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Visionary Queen Angela sitting in for Sc Bookgal & Friends 6/24/25 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Like, all right, well, we're gonna see if it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: let me go. I don't know what's going on, but
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  Speaker 1: we keep having some technical difference. It says I'm offline,
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  Speaker 1: but I can see my vibe, y'all. I guess he
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  Speaker 1: want to do what they want to do to night. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna keep pressing. We keep pushing, we don't stop,
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  Speaker 1: we keep going. So welcome, welcome, Welcome, welco and welcome, y'all. Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I am, of course, I am not Patrice. I am,
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  Speaker 1: of course the visionary. I am Angela Thomas Smith. I
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  Speaker 1: am the visionary here on the Croup Podcast. Patrisa had
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  Speaker 1: a family emergency on tonight, so, like always, y'all, I
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  Speaker 1: am the one that has to step in. It is
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  Speaker 1: my duty to make sure that we're able to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: our end of the bargain. And our end of the
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  Speaker 1: bargain is to be live here on the network Sunday
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  Speaker 1: through Friday at eight pm. So I wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I was holding up that end of the
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  Speaker 1: bargain tonight. So I am currently live on kick Twitch, YouTube, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: and TikTok, y'all. So I am I wanted to show
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  Speaker 1: those that are on TikTok a little bit of what
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  Speaker 1: I do back here in the background, so they can
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  Speaker 1: see a little bit of who I am. So I
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  Speaker 1: was just fooling around with that. So y'all, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: So tonight Patrisa has given me instructions on what she
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  Speaker 1: wants me to share. She is doing a summer reading contest, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all have a summer reading contest if you have purchased
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  Speaker 1: a copy of the magazine. For those that do not know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a magazine. It is called Aspiring Authors Magazine.
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  Speaker 1: It is available through Blurb, Matt Cloud. It is available
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon. You can get it in digital or you
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  Speaker 1: can get it in print. But she is running Patrice
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  Speaker 1: is over the book section of the magazine. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we touch on community. We have a community section. We
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  Speaker 1: have a poetry section, which are seeing more. Our poet
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  Speaker 1: of the Year for twenty twenty five is over that
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  Speaker 1: section of the book of the magazine. We also have
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  Speaker 1: a business section, y'all. In most of the things around
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  Speaker 1: business is around business as a creative or business as
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  Speaker 1: a author. For those that may not know, I was
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  Speaker 1: recently interviewed for the Art South Carolina Arts Commission a
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  Speaker 1: part of an initiative that they're doing to really highlight
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  Speaker 1: and showcase creatives and those that have creative jobs as
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  Speaker 1: as their livelihood. So they're starting to really recognize creatives
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  Speaker 1: and those entrepreneurs that operate in a creative role as
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  Speaker 1: a job, as a profession. So I had opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: interview with Coastal Carolina University. They featured me on their website.
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  Speaker 1: It was called Uncharted South Carolina, and what they were
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  Speaker 1: doing was highlighting those in South Carolina that follow in
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  Speaker 1: that category. So we have the opportunity to share our
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  Speaker 1: brands and to share our different things on the these
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  Speaker 1: different websites that are connected with high schools within the
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina area and those that are coming to Coastal Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's what it was. But y'all, we had
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  Speaker 1: to go through the little background check. We had to
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  Speaker 1: get a SLED. For those that live in South Carolina know,
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  Speaker 1: we had to get a SLED background check so they
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  Speaker 1: can make sure that you didn't have any anything against children.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want you to have any type of anything
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  Speaker 1: against children to be represented on the website. If you
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  Speaker 1: had any type of background, you could not be featured
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  Speaker 1: on the website. So that just I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: throw that out there because those that is one of
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities that I had. I shared it with other
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  Speaker 1: individuals that live in South Carolina so they could also
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  Speaker 1: get their brands out there and share their brands. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do over here. We don't gaslight. We
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  Speaker 1: share if we if we get opportunities, we share these opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing that we do. A part of the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred Author Movement, a part of the Magi, a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Crew podcast. Anything that you see my
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  Speaker 1: name attached to, y'all, I'm telling you, it's all around
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  Speaker 1: the Four Seas, and the four Seas is connect, collaborate, create,
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  Speaker 1: and community. Bill, I'm all about the community. I'm all
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  Speaker 1: about us connecting. I'm all about collaborating because, y'all, we
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  Speaker 1: can't do this song. It takes It takes us all, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we all got a part to play in and what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, we all have a part. So let me
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  Speaker 1: go over what Patrice has outlined for tonight, and it
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  Speaker 1: is to go over the South Carolina book. Yeall and
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  Speaker 1: France present the South Carolina Reading So you read, you track,
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  Speaker 1: you win. That that's that's that's the title, Read Track Win.
