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PART 2 |M.I.N.D. your Legacy: Mastering Intentional Narratives Daily | TRIVEDA-JOHN-DR.CHEN · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome family to The Crew podcast, where voices
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  Speaker 1: are lifted, purpose is activated, truth is spoken, stories are honored.
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  Speaker 2: And legacy is not just discussed.
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  Speaker 3: Legacy is built.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight we are stepping into a powerful conversation mind your legacy,
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  Speaker 2: mastering intentional narratives.
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  Speaker 1: Daily to build a life that outlives you.
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  Speaker 2: So get your pens, get your notepads, open your hearts,
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  Speaker 2: because tonight you are not just here to listen. You
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  Speaker 2: are here to receive. Come expecting to be educated, empowered, encouraged,
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  Speaker 2: and equipped to stay the course, walk in par purpose,
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  Speaker 2: on purpose, and create a legacy that will speak long
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  Speaker 2: after you are gone. Tonight, we are honored to welcome
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  Speaker 2: a powerful panel of purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Driven voices.
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  Speaker 2: First meet Trevida S. Harris, a South Carolina based author, published,
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  Speaker 2: and visionary and founder of Wings of Transformation Publishing LLC.
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  Speaker 2: She is a woman of faith, resilience, and transformation, actively
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  Speaker 2: serving her community through women's empowerment events, faith based intologies
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  Speaker 2: and platforms that remind others that their story still has wings.
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  Speaker 2: We also welcome Queen Mother, Doctor chenzer A Davis Kahena,
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  Speaker 2: affectionately known as Doctor Chen, a respected educator.
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  Speaker 1: Cultural re a humanitarian.
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  Speaker 2: And global cultural ambassador from the US Virgin Islands. She
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  Speaker 2: has spent decades bridging the spiritual, historical, and cultural connections
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  Speaker 2: between Caribbean and African heritage, reminding us that legacy is
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  Speaker 2: rooted in identity, memory, culture, and the sacred responsibility to
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  Speaker 2: carry truth forward.
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  Speaker 3: And we welcome.
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  Speaker 2: John Harris, also known as Bruti Winder, Mariamman and author,
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  Speaker 2: conflict and decision strategist, speaker, mentor, and community leader. His
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  Speaker 2: work focuses on transformational lennership, interpersonal growth, mentorship, and helping
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  Speaker 2: people make wise decisions under pressure while becoming leaders who build,
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  Speaker 2: heal and guide tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Each of these voices will help us.
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  Speaker 4: Unpack what it means to mind your legacy, to master
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  Speaker 4: your thoughts, live intentionally, rewrite the narratives that shaped you,
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  Speaker 4: and take daily action toward the life God has called
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  Speaker 4: you to build.
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  Speaker 3: Because legacy is not just what we leave behind. Legacy
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  Speaker 3: is what we choose every day. It is in our words,
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  Speaker 3: It is in our service, It isn't our healing. It
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  Speaker 3: is in our discipline.
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  Speaker 2: It is in the lurves we touch, the truth we tell,
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  Speaker 2: and the purpose we refuse to abandon. So family lean in,
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  Speaker 2: take notes, share this broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Tag somebody who needs this conversation. It is tonight on
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  Speaker 3: the Crude Aided.
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  Speaker 2: We are not just talking about legacy. We are learning how.
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  Speaker 3: To live in Please help us.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome our special guests of the hour, trevetted Us Harris, Queen, Mother,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Chenzer, with Davis Kashino and John Harris.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, Welcome, Welcome to part two.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this is part two.
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  Speaker 6: We are continuing the conversation from a month ago. We
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  Speaker 6: was here a month ago. Wow, And I am excited.
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  Speaker 6: I'm excited to have these amazing individuals back in the
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  Speaker 6: building tonight. And I know you heard a little bit
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  Speaker 6: about them.
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  Speaker 5: I know I.
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  Speaker 6: Couldn't do them justice, So we're gonna allow them to share.
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  Speaker 5: A little bit about themselves.
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  Speaker 6: So we're gonna start with Tabida, then we're gonna go
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  Speaker 6: to mister John, and then we're gonna go to Mother, Queen,
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  Speaker 6: doctor sha Zerra.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Well, as the opening said, I am a mother, a grandmother,
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  Speaker 8: a author, a publisher of Wings of Transformation Publishing. I
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  Speaker 8: help other aspiring authors share their stories with the world.
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  Speaker 8: I am a motivational speaker. I am also a stroke
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  Speaker 8: survivor and a Kari malformation warrior. A lot of people
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  Speaker 8: don't really know what kr malformation is, which is a
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  Speaker 8: serious gelogical condition that affects the brain. But it does
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  Speaker 8: not stop me from doing what God has called me
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  Speaker 8: to do. So that is.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Jell.
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  Speaker 9: Greetings everyone. First, Angel, it's really on a privilege to
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  Speaker 9: be back with you all this this month. Thank you
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  Speaker 9: so much for having me back. I really enjoyed our
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  Speaker 9: first conversation and I have continued thinking about a lot
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  Speaker 9: of what came from it. For those who may not
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  Speaker 9: have been with us on the previous show, my name
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  Speaker 9: is John Harris. I'm also known as Bruti Meuenda Mary Aman,
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  Speaker 9: and I'm an author, the leadership strategist, a speaker, and
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  Speaker 9: the founder of Mastering Your Moments. At the center of
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  Speaker 9: my work is a pretty simple question. You know, what
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  Speaker 9: is influencing the choices we make in the moments that
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  Speaker 9: shape our lives. So I spend a lot of my
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  Speaker 9: time exploring the relationship between conflict, choice, leadership, relationship, and
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  Speaker 9: transformation and increasingly how all of that connects to the
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  Speaker 9: legacy that we're creating while while we're still here. So again,
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  Speaker 9: it's an honor privilege to be here with you all
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  Speaker 9: this evening.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you Doctor Chan.
