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SC BOOKGAL & FRIEND · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Welcome to SC Bookyards and Friends. I am
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  Speaker 2: your girl, Pretty Trees, sc book Out A four three
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  Speaker 2: and welcome to another Tuesday Night. So what y'all think
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  Speaker 2: about these Tuesday nights? Okay, that's how you feel. I'm
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  Speaker 2: starting to like it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Saying I could.
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  Speaker 2: Come home from work, be mommy who saw and they
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  Speaker 2: come on here and have fun and talk to y'all
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  Speaker 2: about these books. Okay, But tonight we're not gonna talk books. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about all the great pre programs, the
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  Speaker 2: great interviews, all the stuff that we have coming. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let me explain this. Okay, SC Bookouts and Friends
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  Speaker 2: is the part of aspiring authors magazines. Okay, aspiring off.
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  Speaker 2: This magazine has the craziest, most bananas things going on.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all talk about being booked and busy. Remember one time
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  Speaker 2: we were just the magazine, and then we got blessed
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  Speaker 2: and we became the podcast. And now y'all were getting
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  Speaker 2: blessed even more because now we got to speak engagement.
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  Speaker 3: And we will be to cities near you.
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  Speaker 2: We have virtual conferences, we have in person conferences, and
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  Speaker 2: we have several opportunities for authors, illustrators, individuals who like
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  Speaker 2: to be in anthologies. We have so many things going on.
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  Speaker 2: But of course, of course, of course, of course I
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  Speaker 2: have to bring up the Interbator, the inventor, the how
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  Speaker 2: we say in the South, the mouth Peace, the Queen
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  Speaker 2: of collaborations about her and God who gave her the
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  Speaker 2: insight to put us all together, which would be none
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  Speaker 2: of us. Angela Thomas Nick. Come on up, girly, come
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  Speaker 2: on up. Let's tell them what we got going on. Alright, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: my mother's going on from what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on? What's going on? Hey, everybody, So y'all,
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  Speaker 4: I have the Queen with me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we were just talking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is season three, season three, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: And I can remember holding my breath.
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  Speaker 3: About the pass out. And now it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I get to have money cause I get to talk
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  Speaker 2: to all these authors and I got an offer coming
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  Speaker 2: next week.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all, y'all got to stay around.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, check out my solf because I'm gonna be blasting
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  Speaker 2: her all over the place. Okay, But if it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: for you, I wouldn't be in this place right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy how God said, okay, cool, I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 2: y'all on the alignment, come on me and ligne y'all up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he did. And now look at us,
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  Speaker 2: this is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Well that that's what he do.
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  Speaker 2: He will take the the strangest things to confirm the
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  Speaker 2: wise I tell you, did I think I would be
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of the things that I'm doing. No
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  Speaker 2: podcasts and magazines, over one hundred books. No, never thought
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  Speaker 2: any of that. But I'm grateful He's given us all
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  Speaker 2: and outlet and and opportunity to share his goodness. And
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  Speaker 2: it's all about sharing his goodness and allowing him to
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  Speaker 2: come forth because I'm not able to to do any
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff if it was not for him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about the different things like God literally
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  Speaker 2: download things in me, and it not always is for me.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm always trying to push people into you know,
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  Speaker 2: what I think God has purposed them to do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I tell people all the time, if you come in
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  Speaker 2: my presence, know that it is a reason why you're
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  Speaker 2: in my miss, it's not a coincidence. And normally it
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  Speaker 2: is about a gift and it's usually about something that
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  Speaker 2: you know you have and you are not utilizing it.
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  Speaker 2: And he normally bring people in, my miss, that I'm
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  Speaker 2: able to pull those things out of them. Sometime I
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  Speaker 2: may be rough, but that that roughness it always it
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  Speaker 2: always end up coming off as love.
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  Speaker 4: I can say that it is never.
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  Speaker 2: Come from a place of anything out of love. Everything
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  Speaker 2: that I do I work unto the Lord, So I work.
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  Speaker 4: From my heart.
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  Speaker 2: I work from a place of you know, wanting to
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  Speaker 2: make a difference, wanting to impact, wanting to share his
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  Speaker 2: goodness because I know that I didn't get here by
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  Speaker 2: you know, the great things that I have done, because
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  Speaker 2: I've not done anything great.
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  Speaker 4: He spared my life so that I could.
