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SEASON2 EPISODE_127_DA CREW PODCAST_HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 3: to our African American children's authors. It's time to get
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  Speaker 3: those babies back and ready for school. And I truly
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  Speaker 3: understand this myself, because you guys, I just spent the
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  Speaker 3: last five hours doing my daughter's hair. I know, y'all
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  Speaker 3: thinking five hours. She has locks, so imagine shampooing and
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  Speaker 3: twisting and all that beautiful stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And she has a cute.
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  Speaker 3: Little style and she starts school on Monday. But I
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  Speaker 3: have a good friend who's gonna help us. Was something
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  Speaker 3: that we parents all have to go through, you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Party training. For me, it was an experienced and I
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  Speaker 3: have a daughter and I have a son, So if
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  Speaker 3: I had to choose which one was horter, I would
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  Speaker 3: say the daughter because she didn't want to sit still.
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  Speaker 3: The sun was funny because I got some cheerios and
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  Speaker 3: I throw inside the toilet and told him to shoot
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  Speaker 3: and he was cool with it until the day he
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  Speaker 3: had a bunch of cheerios sitting in the toilet. But
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  Speaker 3: that was a whole different day. But we have an
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  Speaker 3: author that wrote a book to help us with party training,
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  Speaker 3: you guys. So I am going to bring up miss
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  Speaker 3: Nakita Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up, my dear, Thank you Miss Patrice for
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  Speaker 1: having me on. Excited about this interview?
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am doing great, I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 3: So first of all, you have to tell us a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I can do that. So my name is
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  Speaker 1: Nikita Tyler. I just recently became an author. It's something
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  Speaker 1: that I've been wanting to do, so I recently wrote
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  Speaker 1: my first book, Time to Go Party. But I am
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  Speaker 1: a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, born and raised. I
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  Speaker 1: lived in Missouri for a couple of years and I've
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  Speaker 1: been here in Texas since twenty sixteen. And I love
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  Speaker 1: it here. I really love it here. I have family here,
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  Speaker 1: I love my job here, I have friends here, and
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  Speaker 1: it's great. I've been an educator for fifteen plus years.
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  Speaker 1: I really stopped counting. It's been a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy what I do. I love teaching little learners.
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  Speaker 1: I love just being a positive person in general.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is awesome. So why childcare?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so let me let me back up with that question.
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  Speaker 3: Like we talked before, I work at a library.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: But everyone who works in the children's department, only one
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  Speaker 3: of them has one kid. Everybody else has no kids.
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  Speaker 4: So how do you.
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  Speaker 3: How?
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  Speaker 4: How?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: What made you want to write this book for kids
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  Speaker 1: and deal with kids?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Dang, how do you?
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  Speaker 5: How do?
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's a gift to work with children general,
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  Speaker 1: that is a special gift, and that's something I knew
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do at a young age. My grandmother
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  Speaker 1: was a teacher. My mom was a teacher, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't just want to become a teacher because they were
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  Speaker 1: a teacher. It was really nice to see them in
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  Speaker 1: the classroom as a child, helping other children, and I
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  Speaker 1: used to always say, you know, that's that's something I
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  Speaker 1: might want to do. So I remember being in kindergarten
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  Speaker 1: and they asked, you know, what do you want to
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  Speaker 1: be when you grow up? Naturally, I said a teacher.
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  Speaker 1: But I love kids and I feel like I'm a
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  Speaker 1: magnet for them, Like I can't even explain it, but
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  Speaker 1: it takes a special person. But I did realize after
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  Speaker 1: I had my own and then going into childcare, like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: these children are not like mine. So they're all different,
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  Speaker 1: all the personalities. It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: They are like okay, so why a children's book offer?
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  Speaker 3: What made you want to take that role? What?
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  Speaker 1: I work in the field, right, And I've read some
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  Speaker 1: books and I'm kind of like I could have done this,
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  Speaker 1: or if I would have done better. But reading is important, right,
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  Speaker 1: and I see so many different scenarios on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I can write books that can
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  Speaker 1: help not only teachers, but parents at home as well.
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  Speaker 1: But Times Ago Party was my very first book because
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  Speaker 1: I've worked with with two year olds that stage right
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  Speaker 1: where you maybe one some one year olds may start,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the age group where you really work on
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  Speaker 1: partty training. And I found that one of the hardest
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  Speaker 1: things for them to do was stop playing to go
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  Speaker 1: use the restroom. So I was like, what better than
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  Speaker 1: to write a book, I mean and sit down and
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  Speaker 1: teach them about it.
