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DELAYED BUT NOT DENIED WITH LATONYA M LITTLEJOHN |DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2 |EPISODE #193 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: East, Captain sat the Dusty Steps, fiftiest status Lysts, gift
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Speaker 1: of Caractice, the staff of us past as Costal House.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and well too delayed, but not that night
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Speaker 2: the podcast night I believe you have a my best
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Speaker 2: friends Remenda Paris on tonight.
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Speaker 3: Before again, I would like to go to the Lord
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Speaker 3: in prayer, Heavenly Father, I come to year with night
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Speaker 3: for you to be in the midst of the conversations
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Speaker 3: tonighte with a blessing to the fears and fears of
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Speaker 3: your words, and you.
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Speaker 2: Can all of the expans from praying and prayer came
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Speaker 2: in so without further too mistal leaders. Yes, ma'am, I
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Speaker 2: am here.
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Speaker 4: How are you.
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Speaker 2: I? And then about with film, I am here, I understand. Listen,
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Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to you about regulations on recently
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Speaker 2: and I just to you about for a moment you
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Speaker 2: got from and if you got because you ask no questions,
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Speaker 2: introduce yourself to you.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Well, I don't know if you guys can hear
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Speaker 4: me because of that music that's playing in the background.
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Speaker 4: We hear I hear you. I'm not sure. Okay. My
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Speaker 4: name is TREEDA Harris. Okay, can y'all hear me. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 4: I don't know what happens, but anyway, I'm Trebita Harrison
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Speaker 4: from Spyboro, South Carolina. I am a mother of three,
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Speaker 4: I am a grandmother of two. I am my author,
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Speaker 4: a publisher. I think that's about it about me.
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Speaker 2: Okay. So I asked.
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Speaker 3: What major write your first what inspires you to write
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Speaker 3: your first book? And how did he get you to Oh.
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Speaker 4: Goodness, that's a loaded question. Well, I've always written a lot,
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Speaker 4: and I had always posted some of my poetry on Facebook,
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Speaker 4: and it was always well, you need to write a book.
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Speaker 4: You need to write a book. You wrote your book,
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Speaker 4: and once you did your first one, you came to
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Speaker 4: me and said, okay, now you have absolutely no excuses,
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Speaker 4: so you need to do this. So after together first
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Speaker 4: go round, I got really frustrated and I was like,
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Speaker 4: you know what, this isn't gonna happen. I'm irritated. I'm frustrated.
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Speaker 4: I through the laptop and was like, you know what,
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Speaker 4: if it's meant to be, it will be. My daughter
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Speaker 4: ended up had to happen. Wisdom teeth taken, and my
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Speaker 4: boys sent me to my room and told me I
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Speaker 4: wasn't allowed to come out, and I was like, what
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Speaker 4: am I supposed to do while I'm in here? And
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Speaker 4: they were like, well, you'll figure it out. So I
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Speaker 4: was like, God, if this is meant to be, it
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Speaker 4: shall be. So I'm gonna put twenty six of my
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Speaker 4: favorite poems together in a book and see what happens.
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Speaker 4: And so basically that's what I did. And once I
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Speaker 4: did that, it was like, Okay, I had no idea
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Speaker 4: how to format, how to create a cover or any
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Speaker 4: of that kind of stuff. I was just like, I'm
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Speaker 4: gonna learn how to do it. So first one wasn't great.
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Speaker 4: I just put it together. I was like, if it's
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Speaker 4: meant to be, it shall be. So did that and everything.
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Speaker 2: I think I lost her for a second since she's
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Speaker 2: off line, she's driving.
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Speaker 3: I do know that.
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Speaker 4: But while we get into that whoa one, it was like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: I really got this down packed a little bit more so.
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Speaker 4: I saw the personal growth within myself, and so a
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Speaker 4: friend of mine that I was talking to was basically like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: we're gonna start publishing company and I was like, well,
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Speaker 4: that's about five years down down the line for me,
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Speaker 4: not anything that I feel like I need to be
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Speaker 4: more right now. However, they were like, well, do the research,
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Speaker 4: come back to me and then we'll see what happened.
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Speaker 4: And so they were insisted of company setting it up
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Speaker 4: and doing everything to start the company. And that's how
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Speaker 4: I got started, just wanting to be able to teach
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Speaker 4: other people and if they don't want to do it,
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Speaker 4: then they got me to help them become published.
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Speaker 3: So what was the motivation behind you actually going from
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Speaker 3: just sharing your poetry in your words to actually taking
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Speaker 3: on clients and helping them fulfill their becoming off What
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Speaker 3: was it? What was it the complications of trying to
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Speaker 3: figure it out on your own.
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Speaker 4: Well, well, I want to say it was partly because
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Speaker 4: I didn't know who to ask or any thing like that.
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Speaker 4: So without me knowing who has and me doing the
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Speaker 4: research for myself, it was just something that I wanted
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Speaker 4: to share with someone else. It's basically any knowledge that
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Speaker 4: I get or gain from first time experience, I don't
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Speaker 4: want to keep it to myself. So I'm willing and
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Speaker 4: always wanting to share it with other people because I
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Speaker 4: know there's a lot of people out here that want
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Speaker 4: to write a book but don't know where to start.
