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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #78_HOST MINISTER ALMA THOMAS_(SHOW #11)) · DA CREW Podcast

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that it gave his only begotten son, that whoso have a shall believe,
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shall not purshlft M. Good evening and welcome to the Crew podcast episode
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number seventy eight with your post povertis t and the baddest production team and the
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world HTA and enterprises. Welcome, Welcome and welcome. Do me a favor
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one tonight, hit that like, buon that share and comment. You're in
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for a treat on tonight. And let us start as we always do,
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with a word of prayer, thinking our creator for all things, for the
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Word of God says in all things, give things, Uh, Dear Heavenly
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Father, and the priceless, matchless name of your Son, Jesus. We
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thank you for tonight. We thank you for our guess. We thank you
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for HTA Enterprises and all of the other podcasts and everyone within the slam My
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Voice grant them the secret desires there of their heart on tonight, and we
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pray that someone gets closer to you tonight, that someone accepts you as their
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personal savior. And Jesus name a man and a man and a man.
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And as I said, we have a treat for tonight. We have a
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young minister who's gonna come to us to talk about her amazing new book and
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her life as a young Christian. So we would love to welcome to the
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stage Minister Tatiana Forrera. Hopefully I said her name right, because I can
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surely mess up somebody's name in a minute. How are you doing, Hi,
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Yes, you sound you said my name right. Thank you so much.
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I'm doing good. Thank you so much for inviting me on. You
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could have chose anybody, but I thank you for the invitation. Invitation tonight,
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I thank you for accepting on tonight. As we were talking earlier,
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I've watched you grow up from a little little girl, too wonderful, amazing
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young woman who knows what she wants, had a life, and you're a
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goal getter. So on tonight, I know a little bit about you since
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you've grown up through Facebook, but share with the other listeners on tonight,
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a little bit about Tatiana Farrea. Okay, So I'm Tatiana Farrera. I
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am a minister, I am a PK. My dad is a pastor and
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I served at his church where Faith Temple Deliverance Church and also Faith Family Church.
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I am very active in my church. I do a lot with my
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father. I love the people of God. I love to speak. I
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also reas I just achieved my bachelor's degree and congratulations, Yes to God be
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the glory. And then I'm so excited that my book is just encouraging people
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from all ages and different men and women are being encouraged. I just want
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to being encouraged to everybody. Encouragement to everybody. That's what I'm all about.
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Yes, and you are encouraging, especially to the young people, because
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today we don't see a lot of young people who are sold out to what
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they believe in. We see a lot of compromising. We see a lot
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of people who are afraid to tell their peers that they're Christians and believers.
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And so you with you, you are identically you, and you come across
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as a Christian young lady. So tell us about your book, Umasking the
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Real Me. Yes, so Unmasking the Room. I wish I had it
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with me, but I don't. Umasking the Room Me. I wrote this
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book. So, this book has been in the works for a couple of
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years now, a lot of I've been through a lot as a young woman.
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I've been through a lot. I've experienced bullying in school. I've experienced,
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you know, low self esteem. I've experienced being isolated because of my
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relationship with Christ. And so all of these things that I have gone through.
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God wanted me to put this in a book, to say, to
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explain to people, what are the things that young Christians are going through?
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Why, what are their battling, what are their suffering? Um. I
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know with a lot of young people, it's like they feel ashamed of being
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Christian. They feel like it's not popular to do so. So I wanted
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to to create this book to really be transparent about my story of coming into
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christs and the things that Christ has delivered me from. UM. Yes,
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thank you for putting the link up there. And I wanted to share everything
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that Christ has delivered me from in my life because so many young people are
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going through things in the church and they they're they're they're afraid to say something
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or share, And so I wanted to be transparent about certain things um that
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young people go through in church. Right right as we were saying before that
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a lot of young people don't see other young people like they feel like they're
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serving God by themselves in a bubble. As the youth director of my ministry,
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I tell the young people that you need to go out and visit other
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churches so you can see that there are other young people who are living for
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God. And as we try to tell you that the Christian life is the
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best life that you can have, and it's best when you accept God.
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As a young person, you're gonna have challenges, but as you get older,
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you have more and more temptations or things that you have tried, like
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things that you never tried you can't miss, but once you tried it,
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then you're always longing forward and tell you really get delivered. So being transparent
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was one of the reasons why you named the book Masking the Real Meat,
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And there are other reasons why you chose that title. That's hafic was very
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it was piercing my heart the whole time. And because it's just like it's
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a deep it's a deep title to me because it's it's unmasking. When you
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think about a mask. You know a lot of people in church are wearing
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masks. They don't want to share what they're going through. Some people,
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you know, they're smiling in front of people, and then behind closed doors
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they're going through so much. And so unmasking is really peeling back the layers,
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taking back the layers, taking off the mask, taking off the facade.
