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3 17 25 MEET 1 OF 100 AUTHORS TO WATCH Sophonna Sheppard · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: People, ladies and gentlemen, lay I have your attention. Please.
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Speaker 2: Well, Hello, hello, hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I want
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Speaker 2: to welcome you guys to another episode of Upcoast and
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Speaker 2: Personal with the Queen here on the Crew podcast.
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Speaker 3: On behalf of.
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Speaker 2: International Women's History Month, we are bringing some amazing queens
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Speaker 2: that are doing their own thing in.
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Speaker 3: The literary world.
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Speaker 2: So tonight, the rest of this week and next week,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be sharing some amazing queens that are
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Speaker 2: doing their thing in the literary world and beyond it
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Speaker 2: goes beyond just the books, that goes beyond just writing.
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Speaker 2: These individuals have established themselves brands, and they've established platforms
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Speaker 2: and speaking and engagements and things of that nature to
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Speaker 2: allow their voices to be heard because they have a
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Speaker 2: message that they want to get out into the world.
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Speaker 2: So I am honored. It is truly a privilege and
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Speaker 2: an honor to be able to bring these amazing queens
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Speaker 2: to you guys and allow you guys to get to
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Speaker 2: know them, to find out, you know a little bit
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Speaker 2: about them, what they're doing and what we can expect
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Speaker 2: to see from them in twenty twenty five. So I'm
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Speaker 2: excited if you would please take a moment share this
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Speaker 2: in your circle, Share this with someone, because you never
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Speaker 2: know what the next person may be in need of.
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Speaker 2: It may be just that little, that one little nugget
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Speaker 2: that is dropped tonight that may help someone come out
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Speaker 2: of whatever they may be going through. So if you
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Speaker 2: would please share this in your circle. While I prepare
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Speaker 2: to bring up my guests, I'm gonna allow her to
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Speaker 2: come up introduce herself. It's not gonna be so much
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Speaker 2: for those that follow and know the platform know that
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Speaker 2: you know, it's just gonna be a conversation.
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Speaker 3: We want to get to know who she is.
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Speaker 2: We want to know what she got going on, and
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Speaker 2: we want to know how we can support the things
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Speaker 2: that she's doing. So I'm gonna move out the way
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna bring her up, and I'm gonna allow
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Speaker 2: her to do her introductions, y'all, and then we're gonna
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Speaker 2: dive into conversation. If you have any questions, we want
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Speaker 2: you to chime in, so post your comments in the
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Speaker 2: comments section, and y'all, we're gonna have a great time tonight.
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Speaker 2: So let me bring my guest up and allow her
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Speaker 2: to introduce herself. So, welcome, welcome, welcome. How are you tonight? Hi?
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Speaker 4: How are you?
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Speaker 3: I am great.
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Speaker 2: I can't complain, I tell you, I'm just reminded. I
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Speaker 2: remember my mom used to tell me. She said, you
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Speaker 2: know what that it's just like using a restaurant on yourself,
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Speaker 2: she says.
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Speaker 3: Don't nobody to feel that with you?
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Speaker 2: She said, complaining and being mad. She said, hey, baby,
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Speaker 2: don't nobody feel that with you? She says, the other
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Speaker 2: person is going on and doing what they doing, and
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Speaker 2: you are mad. So hey that that thing has stuck
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 3: And I tell you it's so easy for me to
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Speaker 3: forgive because of that. I don't want to carry that
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Speaker 3: around with me.
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Speaker 2: So tonight, I'm excited to have you in the studio,
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Speaker 2: excited to have you in the building. You are one
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Speaker 2: of the amazing queens that are part of the one
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Speaker 2: hundred Authors to Watch in twenty twenty five. So we
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Speaker 2: want to get a chance to find.
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Speaker 3: Out a little bit about.
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Speaker 2: You, who you are, what you're doing, and how we
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Speaker 2: can support those things. So if you would the floridshowrs, Okay,
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Speaker 2: thank you so much, Queen Angela.
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Speaker 5: I'm so happy to be here this evening and giving
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Speaker 5: me the opportunity to be able to speak on this
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Speaker 5: platform and talk about some of the amazing things that
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Speaker 5: I'm doing, as well as being just part of the
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Speaker 5: amazing thing that you're doing in all these other fabulous authors.
