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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST LIVE EVERY TUESDAY 8PM EST | DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: To the crew.
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  Speaker 3: Podcasts and media network where voices rise, stories shine, and
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  Speaker 3: purpose meets the world.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in. This is where it starts. We are
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  Speaker 1: We are the change.
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  Speaker 3: Lifting every voice too. We make space for the voiceless.
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  Speaker 2: the world tonight.
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  Speaker 3: That crew shining bright.
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  Speaker 2: This is where it starts. We are the change.
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  Speaker 1: We are the change.
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  Speaker 2: Right here in our hearts. Welcome home, welcome through. There's
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  Speaker 2: a place for you. The crew around the world. Lifting
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  Speaker 2: every voice to.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, yo.
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  Speaker 3: Down in south carolina where the stories rise there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Queen with a.
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  Speaker 3: Mission fire in her eyes 20 years and counting serving
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  Speaker 3: wisdom on the shelves helping voices find the courage to
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  Speaker 3: believe in themselves she opens up the pages lest the.
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  Speaker 2: Hidden stories shine black and brown author.
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  Speaker 3: Stepping boldly in the time with a mic and a
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  Speaker 3: message she's changing the scene everybody knows her name she's
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  Speaker 3: the literary queen from the.
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  Speaker 5: Library sales to the podcast stream you lift every offer
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  Speaker 5: you wake up a dream tuesday night at eight and
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  Speaker 5: the room leans.
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  Speaker 2: In patrice grimball let it all begin.
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  Speaker 5: Hey everyone, this is your girl SCBookGal843 and it is
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  Speaker 5: another Tuesday night. So y'all know I'm bringing you another
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  Speaker 5: book and another author.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going to ask you guys, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I always ask you guys that. Have you
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  Speaker 1: taken a chance and just breathe today? Just and just
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  Speaker 1: let it out.
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  Speaker 6: I did. I did.
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  Speaker 1: Because, you know, it's coming up to that season. So
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  Speaker 1: we got a month, one month, people. And y'all know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to be coming up in November, right? So
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  Speaker 1: y'all know I'm one of those people, if you got
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  Speaker 1: something to say, here's a place to go say it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wait till after everything is tallied up and then
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  Speaker 1: you want to quote, quote, I hate the stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: going on. We ain't doing that. So a lot of states,
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  Speaker 1: your voting deadline is coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think South Carolina, I think it's October 4th. So
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and get your registrations in because you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be registered at least 30 days before
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  Speaker 1: the election.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But we've gotten that out the way. But I got
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  Speaker 1: another author, you guys. The best wisdom that you get,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people think it comes from your best friend,
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  Speaker 1: comes from your mother. The best wisdom that I feel
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  Speaker 1: you get, and according to this author by the title
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  Speaker 1: of her book, is from above. Have you ever just
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  Speaker 1: stood up there and you were just going through something
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, God, what am I supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: And then the answer just falls on you. You're like, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So that is what my author today is talking about,
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom from above, the best wisdom you can get.
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  Speaker 1: So I am going to bring up, and y'all know
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  Speaker 1: I'm bad at names, so I'm going to go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and apologize now.
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  Speaker 6: Makani. Makani.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Makani, author or authoress Makani. Come on up, girl.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up. Come on up. Hey.
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  Speaker 6: Hi. Hey, hey, hey, guys. Hi. What's up out there
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  Speaker 6: in the Facebook, social media? How you guys doing?
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  Speaker 1: Girl, we are good, but let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: Did I say it right?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you said the name right. You got it right.
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  Speaker 6: I like the intro.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's my producer. It's all on her. I
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  Speaker 1: remember the first time hearing it, I was behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: I was crying. You know, the ugly girl crying. I
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  Speaker 1: was ugly. But welcome, welcome, welcome. So before we go
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  Speaker 1: any further, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, in the short to long, I'm born
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  Speaker 7: in the Caribbean, originally from Trinidad and Tobago. I moved
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  Speaker 7: to New York City when I was 16. Spent 20-something
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  Speaker 7: years in New York as a teacher, child advocate, you know,
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  Speaker 7: social worker. You know, it was a real culture shock
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  Speaker 7: to me moving from the Caribbean to New York because,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Cold icebox. I don't like cold.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I'm currently in Arizona, where the sunshine is
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  Speaker 7: as hot as ever. Hot as hell, like they would say. But,
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  Speaker 7: you know, my life took a lot of ups and
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  Speaker 7: downs and valleys and ebbs and flows.