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  Speaker 2: Be a witness for his goodness and so that I
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  Speaker 2: could share it with others and let people know that
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  Speaker 2: what he did for me he can do for you.
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  Speaker 4: So that that's just the me Patrice, and why I
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  Speaker 4: do what I did.
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  Speaker 2: And you know she is so corre like with her,
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  Speaker 2: it's like that mother that chastises you. But you know
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  Speaker 2: they want the best for you, and if they don't
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  Speaker 2: chastise you. It means that they don't love you.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like, really, like when I talk to
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  Speaker 2: my daughter, Okay, don't do this because such and such
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  Speaker 2: and such and such, I chastise her. But then you
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  Speaker 2: know what, She'll come back to me and like, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: you were right, and I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So it's all love. Okay. So now let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about all these things we have going on. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So the first one I want to see and I
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  Speaker 2: want to like to talk about is the authors to
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  Speaker 2: watch out for you guys, this is the opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: you as an author season brand new, middle grade whatever,
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  Speaker 2: to have like a team of people behind you saying
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  Speaker 2: you can do this.
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  Speaker 3: So let's think of jail and Hurts.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, y'all know it's a little cute self one, not
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  Speaker 2: little Super Bowl Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So Kendrick Kamar love your halftime performance.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he has a group of people behind
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  Speaker 2: him that supports him and guides him. That is what
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get when you join the one hundred authors
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  Speaker 2: to watch Okay. We have different groups that you have
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  Speaker 2: a leader or some people say a mentor. Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: if you having some type of problem, you get hit
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  Speaker 2: them up, be like all right, I need you to
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  Speaker 2: help me out with this, this, that, and the other.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know from you, Miss Smith, how in the.
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  Speaker 3: World did you come up with that awesome idea?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it did not start out as that, Patrice.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, this did not start out as what
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  Speaker 2: I wanted it to start out as. This was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be what you just did in award show. This
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  Speaker 2: is what this was supposed to be. But God said,
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  Speaker 2: this is not what I want you to do. He said,
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  Speaker 2: It's not about a contest. It's not about competition. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about recognition.
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  Speaker 4: He said.
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  Speaker 2: It is about connecting. It is about collaborating. It's about
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  Speaker 2: being a part of a community that can allow you
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  Speaker 2: to create the four seeds. Is what he dropped in
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  Speaker 2: my spirit. See God deal with me in so many
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  Speaker 2: different ways, and when he began to unload this in
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  Speaker 2: my spirit, I was like, okay. So I came up
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  Speaker 2: with the Google form and even a word, and as
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  Speaker 2: I was doing, if you had to notice, I've had
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  Speaker 2: to go back and I've had to edit that Google
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  Speaker 2: form probably four times. So the people that started feeling
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  Speaker 2: out the form and joining the beginning, they really thought
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  Speaker 2: that it was an award show, and I had to
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  Speaker 2: break it down to them and explain to them exactly
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  Speaker 2: what it was about and that it wasn't and apologize
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  Speaker 2: to them if I misled them. Because there was gotten
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  Speaker 2: There was going to be no voting, There was not
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  Speaker 2: going to be any any competition. That was not going
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  Speaker 2: to be any of that. My whole thing is about educating, empowering,
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  Speaker 2: and couragement. Since God rolls me off my bed of
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  Speaker 2: a flip of a fiction, that's what I have been doing.
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  Speaker 4: I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Educate everyone that come in my mess. I want to
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  Speaker 2: empower them, and I want to encourage them to stay
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  Speaker 2: on this journey that they're on.
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  Speaker 4: So when he began to.
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  Speaker 2: Drop this in my spirit, he said, utilize the people
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  Speaker 2: that's within the group to be group leaders, allow them
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  Speaker 2: to come forth, allow them to share their expertise, those
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  Speaker 2: things that they have been sitting on that they have
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  Speaker 2: and they know they have these gifts. But allow them
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  Speaker 2: to utilize their gifts and to come forth with their gifts.
