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GET SEEN AND HEARD AROUND THE WORLD WITH ASPIRING AUTHORS MAGAZINE, DA CREW PODCAST & SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There is no time here, only your press show us
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  Speaker 1: your glow.
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  Speaker 2: Speak to us. Now, speak to.
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  Speaker 3: Us now.
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  Speaker 2: Who here in this place?
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  Speaker 3: Spree home.
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  Speaker 4: A hotel way, speak loud. There is no time, only
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  Speaker 4: your prayers space.
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  Speaker 3: Speak to us.
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  Speaker 4: Holy speed, Holy spirit, Holy spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Hearing said be had about a heart.
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  Speaker 1: Lady, speak to us now. There is no time, only
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  Speaker 1: press shot to speaks the speed us. No we then
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  Speaker 1: need to here was you she just little woman?
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  Speaker 3: Want to.
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  Speaker 2: Speak to listen speak to us.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's talk.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, you're dreams.
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  Speaker 3: Shot off yow. We send your bird.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Wow. First,
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  Speaker 2: I want to tell everyone that has been sending me
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday wishes, y'all. My birthday was a month ago today.
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  Speaker 2: I actually celebrated my fifty first birthday on April the first.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow Facebook has gotten it wrong yet again. But today
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  Speaker 2: is yet another day to celebrate, y'all, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got to see another day. But it
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  Speaker 2: is also the magazine's six anniversary, y'all, six years of service.
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  Speaker 2: So definitely I thank you guys for I want to
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  Speaker 2: thank everybody that has been a part of Aspiring Authors
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  Speaker 2: magazine that has poored, that has been featured, that has
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  Speaker 2: allowed us to share their brand, whatever part that you
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  Speaker 2: have played in Aspiring Authors Magazine over the last six years,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to give you a round of applause.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. I tell
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  Speaker 2: you we wouldn't be able to produce these issues if
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  Speaker 2: it was not for you, guys, and if you did
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  Speaker 2: not grab your special Poetry edition. Y'all can still grab
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  Speaker 2: your special Poetry Edition. I'm getting ready to mail out
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  Speaker 2: some copies on today, getting ready to mail out some
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  Speaker 2: copies on today. Tell you I have truly I never
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  Speaker 2: thought that I would be an author, never thought that
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  Speaker 2: I would be a magazine owner, get a podcast owner
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  Speaker 2: as well. Today is a very special day, y'all because tonight,
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  Speaker 2: tonight at nine thirty pm Eastern Standard time, y'all, I
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  Speaker 2: will be celebrating my six years over on the wb
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  Speaker 2: n N. For those that have been a part of
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  Speaker 2: this journey with me, I will be celebrating six years
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  Speaker 2: tonight over on the wb n N. So I want
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  Speaker 2: you guys to come on over and share with us
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  Speaker 2: on tonight. I'm telling you I have two amazing individuals
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be sharing this celebration with me. Trevida Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I call her my half pint. She reminds me so
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  Speaker 2: much of me and that little body. She has such
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  Speaker 2: a big spirit and a big heart, and I truly
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  Speaker 2: truly love her with everything in me. She's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: celebrating with me on tonight as well as Patrice. Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: She is my bff. That is my bestie. I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: the two of them, I tell you they are always
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  Speaker 2: checking in on me, making sure that you know I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing what I supposed to do. Too. They call me
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  Speaker 2: their mentor, but they just don't understand how much they
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  Speaker 2: pour into me and how much they support me. So
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  Speaker 2: I thank them. And tonight, y'all, we're gonna be celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: I want y'all to stop by if you can. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna post up. Look, I'm gonna put the number. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna put the number in the in the comment section
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  Speaker 2: down here, so you guys can call in. Let me
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  Speaker 2: grab that number real quick so I can put it
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  Speaker 2: in the comments say, and so y'all can call in
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  Speaker 2: and share with us on tonight. I got it. Let
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  Speaker 2: me see if I can pull it up and put
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  Speaker 2: it on the screen so you guys can see it.