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Speaker 4: And the overwhelming thing is the question is always I
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Speaker 4: don't know where to start, but they it's a simple
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Speaker 4: process because if you don't know what, the first thing
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Speaker 4: you got to start doing is writing. And most people
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Speaker 4: think that that's still too complicated. But once you actually
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Speaker 4: set aside the time to actually start putting your thoughts
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Speaker 4: on paper, don't worry about trying to edit or doing
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Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. Over time, you'll get better
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Speaker 4: at doing that, but you got to get those thoughts
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Speaker 4: on paper first. And I just wanted people to understand
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Speaker 4: that it's not an overwhelming process, as much as it
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Speaker 4: may seem. Some people do make it complicated, and some
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Speaker 4: people really be wanting, you know, thousands of dollars to
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Speaker 4: help people learn the same information that's out there for free.
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Speaker 4: And I'm not one for, you know, trying to I
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Speaker 4: didn't get into this business to make a lot of money.
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Speaker 4: I got into it because I want people to understand
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Speaker 4: that it is affordable if they want to do it.
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Speaker 4: And whatever they learn from me, please share it with
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Speaker 4: somebody else. Don't go to your grade holding on of
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Speaker 4: this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Right right, Well, I really like to say that you
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Speaker 2: are phenomenal at what you do.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: You know, we both started from the bottom as far
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Speaker 3: as like wanting to well, I don't even know if
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Speaker 3: you wanted.
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Speaker 2: To share yourself. I just know that I came to
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Speaker 2: your house and was like, look, you're right too good.
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Speaker 2: You know your poetry is it needs to be heard
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Speaker 2: or whatever.
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Speaker 3: And you know just too because you know me and
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Speaker 3: you we we we go back to twelve years old
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Speaker 3: and we we always bounce off of each other for
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Speaker 3: the most part, and you know, sometimes we both get
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Speaker 3: in a place where like, yeah, I'm not doing it,
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Speaker 3: but I'm so happy that you took what I was
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Speaker 3: offering to you.
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Speaker 4: And when like you.
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Speaker 3: Crawl so you could walk, and he took out running
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Speaker 3: and you haven't stopped yet, and I love that for you.
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Speaker 3: What has been the easiest part of having your own
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Speaker 3: publishing company.
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Speaker 4: I want to say the easiest part for me is
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Speaker 4: actually the editing process. As hard as most people may
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Speaker 4: think that is, it's really the easiest part for me.
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Speaker 4: And I think it's more so because I love English
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Speaker 4: and I love to write, so it makes it easier
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Speaker 4: for me. So it's one of those things that once
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Speaker 4: you get me and I'm like, okay, I'm already checking
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Speaker 4: for sentence structure and all of that stuff, and making
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Speaker 4: sure things flow together the way that they should. So
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Speaker 4: that's really the easiest part, even though I know some
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Speaker 4: editors out there are going to be like, yeah, that
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Speaker 4: ain't the easy part, but for me, it is, and
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Speaker 4: I love doing that part.
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Speaker 2: What's the hardest part for you?
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Speaker 4: Oh my god. The hardest part, I want to say,
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Speaker 4: sometimes can be the cover designs and the outlines of
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Speaker 4: certain Sometimes those covers and the intricate designs and things
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Speaker 4: of that nature. Sometimes it makes it a little difficult
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Speaker 4: and frustrating. But as you I'm one of those people.
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Speaker 4: I might get a little annoyed, but I ain't gonna
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Speaker 4: quit and I'm gonna figure it out until I get
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Speaker 4: it right.
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Speaker 3: This last joint venture that we had, the back and
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Speaker 3: forth with the cover, yes, like I think everybody wanted
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Speaker 3: to just get on a band and come to your
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Speaker 3: house and help you toss your laptop across the room
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Speaker 3: because listen, like.
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Speaker 4: Liz, everybody was so frustrated, and I think everybody was
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Speaker 4: a little apprehensive and anxious, and you know, even though
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Speaker 4: we had to make a couple of changes and everything,
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Speaker 4: and it was frustrating me to the point where I
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Speaker 4: did everything to the specifications that were required and then
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Speaker 4: it would still come back with not being a proved
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Speaker 4: And it's like, Okay, why is it not being approved
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Speaker 4: because I've done it to the specifications that they're asking
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Speaker 4: for the tram size and everything, and it's still not taking.
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Speaker 4: So I went and I printed it out, and I
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Speaker 4: was like, okay, if I can print this, there's absolutely
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Speaker 4: no bleed over, there's no anything that's out of place,
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Speaker 4: out of everything centered the way that it's supposed to be.
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Speaker 4: So I am really unsure of what to do. But
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Speaker 4: I figured it out, got it done, and I'm I'm
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Speaker 4: waiting for it. Me too, Me too.
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Speaker 2: It has been a.
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Speaker 3: An experience, to say the least, because I've never seen
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Speaker 3: anything like that happened as far as like the cover goes,
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Speaker 3: because that was wild to me.
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Speaker 4: And you, yeah, going.
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Speaker 3: Checking emails every day because you know I don't check
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Speaker 3: my email, so right for you to text me go
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Speaker 3: look at your emails? He would say, like, you know it.
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Speaker 3: It was a humbling experience for one thing, and it
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Speaker 3: just like it makes me think of how we always
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Speaker 3: say he may not come wanting, but he always on time, right,
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Speaker 3: because everybody actually went through on the day that we
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Speaker 3: had set out to go through on, which I guess
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Speaker 3: nobody really thought it was gonna happen that.
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Speaker 2: Way in the beginning, couple it not being the way
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Speaker 2: that you know you wanted it to be.