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  Speaker 2: So I just allowed him to show me who to
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  Speaker 2: pull out and who to pull on. I had to regroup,
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  Speaker 2: had to you know, realign some of the groups, and
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  Speaker 2: it was just listening to him and allowing him to
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  Speaker 2: kind of guide me with what to do. So that's
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  Speaker 2: how we ended up with the groups. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: allow them to get personable, let them learn the skills,
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  Speaker 2: the talents, and the gifts that are amongst them, so
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  Speaker 2: that they don't have to search out for things because
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  Speaker 2: everything that they need is right there. There's so many
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  Speaker 2: people that have so many gifts and so many talents.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a guy he really believed that book sells,
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  Speaker 2: like just the paperback book is where it's that he
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  Speaker 2: don't believe in the ebook and I'm telling you, and
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  Speaker 2: he has this and he wants to show everybody how
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  Speaker 2: to push books.
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  Speaker 4: And he does really good with booksells.
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  Speaker 2: So then you have a person that can show you
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  Speaker 2: how you can get your books and all these different
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  Speaker 2: platforms by.
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  Speaker 4: Just uploading them to certain platforms.
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  Speaker 2: You can get your books and platforms in the library,
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  Speaker 2: you can get your platforms.
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  Speaker 4: That allow your books to be in Barns.
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  Speaker 2: And Noble Books a million, Walmart, come even in Target,
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  Speaker 2: even in some of these other places. You can get
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  Speaker 2: your books and all these other platforms, Like I literally
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  Speaker 2: Google myself every now and then just to see where.
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  Speaker 4: My books are.
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  Speaker 2: I go and I say, where can I find books
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  Speaker 2: by Angela Thomas Smith. Walmart always pop up, Amazon always
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  Speaker 2: pop up. Barnes and Noble pops up Thrift Books, which
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  Speaker 2: is a book uh a bookstore that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that are incarcerated use this bookstore.
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  Speaker 3: That's when they get a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of their books from a lot of my books
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  Speaker 2: are in that bookstore. I also Google find out a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my books are in Danish, they're in UK,
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  Speaker 2: They're in a lot of various other That's why when
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  Speaker 2: I look at the royal ts, I may not get
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  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of dollars every month, but when I
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  Speaker 2: look at that royalty thing and I see another symbol
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  Speaker 2: on the besides the US dollar, honey, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I've done what I was supposed to do. Somebody outside
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  Speaker 2: of the US had an opportunity to connect.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I went across the waters.
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  Speaker 3: A new height.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean I'm not just reaching people around me.
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  Speaker 2: That that means we're reaching the global platform. Not only
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  Speaker 2: that we have individuals that are in places that can
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  Speaker 2: allow you to reach different diversity of people. We have
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  Speaker 2: several professors connected to the platform. Matter of fact, we
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  Speaker 2: have two group leaders that are professors. One is a
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  Speaker 2: English professor. He works at the Universe at a university
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  Speaker 2: in a hbc U in Alabama and he is the
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  Speaker 2: director of writing and something got to do with English,
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  Speaker 2: that's what he does. So you have to know who
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  Speaker 2: you are connected to and who is amongst you. When
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  Speaker 2: I hear people say, I ask the question, well, what
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  Speaker 2: can we offer? What can we do? Everybody say, well, marketing,
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  Speaker 2: network and marketing.
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  Speaker 4: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: If you just participate in the challenge, then you have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to market your book for free. You have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to network. Like everything that I'm doing through
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  Speaker 2: this and not only not only this, this this, this,
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  Speaker 2: this movement is allowing me to utilize the things that
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  Speaker 2: I'm learning in school. I'm working on my masters and
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  Speaker 2: in business and the things that I'm sharing and posting
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  Speaker 2: in these groups, Like, I'm glad to learn these things
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  Speaker 2: because then guess what, I can run back to the
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  Speaker 2: group and share it in the group, and it's stuff
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  Speaker 2: that I know works because I'm working on my master's
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  Speaker 2: and it's one I'm one class, I'm five weeks away
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  Speaker 2: from walking baby, So there has to be something. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about just barely getting by. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about can you say I got one hundred and three
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 4: In my class?
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  Speaker 2: And can you say I've had since I started? I
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  Speaker 2: managed to get one be the whole time I've been
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  Speaker 2: in school while maintaining all of this that I've been doing. Okaye,
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  Speaker 2: See God calls people like her cause this girl head
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  Speaker 2: God look at me, you know, and my child. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just go ahead and make you a book reviewer, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put some other stuff on you.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, but he knows to put where he knows
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  Speaker 2: where to put them. And just to think about it,
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  Speaker 2: you guys, being a part of this group is just
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  Speaker 2: not one. And we're talking about marketing and networking and
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  Speaker 2: all that. It's not just one person yourself. You got
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  Speaker 2: this army of people behind you actually doing it too,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So we do have that.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are author and you're starting out and
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  Speaker 2: you are like, I don't know where to start, join
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  Speaker 2: the family. Come on over, Okay, So come on over,
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  Speaker 2: join the family and be a part of that movement.