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  Speaker 10: Greetings everyone, and I'm going to start with a moment
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  Speaker 10: of reflection because today is a really significant day. Well,
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  Speaker 10: actually every day that we're breathing and on this side
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  Speaker 10: of the Earth plan is a fantabulous day. But I
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  Speaker 10: really want to say thank you, Sister Queen Visionary Angela
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  Speaker 10: for just bringing some powerful people together to actually the
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  Speaker 10: reason speak about our views of legacy and being able
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  Speaker 10: to talk about the mind, but the mind in a
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  Speaker 10: very pro active, a family centered, community centered way. I
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  Speaker 10: think that's really profound. You pretty much so covered what
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  Speaker 10: I do, what I engage in, and I think for
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  Speaker 10: the purposes of those that are viewing and listening. Yes,
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  Speaker 10: I'm a mother, a grandmother. Pretty sure you can hear
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  Speaker 10: that in part of the background, the cultural heritage education
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  Speaker 10: portion is part of the daily work and engagements that
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  Speaker 10: I'm involved in. But I'm an artivist, so really into
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  Speaker 10: creative arts. But through a lens of being an activist
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  Speaker 10: in the body of creating the arts that I'm engaged in,
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  Speaker 10: I've been involved in stream not only STEM, but the science, technology,
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  Speaker 10: the reading, the engineering, the arts, and mathematics for more
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  Speaker 10: than forty years, and I've had the joint privilege of
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  Speaker 10: serving as a heritage ambassador in different capacities.
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  Speaker 11: I do a lot of.
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  Speaker 10: Work around spirituality through the lens of culture, arts, technology,
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  Speaker 10: and focusing that on things that promote life. So it's
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  Speaker 10: done through our speaks, which is another part of the
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  Speaker 10: network here with the Crew podcast and being able to
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  Speaker 10: expand on being able to share word sound power that
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  Speaker 10: allows for persons to literally engage and embrace what do
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  Speaker 10: we mean when we say a new legacy or building
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  Speaker 10: legacy and what this legacy mean? Is it temporal? Is
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  Speaker 10: it only physical and tangible, or is it something connected
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  Speaker 10: to spirit that allows for us to really honor the creative,
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  Speaker 10: infinite source by all of the venerated names that we use.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm really grateful to be here and I'm looking
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  Speaker 10: forward to the conversation and how we exchange as we
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  Speaker 10: have in the past.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, what I am glad to have you
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  Speaker 6: guys back. As I stayed it last time, we really
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  Speaker 6: did not dive into all of what I wanted us
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  Speaker 6: to talk about because it is so much.
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  Speaker 5: But I am.
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  Speaker 6: So honored to have you guys, and just the things
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  Speaker 6: that we discussed last time, the different insights, the different
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  Speaker 6: perspectives from each one of us because we come from
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  Speaker 6: different backgrounds and we do different things, but yet we
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  Speaker 6: are able to come together to talk about legacy and
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  Speaker 6: what that means to us. I want to start off
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  Speaker 6: with this question reflecting on where we are in this
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  Speaker 6: season in our life.
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  Speaker 5: So the question is.
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  Speaker 6: When you hear the phrase mind your legacy, what does
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  Speaker 6: it mean to you personally in this season of your life,
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  Speaker 6: this very season that we are in right now.
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  Speaker 5: And some things may have shifted.
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  Speaker 6: From the last conversation that we had because that was
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  Speaker 6: a month ago that we had this conversation. So this
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  Speaker 6: season that you're in now, what does mine your Legacy's
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  Speaker 6: start with doctor Chen, mister Harris and the inta I'm
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  Speaker 6: not gonna say your a K A name because I'm
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  Speaker 6: bad with names.
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  Speaker 9: If you say, if you say brother Baruti.
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  Speaker 6: That's okay. I can say that. I can say brother,
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  Speaker 6: brother Barony. I can say that, right.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so we're gonna.
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  Speaker 6: Start with doctor Chen and then brother Baroney and then Trevida.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, we're gonna That's a very powerful question because when
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  Speaker 10: you say, how do we perceive legacy in this season.
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  Speaker 10: This is a season we're moving out of summer, coming
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  Speaker 10: into the autumn season. It's a time of renewal in
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  Speaker 10: many respects, but it's also a time of rest. So
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  Speaker 10: when I think of legacy in the season that I'm
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  Speaker 10: in now, and it's actually on the eve, I have
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  Speaker 10: maybe three more weeks before I get to celebrate another
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  Speaker 10: earth strong, another birthday, and I've given thanks for that,
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  Speaker 10: And so I'm in a space where I celebrate the
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  Speaker 10: month before the day of and the month after intentionally,
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  Speaker 10: and I make sure that I'm doing things that allow
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  Speaker 10: for my family, my spiritual family in addition to my
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  Speaker 10: biological family, because I have a very extended spiritual family
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  Speaker 10: that I fellowship with.
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  Speaker 11: So this is a.
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  Speaker 10: Time where legacy for me becomes again part of that
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  Speaker 10: fusion of how.
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  Speaker 11: We look at.
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  Speaker 10: Things that are cultural, but through the lens of culture
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  Speaker 10: as a spiritual space, culture that supports heritage engagement. The technology,
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  Speaker 10: we talk a lot about AI, but we tend to
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  Speaker 10: focus on artificial intelligence, and we oftentimes overlook what preceded that,
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  Speaker 10: which is ancestral intelligence. And some people like to say
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  Speaker 10: it's a twentieth century concept, but this is something that
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  Speaker 10: is really millennia upon millennia old. So when I hear
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  Speaker 10: and think of where I sit in this season on
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  Speaker 10: how legacy is empowered or expanded in that regard, it's
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  Speaker 10: going to come from a place of me one giving
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  Speaker 10: thanks for where I sit in this earthplane at this
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  Speaker 10: particular point, with a very clear vision of what are
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  Speaker 10: the things that my children will get to be able
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  Speaker 10: to expand on. What are the things that my children's
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  Speaker 10: children can expand on. Who are the in my case,
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  Speaker 10: the students, the clients, my colleagues that I can work
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  Speaker 10: with and influence in a positive way.