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  Speaker 1: So it actually started on June eighteenth. If you have
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  Speaker 1: been following Patrice on her website, if you've been following
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  Speaker 1: her on the podcast, and if you've been following along
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  Speaker 1: in the magazine, if you have been reading a magazine,
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  Speaker 1: you know that this started on the eighteenth, which was
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  Speaker 1: about six days ago, and it's going to go into
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  Speaker 1: August the thirty first, So y'all still got time, You
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  Speaker 1: still got time to join what it is it is.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know, summer time, kids may want a slack off.
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  Speaker 1: They may, and that is the time when we really
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  Speaker 1: need to stay on the kids because that's when they
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  Speaker 1: don't have all of that structure so that they've learned.
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  Speaker 1: They can forget it over the summer if we don't
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  Speaker 1: keep them engaged, and we don't keep them occupied and
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  Speaker 1: keep them utilizing those things that they have taken in
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  Speaker 1: throughout the school year. So the summer is the perfect
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  Speaker 1: time to unwind with great books. This year, she said,
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  Speaker 1: we are doing a literary payoff. So South Carolina Book
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  Speaker 1: Gallon Friends Summer Reading Contest is officially underway, and when
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  Speaker 1: you are invited to come, all readers, all age can
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  Speaker 1: join in the fun. And this is a motivating way
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy books and to win prices, y'all. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: are flipping through novels, poetryes, memoirs, or comics, every page
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  Speaker 1: you read counts towards a weekly entry into an Amazon
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  Speaker 1: gift card. Now she gonna be giving away gift cards.
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna be giving away some gift cards. I may
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  Speaker 1: have to pick up some books and read. So how
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  Speaker 1: it works is you gotta go over to her website
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  Speaker 1: and that is ww dot South Carolina book Gal and
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  Speaker 1: Friends dot com. And if I can maneuver, y'all, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna see if I can maneuver. If I can maneuver,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get this up in the comment
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  Speaker 1: section for you guys. But again, the website is ww
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina book Gal and Friends dot com and you
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  Speaker 1: can look at the post label Summer Reading. And this
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  Speaker 1: is where you can track and report your weekly readings
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  Speaker 1: and your totals. So reading track log every page you
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  Speaker 1: read this summer, whether you're diving into fiction, non fiction,
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  Speaker 1: or even graphic novels. It all adds up. So this
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  Speaker 1: is what happens. You earn entries one entry for every
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  Speaker 1: fifty page you read, So every fifty pages you read,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get an entry into the drawing for the gift card.
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  Speaker 1: So for every fifty page, you get an entry. So
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  Speaker 1: if you read a book that's three hundred pages, that
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  Speaker 1: is what two for six, that's six entries. You get
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  Speaker 1: six entries because you get it's fifty you get one
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  Speaker 1: entry for each fifty pages. Bonus entries is there's a
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  Speaker 1: secret word each week that Patrice gives out on the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to tune into the podcast to get
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  Speaker 1: your secret word of the week. And that means that
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  Speaker 1: next Tuesday you got to come back and watch her
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. And y'all we stream through YouTube, We
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  Speaker 1: stream through twitch kick and the Crew podcast Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also I usually go live over here on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a full live because I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to integrate the actual live to my laptop, So I
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  Speaker 1: go live on my phone and then I just scream
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  Speaker 1: I show the screen so you can so those on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok and see what's going on on the screen. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to really see what's going on. I
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  Speaker 1: suggest that you just go over to Facebook and follow
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  Speaker 1: the Crew podcast on Facebook, and when we go live,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get a notification and that way you can stay
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  Speaker 1: in the loop. So every Tuesday you'll get you can
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  Speaker 1: tune in at eight o'clock. Y'all, we're on Twitch, we're
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook, we're on YouTube. Now we're on kick and
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  Speaker 1: then of course you can tune in right here on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: But most of the time you will only see me.
