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Better Together: How Authors Win with Collaboration | FT Shatara Clark & Ashley Monique | EP103 · Jess Ask

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Speaker 1: Te Yo, it's your girl, Jessica and Smith and you
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Speaker 1: already know that you've entered the safe space for influencers
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Speaker 1: to decompress, have fun and just ask God for another
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Speaker 1: You already know what it is and then you know
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Speaker 1: it's about to get real.
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Speaker 5: So be sure to show your girl the love and like,
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Speaker 5: come in scrabe God.
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Speaker 6: For another day. Hey, Hey, I know we could be
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Speaker 6: another way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, spread his spread just it ain't fed. No, the
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Speaker 3: table is.
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Speaker 1: Spread, Come on in where the table is spread. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the table, like, why you're gonna fed the table?
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Speaker 3: What the what?
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Speaker 1: I've always said? But I get it this timele of
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Speaker 1: spread like this is spread? Okay, well let me try
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Speaker 1: it again. Come on in where the table is spread
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Speaker 1: and the lord, the Lord's go here, I know.
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Speaker 3: Waiting at the table. You already know what it is.
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Speaker 3: Time it is.
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Speaker 1: Y'all desertates correcting me, But that was a good correct
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Speaker 1: because I've always said fed.
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Speaker 3: But you know, when you.
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Speaker 1: Listen to stuff as a child, Yeah, y'all ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: see deserted day And I'm gonna tell y'all win in
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Speaker 1: a minute. But you know how y'all see you when
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Speaker 1: you think of something as a child like. Matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorites was one of the good old
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Speaker 1: Baptist ms. You know that the song was a charge
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Speaker 1: to keep I have a god to growing fine. But
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Speaker 1: I know that was said, Hey Charles. I was wondering
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Speaker 1: who said Charles, but I ain't know who Charles was.
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Speaker 1: Now that don't make sense. Fed makes more sense than
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Speaker 1: you know. You know, y'all, y'all already know. It's a
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Speaker 1: part of every time we show up every week. Okay,
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Speaker 1: if you don't know where you're landing, you learning it.
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Speaker 1: Just as the podcast, we create safe spaces for influences,
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Speaker 1: decompress and have fun to guess what, just as just
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Speaker 1: as yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, my girl. You already know y'all love this song,
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Speaker 3: So let's get it. Desil Rate eight, desil Rate eight.
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Speaker 1: Deliraate Deli.
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Speaker 3: But that's not desil rate. That's me. That's delil rate.
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Speaker 7: Is not used to not.
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Speaker 3: Being on the count. No, she back there playing.
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Speaker 1: But I tell you know, you already know how I
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Speaker 1: feel about it. But it's okay though.
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Speaker 3: Because it's the one time yill with him. We're in here, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, I guess, but before we get into what we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get into today, you already know what time it is.
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Speaker 3: What time is it?
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Speaker 1: Desiraate Community high I like community high like community highlight.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We need to make a song with it, because we
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Speaker 1: always gotta make a song because it's it just ain't
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Speaker 1: there yet. The Holy Spirit had you know, just produce
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Speaker 1: release He's gonna release it or something. But today's community Highlight.
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Speaker 1: It's special. You know what I'm saying. I always say that.
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Speaker 1: I think I say that every week. But it don't
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Speaker 1: matter because it's always specially you give what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Listen this person. I am really excited because she is
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Speaker 1: a new member of Just Ask that Just Ask community,
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Speaker 1: not just the community.
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Speaker 3: But the just Ask team. Okay, they listen, Smith got
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Speaker 3: a team, whole team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to act. Okay, the Lord said
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Speaker 1: help for real, all right. And this young lady, y'all
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Speaker 1: have seen her on this platform before.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't see the episode, you gotta go back
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Speaker 1: to it because it was so good. Okay, our girl.
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Speaker 3: Jay Lob.
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Speaker 1: Little Jaylor, you already know what time it exists. It's
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Speaker 1: time to go. I hear the Lord. I just heard
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit just say that it's time to go. Sis,
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Speaker 1: It's time to go. Go ye there for and and
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Speaker 1: just be what God already called you to be. Is
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Speaker 1: no no more time but to me, it is no
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Speaker 1: more time to second guess. It's time to give up
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Speaker 1: and go. You are so powerful, you are so annointed,
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Speaker 1: you are so brilliant. God is really like I'm really
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Speaker 1: seeing like almost like I'm not scientific scientific, but it's
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Speaker 1: almost like the why is the word neurons?
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Speaker 3: Because what is a neurun What is a nerd? Y'all
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Speaker 3: know what a neuralun is?
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Speaker 7: I don't know's.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like someone what to do with about it.
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Speaker 1: I just see it's almost like God has given you
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Speaker 1: special neurons. We're gonna look that up. I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: trust Holy.
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Speaker 3: Spirit on what that is.
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Speaker 1: But it's almost like a specification of like it is.
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Speaker 3: It's only belongs to you.
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Speaker 1: You the only one that got the juice, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't do it, nobody else will. He has made
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Speaker 1: you for a time such as this, and so good girl,
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Speaker 1: your DNA is.
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Speaker 3: Needed for now.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, your DNA is needed for now. So
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Speaker 1: I'm super excited for you. I'm super excited for what
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Speaker 1: God is doing for you. For He has to plan
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Speaker 1: for you, not your plan, but his plan. And it's
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Speaker 1: I'll prevail in the name of Jesus. So y'all give
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Speaker 1: it up for my girl.
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Speaker 3: Give it up for my girl. Question.
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Speaker 1: It's a specialized cell that formed the foundation of the
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Speaker 1: nervous system. They are responsible for receiving, processing, and transmitting
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Speaker 1: electrical and chemical signals throughout the body. And that's a
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Speaker 1: new roon jalo, that's a new run Amen. If you
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Speaker 1: want someone on their word, just call me. Just just
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Speaker 1: diwn my number. Okay, y'all, I think today is special
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Speaker 1: and I'm kind of excited. I'm kind of excited because
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Speaker 1: I got questions, I got, I got questions and curiosities.
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Speaker 3: Okay, y'all just saw through desert rays of showing. I
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Speaker 3: guess before I introduced them.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna be long with it because I
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Speaker 1: really feel like it's three of us, and y'all know
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Speaker 1: we normally do one on one, but they stretched me today.
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Speaker 3: They stretched me that I told them. I was like,
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Speaker 3: I don't know how it's gonna work, but it's gonna work,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Because the g O D is handling situation, but these
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Speaker 1: these young ladies are partnering in something that's I think
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Speaker 1: that's just so phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: Right, one of my, one of my, one of these
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Speaker 3: young ladies, we go.
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Speaker 1: Back like fo flex Okay, and I'm really excited to
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Speaker 1: have her on the show because she's doing some phenomenal
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Speaker 1: things and I'm looking forward to getting to know the
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Speaker 1: other young ladies. So I'm just gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 1: say their names and we're gonna get right into it.
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Speaker 3: I got my girl to my immediate love.
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Speaker 1: Miss Shatara Tie Talks Club, and right next to her,
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Speaker 1: I have the beautiful, the beautiful actually Monie. Y'all, they
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Speaker 1: are doing something phenomenal things and we're gonna get right
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Speaker 1: into it because I feel like they're gonna ask answer a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of questions that I have. But I feel like
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Speaker 3: the audience has too.
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Speaker 1: How y'all doing Shatara in the middle, Ashley on the end, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we got to do you do.
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Speaker 3: This my first time doing I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about it. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I feel like dudes, both flex baby both. You
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Speaker 1: have evolved, Okay you haven't. No, I gotta go ahead
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Speaker 1: and get off my chest. I'm gonna say it with
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Speaker 1: my chicks. Okay, receive it. You have evolved, You've been
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Speaker 1: I knew you when you were teaching them baby kids.
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Speaker 3: I'm just pa.
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Speaker 1: And so to see you in full entrepreneurship doing what
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Speaker 1: God has really called you do it is wonderful. How
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Speaker 1: are you? How how has the entrepreneurship been? Like, let's
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Speaker 1: let me before we get into that, tell the people
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Speaker 1: who you are. Let's just let's get to where you're from,
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Speaker 1: what you're doing now, and then we'll get into the questions.
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Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna ask to go all right, So, like
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Speaker 3: Jes saying, I'm shatar.
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Speaker 1: Disclaimer, I'm not full time entrepreneur because I do work,
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Speaker 1: but I work remote, Okay, So entrepreneurship takes on a
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Speaker 1: huge chunk of what I do. So to put it
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Speaker 1: in a nutshell or maybe not, I am the owner
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Speaker 1: of a for profit Tie Rights.
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Speaker 3: TI Rights is a all things writing company.
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Speaker 1: We publish books, we do resumes, we do bios, we
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Speaker 1: do all things writing, like I said, and then I
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Speaker 1: also have my passion. My love has always been Tie Talks.
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Speaker 1: Ty Talks is my nonprofit that's all about empowering women.