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Speaker 4: Right, and the crazy part about that, like when we
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Speaker 4: went through the whole little upload together, the steps of everything,
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Speaker 4: you saw everything that I had put in, and it
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Speaker 4: had nothing, had nothing to indicate that there was an
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Speaker 4: issue with the cover, no indication whatsoever. And that was
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Speaker 4: the crazy part about the whole situation is because you
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Speaker 4: see everything that's going through and there is nothing that
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Speaker 4: is going to give a red flast to say that
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Speaker 4: it's not going to work, but nea would today. God
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Speaker 4: works how he works, and I always depend on him
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Speaker 4: to make sure that what I'm doing is what I'm
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Speaker 4: supposed to be doing. And I think that's another reason
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Speaker 4: why I wasn't too irritated at the fact that it
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Speaker 4: wasn't doing. I was more annoyed at anything, but I
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Speaker 4: knew it was going to work itself out, and I
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Speaker 4: think everybody was like, I don't want to get on
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Speaker 4: your nerves. I don't want to buy the childe, call me,
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Speaker 4: text me, do whatever you need to do. So if
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Speaker 4: you understand that it's I'm working and it is not
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Speaker 4: a problem because you are going to be happy at
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Speaker 4: the end of results, follow me.
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Speaker 2: With this one. I know that you deal with kia malformation.
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Speaker 4: Huh.
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Speaker 3: So my question to you is how do you work
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Speaker 3: through having your own business, working an the FOB.
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Speaker 2: And then feel feeling your health?
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Speaker 4: Uh? I give that all to God, you know, because
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Speaker 4: He provides all the things that I need to get
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Speaker 4: through everything that I go through. Like last week, it
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Speaker 4: was really difficult, and last night, even though I had
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Speaker 4: my own podcast, I literally was in bed all day.
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Speaker 4: And then after I finished my podcast, I got very
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Speaker 4: very dizzy and my son had to help me to
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Speaker 4: my room because I got really I don't know what
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Speaker 4: it was, but I got really like edit and dizzy,
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Speaker 4: and he had to help me to my room. But
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Speaker 4: even in the midst of days like that and having
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Speaker 4: the really bad headaches of being in just pain, I
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Speaker 4: muster through because I got things I gotta take care
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Speaker 4: of and as long as I keep God in the forefront,
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Speaker 4: He's gonna make sure that I'm able to achieve what
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Speaker 4: it is that I set out to do. So that's
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Speaker 4: how I'm able to do all that I do and
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Speaker 4: not just about it too much. Like I might complain
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Speaker 4: here and there because I'm in pain. I might get
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Speaker 4: a little irritable because I'm in pain. But I hope
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Speaker 4: people don't take that personally, because when you're in pain
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Speaker 4: or irritable, you know. I've been dealing with issues today
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Speaker 4: while being at work and working a twelve hour shift,
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Speaker 4: but I pulled through it. I'm not complaining about it.
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Speaker 4: I was a little irritated with my boss, but outside
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Speaker 4: of that, I still did what was necessary. Paytief's got
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Speaker 4: taken care of and that's the main thing. It is
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Speaker 4: a right, please go. I'm sorry, I'm driving, and she.
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Speaker 2: Has a road rade, y'all.
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Speaker 4: The start literally just stopped at a green light light,
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Speaker 4: literally in the middle of the street. The light is green.
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Speaker 4: There's absolutely no reason for them to stop. Nothing was
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Speaker 4: coming across the street, the wind's not blowing too hard.
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Speaker 4: I have no clue why they decided just to stop
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Speaker 4: at the green light.
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Speaker 3: It's people reliving Hurricane Helene. You know when the lights
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Speaker 3: was out of because we know what to do, you know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody wanted.
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Speaker 2: To treat it like a four way stop, right.
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Speaker 4: I can see that. However, there was no cars in
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Speaker 4: the cross direction either, So I just don't know. I
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Speaker 4: just don't think they were prepared to go, So I.
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Speaker 2: Just can't give them the benefit of that home now, not.
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Speaker 4: In this situation.
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Speaker 2: Now, I wanted you to explain.
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Speaker 3: What is because they have viewers who've never heard of
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Speaker 3: it or have never heard your story.
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Speaker 2: I would just like to go back to that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, well, K, My information is a serious neurological condition,
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Speaker 4: and it's basically I'm gonna try to put it in
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Speaker 4: in uh Layman's terms. It's basically where the base of
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Speaker 4: the skull protrudes through the base the bottom of the skull,
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Speaker 4: where the skull is supposed to be completely closed, where
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Speaker 4: there is no opening at the bottom, where this spinal
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Speaker 4: cord meets the top of the brain. So in my case,
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Speaker 4: there's an opening and the base of my brain comes
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Speaker 4: through that little hole, and it causes excruciating headaches, It
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Speaker 4: causes balance issues, memory problems, hoarseness in the voice, it
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Speaker 4: causes heart palputations. It's basically the main function of the
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Speaker 4: brain where the cerebellum is. This is the main function
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Speaker 4: of the brain, and so anything that creates pressure right
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Speaker 4: there is where both of my issues come from, because
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Speaker 4: it also regulates the body temperature and things of that
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Speaker 4: nature as well. So it's like when you have a
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Speaker 4: brand new car, car is running very very well, and
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Speaker 4: then suddenly your transmission blows in your car. Well, there's
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Speaker 4: a deconversion brain surgery that is offered. However, it's like
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Speaker 4: if you replace the transmission in your car, your car
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Speaker 4: doesn't run the same anymore. It doesn't matter that the
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Speaker 4: transmission has been rebuilt. It's a branding. Transmission doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: It's basically like traumatic brain injury. However, it is a
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Speaker 4: condition that you were born with, and it's not a
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Speaker 4: condition that you can contract or that you can pick
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Speaker 4: up later in life. However, some people, when they are
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Speaker 4: born with it, they don't really have any symptoms or
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Speaker 4: anything until later in life. Me, however, I've had the
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Speaker 4: symptoms all my life. But it was a problem. It
20:43
Speaker 4: was a problem being properly diagnosed. I was misdiagnosed for
20:48
Speaker 4: years with just having migrains, and migrains were not the cause.