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Speaker 5: So my name is Safana Shepherd and I am a mom,
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Speaker 5: I'm a grandma, and I'm also an author of three books,
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Speaker 5: a poetry poetry book, a anthology I'm part of as well
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Speaker 5: as a partial memoir where I talk about my journey
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Speaker 5: from once living in shelters with my family to overseeing
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Speaker 5: shelters in New York City.
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Speaker 4: I am a certified life coach as.
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Speaker 5: Well recently trained, and I currently my nine to five.
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Speaker 5: I work for the Department of Health as well as
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Speaker 5: the Department of Aging, helping the seniors, seniors who are
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Speaker 5: struggling with Alzheimer's and dementia but working with the caregivers
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Speaker 5: who support them.
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Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, amazing.
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Speaker 2: Definitely takes a special person to do the things that
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Speaker 2: here are doing. I trust me it takes a special person.
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Speaker 2: You you touched on a couple of things that are
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Speaker 2: near and dear to my heart. I am passionate about
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Speaker 2: my elderly and my babies. Yeah you my age. I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 2: you can feel for yourself, but I'm passionate about them
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Speaker 2: babies and I'm passionate about the elderly. So you definitely
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Speaker 2: touched on some things that are amazing.
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Speaker 3: Your journey. Just hearing just that snit bit.
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Speaker 2: It's truly amazing, and a lot of people can glean
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Speaker 2: from your experience and the things that you have been through.
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Speaker 2: So definitely, I look forward to sharing more because I
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Speaker 2: know this time we have here today is not going
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Speaker 2: to be enough. So I'm excited. I'm excited, Like I mean,
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Speaker 2: you just touched on a lot of things, and I
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Speaker 2: know that just getting to know you over this platform
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Speaker 2: is going to be amazing.
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Speaker 3: I love the.
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Speaker 2: Fact that you were able to take your experience, take
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Speaker 2: your journey, and turn it into a career, and then
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Speaker 2: take it and be able to give back not just
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Speaker 2: as a job, but as an outlet of.
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Speaker 3: Getting through it. You know people, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, some people get through it sometimes and they never
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Speaker 2: want to share the journey. So I thank you for
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Speaker 2: that because people seeing you know how you got through it,
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Speaker 2: and knowing that they can't get through it, it.
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Speaker 3: Is so amazing.
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Speaker 2: So if you would, I want to know a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but I know you can I know you can't go
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Speaker 2: all into it, but just a little bit of what
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Speaker 2: this journey has been like for you becoming an author.
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Speaker 2: Has there been any challenges with becoming an author?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, there's been challenges. I think the biggest challenge for
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Speaker 5: me was more in marketing the book once the book
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Speaker 5: came out, and really promoting it, and of course family
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Speaker 5: and friends supported, but me really wanting to get the
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Speaker 5: book out and get the message out to more people
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Speaker 5: that didn't know me because I think the story is
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Speaker 5: so important. And the people that did, my friends and
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Speaker 5: my family that did read the book, you know, and
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Speaker 5: then some people that weren't so close to me, you know,
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Speaker 5: they told me that they had went through similar situations
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Speaker 5: or something in a book really touched them, and that
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Speaker 5: they didn't realize that someone else actually had this journey
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Speaker 5: as well. So the challenge was really figuring out how
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Speaker 5: I can get this story out there, whether it's in
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Speaker 5: the book, yes, but promoting it and maybe even just
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Speaker 5: speaking about my experience, which I don't think it's unique.
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Speaker 5: I think a lot of women go through this, and
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Speaker 5: just for me, being able to talk about it. You
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Speaker 5: know briefly that I when I originally wrote the book
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Speaker 5: it's called Protection from the Storm, that's not the book
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Speaker 5: that I wanted to write. I wanted to write something
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Speaker 5: told different. And a friend of mine, she has a
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Speaker 5: publication company called Smart Girl Media, and we were talking
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Speaker 5: about it and she was asking me what I wanted
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Speaker 5: to do, and I told her what I wanted to
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Speaker 5: write about, and she said, well, I'm not really sure
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Speaker 5: if that's the way we should go. She was giving
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Speaker 5: me a little guidance, but she said, tell me a
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Speaker 5: little bit more about you know, your story and some
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Speaker 5: things that maybe other people don't know.
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Speaker 4: And I just started talking.
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Speaker 5: And I started talking while I was in the shelter
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Speaker 5: with my family and you know, I did this And
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Speaker 5: she said, wait a minute. She said, do you realize
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Speaker 5: what you just said?
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Speaker 4: And I'm like what?