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Speaker 1: I love everything about women and I want to see
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Speaker 1: women grow and flourish and be who God calls them
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Speaker 1: to be. And that's what TI Talks does. We bring
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Speaker 1: women together through workshops, through forums, through fellowship opportunities, through
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Speaker 1: networking opportunities, and give them that chance to come together,
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Speaker 1: network with other women, learn grow and become who they
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Speaker 1: desire to be without anything hindering them.
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Speaker 3: So that's pretty much who I am.
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Speaker 1: I was a classroom teacher for ten years separated from
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Speaker 1: that in twenty twenty two, and by trade, I'm now
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Speaker 1: a grant evaluator in school systems, so I go in
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Speaker 1: and evaluate grants that school systems get.
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Speaker 3: So that's what I do. Awesome, awesome, thank you for
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Speaker 3: sharing that.
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Speaker 1: Now, Ashley, this is our first time meaning SIS and
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Speaker 1: you are gorgeous playing it.
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Speaker 3: I love, but I love the partner, y'all love seeing
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Speaker 3: you work with SYS.
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Speaker 1: Tell us a little about yourself because I know you
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Speaker 1: have your own business like consulting you. It's almost like
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Speaker 1: you're dealing with the total woman is as well, but
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Speaker 1: just through some different avenues. Can you tell us a
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Speaker 1: little bit about yourself?
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Speaker 7: Definitely?
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Speaker 8: So of course I'm Ashley Monique and I have two
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Speaker 8: facets about me like faint and let me just say this,
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Speaker 8: and the reason why our policy is because the Lord
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Speaker 8: was definitely speaking to me. I'm that way because of him.
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Speaker 8: Everything that I do right now I had no plans
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Speaker 8: for come on, and I didn't have any desire for either.
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Speaker 8: But every time I speak about anything that I do,
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Speaker 8: I have to give the glory to the Lord because
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Speaker 8: if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even be in
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Speaker 8: this place. I'd be a special agent with the FBI
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Speaker 8: right now, because that's exactly what I was working towards
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Speaker 8: and the Lloyd had to shut me down at the
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Speaker 8: end of my process. But just to kind of give
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Speaker 8: you an overview of me all together, I am a
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Speaker 8: community activist, I'm a professor, I'm a coach, I'm an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 8: and the list goes on my pride and enjoy. Like
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Speaker 8: Shator says, it's change and Change is my non profit
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Speaker 8: organization that I started in twenty eighteen. And like I said,
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Speaker 8: I never had passions on starting a non profit organization.
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Speaker 8: When my special agent opportunity got shut.
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Speaker 7: Down, yeah, change came about.
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Speaker 8: And I literally was in my conference room yesterday just
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Speaker 8: walking around and I was like, my goodness, if it
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Speaker 8: went for you shut down that opportunity, Lord like this,
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Speaker 8: none of this stuff would be And at the time
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Speaker 8: I didn't see like I thought it was just detrimental.
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Speaker 7: Like I remember when I got to my last step.
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Speaker 8: And I don't really know if you all know about
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Speaker 8: how the process works for the NBI, but you had
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Speaker 8: to go through a series of tasks.
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Speaker 3: I can't imagine because it's the FBI.
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Speaker 8: And right when I got to the er last step
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Speaker 8: to go to Quantico, which is the school before you
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Speaker 8: go out into the field.
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Speaker 7: I failed something.
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Speaker 8: And with the FBI, once you feel that one thing,
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Speaker 8: you can never go back.
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Speaker 7: So I would have to go in if.
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Speaker 8: I wanted to go in today, I couldn't go in,
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Speaker 8: and as an agent, I would have to go in
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Speaker 8: as an analyst, and I.
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Speaker 7: Don't do second best period.
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Speaker 8: But I was literally just walking around the conference room
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Speaker 8: yesterday and I was like something that I thought was
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Speaker 8: so detrimental at the time, Like I remember getting the
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Speaker 8: getting in my car and screaming, like I was crying.
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Speaker 7: And I'm like, Lord, I've never failed anything.
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Speaker 8: But at the time I thought it was feeling, but
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Speaker 8: it was actually a process that the Lord had to
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Speaker 8: take me through to get me to the next step.
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Speaker 8: So after that, I birth Changed Change is a non
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Speaker 8: profit organization focusing on helping underprivileged families through community mobilization,
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Speaker 8: community based education, mentoring, and resources. So through this non
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Speaker 8: profit organization, we have a plethora of services that we
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Speaker 8: offer to the entire family, from senior aerobics classes to
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Speaker 8: barbershop fifty five for unhaused seniors over that age, they
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Speaker 8: can get free cuts. We have a food pantry of
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Speaker 8: clothing Clause, and we mentor and tutoring, and we partner
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Speaker 8: with TIE Talks on a lot of our education initiatives
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Speaker 8: as well as you'a being on a mission. So with
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Speaker 8: me feeling and that opportunity, this opened the door for
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Speaker 8: me not to only help community members and these, but
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Speaker 8: even students, Like we have students that we intern and
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Speaker 8: we mentor throughout the process. So when the Lord allows
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Speaker 8: you to get to a place and you feel like
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Speaker 8: you're halted for a reason.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, now, you ain't gonna say for a reason.
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Speaker 7: So that's changed.
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Speaker 8: And then I also have my four profit which is
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Speaker 8: Ashley Monique and that's my book ventures. I do coaching,
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Speaker 8: profit startup and so forth. But everything I do is
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Speaker 8: in a help and form in some way, whether it's
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Speaker 8: me teaching those students, or me helping community members, or
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Speaker 8: me helping businesses, entrepreneurs up and coming entrepreneurs that want
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Speaker 8: to start a nonprofit organization.
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Speaker 7: I have vendor fears where.
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Speaker 8: I allow smaller businesses to market their products and services
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Speaker 8: like in their local models and stuff, because everybody isn't
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Speaker 8: fortunate enough to have a up breaking mortar, right, So
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Speaker 8: I do try, like I said, in every aspect of
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Speaker 8: my businesses to help.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. That that just feeled me up. Don't she
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Speaker 1: on it and don't play.
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Speaker 3: With no but no, that's great.
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Speaker 1: And I heard you say that you utilize TI talks
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Speaker 1: for services.
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Speaker 3: Is that how y'all got started? Partnership? Like, how did
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Speaker 3: we meet?
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Speaker 1: It's actually not so we had known each other a
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Speaker 1: number of years when both of our books came out
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Speaker 1: in the same year. I released my book in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: actually released our book in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 3: So after that, you know, we would talk in passing.
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Speaker 3: We kind of shit. We knew we shared the same passion.
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Speaker 1: Social media showed us that we both were interested in
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Speaker 1: helping people nonprofit work. We both were authors. It was
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Speaker 1: kind of like we were going down the same path.
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Speaker 1: And so we were talking one day and Astley were like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: how would you like to have a book signing together?
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Speaker 1: Like us come together, have a book sign and invite
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Speaker 1: the public out, schedule a space to have it, which
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Speaker 1: ended up being the library and Montgomery and we did it.
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Speaker 1: We did the book signing and we had to think
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Speaker 1: of a name to kind of put the flyer out there,
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Speaker 1: and so we were like, let's call it Better Together,
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Speaker 1: because we really are better together. We can if we
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Speaker 1: can come together and work together as women in a
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Speaker 1: coming space on coming ground, we can get a lot
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Speaker 1: done and say this and I love to say it
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Speaker 1: when people ask us about our partnership and how we
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Speaker 1: work together and how we've done it for so many years.
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Speaker 3: One thing for sure.
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Speaker 1: Is we respect who each other, who we are as individuals. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't try, like I said earlier, she's a morning person.
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Speaker 7: She's an early riser.
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Speaker 3: I am not.
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Speaker 1: She does not force me to try to be one.
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Speaker 1: She'll text me in the early in the morning and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: I know you're not up yet, just respond when you
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Speaker 1: get up. That's respecting that boundary in that space that
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Speaker 1: I'm in, and not trying to say, girl, you need
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Speaker 1: to start getting up earlier because you know the sun
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Speaker 1: rise at this time and everybody want to go. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't do that, and I don't try to change her either,
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Speaker 1: So it works. But I said all that to say
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Speaker 1: we started the Better Together signing then, and then we
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Speaker 1: kept talking about it, and then she was like, well,
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Speaker 1: what if we helped other authors who are not so
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Speaker 1: comfortable with having book signings. There's so many authors and
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Speaker 1: I know they published their books and then I'm like, hey,
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Speaker 1: how you doing. Haven't seen the book in a while,
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Speaker 1: and they kind of just put it to the side.
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Speaker 1: They don't have a signing, they don't do anything. And
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Speaker 1: so we started the book tour where we reached out
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Speaker 1: to authors who had published books and maybe not had
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Speaker 1: a sign and yet, and we went to their cities
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Speaker 1: and set up the signing absolutely free of charge and
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Speaker 1: did that with them. And so it was just a
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Speaker 1: conversation and we started reaching out, we started booking spaces
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Speaker 1: with their assistance, and it.
