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DA CREW PODCASTSEASON 1_ EPISODE #43 HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL _(SHOW #7)) · DA CREW Podcast

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Bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo boh. Welcome to the
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sc Welcome to the SEC book y'all and friends chat. We're gonna be talking
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about the latest and book reviews, author interviews and life. Come on in
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and join us. We're ready. Are you as I say your head?
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Hey, everyone is Patrese SC book out A four three. And first of
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all, I'm gonna say Happy Mother's Day, Happy woman's Day. And this
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show is about us. It's about something we deal with on an everyday basis.
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You might have yours, you might have someone else. You might pull
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it off, you might put it on, you might cut it off like
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me, or you might have it long braided locks. Today it is all
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about hair and my host, co host guests, however you may call her
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Ms. Luquishia Moore is here to talk about her newest book called My Hair
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Journey two point oh bold your hair regiment and start your journey to healthy hair.
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And this show I am so excited about. So here she is.
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How are you. I'm great, I'm great, And Happy Mother's Day.
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Same to you, my sweetheart. So she's gonna come back on up and
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she's gonna tell us a little bit about herself. Come on back, sweetie.
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We're waiting on her to come back. We're just having a little bit
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of technical difficulties. But of course today it's all about hair. I am
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so excited about this show because my daughter has has lots I and my son
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I don't know what he has the space, so she's gonna help us get
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on this road to healthy hair. So first, tell us a little bit
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about yourself. Oh yeah, So my name is Arisha. I'm alone and
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I have I'm an author, I am a mother, UM, I coach
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authors as well UM, and most recently I have gotten um into the hair
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and beauty side of things and created my own hair Caroline UM. And I'm
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a helping love to help people. Oh so me, And you're just like,
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yeah, I think that's a man. That show just into my forty
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so hey, I'm happy about that. Oh new journey, isn't it When
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you hit forty something just clicks and it's like it's a whole side of life
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and be like where did all this come from? Yes, yes, I'm
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three years into that. Then I'm still in the other life because I got
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an eight year old, so you know, I'll be an empty answer something.
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My daughter goes out to college this year, so I don't know what
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to do it myself to be like you when they get older. Okay,
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we'll see down one another day. So your book is the first time I've
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ever heard about a hair journey. All I know is we cut it,
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we fried it, we burn it. I mean, we add on to
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we take it off, we color it. One minute we want to go
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natural because we sister Earth, and the next minute we want to just blow
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it out. Here journey, what is this? Well? Um, I
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came into the hair journey community, probably back in two thousand and eight,
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seven or eight, something like that, and I didn't even know it exists,
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and it um, I did it because my hair had fell out.
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I damaged it really bad. I bleached it. It was beautiful, don't
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get me wrong, but I didn't know anything about taking care of bleached hair.
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So I literally it fell out so and it was the shortest and every
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being in my life. I didn't know what to do with it. It
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looked very, very uneven and damage badly. So I decided to look up
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how how to fix it, and I found hair Journey hair Regiment. All
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that was on YouTube and it was basically just people who had taken their hair
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from damage, no matter what length it was too, all the way down
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to their butt, you know. And I was like, wow, so
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we can grow hair that long and it was beautiful, sick, it was
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healthy. And back then it was the relaxed community. There were no naturals
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on YouTube or anything about aftteral hair. There was really no natural hair products
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out at the time. But luckily I wasn't a black girl, so I
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joined the community. So that's how I came into finding out about hair journey
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and hair regiments. Basically, it's just, um, you know, how
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you get into a routine of how you do your daily affirmations, or you
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get into a routine of how you know, I go to work and I
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do this on routes days, I do this on Fridays. It's like building
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a routine for your hair. The Black fam way. Um, learning your
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hair and getting into a routine. Wow. When when you send me that,
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I was like a hair routine. Ah, I know, it's like
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get up a curl of that Russian ain't going to do it. Like what,
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there's a routine. But before we get to the routine, I'm gonna
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do the question, and everybody asked or you team relax or team natural?
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Which money? Well I have been both, so I will say that I
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am team for whatever makes person comfortable and have because I have been on the
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relaxed side. I have been on the natural side. I've been on the
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tech relaxed side, which is in the middle of relax and natural. So
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that is a thing telaxing. So it's basically where you stretch out your relaxing.
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Um, you go six months, you go a year, you know,
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two years before you finally just do the new growth only and they call
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that tex laxing, you know, and you, um, you don't let
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the relaxing process. Really you kind of under process so it don't do much
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damage. So I've been on all that side. You know, I called
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that. I thought that was called just being lazy. But there is an
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actual Wow, there's an actual term for that. Yeah, that's wow.