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  Speaker 2: I want y'all to call in and support me on
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  Speaker 2: tonight if you can. We're just gonna be having some
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  Speaker 2: good old conversations. We're gonna be looking back over these
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  Speaker 2: six years that I have been a part of the
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  Speaker 2: w b n N. And not only that, y'all, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get a chance to talk about the Crew podcast
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  Speaker 2: because if it was not for wbn in, y'all, there
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  Speaker 2: will be no Crew podcasts. So we're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 2: about that tonight and just sharing about broadcasting and what
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  Speaker 2: this opportunity have meant to me. And we're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: be having that conversation. I encourage you guys to call
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  Speaker 2: in support me. If you don't do nothing but call
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  Speaker 2: in and say congratulations or we love you, or whatever
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  Speaker 2: you wanna say, call in. You can shot your brand out.
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  Speaker 2: You get an opportun tunity, y'all. Look, you get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to come live on air with me. You get
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  Speaker 2: to shot your brand out, you get to say what
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  Speaker 2: you wanna say in the conversation, y'all. All you got
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  Speaker 2: to do is pick up that phone and dial in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna post that dill In number, so y'all can
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  Speaker 2: come on and join. Let me get that dill in
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  Speaker 2: number right now, so y'all can call in tonight and
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  Speaker 2: be a part of what we are doing on the
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  Speaker 2: wbn N. So let me get that up on the
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  Speaker 2: screen so y'all can call in tonight. Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: told y'all I was gonna get that number. I'm'a share
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  Speaker 2: that number with you guys. Hold on, let me grab it.
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  Speaker 2: I got it, I got it, I got it, I
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  Speaker 2: got it, I got it. Okay, So here it is,
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  Speaker 2: y'all tonight live on the wb N. End y'all can
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  Speaker 2: call in and support me. All you got to do
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  Speaker 2: is dial one of the numbers on the screen that's
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  Speaker 2: six O five five six two zero four four four
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  Speaker 2: or seven one seven, seven three four six nine oh four.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have to punch in the identification code
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  Speaker 2: which is five four six one one five zero pound,
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  Speaker 2: and then you gonna press one pound to end of
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  Speaker 2: the studio and then you are press star two to
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  Speaker 2: join the conversation. All you got to do is listen
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  Speaker 2: and follow the prompts. Just listen and follow the prompts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna post this number again on my page and
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  Speaker 2: I encourage you guys to call in tonight and support
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  Speaker 2: support me tonight as I celebrate my six years over
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  Speaker 2: on the wb N in Beverly Nation tonight. And not
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  Speaker 2: only are we celebrating over on the WBN in y'all, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: today is the magazine. I I got to go back
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  Speaker 2: to the magazine so I can shout out those that
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  Speaker 2: are a part of the magazine. Patrice has been with
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  Speaker 2: me for six years. She has been with me since
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  Speaker 2: I started the magazine. I aksed her when she come
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  Speaker 2: and and and lead the book review section, to the
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  Speaker 2: lead the the author section, and y'all, when I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: she took it on and she made it her own.
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  Speaker 2: She introduced the world to her brand, which is South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Book Gal and Friends. Y'all, I tell you I
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  Speaker 2: have truly enjoyed working with her over these last six years.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell you if you have not connected with her,
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  Speaker 2: you're missing out on a opportunity to allow your brand
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  Speaker 2: to be heard and seen around the world. Because she
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  Speaker 2: is also one of the hosts over on the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: so you get an opportunity to not just be in
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  Speaker 2: the book in the magazine, featured in the magazine. Have
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  Speaker 2: your book in the magazine, but you also get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to be on a website or blog, and you
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  Speaker 2: get to be on her podcast. Y'all. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: it's an amazing opportunity. And with her expertise, y'all, she
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  Speaker 2: has twenty years of service with the Charleston County Library.
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  Speaker 2: So when I tell you, she knows what she's doing
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  Speaker 2: and she can give you some valuable tips and some
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  Speaker 2: valuable insight. So if you're not connected with her, you
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  Speaker 2: definitely want to get connected with her. She does some
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  Speaker 2: amazing work. Right now, she is preparing for the fifty
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  Speaker 2: well it's gonna be fifty five. It's the fifty states
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  Speaker 2: in the five Territories. It's represent your state magazine. It's
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  Speaker 2: a special audition that we've been doing for about four years.