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Speaker 3: Just took off.
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Speaker 1: So do y'all normally like y'all set up in the
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Speaker 1: libraries or how are you guys?
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Speaker 3: Funny? Because it is this a non profit too? Because
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Speaker 3: y'all a nonprofit? Y'all? You got your number, and I mean,
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Speaker 3: the non profit is here and y'all are doing very
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Speaker 3: well at it.
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Speaker 1: Is this considered a non profit or for propert let's
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Speaker 1: let's or isn't.
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Speaker 7: It's just initiative.
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Speaker 3: Okay, it's initiative.
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Speaker 1: Okay, teach me because okay, curious because I'm curing and
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Speaker 1: let's just be real with this, because sometimes we feel
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Speaker 1: like we always got to put a non profit dis
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Speaker 1: or for profit dis or whatever, and it just can't be.
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Speaker 3: I just want to help somebody out. We ain't got
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Speaker 3: to do We gotta be doing this together.
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Speaker 1: We marketed it, but this is what it is, and
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Speaker 1: this I mean, we have to do anything. So I'm
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Speaker 1: curious because everybody want to non profit, but it's apparently
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Speaker 1: my knowledge of it. It's a lot that goes into
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Speaker 1: none profits. Can y'all explain what I will say this
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Speaker 1: you have if you're gonna go with nothing but to
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Speaker 1: answer your question about better together, let me clear that up.
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Speaker 3: We look for.
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Speaker 1: Spaces that are free to have these signs, so we
18:24
Speaker 1: go to a coffee house, we negotiate to see if
18:27
Speaker 1: we can get it for free or for a small fee,
18:29
Speaker 1: or libraries and places like that. But it is an
18:32
Speaker 1: initiative and kind of a spin off of our for
18:34
Speaker 1: profits because if somebody buys books, we do make money, Okay,
18:37
Speaker 1: So we can't necessarily say it's none a profit because
18:39
Speaker 1: we are there to sell books, right, But I will
18:42
Speaker 1: say this, my little men, a nonprofit, make sure you
18:46
Speaker 1: love whatever it is you're delivering for free, because when
18:49
Speaker 1: you're reading those reviews and those surveys and people saying
18:53
Speaker 1: it should have been like this, it could have been
18:55
Speaker 1: better with this, and you know you did it for free,
18:57
Speaker 1: you have to love it to do it again.
19:00
Speaker 8: Even with our books, because we were read I hate
19:03
Speaker 8: to even say this.
19:04
Speaker 7: But it made me so mad.
19:05
Speaker 8: And the Lord has been talking to me about being
19:07
Speaker 8: silent in this season. So we were set up at
19:11
Speaker 8: a book firstival and I'm not gonna say where, and
19:14
Speaker 8: of course you know the people that come you have
19:16
Speaker 8: to talk to him and wout your book. I don't
19:17
Speaker 8: want to hear that. I don't want nothing to do
19:19
Speaker 8: with what you got going on. And I write devotionals.
19:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was like, yeah, actually, I ain't mad,
19:32
Speaker 1: she said, I write devotions you don't want.
19:33
Speaker 3: You don't want Jesus No.
19:35
Speaker 1: But the thing is, we already know that we don't
19:38
Speaker 1: fight against pleash and blood.
19:40
Speaker 3: So it's coming. I know what y'all.
19:43
Speaker 1: Okay, So I was praying about, like I said, Holy
19:46
Speaker 1: Spirit led leave this conversation, and the thing that keeps
19:50
Speaker 1: coming up, the scripture that keeps coming up, is that
19:51
Speaker 1: we perish for the lack of knowledge, right and I
19:53
Speaker 1: know that both. Now that I know that both of
19:56
Speaker 1: you guys are committed to to people expounding upon their
20:00
Speaker 1: knowledge and not just only having the knowledge, but acting
20:03
Speaker 1: upon the knowledge that they have.
20:05
Speaker 3: The enemy gonna come against that super hard. Like I
20:09
Speaker 3: ain't gonna never.
20:09
Speaker 1: Forget when I came to volunteer out of volunteer for
20:12
Speaker 1: tie talks now volunteer work when the college fan the
20:17
Speaker 1: first one.
20:18
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah I did that. I forgot what I was doing.
20:21
Speaker 3: But no, she I'm.
20:22
Speaker 1: Really seeing you and uh out in the streets and
20:27
Speaker 1: just being connecting to things with literacy and a lot
20:30
Speaker 1: of us we don't realize how much many people that
20:33
Speaker 1: really are not up to part.
20:37
Speaker 3: And being and being literate. Is that a good way
20:40
Speaker 3: to say that?
20:41
Speaker 1: Like in the reading comprehension and writing skills and personal
20:45
Speaker 1: development and character development, and it sounds like y'all coming together,
20:49
Speaker 1: nothing is left undone, and I'm I'm here for But
20:53
Speaker 1: it's one thing that I want to I wanna get
20:57
Speaker 1: into because she brought up how she got to her
21:00
Speaker 1: space of from the fbond stuff like that, how did
21:03
Speaker 1: you get into this space where you're so adamant about
21:07
Speaker 1: the words that we use and the writing and getting
21:10
Speaker 1: people to becoming an author, because you do that as well, right, right,
21:14
Speaker 1: So I think back when we met, just I don't
21:18
Speaker 1: think I had a book out and nothing.
21:19
Speaker 3: I think you just gathering people. Yeah I was.
21:22
Speaker 1: I was gathering people though, and that's something I've always
21:25
Speaker 1: done and still doing of course, through tour talks and
21:28
Speaker 1: all of that. So when I wrote the book though,
21:32
Speaker 1: like years ago, and of course I was an English teacher,
21:35
Speaker 1: so of course I liked to write and read. And
21:39
Speaker 1: after the book came out, a lot of people would
21:42
Speaker 1: just be down my door, how did you get this
21:44
Speaker 1: book published? I have a book in me. I want
21:46
Speaker 1: to write a book. I have no idea what to do,
21:47
Speaker 1: you know, just question questions after question, and I'm like, okay,
21:51
Speaker 1: I can help you. And I actually enjoyed the process.
21:54
Speaker 1: So it was nothing for me to take on the
21:56
Speaker 1: task of helping somebody else do it.
21:57
Speaker 3: But I had to figure out, like, wait, it's a business.
22:00
Speaker 1: I had no intentions on being a business owner ever.
22:03
Speaker 1: I was gonna work. I was gonna be a teacher
22:05
Speaker 1: of principal, run for superintendent, retire, run for school board.
22:09
Speaker 3: That was my life.
22:10
Speaker 1: Now somewhere maybe become a dean at a college, you know, education.
22:13
Speaker 1: I was gonna do that, and so all of a sudden,
22:17
Speaker 1: this business comes out of it, and I'm like, well,
22:19
Speaker 1: I think I got to legalize it, you know.
22:21
Speaker 3: So I legalize the business and that's what I'm doing.
22:24
Speaker 1: And then I go into twenty nineteen and I realized
22:27
Speaker 1: I'm not happy teaching anymore.
22:29
Speaker 3: And I had this conversation, Yeah, we did, and I
22:32
Speaker 3: was like, I'm just not happy.
22:34
Speaker 7: I'm not.
22:35
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, well, let me finish this, ad
22:36
Speaker 1: me and license, cause maybe I could just get a
22:38
Speaker 1: new job, find me a principal job, you know.
22:40
Speaker 3: Check it up a little bit. Did that. Still it
22:43
Speaker 3: wasn't working.
22:44
Speaker 1: And so I heard the Lord clearly say one day,
22:46
Speaker 1: because my old principal, he would come in my room
22:49
Speaker 1: every day and say something crazy or something he was
22:52
Speaker 1: going to do the next year.
22:54
Speaker 3: That was something that I did not want to be
22:55
Speaker 3: a part of at all. But he kept coming every
22:58
Speaker 3: day telling me.
22:59
Speaker 1: So it's the Lord was like, he's telling you what
23:02
Speaker 1: he's gonna do, So what are you gonna do? And
23:05
Speaker 1: you need to get serious about leaving because you say
23:07
Speaker 1: you're ready to go, but you're not serious. Because you
23:08
Speaker 1: haven't looked or applied for anything. And every time after that,
23:12
Speaker 1: every time he would come in my room, I'll be like, oh, okay, yeah,
23:15
Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea.
23:16
Speaker 3: For next year. Indeed dot com like every time you
23:20
Speaker 3: would leave out indeed.
23:21
Speaker 1: Dot cane us a job, state department and education like
23:25
Speaker 1: a And so finally I got an interview. I didn't
23:30
Speaker 1: even know hardly anything. I didn't I knew what grants were,
23:33
Speaker 1: I knew what evaluation meant, but I wasn't sure if
23:36
Speaker 1: I qualified for this job that I was interviewing for.