20:54
Speaker 4: I used to have nose bleeds, not only just the
20:59
Speaker 4: nose bleed, but I would have temperature issues where I
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Speaker 4: was constantly hard or cold. I would have heart palputations,
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Speaker 4: my voice would go hoarse, and people would think that
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Speaker 4: I would be sick or whatever. But I didn't find
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Speaker 4: this out until I started experiencing this in the late
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Speaker 4: teens after I had my daughter, So I was roughly
21:21
Speaker 4: around nineteen where the numbness in my hands and my feet,
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Speaker 4: and it would only be one foot or on one hand,
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Speaker 4: and it was never both at the same time. So
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Speaker 4: it was always confusing because it would go from the
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Speaker 4: right foot to the left foot, to the right hand
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Speaker 4: to the left hand, and it was just like okay.
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Speaker 4: Then I would get these headaches in the back of
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Speaker 4: my head that would be so bad that nothing that
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Speaker 4: I could take, nothing that I could do to ease it.
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Speaker 4: And it's not like a typical migraine because of my
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Speaker 4: basically just on one side, and mine would be at
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Speaker 4: the back of the brain, back of my skull, and
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Speaker 4: it would have like a burning sensation as well, And
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Speaker 4: so couple that headache with a migraine headache, it is excruciating.
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Speaker 4: So I know the difference between just a regular migraine
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Speaker 4: and a kri headache, and when I have both and
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Speaker 4: a migraine headache, I can't function like I want to function,
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Speaker 4: but I will push through even though it is very difficult.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've witnessed what you're push through. Looks like I've
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Speaker 3: seen you push through on some times where my silk,
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Speaker 3: your kids and some other people have told you to
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Speaker 3: get somewhere and sit down, but you don't and you
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Speaker 3: keep going.
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Speaker 2: And that's like one of the things that I admire
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Speaker 2: most about you is how you you.
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Speaker 3: Keep going and you press through, and even when it
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Speaker 3: looks like it's never gonna get better, you still hey girl, hey,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, like you, you pushed through And for.
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Speaker 2: That, you know, I'm proud of because you know how
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Speaker 2: I rare you.
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Speaker 4: You know what I don't.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and better, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Getting better because today I'm not one hundred per find
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Speaker 3: a bit of the It has reared its ugly headed
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Speaker 3: today and so but you gotta still good and I'm
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Speaker 3: able to do what I need to do with no excuses.
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Speaker 3: What I want to ask you now is what would
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Speaker 3: you tell somebody that wants to work a regular eight
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Speaker 3: twelve hours start their own business no matter what it is,
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Speaker 3: and still deal with a health issue.
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Speaker 2: What advice would you give that person?
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Speaker 4: The advice that I would give to them is you
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Speaker 4: gotta have the mindset and the determination to actually go
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Speaker 4: after what it is that you want, So first and foremost,
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Speaker 4: that's the number one thing. You gotta be determined. If
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Speaker 4: you set a goal for yourself, if you want to
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Speaker 4: see yourself in a successful position, you have to have
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Speaker 4: the mindset to understand that there's gonna be more hard
24:37
Speaker 4: days than it's gonna be easy days, especially when you're building,
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Speaker 4: because it's a hard thing to do. So go to God,
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Speaker 4: make sure that you have him included in the plan,
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Speaker 4: and ask him to provide everything that it is that
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Speaker 4: you're going to go through, because you're going to go
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Speaker 4: through some hard times and you're going to go through
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Speaker 4: days where it's just like, look, Lord, I don't know
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Speaker 4: if this is really for me, But if you really
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Speaker 4: want it, God will provide everything that you need. So
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Speaker 4: write out the plan and write it out so that
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Speaker 4: you can see it. Once you see it, then start
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Speaker 4: taking the steps to actually make it happen.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm, where would you like to see your business go
25:23
Speaker 2: from here? Like you hit the ground running and like.
25:29
Speaker 3: It's been amazing just watching, you know, being on the sidelines,
25:34
Speaker 3: watching people come to you, you know, with different kind
25:37
Speaker 3: of projects and things that you know that they come
25:40
Speaker 3: up with and you put your magic to it, and
25:43
Speaker 3: then it's just like here you go.
25:46
Speaker 2: So what's next.
25:52
Speaker 4: I honestly don't know what's next. I just hope that
25:59
Speaker 4: I'm being a obedient to what God is telling me
26:01
Speaker 4: to do because the vision that he showed me earlier
26:06
Speaker 4: this year, and I'm just hoping I'm putting the steps
26:11
Speaker 4: together to actually make it happen. And basically it is
26:19
Speaker 4: a building because I want people to be able to
26:22
Speaker 4: come to a building, to be able to actually visit
26:26
Speaker 4: with other authors. Also I had in this vision that
26:30
Speaker 4: he gave me is that in the front of this
26:33
Speaker 4: building is basically where people come in. They sign in,
26:38
Speaker 4: and there's a little coffee sitting area where they can
26:43
Speaker 4: make themselves a glass of tea or some coffee. And
26:48
Speaker 4: then in the back it's basically where they can sit
26:51
Speaker 4: at the laptops and actually start to write their books
26:55
Speaker 4: and learn how to format and do that editing and
27:00
Speaker 4: all of that. So it's basically like a one stop
27:04
Speaker 4: shop where they can actually come in and get hands
27:07
Speaker 4: on instructions on how to write their book, how to
27:12
Speaker 4: put it together, how to set up different types of workshops,
27:17
Speaker 4: how to you know, just do it themselves, and me
27:22
Speaker 4: being able to teach them what I know from the
27:26
Speaker 4: steps that I've taken to get where I am right now.