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  Speaker 6: But I've learned to heal through my writing.
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  Speaker 7: And that's how I started off in college.
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  Speaker 6: Writing, healing through the writing.
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  Speaker 7: Canvas on paper and just getting my thoughts out on
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  Speaker 7: paper so I can... get through my valleys and my mountaintops.
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  Speaker 7: And so, you know, I have three books and we'll
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  Speaker 7: talk more. Let's hear what he has to say, right?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of authors say they start writing to either
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  Speaker 1: just help them go through what they're going through or
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  Speaker 1: just to be an outlet. It's crazy how Something so
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  Speaker 1: beautiful can come from some of the craziest thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: we may have in our mind. It's crazy. So you
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  Speaker 1: said you started writing when you were in college, you said?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I did.
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  Speaker 7: My first book was a poetry book about 18 pieces
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  Speaker 7: of poems. And that comes from relationships, the poems. The
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  Speaker 7: impetus of it was a lot through relationships. You know,
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  Speaker 7: you get through your heartbreaks and your ups and downs and,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Identity crisis and just a value in yourself,
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  Speaker 7: you know And that came as I wrote I was
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  Speaker 7: healing at the time Having absentee father and dealing with
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  Speaker 7: some crisis in my own personal life I just started
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  Speaker 7: jotting down because I read a lot of African American
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  Speaker 7: literature in college classical literature and that was like one
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  Speaker 7: of my driving.
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  Speaker 6: Forces that caused me to start a.
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  Speaker 7: Opening up about literary uh learning and just enveloping myself
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  Speaker 7: and just creativity.
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  Speaker 1: Now see that's that's how did you feel with all
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  Speaker 1: that creativity was it shocking to you like I had
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  Speaker 1: all this in me like how did you feel when
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  Speaker 1: you started like everything started to come together when that creativity.
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  Speaker 7: How did you feel So one of my passions when
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  Speaker 7: I was a little girl, I always loved reading. One
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  Speaker 7: of my favorite, favorite books was a series of books
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  Speaker 7: was Nancy Drew.
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  Speaker 6: I love mystery. I love reading.
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  Speaker 7: And I was an avid reader from even like sixth grade.
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  Speaker 7: And so I would just pick up these books and
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  Speaker 7: I can explore the world, explore ideas and concepts and
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  Speaker 7: contents through reading. And so I even did storytelling when
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  Speaker 7: I was young. They used to have a competition with storytelling.
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  Speaker 7: So you would have to rehearse a whole book and
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  Speaker 7: then just tell the story through the library.
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  Speaker 6: And I fell in love with storytelling.
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  Speaker 7: And so I guess as I got older, I recognized
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  Speaker 7: that I'm a storyteller, you know, and God has given
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  Speaker 7: me that inherent ability to tell stories through creativity.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's crazy. That is crazy awesome. And you're a teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess. Let me guess. High school.
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  Speaker 7: No, I did a little bit of that through my
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  Speaker 7: journey in New York. I was a melting pot of elementary,
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  Speaker 7: middle school, and high school because I was a substitute teacher.
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  Speaker 6: So I did all the levels.
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  Speaker 7: However, at this current time, my niche is in middle
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  Speaker 7: school and fourth grade. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. How do y'all do it? I'm talking to you
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  Speaker 1: as a middle school mother. How do y'all do it?
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  Speaker 6: You see how short my hair is? And I always
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  Speaker 6: say I had the gray hair in between. It's hidden
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  Speaker 6: in there.
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  Speaker 7: I got a lot of color, but it's hidden. Every
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  Speaker 7: day I think I grow a little bit of gray
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  Speaker 7: hair more, you know?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: It's work.
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  Speaker 6: It's work.
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  Speaker 1: The elementary kids, I can understand. They're young. Their little
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  Speaker 1: minds are so mushy and it's taking up everything. High schools,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. They just feel like, you know, I got this.
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  Speaker 1: It's that middle school. I have an 11-year-old daughter. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell from a parent, thank you and
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  Speaker 1: God bless you.