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Stop trying to be perfect because permant. For a long time, I
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was trying to be perfect. I wanted to have everything right. I wanted
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to do everything correct and all of this stuff. But God is God literally
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said, how can I help you? If you are perfect? How can
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I how can I um heal you if you if nothing is wrong with you?
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How can I help you if you're one hundred percent okay? If you
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even think about like a hospital, the doctor doesn't check you if he doesn't
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know that something is wrong with you. So in this book I opened up
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really about being transparent with God, being open with God, and stop trying
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to pretend to be perfect. In front of people, in front of the
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of church people, because a lot of church people can be judgmental. A
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lot of church church people can can and say things wrong to you. But
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I wanted to share my story in a way that say I'm gonna be real
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so that I can become free. I'm gonna be transparent so I can become
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free from whatever issue I'm going through. Because you cannot become free unless you
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first acknowledge that you have a problem, acknowledge that you have an issue,
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acknowledge that you have a situation that you need God to help you. When
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you get to that point, you said, God, I need you to
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help me. I need you to look I can't do this by myself.
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I can't heal myself, I can't change myself. That is the point when
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God will see your humbleness and say, I'm not trying to I'm not trying
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to look good in front of people, but I want to truly be free
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within my soul. So unmasking the real mess, not trying to be perfect,
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but acknowledge my flaws, acknowledging the things that I need God to help
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me with. Because a lot of people have a problem with acknowledging the things
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that they need help with. So I wanted to truly be real and say,
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I'm I'm opening myself up and I'm gonna tell God everything I need him
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to deliver me from. And yes, that's really what the unmasking is about,
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being open and being real and truly acknowledging where I needed God's help.
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Hey man, that's true because a lot of young people leave the church because
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as older Christians like you said, our judgmental and we act like we've always
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been perfect, like we never made any mistakes. So therefore, when a
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young person makes them mistake, instead of us covering them because it says that
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love covers a multitude of sins, or instead of explaining to them, you
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know that is not just something you went through, but I went through something
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similar that I haven't. In my ministry, I try to be transparent to
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let them know that I haven't always been a safe propertess that I've been through
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some things. I fell down, I scraped my knee, but I didn't
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stay. Now, I got back up and one question, I didn't write
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it down, but I'm an as it to you. Now, do you
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feel that as a PreK PreK kid that the church tried to hold you to
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a higher standard than a lay members kid one hundred percent. So and it's
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just like it's so ridiculous, and it makes it so hard for pks to
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just you know, and a lot of peaks run away from the church because
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they feel so much pressure on them. They feel like there's so much pressure
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to the point like they have to be perfect, they can't make a mistake,
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or their life is over they can't make a mistake, or God is
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you know, God is it is canceling them or I and I've seen this
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a lot like members, some members would literally have so much expectation on the
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pastor's kid more than they do their own children. And sometimes that can be
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like a double standard because it's like, Okay, you're telling me to do
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this, but your child is not even here or nowhere to be found.
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So it's kind of just like that can literally make a lot of peks leave
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the church because they feel like they they're so much pressure on them to be
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perfect, there's so much pressure on them to get everything right, and that
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there's so many people looking at them and so many people watching them. So
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it's definitely something that's very up. It could be very pressuring. It could
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be a lot of pressure in that aspect to be a p K, because
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you feel like there's always a comparison. It's always like you have to be
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perfect, you always have to do everything right, and it's just it's it
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leaves no room from mess up. And it's just like God wants us to
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mess up so that we can experience the grace of God. You know,
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if we would not have messed up, we don't know what God's grace is.
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We don't know what forgiveness is. We don't know what God's unconditional love
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is. If we have not experienced these mess ups, if we have not
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experienced the is the fall if we have not. And what I have learned
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is this, You learn more from your fall and your disappointments and your failures
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then constantly being perfect. You cannot learn anything from getting everything right. But
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when you when you fall, and when you fail, and when you have
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mistakes and when you do things wrong, you are able to know, Okay,
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what can I do better next time? How can I prevent this?
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How can I do this better? You can learn from your mistakes. So
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I think God wants everyone of us, even if you're a p cave if
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you're not, or if you're just a young person or whatever. He wants
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use our falls and our failures and our challenges to to teach us and to
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be able to teach other people, like our testimonies teaches other people. Like
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we would not have a testimony without a test so we would not have a
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have a story without a storm. So the thing we go through is literally
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to teach us and to teach everyone else. Hey man, because as uh
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minister, and I have a young daughter who just turned twenty one today.
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Shout out to Sabriya for her twenty first birthday. But um, my method
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of dealing with her is I deal with her the same way that I would
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deal with any young person. That um, I don't expect her to be
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perfect because she got a real world deal. They said that the words kids
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are preaching kids and teachers kids. So I'm a minister and a teachers.