27:29
Speaker 4: So that's the vision that he showed me. So I'm
27:31
Speaker 4: just hoping that I'm on the right path to actually
27:34
Speaker 4: making it a reality.
27:37
Speaker 3: It's gonna happen, because that's so it's gonna happen. You're
27:43
Speaker 3: also a podcast host. Yes, what is the name of
27:47
Speaker 3: your podcast and what is your platform?
27:52
Speaker 4: My podcast is becalled is Believe in the Journey. And
27:57
Speaker 4: the reason I titled that Believing the Journey is because
28:02
Speaker 4: we all go through different stages in our lives and
28:05
Speaker 4: it's a journey that we're on. Life is a journey.
28:08
Speaker 4: It's filled with ups and downs, highs and lows, ins
28:12
Speaker 4: and outs. People come, people go, and everything that you
28:17
Speaker 4: have gone through in this life is part of who
28:20
Speaker 4: God has created you to be. And sometimes we get
28:23
Speaker 4: so lost and hung up on the bad things in
28:26
Speaker 4: life that we stay there and we don't understand that
28:30
Speaker 4: just because it's darkness right now, that there won't be
28:34
Speaker 4: sunshine tomorrow. You know, we've been may endure for the night,
28:38
Speaker 4: but the sunshine comes in the morning. So you gotta
28:41
Speaker 4: be willing to go through some of those hard times
28:44
Speaker 4: to receive the best times of your life. And I
28:48
Speaker 4: don't want people to think that, Okay, I'm down and
28:52
Speaker 4: out now and I can't get to the other side.
28:56
Speaker 4: But I've been praying and asking God to get me
28:59
Speaker 4: to the other side. But are you actually taking the
29:02
Speaker 4: steps to being obedient to what God is telling you
29:05
Speaker 4: to do? So my platform is based on the journey
29:09
Speaker 4: of life and understanding that we've all been designed for
29:13
Speaker 4: a purpose here and once you start going through the
29:16
Speaker 4: purpose and putting the pieces together, because every piece in
29:20
Speaker 4: every situation, every chapter in your life is a puzzle
29:24
Speaker 4: piece of who you have been created to be in
29:26
Speaker 4: your purpose for God. And so when you start to
29:30
Speaker 4: walk in that purpose, you start to understand that nothing
29:33
Speaker 4: you went through was for nothing. Basically it had a purpose.
29:40
Speaker 4: And so that's basically what my platform with believing the
29:43
Speaker 4: journey is about.
29:46
Speaker 3: Where would you like to see your your podcast go
29:50
Speaker 3: to in the future. What would you like to see
29:53
Speaker 3: happen with you?
29:57
Speaker 4: I don't I really don't know what I would like
30:00
Speaker 4: to see it go to. I just want to be
30:03
Speaker 4: able to make sure that God gets the credit for
30:09
Speaker 4: bringing the people to me, and I'm able to provide
30:12
Speaker 4: them what they need when they come on the show.
30:17
Speaker 4: I can say that I want people to feel at
30:22
Speaker 4: home when they're guests on my show. I want them
30:26
Speaker 4: to be comfortable. I don't ever want them to feel
30:29
Speaker 4: as if they're being interviewed because I don't really do interviews.
30:37
Speaker 4: I have conversations, and I let God lead the conversations.
30:42
Speaker 4: So I'm just hoping that maybe one day it can
30:49
Speaker 4: be a syndicated podcast.
30:51
Speaker 3: Maybe I think that we're rocking with the right person,
30:56
Speaker 3: because Angela's vision for us has always been a phenomenal one.
31:03
Speaker 3: You know, even when people start to fall off, and
31:06
Speaker 3: you know, there's there's times when we do shows and
31:10
Speaker 3: our guests don't show up, and you know, there's been
31:13
Speaker 3: times where hosts couldn't show up, and you know, it
31:17
Speaker 3: still gets carried through to get to point hey to
31:22
Speaker 3: point B. And I just feel like it's going to
31:25
Speaker 3: be so much.
31:26
Speaker 2: Greater than what it is right now. Like I am
31:30
Speaker 2: enjoying this new platform. I like the whole the whole
31:33
Speaker 2: setup about it. It's just yeah, it's different. But Trevida,
31:39
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna keep you because I know you're ready
31:41
Speaker 2: to get out of out of the car and go
31:43
Speaker 2: in the house.
31:46
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm not even at home yet. I'm waiting
31:48
Speaker 4: on Nate to get off work, so my day is
31:51
Speaker 4: not over yet. Got you, I got It's not over yet.
31:58
Speaker 2: So do you see yourself hosting like a.
32:05
Speaker 3: What's the word I'm looking for, like a forum or
32:09
Speaker 3: something to where you can bring people together to teach
32:13
Speaker 3: them how to write right in a way that it
32:19
Speaker 3: makes sense, but still tell their story without taking away
32:25
Speaker 3: their actual words.
32:26
Speaker 2: Because a lot of times, you know, when you deal
32:28
Speaker 2: with certain you know.
32:30
Speaker 3: People that go in and reward your story and you know, obey,
32:37
Speaker 3: make those big words that you wouldn't normally use or whatever.
32:42
Speaker 4: Correct.
32:43
Speaker 2: You know, where where is your vision with that?