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  Speaker 2: She is in charge of that. So if you want
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  Speaker 2: to wrap your state, if it has not already been taken,
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  Speaker 2: I encourage you to to get connected with her so
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  Speaker 2: that you can feature your state inside of the magazine.
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  Speaker 2: She has taken over that, and I tell you she
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  Speaker 2: has been doing an amazing job at that. I I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. If you have not connected with her, I
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  Speaker 2: can't tell you enough how you were missing out on
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  Speaker 2: an amazing When I tell you she is definitely a
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  Speaker 2: literary agent and definitely knows what she's doing, you definitely
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  Speaker 2: wanna connect with her, y'all. I got a list of
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  Speaker 2: things that we're gonna be talking about on today. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna be flipping through these slides and just talking
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  Speaker 2: about these slides today, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We have.
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  Speaker 2: And that is before I move on to the next slide. So,
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  Speaker 2: Patrice has been with me for six years. Apostle Kimberly
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  Speaker 2: and Charlotte Simon they have been with me for three
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  Speaker 2: going on four years. I think maybe four years going
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  Speaker 2: on five years, cause I I can't remember. We've been
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  Speaker 2: working together so long. Now, Keisha is our new Poet
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  Speaker 2: of the Year for twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season.
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  Speaker 2: So she is our latest addition to the magazine. If
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  Speaker 2: y'all don't know, every year we select a new poet
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  Speaker 2: and we give that poet an opportunity to write for
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  Speaker 2: the poetry section of the magazine that is a four
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  Speaker 2: page spread. They get to utilize that to not just
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  Speaker 2: promote their brand, but they get to promote other authors
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  Speaker 2: and promote authors not authors other poets and poet events
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  Speaker 2: and different things around poetry. It is all things poetry.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are a poet, I definitely think this
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  Speaker 2: is an opportunity to connect and to share your brand.
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  Speaker 2: She is also in charge of our poetry group over
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook. If you are on Facebook, we have a
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  Speaker 2: poetry group called the Poetic Lounge, and we just we
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  Speaker 2: share poetry, we share events, we share everything around poetry.
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  Speaker 2: So I definitely if you are a poet or aspiring poet,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you walk in in poetry, definitely that is an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to connect, to get heard and get seen. So
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  Speaker 2: definitely want you to connect with Keisha Johnson mcray. So
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  Speaker 2: y'all know, we have been doing the billboard and my
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  Speaker 2: bestie there she is Patrice Grimball, South Carolina Book Gap.
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  Speaker 2: She has partnered with me, So we are definitely trying
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  Speaker 2: to get authors and those brands a part of what
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  Speaker 2: we do out there. And and every first and third
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  Speaker 2: Saturday we are securing a billboard and we are showcasing
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  Speaker 2: twelve book covers. I know a lot of people say,
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  Speaker 2: is that the only thing you'll showcasing right now? That
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  Speaker 2: is our focus for the month of June because that
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  Speaker 2: is our Men's History Month. We are going a little
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  Speaker 2: further and I'm gonna talk about that a little later on,
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  Speaker 2: But we have an opportunity to utilize resources and to
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  Speaker 2: utilize those things that are in front of us. So
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  Speaker 2: every first and third Saturday, and if the interest increased,
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  Speaker 2: then we may consider doing every Saturday. As long as
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  Speaker 2: there is a interest, we will put it out there.