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  Speaker 3: That is true, that's and that's why one of the
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  Speaker 3: things I deal with my son because he would not stop.
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  Speaker 3: He would just keep on going and then he's ready
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  Speaker 3: to stop. I'm like, no, man, I need you to
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  Speaker 3: stop when you first feel it exactly. So when he
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  Speaker 3: started to realize the cheerios was a game, it was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh okay, I could do this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's like made it fun, and that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. I think the part I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy is the fun underwear. Get the character underwears and
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  Speaker 1: tell them we got to keep them dry, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep them clean. It's okay to stop for a minute
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  Speaker 1: and go use the restroom. Your work will still be
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  Speaker 1: here when you get back. But that's a hard concept
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  Speaker 1: for some of them to understand. Sometimes. I never thought
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  Speaker 1: about the character underwears. Yes, you know those are fun.
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  Speaker 1: You picked that find something that they're really interested in
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  Speaker 1: and build off that like they love it, and then
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  Speaker 1: the celebration after they go, oh, we used to have
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  Speaker 1: parties when I worked in the two year old room,
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  Speaker 1: like it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had the pp and the party song.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, make it fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So what tip would you give a first time parent
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  Speaker 3: that is leading to body train like they're at their
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  Speaker 3: which end. Little Johnny or little a little Claire is
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  Speaker 3: just not getting it right.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say to me, sometimes it takes a
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  Speaker 1: minute for certain kids to get it. So first, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, have patience, and that's something that I really
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of. Everybody don't have, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that's one of my gifts. I have a lot of patience.
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  Speaker 1: So I would definitely encourage parents, caregivers, whoever's party training
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  Speaker 1: to have patience, a lot of it and just make
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  Speaker 1: it fun. Make it a fun experience and it'll be great.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So, as an author, what would you say was
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  Speaker 3: the hardest part about writing a book? Was it the
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  Speaker 3: getting the process together, the illustration and trying to market?
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  Speaker 3: What part was the hardest?
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, so excuse me. I used Canva
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  Speaker 1: and I love graphics. That's something that I love to
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  Speaker 1: play around with. So that was pretty much the easy part.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up with the words and the content for the
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  Speaker 1: book wasn't hard. But I think for me, marketing probably
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  Speaker 1: has been like the biggest challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Are you self published or are you publishing under under
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  Speaker 3: publishing company?
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  Speaker 1: I have self published all of my books, so this
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  Speaker 1: is still so new. I'm still researching and trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out that marketing part. But I'm gonna get it.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get it.
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  Speaker 3: So how many books do you have under your built?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How many? Which is I'm sorry what you say?
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  Speaker 3: How many books do you I have? How many books
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  Speaker 3: do you have on this?
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  Speaker 1: I have six children books and I also published a
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  Speaker 1: like self help book of positive affirmations.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, So six children's books? Which one is your
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  Speaker 3: baby Baby? Which one?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely love? It would have to be my my God
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  Speaker 1: is Good book? God is Good? Cans it? But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she is my b on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my favorite. And it's my favorite because
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the church and I think when
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  Speaker 1: you teach children at a young age about God, like
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  Speaker 1: that's something that won't they won't depart from. So that's
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite books. And it teachers of gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's super important too.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, because that's something that a lot of kids really
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  Speaker 3: don't know. It's about gratitude, especially this generation, because there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of give me, give me, give me,
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  Speaker 3: give me, give me, give me an instant, instant. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: I think that is a great book.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: That's your favorite?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell us about your other titles that you have?
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  Speaker 1: So I do I have time to go party. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: time to go party. God is Good, which has just
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  Speaker 1: kind of talked about. And then I have, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to school. So that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen in the cloud. Well, you know, children come
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  Speaker 1: to school they really don't want to. They didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to come for whatever reason. So I wrote that book
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  Speaker 1: to kind of help with with that. I also have
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  Speaker 1: Keep my Body Safe and feeling feeling blue and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do about big feelings that we
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  Speaker 1: really don't know what to do with. That book will
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  Speaker 1: help with that. I know as adult we have feelings
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  Speaker 1: that we really don't know what to do with right
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  Speaker 1: Oh no.