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Are you really got a ordeal? So but I treat uh like I do
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the kids in my class, like I do the young people in the church.
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I don't expect any more out of her than I do another young person.
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And then she falls just like I would tell another young person that you
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can get back up again. That I made mistakes along the way. I
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fell along the way, I was tempted along the way, but I never
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gave up. I never just laid there. So can you tell us what
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then your journey to becoming a published author? So young? My journey?
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My journey started in my teens, like my journey started in my teen years.
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I actually in high school. I was I wrote a lot of poetry.
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I wrote a lot of poems and poetry that was my thing. And
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then God began to change my poetry and to like sermons. So then I
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started to preach the gospel and write down sermons and my notes and do sermons.
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And then after that, I always needed an outlet because sometimes even as
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a minister, as a child of God, as a vessel of God,
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you don't truly have an outlet. And so God gave me the outlet of
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writing in my journal. And so writing in my journal was like something that
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I always did, even even since I was like in my teenage years.
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And from that, literally my book is made up of experiences that I have
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written in my journal. So from that I put into the book. So
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it was. I had to reach out to a public publishing company. But
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all of the stuff, it's so crazy. All of the stuff that is
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in my book was things that God have put in me from my journaling and
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writing down my thoughts and all that stuff. So all of the young people
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out there, I don't know if there's young people watching whatever. When you
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feel like God is speaking to you, or when you feel like you have
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feelings or anything like that, write them down on paper. Even those people
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who you know want to write songs or want to do anything like that,
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write down those words on a paper. The Bible says, write down the
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vision and make it plain. There's something powerful about writing it down. So
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God, God truly used writing things down to push me into writing a book.
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And once I wrote things down, it began to become more and more,
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um like book book like writing a book. But I reached out to
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a published publishing company and then I have my cover done. I had to
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do a photo shoot for the cover. Um. And then everything came together
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like that, Um God. And it was so crazy because there was a
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point in time when I was not going to write this book, but I
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would receive confirmation from prophetic people that will literally just come out of nowhere.
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Message Me said, God, God is telling you write this book in your
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youth. And they did not know at all that I was writing a book,
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I was even planning anything. So I received so many confirmation from God,
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from the vessels of God and to let me know that this is what
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God wanted me to do. Amen. So now we're gonna take a brief
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commercial break and we'll be right back with minnester Patianna and we will finish um
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your new books. I tay youre hey. Welcome back. Welcome back to
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the second half of Inspirational Moments when Profits they Live Again and we have our
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guests Attiana Farrea and she is talking about her book Amassing the Real Me,
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and she will tell us later how we can get a copy of that book.
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So, Um, Pattianna, as a young minister, what are some
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of the challenges that you face? This is a loaded question. Um,
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that's a powerful question. One is they The first one is they automatically assume
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that you don't know how to have fun. Like It's like, once they
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find out that you're a minister, they'll be like, oh, snap,
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you're a minister, Like you don't know how to have fun. But I
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have to always say, like I don't have a problem with having fun.
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It's just all about what are we doing, Like what are we doing and
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having fun? Like are we just hanging out? Are we just you know,
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as long as it doesn't go against the Bible, I'm okay with it.
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But sometimes people just like automatically assume like you can't hang out or you
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can't have fun or whatever like that. But I'm a very balanced person.
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I'm very balanced. I go to the movie sometimes, I go out on
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walks, I go bowling, I have fun thing, I go on fun
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activities. So I think that's a misconception when people think, you know,
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over sudden because you become a minister, that you can't have fun, you
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can't do things that God wants you to enjoy your life while you're still here.
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So I think that's a misconception that people have. Another thing is like
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you go through money, spiritual attacks, spiritual and mental emotional attacks. I
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think people don't talk about that enough. Um, you know, when you're
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doing the things of God, it's not going to be easy. It's not
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gonna be like you know, you're you're just floating through you know, clouds
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and everything. No, there's there's going to be moments where you feel discouraged.
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There's gonna be moments when you feel when you feel like you want to
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give up. There's gonna be moments when you feel like that, when you
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feel God has not called you for the assignment. So it's like I go
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through those moments and those are those are attacks from the enemy. It's attacks
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to make to make me stop what I'm doing. But I go through those
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moments and you just have to read. You just have to shift yourself back
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into to knowing what God has knowing that God has called you, knowing that
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God has placed this in you, and not to be discouraged and not to
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be because sometimes you might say, oh, there's just one person watching me.
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There's not a lot of people watching me. I'm not really inspiring people.
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Even though somebody might not be saying anything, they're still watching, they're
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still looking, they're still being inspired, they're still being encouraged by your life.
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So I always that's a battle, like sometimes you go through the spiritual
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attacks and discouragement. Another thing, Oh, I don't know. Another thing.