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Okay, see there we go. So I am seen whatever makes a person
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feel comfortable, um with their hair, you know hermit, the laxet locket,
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dreaded graded. It's whatever makes you comfortable. You know that at the
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day, at ny of day, you have to wear it every day African
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American hair is like one of the most fascinating things I have ever seen.
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I mean, I really feel that we're only we might be the only race
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that can run through a whole regiment of hair in a week, you know,
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and it's crazy. So my next question to you is why did you
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feel it was important to do a hairdoom. I've never seen this and I
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actually went on Amazon and look, when you sent me your origin of the
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hair journal, I was like, I've never seen y'all. She has a
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search and fine, inside the hair journal, you should see me looking like
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I've never seen the spot when an Amazon didn't see thing like this. So
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you have to tell me where that creativity can't true. Um. First,
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my eyes aside. You know me always wants to create. Um. But
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I had a lot of people asking me, m, how did you grow
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your hair? What are you doing to your hair? And I would over
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the years, I would tell him, Okay, this is this is what
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I'm doing. Of course it changes every so many years as I learned new
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things, and um, you know, if you gotta learn your hair to
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learn what works what don't work, and then once you're here, you um
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to a certain stage um, you have to then try new products for you
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know. So I would always tell people here's what I'm doing, and they
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were like, oh, man, that's just too much to keep up with.
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I don't have time for that. And so I was like, man,
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I study's telling people the same things over and over because at the end
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of the day, it's not what I'm doing to my hair. You know.
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I can I will tell you what you should be doing. I can't
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tell exactly what I do because then I work for you. Um. So
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I decided, well, since a lot of people are as you need this
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question and I would do lives on Facebook doing my hair, um, why
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not create something that I can say, hey, here's a way that you
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can do exactly what I'm doing, but catering to you your life out what
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will work for your hair, and to educate for the same time. Okay,
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okay, So that's why it came about, just to help out the
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people who were asking me like that. I'm gonna be one of them people
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asking you pretty soon. So before we go to a commercial, I have
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this question. What is the most most understood part of hair or even hair
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care in general. What is the main thing that we're we're either missing or
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truly not understanding. For me, and this was my thing too in the
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beginning. Um not taking the time to learn your hair. I think that
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is one of the things that is missing in a lot of us because you
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see one person's hair texture and oh, I want my hair like that.
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On Guilty, you see a person using sort of products and you're like,
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oh, I gotta go use that because they say it adds moisture. But
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what you did not do was take the time out to learn your hair.
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Because maybe your hair has moisture, but it doesn't have the protein. You
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know, even though it's a protein, you know, it's over moisturized.
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Maybe your hair has too much protein and it's real and practice breaks and it
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needs more moisture. How do you do that? What are you doing?
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So? I think learning your hair is the one thing that a lot of
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us don't take the time I do. He just tried stuff that everybody else
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is doing without learning. What do my hair need right now? Okay,
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you guys thought if you're talking about that, you guys, let me tell
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you. She has named the different hairs, and then she gave the character
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names. You guys, I think one of them I saw was Ari,
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and then it was Sonya and michaela huh and and the last one was oh
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gosh, you had to ask me now no, oh god, she has
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them. Each one has a different text. So it's Ari with Kayla,
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Fanya and Keisha. That's it. How can I be Abisha? Can I
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do a little sneep peep, just a little sleep? Yeah, y'all,
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y'all, look, it's it's crazy. I know it's not good, but
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it's crazy, you guys. It's it's beautiful. I love this. So
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we're gonna take a break and we're coming back. I am just so excited
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because as a reviewer and as a reader, and I've been reading for this
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is going on nineteen years, I've never seen anything like this. So I
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am so excited. So we're coming back. We're gonna ask you some more
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questions. Get to know a little bit more about this here we got on
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our head. Stay tuned, you guys, come on back to us.
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Mm hm, oh my god, I'm so excited. I'm so exciting.
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I need to get your bookwork. You need to get your book reviews or
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do you want a little bit more. I need to get your book reviews.
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Welcome back, you guys. So we're gonna bring our guests right back
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up and we're going to ask her about being an author. So we know
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about the hair part. So now we're gonna ask her about being an author.
