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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #151_ HOST MINISTER ALMA THOMAS · DA CREW Podcast

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Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, I have a very interesting guest on tonight,
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someone that I have never met, but I've known her in years. As
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a matter of fact, I started out my writing process writing an anthology with
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her. But before I introduce her, I would like to have a moment
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of prayer and all things we have to give thanks to God. So bow
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your heads and think on God for a minute. And the goodness of God
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and all that He's done for you. In the precious name of Jesus,
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Dear Heavenly Father, in the matchless name of your Son, Jesus, we
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thank you on tonight for this fellowship. We thank you on tonight for the
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guests. We thank you for the visionary Queen Angela and all the gifts and
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talents that you have given to her for the uplifting of the kingdom. Continue
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God to stir up the gifts within her. In the name of Jesus.
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All those who are listening to the sound of my voice, I don't know
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what they need God, but you know, and you work intercessory for us.
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On tonight, in Jesus' name, we pray. A man and a
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man and a man, and I introduced to you Lakeisha Malone, a man
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who is an author, who's an entrepreneur who loves God. So welcome,
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Laksha. How are you. I'm good,
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I'm good? Are you? I am fine? I'm remembering as I was
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preparing for this interview, I'm remembering that you are a part of my first
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authorship journey. You seem a part of the anthology that began my writing journey,
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my publishing journey. You were also on that journey with me. But
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tonight tell us a little bit about whole Lakuitia Malone is man. So I
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am an author, of course, I'm a mother to a beautiful grown child
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now, and I'm a I'm a mentor, I'm a friend, and uh,
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let's see what else you can call me. I am. I also
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help people with their publishing process too, so I still do that. So
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that's a part of who I am. And I'm also now dabbling to the
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hair industry, so that's a little bit about myself. Yes, yes,
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over the years, I have found you. You know, sometimes when you're
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in this industry, it's competitive. They don't people don't want to share the
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knowledge that they've gained over the years. So when you ask the questions,
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they give you sketchy answers if they answered. Well, but I found that
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over the years that you are very, very helpful and that you will share
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whatefever information that you know. So I know when you say that you are
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a mentor that you are truly telling the truth because you're mentioned me on many
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occasions when I call you and ask you, how can I do this or
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how can I do that? So I just want to thank you for that.
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Amen. Awesome. When did you start your writing process? Oh man,
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So, I've always been a writer. I guess early elementary, you
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know, writing out. I used to tell take the Disney books and I'm
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telling my age, but the gold spine books that they had. I would
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take those books into how to write them. And so I just I've always
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wrote on paper, and I guess I can say maybe in my like the
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late elementary stage, I started writing stories about me and my friends in our
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day, and I would change our names to characters, and I would change
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the swap the stories out for who I'm talking about, so maybe people wouldn't
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know it was exactly who I'm talking about. And I would keep journals and
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I would just journal stories and thoughts and ideas out like that. So I
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probably would say third fourth grade is when I really started writing, but probably
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story writing probably fifth or sixth grade. So, yeah, Journey, When
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was the first time that you actually published the book and what was that about?
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So my first published book was actually in two thousand and eight. I
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went with a Vanity Press publisher, and I don't know, I it was
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poetry. That's what I wrote first, was my poetry. And because I
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started writing poetry in my high school years, because when I wrote stories,
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people knew who I was talking about, so I would write poetry hoping nobody
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would know what I was going through, so you would know who I was
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talking about. And so I decided to publish that in two thousand and eight.
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Okay, and what year did you win the award for poetry? Yes,
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I won my first award in twenty fifteen at the AAMBC Awards, and
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then a couple of years later I won a Helping Hand Award, I think
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for helping authors with miss t at her Literary Affair. Okay, okay,
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so can you tell us a little bit about your journey now and the hair
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here and what do you hope to accomplish with this hair with the hair Caea
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industry. Yes. So hair has always been a love of mine because growing
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up I never could grow my hair past a certain length. So about ten
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years ago I wanted to get into it because I learned how to actually manage
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and take care of my hair and get to grow. But back then I
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couldn't find the right resources that's available now. So after about fifteen years of
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writing books and helping people, I decided, I'm forty now I'm forty one
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actually, but when I hit forty, I said, there's gotta be something
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else that I can get my hands on that I love doing. Also,
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because I was burnt out in the writing industry, I just wanted to break
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and so I prayed about it, and God revealed to me what my dream
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was about ten years ago. Well a lot longer than ten years ago,
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but he revealed to me what I had a dream for when I first started
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trying to do my hair stuff, and I prayed about it, and it's
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like I saw something that I asked for. It just came across to me
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without me actually looking for it, and I was like, you know what,
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I think I'm gonna ask some questions, get some knowledge, and from
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there I decided to branch out with my own hair care line with hair concerns,
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help people to hair concerns and things that me and my family sofer through.