23:39
Speaker 1: And they were very comfortable on the interview, and I
23:42
Speaker 1: got comfortable, and so at the end I didn't know
23:44
Speaker 1: if I had gotten a job. I knew it was remote,
23:46
Speaker 1: and I knew it would give me the leniency I
23:48
Speaker 1: needed in my life at the time.
23:50
Speaker 3: You said something.
23:51
Speaker 1: And so the next day I got off of the job,
23:54
Speaker 1: scared to death because you're leaving a sure thing.
23:58
Speaker 7: This is a I'm a teacher.
24:00
Speaker 3: Sure I gotta retirement with your mama.
24:04
Speaker 7: You already because it's.
24:06
Speaker 3: Let me tell you about your mama.
24:08
Speaker 1: She say what she want to say, what you want
24:10
Speaker 1: to say, how you want to say is she is
24:11
Speaker 1: a comedian.
24:13
Speaker 3: So I went to my mama. I said, Mama, I'm
24:15
Speaker 3: not happy. She was like, what do you mean, I'm
24:19
Speaker 3: not happy at my job?
24:20
Speaker 7: What are you gonna do?
24:21
Speaker 3: What you mean you got a good job? What do
24:23
Speaker 3: you mean?
24:23
Speaker 1: So she really flipped out. So I finally got the job.
24:26
Speaker 1: I was scared to accept.
24:28
Speaker 3: It though, because I mean, again, you're leaving a sure thing.
24:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I literally, like the lady called me
24:35
Speaker 1: offering with me the job. She emailed offered me the job.
24:37
Speaker 1: I accepted it, but I didn't. I told my old
24:40
Speaker 1: principle that I was leaving, but I did not give
24:42
Speaker 1: him my letter because I hadn't got their official offer
24:45
Speaker 1: letter yet.
24:46
Speaker 3: So I called the lady back. I was like, who's
24:48
Speaker 3: sending the office.
24:49
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, he's gonna send it today. It's fine,
24:51
Speaker 1: go ahead and turn on your two week I was like,
24:54
Speaker 1: not doing it. And then my old principal kept coming
24:56
Speaker 1: in and say, hey, we need your letter. We can't
24:58
Speaker 1: post your job until we get your letter. So I'm
25:00
Speaker 1: just like, so I go ahead and write the level
25:04
Speaker 1: and I give it to him. Literally the moment I
25:06
Speaker 1: put in his hand, the email came through their I
25:10
Speaker 1: had to release the receipt. Literally, listen, girl, and I've
25:15
Speaker 1: been job. I feel a little does a right, I'm
25:19
Speaker 1: going ahead and say I feel a little.
25:23
Speaker 3: She is pulled.
25:24
Speaker 1: I feel like she's that ancient oil to list going
25:29
Speaker 1: to the.
25:29
Speaker 3: King like a whole.
25:33
Speaker 1: Actually, this this question is coming up specifically for you,
25:39
Speaker 1: and uh oh, I feel I feel a shundle on this.
25:42
Speaker 1: Oh God, just just I'm gonna try to hold the table.
25:47
Speaker 1: So there's something with both of you guys being an author, right,
25:50
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna be transparent this high operation, just
25:53
Speaker 1: as is that I've been called multiple times. I tell you,
25:57
Speaker 1: I get repeated words about becoming an author or in
26:00
Speaker 1: the books to write, and we have talked about it, and.
26:03
Speaker 3: I've written and stopped and written.
26:05
Speaker 1: I got so I got probably at least five to
26:07
Speaker 1: six books I've started and stopped.
26:09
Speaker 3: Honest to God, y'all can talk about me you want you,
26:12
Speaker 3: but you got it too.
26:16
Speaker 1: What do you think? And we can talk from a
26:19
Speaker 1: spiritual realm, a practical around. I'm gonna let the Lord
26:21
Speaker 1: let you use it. What hinders people from becoming an author?
26:26
Speaker 1: On that like just specifically an author, because I just
26:29
Speaker 1: it's so it seems for me personally, it seems so
26:34
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the responsibility. I don't know
26:36
Speaker 1: if it's the process. I'm not sure what part it is.
26:40
Speaker 1: So what do you find people get stuck in but
26:42
Speaker 1: from understanding that they want to write a book or
26:45
Speaker 1: push out their story to actually completing the book.
26:50
Speaker 8: My opinion is fear, lack of knowledge, and embarrassment. And
26:55
Speaker 8: the reason why I say those three things, it's because
26:59
Speaker 8: a lot of times when you have people, let me
27:03
Speaker 8: speak from my personal experience, a lot of times when
27:06
Speaker 8: I've known people to come to me and say they
27:07
Speaker 8: want to write a book, it's something that's connected to
27:10
Speaker 8: their life, right, And a lot of times the Lord
27:13
Speaker 8: will allow you to go through things so that you
27:15
Speaker 8: can share that so you can help somebody else grow.
27:17
Speaker 8: Like I tell people that all the time, but sometimes
27:21
Speaker 8: we're a little too embarrassed to tell our story. Also,
27:25
Speaker 8: a lack of knowledge is because a lot of times
27:27
Speaker 8: we want to do something and don't know where to start,
27:29
Speaker 8: so we'll just put it to the side. But I'm
27:31
Speaker 8: a firm believer in if God give you that vision,
27:35
Speaker 8: you need to do something with it, because you don't
27:37
Speaker 8: just have that for nothing, and then fear because you think,
27:41
Speaker 8: who really gonna buy something that I wrote?
27:44
Speaker 7: Who's really going to want to listen to me?
27:46
Speaker 8: Who's really going to want to take the knowledge that
27:49
Speaker 8: I have and use it? Because I'm nobody. So that's
27:53
Speaker 8: why I said those three things. But if you have
27:58
Speaker 8: a story, like I tell anybody, if you have a story,
28:00
Speaker 8: please tell it because I don't care if you.
28:02
Speaker 7: On the ground one, even though you might grab a lot.
28:05
Speaker 8: More, but if you're able to grab and want a
28:07
Speaker 8: lot of Lord to use you in a positive way,
28:09
Speaker 8: because obviously it's something that you're supposed to be doing.
28:13
Speaker 8: I'm a big person on purpose. I'm not trying to
28:16
Speaker 8: do nothing that's not within my purpose. I need to
28:18
Speaker 8: find I need to feel fulfilled every time I get
28:21
Speaker 8: ready to do something. And I'm just in a place
28:26
Speaker 8: where I'm going to push that as much as I can.
28:30
Speaker 8: Because when the Lord put me in a place that
28:32
Speaker 8: I'm in and I know I heard God and everything
28:36
Speaker 8: he told me happened.
28:37
Speaker 7: How it was supposed to happen, listen, ain't know you
28:40
Speaker 7: can tell me.
28:42
Speaker 8: So if the Lord is telling you to do something,
28:44
Speaker 8: and I know you know everybody does not believe in
28:47
Speaker 8: God so or whatever your higher power is, but I
28:50
Speaker 8: believe in God. So I'm gonna say, if the Lord
28:51
Speaker 8: is telling you to do something, please move in that season,
28:54
Speaker 8: because when you don't move in that season, it's you
28:57
Speaker 8: will miss something. And he made that v your evident
29:00
Speaker 8: in to me how he is moving my life.
29:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree.
29:06
Speaker 1: And I think also what keeps people back is the
29:09
Speaker 1: knowledge and the understanding of the process and not being
29:12
Speaker 1: able to see themselves in that realm, like they can
29:15
Speaker 1: do this thing or that thing, but when it comes
29:18
Speaker 1: to writing a book, there's so much concerned about my
29:21
Speaker 1: grammar or am I telling this to giography. It's so
29:28
Speaker 1: many little technical things. And then you go into books
29:30
Speaker 1: a million and you see TD Jason, Heather Lenz and
29:33
Speaker 1: Joyce Maya and you know all of the great you know,
29:36
Speaker 1: Priscilla Shyer, and you're like, there's no way I can
29:38
Speaker 1: write a book as good as these people.
29:40
Speaker 2: No.
29:40
Speaker 1: The thing one of my clients said this to me,
29:43
Speaker 1: and it stuck with me. She said, we go in there,
29:45
Speaker 1: we buy those people books without even thinking about it.
29:47
Speaker 1: We don't care how many grammatical errors or what they
29:49
Speaker 1: got going on. But when it comes do our own.
29:51
Speaker 1: We're scared to death to promote it. Just because they
29:54
Speaker 1: said it and just because they spit it out, we
29:56
Speaker 1: run and go get it. But we can't do that
29:58
Speaker 1: for ourselves. So it's just the level of confidence. And
30:03
Speaker 1: I mean, and Jessica, when we met, you were studying
30:05
Speaker 1: for a test for your job, remember that, And you
30:08
Speaker 1: then came out the way up here and got this
30:09
Speaker 1: beautiful studio and then all of this beautiful You.
30:12
Speaker 3: Definitely shout out to b GTV. I mean, it's just
30:17
Speaker 3: it's it's a household name.