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Coach, Off the coach and the smeller tell us about because I know
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we have a lot of authors who watched my show, who watched the replays,
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and they even asked me questions that I really don't know about being an
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author. I'm more along the lines of a reader. So as an author
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coach, can you tell them a little bit about that getting So what I
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have done over the past fifteen years of my career as an author is helped
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a lot of other authors to become authors. I even help people sort of
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publishing companies and all kinds of stuff, you know, book club, all
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kind of thing. So with a lot of people come to me to ask
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you questions like hey, how, how, how um, where do I
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begin? What do I do? Now? You know in these three stages
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of writing, you know, of being an author, to writing, the
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publishing, and then the marketing, So people are totally different each category.
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So I was like, well, let me do it. So I had
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a publishing company. And when my health kind of deteriorating got a little bad
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for a moment, I could shut that down and I said, maybe I
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couldn't do too much stress what the doctor said. So I was like,
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well, maybe I can just help people individually or in like smaller book setting.
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And that's how I became a coach. I began to help authors with
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the writing, the publishing, and what I knew about marketing. Okay,
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how it came about? So? Um, As a writer, what do
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you feel as the most important important part of the writing? Um? I
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see a lot of authors they say they get they think of their title before
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they think of the plot. I'm like, okay, some people think of
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their characters before they think of the block. So which one is the most
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important? I really don't feel like either or could be most important, because
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I think everybody has their own unique writing style. You know that that helps
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them their writing moves. They're writing mantra, you know what they need to
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get in the mood or even to write in general. I know for me,
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I am a title girl. UM. I'll come up with the title,
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and then I'll come up with a concept. But then I'll come up
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with a concept. Then then I'll come up with a title. Um.
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So all depends on how I feel my move, what I feel like writing.
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Um. And I've come up with titles, wrote it out and then
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changed it. The title you don't like that don't fit now, you know.
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So I think the most important thing, if I had to say between
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any of that is neither one. I think the most important thing is to
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hone your craft, continue to write, learn your writing style and learn that
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um. Because once you do that, then it'll be a little bit easier
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as time goes on. Because if you don't know your writing style, you
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haven't so did your craft and learned anything that the stuff that you can know
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about just basic things in writing in general. Um. It can't get a
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little overwhelming. It can become frustrating, and that title will sit there,
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that plot would just sit there. You know, it will never be touched.
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Oh okay, Well, I think the most important things one your craft
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and continue writing. All right, craft, okay, cool off? Question
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what is your favorite my favorite genre? To what now to write? Oh?
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So right? Um, I love writing young adults. Um, and
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anything that relays some sticking strictly social issue, whether it's at a younger adult
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or you know, fucking bray. So I find myself easier to right young
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ago. Well, we're going at the library. I used to working in.
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Young agols still help out and that is a very very quick, becoming
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more popular genre. And then you added on social issues. That's one of
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the biggest things when it comes to younger Yeah. So you look like you
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yeah yeah, I feel like you know, if they're gonna read the book,
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not only make it any painting, but about Okay, so let me
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ask you a question. Who's your favorite author out there? Oh? Okay?
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Um? Well, if I had to pick okay, thank you.
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Um. If I had to pick my favorite author, um, I will
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have to say I love Ronda Night. I love her books. She has
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a Christian field, but it's still relatable. I love her books. Um.
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I also love Channia Green Daniel. That's who one of my favorites.
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Okay, yes, and I'm I'm a big Carl Webber fatto soo oh she
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hit it with the nick I would say my favorite out of all, I
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would say even with those three, my my top top favorite who trump in
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all will be Nikki Turner. You know I love her. I love love
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love her books. Black that my top three, but Nikki she will surpass
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all of that. Yes, yes, she was one of the ones along
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with Arkia Clark. When I first start of working in the libraries, I
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think I books like this, that was not where it was not like that.
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It really, Yes, I learned about her. Do you remember getting
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those things in the mill and you can pick like six books for like flup
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Virtue was it Urban Expressions? Yes, this wasn't like That's how I found
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out about a lot of um the authors that I did learn about, um,
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I can't I don't know if their name right, but Noriri okay,
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so I could never crown pronounce the name. But I found her through there
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and I was very skillful about that book. Until I read it was like
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it's not what I thought. You know more stuff? Are you talking about
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the throng on Fire? Because that was my that was my favorite too.
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Yeah. I saw the child. I was like, well hold up,
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and I remember getting that little paper in the mill and you signed up for
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the books and every one, every two three months, they'll send you another
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set of books. That was it. That was it, that was the
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life man like And I started king like I don't need this anymore. I
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can gonna library use my card. Where I come from, you know,
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there was not a huge African American section, and the ones the African American
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section that was there were like like older, Like he would see the Maya
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Angela talking about Angelo. You would see um, you know those popular names
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like that. But just to see someone like her or even way Peta or
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Nikki, like, none of those people were put in that library at all.