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And so now I have hair oils, I have a hair cream that's
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coming out. So I'm trying to build up the brand. I just started
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a few months ago, probably in March or April, and what I hope
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to accomplish with this is I hope one day it can become a really big
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thing for me and I have my own little space somewhere where I can make
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and sell my products. Amen. Amen, And we're gonna pray with you.
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Amen, God opens up that door for you. So we're going to
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go to a brief, brief commercial break and we'll be right back with lake
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Malone. Amen. Amen, getting to know Lakeisha La Malone. Amen.
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that book. Welcome back, Welcome back, Lakeisha, And again I want
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to thank you for greeing, especially at the last minute, for agreeing a
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man to talk with us on tonight and man, and let's focus a little
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bit more on your writing career. Who was one of your favorite characters in
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your book? All the books I've written, I probably would have to say,
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oh favorite, I let me think about it, Maybe my favorite would
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be I can't say Priscilla. Maybe Naomi. I have a short story that
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I mean a short story. I have a story that I've released as a
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novella, and maybe I can say that Naomi from that story might be my
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favorite. Or the Shade from the Love Marriage Divorce. So it's between one
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of those two. Okay, okay, who is your most memorable character?
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I would say if I had to say, if people could get a chance
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to read What's in a Mother to say, not'm mare for one part two?
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I think my character from there might be memorable because of the shock value.
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I tried to add that suspenseful story. So maybe that. But if
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not, maybe Maya from Secrets Amongst Friends Or I have another story that's coming
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out tomorrow on Kendovella and unique is her name. She might be a great
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one because it's related to suicide prevention and she's a very very great local character.
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So maybe one of those. Okay, I remember, I have to
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get the second part of of your story, because the first one had me
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with longer for more. I was like, there's the rest of it?
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Where's the rest of it? Amen? So now I know that there's a
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rest of it. Hey man, I have to get that because you certainly
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left me in suspense and part one. I was not expecting that at all
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at all. But let's see, Okay, what would be your advice that
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you would give to someone new that's just starting out and either the author and
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business or the entrepreneur business, which you can pick which you wan, But
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what advice would you give to someone who is just starting out? I would
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say for both, the advice would be kind of the same. When you
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are a new author or even if you're trying to venture off into something different
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into your entrepreneurship, I would say number one, research, research, research,
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research, research your craft and what is you're trying to do. I
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would definitely say to research and study and practice on that beforehand. And I
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would also say, don't be afraid to get up under some mentorship and find
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people who are successful at what you're trying to get to, so that way
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you have a model or inspiration to keep striving for. So that was my
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advice. Yes, that's true. That and starting a business or writing a
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book, you have to be teachable and culchable because there's so many stairs and
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obstacles and hurdles that you have to go through that if you get with someone
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that has gone through those things already, they can steer you in the right
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direction. Like I know and being an author. When I purchased my first
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book cover, it was a mess and I paid over eight hundred dollars for
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it. And when I got into publishing and book covers and everything, I
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found out that a was a piece of junk that they never couldn't even use
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it on my book and that when I did a pain a beautiful book cover,
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I only paid one hundred dollars for it, and that's the highest I've
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ever paid for a book cover. So when you know better, and you'll
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do better. So it's better for you to sit under someone and research what
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you want to do, and then what you want to do to follow your
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dream. Because God has made us promises we have purpose in our life and
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that we had all costs. We have to search for that destiny. We
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have to step in to our destiny. So what is next for Lakisa Malone?