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  Speaker 11: And how are we able.
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  Speaker 10: To share our spiritual gifts, share our intellectual gifts, share
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  Speaker 10: our ancestral gifts in this season, moving into the next season,
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  Speaker 10: and hopefully being able to get beyond what people get
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  Speaker 10: twisted about with things that happen astronomically looking at it
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  Speaker 10: only through an astrological space. But I look at seasons
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  Speaker 10: as a time for birth, renewal, growth, rest, all at
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  Speaker 10: the same at the same time, which concentric space and engagement.
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  Speaker 10: So legacy for me becomes more than just my economic
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  Speaker 10: circumstances and condition. It becomes more than the physical space
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  Speaker 10: or geographic space that I reside in and sit. I'm
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  Speaker 10: looking at how do we really help ourselves to be
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  Speaker 10: more expansive and more elevated for our families, our communities,
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  Speaker 10: our societies, humanity and beyond. I think very expansive. I
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  Speaker 10: hope that I covered part of what you asked me. Bo,
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  Speaker 10: Thank you for sharing.
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  Speaker 11: He got really excited.
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  Speaker 9: Well, no, I try to listen intentionally, and you know,
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  Speaker 9: rather than you know, possibly create an interruption, you know,
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  Speaker 9: so I'll mute. But that was that was phenomenal, Queen Mother.
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  Speaker 9: I I I can. I can relate to a whole
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  Speaker 9: lot of what you what you've shared there for me.
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  Speaker 9: You know, in this season of my life, you know,
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  Speaker 9: I perceive legacy less as something I will eventually leave
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  Speaker 9: behind and more as something I'm really truly actively creating
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  Speaker 9: right now.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I've reached a point where, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 9: thinking very differently about time, about purpose and about impact.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm asking myself not simply what will people remember
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  Speaker 9: about me? You know, will they so whether they remember
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  Speaker 9: me as John or they remember me as Baruti, you know,
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  Speaker 9: it won't matter. But what am I actually building? What
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  Speaker 9: am I teaching? What am I modeling and placing into
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  Speaker 9: other people that can continue to create value beyond my presence. So,
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  Speaker 9: you know, legacy for me has become very present, tense.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 9: So it's it's in how I strive to continuously show
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  Speaker 9: up for my family, you know. It's in how I lead,
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  Speaker 9: It's in the ideas I develop, It's in the people
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  Speaker 9: I encourage. It's in the work that I'm building through
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  Speaker 9: mastering your moments, and it's in whether the lessons that
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  Speaker 9: I've gained through my own experiences can become useful to
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  Speaker 9: somebody else. I'm also becoming less concerned, you know, with
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  Speaker 9: whether my name remains attached to everything. You know, I
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  Speaker 9: want the work to matter, you know, I want the
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  Speaker 9: good to continue. There are some things that I do
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, one of which is what will be
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  Speaker 9: my level of consciousness about everything that's going on around
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  Speaker 9: me when I'm no longer here. And so for me,
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  Speaker 9: the work is everything, and I want the good that's
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  Speaker 9: attached to the work to continue. And that's really how
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  Speaker 9: I perceive legacy in the season. Legacy is it's not
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  Speaker 9: simply what I'm going to leave behind someday. It's what
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  Speaker 9: I'm creating right now through the moments that we live,
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  Speaker 9: through the choices that I make, and the impact that
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  Speaker 9: you know, myself and and other great minds like the
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  Speaker 9: ones that are on here today, the impact that we
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  Speaker 9: have on others.
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  Speaker 5: The media.
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  Speaker 8: Well, in this season, for me, I will say that
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  Speaker 8: I have particularly slowed down and started to appreciate all
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  Speaker 8: that I have achieved in this short forty seven years
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  Speaker 8: that I've been here, and I've been embracing all of that,
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  Speaker 8: and I've been receiving.
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  Speaker 7: What my children.
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  Speaker 8: Have been celebrating that they've received from me.
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  Speaker 7: And my oldest son.
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  Speaker 8: Is about to extend his legacy in getting married in
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  Speaker 8: a couple months, and so it's a beautiful thing and
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  Speaker 8: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 7: For for him.
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  Speaker 8: And that conversation has been a beautiful thing because we're
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  Speaker 8: talking about the things that you know, I didn't think.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you don't think your children are listening to
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  Speaker 8: the things that you say to them when they're young
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  Speaker 8: they're teenagers and things of that nature. But he's twenty
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  Speaker 8: seven now and it's like, well, Mom, you told me this,
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  Speaker 8: and I'm applying it now. And so it's been a
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  Speaker 8: beautiful thing to be now on the receiving end of that.
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  Speaker 8: And so I'm receiving in this season of my legacy
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  Speaker 8: now and being appreciative of that where I can now
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  Speaker 8: actually slow down and receive it, Whereas before it was
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  Speaker 8: always on the go, never having time to just sit
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  Speaker 8: and receive and celebrate. So now I'm sitting receiving and
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  Speaker 8: accepting that it's okay to actually celebrate the achievements of
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  Speaker 8: the things that I've accomplished.
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  Speaker 7: And it's a great feeling, but also it's a new feeling.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm just learning how to embrace the legacy that
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  Speaker 8: I've already created and watching my children be receiving and
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  Speaker 8: also acknowledging the accomplishments that I've begun leaving for them.
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  Speaker 8: So that's where I'm at in this season of my
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  Speaker 8: legacy right now.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, y'all dropping some powerful y'all dropping some powerful information tonight.
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  Speaker 6: So how do you protect your mind, vision, and assignment
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  Speaker 6: when distractions, doubt, or discouragement show up? And I want
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  Speaker 6: to start with Brother Barony.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's a that's a that's a great question,
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  Speaker 9: you know it really it's and it's day by day,
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  Speaker 9: right because the one thing that I am convinced of
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  Speaker 9: now more than ever is how chaotic life is. And
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  Speaker 9: yes there's order, yes there's balance, but yes there is chaos.