30:19
Speaker 1: Now, like we're talking, I just asked out of time,
30:22
Speaker 1: you can definitely push your book out. Yeah, sure, you
30:25
Speaker 1: and the viewers who are also strict, but no, for real.
30:30
Speaker 3: Like I think it's a I guess it's to your point.
30:38
Speaker 1: Actually it's more so like I just want to make
30:40
Speaker 1: sure I'm in purpose.
30:41
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a part of the sad.
30:43
Speaker 1: But you said something about that embarrassment, and I feel
30:46
Speaker 1: like you came for my neck on it. I really do,
30:50
Speaker 1: I really do, because one of the books is something
30:52
Speaker 1: that I'm like, I you want me to talk about it,
30:55
Speaker 1: but I'm not really experiencing you want me to study it,
30:59
Speaker 1: and maybe it's for me to become like we talk
31:01
Speaker 1: about all the time that just as is somewhere I'm
31:03
Speaker 1: becoming like love Michelle Obama, where the book is talking
31:08
Speaker 1: about becoming like it's a process, it's not. I'm a perfectionist, right,
31:13
Speaker 1: and I know that about myself. And so I was curious,
31:17
Speaker 1: is what you guys saw? So when you see that
31:20
Speaker 1: in people and when you're talking to your clients, what's
31:22
Speaker 1: the process of getting them to from being scared to
31:27
Speaker 1: actually get in the book? Do y'all have like a
31:30
Speaker 1: what they call it a framework? Well, on this book
31:33
Speaker 1: tour for me, I experienced that quite a bit because
31:35
Speaker 1: I'm getting clients to write their books. Okay, so I'm
31:38
Speaker 1: in a consultation. We I'm in consultations weekly, some books,
31:42
Speaker 1: some don't. I check up on people for a good
31:44
Speaker 1: thirty days. That's my cutoff. I got sound like bigging
31:49
Speaker 1: after that, Like yesterday I reached out, They ain't get
31:52
Speaker 1: betweenty eight I might get y'all you know, but short,
32:02
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
32:03
Speaker 3: You know some people are like good, we all enjoyed
32:05
Speaker 3: your consultation, But.
32:06
Speaker 7: Are you ready to move?
32:07
Speaker 3: What are we doing? Yeah?
32:08
Speaker 1: So but trying to give them that confidence, it can
32:12
Speaker 1: become a lot. If they're not ready, it can start
32:14
Speaker 1: to pull on your mental Now, with better together, we
32:17
Speaker 1: have experienced authors decided not to go forward with signings.
32:21
Speaker 1: We have talked them to them on the phone. We've
32:23
Speaker 1: had authors think about not going through that. We had
32:25
Speaker 1: to literally coach back into the idea. And when we've
32:29
Speaker 1: done that, like literally God showed them and showed out
32:32
Speaker 1: for them, and we were telling them, don't back out,
32:35
Speaker 1: don't do it, you know, So that that was a
32:37
Speaker 1: part of it too, And like not all of them
32:40
Speaker 1: we could convince, but we just had to just keep
32:43
Speaker 1: rolling with the necks.
32:44
Speaker 3: We couldn't get discouraged because they weren't ready.
32:47
Speaker 1: So y'all are literally reaching out to how y'all finding
32:50
Speaker 1: these people like y'all are saying, hey, we want to
32:53
Speaker 1: help you, and it's like we're doing all the leadwork
32:56
Speaker 1: and they're still backing out like that fear is something real.
32:59
Speaker 3: Yes, is the first leg of the tour. We did
33:02
Speaker 3: all the reaching out. Okay, we did.
33:04
Speaker 1: We reached out to all of them, and like you said,
33:06
Speaker 1: they steal backed out some of them, a few of them,
33:08
Speaker 1: not many.
33:09
Speaker 3: The second leg, they came to us and some of
33:12
Speaker 3: them steal back down. So that's how we're doing it.
33:18
Speaker 3: And then this third time we are changing up the tour.
33:20
Speaker 1: A little bit to fit our lifestyles because we're growing
33:24
Speaker 1: collectively and individually.
33:25
Speaker 3: Okay, so the tour has to work for us.
33:28
Speaker 1: But with those initiatives, we've also created a couple of
33:32
Speaker 1: other things on the Better Together, one being the Distinguished
33:35
Speaker 1: Authors of Alabama. We have that on display at the Birth.
33:40
Speaker 3: Of Pleasant Library in Montgomery of the Rosa Parks branch.
33:43
Speaker 1: There's a huge display of authors who are two time
33:46
Speaker 1: published African American authors because that library had the first
33:51
Speaker 1: head library in Montgomery that was African American. So they're
33:54
Speaker 1: all African American authors and sometimes they come down and
33:57
Speaker 1: take pictures with their display.
33:59
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
34:00
Speaker 7: And we also have read around the River region.
34:03
Speaker 1: Read around the River region and yes the region, yes
34:10
Speaker 1: that is.
34:12
Speaker 8: So we go to different elementary schools and we read
34:14
Speaker 8: to the students and most of the time we try
34:16
Speaker 8: to focus on whatever the mental health observance in years
34:20
Speaker 8: or whatever the focus for their month. Like we will
34:22
Speaker 8: be reading on Monday and it's doctor Sue's week, so
34:27
Speaker 8: I am going to dress in a suit.
34:30
Speaker 7: I hope Shatara does too.
34:32
Speaker 3: And the doctor sue suit, Yes she did. You didn't
34:34
Speaker 3: say a suit earlier. She actually did. She said you
34:38
Speaker 3: wearing a suit, but she never said she was.
34:41
Speaker 7: Wearing a suit. We have to come into carro.
34:44
Speaker 3: She's fully committed. He socks. I'm gonna go to the
34:49
Speaker 3: store that.
34:51
Speaker 8: I'm gonna have on the whole kits I did.
34:55
Speaker 3: Okay, so it worked. I had on something. She is
34:58
Speaker 3: fully committed, and I love it.
35:00
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. So y'all are man.
35:04
Speaker 1: I just think what y'all doing is so amazing. Doesn't
35:07
Speaker 1: like they you are reaching y'all talking about reaching the
35:10
Speaker 1: whole household, like you talking about just as being a household. No,
35:17
Speaker 1: I got a target audience, y'all, the whole. Y'all got
35:19
Speaker 1: the family, No for real? What? No, I'm just thinking.
35:25
Speaker 1: I'm in a mentorship program this year, and in one
35:29
Speaker 1: of the requirements to end to graduate from the program
35:32
Speaker 1: in December is a what they call it the capstone.
35:35
Speaker 3: A book.
35:36
Speaker 1: It's a book, and uh and uh the book ain't
35:41
Speaker 1: booking right now. So I'm just you know, inter you know, introspectively,
35:46
Speaker 1: you know, doing some self examination, and some of that
35:49
Speaker 1: is true.
35:49
Speaker 3: I think for me, it's like.
35:51
Speaker 1: Lord, I don't I'm creative but writing my words because
35:55
Speaker 1: my my voice has been you know, muffled for so long. Yeah,
35:58
Speaker 1: growing up. It's like, Lord, I don't even know what
36:00
Speaker 1: to say. You know what I'm saying, Like, I know
36:02
Speaker 1: the idea in a sense, and so I'm still trying.
36:05
Speaker 1: I'm still getting over that at home. Luckily we got
36:07
Speaker 1: the year, but I know the year is progressing along
36:10
Speaker 1: real quick. So this has been a really good conversation,
36:13
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I love sitting back
36:15
Speaker 1: here and just listening, and in that I'm always introspective. Right,
36:20
Speaker 1: So my prayer is that you know, as the listeners
36:22
Speaker 1: are listening, it's stirring up something in them and just
36:26
Speaker 1: really giving them a moment of encouragement to be like, dang,
36:29
Speaker 1: like the Lord has been telling me to do X,
36:31
Speaker 1: Y and Z whatever they it looks like. And some
36:34
Speaker 1: of it is just a piece of They may not
36:37
Speaker 1: have the knowledge for something, but the truth of the
36:39
Speaker 1: matter is if you actually really search for it, you
36:41
Speaker 1: can find the information that you need to move forward.
36:43
Speaker 1: And a thing, right, So this has just been encouraging
36:46
Speaker 1: for me. And I just love the camaraderie and the
36:49
Speaker 1: partnership that you guys have formed, because you know, the
36:52
Speaker 1: enemy to try to make you. The enemy will say
36:54
Speaker 1: that women specifically African American women.
36:59
Speaker 3: Don't get along, you don't do the things.
37:00
Speaker 1: But when you have the right heart and the right
37:02
Speaker 1: mind and you really allow God to lead it, you
37:05
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Man Like, when we partner with
37:08
Speaker 1: the Lord for real, like in this earth, to bring
37:10
Speaker 1: his will and his desire in this space, like and
37:13
Speaker 1: he'll he don't care who he uses, But I'm just
37:16
Speaker 1: grateful that I get to seek. I get to see
37:21
Speaker 1: him use women, strong Black women in this space to
37:25
Speaker 1: really literally we're talking about literacy, you know what I'm saying.