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Another thing is the dating, since we're about to go into dating.
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Yeah, I think dating is a tough thing when you're trying, when you're
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trying to do things, when you're trying to live the way God wants you.
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That's definitely one of the tough challenges in life is dating as a young
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minister. That's tough. Yes, yes, because a lot of a lot
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of people, because so many people say that they are Christians, but they
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compromise and certain situations and rationalize when people see people all sold out for Christ.
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But like I said to you early early on, that just watching you
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through Facebook and listening to your reading your posts and talking about not settling and
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knowing you know, a lot of times you hear older people say, your
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husband is in your church. The husband is in the you know, in
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the church. And sometimes when, especially as older person, when you go
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to church, you don't see that many available suitors. So you're wondering,
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like what churches they are? Can you please get me the directions to that
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church? But like I said that, you know, you're inspiration to me
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because you're a young girl holding on and your parents are inspiration because they've been
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together from the time when they were young. Now, yeah, my par
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it's so funny that you mentioned like church, because it's so sad. You
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have to be careful like a lot of Christians throw around like people, the
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word Christian is thrown around too loosely. Yes, you have you have people
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who are only Christian by the name. They have the type of Christians,
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but their lifestyle is not matching up at all. And so I've been I
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dealt with men in the church who resembled men that were outside of the church.
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I mean, let's just talk about it. Sometimes they will talk about
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sexual things that sometimes they would, you know, talk about sex before marriage,
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you know, all the things that God speaks against. And so when
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I'm a person who believes and the Bible it's a battle because it's like you're
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supposed to be a child of God and a man of God, but you're
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not really. So it's important that you always understand, always look at the
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person's fruits. What are they living like, what is their lifestyle? You
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know, it's easy for someone to say they're a Christian, but what are
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there, what are their beliefs, what are they're talking about, what are
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they're doing in their lives? So, um, yeah, that's that's one
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of the things that you gotta be careful because you can't always believe what people
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say. You have to look at people's actions. Rights. Yeah, just
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because you go to church doesn't mean that you're a Christian. You can sit
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in church every Sunday, just like you can sit in a garage, but
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that doesn't make your car so you can go and you know, like you
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said, it's your future, it's how you're living. And I know that
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as young people is very hard, and like I said earlier, a lot
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of not only young people, but a lot of people compromise and try to
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rationalize their lifestyle. But um, what what's next for you? What's next
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for me? Honestly, I'm just I feel like I'm gonna write some more
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books in the future, and one day I want to try to do a
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movie. I want to try to do a movie one day and see how
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that it, see how that is. But mostly I want to do whatever
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God wants me to do. Um, you know, just yeah, I
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want to do whatever God wants me to do. But I do want to
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write more books. God has laid laid it on my heart to write more
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and He has been showing me through dreams, um what the next book is
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going to be about. So I'm excited to um to release that one.
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But I'm I'm excited to also start you know, I'm looking at doing movies
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as well. But yeah, I'm excited about you know, everything that's God.
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God's going to to do through me. And it's all for the glory
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of God to help people, um, to to help people find that relationships
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with Christ. Amen. Amen, and your life and your your books and
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your movie are gonna be our inspiration to many young people. Many young people
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are gonna come to Christ because of your story and your conviction. And you're
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holding on to what you believe in because a lot of young people are gonna
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see you and know you can do it that you don't have to compromise,
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you don't have to play pity pat with the devil. That everything that God
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has for you is for you. And I'm so excited about your future.
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I'm excited about your next book. I'm just really excited to see what God
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is gonna do in your life. So tell us how can we get your
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book? How can we reach out to you for bookings? And yes,
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um you can buy my book. My book is on Barnes and Nobles.
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My book is also on Amazon. It's also if you have the iPhone,
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is on the book store that you have on the iPhone. You also can
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reach out to me at Tatiana Ferrere on Facebook and Tatiana ferare Bookings at gmail
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dot com is my email. Okay, So now all the audience knows how
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we can reach minnesot Tatiana. And once again, I want to thank you
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for being so transparent. I want to thank you for being on the show
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tonight. And when you come out with your next book, we want to
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see you again to discuss your next book. And I want an invitation to
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that wedding that's not gonna be too far off. My God, my Lord,
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your prophesying. Amen. Amen, so we are we are so excited
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and we will reach out that people can reach out to you on your Facebook
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page and if you want Minnister Tatiana to come, she's located in New York.
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So if anyone's in New York you want her to come speak to you,
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your Youth Ministry UM, you can get in touch with her booking dot
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gmail dot com, Tatiana perrere Bookings at gmail dot com. Amen. Amen,
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So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all for
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listening. And if you're listening to the replay, comment, share, and
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subscribe. Have a wonderful night and I will see you in two weeks with
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the Live Again podcast. Good Night, good night,