32:49
Speaker 4: I want to start hosting workshops first to be able
32:55
Speaker 4: to allow people to come in and see what that
32:57
Speaker 4: process is like from some one who's gone through it
33:01
Speaker 4: from the beginning, because it's really easy to submit yourself
33:06
Speaker 4: to an editor and a publisher, but to actually see
33:11
Speaker 4: somebody that has gone through the step by step process themselves.
33:16
Speaker 4: It makes it a little bit more humbling when you
33:19
Speaker 4: have that person who's willing to teach you step by
33:22
Speaker 4: step and you can see them and you can see
33:25
Speaker 4: the progress. That's one of the things that I'm grateful
33:28
Speaker 4: for myself, because you know, when I did my first book,
33:32
Speaker 4: like I said, it did not look perfect. It looked
33:34
Speaker 4: like a little kid had done it. But and not
33:40
Speaker 4: in the sense of the core to itself, but the
33:45
Speaker 4: formatting and the fonts and things like that that were
33:49
Speaker 4: in the book. It did not have a sense of
33:53
Speaker 4: unity togetherness when I put it together. But the greatness
33:58
Speaker 4: that I saw within that was I was able to
34:01
Speaker 4: see my growth. I was able to see how the
34:06
Speaker 4: process worked. I was also able to understand that it
34:11
Speaker 4: wasn't designed for perfection. It was designed for me to
34:15
Speaker 4: be able to learn. Because not only do I have
34:19
Speaker 4: this condition KII my information. I also had a stroke
34:23
Speaker 4: and so my brain has been affected in multiple ways
34:27
Speaker 4: and so I have to keep my mind active, so
34:31
Speaker 4: being able to see the growth move from one spot
34:36
Speaker 4: to the next, to be able to see that. I
34:39
Speaker 4: want people to be able to come to me and
34:42
Speaker 4: I show them where I started. It's a physical representation
34:47
Speaker 4: of this is what I started with because most of
34:50
Speaker 4: the time, when you have a person that's teaching these things,
34:55
Speaker 4: they've gone to someone else and they don't see the
34:58
Speaker 4: rough version. All they see is the finished product. Well,
35:03
Speaker 4: I have a finished product, but it's not perfect, and
35:06
Speaker 4: I want you to see the process of me going
35:09
Speaker 4: through and learning step by step, and so I'm grateful
35:14
Speaker 4: for that, and that's what I want to be able
35:16
Speaker 4: to show people, because when people can see the blueprints
35:23
Speaker 4: and the blueprint didn't look like the finished product, I
35:26
Speaker 4: think it resonates more with people in that sense, versus
35:30
Speaker 4: people coming in on the outside and they see the
35:34
Speaker 4: finished product, and yeah, they want the finished product, but
35:37
Speaker 4: some people are actually interested in how it was made,
35:41
Speaker 4: how it got there, And that's what I want to
35:44
Speaker 4: be able to show people.
35:46
Speaker 2: So are you working on anything special right now?
35:51
Speaker 4: I am. I'm working on the book for my mom
35:56
Speaker 4: and it's called from Fact Fractured to Fulfilled, the healing
36:02
Speaker 4: of the relationship between myself and my mom before she
36:06
Speaker 4: transitioned over and the conversations that we had and it
36:13
Speaker 4: brought it's bringing closure and I will tell you that
36:16
Speaker 4: it writing this one is taking me back to my
36:21
Speaker 4: childhood in ways that I had not brought out in
36:27
Speaker 4: Overcoming Childhood Trauma because now I'm simply focusing on the
36:32
Speaker 4: relationship with my mom. Wherein Overcoming Childhood Trauma my Journey
36:37
Speaker 4: to healing that book, I talked about the relationship with
36:41
Speaker 4: both of my parents, Okay, and so not just my parents,
36:46
Speaker 4: it's just the relationship that I had with family, the
36:50
Speaker 4: relationship that I had with my ex husband, and how
36:55
Speaker 4: all of those things that I went through, how it
37:00
Speaker 4: it led me to raising my children in certain ways
37:04
Speaker 4: and being more open and honest with my kids and
37:07
Speaker 4: not having that what happens in this house stays in
37:10
Speaker 4: this house mentality. If I said something to you, let
37:14
Speaker 4: me know if I hurt your feelings, because I can't
37:16
Speaker 4: fix it if I don't know anything about it. So
37:19
Speaker 4: I made sure that I had an open door policy
37:23
Speaker 4: with my kids. But one thing while writing that book,
37:29
Speaker 4: I did not know how much my children had never
37:33
Speaker 4: seen me in a vulnerable state. My kids feel like
37:37
Speaker 4: I'm superwoman, and I had to I had to apologize
37:43
Speaker 4: to them for them not seeing me. My kids didn't
37:47
Speaker 4: see me cry unless I was in excruciating pain. They
37:50
Speaker 4: never saw the softer side of me. And so that's
37:57
Speaker 4: what this latest book is going to be about. And
38:00
Speaker 4: my youngest son had to tell me when I was
38:03
Speaker 4: dealing with my mom and you know, going to the
38:06
Speaker 4: facility to check on her every day after work, after
38:09
Speaker 4: working my hours and everything, I would go and sit
38:14
Speaker 4: with her. And I came home one day and I
38:19
Speaker 4: said in my recliner and my son was like, let
38:22
Speaker 4: it out. And I was like, I don't really know
38:25
Speaker 4: how to let it out, you know, And he was like,
38:31
Speaker 4: you can't be strong all the time, and it's okay
38:35
Speaker 4: for you to cry. It's okay for you to feel
38:37
Speaker 4: the emotions that you're feeling. And from that moment on,
38:42
Speaker 4: I've been able to understand that it's okay for me
38:46
Speaker 4: to feel what I feel, and I've given myself permission
38:49
Speaker 4: to actually feel whatever it is that I'm feeling in
38:52
Speaker 4: that moment, especially if it's a moment where it comes
38:55
Speaker 4: up and I'm missing my mom, missing her silliness, her
38:58
Speaker 4: goofiness or whatever. I give myself permission to be in
39:02
Speaker 4: that moment, no matter where I am. And this book
39:07
Speaker 4: right here that I'm working on for her is definitely
39:13
Speaker 4: that's I will say. But it's for her and that's so.