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  Speaker 9: And that chaos can you know, swing from one end
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  Speaker 9: of the spectrum to the other. For me, what's become
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  Speaker 9: really important is two. Take something from what sister Trevida
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  Speaker 9: mentioned is that you know, I have to I purposely
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  Speaker 9: slow down, and I have purposely slowed down because you know,
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  Speaker 9: when you feel a sense of true passion and commitment
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  Speaker 9: to something, it is very easy to get, you know,
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  Speaker 9: to get ahead of the cart or ahead of the horse,
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  Speaker 9: if you will, and in those moments it can be
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  Speaker 9: very easily to become distracted. And so I've had to
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  Speaker 9: slow down, you know, as as I age. You know,
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  Speaker 9: I balance also health related issues. I balance family issues,
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  Speaker 9: I balanced financial issues. You know, I balance just the travail,
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  Speaker 9: the travailing of life itself. And so for me it
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  Speaker 9: becomes it starts with just really being able to even
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  Speaker 9: in some cases stop and you know, acknowledge my own
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  Speaker 9: weakness or inability in certain moments to respond to certain situations.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I am a man that uses two hands
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  Speaker 9: to put on his pants because like everybody else, irrespective
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  Speaker 9: of what my passion and my commitment is. And so
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  Speaker 9: I have to make a very very deliberate effort to
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  Speaker 9: protect my mind and not allow myself to become distracted
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  Speaker 9: or discouraged or sidetracked because there is so much that
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  Speaker 9: is actually happening. So it's a great question, and it
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  Speaker 9: really just you know, I try to spend a certain
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  Speaker 9: amount of.
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  Speaker 5: M uhh, I think he may have frow him up.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, here we go in my back. Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: So I use a combination of silence and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 9: just just real quiet time to prepare myself but then
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  Speaker 9: also remain open to what this chaotic life can bring
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  Speaker 9: at anytime.
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  Speaker 8: Man Tarita, Well, what I do to keep myself protected
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  Speaker 8: is number one I say in prayer. I communicate with
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  Speaker 8: God on a regular basis. I make sure that I limit.
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  Speaker 7: Myself on.
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  Speaker 8: Being distracted through social media because I limit the foolishness.
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  Speaker 7: I don't entertain the drama.
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  Speaker 8: Like it's just certain things that I really do not
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  Speaker 8: participate in. If you're calling me to gossip or do
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: any of that stuff, I'm quickly going to end the
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: conversation because that's not for me. And so oftentimes when
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: I'm like, well, did you hear about such as it?
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Absolutely not, I didn't because it wasn't intended for me
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: to hear.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Because I've said this a few years ago.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: If God didn't put it on my calendar, it's not
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: my business. So if it's not God didn't put it
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: on there, it's not for me to know. So that
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: has kept me focused on where I'm supposed to be going,
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: what I'm supposed to be doing. So if it's not
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: aligned with what God has told me to do, I
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: ain't my business.
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: So that is what.
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: Keeps me aligned, focused and determined to stay in the
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: business that God has a sign for me and stay
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: out of where I'm not supposed to be. So that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: just how I stay protected and aligned with the purpose
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: that I'm supposed to be doing in this season.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor Chen.
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  Speaker 11: May have to ask you to repeat the question I heard.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: So the question was.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: How do you protect your mind vision in assignment when distractions, doubt,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: or discouragement show up?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: I think I just needed a moment to reflect on
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: what I just heard. It's just a reader, I said, pause. No,
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: you know how you prepare a response and you ready
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: and then people speak and you're like, Okay, Clauda, I
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: have to say it comes from a space of staying
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: in that realm of perpetual prayer, meditation, personal reflection, and
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: a spiritual grounding. So one of the first things I
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: tend to do, and I do it frequently, is yes,
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: I pray, but I don't just pray in English, because
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: sometimes it's in other languages and through more ancestral scriptural
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: texts in those original languages or more original languages that
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: I can at least speak to and know what I'm saying,
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: that it gives me the rhythm. Sometimes I sing, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: I will sing prayers in a way that helps me
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: to remember that I need to be balanced, that I
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: need to restore harmony in my body, mind, soul, spirit
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: and consciousness like all the time, and I do my
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: best not to just stick in my brain, matter mind,
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: but go into my spiritual soul self mind, so when
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: distractions do come up, that I'm not just being reactive,
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: that I can actually hmm, reflect, do I need to
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: respond If I don't need to respond, even better and
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: keep it moving so that I can stay in a regenerative,
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: transformative self healings. What is the word they like to
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: use now self care and everybody likes to talk about
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: self care. Self care is a really nice twenty first
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: century phrase for what our parents, grandparents encourage us to
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: do a long time ago. Don't go to rest with
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: anger on your head. If you have a difference with somebody,
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: clear it up before you go into the rest state,
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: because you don't know if you're going to wake up.
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: Before you go to rest, say those words of praise,
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: words of thanks for you being present and being able
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: to rest, hopefully in a clean bed with running walter
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: and utilities to keep you with a certain amount of comfort.
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: And even if you don't have those things, still give
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: thanks for life. So for me, and maybe because of
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  Speaker 10: just you know, some of that upbringing, you know, being
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: around parents that one lived real long one didn't, but
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: the spiritual energy of how they raised my brothers and
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: I really grounded that kind of vibration and spirit inside
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: of my soul space. And not just because of being
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: an ordained minister. Is it that you know we got
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: it on lock. No, it means that we have to
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: even be more responsible and more accountable because we're not
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: just focusing on self, but we've been granted the privilege
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: to be able to serve others and to keep them
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: in that same space and light of honoring infinite source.