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Speaker 5: And she said, you were in a shelter with your children,
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Speaker 5: with your family, and now you are overseeing seven shelters
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Speaker 5: in New York City. She said, do you realize what
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Speaker 5: that story is? And I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, uh, okay.
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Speaker 5: But for me, it was more like that's my story,
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Speaker 5: that's my journey. I went through it, I got through it,
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Speaker 5: but I wasn't thinking about the power in that. And
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Speaker 5: so once she actually helped me to see that, and
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Speaker 5: once I started going through the process and writing about
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Speaker 5: it and remembering, and it made me cry, like I
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Speaker 5: was just like wow, like this is so powerful, and
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Speaker 5: realizing how God was deal with me every step of
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Speaker 5: the way and if it wasn't for my faith and
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Speaker 5: it wasn't for him.
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Speaker 4: Because people were often ask.
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Speaker 5: Me, how did you do all of that, and I'd
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Speaker 5: be like, oh, I don't know, I just did it. No,
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Speaker 5: God helped me through that. He saw me through that,
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Speaker 5: and this is what I was supposed to doow.
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Speaker 2: And you say that, and you say New York, and
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Speaker 2: then I'm like, okay. I know a young lady that
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Speaker 2: lives in New York that also had a similar experience.
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Speaker 3: It's yours.
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Speaker 2: I happened to meet her on social media. We were
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Speaker 2: on the same podcast network, and in the midst of
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Speaker 2: her going through I find out she was going through
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Speaker 2: but she experienced the same thing. But I'm glad she
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Speaker 2: was too able to get through because now she's in
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Speaker 2: her own apartment, she is doing she's doing amazing. So
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Speaker 2: you know, people need to hear those stories because imagine
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Speaker 2: how many other people are in New York or in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 2: or in Atlanta or in these major cities that are
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Speaker 2: experiencing the same thing and think that they are alone,
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Speaker 2: that there's nobody else that has been through that are
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Speaker 2: going through that, when there's other people going through the
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Speaker 2: same thing. But now that you have been through it,
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Speaker 2: you know you were able to get through it. So
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Speaker 2: now it's a question for a lot of people is
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Speaker 2: how did you get through it?
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Speaker 3: You know, what were the steps?
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you share that and everything that you do,
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Speaker 2: everything that you put out every time you get a
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Speaker 2: chance to speak. I'm sure that you're sharing these things.
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Speaker 2: But those are things that you know, people want to know.
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Speaker 2: You know, Okay, I see she went through these things.
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Speaker 2: How did she get through that? And how were you
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Speaker 2: able to because you're a beautiful young lady, how were
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Speaker 2: you able to maintain and not look like what you've
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Speaker 2: been through with people like But I tell people now,
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Speaker 2: I don't even say I'm glad I don't look like
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Speaker 2: what I've been through.
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Speaker 3: You know what I say? Now? I say, you know
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Speaker 3: what it took that to make me look like this.
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Speaker 2: It took that to get me to look like this,
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Speaker 2: because guess what if I.
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Speaker 3: Had not went through it, what I look like this?
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Speaker 5: That's what I like.
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Speaker 2: What I look what would I be able to say that?
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Speaker 2: You know, but no, I'm supposed to look like this
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Speaker 2: because this is what getting through it looks like.
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Speaker 3: Yo, this is what getting through it look like. So
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Speaker 3: now you tell people.
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Speaker 2: You can tell people, this is what it looks like,
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Speaker 2: so you can you can encourage them. That can be
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Speaker 2: your encouragement to if if you want to look like
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Speaker 2: you've been through the fire but not being.
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Speaker 4: Burnt, or.
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Speaker 3: This is how you do it, This is how you
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 2: Look just listening to your story, it's really just just
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Speaker 2: it just did something to me, Like you don't know
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Speaker 2: how many bits and pieces of the things that you've
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Speaker 2: shared that I've experienced.
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Speaker 3: I been home.
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Speaker 2: With a couple of times. You know, I've had to
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Speaker 2: start over a couple of times.