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  Speaker 2: Now number two, you guys represent your state. So we
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  Speaker 2: started this maybe what three four years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Edition this third.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, And it gives individuals an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: represent the state that you live in, the state that
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  Speaker 2: you were born in, or the state that you it's
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  Speaker 2: the theme of your book, are you've written a book,
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  Speaker 2: or it's the back drop for your book or what
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  Speaker 2: is the other one, Patri I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, I had some ginger real and it's just.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right, it's the state that you live in,
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  Speaker 2: the state you currently reside in, or no, the state
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  Speaker 2: you live in, the state you were born in, or
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  Speaker 2: the state where your book is setting is in.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yes, there are gonna be some states up to grab.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it might not have anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: your book, but you can grab that state normally. That's
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  Speaker 2: like Utah, Arizona, Colin raw Those are some of the
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  Speaker 2: states that really don't get taken up. Now.
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  Speaker 3: The states that go quickly.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, Florida, South Carolina good, already gone. South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: is gone, Alabama sail over, Maryland is gone. Can't even
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  Speaker 2: get South Carolina's I'm gonna have to go get Utah
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  Speaker 2: or Arizona or something like that. See see how quick,
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  Speaker 2: that is, and if the person that the person that
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  Speaker 2: snatched South Carolina wanted another state that was already snatched,
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  Speaker 2: but she snashed.
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  Speaker 4: It because she has ties to South.
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  Speaker 2: Carolina and everybody posting now like Tennessee. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people want Tennessee. Three people have submitted the form,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody submitted defeat. So the first person defeat, they
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  Speaker 2: get it.
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  Speaker 3: So let me tell y'all something. Now, let's let's go
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  Speaker 3: on that that little thing right there. Yes, there is a.
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  Speaker 2: Fee, and this is what I'm doing this year, Patricia,
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  Speaker 2: which is a whole lot different. So what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: this year, okay, So what I'm doing to make it
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  Speaker 2: really really personable for the individuals that are participating. So
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  Speaker 2: how you see the covers that I'm putting the cover
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  Speaker 2: on and then everybody have that is example of the cover.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they sign up for their state on
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  Speaker 2: the cover, it has their picture and then it has
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  Speaker 2: their state on it and it represents so if they
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  Speaker 2: want to have if they want to be on the
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  Speaker 2: front cover and run as because we're probably gonna have
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  Speaker 2: how many other people sign up for a front cover,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have that many editions of the magazine.
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  Speaker 4: So if we have ten people sign up for a
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  Speaker 4: front cover.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a front cover for California, a front
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  Speaker 2: cover for whichever states that sign up for a front cover,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna have a front cover for California.
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  Speaker 4: Say California, sign up. I know Alabama signed.
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  Speaker 2: Up for a front up. So he's gonna be on
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  Speaker 2: the front cover for Alabama. There'll be a direct link
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  Speaker 2: where you can go and order his magazine if you want.
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  Speaker 2: Just if you want his magazine, you can order magazine.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold.
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  Speaker 2: On, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, So you're
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  Speaker 2: telling me that if I choose a steak, I can
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  Speaker 2: have the front cover and have a link to actually
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  Speaker 2: buy my own covers.
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  Speaker 4: To get.
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  Speaker 3: That link.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody will have that link. So this is what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: So, like you go to the to the page and
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  Speaker 2: it has the link where you can go and buy
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  Speaker 2: the regular copy of the magazine. So that is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be on the page. So everybody that signs up. So
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  Speaker 2: so far, I've only had one person to sign up
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  Speaker 2: for the actual cover he's gonna have, Like you see,
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  Speaker 2: his picture got to carry the Alabama he's signed up
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  Speaker 2: for a front cover. So his front cover is he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have his front cover, his picture is going to
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  Speaker 2: be on a front cover of the magazine.
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  Speaker 4: He signed up for a front.