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: So for some they'll say God, they'll say Jehovah, they'll
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: say Yahweh, some say oludu mades, some say Nata. We've
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: got some names, and if we were to just hone
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: in a little bit tighter collectively, I sensed it what
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: I'm doing to stay balanced, because people tend to ask
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: me that frequently because it's a lot of chaos. You know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: I really appreciate what brother Baruti shared because just like
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: we speak of harmony and balance and all of that,
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: there's an opposite. Like the term I use is my aunt,
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: it's what is part of the system that I practice.
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: And my aunt is truth, just disorder, reciprocity, balance, divine, righteousness,
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: and harmony. It says all of that and four let
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: to us and technically two without vowels.
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: But the opposite of that principle is what keeps me
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: from taking on those distractions, because those distractions there's a
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: term for them too. It's fed, and it's chaos, it's disorder,
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: it's in balance, it's lack of righteousness. Right, So I
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: do my best to say in the morning what I
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: will do and when I before I go to rest,
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: what I have not done right so for and there's
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: there's ways of prayers.
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: Some people use the tank commandments.
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: Some people get really engaged in do the two hundred
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: and fifty six though dues. Some people remember the six
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: hundred and forty mosaic laws.
• 33:16
  Speaker 11: I think that's powerful.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: I can handle the forty two laws of my Od
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: or admonitions of my Od, so we can speak of
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: what I will not do in the morning and do
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: our best to live in out of coord so I
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: don't get twisted by distractions. I don't get overwhelmed by
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: transitions that are not my charge.
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: I love how Sister Queen atributed.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: If it's not on my if God did not put
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: it on my count, I'm going to use that one.
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: I'm gonna use that just trust to believe you will
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: be quoted, because that's a powerful place to kind of land.
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: My response for that question, Sister Queen Visionary Angela that
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: I do my best to stay in my odd first
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: and minimize conflict by minimizing contact, which is something I
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: learned from an elder Nelly Fuller A long time ago.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Wow, well y'all all have dropped some amazing nuggas and
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: just hearing your perspective.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: So the next question is what is one lesson you
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: have learned the hard way that you now use to
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: help teach or encourage others.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: And I want to start with Trevida.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: One lesson that I learned the hard way is not
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: speaking up for myself immediately when I knew what was
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: the right thing in the moment. By certain situations that
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: have like okay, I'll say it this way, when I
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: knew I was right, but because of elder sometimes, you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: they would always say, well, I'm the elder, do as
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: I say.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: And I knew that they were wrong and.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: They were wrong, and I had to learn that just
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: because you're the elder did not make you right. And
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: so I learned that lesson the hard way. And so
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: when I had my children, that was a lesson that
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: I had to actually break within myself so that when
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: I had my children, they were able to come to
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: me when I said or I did something that hurt them.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: So they were able to come and say, hey, Mom,
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: what you said, what you did hurt me? And we
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: were able to fix those things and not have those
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: conflicts to where they were freely to discuss what was
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: hurting them and we were able to build from that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: And that was a hard lesson to learn.
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: Because growing up it was always I'm the adult, you're
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: the child. You can't tell me that I've done or
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: I said something that was wrong to you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: But it was a hard lesson to learn then.
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: But as I got older and I had my children,
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: it was a generational curse that I broke in my
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: home for my children to where it was if it
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: hurts you, tell me so that I can fix it,
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: because I don't want you growing up thinking that you
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: don't have a right to tell me that I've said
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: or I've done something that hurt you and we can't
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: fix it. And so now on the other end of that,
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: my children will tell me everything, and I had to
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: be like, okay, listen, there's some boundaries here.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: I don't want to know.
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: Everything, like the save some stuff for yourself, you know.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: But I love the relationship that I have with my children,
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: and I was able to apologize to my children, you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: when I was wrong, and that has created a closeness
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: that I have with my children and I'm grateful for that,
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: and that has been one of the hardest lessons that
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: I had to learn. But I'm grateful that I learned
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: it and I was able to break it and my
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: children are free to talk to me about any and everything.
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: But like I.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: Said, that was a good and a bad city because
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: my children have been able to tell me things that
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: I wish they did not tell me.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: But I am.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Grateful for the hardness of that lesson that I learned,
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: but I wish I had learned it a lot sooner
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: than I did.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Well. That that's that's powerful because.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: Being able to learn from your mistakes and being able
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: to teach somebody else, you're able to pour that into
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: your kids and they'll be able to do the same
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: for their kids. So that that is the things that
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: we do on a daily basis that will create legacy
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: because that'll be something that will be passed down to
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: your kids that they will be able to your kids
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: kids and generations to come.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Communication.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: And we know that that's one of the things that
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: sometimes lack in in in our culture, in our communities. Communications,
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: So that that is great. That that that was a
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: great one, doctor Chen, And.
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: You know, I really want you to repeat the question,
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: but I did. I did hear what you said. I
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: know to be to be, I can tell that this
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: could be an easy six hour panel discussion on a
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: variety of things. So we're just giving like the tidbit,
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: bite sized version. One of the lessons that was a hard.
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: Lesson for me.
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: Was recognized I spent a lot of time in different
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: parts of the world and I had to really learn.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Not to.
• 40:10
  Speaker 10: Not to bring like my expectations of how community society
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: operates into other spaces.
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: I'll give a case in point.
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: At one point, I was doing some work graduate work,
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: and I was living in what was becoming Burkina Fasso
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: at a time where it was still upper Volta in
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: West Africa. And it's not that I thought that I
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: had so much to offer, because again, you know, I
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: was still pretty young. I was in my twenties, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: I thought at the time that by my example and
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: my earnest engagement and wanting to help people and contribute
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: to the community and be able to work with their
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: children and work with their women, I was doing a
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: lot of work around health and midwifery and education, and
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: I thought that if I had that kind of thrust
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: and didn't have a lot of money, but I thought
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: I had enough resource that I could come and transform things.
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: Forgetting that you need to meet people where they are.