37:27
Speaker 1: If nothing else, we're talking about literacy that for a
37:31
Speaker 1: while has been a thing that's kind of played our communities.
37:34
Speaker 1: And so just to see you guys really moving in
37:36
Speaker 1: in Kingdom purpose is just really beautiful.
37:39
Speaker 3: It's just really beautiful. It really, it really is beautiful.
37:43
Speaker 3: It is.
37:43
Speaker 1: And challenges will come, you know, like especially when you're
37:45
Speaker 1: working on projects like we work on like it was,
37:48
Speaker 1: it's a punch to the good every time some don't
37:50
Speaker 1: go right, even with the author saying, oh, we can't
37:52
Speaker 1: do the sign and hey, ladies, I'm sorry, I can't.
37:55
Speaker 1: It was a punch to the good every time, Like
37:57
Speaker 1: what because you know, of course we've made plans, we
37:59
Speaker 1: scheduled out there, we can especially we had to travel,
38:02
Speaker 1: like we decided to be going the whole weekend. We
38:04
Speaker 1: booked rooms, We're doing all this stuff. We've talked to
38:06
Speaker 1: places in book their space to have your signing. So
38:10
Speaker 1: the main thing is just being able to bounce back.
38:13
Speaker 1: You gotta have your bounce back on strong, Like I
38:15
Speaker 1: can't lay in this. I can't be upset about this
38:19
Speaker 1: for too long. I mean it's kind of yes and considered, yes,
38:22
Speaker 1: messed up, but I gotta keep going, you know, just
38:25
Speaker 1: being able to keep that at the forefront of your mind.
38:28
Speaker 3: Are y'all considering, like what what do you call it?
38:32
Speaker 1: Doing like screenings of authors? Now that because at the
38:37
Speaker 1: end of the day, and y'all can be mad at
38:39
Speaker 1: me for saying this, but I think that's to protect
38:42
Speaker 1: yourself and protect your brand, like screenings. I don't know
38:46
Speaker 1: whatever what other word I'm looking for, but that's what
38:48
Speaker 1: the word is coming up to be like, Okay, let's
38:50
Speaker 1: see how serious you are, Like we want you, but
38:53
Speaker 1: how serious are you? Because y'all have really put hoard
38:56
Speaker 1: into it, and that's the energy man. You can't you
38:59
Speaker 1: can't get that bad and they're doing this for free,
39:02
Speaker 1: right we have.
39:03
Speaker 3: We've only had.
39:03
Speaker 1: One incident where we actually put a flyer out and
39:06
Speaker 1: the person didn't make it. It was a different type of
39:09
Speaker 1: situation though. Yeah it was an emergency, but I think
39:12
Speaker 1: that was only one time. But other than that, we've
39:15
Speaker 1: been blessed to not even it's like we get into
39:17
Speaker 1: a flyer create mode.
39:19
Speaker 3: That's when they're like, oh, no, this is real. That's
39:23
Speaker 3: when they started to kind of be like, oh, I'm
39:25
Speaker 3: gonna get the headshot to you.
39:26
Speaker 1: Then days go by, you kind of like a headshot,
39:29
Speaker 1: would you say? That's when they really because it sounds
39:32
Speaker 1: like to me imposter syndrome. Probably like they met it's like, oh,
39:37
Speaker 1: this is really gonna happen.
39:38
Speaker 3: I don't know.
39:38
Speaker 1: I keep getting to that word responsibility because people say, oh,
39:42
Speaker 1: I want I want a million dollars, I want a
39:45
Speaker 1: million dollars, but don't realize what you're saying when you.
39:49
Speaker 3: Asked for the a million dollars.
39:52
Speaker 8: It's funny you said that because I put something on
39:55
Speaker 8: Uh think I think it was Facebook. Like you, it
40:00
Speaker 8: was something to the nature of like you have a
40:04
Speaker 8: million dollar vision, but you only put in ten dollars
40:06
Speaker 8: worth of effort, so you get what you put in.
40:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, every time, every single time, Just like that with
40:14
Speaker 1: the books too. You got to put forth an effort
40:16
Speaker 1: to make it be a thing. And that's everything you touched. Like, yes,
40:20
Speaker 1: it gets exhausting, it gets all those things. But when
40:23
Speaker 1: you love what you're doing and you know you're touching
40:25
Speaker 1: people and changing lives, that should motivate you. And if
40:30
Speaker 1: it doesn't, then, like Ashley say, you got to revisit
40:32
Speaker 1: your purpose because they may not be what you're supposed
40:35
Speaker 1: to be doing. Okay, and I'm glad you. I'm glad
40:37
Speaker 1: you brought that. I was gonna land the plane, but
40:39
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought that up. There's two things
40:41
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring up, and I'm not gonna forget
40:42
Speaker 1: the other one because that got to do with you. Actually,
40:44
Speaker 1: you said something regarding purpose earlier. So if I don't
40:48
Speaker 1: know my purpose, how do I find it?
40:50
Speaker 7: So my clients asked us all the time.
40:53
Speaker 8: And let me tell you what worked for me when
40:55
Speaker 8: I was in a stage of disarray in my life
40:59
Speaker 8: and it was almost like I was going from left
41:01
Speaker 8: to right, like, Lord, what am I really here for?
41:04
Speaker 8: One of the things the Lord revealed to me, And
41:06
Speaker 8: I'm not going to tell you about research.
41:08
Speaker 7: I'm going to tell you what the Lord revealed to me.
41:11
Speaker 7: He revealed to me that.
41:12
Speaker 8: A lot of times we are more so focused on
41:15
Speaker 8: our weaknesses. And when somebody asks you what you're strong
41:19
Speaker 8: and what are your strengths, what are you good at?
41:21
Speaker 8: Your talents, your skills, your gifts, you maybe can get one,
41:24
Speaker 8: but when they ask you about those weaknesses, you can.
41:26
Speaker 7: Rattle them down a whole pageful.
41:30
Speaker 8: But a lot of times your purpose is tied to
41:33
Speaker 8: the gifts that God has given you.
41:35
Speaker 7: It's tied to your skills, it's tied to your talents.
41:38
Speaker 8: So when you are in a place where you're trying
41:42
Speaker 8: to figure out your purpose, see what you're good at,
41:45
Speaker 8: see what your strengths are. That's something so simple like
41:48
Speaker 8: sit down and actually see what your strengths are, and
41:51
Speaker 8: where you're able to see what it is that you're
41:53
Speaker 8: good at and hear God speak to you about your
41:57
Speaker 8: gifts and talents. That is how I discover my purpose.
42:01
Speaker 8: And it was something so simple that branched out. It
42:05
Speaker 8: was like one tree with many branches. That one tree.
42:09
Speaker 7: Is I love to help you. That was it.
42:13
Speaker 8: That was my tree. That was the stump that grew up.
42:16
Speaker 8: And my branches were helping students through teaching, helping community
42:20
Speaker 8: members through my nonprofit organization, helping authors through our books, work,
42:24
Speaker 8: helping businesses with coaching, and all of this great stuff
42:28
Speaker 8: Like helping is what it was for me.
42:31
Speaker 7: And I'm like when I figure out, I'm like, shoot,
42:33
Speaker 7: why did I do that? Lord? Why even with my books,
42:37
Speaker 7: they want to talk. I didn't want to write. I
42:39
Speaker 7: don't even like reading.
42:41
Speaker 1: I'm about to throw this mic at you actually, because
42:44
Speaker 1: what I'm not gonna allow you to do is comper
42:46
Speaker 1: my neck on my platform talking about me.
42:49
Speaker 3: I'm sick of it. Read girl, like, okay, this is
42:57
Speaker 3: going to be so transparent.
43:00
Speaker 1: So growing up, right, I would struggle in mainly two areas.
43:09
Speaker 3: One I don't even care about, like science, I don't
43:11
Speaker 3: care about.
43:11
Speaker 1: Did thank you Lord for whatever scientifical thing you did?
43:15
Speaker 1: But me I never related to it? Right, even though
43:18
Speaker 1: I'm kind of relating to it right now. But reading, reading, comprehension,
43:23
Speaker 1: and speaking those two areas have always been a struggle
43:28
Speaker 1: for me since not adolescents, but since elementary school, right
43:33
Speaker 1: since childhood. And so I'm an adult. I'm going to
43:36
Speaker 1: tell on myself, y'all. So yeah, I'm in school. I'm
43:39
Speaker 1: on a break right now, but I'm in school right
43:41
Speaker 1: and I'm getting my masters, and I fight on so
43:47
Speaker 1: many levels, so this is interesting, thank you Holy Spirit.
43:50
Speaker 1: I fight on so many levels because the way I
43:52
Speaker 1: comprehend suff ain't the way everybody else comprehended. And my
43:56
Speaker 1: mom had a friend and she's an author, right showing
44:00
Speaker 1: a book or whatever, and I was telling I was like, oh,
44:02
Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't I don't really read because
44:04
Speaker 1: I don't really you.