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  Speaker 2: But what we want to do is provide opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: those because we know that New York Times Square is
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  Speaker 2: a busy place. There's tourists that come from all over
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  Speaker 2: the world. There's thousands and thousands and thousands of people
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  Speaker 2: that pass through there. So your book cover would have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to be up on the big screen to
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  Speaker 2: be seen. What happens is it flashes up on the
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  Speaker 2: screen every hour on the hour. They would give us
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  Speaker 2: a set time. I will let you guys know what
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  Speaker 2: that time is, and every hour on the hour, you
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  Speaker 2: you would see our billboard flash across that screen and
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  Speaker 2: it would stay up for about fifteen seconds. And you
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to not just be on the billboard,
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  Speaker 2: but you get featured on our substat block as well
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  Speaker 2: as our block spot block. So you get, the author
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  Speaker 2: gets a feature as well as a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: information about your book, and then there's a snippet a audience,
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  Speaker 2: your snippet of your feature that is aired on iHeart, Spotify,
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  Speaker 2: Amazon Music, all of the platforms that we utilize here
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  Speaker 2: with the Crew Podcast. So everywhere that you can hear
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  Speaker 2: the Crew Podcast, you will be able to hear those
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  Speaker 2: snippets from those that are being featured on the Billboard.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just an opportunity to really get your brand
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  Speaker 2: out there. And then y'all get to utilize these resources,
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  Speaker 2: so you get links to your blogs that you can
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  Speaker 2: share out. And then not only that you get to
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  Speaker 2: add these things to your resume, you get to add
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  Speaker 2: them to your author sheet. You get to tell people that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I was featured on the New York Times Square billboard,
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  Speaker 2: I was featured on Aspiring Author's magazine block. And then
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  Speaker 2: we also go as far as giving you a certificate.
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  Speaker 2: We have made a logo that says that I have
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  Speaker 2: been seen on New York Times Square. No one else
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  Speaker 2: is doing that, so you won't see these little stickers.
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  Speaker 2: You're probably gonna see it now because we are doing it,
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  Speaker 2: and we have been the first one. I don't see
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  Speaker 2: nobody else walking around with New York Times Square. I
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  Speaker 2: have been seen on New York Times Square stickers, So
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  Speaker 2: we are utilizing that. Y'all can even put it on
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  Speaker 2: if you want to put it on your promotions. You
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  Speaker 2: can put it on your promotions. You can put it
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  Speaker 2: on the little sticker on different things. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: post that sticker so you guys can see what that
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  Speaker 2: sticker looks like. But it's an opportunity for you to
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  Speaker 2: really utilize this as a marketing and advertising opportunity where
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  Speaker 2: you can show people. And then this helped you to
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  Speaker 2: gun a sponsorships and to gun a different things because
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  Speaker 2: when people see that you are being visible, that you're
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  Speaker 2: getting out there, that you are showing yourself, that you're
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  Speaker 2: not just posting them Facebook groups, you're not just posting
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok and Instagram, but you're putting yourself out there
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  Speaker 2: for other people to see because y'all, all kind of
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  Speaker 2: people come through New York Times Square, so ain't no
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  Speaker 2: telling who may see you. And then once the billboard
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  Speaker 2: is down, you your book cover as well as the
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  Speaker 2: link to purchase your book is placed on South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: book Gal's website, so you can go over. Anybody that
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  Speaker 2: saw you on the billboard and got that link, they
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  Speaker 2: can go over and they can purchase your book through
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina book Gal platform. So it is an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to really share your brand. Y'all utilize these opportunities. Don't
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  Speaker 2: let these opportunities just pass you by. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have some people out here that's gonna try
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  Speaker 2: to gonna try to rob your pockets to tell you
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  Speaker 2: that you gotta pay this to get on the bill boy,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta pay this to get on the billboard. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell you I'm not trying to fatten my pockets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to provide an opportunity. I believe in being
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  Speaker 2: a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of my one of my daily prayers is that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I want God to bless me so that
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  Speaker 2: I can be a blessing to others. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I desire. You know, a lot of people they
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  Speaker 2: get on me because I do. I do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things at a cheaper rate because I believe in
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  Speaker 2: providing an opportunity. You know, there have been several times
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  Speaker 2: where I've asked people how to do this and how
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  Speaker 2: to do that, and they have given me the run around.