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  Speaker 7: It takes a lot of guts and it takes a
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  Speaker 7: lot of patience, a lot of compassion, and.
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  Speaker 6: You have to be in it to win it.
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  Speaker 7: You have to be, you have to have a passion
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  Speaker 7: for it because you can't, you can't have, if you
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  Speaker 7: don't have a backbone as a teacher, you will quit
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  Speaker 7: in the middle of it, you know?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So what traits from your childhood did you bring along
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  Speaker 1: In your writing journey. So we know you're a teacher.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, that's a great question. How about from
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  Speaker 1: a teacher standpoint, did you bring any of those traits
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  Speaker 1: to your writing? Did that help in any type of way?
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  Speaker 7: Well, like we know, everything has content, right? And everything
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  Speaker 7: has context. Context and content work together. So as they
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  Speaker 7: teach you as educators, you have to understand what is
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  Speaker 7: the context? Why is this author writing this situation? Why
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  Speaker 7: is the narrator telling the story? From what perspective? And
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  Speaker 7: so as a teacher, I also examine myself. If I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to talk to my audience or give my audience
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  Speaker 7: any type of feedback or some new knowledge, I have
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  Speaker 7: to know from prior knowledge, what would my audience connect?
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  Speaker 7: How do they relate to what I'm talking about? You know,
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  Speaker 7: all of us have a story. We have a connection.
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  Speaker 7: It could be divorce. It could be rape. It could be,
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  Speaker 7: you know, suicide. Whatever the story is, we.
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  Speaker 6: Have to have some context and some content to relate.
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  Speaker 6: We are not living in an island.
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  Speaker 7: Some of us may have been born on the island,
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  Speaker 7: but we don't live on the island by ourselves.
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  Speaker 6: We have to have relationships. We have to be relatable
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  Speaker 6: and relevant.
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  Speaker 7: And so my story in this book that I wrote,
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  Speaker 7: this final devotion, it has a lot of relevance in relationship,
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  Speaker 7: in spirituality, in faith, in finances, in everything. So you
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  Speaker 7: have to understand what the gamut of life is bringing
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  Speaker 7: to you. And you make your bloopers, you make your mistakes,
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  Speaker 7: you have your downfalls, but you have to learn from them, right?
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  Speaker 6: And that's where the wisdom comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Well, since you said the book, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: bring out the book. Y'all know me. I am very
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  Speaker 1: big on book covers. I am a cover girl. If
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  Speaker 1: your cover grabs me, I am going to be looking.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all look at this cover. You cannot say anything wrong
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  Speaker 1: with this cover. It is like they say, written all
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  Speaker 1: over it. This is such a beautiful cover. Please tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes. So wisdom from above, when you see the people
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  Speaker 6: looking up.
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  Speaker 7: And they're like their head is towards the sky and
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  Speaker 7: out of the clouds. So out of the clouds, when
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  Speaker 7: I envisioned the book cover and I saw the title
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  Speaker 7: in my heart, I said, oh my God, you know,
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  Speaker 7: someone needs to value what God gives.
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  Speaker 6: And when you're.
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  Speaker 7: Finding decision-making skills, you can't just come from a place of,
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  Speaker 7: you know, frustration. Sometimes we are frustrated in our process
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  Speaker 7: of making decisions. But when God gives us insight and
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  Speaker 7: we put our minds to Christ, we get the value nuggets.
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  Speaker 6: We get the knowledge and we get the insight and
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  Speaker 6: it brings peace.
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  Speaker 7: So as you see the people looking up, they're looking
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  Speaker 7: for answers.
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  Speaker 6: And that answer comes from Christ. It comes from above,
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: I can't say anything like it's like what you would
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  Speaker 4: expect when you're in his presence especially how you have
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  Speaker 4: that you have the shades of blue and green but
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  Speaker 4: that direct shade of yellow that is shining on her
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  Speaker 4: face like he is like he's saying alright baby girl
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: You need me I know you need some answers but
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  Speaker 1: here you go let me just wrap you up in
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  Speaker 1: my presence and give you what you need. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting from the cover.
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  Speaker 6: That's it. You've got it, girl.
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  Speaker 7: You are the interpreter of interpreters.