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So for me, that was how I was exposed, you know to
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other African American authors. And I missed that, ye and and and that's
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that's why I do what I do, because a lot of the authors that
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I remember, um uh, Nikki Giovanni, your hat, your Sheila Moss
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and you know, the nice little subdued book. Then I saw that book
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sitting on the shelf and then I saw the cover and that was it.
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And so that started I love for reading. And yes, I still go
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back and I read those classics, and I still go back and read the
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Christian fiction. It was something about that gritty urban fiction that grabbed me and
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hold me for all a while. So if you could be mentored now I
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know you're off the coach. But if you could be mentored by an author,
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who would it be? It would be between Nikki and hard Girl.
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One of those two. I love to just fit and pick their brains and
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just talk because I know, I really really love they're writing, and I
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think I like it because of the issues that they address. You know,
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of course you get the entertainment, but again, you really get that issue,
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you know. Yes, yes, so I like stuff like that though.
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So we're about the wine down. So I want to know what would
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you like to say to your current readers and your new readers because you're about
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the games. Would you like to say to them? Oh? Man?
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So for my current readers, I have to say thank you always for supporting
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a girl like me, you know um. And to any new readers,
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hey, I'm open, enjoy a ride. I'm feel afraid to tell me
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anything, criticize and please help me. Allright? So before we leave,
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I want you to be able to have your readers, current new people who
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would like to get helping you, like to pick your brain from knowledge.
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How will they be able to contact you if they would like to? Okay,
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So I my website is clearly down as I upgrade and updates and stuff.
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Um, I'm mostly on Facebook more than Instagram or TikTok, so I
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would say every from on Facebook. Um, it's just my name, you
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know, Latisha Malan, and they can reach me there. I'm always on
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there. Like I said, I'm always doing hair video. So you guys,
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when I post up to you'll see the links to her. Make sure
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you subscribe to all our platforms. Be ready for when the book will be
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released. Do you know the release date yet or I want to do it
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sometime before the summer in support, Um, that's my goal. My goal
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is hopefully in the June versus you lie. I'm kind of working on my
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hair Caroline that I have, so I've been growing that and as a way
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to introduce the book, like the graded version of the book, because you
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know, have a lot of things that you will need to do your hair
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with. So hopefully by July. So you guys, you see your hair
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care line in the store, y'all remember y'all saw hair right there at that
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name in a book sc Books and friends. Make sure y'all remember you I'll
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saw her here. So I would like to personally thank you and I am
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so looking forward to the Hair Journey, Your Hair Journal, The Journey to
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Healthy Hair two point zero is being revised, renewed, and brought up to
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a better level. I am so excited. I want to thank you for
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joining in us. Yes, so you guys, let's give her hand up
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law when her books come out, we'll all have healthy head with a lot
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of know if that's right here tonight for Mother's Day. So thank you for
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being with us and you guys. Before you leave, I have some announcements,
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some updates for you guys. Guess what The Crew was nominated you guys,
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Yes, we were nominated for award. It is called Best New Internet
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Show. The Crew, me and all my friends. So y'all have to
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go vote for us. Okay, so to vote, and I made sure
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I wrote my notes down, so I'm gonna read from my notes. Okay.
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It's called s M Gospel. She's actually gonna put the link down so
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you guys can go and vote for us. Go all the way to the
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bottom, scroll to the bottom of the page, and it's gonna say best
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New Internet Show. You're gonna look at the one that says the Crew Podcast.
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Check that button. Okay, let's check it now. I want you
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to go up a little further. My friend has A Kaya Morris, the
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author of The Player of Me one and two, is being nominated for Best
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Male Author. Okay, so that's your second chore. I'm gonna give your
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chores tonight. So your first chore is to go vote for the Crew.
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Okay. It's www dot sm Gospel Awards dot com. Okay, so first
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scroll to the bottom Best New Internet Show the Crew. Then you're gonna scroll
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up. You're gonna look for best Male Author and his name is has A
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Kaya Morris. Tell y'all if you go check my YouTube page, I have
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the review for the Player and you wanted to y'all book crazy. Okay.
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Then you're gonna come up a little bit more and you're gonna vote for HTA
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for Best Promotion and Marketing HTA Enterprises. So one web check page three nominations
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the Crew has A Kai Morris and HTA for the best Promotion in Marketing.
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Okay, check all my social media outlets. I will have this information.
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Vote, go vote and come on, y'all know y'all love us. So
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I will see you guys in two weeks. Two weeks, join me sc
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book Girl A four three we'll be back see you in two weeks. Love
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you guys, good night bye,