44:05
Speaker 3: Know, I'm not good at comprehension. And I accepted that.
44:08
Speaker 1: I said it was like, oh, I don't know how
44:09
Speaker 1: to read because I don't really really comprehend other people think.
44:13
Speaker 1: You know, when I take a test, it's always wrong.
44:15
Speaker 1: I don't think about it the way other folks think
44:17
Speaker 1: about it. So she was like, well, who told you
44:19
Speaker 1: you couldn't comprehend? And I was like you know, this
44:21
Speaker 1: is what they told me in school. You know what
44:23
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, I accepted it.
44:24
Speaker 3: I'm getting sees you know what I'm saying. That's good
44:27
Speaker 3: for me, you know.
44:28
Speaker 1: And she goes, well, it's not that you don't comprehend.
44:32
Speaker 1: You think about it differently, and God has given you
44:34
Speaker 1: a new mind. And when she said that, I was like, what,
44:39
Speaker 1: Like I was? I had never heard that?
44:42
Speaker 3: Right?
44:42
Speaker 1: So I don't struggle as much with the reading comprehension
44:46
Speaker 1: now the speaking. I've gotten better on the platform, but
44:51
Speaker 1: speaking wise, I'm still surprised when people like, oh my gosh,
44:54
Speaker 1: I understood what you were saying, because I'm like, my
44:57
Speaker 1: brain don't think like everybody else. I really I didn't
45:00
Speaker 1: really think differently, like the whole neuron situation.
45:03
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't even know what a nerve
45:05
Speaker 3: body is, but I don't.
45:07
Speaker 1: Trust God, and so I think for me personally, even
45:09
Speaker 1: people that liked me, it's like creative.
45:12
Speaker 3: You couldn't tell me I could be a podcaster. And
45:14
Speaker 3: when I was growing up in school, there was no
45:16
Speaker 3: such thing.
45:17
Speaker 1: Necessarily, there were radio holes, but that wasn't people that's
45:20
Speaker 1: doing podcasts. Now I'm really out here being a whole full,
45:24
Speaker 1: full time podcast, full time lose. I lose that lose
45:28
Speaker 1: because I got a remote job too. But I am
45:31
Speaker 1: into entertainment now. Just knowing, like you said, it starts
45:35
Speaker 1: with the tree is like not only just knowing or realizing, Okay,
45:39
Speaker 1: I like to help people because I like to help
45:40
Speaker 1: people too, but realizing, like what avenue that God wants
45:43
Speaker 1: you to be used in that I probably won't help
45:47
Speaker 1: nobody write no book like y'all be writing a book.
45:49
Speaker 3: I can push somebody and say hey, you need to
45:50
Speaker 3: do this, or I keep doing that.
45:52
Speaker 1: I can motivate you, right, I've done that, but I
45:54
Speaker 1: haven't even motivating myself to do it.
45:56
Speaker 3: So that's a level of embarrassment.
45:58
Speaker 1: But like just being ab to say, Okay, God, I
46:01
Speaker 1: know this is it, but what avenue? What mountain are
46:05
Speaker 1: you calling me to? And I know now that I'm
46:07
Speaker 1: called to that mounting, I'm entertainment. What that looks like
46:11
Speaker 1: starts with the podcast. That's all I can give you
46:13
Speaker 1: right right now, and then as.
46:14
Speaker 3: God moves me forward.
46:16
Speaker 1: Cool. But going back to the reading and stuff, I
46:18
Speaker 1: think my embarrassment is that not only the life stories
46:23
Speaker 1: but just what I've been labeled as like will people
46:26
Speaker 1: really understand what I'm saying? Like I can't even talk right,
46:29
Speaker 1: so like like I'm just saying, like this is the
46:33
Speaker 1: thoughts that I have. Like, girl, you be, you be
46:35
Speaker 1: struggling and projecting and communicating sometimes and you feel to
46:40
Speaker 1: write a book. But remember it's the audience for your voice,
46:44
Speaker 1: and it's the audience for your words too, So it's
46:47
Speaker 1: your target audience.
46:48
Speaker 3: They'll understand me.
46:49
Speaker 8: And then when you're living in what like when you're
46:53
Speaker 8: trying to step up and so what God called you
46:55
Speaker 8: to do, He's gonna work all that out anyway, so
46:58
Speaker 8: it don't even matter.
46:59
Speaker 7: Up, I don't do it, and he.
47:05
Speaker 1: Man, I ain't know I was gonna be motivated by
47:08
Speaker 1: authors today. I thought I was gonna get some questions answered.
47:13
Speaker 1: I got one more thing, and I'm gonna let this go.
47:16
Speaker 1: So I was talking to one of your clients. You
47:18
Speaker 1: probably already know what client I'm talking about, but I
47:20
Speaker 1: was talking one of your clients and she said that
47:23
Speaker 1: you told her that the y'all were talking about the
47:28
Speaker 1: length of the book, right, And this was her trying
47:31
Speaker 1: to help me, like get over my anxiety about this.
47:34
Speaker 3: Gotta be a two.
47:37
Speaker 1: You know.
47:38
Speaker 3: Your response to her was something you can correct me.
47:41
Speaker 1: I just want to touch on this because I need
47:42
Speaker 1: I feel like people need to hear this too, that like,
47:46
Speaker 1: and please correct me I'm wrong. But basically she was
47:48
Speaker 1: saying that people's attentions fan ain't that.
47:51
Speaker 3: Long, So the book, what do you expect the book
47:53
Speaker 3: to be? To be like that long?
47:55
Speaker 1: And so it kind of like relieved her from pressure
47:57
Speaker 1: of thinking you had this, have to have this long
47:59
Speaker 1: drawn out book versus just getting to the point, getting
48:01
Speaker 1: to the meat and being you can still be called
48:03
Speaker 1: the author. It doesn't matter the how long the book is.
48:07
Speaker 1: What How did you come to that conclusion? Because I
48:10
Speaker 1: had never I never thought of that.
48:12
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, it don't matter, have anything now.
48:14
Speaker 1: Now there's a few fiction people who feel like they
48:17
Speaker 1: want to be considered writing a novel, and I think
48:20
Speaker 1: there's some stipulations there.
48:22
Speaker 3: Okay, but if you're writing most of my.
48:23
Speaker 1: Clients are either in the memoir, self help, devotional remp.
48:28
Speaker 1: If that's what you're writing, you are still an author
48:30
Speaker 1: of that. You wrote it, and you're published, you're on Amazon,
48:33
Speaker 1: you're on major platforms. So but people who need that,
48:38
Speaker 1: who need what my clients are putting out need help.
48:42
Speaker 1: They need understanding of why they're doing things they're doing
48:45
Speaker 1: in their lives.
48:45
Speaker 3: They need clarification, they need guidance.
48:48
Speaker 1: And nine times out of ten people have been telling
48:50
Speaker 1: them all their lives what they need to do, but
48:52
Speaker 1: they haven't been listening that well, So are they gonna.
48:55
Speaker 3: Be able to read a book that loan to help
48:57
Speaker 3: them gain't that guided?
48:58
Speaker 1: They like people like these popping quick social media posts,
49:02
Speaker 1: those posts that say something.
49:04
Speaker 3: Like all my haters? Can these be because God said,
49:08
Speaker 3: you know they like so quick like that?
49:11
Speaker 1: So not saying that a person writing, because if you're
49:14
Speaker 1: really telling your story, but they need something they can
49:17
Speaker 1: relate to and that it can permeate their hearts and
49:20
Speaker 1: maybe it'll make the change that needs to be made
49:23
Speaker 1: in their lives, stop them from making these same mistakes
49:25
Speaker 1: they've been making for so long. So if that's what
49:28
Speaker 1: I told her, which I'm pretty sure I did, that's right.
49:31
Speaker 1: That their attention span is not that long. And if
49:34
Speaker 1: we're going to create change in people, we can't hold
49:37
Speaker 1: them for long. We can't give them long drawing out sermons,
49:40
Speaker 1: we can't talk to them in ways that they can't understand.
49:43
Speaker 1: We've got to be able to break down things so
49:45
Speaker 1: they can understand. We live in a microwave world. It's
49:48
Speaker 1: generated by social media and reels that are literally thirty seconds.
49:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have that much time.
49:55
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we need some shifts to
49:57
Speaker 1: take place in a lot of people lives. No, we
50:00
Speaker 1: gotta deliver it to them, package it away. It should
50:04
Speaker 1: be packaged for that audience. That's so good. You got
50:07
Speaker 1: a response to that. I'm always I feel like I'm
50:09
Speaker 1: always held the flow to h I.
50:15
Speaker 8: Mean, I agree with Shatar because, like I said, I
50:17
Speaker 8: don't like the rest. I needna get that point real quick.
50:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is true. No, that's so good.