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  Speaker 1: You won't You'll just hear and then you see the screen.
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  Speaker 1: It won't be a full a full live. So if
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  Speaker 1: you want to see the full live, I just suggest
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  Speaker 1: you go to those other platforms. But be sure to
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  Speaker 1: report your total pages every week by Saturday. Every week Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: there's an online form that you need to fill out
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  Speaker 1: and so mitch your entry for that week, and then
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, if you want to catch the weekly code,
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  Speaker 1: turn to tune in on Tuesday, she said weekly prizes.
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  Speaker 1: Each week, one lucky reader will randomly be selected for
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  Speaker 1: a ten dollars Amazon gift card, more entries, more chances
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  Speaker 1: to win, so keep reading and submitting those page just
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  Speaker 1: important dates. Contests started on June eighteenth, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go into August the thirty first. Again. It started on
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  Speaker 1: June eighteenth and it will go into August the thirty first.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to participate, come back and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you check out the website you go over to.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna go over to South Carolina book Gal that's
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  Speaker 1: sc book Gal and Friends dot com. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: see if I can put this in the comments. In
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  Speaker 1: just a second, y'all, let me get through this and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll go back and see if I can put
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  Speaker 1: it in the comments for y'all. So, she said, winners
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  Speaker 1: will be announced every Tuesday at eight pm doing the
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina book Gas podcast. So they want to know
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  Speaker 1: who all is eligible. Anyone. It does not matter age, reading,
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  Speaker 1: lever Jerald preference, if you're if you're reading, you're eligible.
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  Speaker 1: So she also wants you to get sociable. She wants
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  Speaker 1: you to talk about it on your social media sites,
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  Speaker 1: talk about the books that you're reading, and she would
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  Speaker 1: love to follow your journey. She said, we would love
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  Speaker 1: to follow alone on your reading journey, share your updates,
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  Speaker 1: your reading goals, your current reading lists. She wants you
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  Speaker 1: to use the hashtag sc book gal Reads twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: That's sc book gal Reads twenty twenty five. You can
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  Speaker 1: also tag sc book gal and friends if you are
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  Speaker 1: on these various social media sites. She's on TikTok, she's
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook, she's on Instagram, she's on Twitter x whatever
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  Speaker 1: y'all call it. She's on I think she's on Blue Sky.
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  Speaker 1: We're on Substack. Don't know how active we are, but
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  Speaker 1: we are on substance. We're on most platforms that you
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  Speaker 1: can find podcast and book lovers. Because she's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: book lover. She's a I mean when I tell you
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  Speaker 1: she's a literary agent, she's a literary agent. If you
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  Speaker 1: looking to get your book reviewed and getting a professional review,
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  Speaker 1: she's definitely your girl. She's definitely your girl. So now
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  Speaker 1: my question to you, what are you waiting on to
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  Speaker 1: grab your favorite books, set your summer reading. Go and
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  Speaker 1: join this community of readers. You can maybe meet some
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  Speaker 1: new arthors, and maybe you can meet some some of
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  Speaker 1: your favorite authors that you already read. You never know
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  Speaker 1: you may be able to meet them in person. You
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  Speaker 1: may come to an event and they may be at
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  Speaker 1: your event, So you never know who's in the mist.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you. You never know who's in the miss. So
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  Speaker 1: the secret word is let me post the secret word.
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  Speaker 1: The secret word is peace. God. The secret word is peace.
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  Speaker 1: The secret word is peace. Let me see if I
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  Speaker 1: can get it up on the string. Okay, So the
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  Speaker 1: secret word is peace, y'all. That's the secret word for
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  Speaker 1: this week. It's peace. So again, go over to the website, Chennette,
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  Speaker 1: can you type? Can you type Patrisea's website and it
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  Speaker 1: is s C. It's sci book, Gal. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if I can send it to you.