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What's next for me is I'm definitely going to spend as much of my
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forties as possible into my new career of choice. With their haircare. I
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actually want to do do more schooling for that. And I still help authors,
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So still offer my services to authors as they needed, and yeah,
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become some sort of influence of people to help them. So yeah, and
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whatever avenues are areas they want to do in their life, be some kind
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of influence for that. And man, we have to be the change that
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we want to see. A lot of times we complained about things, but
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we don't wan offer solutions to the problems that we face. So I'm really
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really excited about the new ventures that you on. Do you still write the
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magazine? I don't have my magazine. It became a very tedious job for
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me to do by myself, so I don't have it. The magazine are
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still out there. You can still download them for free or purchase a physical
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copy. One day in the future, I plan to revisit my author world
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maybe the magazine. I really did enjoy that, but it was just it
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was just too much for me to do by myself, right, So it
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became more of a choice than a passion something that, yeah, passionate about
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because it took up so much of your time. But it was a really
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good resource for writers, like what to do when. What is your advice
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for an author that gets burned out? I would say only because now that
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I've experienced it, I would say it's okay to take a break. I
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think it's okay to take a break, take care of you, take care
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of your mental and then revisit when you feel comfortable enough and able enough to
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bring out your best work. Because if you continue through that part of your
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life, when you don't, you don't produce. Your craft is not what
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you intend to produce because it's not coming from the same place place. I
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would say, somebody asked a question about the name of my product. The
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name of my product, my hair products. I guess that's what they're asking
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was it's Laquatter Cosmetics. It's the name of it. Uh, And someone
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feels my opinion, Yeah, where do you? Where can you purchase your
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haircare products? Purchasing my hair care products? I have a website. The
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website doesn't have any any products on it right now because I'm getting ready for
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Black Friday and everything. But mostly people just d M me and I send
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them. I send them the link that way as I gear up for Black
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Friday. So okay, so we can look for Laquatocosmetics dot com. We
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can look forward to some deals on Black Friday. Most definitely all right board
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two to Black Friday. How is I know you had health challenges? How
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is your health now? It's not the best. I found out a few
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weeks ago that I am a pre diabetic now on top of everything else.
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So my goal is to definitely get into a healthier state. Been doing a
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lot more research because suffering with congestive hard failure. I was doing in high
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blood pressure. I was doing the research for that. But it's like this
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third thing was like a wake up call because I'm like, I really really
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do not want uh to be a diabetic because that does run in my family.
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So I'm really trying to, uh, you know, get healthy,
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eat eat better. And it's it's really hard. It is so hard health.
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It is very very very hard because I went through to death of heart
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failure, and especially when I was in the hospital, you know, your
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diet is very very limited, it's already bland. So it was very very
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very hard. But I thank god that since I've come home that my daughter
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has basically can't be on the straight and narrow. They won't give me anything
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that I'm not supposed to have and I thank God for that. But we
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know that God is a healer, and we asking him to restore you back,
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to help Amen, to regulate sugar, regulate high blood pressure, how
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we regulate your heart. We know that He is able because I know from
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experience that God is able. I'm not supposed to be here tonight, Amen,
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but Mercy said no, God had other plans for me, and I
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thank God for that. So how can we reach you? Reaching me is
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not hard. I'm big on branding names or branding yourself, so if you
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look up my name or google it, it shows up everywhere. So you
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can reach me at Quia Malone on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram. I don't
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have my website up and running for us my personal books because like I said,
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I have taken a break from all of that. And I'm also I'll
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hang it out in my hair community I created as well for my my hair
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stuff. So you know, I'm not hard to find a promise, Okay,
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all right? So I know we talked about what what's next for you?
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What will we see you branding? What will we have will we see
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you showing up in the future? I know you've done. You used to
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do lives all the time to do with writing in the writing community and sharing
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information. Do you plan to do lives and stuff with and different sort of
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things with your hair business. Yes, I've always gone live and did my
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hair on my Facebook page, So that was nothing new for me, because
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I mean, I'll be late nights and like, okay, I'm bored,
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let me just go live and do my hair and talk to people. So
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we weren't familiar with me doing that over time. And plus I had I
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still have my YouTube channel and I had hair videos all over it, you
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know where you can see my hair started at one lifting you saw me grow
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it, so stuff like that. And I still do lives, do my
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hair when I feel like it, and here recently I went live on my
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TikTok. So for me, you're gonna just I'll be doing lives mostly related
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toward my hair care since that's where I'm leading toward right now. And my
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goal is also what I get more products out is to do I can't say
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pop up shops, but maybe something like that where I can move around and
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set up different places for a little while. I don't want it to do.