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Speaker 3: You know, I.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of people don't even know this, but
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Speaker 2: when I left my domestic violence, when I left that
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Speaker 2: and I was told that, you know, we're gonna help you.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do this. Come on over here, and we're
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Speaker 2: gonna do this. People don't know that I slept in
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Speaker 2: my car in a parking lot for several nights because
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Speaker 2: someone told me that would be a safe haven, that
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Speaker 2: that I would be okay there. You know, didn't worry
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Speaker 2: about putting me up. But it was God that allowed
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Speaker 2: me to get through that. You know, I'm grateful, you know,
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Speaker 2: to even be here. You know, who would have known
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Speaker 2: that I would be able to share that, not if
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Speaker 2: you had not been on here today, even mentioning that
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Speaker 2: I probably not even because I'm not mentioned. I don't
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Speaker 2: even know if I mentioned it before, because my journey
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Speaker 2: has just been so much and just being able to
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Speaker 2: talk about it.
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Speaker 5: God works in mysterious ways. He puts people together and
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Speaker 5: people in your paths for a reason. I believe that
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Speaker 5: that some of the things that happened to me along
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Speaker 5: the way, you know, people have always been put in
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Speaker 5: my path and you know, just really staying strong to
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Speaker 5: my faith and I and I thank you for sharing
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Speaker 5: that because you know as well. I actually was part
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Speaker 5: of of an anthology as well with a lady that
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Speaker 5: I just met just out of the blue or Her
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Speaker 5: name is doctor Tanisha King Tiler, and she asked me
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Speaker 5: to be a part of an anthology that she was doing,
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Speaker 5: and I thought it was rather strange when she asked me,
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Speaker 5: because when she told me the topic, she said, the
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Speaker 5: topic is around domestic violence, but emotional and psychological abuse
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Speaker 5: of women and intimate partner relationships. So I was taken
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Speaker 5: aback because I'm like, that's not what my book was about,
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Speaker 5: what I wrote about, So why.
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Speaker 4: Did she ask me to join her in this book?
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Speaker 5: And it just so happened at that time she shared
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Speaker 5: with me that she was in the process of going
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Speaker 5: through a divorce and leaving her husband.
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Speaker 4: Who was a very abusive to her, and she didn't.
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Speaker 5: Even know at that time I was also in the
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Speaker 5: middle of the same thing, and so her asking me
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Speaker 5: it was like this divine connection without her even knowing.
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Speaker 4: And I absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Joined her and five other authors in that anthology so
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Speaker 5: we could tell our stories. And I just feel like,
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Speaker 5: that is what my past has been, and that's what
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Speaker 5: the the gift in my purpose that God has given
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Speaker 5: me is to tell my story and to connect with
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Speaker 5: other women who may have been keeping these things silent
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Speaker 5: and not being able to speak about it. And once
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Speaker 5: they hear other women's story, whether it's my story, your story,
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Speaker 5: they feel uncomfortable enough or connect enough to be able
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Speaker 5: to say, you know what, I don't have to be
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Speaker 5: alone because I'm not alone and I've been through these things,
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Speaker 5: and they've been through these things, and look at where
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Speaker 5: they are and they're continuing on the resilience the strength.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, so I know that that is what my
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Speaker 5: purpose is.
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Speaker 2: Wow, and that you say that, and then you say
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Speaker 2: that the loneliness. You know, I actually have some hosts
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Speaker 2: that are on the podcast and some individuals that support
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Speaker 2: the podcast that are going through similar situations now, and
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Speaker 2: you know, just being able to for them to hear
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Speaker 2: this and for them to get these little nuggets something
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Speaker 2: that can can help them get through, because sometimes we
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Speaker 2: don't know what the next person is experience. And we
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Speaker 2: may share everything that we can and we can only
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Speaker 2: share our experiences, but it may be something that the
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Speaker 2: next person is sharing that can help them get through.
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Speaker 2: So I'm grateful and God knows what we need and
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Speaker 2: he will always if we just align ourselves, if we
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Speaker 2: just be in place, he will make sure that we
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Speaker 2: align with those things that we're supposed to according to
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Speaker 2: his plan. Because his plan is his plan. They're my
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Speaker 2: twenty nine and eleven is not gonna change. He is
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Speaker 2: already mapped it out. So the fact that you're here today,
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Speaker 2: that was already a part of the plan back when
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Speaker 2: he said it was done. He knew that this day
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Speaker 2: was gonna come and that it was gonna be right
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Speaker 2: here in this hour and this minute, and everyone that
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Speaker 2: needed to hear this, and everyone that needed to be
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Speaker 2: in this moment would be here. And even those that
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Speaker 2: will hear this as a replay, you know, they're gonna
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Speaker 2: hear it exactly when they need to hear it. Because
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Speaker 2: God is an on time god. He's not a god
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Speaker 2: of circumstance and accidents and and just happenstance. He's not
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Speaker 2: that guy. He's an on time god, and he's always
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Speaker 2: moving on our rehals.