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  Speaker 1: I love cover art. I love, when I read a book,
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  Speaker 1: I tell people, I look at the cover before I
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  Speaker 1: look at the synopsis. And people are like, Treece Willis says,
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  Speaker 1: don't judge a book by its cover. Well, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: talking to me because I'm going to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: there are times when I'm wrong and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: not too much. But it's a good chance. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to grab me. So while we are here and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about your book, here is your chance to get
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  Speaker 1: us know about Wisdom from Above.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a devotional and it's a daily devotional. We've
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  Speaker 7: heard about a lot of devotionals out there. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: there's many writers, many authors of devotional. But a devotional
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  Speaker 7: is something that you're able to ponder, meditate, reflect. You're
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  Speaker 7: able to see and identify, like, where is your life going?
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  Speaker 7: You know, you're able to journal. And so parts of
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  Speaker 7: this book, it really talks about how you the challenges
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  Speaker 7: we face every day.
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  Speaker 6: How can you live today? without breaking apart.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I will say for myself, there's day 23.
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  Speaker 7: It talks about friendship with God is demonstrated through loyalty, obedience,
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  Speaker 7: and allegiance.
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  Speaker 6: You know, day 24, your voice is not to be silenced.
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  Speaker 7: You know, a lot of times we are silenced by
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  Speaker 7: our problems. We are silenced by our identity crisis. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to read day 24 for you. Because day 24,
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  Speaker 7: I was a victim of being silenced. You know, the
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  Speaker 7: saying was, oh, a girl, a woman should be heard,
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  Speaker 7: seen and not heard.
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of times that goes into the fact where.
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  Speaker 7: Like, if you're an authority figure, you know, and you're
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  Speaker 7: a child, you should not talk so much. But everyone
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  Speaker 7: has a voice and God loves to hear our voice.
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  Speaker 7: And many times we are silenced because of insecurity. We
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  Speaker 7: are silenced because of depression. We're silenced because of.
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  Speaker 6: Competition and inferiority.
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  Speaker 7: And so I will go through day 24 and how
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  Speaker 7: that helped me is because that as I journeyed through
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  Speaker 7: my relationship with Christ and through my challenges of being suicidal,
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  Speaker 7: being you know, depressed, postpartum depression, I had.
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  Speaker 6: To come out of that silent.
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  Speaker 7: Position that, listen, you have an identity, you can be confident,
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  Speaker 7: you not be arrogant, but confident in that God has
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  Speaker 7: made you a daughter, a royal diadem in his kingdom,
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  Speaker 7: and you should not compare yourself like one of my
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  Speaker 7: sisters in the faith says comparison is the teeth of
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  Speaker 7: joy and much of us whether we are young middle-aged
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  Speaker 7: or old we compare ourselves too much with other people
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  Speaker 7: and it kills our our identity so like this the
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  Speaker 7: voice of silence is golden in the mirror of truth
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  Speaker 7: It says from James 119, Wherefore, my beloved, let every man.
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  Speaker 6: Be quick to listen, slow to speak. and slow anger.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of times we fill our voids with a
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  Speaker 6: lot of chatter.
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  Speaker 7: And chatter is not the same thing as having a
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  Speaker 7: voice of authority. It says chatter is when you place
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  Speaker 7: your ambitions over God's sovereignty, choosing your.
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  Speaker 6: Perspective over his eternal truth. And that's different than silence.
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  Speaker 7: Silence is when you're quiet enough to hear instructions, not
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  Speaker 7: that you're talking loud above the instructions.
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  Speaker 6: So chatter is a lot of noise. But silence has
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  Speaker 6: acquired authority.
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  Speaker 7: And so that makes a distinction when you're going through life.
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  Speaker 7: And there are many of us like, oh, I'm in my.
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  Speaker 6: 50s right now.
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  Speaker 7: And a lot of the kids say to me, oh, miss,
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  Speaker 7: you do not look as your age.
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  Speaker 6: I don't tell them my age.
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  Speaker 7: But, you know, many times you walk through and you
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  Speaker 7: go through life with relationships or through business or through vision.
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  Speaker 7: And you're like, OK, God. I don't have anything to say.
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  Speaker 7: Why am I being picked on to talk about something?
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  Speaker 7: I don't have the power to talk on that issue. But,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we have power in our voice.