• 41:22
  Speaker 10: You need to leave your in this case Western mindset
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: in the West and observe, reflect, honor what of the
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: strengths in that space, learn some of the weaknesses, and
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: then blend them or layer them over what you think
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: is really important because it's important to In my case,
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: I thought it was so important to me, it had
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: to be important to them. And it was a very
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: rough lesson because not only did the country go through
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: a major transfer in the years that I worked there
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: and studied there, but it also led to me really
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: learning how to know space and place while respecting where
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: people sit. That they may be in a place of
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: elevation that I haven't reached and I need to honor that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: And then I need to be able to know that
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: I may have a lot of gifts to offer, but
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: they're just not prepared or ready for that, and to
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: not take it like I need to get angry or
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: I need to come out of my space or shun
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: people or feel what is what The term we use
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: in the Caribbean is toit toiti right like that you
• 42:45
  Speaker 10: think you're better than people, right because you come from
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: wherever you come from, and you maybe you have a
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: little extra And that's something that I've learned to teach
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: other persons that are doing that kind of travel, and
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: especially if they're speaking of repatriating to another country, you know,
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: especially those coming out of the forty eight contiguous US,
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: because the forty eight contiguous US has a way of
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: it's so seemingly solid, even though people think it's in
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: chaos now sort of in a way, but it's still
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: you know, people have running water, they have electricity most
• 43:23
  Speaker 10: of the time, they have access to food most of
• 43:27
  Speaker 10: the time. But I'm talking about being able to teach
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: persons that are making these international travels and saying that
• 43:34
  Speaker 10: they want to go and give back and be humanitarians,
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: to do it from a place of not being paternalistic
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: or to think because the creators blessed you with certain gifts, talents,
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: and expertise, that you're above the people that you're serving,
• 43:50
  Speaker 10: or that you feel that you have to put a
• 43:53
  Speaker 10: live stream on every gift that you give to the
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: child that's needing food. It might be that you just
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: need to just sit with that mother that is just
• 44:02
  Speaker 10: buried an infant child. It may be that you may
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: need to speak to some of the brothers in the
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: community that may not always understand your language fully, but
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: they can feel that you care and have empathy for
• 44:16
  Speaker 10: what they're experiencing. So for me, I took that hard
• 44:21
  Speaker 10: lesson of not understanding how to be more sharing of
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: a form of empathy and innerstanding, to then shifting that
• 44:30
  Speaker 10: and turning it around. I mean, I have had many
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: years to practice though, so I'm not encouraging that persons
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: can just up and do that instantly, but it's good
• 44:39
  Speaker 10: to know how to compartmentalize what is your weakness and
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: being able to use your strength. I'm going to sound
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: like an educator now, to ameliorate your weakness and do
• 44:51
  Speaker 10: the same thing when you're sharing and giving to others,
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: so that people can really receive what you're offering and
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: what you're giving, so that they know it's from a
• 44:59
  Speaker 10: place authentic, sacred intention, authentic compassionate care versus I just
• 45:08
  Speaker 10: think you should do this because it's important to me.
• 45:10
  Speaker 10: It worked for me, and I know because that's not
• 45:13
  Speaker 10: how the world of humanity flows, and especially if you
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: are moving as a child, even if you're an adult,
• 45:23
  Speaker 10: but a child creative, infinite source.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: Right right. That that that that was some good knowledge.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: We definitely need to know how to operate in empathy
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: and compassion when we're dealing with other people. So that
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: that's that was good. That was good, doctor chan brother Barone.
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: So yeah, so, man, I mean, sometimes I really hate
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: going last because what I hear your those responses, it
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: just takes me. But the thing, I mean, even even
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: in leading into that response, as I'm sitting here thinking
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: about one lesson I've learned the hard way. Right, learning
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: is continuous, especially in the work that we do, the
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: work that we're committed to.
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: And so.
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: I almost think to myself that I set myself up
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: by saying that I've learned this lesson, because there are
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: things that I've learned and I think I've learned it,
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: and then I discover now you really didn't know, because
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: something else will happen, and then you realize, oh wow,
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: I thought I had arrived at a place of understanding
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: of that. So one of the things that I really
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: appreciate about the question is that, in addition to it
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: provoking the thought, it also provokes the challenge to stay
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: in that space of learning. But one lesson that I've
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: learned the hard way, and I'll say, you know again
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: I'm still learning, is that I cannot control everything that
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: happens around me, but I am still responsible for what
• 47:15
  Speaker 9: I do with the moment I'm given. So there have
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: been times in my life when I've spent too much
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: of my energy really focused on what somebody else did
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: you know, or what should have happened, maybe what wasn't fair,
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: or what I wished that I could have changed. And
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: some of those things were absolutely real. I mean, and
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: as as Queen Mother mentioned, you know, we could we
• 47:47
  Speaker 9: could really go off and start thinking about things that
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: have happened in our lives and how they bring us
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: to here today. But anyway, but eventually I had to
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: learn that I could be completely right about what happened
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: to me and still remain stuck because I was waiting
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: for something outside of me to change. That's something that
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: I really strive to use when I am working with
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: other people today. I don't tell people that everything is
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: their fault because it isn't. And I don't tell them
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: they can control everything because they can't. And what I
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: try to help them identify is where is your choice now?
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: Because sometimes the most empowering thing we can discover in
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: a difficult situation is the part that still belongs to us.
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: I may not have chosen what happened to me, but
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: I can become more intentional about what happens through me next.
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: And I'll stop right now.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Now. That is powerful. That is powerful.
• 49:04
  Speaker 12: Now.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: Our time is winding down. Our time is winding down.
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: But I have one more question. And with this last question,
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: I want you guys to share with the listeners how
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: they can follow you, how they can support you, how
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: they can stay connected with you as.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: You share your answer to this final question.
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: And the final question is, if your legacy could speak
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: for you fifty years from now, what would you want
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: it to say about who you were, what you stood.
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  Speaker 5: For, and how you serve others.
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  Speaker 6: I'll repeat it, If your legacy could speak for you
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  Speaker 6: fifty years from now, what would you want it to
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  Speaker 6: say about who you were, what you stood for, and
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: how you serve others? And I want to start with
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: doctor Chen. Then we're going to go to Brother Rooney,
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: and then we're going to close out with Trivida.