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Speaker 3: So I'm grateful.
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Speaker 2: I'm grateful that we were in place and that we
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Speaker 2: were able to be obedient and that we listen.
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Speaker 3: We listened to him.
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Speaker 2: So you mentioned some of the things that you do.
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Speaker 2: By any chance, are you doing any speaking or are
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Speaker 2: you doing any type of motivational speaking or and this time.
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Speaker 5: Not at well, not at this time. That's something that
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Speaker 5: I definitely am looking into, and I really want to do.
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Speaker 5: One of the things that I want to do is
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Speaker 5: go to the family shelters to give back where the
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Speaker 5: women and children are, to really speak to the women
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Speaker 5: and let them know, you know, like I was. You know,
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Speaker 5: I'm you and you are me. You know I was
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Speaker 5: in this place, so don't give up and think that
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Speaker 5: this is the end for you. But also, you know,
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Speaker 5: speaking to young women. I also work with young girls.
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Speaker 5: I have an organization that I started right before the
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Speaker 5: pandemic call she is Empowered, where we just bring women
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Speaker 5: together similar to what you do, but but instead bring
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Speaker 5: women together to network all walks of path in their
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Speaker 5: careers and just really mentor each other. And we give
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Speaker 5: back to the youth as well. We give them I
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Speaker 5: call them love offerings and uh for the youth and
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Speaker 5: education or entrepreneurial pursuits that they may be looking to do.
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Speaker 5: So motivational speaking is something that I definitely really want
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Speaker 5: to get deeper into. I have an event that's coming
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Speaker 5: up in May supporting women, and that's going to be
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Speaker 5: my first event that I'm going to do where I'm
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Speaker 5: going to be the speaker as opposed to hiring someone
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Speaker 5: or bringing someone in. I want to be there to
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Speaker 5: speak to the women at my own event exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's what I keep telling people like you sit a month,
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Speaker 2: like you are so gifted in talent, like I tell
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Speaker 2: the young ladies on the podcast all the time, because
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Speaker 2: we have not just the group of people that you
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Speaker 2: see in the background, but the ladies right here on
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Speaker 2: the podcast.
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Speaker 3: We have nine.
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Speaker 2: Hosts that hosts their own show, and they're all queens,
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Speaker 2: and they all have their own brands. They're all doing
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Speaker 2: differing and they have their own powerful messages. Like we
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Speaker 2: have one that's a social worker. She does policies and procedures,
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Speaker 2: but she has been in social working for thirty over
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Speaker 2: thirty years. She's done everything. She's done asta care, she's
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Speaker 2: done elderly like you guys do, and she is amazing.
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Speaker 2: We have individuals that have disabilities that come and they
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Speaker 2: share about their disability to show that you can still
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Speaker 2: do things and not even be you know, to come
22:21
Speaker 2: to your disability that you still can do despite uh
22:24
Speaker 2: that it does not disable you, but it is just
22:28
Speaker 2: you're just different. You're just a little different. And then
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Speaker 2: we have one young lady and she's in New York.
22:35
Speaker 2: She is confined to a bed right now, she had
22:39
Speaker 2: a massive stroke a little over two and a half
22:42
Speaker 2: years ago, but she does her show every first and
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Speaker 2: third Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: She comes on.
22:50
Speaker 2: She started out interviewing individuals, but now she does inspirational
22:54
Speaker 2: moments with profittes Tea and she come on and she
22:59
Speaker 2: encouraged other individuals. She want them to know that in
23:02
Speaker 2: spite of that, you still can if you want to.
23:05
Speaker 2: Where there's a will, there's a way, and it's not
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Speaker 2: just words that that you can.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're truly trying to lead by example. So
23:13
Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
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Speaker 2: I say all that to say if you need some
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Speaker 2: women that have some powerful stories, that have some powerful
23:21
Speaker 2: testimonies and that can can really you know, encourage.
23:26
Speaker 3: One thing we do is.
23:27
Speaker 2: We we believe that we are the change that we
23:30
Speaker 2: desire to see in this world. And we do that
23:32
Speaker 2: through educating, empower and encouraging. We revamp our entire programming
23:40
Speaker 2: so that we can have our saturdays free, so that
23:42
Speaker 2: we can get out in the community, so that we
23:44
Speaker 2: can go out and give back and be in the
23:47
Speaker 2: community and do things. So if you need individuals to
23:50
Speaker 2: come out and maybe interview people at your event or.