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I want that to be my main focus at all, because I prefer
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to just be strictly online. I don't really want to be traveled with a
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bunch of pop ups. I kind of want I want my free time to
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so so I mostly be online. Yes, they have. There's a lot
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of pop up shops gonna be doing virtually. Matter of fact, Seanelle Williams
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is doing one for Christmas, and she said, I'm in that. I'm
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a part of that. Okay. You know, now that technology has gotten
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to where it is, there's a lot of things that one could do virtually,
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sell their products and stuff virtually. So I'm really excited excited to have
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this time to talk with you, to catch up with you. Like I
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said earlier in the show, that I've been knowing Lakeisha. I've never met
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her in person, but I've been knowing her since twenty sixteen. I think
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when we when we co authored Loved, Marriage and Divorce, and she wrote
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about love and I wrote about divorce. And what was so unique about that
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book is that when I started off, I started off to write like a
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research paper on people that were getting divorced or whatever, and as I was
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writing it became characters and the characters began to do their own thing, and
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I was like, oh, my goodness, because I had never written nonfiction
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before. I had never published anything, but I had written a lot of
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inspirational things, so I was used to writing inspirational and writing sermons and things
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like that, but writing fiction was out of my league. And the characters
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just became alive. And once I saw my name in print, it is
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just like when you're pregnant and you finally pushed that baby out and they bring
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that baby and laid on your chest and you feel like, oh, wow,
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I did this, this is my baby. That's how I felt when
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love, marriage, and Divorce came out that I just cried and began to
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give God thanks because the dreams that were prophesied over me many many years ago
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became began become a reality, and I began to see the manifestation of God's
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promises in my life. And right after that, I was able to write
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two solo books. And I've been a part of so many of Seanelle Williams
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anthologies and Arcantine More's anthologies. And that's you're on the other one with the
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Priscilla right in the two churches that you were in able put us as well.
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Right, No, no, I was supposed to. Oh okay,
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I thought your name. Yeah, No, I was supposed to. But
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I didn't get my story written in time. As a matter of fact,
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it's still a story that I'm working on because I changed it from It was
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supposed to be a part of that, but I changed it to ain't he
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Ain't no choir boy, So that's something coming out. I have so many
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books in my repertoire, but I really really want to get in to children's
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books because I taught four and five year olds for twenty years, and a
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lot of times when I was looking for a topic I couldn't find anything that
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looked like us that was quality work, so I would make up my own
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stories. So now I want to get into publishing those stories and maybe going
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into schools and reading stories to children. So that's the next avenue that I
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want to take. But once again, Lakeisha, I want to thank you.
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Thank you for coming on the show tonight and sharing your stories with us.
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We wish you the best, the best of I don't even want to
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say luck because I don't believe in love. Everyone believe you to wish you
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the best in your new endeavors. I know God because of the heart that
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you have. I know God is gonna bless anything that your hands touched.
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He's gonna bless it because you have a pure heart that you give of yourself,
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not out of You're not selfish, You're not in competition with anybody.
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You know who you are, you know what you're worth, so you're able
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to share with people's community over competition. You're not in competition with no one.
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So I'm really looking forward to the things that God is gonna do in
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your life, to the doors that God is gonna open up in this new
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season of your life. So I'm excited, excited to excided. Get ready,
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Get ready, get ready, because just this idea came to you suddenly,
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and God gave you the things that you need. Your next level it's
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gonna be suddenly, it's gonna be expediated. So don't count it strange and
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man, when doors begin to open for you, doors that no man can
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shet doors, favor is not fair. So there's great in this favor all
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over your life. And I thank God for you. I thank God for
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meeting you because I believe in divine connections that I believe you were a divine
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connection in my life. So I thank God for you. I thank God
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for the things he's doing for you, and this season, I thank God
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for the listening audience and those who are gonna catch this on replay. Remember,
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remember, chase your dreams. Never stop dreaming, never stop reaching for
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the stars. If you only reached but so hard, far Father than you've
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been before. If you want to have something that you never had before,
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you gotta do something that you've never done before. Goodnight, good night,
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and good night. See you on the third Wednesday in November, have a
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blessed, blessed night, and remember I love you and there's not a thing
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you can do about it. Good Night, good night, thank you,
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thank you so much. Ka, You're welcome. Good night. Tune in
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to the All Who Live Again podcast show with your host Amma Thomas for God's
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