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  Speaker 2: Cover, and when they just signed up for a regular
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  Speaker 2: just to the feature. But of course I'm doing everybody
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  Speaker 2: a front cover so that they can have they can
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  Speaker 2: see what it looked like in case they decide later
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  Speaker 2: on that they want to do it, they can. It's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: only it's only additional twenty five dollars, so if they
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: want to reserve their space.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And this is how it's working. It's thirty five dollars
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: for it's thirty.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Dollars for the feature, twenty five dollars for a copy
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: of the printed magazine, so you're getting a copy of
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the magazine, so.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: That's fifty five dollars.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So you get thirty dollars for the feature, then twenty
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: five dollars for the printed magazine. So when you sign up,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you get your feature and your magazine is gonna be
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: sitting over here to the side. So when the magazine
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: or to go in your magazine ship to your house.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: If so, you want to be on the front cover,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: then you an extra twenty five dollars which brings your
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: total to eighty dollars. So for eighty dollars, you get
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the front cover, you get a one page feature inside
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the magazine, and you get a printed copy of the magazine.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Also comes with that, We're gonna have a link, so
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: if you want people to purchase your copy of the magazine,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you can send them to your front cover and they
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: can buy your front cover of the magazine. So for
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: every person that has a front cover, there's gonna be
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a direct link that they can go and they can
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: purchase their copy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: And I'm going on even father, every.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Person that is featured on the front cover, you're gonna
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: be able to make money off of magazine. How you're
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: gonna be able to make money off of the magazine.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So when we print the magazine, they charge us just
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to print the magazine. So whatever it costs to print
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: the magazine, that's what you're gonna pay. You're paying for that,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: and then you can sell it for whatever we retail
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: it for.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna retail.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It retails from twenty seven to thirty seven dollars, depend
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: on how many pages. I think this particular magazine may
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: be over fifty pages, so it may be around thirty
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: thirty one dollars, but it won't be determined until it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: uploaded and they tell me the price. So when they
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: tell me the price, then that's when I tell everybody else.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: So whatever price they say, this is how much it
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: costs to print, then that's the last couple of magazines.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: For the last couple of months, it's been running anywhere
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: about fifteen to seventeen dollars for the print, and then
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: when it's uploaded, once they got everything up and they retailing,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: it has been retailing for twenty seven dollars. So when
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: we first released the magazine, and I've been telling I've
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: been trying to tell everybody, grab your copy when you
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: can get it for the price that we pay print
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for the print price.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: And it's usually like that for the first couple of.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Days, and I want to say for them, maybe the
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: first five days, and then it goes to twenty seven
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: dollars or whatever the price is. But for everybody that
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: purchased a front cover, there's gonna be a direct link.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So once the magazine is up, I will send out
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I will send whoever's on the front cover, I will
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: send them their link, so that they can share their
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: link that shows them in on the front cover and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the content, the content within the magazine is all gonna
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: be the same, So you got to go and buy
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: all of us, unless you just want the different ones
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: with the different front covers. The front cover is going
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to be different, maybe the back cover. The front and
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: back cover may be different on each of the magazines.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Because of course we want to represent the person that
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is on the front cover. They will also be on
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the back cover as well, so we definitely want to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: give them the opportunity.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead, Patrica.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: No, you're you're You're not gonna get that opportunity nowhere,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: especially for that price, because I see other people are
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: doing it and they're charging way more. This is an
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: opportunity for you guys. And I'm just gonna tell you
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: where you may be able to get this magazine.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Y'all.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: We are floating through all of the Texas prison system. Everybody.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: We we are in the Texas prison system. We are
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: in different different other places. We're mad Cloud. You can
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: purchase it Blurt, which does global distribution because they also
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: distribute through Instagram, Spark Bark, Instagram, whatever it is, Ingroom, Sparks,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: so whatever it's called. Yeah, I ain't us. I haven't
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: used that platform yet for some reason, y'all. I don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: know why, but I haven't used that platform. But I
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: know a lot of my stuff go through them because
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: of the global distribution of Blurt. Blurt global distribution is
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: through them, so I do know that. But the magazine
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: is available mad Cloud digital n M print. Blurb is print,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and you also can get if you don't want the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: printed copy, you can get a PDF copy that you
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: can upload to your digital devices, or you can just
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: have it sent to your email and and those are
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the different options. And then of course y'all know, we
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: have it on Amazon through Candle and normally if you
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: catch you catch it the day after, a couple of