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  Speaker 1: It won't let me. I don't know how to. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna post it up here on this what's
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  Speaker 1: the name? Because I can't get it on that other one? Okay, dad,
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  Speaker 1: mhmm hmmm. What some people got some crazy names. I
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  Speaker 1: had that. So, Shannette, can you tape that up? It
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  Speaker 1: is s C book Gal. It's w W W S
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  Speaker 1: C B O. Okay, G A L A N D
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  Speaker 1: F R I E N D S dot com. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll see it now. Let me see if I can
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  Speaker 1: get it. Did you get it, Shannette? If not, I
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  Speaker 1: think I can get it. I think I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Cycline a book yeah and friends. Okay, that's the website, so, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: that's the website that you can go to and find
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  Speaker 1: the post that says summer It says summer Reading. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to be looking for a post that says and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's in all caps, so let me put
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  Speaker 1: it in all caps. It says Summer Reading twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And everything that I just shared should be over on
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  Speaker 1: the website. If you go over to the website, you
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  Speaker 1: should be able to find all of the information that
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  Speaker 1: I just shared it with you guys. Again, it is
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  Speaker 1: a summer reading contest for those that want to read.
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  Speaker 1: We are also doing a summer writing contests for those
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  Speaker 1: that want to possibly write and submit some entries for
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  Speaker 1: the magazine. I think I've shared the information inside of
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  Speaker 1: the magazine. So if you are not grabbing your free
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  Speaker 1: copy when we put the digital copy on for free
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  Speaker 1: so that you can keep up with the information, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're not buying a copy, then you're not gonna know, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Every month, a couple of weeks after the magazine drop,
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  Speaker 1: so usually into the second week into the month after
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  Speaker 1: that magazine drops. It's usually free through ebooks. User can
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  Speaker 1: download it, flip through those pages, and if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get a printed copy, you can get a printed copy.
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  Speaker 1: The printed copies are always available. They you can go
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  Speaker 1: back all the way back to the first copy that
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  Speaker 1: we actually printed. If you want to go back and
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  Speaker 1: get an archive copy, you can go back and get
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  Speaker 1: an archive copy. It is always available. As long as
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  Speaker 1: this company is up and running, that that that magazine
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  Speaker 1: will be available. So it's always archive And I tell
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  Speaker 1: people if you're looking to share your brand, this is
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to also share your brand as well,
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  Speaker 1: because you can get features inside of the magazine. We
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  Speaker 1: have a whole section where we do features where we
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  Speaker 1: highlight your brands. We highlight If you are author, we
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  Speaker 1: highlight you as an author. If you are business on
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  Speaker 1: we highlight your business. But there's opportunities for you to
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  Speaker 1: grab features. One page is usually will run you about
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty three dollars. If you want to get
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  Speaker 1: a printed copy of the magazine, it's normally twenty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars for a printed copy, so about seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: You can get a one page feature and a copy
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  Speaker 1: of the printed magazine. And our magazine drops every month
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  Speaker 1: and again. Patrise always run contests. She's always having something
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  Speaker 1: over on, always having something going on inside of the magazine.
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  Speaker 1: She gave away Kendle. She don't give away Kendles. She
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  Speaker 1: don't give away gift cards. She she's always doing something
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  Speaker 1: to show those that support her podcast, those that support
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  Speaker 1: her as a book reviewer, because she she does professional
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  Speaker 1: book reviews. She is a librarian, has been a librarian
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  Speaker 1: for now. I think she's in her twentieth year. She's
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  Speaker 1: a black librarian out of Charleston, South Carolina. If you
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  Speaker 1: heard of the Emmanuel Nine, her mentor was actually a
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  Speaker 1: victim of the Emmanuel Nine. They just had a library
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  Speaker 1: renamed after her as well as they just had an event.
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  Speaker 1: But she is very good at what she do. If
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  Speaker 1: you want a detailed account of your book, she's the
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  Speaker 1: one to do it. She's gonna be brutally honest, but
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  Speaker 1: she's not gonna be hard like. She's gonna tell the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and she's gonna tell you what she thinks to help
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  Speaker 1: you improve it. So if you want to go back
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  Speaker 1: and change it and edit it and revise that you can.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't want to go back and change it.