39:22
Speaker 2: There's nothing like that, like the way the way you
39:27
Speaker 2: me out and she looking at me like why do
39:30
Speaker 2: you put up with that?
39:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, and she told me she took about I couldn't
39:35
Speaker 4: be your friend. Okay, that's fine, You're not my friend.
39:38
Speaker 4: You my mama, So you do that mm hmm. But yes,
39:46
Speaker 4: she told me, but that she told me I was
39:49
Speaker 4: her best friend. So and I really and truly believe
39:54
Speaker 4: that because no matter how much my mama got on
39:58
Speaker 4: my nerves and we are or whatever, anytime that lady
40:03
Speaker 4: called me and I could be there, I was there,
40:05
Speaker 4: you know, even though there were days when I was
40:09
Speaker 4: adamant and saying I ain't doing it. I don't care,
40:11
Speaker 4: somebody else got to pick up the slack. I'm just
40:13
Speaker 4: not doing it. I'm not going. But the way she
40:18
Speaker 4: raised me, and what the heart that her and God
40:21
Speaker 4: gave me, I couldn't do it. So I sucked it up.
40:25
Speaker 4: I complained, but I still did it.
40:31
Speaker 2: Because I remember, like the last.
40:35
Speaker 3: Couple of weeks before she passed, you was like, you know,
40:39
Speaker 3: I'm doing this by myself, and I told you, you know,
40:44
Speaker 3: this is your time with your mom. God designed that
40:47
Speaker 3: moment for you to be able to receive whatever it
40:52
Speaker 3: is that she needed to give you, and for you
40:54
Speaker 3: to give her whatever it was that you felt like
40:57
Speaker 3: you needed to give her. And you know, I appreciate
41:00
Speaker 3: you actually.
41:01
Speaker 2: Sharing your mom with me, because you know we don't
41:04
Speaker 2: we don't have been on some benches behind.
41:12
Speaker 4: The most definite.
41:17
Speaker 2: Any other way.
41:18
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have had it any other way, even like
41:21
Speaker 3: when you picked me up for the baby shower and
41:25
Speaker 3: I heard her, but I didn't see her, and I
41:27
Speaker 3: was like, I know you ain't in that car talking
41:29
Speaker 3: to herself.
41:30
Speaker 2: It's like who she And so, you know, just being
41:34
Speaker 2: able to be around your family and see the love
41:37
Speaker 2: that your.
41:38
Speaker 3: Children shower you with and those beautiful grand babies, it's something.
41:45
Speaker 2: It's something.
41:47
Speaker 3: And I'm just waiting on uh Scott to have her
41:51
Speaker 3: own podcast show because.
41:53
Speaker 4: She read oh yeah, that is my littlecapacity.
42:01
Speaker 2: You know.
42:02
Speaker 4: I told her when she was probably about three, maybe
42:05
Speaker 4: three to six months old. I can't necessarily remember, but
42:08
Speaker 4: I told her, I said, you're gonna be my assistant
42:10
Speaker 4: for my business. And when I tell her that, whenever
42:15
Speaker 4: I get my laptop out or whatever, that's the first
42:18
Speaker 4: thing that she goes She's like, okay, work tt work
42:22
Speaker 4: tt And I'm like, okay, well you're gonna check the emails. Yes, yes,
42:28
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, well you check the emails and she'll
42:30
Speaker 4: get her little pin and pad and so she sweats
42:33
Speaker 4: she checking emails. You ought to see her little typing
42:36
Speaker 4: fingers and I'm like, baby, you ain't on the right thing.
42:39
Speaker 4: But it's okay, right, Yeah, anything that she sees me do,
42:46
Speaker 4: she definitely is gonna try. I breik hair, so she
42:53
Speaker 4: tries to do that. Whenever I'm doing her mama's hair
42:57
Speaker 4: or my hair, she tries to help out with that.
42:59
Speaker 4: And it's funny to try to see her little fingers
43:02
Speaker 4: do that. But that's yeah.
43:10
Speaker 3: So if someone wants to reach out to you to
43:14
Speaker 3: have you as a guest on their podcast, or to.
43:19
Speaker 2: Reach out to you for your publishing, for helpful that,
43:24
Speaker 2: how do they reach you?
43:27
Speaker 4: They can find me on Facebook Trevida Harris. You can
43:31
Speaker 4: find me on Instagram Trevita Underscore Harris seventy eight on Instagram.
43:39
Speaker 4: For Wings of Transformation, you can send me a message
43:43
Speaker 4: on Facebook. You can find me on Instagram with that
43:46
Speaker 4: as well as Wings of trans twenty one on Instagram
43:51
Speaker 4: Wings of Transformation Publishing on Facebook, but you can send
43:57
Speaker 4: me a DM in either space. I'm going to find it.
44:03
Speaker 4: You can contact me directly if you want phone number
44:07
Speaker 4: eight six four three seven six ninety sixty one. I'm available.