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  Speaker 2: They have wanted to charge me an arm and a leg,
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  Speaker 2: and I just truly don't believe in that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when God lay things in my spirit, God for those
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  Speaker 2: that follow me, and know when God lay things in
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  Speaker 2: my spirit. I try to be obedient. I try to
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  Speaker 2: operate and the things that He has called me to do,
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  Speaker 2: and I try to do it in excellence, and I
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  Speaker 2: try to do it accordingly to how He tell me
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  Speaker 2: to do it. So you won't see me out here
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  Speaker 2: with these lavishing prices, haitien it. You won't see me
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  Speaker 2: out here charging the arm and the leg, asking for
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  Speaker 2: your first born, asking for no whole lot of money
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  Speaker 2: to do anything. I do think that the investments that
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  Speaker 2: I offer it's well worth the services that I offer.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, I'm not trying to break the bank,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to be able to provide an outlet
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  Speaker 2: and an opportunity for those that are trying to grow
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  Speaker 2: their brand and those that are trying to get out
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  Speaker 2: there and be seen. We have the magazine, we have
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, We now have the billboard, We have South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina book gal. If you need a book review, a
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  Speaker 2: professional book review I'm telling you Patrise is where is that.
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  Speaker 2: If you are someone that loves to read and want
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  Speaker 2: to join her book review team, I encourage you to
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  Speaker 2: reach out to her because she has some opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: you to join her book review team and be a
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  Speaker 2: part of what she's doing with South Carolina Book Gap
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  Speaker 2: as well as the magazine and her podcast. So if
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  Speaker 2: you are a lover of books and want to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the book review team, please reach out
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  Speaker 2: to Patrice connect with her. If you want her contact information,
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  Speaker 2: you always can reach out to me or if you
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook, you can go to South Carolina book Gas,
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  Speaker 2: send her a direct message and connect with her. But
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  Speaker 2: she is my partner in crime right now with the billboards,
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  Speaker 2: So again every first and third Saturday, you have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to allow your brand, your book brand to be
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  Speaker 2: seen on the billboard. Those that have been a part we.
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  Speaker 1: Have a.
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  Speaker 2: A page that we stay connected through. It is my
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  Speaker 2: book cover has been seen in New York Times Square,
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  Speaker 2: and we share, we share resources, we connect and we
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  Speaker 2: try to uplift each other. We try to encourage each other,
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  Speaker 2: and who knows what these different relationships can lead to.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know. I love doing anthologies. So it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: that you can connect with other like minded people, and
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  Speaker 2: you can connect your expertise and allow the things that
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  Speaker 2: you do and the things that you're passionate about to
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  Speaker 2: come forth to Because I just don't think about myself
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  Speaker 2: my gifts and my talents. I like to bring forth
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  Speaker 2: everybody gifts and talents so that we can see how
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  Speaker 2: we can work together, because that's what we're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to be healthmakes one to another, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I do. I try to lead by example, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: I try to lead by example. So next y'all are
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  Speaker 2: who is the newest member of the magazine. She has
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  Speaker 2: come up with an amazing idea to have ambassadors for
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  Speaker 2: the magazine to help push the magazine. She called me
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  Speaker 2: she was like, oh my god, she said, I love
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  Speaker 2: this magazine. She was like, it is beautiful. She said,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, she said, and I just wanna I
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  Speaker 2: I want to help promote it. So we are calling
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  Speaker 2: for ambassadors that would help promote the magazine, that will
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  Speaker 2: help get the magazine out there, share the magazine, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: there's opportunities where you can also be featured, opportunities where
• 24:41
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  Speaker 2: anything for me, there's always some type of reward or
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: some type of incentive. I don't think that people should
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  Speaker 2: do things all the time for free. It's okay to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: volunteer your services, it's okay to get yeh sometime, but
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  Speaker 2: I I think you should be rewarded for the things
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  Speaker 2: that you do, especially when you're doing it from your
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  Speaker 2: those that needed to be encouraged, y'all, because when I
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: tell you, we it's not just about authors. We talk
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: about things that affect our community. We talk about different
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: things like this month, I think I I talked about
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: sexual assault because this is sexual Assault Awareness month. The
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: month of April autisms different things that affect our community.