23:57
Speaker 3: To you know, just maybe just just be a.
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Speaker 2: Part to you know, share highlights, to go live and
24:04
Speaker 2: to talk about you know, what's going on. You know,
24:07
Speaker 2: we have people that may be in the area that
24:09
Speaker 2: would like to come out. That's what we're doing now.
24:12
Speaker 2: We're giving back. We want people to know that we
24:15
Speaker 2: are a part of the community and we are here
24:18
Speaker 2: to support each other. I'm on this four seeds and
24:22
Speaker 2: if you since you are a part of the one
24:24
Speaker 2: hundred out the movement, that is one of the things
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Speaker 2: that we stand on and we're standing on those four
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Speaker 2: seeds right now, and that is connect, collaborate, create, and community.
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Speaker 3: I truly believe that it.
24:37
Speaker 2: Is us coming together, us connected and truly connected, not
24:41
Speaker 2: just saying that hey, we are connected, but us pulling
24:44
Speaker 2: on each other resources because there may be something that
24:47
Speaker 2: I may know that can help you that you may
24:50
Speaker 2: not know. You may not have that nugget yet, but
24:52
Speaker 2: it may be something that I can share with you
24:54
Speaker 2: that can help you go to the next level. And
24:56
Speaker 2: then vice versus the same thing. And if we're all
24:58
Speaker 2: doing that for each other, then guess what. We're all
25:01
Speaker 2: growing and we're all able to bring up people behind us.
25:05
Speaker 2: And then as we're bringing up people behind us, we're
25:08
Speaker 2: raising up a whole new generation. And as we continue
25:11
Speaker 2: to give back and to give back that that is
25:14
Speaker 2: that that greatness that he said that we shall do,
25:17
Speaker 2: you know, and how would people know only know if
25:20
Speaker 2: we're doing the things that we're doing now, having these interviews,
25:24
Speaker 2: being in these magazines, going live, being visible, being able
25:29
Speaker 2: to be seen. So I am super, super proud of
25:33
Speaker 2: you for having this event. Please, let's talk about this event.
25:38
Speaker 2: Let's talk about when this event is going to be
25:42
Speaker 2: and is it too late for individuals to get involved
25:45
Speaker 2: in the event.
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Speaker 5: Oh no, absolutely, I love this and I would be
25:49
Speaker 5: happy to share most definitely. The event has taken place
25:53
Speaker 5: May seventeenth, and it is happening. I'll send the flyer out.
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Speaker 5: It's it's at a venue called The Her Place, which
26:02
Speaker 5: is amazing because I was looking for a venue because
26:04
Speaker 5: I actually wanted to do this event in March for
26:07
Speaker 5: Women's History Month. Didn't work out that way, but I
26:10
Speaker 5: ended up finding this place called the Her Place, and
26:12
Speaker 5: so yes, it's under my organization. She is empowered, and
26:17
Speaker 5: I would be glad to have people come out to support.
26:19
Speaker 4: I'm actually also going to have a couple.
26:22
Speaker 5: Of vendors there on women, vendors, entrepreneurs selling their products,
26:27
Speaker 5: and just really coming together. The purposes for us to
26:29
Speaker 5: really come together, as you stated, as a community, to
26:32
Speaker 5: love on each other, but also to support each other,
26:35
Speaker 5: to provide resources to each other. There might be someone
26:38
Speaker 5: in the room who is a you know, wants to
26:41
Speaker 5: be author, and we have authors in the room. You know,
26:43
Speaker 5: someone might want to figure out how to create a
26:45
Speaker 5: website and I know people for that, So just coming
26:48
Speaker 5: together and being able to do that.
26:51
Speaker 4: And yeah, so that's that's what's happening.
26:53
Speaker 5: The bigger events that I do usually have over like
26:57
Speaker 5: sixty or seventy people. This year, I wanted to do
26:59
Speaker 5: something a little smaller scale, but it's still going to
27:02
Speaker 5: be just as powerful.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, alsome, And we definitely want to make sure
27:08
Speaker 2: that we are sharing that inside of the group, because
27:10
Speaker 2: we do have quite a few individuals in the New
27:14
Speaker 2: York area that could come out and support inside of
27:18
Speaker 2: the group, So we definitely want to make sure that
27:20
Speaker 2: we are sharing that so that we can garner that
27:23
Speaker 2: support and that you know, they can share within in
27:26
Speaker 2: their circle, within their networks, because you never know who
27:28
Speaker 2: may be in the area that can come out and support.