44:13
Speaker 4: You know, most of the time, I say text me first,
44:18
Speaker 4: because I receive that a whole lot faster, and I
44:21
Speaker 4: respond a whole lot faster. Because my emails trying to
44:25
Speaker 4: get into each different ones, it takes a whole lot
44:27
Speaker 4: more time. But always send a text or send me
44:32
Speaker 4: a DM on Facebook or Instagram. I get those a
44:36
Speaker 4: lot faster than I can get to the emails. But
44:39
Speaker 4: I do check my emails every single day. I try
44:43
Speaker 4: to check them first thing in the morning, mid afternoon,
44:45
Speaker 4: and before I go to bed at night. So I'm
44:49
Speaker 4: always working. I'm always doing something, and I don't want
44:52
Speaker 4: anybody to ever feel like they're bothering me when it
44:55
Speaker 4: comes to answering questions about publishing, because if I don't
44:59
Speaker 4: have the answer, then and I will research and find
45:01
Speaker 4: the answer that you are looking for. Also, you can
45:05
Speaker 4: purchase my books directly from me, or you can purchase
45:08
Speaker 4: them on Amazon. If you purchase them directly from me,
45:13
Speaker 4: you can get a signed copy. Otherwise Amazon, you can
45:19
Speaker 4: definitely get them from there. But there are three books there.
45:22
Speaker 4: The first one is My Journey My Piece. That is
45:25
Speaker 4: the poetry book my sole release. The second book is Struggle,
45:30
Speaker 4: Strength and Success KRII My Information Won't Win. Third book
45:35
Speaker 4: is Overcoming Childhood Trauma My Journey to Healing. And also
45:39
Speaker 4: there was a fourth one in there, and that is
45:43
Speaker 4: a Queen's Mindset to self Healing, to mental health, wellness
45:48
Speaker 4: and self love. It is basically like a workbook and journal.
45:54
Speaker 4: So those are all four available on Amazon. And then
46:00
Speaker 4: this last one that we have together is From Their
46:04
Speaker 4: Eyes anthology, so that one is available on Amazon as well.
46:09
Speaker 2: When can we expect your next publishing.
46:14
Speaker 4: Huh? Well, you and I are working on one. Well
46:19
Speaker 4: you're working on one, uh so that's supposed to be January.
46:27
Speaker 4: But outside of that, the one for my mom, I
46:31
Speaker 4: have a deadline in mind, but I know how I
46:37
Speaker 4: get when it comes to my emotions, so I'm not
46:41
Speaker 4: going to put a deadline on that one just yet
46:43
Speaker 4: because I want to make sure that I give her
46:47
Speaker 4: the justice that she needs when telling her start her
46:51
Speaker 4: story in this book, So that's why I haven't put
46:54
Speaker 4: a deadline whenever anybody asks, I don't have one on
46:58
Speaker 4: that one. I have one in mind, but I won't
47:02
Speaker 4: say that it's final. So you'll know when it's final
47:04
Speaker 4: when you see it.
47:05
Speaker 2: So when can people tune in? Tune into your podcast.
47:12
Speaker 4: Every second Sunday and fourth Thursday of the month at
47:16
Speaker 4: eight pm on the Crew Podcast Network. So we are
47:23
Speaker 4: dem divas. We do, yes, we do a lot, and
47:28
Speaker 4: so there's something for everybody on this network. So if
47:33
Speaker 4: you're not tuning in to me on those dates, make
47:36
Speaker 4: sure that you're tuning in to the other ladies because
47:39
Speaker 4: we got something for everybody. Right now, we are close
47:43
Speaker 4: to wrapping up season two, and season three is gonna
47:48
Speaker 4: be better than this season was because we are all
47:53
Speaker 4: We've gotten all the jitters out. I could say it's
47:58
Speaker 4: not so much there were running away from the camera anymore.
48:05
Speaker 4: I can't necessarily say that too much for me, but
48:09
Speaker 4: most people don't believe I'm shy anyway, so it doesn't
48:11
Speaker 4: really matter. So just tune in to the show. Tune
48:18
Speaker 4: in not if you ain't tune in into mind, tune
48:21
Speaker 4: in to somebody's because we got something for everybody, and
48:24
Speaker 4: there's always gonna be a message because God leads us all.
48:28
Speaker 4: He has a purpose for all of us, and that's
48:30
Speaker 4: why we've all been connected the way that we have.
48:33
Speaker 4: We support each other in more waste than one. It's
48:38
Speaker 4: a sisterhood in every capacity. So tune in because we
48:44
Speaker 4: got something for everybody.
48:46
Speaker 2: Any last party words you would like to express.
48:52
Speaker 4: You know my saying, stay out of God's business. The
48:56
Speaker 4: only thing he needs you to do is be obedient
48:58
Speaker 4: to what He's called you to do. Outside of that,
49:01
Speaker 4: I ain't got nothing else.
49:03
Speaker 2: Well, y'all, I.
49:04
Speaker 3: Want to thank you all for watching tonight, for tuning
49:07
Speaker 3: in to delay but not denied the podcast. Travia, thank
49:11
Speaker 3: you for always anytime I call you if if you
49:16
Speaker 3: not like at work, at work, you always show up
49:19
Speaker 3: for me and you always have and I love you
49:21
Speaker 3: for that and I can only hope that I'm doing
49:24
Speaker 3: the same thing.
49:25
Speaker 2: For you when you need me. But yes, and as
49:30
Speaker 2: I always say, you know, what's meant for you will
49:33
Speaker 2: always find you.
49:34
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, may be delayed, but what's for you
49:39
Speaker 3: will never be denied unto you, So you know, until
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Speaker 3: next time, people, we love you.
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Speaker 2: We thank you all for tuning in tonight.