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  Speaker 2: So every month there's awarenesses. So for whatever month it
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  Speaker 2: is and whatever the awareness is for that month, we
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  Speaker 2: try to highlight that. We talk about social injustice. We
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: have a Free Texas campaign section inside. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: about all things Texas. We talk about different things. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about anything about social injustice. So if you have
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  Speaker 2: if you know someone that has been wrongfully overly incarcerated
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  Speaker 2: and you may want to share their story, you can
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  Speaker 2: share that inside of the magazine, y'all. When I tell
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  Speaker 2: you it, it's about our people and bringing information to
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  Speaker 2: the forefront. The business section, it's all about things around
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: being a author, being an entrepreneur, and a creative. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: it's all things about that this month month of April,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: and I keep saying this month and we're in a
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: new month. But for the month of April, I talked
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: about taxes. I talked about being an author, and that
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: being a business colled. We know that it's called entrepreneurship.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things that we talk about.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I talk about different ways to make additional income, y'all,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: anything that you can think about in the business realm
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of being an author or creative, we try to share
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: that in the business section. We also have the poetry section,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: which Keisha is over the poetry section, she highlight different poets,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: She highlight a little bit about whatever she wants to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: highlight about poetry, so she have an opportunity to share
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: every month. Sometimes she may want to interview in the
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  Speaker 2: individual poets and different people uh about poetry. We also
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: again the next slide is some of the authors that
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  Speaker 2: will well, they're book covers that will be on the
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  Speaker 2: billboard on May the sixteenth. We were supposed to have
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  Speaker 2: a billboard up tomorrow, but we didn't have enough people
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  Speaker 2: to participate, so we're not gonna have a billboard up tomorrow,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: but we will be back on the sixteenth and these
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: amazing book covers will be up on that billboard. They
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: will be up on that billboard. I'm excited, y'all. I'm
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: excited because the month of June, y'all. The month of
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: June is very very near and dear to my heart
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: because it is a month that we celebrate our kings,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: we celebrate our men for so long no one celebrates them.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: We we we look at all of the different celebrations
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: that they have. We know, they have International Women's History Month,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: they have Black History Month, they have Hispanic this and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Asian disc and every other thing. But the only thing
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: that they celebrate is one day for our men. One
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: day and that is the that that is Father's Day.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: But y'all, every man is not a father. So about
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: five years ago now, we started celebrating June as our
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Men's History Month. Here it aspired Arson's Magazine. So these
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: little boxes that you see over here, these are gonna
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  Speaker 2: be filled with men that are doing amazing things within
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  Speaker 2: our community. So if you are a business owner, if
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you're in ministry, if you are a activist, if you're
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: doing something out in the community, we're gonna take two
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: weeks out of the month of June and celebrate you.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So I think it is. Let me see, y'all. Let
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: me make sure I got the right dates. Let me
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: make sure I got the right dates. I like to
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: make sure I'm giving the right information. So June sixth
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and June twentieth, y'all, we're gonna be celebrating ministers, community leaders, entrepreneurs,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: anyone that falls in that category for our men, and y'all,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the month of June is for men only. We're gonna
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: fill New York Times Square every Saturday with our men.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: So if you know a man, I want you to
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: tag them when I post about our men stuff. Make
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: sure that you are you you you, You come over
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: there and you tag a man when you see this
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: flyer on my page, make sure you're tagging a man
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: because these they're they're ministry leaders and all of those
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: they have an opportunity to showcase they brand. But we
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: didn't forget about the male authors. We want the male
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: authors too, and we have a space for them. We're
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: gonna be highlighting them and sharing them as well. We
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: gonna take the thirteenth in the twenty seventh. So these
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: are this is what those billboards are gonna look like
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: in real time, up on that billboard up on Times Square.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: This is what it's gonna look like, y'all. So the
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: twenty seventh we are highlighting twelve men male authors. So
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: if you know a male author, I encourage you to
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  Speaker 2: invite them to be a part of the billboard. Y'all.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Jack fifty dollars is well invested because
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: you get to be on the billboard for twenty four hours.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: You get to be seen by thousands of people that's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: passing through New York Times Square. Not only that, you
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: get to be featured on Aspiring Authors magazine Blobs. Y'all.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: We have two blobs, one on Substack and one on
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: blocks block Spot, which is through Google, So you get
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  Speaker 2: to be featured on those blocks as well as your
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: book cover will be featured on South Carolina Bookgal dot com.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: See at the bottom of the screen, you see that
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: banner that says visit South Carolina Bookgal and friends dot