50:24
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed you guys, Like I mean, I feel
50:27
Speaker 1: y'all got permission to be on my neck.
50:29
Speaker 3: He's just really like, just go what that book get?
50:31
Speaker 1: You been?
50:33
Speaker 3: You girl? I know?
50:38
Speaker 1: Follow from Mar Yeah, thirty one day. Don't do it
50:45
Speaker 1: for March because March March is Yeah, don't do because
50:51
Speaker 1: I already know what's happening in that much. But no,
50:54
Speaker 1: but seriously, I appreciate you guys for opening opening our minds,
51:01
Speaker 1: like to obeying God our focus this year has been
51:09
Speaker 1: so far.
51:09
Speaker 3: Yes, three sixty five.
51:10
Speaker 1: This is what we're giving God, waking up up and
51:13
Speaker 1: giving God our years right, and so I'm I'm excited
51:17
Speaker 1: to act upon what's been said today. So one of
51:20
Speaker 1: the traditions that we have on just as the placast,
51:24
Speaker 1: is allowing our guests to have the final final words right.
51:28
Speaker 1: And because we got two, we get double the trouble.
51:31
Speaker 1: And so stra Tamas started with you and we're gonna
51:33
Speaker 1: end up in with ancient oil. So if they didn't
51:38
Speaker 1: hear anything that was spoken to night, what do you
51:41
Speaker 1: want to land the plane and make sure they get
51:43
Speaker 1: before they leave this episode?
51:45
Speaker 3: I want you to focus.
51:47
Speaker 1: I want you to focus on what it is that
51:49
Speaker 1: you are signed to do, no matter what it is,
51:51
Speaker 1: and get rid of all the naysayers. I know we
51:54
Speaker 1: were talking about my mama earlier. I don't think she
51:56
Speaker 1: still believe I have an actual job, and she'd have
52:00
Speaker 1: been on work trips with me all the Chicago on
52:03
Speaker 1: Magnificent Mind and then come back to somebody.
52:05
Speaker 3: You sure you working so well? Like what?
52:09
Speaker 1: So I say that to say, I don't care who
52:11
Speaker 1: it is, get rid of it, block it out of
52:14
Speaker 1: your mind, and focus on what it is that you're
52:17
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing, Like, take that time to yourself
52:20
Speaker 1: to really hone in, honey in with the Holy Spirit,
52:23
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do in order to figure it out.
52:26
Speaker 1: Because one thing, I see a lot of people walking
52:29
Speaker 1: around very lackluster, very unfulfilled, very sad, very much complaining
52:34
Speaker 1: every single day, but not making necessarily changes in order
52:38
Speaker 1: to shift the situation.
52:40
Speaker 3: Get focused. Your time here is limited, and I want.
52:45
Speaker 1: To leave here exhausted from the work I've done that
52:48
Speaker 1: everybody can talk about when I'm gone. I don't want
52:50
Speaker 1: to leave here exhausted from foolishness that don't nobody you
52:52
Speaker 1: know about unless they saw me arguing with somebody on
52:54
Speaker 1: social media.
52:55
Speaker 3: Who wants to leave you like that. Yeah, So so
52:58
Speaker 3: just keep that.
52:59
Speaker 1: In mind, you guys, stay focused, do what you've been
53:02
Speaker 1: tesked to do, and hone in to figure out what
53:05
Speaker 1: that is that's.
53:05
Speaker 7: Good for me.
53:09
Speaker 8: Number one is make sure you're living in purpose because
53:12
Speaker 8: and I said this, make sure you're living in purpose,
53:14
Speaker 8: because when you're living in purpose, you will be fulfilled.
53:17
Speaker 8: Second thing, we're gonna bind up this spirit of fear.
53:19
Speaker 8: We're not gonna lie that de land on us anymore,
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Speaker 8: because when you are filled with fear number one, that's
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Speaker 8: the enemy, because he wants to hold you back from
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Speaker 8: what God has called you to do. And we're not
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Speaker 8: about to let him do that any longer. We're not
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Speaker 8: about to let the devil take precedents in our life
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Speaker 8: and even on foot socials that he's sending our way
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Speaker 8: to kind of stop us from being in the in
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Speaker 8: the area that we're supposed to be in, We're gonna
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Speaker 8: bind it up to. And when I speak, baby, I
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Speaker 8: like to comfort the enemy head because I do not
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Speaker 8: play when it comes to what God has called for
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Speaker 8: me to do in his people in this earth. And
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Speaker 8: then lastly, develop on a relationship with God because I
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Speaker 8: swear when you can hear God, baby, that's like no other.
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Speaker 8: When I say when He speaks clearly to you, when
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Speaker 8: I'm talking about so clear the first time I'm telling
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Speaker 8: you it, the first time I.
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Speaker 7: Knew for a fact I heard God.
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Speaker 1: God know.
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Speaker 3: I love dogs.
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Speaker 7: You know I love Ooh, I love too.
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Speaker 3: I'm a dog bomb.
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Speaker 8: And one of my biggest fears, even though I hate
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Speaker 8: to even talk about fears, is I don't ever want
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Speaker 8: to hit one ever. So I was driving down the street,
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Speaker 8: you know, just doing whatever I was doing, and I
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Speaker 8: heard something say. This is how I knew I heard.
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Speaker 8: I heard something to say, slow down a dog and
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Speaker 8: run in front of your car, So, you know, so
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Speaker 8: I looked around, then see a dog keep going by
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Speaker 8: a minute later, I slammed on break because I almost
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Speaker 8: hit a.
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Speaker 7: Dog that looked like mine. And I was just like,
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Speaker 7: what was that?
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Speaker 8: And that kind of opened up a whole nother rim
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Speaker 8: for me of me being able to hear what the
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Speaker 8: Lord is saying. And even if you are in a
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Speaker 8: place where you can already hear God, don't take that
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Speaker 8: for granted, because I know sometimes because he was talking
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Speaker 8: to me about these last week. You don't talk to
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Speaker 8: me as often as you need to because you know
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna talk to you when you want to hear.
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Speaker 8: So even if you're already in that place, make sure
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Speaker 8: you are not.
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Speaker 7: Taking advantage of the situation.
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Speaker 3: That's good.
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Speaker 7: That's what I want to leave.
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Speaker 1: And just cause we still got you on the volunteer,
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Speaker 1: I probably do.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to see what my email bubble looks like?
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Speaker 3: They're red?
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Speaker 1: It got probably like phone numbers, You don't. It got
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Speaker 1: phone numbers on the phone. Okay, but yeah, I'll be
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm willing to volunteer. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: So make sure I got right? Yeah, let's make sure
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Speaker 1: because supposed to be missing their eggs in my email
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Speaker 1: saying man, this has been good. I'm really fueled. I
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Speaker 1: really am. I didn't know this is something that I
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Speaker 1: needed today. I hope this is something that you guys
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Speaker 1: can just take in and if y'all need let me
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Speaker 1: let me do that. Put us back on the three screen.
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Speaker 1: What can they what can they reach out to your
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Speaker 1: perfer dational sales? I know we gonna have it and
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Speaker 1: it is christ but I'm anna inspire offer and I
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Speaker 1: want to reach out to y'all. Or I have a
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Speaker 1: can we reach out to y'all?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: So, you can find me on Facebook Shatara s Clark
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Speaker 3: We're also on.
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Speaker 8: For me, if you want to reach out to me
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Speaker 8: about my nonprofit organization, Change, you can find me on
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Speaker 3: I love it, I love it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, let me tell about talks I forgot.
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Speaker 1: All right, amen, you're doing with all your acclades, y'all.
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Speaker 1: This has been a very insightful. I know this is different,
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Speaker 1: but we really need we do not empower the kingdom
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Speaker 1: by just remaining so hyper spiritual. Sometimes we need some
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Speaker 1: practical ways and really understanding how we impact kingdom activity.
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Speaker 1: And so if you didn't hear anything else today, I
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Speaker 1: need y'all understand.
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Speaker 3: Go ye therefore and write the book. Okay, write the book, y'all.
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Speaker 3: That's a ray.
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Speaker 1: Hey, this has been good and good Tatara Ashley. I
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Speaker 1: love you guys. You guys, you already know what time
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Speaker 1: it is time to end this thing. Okay, So until
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Speaker 1: next week. Until next time, remember life can be such
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Speaker 1: so much.
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Speaker 3: Let me try it again.
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Speaker 1: Life could be much more simple if you just to
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Speaker 1: see y'all next week.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode.
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Speaker 1: Since you've made it this far, you might as well
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Speaker 5: Smith, I know I won't see you back until next week,
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Speaker 5: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always stay.
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Speaker 6: Thank God for one another day. Hey, I know we
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Speaker 6: could be another way. Hey, pray thank God for another day. Hey,
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Speaker 6: Hey I'm just thankful another day. Hey Hey another day?
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Speaker 6: Oh another day, whise another day to get it right,
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Speaker 6: another day to rise up, another day living another day
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Speaker 6: We loved ones. I always remember hold it down for
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