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  Speaker 3: No, my nine year old, because that little girl, we
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  Speaker 3: have some eaglely EMUs And I'd be like, hey, look girl,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to tell you life right now,
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  Speaker 3: but I you to get it together.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I value about teaching,
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  Speaker 1: like teaching about character and social and emotional like because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand. You want your kids
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  Speaker 1: to go to school and learn ABC one, two three,
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  Speaker 1: but if they can't cope or have you know, their
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  Speaker 1: social emotional together, that they won't be able to learn anything.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: That's important. And then I also have colors, numbers, and shapes.
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  Speaker 1: Those are mine.
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  Speaker 3: That's why do I see I see work books coming
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  Speaker 3: from me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that's important too, My positive information book,
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  Speaker 1: so that could be for I say, it's designed for
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  Speaker 1: teens adults, it's helpful for me. I pull it out
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  Speaker 1: when I needed.
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  Speaker 3: That is awesome. But yeah, I did need the one
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  Speaker 3: but the blue, because.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is a little one.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do these little kids. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: my daughter came to me and said, Mom, today was
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  Speaker 3: a date. I'm looking at her, like, girl, you're just
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  Speaker 3: been in your own looking at tivvy? Will you talking
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  Speaker 3: about the days and day? What the world so like?
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  Speaker 3: For me as a parent, I literally take off the
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  Speaker 3: first three days of school because I know that I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to be emotionally ready to sit down here
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  Speaker 3: and talk to the girl for about a good hour
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  Speaker 3: and a half about her little eight hours a day
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  Speaker 3: in school.
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  Speaker 1: So it's important. The fact that you take the time
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  Speaker 1: to do that, that's important because some people don't have
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  Speaker 1: five minutes for their children. And the fact that she's
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  Speaker 1: able to open up and tell you about her day,
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  Speaker 1: that is important. Kudos you for taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what can I call you for a bottle one
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  Speaker 3: after we get managed?
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  Speaker 1: Because you sure can.
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  Speaker 3: I am always you sure can. If I have to
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  Speaker 3: hear about Meson and Destiny and Lauren and all their
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  Speaker 3: little buddies, I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Be a listening here for her. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So how do you do you read your books to
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  Speaker 3: your students in your class?
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  Speaker 1: I have not read these particular books to my children,
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  Speaker 1: because I think we spoke before. I work with infants, right,
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  Speaker 1: I work with six weeks to twelve months. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: read my books to those. But I've recently discussed with
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  Speaker 1: like the director of my school, maybe going into the
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  Speaker 1: older classrooms and reading with those those kiddos.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, how about have you gone to like libraries or
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  Speaker 3: other kid friendly events and spoken to kids about your books?
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  Speaker 5: I have not.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that I want to do though, That's something
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be working on in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome, So tell us a little bit about how
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  Speaker 3: to party like your character's names or you know, tell
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about that one.
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  Speaker 1: So the guy, the little fella that you see on
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  Speaker 1: the cover. He's not exactly like a character. It's more
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  Speaker 1: so about the message. Okay, so whenever you read it,
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  Speaker 1: it'll kind of tell you or the pictures, like the
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  Speaker 1: kiddos can relate, like they play with blogs and they
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  Speaker 1: play with their friends all day. So it's not more
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  Speaker 1: so a character in the book. It's a message that
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay, that's great. I mean least me knowing that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you guys, you feel that.
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  Speaker 1: Little inkling right right, and they focus so much on
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  Speaker 1: but I want to stop playing and then you have
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  Speaker 1: to understand, like or explain to them, your work will
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  Speaker 1: still be there. I just need you to go release
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  Speaker 1: what's in your body and you can. And it's motivating
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  Speaker 1: them saying you can do this, you know, talking them
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  Speaker 1: through it, and then they do it. We talk about
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  Speaker 1: washing our hands and being all done and we celebrate
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  Speaker 1: after and how proud mom and dad are you for
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  Speaker 1: getting that done?
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  Speaker 3: So that is awesome, awesome, awesome. So where would you
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  Speaker 3: like your journey to go as a children's author?