27:32
Speaker 2: Definitely want to connect with you and see how we
27:37
Speaker 2: could possibly partner and bring this movement there so that
27:43
Speaker 2: we can showcase some of these authors and these brands
27:46
Speaker 2: and give people an opportunity to get to know some
27:48
Speaker 2: of these one hundred authors. We still have room for
27:52
Speaker 2: our authors. If there're still individuals that want to come
27:55
Speaker 2: together and want to pull on resources. We have a
27:59
Speaker 2: group chat we have that we're in every day. We
28:04
Speaker 2: have a we have a group that we post in.
28:08
Speaker 2: We go, we we share information.
28:11
Speaker 3: We support each other.
28:14
Speaker 2: If there's individual opportunities to be featured in magazines, to
28:18
Speaker 2: be featured on radio shows, podcasts, whatever opportunities come up,
28:24
Speaker 2: award shows, whatever come up, we posted, We shared it
28:28
Speaker 2: in the group. We give individuals an opportunity to, you know,
28:32
Speaker 2: get out there, to get visible. We share everything. There's
28:37
Speaker 2: nothing I'm telling you. Individuals, if you come from if
28:41
Speaker 2: you come for me, if you want me to be
28:42
Speaker 2: a part of something, you know they already know that
28:46
Speaker 2: I don't come alone, that you gotta at least grab
28:51
Speaker 2: some people and and and and allow them to come
28:54
Speaker 2: along with me as well. And then you know we're
28:58
Speaker 2: gonna pay it for We're gonna reach back and shared
29:01
Speaker 2: with some more people. And that's what we do, and
29:05
Speaker 2: that's how we all win. You know, it is enough
29:09
Speaker 2: in this world for us all to win, because if
29:12
Speaker 2: we look at the amount of people that are actually published,
29:15
Speaker 2: I just completed. Yeah, I can't stop talking about this,
29:19
Speaker 2: but I just completed my MBA today.
29:23
Speaker 3: I just turned in my forty page paper.
29:26
Speaker 2: Ye, rad, I thank God for just being who he is,
29:31
Speaker 2: because if it had not been for him, I would
29:33
Speaker 2: have been still sleep because I just turned that paper
29:38
Speaker 2: in right before five am prayer this morning. We do
29:42
Speaker 2: a five am prayer every morning, so right before five
29:45
Speaker 2: am prayer this morning, I was just turning that paper in.
29:48
Speaker 2: I did not go to sleep after that until probably
29:52
Speaker 2: about twelve o'clock and I was napping and I jumped
29:57
Speaker 2: up and I said, ooh wee, it's time for this
29:59
Speaker 2: time for the podcast. So I had to run over
30:03
Speaker 2: here and get on this podcast. Could not could not
30:05
Speaker 2: miss this. So I'm grateful, but I'm excited for you.
30:11
Speaker 3: You're doing a lot.
30:12
Speaker 2: Of amazing things that is paying it forward, and you
30:17
Speaker 2: are leading by example. You are not sitting down on
30:22
Speaker 2: what God has done for you. You are sharing his goodness.
30:26
Speaker 2: You are allowing people to see what he's done. You're
30:29
Speaker 2: being transparent and you are allowing him to use you.
30:33
Speaker 3: So thank you.
30:35
Speaker 2: I definitely look forward to hearing more from you and
30:41
Speaker 2: seeing what you're doing and connecting with you that that
30:45
Speaker 2: that is so amazing. So before we leave, I want
30:49
Speaker 2: you to share with individuals how they can connect with you,
30:54
Speaker 2: where they can support some of the things that you're doing,
30:57
Speaker 2: where they can get your.
30:58
Speaker 3: Books, and and.
31:01
Speaker 2: If you have any literary projects that you are working
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Speaker 2: on that they may can tap into.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so three books, all available on Amazon. Protection from
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Speaker 5: the Storm.
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Speaker 4: Is the the the.
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Speaker 5: Partial memoir Sore is my poetry book, my diary from
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Speaker 5: when I was a child and I turned it into poems.
31:24
Speaker 5: And Gratitude in Grief is the anthology Intimate Domestic Violence
31:31
Speaker 5: and Department into Intimate Partner Relationships and all available on Amazon.