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: days after for about a week, you can download it
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: for free.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: You get the opportunities to download and check it out
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: for free.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, so now you got all that digital media, print media.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: But then this is where I.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Come in to put you, you guys, podcast interviews and you
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: get a blog interview.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: All of this, you guys, all of this, and you're.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Telling me that there's not any way that you can
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: promote yourself.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: You're braining your book we just gave you maybe what.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Two, three, sometimes five hundred those worth of stuff for
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: if you get the highest tier eighty five dollars. Come on, man,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: you can't beat that and only that. I I I promoted,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I shared on all the different social media sites. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: make clips, I do reels, I do different things to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: really promote it out there and to share it out there.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I'm often interviewing about the magazine. I always like to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: talk about the magazine opportunities that we provide.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: We have some amazing writers.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: We have some new writers that that are that joined
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: this season, so we're gonna be bringing some new content.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: We have more content. We have more stuff that's coming out. Yes,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Black Diamond and New York is available. New York is available.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Maryland has Maryland has been taken, but New York is available.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I know how you love New York. So New York
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: is available. So go ahead and grab New York before
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: anybody grab it. Everybody been they've been filling out the form,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: but nobody's.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Been submitting their their their payment. Like right now, Tennessee, Tennessee.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I've had three people submit the form for Tennessee, but
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: nobody submitted their their payment. So the first person to
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: submit their payment for Tennessee gets Tennessee. Y'all know y'all
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: got the tax refunds coming in. Come on and invest
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: in your brand, yourself, in your book. If you're an illustrator,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you can use this too.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: But just listen. Listen.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You will be surprised at what people say about our magazine.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: The guys in prison.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: When I first started sending the magazine to the guys
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: in prison, they used to steal my magazine. They used
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: to steal the people in the mailroom used to steal
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: my magazine.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: The lady asked. She asked them, She said, where y'all
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: get this magazine? She said, I ain't never seen no
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: magazine like this before. She said, this is unique. I
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: was like, I said, she didn't want to steal in
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: the magazine.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And then they actually tried to ban my magazine from
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: going into the prison system.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I had to go through.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: This long process where I had to go through a
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: review and I had to send in all kinds of stuff,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: and I actually wrote some people, and in the process
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of me writing and talking to these individuals, my magazines
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: showed back up and I was offering an apology and
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I haven't had any more problems with my magazine getting
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: inside of the facility.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: I know, I think that they stopped them from going
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: to Colorado.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: We were able to ship on one time, but I
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: think they stopped him from going to Colorado too. Because
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: one thing we do do, and that is to bring
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: awareness to social injustice. We have a whole section inside
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: of our magazine that talks about social injustice.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Even though it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Says the Free Texas campaign, we talk about things around
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the board. We touch on Colorado, we touch on Georgia,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: we talked, we touch on all those that may be affected,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: so that we we just want to be a voice
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: for those that think that they don't have a voice.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That that's what we're doing, and it is an opportunity
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: for you to get your brand out there, to get
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: in seen in her I'm not gonna promise you that
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: it's gonna go before millions, because I can't tell you that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: We we can help. I can tell you this, people
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: do order our magazine. We're not selling one hundred every month,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: but I can tell you there's constantly twenty to thirty
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: people that purchase our magazine on a constant basis and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: for us only being here for five years, I don't
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: do a whole lot of just mass promotion, and it's
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: just really word of mouth and experiences and people really
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: truly understanding, you know, what we are about and what
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: we're doing and what we stand for. I have not
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: waivered for five years. This is what I have been doing.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I truly believe in it. I know that this is
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: what God gave me, and I'm sticking to it and
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep I'm not I don't constantly change my prices,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: like he'll say, do this and stay there. Like one
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: point he was like, that's too much. Don't charge that
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: we're going through and I can't. Like I for the
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: likes of me, I can't. People are like you only
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: charging twenty five dollars for that? Let me grab that,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: y'all get it because he told me to do it.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So hey, I'm just out here just trying to be
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: obedient and trying to be that willing vessel that can
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: help others go to that next level, you know, because.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: That's what it's all about.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: We're supposed to make one to another, help makes one
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: to another. And I can't help you if I'm charging
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you and you got to go borrow from Peter and
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Paul to pay John and Sally that how can that
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: be helping you? Remember if you are helping yourself, because