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  Speaker 6: What types of chatter or noise are we overriding? Because
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  Speaker 6: a lot of times we look for the opinions of
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  Speaker 6: our friends, opinions.
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  Speaker 7: About parents, not that parents don't have an opinion on
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  Speaker 7: how to guide you, but when do you value yourself
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  Speaker 7: enough to come up to the table and say, okay,
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  Speaker 7: I can make a choice in how I conduct my life,
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  Speaker 7: my finances, my business, my value of how I.
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  Speaker 6: Hold my integrity.
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  Speaker 7: And many times right now in the world, people are
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  Speaker 7: not having integrity in their relationship. They don't have integrity
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  Speaker 7: in business. They don't have integrity in their relationship with God.
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  Speaker 6: They don't have integrity in how they conduct their child
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  Speaker 6: for life. And so.
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  Speaker 7: We look to other people to hold our integrity together.
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  Speaker 7: But God is like, no, you have to go back
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  Speaker 7: to the scriptures, go back to the.
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  Speaker 6: Word of the Lord and really measure your life with scriptures.
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  Speaker 6: Because if you.
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  Speaker 7: No, if you're faking the funk, and a lot of
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: times we have this mask on and we're faking the funk,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: and that's old school. We're faking the funk, but we
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: are not bringing our true self to the table, you know?
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  Speaker 6: And our voice, true voice.
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  Speaker 7: Is not being spoken because we are putting on an
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  Speaker 7: image for someone else.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's what Day 24 talks about.
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  Speaker 1: You said so much. You said so much. It's crazy
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: because I remember having to speak to my daughter about
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: having a voice. She used to get bullied when she
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: was younger. And I had to tell her, I said,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you know what? The same way God gave everyone else
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  Speaker 1: their voice, he's giving you your voice. And only person
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: who can speak up for You is you. And I say,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: when you start to speak up for yourself, you will
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: see things start to happen. And she did it. I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: remember getting a call from, they call it the behavior intervening.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Y'all know that word. Y'all know. Interventionist.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: There you go. And she was like, I saw the number.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what happened? She said, oh, no, no, no.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Nothing bad happened. I just want you to know your daughter.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: spoke up for herself for the first time, and I've
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: never seen her done that. And she said, my mom
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and my God. I said, okay, cool. I said, clock it.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead, boo.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: But you're so right. So you gave us that nugget.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: If there's one other day in the wisdom from above,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: one other daily devotion that you could take for that,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: that you would tell your readers this, This one I
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: need you to pay attention to. What other devotional day
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: would it be?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the biggest one I think that's helped me and
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: is still helping me right now because, you know, you
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: have misunderstandings in your relationship, whether it be a husband-wife,
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: whether it be a platonic relationship with a friend, you know, daughter, mother,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: you know, it's There's a lot of hurting issues that
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: people bring in relationships.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: And they'll say, oh, the emotional baggage, right?
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: But this one, day 25, it says, love, the metamorphosis
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: to healing inexplicably. I look at that word and I'm
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: a genius with words, right?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: I love playing with words.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: And I think it's something God has given to me,
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: just like to learn to break words down and to.
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  Speaker 6: Get in the word. Inexplicably means that it cannot be explained.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Sometimes we try to explain ourselves, explain our love, explain
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  Speaker 7: our integrity, explain our identity to people.
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  Speaker 6: And some things you just can't explain.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: So love is that transformational piece that will heal us.
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  Speaker 7: Bottom line, it just heals us. And if you learn
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: to forgive, love has forgiveness. It has letting go. It has, oh,
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: they say, oh, I can forgive but not forget. Love,
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: it wipes out some things that just you should not
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: even bring it up again and again. You can know
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: it truly when you have loved someone or loved yourself,
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: when you can't keep bringing up the issue over and
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: over again and bring it in the face of the
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: new situation. It's just like if you, you know, your
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: husband hurt you, you know, went out and cheated on you.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: And, you know, that situation has a sting to it, right?
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: It says love is the redeeming character of God that
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: transforms open hearts and build godly trust. I've had trust issues.
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  Speaker 6: All my life.