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  Speaker 1: I would like my journey to go far. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see people sharing the books. I want to see
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  Speaker 1: children reading the books, teachers sharing the books, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to hear all the excitement that's going on when
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  Speaker 1: when these stories are being read to the children. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I want to I want to hear and
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  Speaker 1: see all about And I've gotten a couple of videos
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  Speaker 1: and some from parents. I've gotten a book and that
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  Speaker 1: really warn't my heart to see that they enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: And so my pictures on the back of so some
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  Speaker 1: of the kids that know me, they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's Mesquita, so they'll know like I wrote that book.
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  Speaker 1: So that's pretty exciting. That is cool.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a question for you. What's your passion
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  Speaker 3: for children's book? What drives you to focus on children?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: So my my passion is children hearing stories and getting
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  Speaker 1: something meaningful from it. I've been in education for fifteen
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  Speaker 1: plus years. As I discussed and they said, what drives
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  Speaker 1: you to focus on children? Like I love children? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a magnet for children. So that's my drive.
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  Speaker 1: Like seeing them learn and that light bulb. When that
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  Speaker 1: light bulb comes on and then I see that they
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  Speaker 1: got something like that does something for me that's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: So that's.
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  Speaker 3: Do you see yourself writing for an older age group
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  Speaker 3: or even adult books.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm actually working on my personal story at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was doing before I became a children's author.
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  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to tell my personal story. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm currently working on. It's just taking me some
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  Speaker 1: time to get it out because it's therapy for me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't even know I was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a children's author, but something came to me one day
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I can start here
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  Speaker 1: while I'm working on my parents story. I can start here.
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  Speaker 1: So right now I'm working on my personal story. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a question. Somebody says, do you have
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  Speaker 1: coloring books? I do not have coloring books at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say that, I mean I won't, but I
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  Speaker 1: do not have coloring books at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So, if you can partner with any author and
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  Speaker 3: write a book, well, let's see. If you can partner
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  Speaker 3: with any author, who.
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  Speaker 1: Would it be?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I really like Jamie Lee Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: Her books are fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, but is she up the age nine?
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  Speaker 3: Now? Then it was.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, I'm not sure, but I really love her books.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite book of hers is Big Words. For little people,
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  Speaker 1: because I just love to hear little kids say big words.
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  Speaker 1: That's the funnest thing ever. And so I think I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: would want to pair with her because vocabulary using a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: large vocabulary, like coming from a child, that's amazing to me.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they know what it means.
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  Speaker 3: That's yes, yes, Actually, when they know what it means,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: you're like, yes, yes, I love that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So you have a question.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Are you connected with any other authors, any mutual friends
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: or people you found along the way.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Other than like friends or family that I know that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: are authors. I'm not connected with people outside of that,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Like I just published my first book at the end
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of April, so this is still new for me. I'm
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: looking forward to networking with different people. Yeah, so other
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: than friends, family, I haven't connected with other authors, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it because I will.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know you got us, So anything we can do,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: you let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Somebody say kids say the dark, Yes they do,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: they are there. They I found that.
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  Speaker 3: Out during COVID when we had the homeschool our kids.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yes here, these kids say I'm at the camera, Like yo, dude,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: he just say that. I know.
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  Speaker 1: And they could be so brutally honest, but I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It's so innocent. If you could write a subject for
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: a child, Well, this is gonna be a two part question,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: so I'll do the first. If you can write a
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  Speaker 3: subject for a child that has not been covered and
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you feel it's very important, what would the subject be?
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm, ohmi, I don't know. I see so much on
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a daily basis in a classroom, and that that's my
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: thought process when I'm coming up with these titles, thinking
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: of subjects or things that I could write about. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: don't know. I have to think more about that. I
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: know that don't want to go to school. That one
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: really stuck out for me. That's why I have a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: character in there run and his mom because he was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: stuck on I'm not going to school. But I have
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to really think about that. I haven't thought about it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, So before I ask that next question, the Crew
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: podcast is Welcome to the world of authorship.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about the journey, I really am.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: And then another question that's come to my mind. They're
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: just coming. So, if you can write a book about
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a certain someone that you feel that kids should know about,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: who would it be or an event?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Who or what would it be? And why? Oh you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: got me with this one.
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  Speaker 3: I know I've seen so many things covered.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I really think, h yeah, that is something I would
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: really have.