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: we can do part of it. But then you can
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: also do your part. If you know that you're going
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: to be on the cover of magazine placing on social media.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Hey you guys, get a cover mop. I'm gonna be
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: in a cover of such and such magazine. Here's how
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: you purchase it. That's another way of getting your brain out.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: But then that's another nugget that you'll get when you
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: join the one hundred offers to watch for Aspiring Office Magazine. Okay,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: so not only these are things that you can use
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: for your resumes being featured in magazines or you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: when people see that you've been featured in the magazine
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: and they can google it and they can go into
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: archives and see.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, she was in this magazine. This is the
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: really a magazine.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Because you can google Aspiring Office Magazine and you can't
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: see what's going on with Aspiring Office Magazine. You can
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: see some of the previous editions. You can like we
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: we are Google, we are in the Google search. Matter
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of fact, if your Google Queen up collaborations of a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Gonna five up yeah, sorry from people.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: And then even that we're end it like this, vote
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: for us, you guys, we have to remind them they
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: need to vote for us.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Firing Office maggage.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are in a magazine that we we are nominated.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And if you go over to Black Girls Lit and
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: go to the magazine section, we are the very first
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: magazine at the top of the list. And if you
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: just check, and then if you scroll through that list,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: you're gonna see a lot of our names that are
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: attached to the Wandre Office movement. You'll see a lot
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: of us attached to that. Trevida for podcasts, you got.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Patrece for.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Content creator and book reviewer me over here for oh
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: for book made it y'all ellis science fair adventure and
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: it just it talks about leadership and teamwork. And also, y'all,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the Legacy Chronicle, a three book series.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Of poetrys made it.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: It made it the entire series book one, two, and three.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: So if you are a part of that Legacy Chronicles,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you should be over there voting for yourself because you
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: are a part of that and especially those women, because
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I have I think it's seven women that were a
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: part of all three of those books that that that
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: means you are a part of that, Cheryl, You are
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: a part of all three of those books. So go
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: and continue to vote for yourself. You're not just voting
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: for me. You're voting for yourself and you authors.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: And you can vote every day. I think they're gonna announce.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: The top five from each category on the seventeenth, So
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: y'all got six more days to go vote and help
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: us make the top five.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Y'all, it's not just me.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: There are a few authors attached to that one hundred
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: author movement and not I can't I can't end the show,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Patrice without giving a shout out to the DAG Distinguished
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Authors Guild Award because we also have We were given
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: the opportunity and the task last year to be able
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to interview some of those amazing individuals a part of
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: that awards platform, because it is an award platform, even
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: though they do an awards show, it is a platform
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: and it's a family just like the one hundred author's movement,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: and we have some amazing individuals that is also attached
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: to that. They are in bass for that movement as well.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: They are attached to the one hundred Author movement, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to have them apart to be able to
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: just show people that it's not about a competition. It's
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: not about competing. It's about bringing resources together and allowing
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: these authors to thrive, allowing these authors to allow their
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: brands to be amplified and to be seen and to
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: be heard. And I tell you, it is truly a blessing.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: It is truly amazing. And I just want to give
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: a shot out to the Distinguished Authors Guilt Award platform
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: and all of those amazing ambassadors.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Because we have.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I think we have three or four ambassadors that are
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: attached to the one hundred Authors movement, and I'm excited
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: for them because they get another opportunity to be a
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: part of that great movement and they get to help
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: bring individuals in and help mentor individuals along the way.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I tell you, if you're not attached, I want to
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: put a just put a shot out there. I just
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: want to put a bug out there. Just just put
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: it out there for everybody. If you're not attached, these
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: are two amazing platforms that you might want to be attached.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: To as authors.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: We're not promising you no, no, no, millions of followers.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: We're not promising you know, millions of dollars and book sales.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: But we can promise you the support. We can promise
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: you the community, the connection and the collaboration.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: So that's that for that, Patretha.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: So you guys, next week I have an author that's
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: coming through and she's bringing her children's book. I am
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: so ready, So check on social media. I'm gonna post
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: tonight who's gonna be coming through s see book gals
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and friends on next week Tuesday.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me, you guys.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: You guys, have a great night.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Remember there's no such thing as the old book because
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: no book has been read by everyone. Good night everyone, Bye.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: H O was roping so cute. You gotta work on that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: You can