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  Speaker 11: I would be.
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  Speaker 10: Very mindful that fifty years from now, the authenticity of
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  Speaker 10: my intentional work, the harmony that I exemplified and exuded
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  Speaker 10: in all of the things that I've been involved in,
• 50:47
  Speaker 10: whether it's as an educator, as a healer, as a
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  Speaker 10: ordained minister, as an artivist, as a technologist, as a communicator,
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  Speaker 10: as a mother, as a grandmother. Prayerfully I'll become a
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  Speaker 10: great grandmother and enjoy that too, And that persons would
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  Speaker 10: know that the intention was always to create a better
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  Speaker 10: earth and community, to ensure that high standards of excellence
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: in all facets of the building blocks of society were
• 51:28
  Speaker 10: at the core of the work that I contributed. That
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: whether my work with in the Caribbean Pan African Network,
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: the Universal Negro Improvement Association, African Communities League RC twenty
• 51:43
  Speaker 10: twenty in particular, whether the work that I do within Parankh,
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: within our speaks, with partnerships that are regional, global, international,
• 51:55
  Speaker 10: that persons would remember that it was always about biluilding
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  Speaker 10: a new legacy and creating a legacy that was sustainable,
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  Speaker 10: That it was something that benefited our children, our elders,
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  Speaker 10: persons in need, persons that didn't have need, those with wealth,
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  Speaker 10: those that are moving through impoverishment. I'm praying at fifty
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  Speaker 10: years from now that even that term poverty is transformed
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  Speaker 10: by some of the work that I do, that persons
• 52:34
  Speaker 10: can have safe births and deliveries without it becoming a
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  Speaker 10: disease centered experience. That persons would remember she built this institution,
• 52:47
  Speaker 10: she worked with this institution, She collectively and collaboratively financed
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  Speaker 10: the development of this economic engagement. She was able to
• 52:56
  Speaker 10: help this particular nation village unity we like to say tribes,
• 53:01
  Speaker 10: but more correctly ethnic villages, right, and that persons would
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  Speaker 10: recognize it. Part of my work has always been about life, inspiration,
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: freedom and education, and that persons would really recognize that
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  Speaker 10: I too am a daughter of the infinite creative source,
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  Speaker 10: and irrespective of which book I use or which scriptural
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: texts I read from, whether it's in English or not,
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  Speaker 10: that it's all about understanding and honoring that. We should
• 53:38
  Speaker 10: be about honoring the Creator and living it every single
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  Speaker 10: day with a destiny driven space that just lets people
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: when they say and reference me, that it's going to
• 53:52
  Speaker 10: be in a positive way that my character, my reputation,
• 53:57
  Speaker 10: my livity is seen in that space in alignment with
• 54:02
  Speaker 10: that which is divine and righteous. And even when persons
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: reflect on that temper that I can have, that they
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: recognize that I'm still human and that I'm always in
• 54:15
  Speaker 10: a place of improvement because perfection isn't real. Improvement is authentic.
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: So it would be a place of yeah, fifty years
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  Speaker 10: from now, I would love that, And of course my
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  Speaker 10: art collection, because my art collection definitely will outlive me,
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  Speaker 10: so I would like for persons to make sure that
• 54:35
  Speaker 10: I'm saying it publicly so the persons remember things like
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  Speaker 10: that my art collection, I'm abilitiophile, So my collection of
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: literature and books, I think that yeah, fifty years from
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: now should be in that frame. And I before I close, though,
• 54:51
  Speaker 10: I just need to make sure that I recognize today's
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: as I started really special. Sometimes we don't refer to
• 55:01
  Speaker 10: days like the Universal African Flag Day August thirteenth. People
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: forget people like Marcus Garve me. But today is that anniversary,
• 55:12
  Speaker 10: and I think it's powerful that we're having these types
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  Speaker 10: of conversations amongst our circle, in this sphere, in this realm.
• 55:20
  Speaker 10: So when people see a red, black and green flag,
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: I don't want them to forget. That's also connected to
• 55:25
  Speaker 10: how we deal with legacy. That's also how we begin.
• 55:29
  Speaker 10: We're talking about something that was formulated from back in
• 55:31
  Speaker 10: the nineteen twenties and even before that, originally in nineteen fourteen,
• 55:36
  Speaker 10: and it still exists. So fifty years from now, I
• 55:40
  Speaker 10: would like for the things that I've been a part
• 55:42
  Speaker 10: of and engage in to still exist and be remembered
• 55:47
  Speaker 10: and remembered respectfully, mister Barrow.
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  Speaker 9: So fifty years from now, okay, there's going to be
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: there are so many things to remember about me. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 9: all of them won't be connected to the work that
• 56:23
  Speaker 9: I've done, because this represents a part of who I am,
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: and it also represents a specific period of time. So
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: fifty years from now, I don't necessarily need people, as
• 56:41
  Speaker 9: I mentioned earlier, to remember everything I accomplished or even
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: remember my name. I would hope my legacy says that
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  Speaker 9: I use the time I was given to help people
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  Speaker 9: recognize that they had great greater capacity, greater agency, and
• 57:04
  Speaker 9: more possibility than they even sometimes believed themselves. I hope
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  Speaker 9: it says that I loved my family well, that I
• 57:18
  Speaker 9: served people, that I developed leaders, and that I left
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  Speaker 9: behind ideas and tools that continue helping people make more
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: intentional choices long after I was no longer here to
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: teach them myself. You know, if something I wrote, something
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: I taught, or something I placed into another person is
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: still creating good fifty years from now. That's enough for me.