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: And my metamorphosis process, even with my mom, my dad,
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: I used to be very angry with my dad because
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: he was an absentee father. And I only got healed
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: through that relationship with that wound of a father when
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: I had to write a letter to him. I wrote
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: a letter to my father through the help of my
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: spiritual counselor. She was Jewish, and that's when I was
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: in New York. And I had to write the letter,
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: letting go all of that anger.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: I was a very angry young girl.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: And the Lord had to tell me, you're very angry,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: you're very bitter, and you have to learn to love
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  Speaker 7: your father.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Because he had his own voids and his own issues.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: And he was trying to love you from a shallow
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: place that he did not have. He didn't have the capacity.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: But if you keep on that wound of enabling that
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: wound of unforgiveness, how could you repair? And so I
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: had to say, love is the connection between heaven and
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: earth and binding the heart of God to your purpose.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: And our purpose is to show up full. And a
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: lot of us don't show up full because we have
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: not engaged in the process of the healing process of love.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And that's true. A lot of us have not, have
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: not done that because we take situations from the past
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and we bring them into the new thing and then
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that new thing's become a situationship and then that doesn't
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: work and so then you're taking that and you're going
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to the next one where you should have left it
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: back there so you are so right.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Yes And it affects our business life. It affects our
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: spiritual life.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: It affects our day-to-day interaction, our careers.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Because you'll show up and you'll be toxic in your career.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: And you'll be like, nothing is working for me in
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: my career.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Because you're bringing that part of you into the career. Facts. Facts.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Facts and you wonder why it's not working because you're
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: bringing that toxicity into something. Oh, girl. Let me ask
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you a question. I really feel that this book can
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be given to anyone. But who would you consider your
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: target audience for this book?
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll say.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: families, and especially husbands and wives, and young adults that's
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: going through this metamorphosis of finding their identity. It's a
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: book for building your identity in Christ. And knowing your
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: journey in life, because we are so competitive. We live
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: in a society that's, oh, you know, if your name
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: is not in the spotlight or, you know, if you
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: don't have this much likes on your Facebook or this much.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: Twitter or this much on your TikTok you know then
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: you're nothing and it really hones in on young adults
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: trying to find their place in the role in society
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: or their role in life and they feel that they're
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: out of place you.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Know It's so true because this generation that's coming in
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: literally are not able to stand on their own. They
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: are trending. They want clicks and likes and comments. If
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: no one comments and nobody talks about it, then I'm
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the oddball. I'm the boring one.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And to this day, my daughter does not do social
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: media because I do not want her to live her
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: life for the lights.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Yes. Yes. That's good. That's powerful.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want her to do that. Even with me,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I may put out a post and no one may
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: like it. No one may say anything about it. That's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: absolutely fine because it's something that I wanted to do.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want her to say, oh, they like this,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: so I need to do that again. No.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: They don't like.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: People are not showing up as their authentic self. Sorry
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: to cut you.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: No, you go ahead, because you were about to say it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, people not showing up as their authentic self, because
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: there's a lot of masking going on.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: And we need to unmask ourselves.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Peel it back. Peel it back. For once in a lifetime.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: It's like, yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: Be.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Be yourself. And I have to tell my daughter, don't
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: do things for other people. Be yourself, you know? And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: so I tried to put her in a dress one day.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That was like the worst thing ever. And then I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: had to, she's like, I don't like dress. I said,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: but it's a dress. I don't like dress, but it.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And then something clicked in my mind saying, didn't you
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: tell her to be herself? She doesn't like you. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I said, you know what? Well, let's find us a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: nice little outfit. And then we go. And then I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: had to realize that she's just not a dress girly.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So I call her my little sporty spice. My daughter is.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: The same thing. She loves baggy pants. She loves ties.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: She just being her, you know. And I used to
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: go through.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: The same thing. Wearing a skirt. I bought her skirts.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: I bought her leather skirts. I bought her this. The
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: girl don't want it. No, it's seven o'clock.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Sitting in the back of the closet, not even the front,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: in the back of the closet, tucked behind everything. And
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why you don't weigh this? I don't like it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: Okay, cool.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right. So there is a segment that
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: we have at SC Bookhouse and Friends, and it's called
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the fun questions. So I'm going to put you back
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: in the hot seat real quick. And we're going to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: do the fun questions. Now, the fun questions have to
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: do with music and television movies. And you may say, why?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: When I work in the library and people ask me
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: for recommendations, I said, what is the last thing you've
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: looked at on TV? And they was like, why do
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you ask that? I said, because what you look at
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: on TV is nine times out of 10 what you're
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: going to read. And they was like, I was like, yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: because the TV ain't nothing but the book and video.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: So, okay.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: So, welcome to the fun questions.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: So, Lifetime called and they said, you know what? We
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: love your book, Wisdom from Above. And we love to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: make it one of our weekly movies. But we have
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to find individuals to play some of the parts. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of course there has to be the leading lady in
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the movie. Who would be the leading lady in your movie?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But here's a stipulation. She has to be an old
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: school gospel artist. So now when I say old school,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Yolanda Adams, CeCe Winans, Shirley Caesar, Albertina Walker,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: them old school. So who would she be and why?