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  Speaker 1: At least you know for the next book. See, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we do over here. We may not go back
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  Speaker 1: and change it, but at least we know for the
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  Speaker 1: next book. We know what you are expecting, what you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for for the next book. Now, all the time,
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  Speaker 1: we have the luxury to go back and do another
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  Speaker 1: addition or revise, do revisions or whatever. So we take
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  Speaker 1: notes and we try to do better for the next one.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a growing process. It's always a process of
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  Speaker 1: us going to the next level and trying to reach
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  Speaker 1: that next level. So in doing that, we have to
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  Speaker 1: stay we really have to stay vigilant, and we have
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  Speaker 1: to stay visible. Like I keep telling people the importance
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  Speaker 1: of visibility. You know a lot of people want to
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  Speaker 1: they they they want to move in silence. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: all fine and dandy. But everywhere that I read and
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  Speaker 1: that word, y'all, it just it just seemed like everywhere
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  Speaker 1: in that word, he wanted us to be help makes
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  Speaker 1: one to another. He wanted us uplifting one another. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted us to to to to be brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: and not be distanced and not be at war with
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  Speaker 1: each other. So I just I love collaborating and I
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  Speaker 1: love coming together and pulling resources and helping individuals to
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  Speaker 1: you know, be their best version of themselves. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, I can't take none of this
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  Speaker 1: with me. You know, if if if I leave here tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: I want I want the Creator to say that I
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  Speaker 1: have have done my job, that that I did well,
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  Speaker 1: well done, my good and faithful servant. That those are
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  Speaker 1: the words that I want to ring in my ears.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to I don't want to leave
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  Speaker 1: anything unturned. I don't want to have visions. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to have things in me that could have came
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  Speaker 1: out and blessed somebody. So every day I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: pull it out. I'm trying to pull it out. And
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  Speaker 1: those that know me and come in contact with me
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  Speaker 1: know that if I see something in you, if I
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  Speaker 1: see a gift in you, I see a talent in you,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and I see that you are not moving or are
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: trying to operate in that that I know He's called
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you to. Y'all know I'm gonna say something. They already know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they already know I had We have seven hosts on
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the network. Well, I'm sorry, Hold on where that came from, y'all?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: We got nine hosts on the network. My bad. We
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: have nine hosts on the network, and I can tell
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you about about six of them probably wanted to quit
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  Speaker 1: before we even started, and they probably quit in their
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  Speaker 1: mind probably a twenty thirty times. But yet they're still here,
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  Speaker 1: and yet God is still using them. He is allowing
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: them to utilize their gifts, their talents and be a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: voice for that person that may not think that they
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: have a voice. You know, as I was preparing to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: come on here, I got a little sidetracked because I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: was looking at the young lady that lost her life
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: here in Georgia, not this past weekend, but the weekend before.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It was the weekend of Father's Day, of Father's Day,
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  Speaker 1: And it is sad because it was so many opportunities
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and so many chances that they both could have walked away.
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  Speaker 1: But you never know, like you never know what somebody's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: going through and what their mindset is when you go
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  Speaker 1: into these situations. But for the lights of me, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: don't see how you on the phone with somebody and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: they lay there for a hour, hour and a half.