• 57:53
  Speaker 9: I don't need my name attached to everything. I want
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: the good to continue. In terms of you know me,
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: Barutimanda Mariaman, Mastering your moments the easiest place to communicate
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: with me. I mean I am on Facebook social media,
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: but it's through my website, which is Moments to Master
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: dot com m O M E n T s t
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  Speaker 9: O m A s t e r dot com. Moments
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: to Master dot com. That's the home of mastering your
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: Moments and where you can learn more about the books,
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: the work we're doing, speaking and engagement opportunities and ways
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: to connect directly with me. And again that's Moments to
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: Master dot Com and I'd love for you to continue
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: the journey with us, because every moment matters and every
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: choice resonates.
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  Speaker 6: Also also also that the chain were you did you
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: share how individuals can connect with you?
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  Speaker 10: I don't think you did because I was focusing on
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: answering the question. But I shall us speaks A S. T. S.
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  Speaker 10: P E A K. S at gmail dot com. You
• 59:21
  Speaker 10: can find us Speaks or just by my name chen
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: Zerra and you'll see my picture. It shows up I
• 59:26
  Speaker 10: usually most of the time, I think it's been of
• 59:28
  Speaker 10: with the White Crown on Facebook, Twitter, excuse me.
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: X and YouTube as well. YouTube.
• 59:36
  Speaker 10: I encourage persons to look at a st Speaks and
• 59:39
  Speaker 10: that way you can connect to all the other networks
• 59:42
  Speaker 10: for whether it's to do motivational speaking, a variety of
• 59:47
  Speaker 10: services again that are about culture, healing, arts, technology and
• 59:51
  Speaker 10: spirituality that promote life.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you for that. Just a queen?
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  Speaker 5: All right, commeda. Do you need me to repeat the question?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: No? No. What I hope people will remember me for is
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: number one?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 8: Is that even though I only stand four feet eight
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: inches tall, Is that even though she's small in spirit,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: she in hight, she's just ten feet tall in spirit.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: Because her small statue big spirit. She was never let
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: anything stop her. She let life take her by the horns.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: And even though she was determined to be big because
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 8: God said, you may be small, but you are mighty.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: And this stroke did not stop you, Kiari, did not
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: stop you anything that you set your mind to.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: You will accomplish.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: Anybody that you encounter, you will pour into and that
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: will be your legacy because you have never let anybody
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: who comes into your space. You have never let them
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: think small of themselves because you don't even think small
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: of yourself. You are bigger than your small statue. And
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: so since you are bigger than your small snatue, everyone
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: else around you is bigger too. And so that is
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 8: what I leave fifty years from now, because that's what
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: God said. And so you can find me at Wings
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: of Transformation Publishing. You can also find me at Trevida
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: Harris on Facebook Trevida Harris at Wings of Transformation Publishing.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 8: It's the same thing on all of them, Trevida Harris,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: Wings of Transformation TikTok. It's just the same. You're not
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 8: gonna mess that up. The only way you'll mess it
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: up is you'll misspell my name. So I'm gonna spell
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 8: my name for it. Because everybody get the I and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: the e in the wrong place. So t R I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 8: V E d A. If you can say bel Vita
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: like the cheese, you can say Trevita is cheesy, but
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 8: you'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Got it?
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  Speaker 11: Okay?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: Love you, Oh and the other thing you'll always remember
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: stay out of God's business, because that's what they'll remember
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: me for fifty years from now, because I always say
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: that stay out of God's business. The only thing he
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: needs you to do is be obedient to what he's
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: called you to do. Because God is God all by himself,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: He don't need nothing from us but to be obedient
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: to what He's called us to do. So if you
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 8: ever hear somebody saying that fifty years from now, I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 8: said it first.
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  Speaker 6: For though I have truly truly enjoyed you guys once again,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: and I know that those that are tuned in have
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: been blessed by the nuggets and the things that you
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: have shared from your perspective on legacy and minding your legacy,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: because all of our legacies are different, because our journeys
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: are different and our perspectives are different. So it's always
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: great that we can come together on panels like this
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: and be able to share so that we can reach
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: the masses.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: So again, I thank you guys for taking time to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: stop by and share. Know that my door's always open.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: I want people to remember me as someone that always
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: wanted to educate, empower and encourage the next person to
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: stay on this journey that we call life so that
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: they will be able to leave a legacy and somebody
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: will remember something that they encountered from coming in your present.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: So that is my take on fifty years from now.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: I have been blessed, and I hope you guys that
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: are listening, even if you're hearing it as a replay,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: I hope you will take some of these nuggets and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: apply it to your daily life because legacy is being
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: created every moment, every second of every day as you live.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: Because guess what, we.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: Can't go back to yesterday and correct something that was
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: done and do it over.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: So what was done.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: Yesterday is already part of your legacy. So take advantage
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: of every moment. Take advantage of every moment. Again, I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 6: want to thank Chavida, Brother Baroni, doctor Chen for taking
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: time out your schedules and stopping by and share. Know
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: that anytime y'all want to stop by and share with
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: me on this Thursday, because I now am here on
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: second Thursday. This is going to be the mind your
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: legacy corner for the rest of the year. So anytime
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: you guys want to stop by, just let me know.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: And we can continue this conversation because this is a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: worthy conversation, a needed conversation, and something that just cannot
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: be wrapped up in one hour.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: We probably can go.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: Into December to thirty first, every second Thursday until December
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: and probably still wouldn't cover everything. But I tell you
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: I have been blessed. And again I thank you guys
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: for being here tonight. I hope you have a great
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 6: rest of your evening. I hope y'all have a great weekend,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: and I'll be in touch because we may do this
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: again in September. So I love y'all. I appreciate you
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: guys for stopping by. So I hope you guys have
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: been blessed.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: And see y'all next time.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: Tonight, and my heart to your good night, good night,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 12: Queen Visionary Angela signing off in grace, keep your legacy
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 12: in motion, keep walking in faith. Good night, good night,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 12: Keep minding your legs, see building it up.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 9: Fomp in truth. Peeple, who God called you to be?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: Let your purpose?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 9: Times right? To keep walking in purpose? Suie me past time.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: Don't forget who you walk in.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: You're a rising star.