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I think I'd take it back to Shirley Caesar.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: You know, she is such a gem. And she's such
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: a diamond in the rough. But she be bringing it hard.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: She go gutso with the passion. And she's a fly
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: old school gal.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I love Shirley Caesar. She did this duet. And not
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of people listened to it. Did I think
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: this was Shirley Caesar trying to show her young side?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It was her and Ty Trebek. And it was like
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: some type of awards. And Shirley Caesar rapped. I was like, yo,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: stop playing. And she was rapping with Ty Trebek. And
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is crazy. You bring it old
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: school and new school.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: New school.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And you bringing it together. And you should see people,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: audience like, oh, look at Shirley. She got some bars
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: on her. So I love Shirley. It's just something about her. Like,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I remember when Dolly Parton passed. Somebody said, somebody go
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: find Shirley. Somebody go find Patty. And they were naming
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: all these old school stuff. But where's Smokey? Where's Smokey at?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I said, y'all is so old.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: You know, they got the power and the passion. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: they put the mic, drop the mic. They be dropping
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: the mic all the time. They just living up, you know?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: And when she was with the caravan and she first
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: came out, I started looking at YouTube videos of that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And I remember my grandma would always play to us
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night when we were getting ready for church.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: To get ready for Sunday morning? Yes. Okay. So the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: leading lady would be Shirley Caesar. But now we need
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: a leading man. So we had the ladies for the music.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: But now your favorite. I don't like to say this,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: but that is that one minister that you have to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: stop and be like, listen here. What you say? Who
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: would that be?
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: So he has to be old school?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: No, he does not have to be old school.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Okay. So, and then he has to be a minister?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Well, let's open this one up. Who would be your man?
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Huh? I said, please, please, please.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Let's open.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: It up. I don't want to put a restriction on it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Who would be your male leading man? for your book?
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, as hot off the press, it has
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: to be Idris Elba, right?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: See, look ahead, look ahead, look ahead. Look ahead. Fire
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it up, man.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Fire it up.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I don't know what God was thinking when
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: he made that man.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I know his wife out there listening. A method man?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: He's hot off the press. Did you have another good
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: mood like that?
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: He got some depth to him. Yes, he does.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: She was like, look, God, I don't know what type
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of mood you were in that day, but can we
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: repeat that mood so we can get another one of him?
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: I know, I know, I know.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So we got Shirley Caesar as the leading lady. We
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: have Ildris Elba as the leading man. But of course,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: all movies... have to have their theme song. That's title track.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: What would you give the title track for your book?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And it can be any song, any genre.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: Well, if we're taking it back old school and we
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: want to bring it into the new school, I got
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: to go with R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: That is what you want from me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Show me
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: a little respect.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I understand. I got you. I got you. I see that.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I see that. Because when you get that one, that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: what's sent from God. Once you got on that full armor,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the wisdom that he gave you, that peace of mind,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you have nothing but the command, the respect. They have
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: nothing but to give you that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: So.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: You got it. You got it. It is.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: You know, it's nothing but just having that genuine in
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: identity and people just will value your life. You don't
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: even have to show up in the room and say
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: a lot. But when you just walk in the presence,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: just you command the presence.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: It is. So we got Shirley Caesar, leading lady. Ildeus Elba,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: leading man. Respect, theme song. But of course, Lifetime said,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you know what? We got to put you in the movie.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: We got to have somebody like you. And you know,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of the authors just do cameos, okay? But
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: this time they said, you know what? We want somebody
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to play you because this book here, we want to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: sound like the words are coming from you. Who would
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you give the honor to play you?