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  Speaker 1: From what I understand, I don't understand that, y'all, But
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: only God knows. And he makes no mistake. You know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: he makes no mistake, even with all the stuff that
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: we see going on the war, you know, all this
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: stuff that individuals are just overlooking and bypassing. Like, we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: have to get back to a place of loving ourselves,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: because when you love yourself, then you can love your
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: brother and your sister, you can love your neighbor. But
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: we got to get back to that place where we
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: love ourselves. No. If if you don't love yourself, it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: hard to love your brothers and your sisters. That's why
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I keep telling people, you know, if we got aught
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  Speaker 1: with people, if we holding grudges, we holding stuff. If
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: we're holding grudges against one person, y'all, it's just like
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: holding grudges against everybody. But one thing that helped me
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to not harbor a lot of stuff is now my
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: mama used to tell She used to tell me this
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  Speaker 1: thing all the time, y'all. And y'all, my mom's been
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: going thirty one years. Babab died twelve days after my
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: sixteenth birthday. She transitioned twelve days after my sixteenth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: So she's been going for a while, y'all. Because I'm
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: fifty and she always used to say, you know, all
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: these emotions and feelings, y'all be heaving. She said, you
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: might as well just keep it to yourself when you
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: be mad at somebody, Keep it to yourself, she said,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: because it's just like pissing on yourself. Don't nobody feel
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: that but you? She said, So why are you around
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: here mad at somebody? She said? These people don't going
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: on with their life. They around here happy, and you
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: round here pissing on yourself, and ain't nobody feeling it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: with you? So you know what? But kept telling me,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I say, you know what, ain't nobody feeling this? Ain't
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  Speaker 1: nobody So what's need me carrying it around? What's it
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: need me hovering it and making myself sick? Because that's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: what it's gonna do. A lot of us that walk
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: around with ailments, it's because we're hobbing stuff, because we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: were holding on to stuff. Because if we free ourselves, y'all,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: things will be a whole lot better. Okay, well, y'all,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on off here. I just jumped on
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so that I could share what Patrice wanted to come
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: forth on tonight, and that was to make sure that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you guys knew about the reading program. Get evolved, get
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: involved in the reading contest, y'all. It's an opportunity to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: win you some gift cards, opportunity to find you some
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: new books. I mean, it's just an opportunity to not
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: get stabn at where you are. Okay, get your babies involved,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: get maybe some books. Start your own personal library. If
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: your child don't have a personal library, you can develop
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a personal library. All these black authors around here, now
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you can develop your own library that has books that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: represent your babies. Okay, so y'all, I'm about to jump off.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I thank you guys for tuning in. Patrice will be
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: back nex Tuesday. Tomorrow. We have let me see who's
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on tomorrow. No one is on tomorrow, so I'll probably
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: be on tomorrow, y'all. I'll be on tomorrow. I have
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: no one on. We have no one's schedule for tomorrow,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: so I'll be on tomorrow. Starting in July, we're gonna
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: have a new host who's gonna be holding down second
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and fourth Wednesday. So we will have a new host
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that will be on second and fourth Wednesdays. We do
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: have some spots available, y'all. We do have three spots available.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: We still have first and third Sundays, we have first
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and third Thursdays, and we have fourth Monday and second Thursday.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a podcast family, if you're
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: looking to start your own podcast, all you got to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: do is be willing to go to training, get some
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: hands on, get some get some get some pros and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: cons from us, and be ready to respect the mic
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and be ready to come on and do your show.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do all of the behind the scenes things.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: All you gotta do is come on, be ready to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: host your show and be ready to provide your content.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you're gonna do. You get a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: opportunity to connect with all of these other amazing hosts.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That's a part of the network. You're the opportunity to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: be a part of the live events when we go
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: out and do live events, y'all. We also do virtual conferences.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: We have one that's coming up in August. It's called
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Matter of the Hearts and Heart is healing, empowerment, alignment, resilience,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and trauma. That's those are the topics that we talk about.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: God dropped that heart in my spirit and how we
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: how do we get the heart right, y'all, because we
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: know that God attends to the matter of our hearts
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that if we place it on our heart, y'all, you
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: know that it's gonna come through. So I'm telling y'all,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: if you looking for a podcast, family and not thank
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you set this Sunday is our grief podcast for those
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that may have experienced grief. Some of you have x
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: first expertise on grief and you would like to come
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: on and and and chime in on the conversation. We
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: would love to bring you up and allow you to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: chat with us. But we're gonna be live at eight o'clock.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Is eight o'clock on six o'clock, but we'll be live
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: on Sunday again. That is our grief process. Podcast is
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: called Healing Voices. Healing Voices, and it's at six pm,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: thank you Snet. It's at six pm, y'all, six pm.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And then Monday the thirtieth, we would have Martine our
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: part of the year. She would have her show and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: her show comes on from eight to ten, so we
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: would definitely be be out here in these social media streets, y'all.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So again I'm gonna get on off here. Thank you
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: guys for tuning in. Patrice will be back next Tuesday,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: so y'all tune in and y'all get involved. Get involved,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Get involved, Get involved. I'll be back tomorrow night, y'all
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: because we don't have an an official host for that show,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: so I'll be back tomorrow night. So I'll see y'all
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Y'all, have a good night. I love y'all,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate all you guys for all of your
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: support for these last three years here on the Crew podcast.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.