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Speaker 5: My website for my organization, She Is Empowered, is www
31:43
Speaker 5: dot She is Hyphenempowered dot com, where you can see
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Speaker 5: all the wonderful things that I've done in the past
31:49
Speaker 5: and the event that's soon to come. And I'm on
31:53
Speaker 5: Instagram at she is Empowered Underscore LLC.
31:57
Speaker 2: Awesome, Awesome, awesome, what I tell you, I did have
32:00
Speaker 2: enjoyed sitting down and talking with you on today and
32:04
Speaker 2: sharing what you have going on. It's truly amazing. I
32:08
Speaker 2: thank you, and again I definitely look forward to seeing
32:12
Speaker 2: all that you have to share. It is definitely amazing
32:17
Speaker 2: to see individuals that are able to come through and
32:21
Speaker 2: willing to share how they got through.
32:23
Speaker 3: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
32:26
Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone that has tuned in on
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Speaker 2: today out of the comments, thank you Latanya for tuning
32:35
Speaker 2: in and all those that have tuned in on today.
32:39
Speaker 3: It has truly been a blessing.
32:42
Speaker 2: I want you to know that no matter where you are,
32:45
Speaker 2: know that you are right where you are supposed to
32:48
Speaker 2: be because God is an on time god and he
32:52
Speaker 2: is yet faithful. Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven reminds us
32:56
Speaker 2: that he said that he declared that he had a
32:59
Speaker 2: plan for us, and it was to prosper us. It
33:01
Speaker 2: wasn't to harm us. It was for us to be
33:03
Speaker 2: in good health, for us to have hope in the future.
33:06
Speaker 2: So regardless of where you are right now, know that
33:11
Speaker 2: the plan that He has for you shall come to
33:13
Speaker 2: pass and that you will get there because his plan
33:18
Speaker 2: will not return to him board. He will watch over
33:20
Speaker 2: and to his perform and perfect it in this world.
33:23
Speaker 2: So again, stay the course and just trust the process.
33:28
Speaker 2: Go through the process and know that going through. Once
33:32
Speaker 2: you get through, you'll be able to share that testimony.
33:37
Speaker 2: I'm reminded that the test is only for a moment
33:42
Speaker 2: so that you can have that testimony. So y'all be blessed.
33:46
Speaker 2: And I want to thank you guys for tuning in
33:48
Speaker 2: on today. And before we leave, y'all, you know we
33:52
Speaker 2: got to give this queen a round of applause to
33:56
Speaker 2: thank her for coming in the studio on today sharing
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Speaker 2: with us.
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Speaker 3: So let's give her.
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Speaker 2: A round of applause for being here on today.
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Speaker 4: Thank you everyone, Thank you Queen Angela.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, and I pray that you have a blessed
34:16
Speaker 2: rest of your day. And again, thank you for gracing
34:19
Speaker 2: us on today. Have a great one you too, go bride.
34:24
Speaker 2: I want to thank you guys for tuning in on today.
34:28
Speaker 2: I pray that you were blessed by something that would share.
34:30
Speaker 2: If you would, please share this in your circle, make
34:33
Speaker 2: sure that you go over support this queen, support the
34:36
Speaker 2: things that she's doing. She shared her links, She shared
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Speaker 2: her books. She shared everything, and I'm going to tell
34:42
Speaker 2: y'all when you go go over to Amazon, look at
34:44
Speaker 2: the books, but go to her website order it from
34:47
Speaker 2: her so that she can autograph that copy for you,
34:49
Speaker 2: so you can get that personal touch, so that you
34:51
Speaker 2: get an opportunity to get to know a little bit
34:53
Speaker 2: about her and get that that the closeness. So y'all
34:57
Speaker 2: support this queen, support the one hundred Author's movement. If
35:01
Speaker 2: you are an author and you are not attached to
35:04
Speaker 2: this movement, I want to encourage you to get attached
35:06
Speaker 2: to this movement. We are showcasing, we're sharing authors, we're
35:10
Speaker 2: connecting with sharing resources, and we're doing it as a family.
35:13
Speaker 2: I believe in the four seas, and that is connect, collaborate, create.
35:19
Speaker 3: And community.
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Speaker 2: So if you believe in those four seas, we want
35:22
Speaker 2: you to come over and be a part of the
35:24
Speaker 2: one hundred Authors to watch for twenty twenty five. Y'all
35:28
Speaker 2: have a great one.
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Speaker 3: Love you,