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: com to purchase. They gonna get to go over see
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: your book cover and purchase through your link that you
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: share with us. And then not only that, y'all, you
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: may get an opportunity to connect with Patrice and be
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: featured on in the magazine because like I said, she y'all,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: she's in charge of the inside of the magazine for
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the book section. And then y'all, she also have a
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: podcast where she highlights authors every single Tuesday. So you
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: get you get connected, you get connections, and then again
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: you get to connect with all those that are part
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of the Billboard. So every we gotta I'm trying to
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: think is it a group. I think it's a group,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and then it may be a page. But however it is,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you get to be a part of that. I invite
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: you over, you get to post, you get to connect
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: with those authors, and then we have a chat for
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that time so we can talk about things leading up
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to you being on the billboard. So y'all, when I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: tell you it's an amazing opportunity to connect and amazing
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: opportunity to share, you definitely want to connect. Okay, Schnette,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: just let me know. We definitely can get that done.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: We we definitely can get that done. Just let me
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: know when you wanna do it, and we can get
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: that up and we can get that we can get
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: that up that that would be great. I I'm tryna
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: utilize the billboard for whatever we can utilize it for
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: to bring awareness to those that support the things that
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: we do. So yes, definitely we can do that. So y'all,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: when y'all see these flyers, make sure that you are
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: tagging men because we're gonna try to take over New
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: York Times Square in the month of June and flooded
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: with our males, because y'all, we know what society has
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: done to our men and how they have not set
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: our men up to to to to to to prosper,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: but they have painted these narratives and they have done
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: so much to make our men feel like they're not
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: worthy and that we don't care about them.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But we do.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I am my brother's keeper, and we see how society
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: has failed. But I want them to know that we
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: are here and we are cheering for you, and we
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: want the best for you. So this is how I
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: want to show them that we are here to support them.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: So y'all share this when you see it out. Share
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: it when you see it out, y'all. I know I
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: said I was gonna do another portry book, but y'all, no,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I can't help it. You are missing out on a
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: a amazing opportunity to to share. So if you are
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: a poet, I tell y'all, I'm gonna make my screen
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: bigger so y'all can see this book every time Jason
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: posts something. Every time Jason post something, y'all, I I
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I try to be a part of it. He is
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the visionary of poetry and motion. I have had the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: opportunity to be a part of several of his anthology
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: and this is the latest project. I think I have
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: signed up to be a part of a couple of
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: more projects. I signed up to be a part of
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: the Women's Project, the Men, the Father's Day Project, y'all.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: I have been sharing it with you guys. So if
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: you have been across my page, y'all, when these opportunities
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: come up, y'all take advantage of 'em. They're free. It's
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to connect with some more people. It's an
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: opportunity for you to allow your voice to be heard,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: and it's an opportunity to be seen. So y'all take
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: advantage of these opportunities, take advantage of them, utilize them.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Allow your brand to get out there, y'all, because if
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you don't put yourself out there, guess what, you ain't
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: gonna get out there. You ain't gonna get out there.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: So push yourself outside of your box. Step outside your circle, y'all.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I am doing that this year, twenty twenty six. I
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: am stepping outside of my circle. I am coming from
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: behind y'all. Know, y'all see me behind the scene a lot,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: but I am coming from behind the scenes a little more.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty six, I am branching now. I am
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: gonna be speaking at some events. I'm gonna be a
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: part of some summits that's coming up. I'm gonna be
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: sharing my testimony. So there's gonna be a lot of
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: different things that I'm gonna be outside at the box.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: So I challenge you to do the same. I challenge
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: you to do the same. So again, I want you
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: guys to take advantage of these opportunities when they come forth,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: take advantage of them. If there's anything that I have
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: shared on here today that you may not have gotten
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: all of the details, or you want to ask some questions,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: y'all know, I am a open book. I am an
• 40:28
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• 40:32
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• 40:34
  Speaker 2: too busy that we can't sit down and have a conversation.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Or if we can have a meeting, we can have
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a meeting. However, I am just here to help cist.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a servant leader and I'm here to serve. That
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: is what God has called me to and that's what
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I'm here to do. So if there's anything that you
• 40:58
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• 41:20
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• 41:38
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  Speaker 2: be able to have over a hundred and seventy something
• 41:50
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  Speaker 2: I even have a couple urban lit books. I even
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