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  Speaker 3: I think, okay, so for me, for me as a parent,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: for my daughter, I would have to say. And even
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: though it's been covered so many times, I think even
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: with the age of social media and stuff, I think
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: it has to be that self love. Because of talking
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to my daughter and doing your hair today, she's like, think,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I'm ready to get rid of my locks. I would
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: like to have a long flowing head. What your mama
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: head is full seed and your daddy we don't even
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: know what he got under his cap and you want
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: long soaki here. I don't think that's gonna happen to
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the baby girl.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that subject. Self love is so important
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: not only for tidmen but us as it's important for everybody.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And that's actually a subject that I value. I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: that will be some teaching. I just had to woosa,
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  Speaker 1: it's so important. It's just so important. I have a friend,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: she's really good and so love She takes time to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: get her hair down. She works like a lot, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: she takes the time to get the hair to nails done,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it takes time to take herself out to eat. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have to practice practice that a little bit more. But
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: for children, that is really important. So that's what I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: love that subject. Hmmm, Like, well, hmmm, maybe you have
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a question.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Would you consider writing any books geared towards the current
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: age group you work with?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've been thinking about it. I'm like, I work
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: with infants, so I mean know a lot of their
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: books are board books, of course, but you have the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the high contrast images that they need to see, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: mean picture books. That's something that I've absolutely thought about.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, ooh. When should we really focus on
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: self love for kids?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Miah? As soon as they get here, we talk
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to them about it, like have them looking in the mirror, saying,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you know you're teaching them. Like, I think as soon
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: as anything are born, we can teach them about self
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: love looking in the mirror, because they look in the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: mirror and they're smiling at themselves, and you can look
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with them and say that's you, You're beautiful.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Look at you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I think as soon as they're born, we can talk
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to them about about loving themselves.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: That is so correct. So my last question for you
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: is how does it feel being an African American children's
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: often during this time?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: It feels amazing. When I realized that my first book
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: was being published, I was like, careally an author, look
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: at me. Like when I got my first copy in email,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is mine.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I did this.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It feels great. It is great.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: It is because to see the development of diversity and
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: the willingness of people to write the books for or
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: be authors of color is full. It is so beautiful
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: and we thank you for that. We truly do.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, thinks.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: So before we leave, you gotta tell us how we
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: can get your book, tell us how we can't follow
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: you on social media, tell us the rundown as we
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: call it.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: All right, So on my social media platforms, I do
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: have a Facebook page titled Arthur Nikita Tyler. You can
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: follow me there. I do also have a LinkedIn page
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Arthur Nikita Tyler as well, and I'm also on TikTok.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's Nikita Tyler three four two, but yes,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: so Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and all my books are available
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: on Amazon. So if you search my name Nikita Tyler,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: all of my books should pop up.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Show you guys with sie Bookyalds of Friends are going
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: to do. We are going to create a blog post
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: of this blog and other questions that we have asked
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Miss Tyler, and at the end of the blog you
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: will have an opportunity to when your very own copy
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: of Time Toy Party by Nikita Tyler. Okay, so look
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: for this blog post to be up Wednesday morning. Read
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the blog post and enter to win. Okay, you guys,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Ms Tyler see Bookals of Friends. Thank you for coming.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. It was a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: great experience.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: This does not have to be your first time. Come
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: on back when you're ready to come back now.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you, guys.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: We thank Miss Tyler for coming with us and helping
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: us with those party trainings. Okay, thank God again. Another
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Saturday Nights in the Books. We were going to be
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: back next Saturday when another children's book author. You, guys,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I have so much fun this month with the books
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: for the little people. Parents. Let's start off the school,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Ye're right. Let's get those affirmations, those morning prayers. Remember,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: stay with we feel in the morning the same way
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: day feel in the morning. Let's start everything off positive
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: and to my crew to give fresh crew. I told
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: him that I would do this tonight. Auntie wants to
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: congratulate the four Chester Patriots on their last winds of Sunday.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Everybody got their winds, So congratulations Supersonic, which is my
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: youngest nephew, Terrell, easy E which is my middle nephew Eric,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: and my oldest nephew, King Kevin. Auntie is so proud
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: of you guys, and I am so happy to be
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: your Auntie and I did it. Congratulations you guys. Thank
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: you another Saturday Night. We'll catch you next Saturday.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Eight o'clock.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: New book, new author. Good night everyone. Thank you for
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: joining us for another episode of the sci Book Outs.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And first check you met a new author and he
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: saw a new book, go out to grab it. Make
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: sure you join us next week Saturday for a new
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: author and a new book.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And remember an
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Old book is always a new book because nobody has
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: read every bir