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: So I would give this to Raji Henson. Yes. Empire.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: The Empire lady because she just bring it real.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: She bring it home and she cuts no business to
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: tell it as it is.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: She did not play with them in Empire. She can
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: go from nice nasty to cuddly to in charge to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the word that we don't say to offers but it
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: rhymes with which you guys know i'm talking about all
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: in one episode but you know what by the end
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: of that episode you respect her even.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: More yes yes that's nightly so.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You did that girl You survived the fun questions. See
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: you another day.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: You caught me. You caught me.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: You caught me on the sidelines right there. I didn't
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: expect all of this, but I guess I have my
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: armor ready, prepared and fully loaded.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: It's just a chance for the readers to see the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: authors think off the top of their head. And I
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: will say you did a great job, Mikey. Thank you
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: so much. But before we leave, What would you like
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to say to your readers that you already have, the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: readers that you're going to gain, and the readers that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: will see this in the future and be like, wow,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: what would you want to say to them?
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: That, you know, we all going to life. We all
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: in this life together, we are life in. But remember this,
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: you know, the journey is not the final destination. You
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: are in this process and the Lord loves you.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: The Lord is.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: Looking to make you that gem that you was born for.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: But let's get through all of the charcoal, the dirt.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: And all of the grimy parts of life with some confidence.
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: Go to the word of the Lord. Go to your
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: identity and get to know Christ. Because with the crisis,
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: Christ helps to alleviate through the crisis.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: The sting of the crisis.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: And so take the journey, go through the process, but
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: pick up this book and get some wisdom.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Because without it, you will have.
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: No roadmap and you'll fall into a period of depression
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: if you don't have a roadmap. The Bible is your
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: basic instructions before leaving earth. We need wisdom. We cannot
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: function in life without it. So that's my leaving it
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: right there.
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  Speaker 1: So since we need the wisdom, how about you tell
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  Speaker 1: us where we can get your book and where we
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: can follow you on social media?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: So Wisdom From Above can be purchased on Amazon.com. I'm
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: sure you can see the link in the bottom there, e-book.
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  Speaker 7: It's in the e-book, in Audible, and also a hard,
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  Speaker 7: soft cover. You can get it from Amazon.com. Also, I'm
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  Speaker 7: just going to expand it out. I'm trying to work
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  Speaker 7: on getting it into Barnes & Noble and some other
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: featured bookstores. However, if you need more information, you can
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  Speaker 7: go to Dominion Publishing on Instagram. That's where you can
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  Speaker 7: get some more information and you can contact me for
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: some private correspondence.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you guys have been paying attention, you will
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: see all the information is scrolling at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the screen, even where you can get the book and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: where you can follow Dominion Publishing. Thank you for being
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: with us tonight, Curly. Thank you so much for dropping
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the wisdom.
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  Speaker 6: I love it. I love your podcast. I love the background.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: I love your backstage.
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  Speaker 7: You just give me some passion to keep going and
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: doing what we do as artists. So thank you for
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: having the opportunity to be on.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: Your podcast today. And I appreciate you.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I thank you. Thank you. So look, you guys, as
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  Speaker 1: another author in the book, y'all go grab wisdom from above.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: So y'all know how I do it. This book will
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: be on SC Book Gals and Friends under the blog
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: with this podcast. So I will have the link that
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: will send you directly to Amazon so you can go
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: ahead and purchase your book. And guess what? For our
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Kindle Unlimited ladies, it's on Kindle Unlimited. So think about it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Y'all, go grab it. It's something that you need. That
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Daily motivation, that daily wisdom, that daily nuggets that will
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: help you through. Because sometimes when you wake up and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: your feet hit the ground, you read a book like this,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Wisdom from Above. You read books like this and you
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: will be shocked how it helps you get through the day.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And you will not realize it until you go back home,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: you look on your bed or you look on your
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: phone and you look in your tablet and you see
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and you'll be like, you know what?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: God, you know what you were doing today. So go
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: grab this one. Another book in the books. I'm going
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to see you guys next week, Tuesday, for another author. Remember,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as an old book because not
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: everybody has read every book. I will see you guys
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: next week, Tuesday. New author, new book. Bye.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: We are the change. Welcome to the cruise. Come on, man.