruises, but just no. I had to tell my co authors, a
58:38
few of them, please stand still. It's going to happen. We just
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don't know when. And everybody understand that today we still know God. And
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I want you ladies to have a great night. You have a great night
58:57
too, and I will be looking forward to come back on here in a
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couple of months. I got you good Night Late Night, Basic Black after
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Dark, The All Low podcast show with your host, Black Diamond.