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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST HOSTED BY PATRICE GRIMBALL_ · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Think, Think Think.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the sc Book gall and Friends Chat. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews, author.
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  Speaker 3: Interviews, and life.
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  Speaker 4: Come on in and join us.
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  Speaker 3: We're ready, are you?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, this is your Girl SC Book Gala four three
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  Speaker 2: and it is another Tuesday night. So you know I
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  Speaker 2: always have the action, guys. I always have Oh my
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  Speaker 2: camera's following them.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I always have to action guys. How are you? That's
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  Speaker 3: good for me?
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  Speaker 4: You guys?
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  Speaker 3: I am on a complete high tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's just my baby girl is about to have her
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  Speaker 2: signing day and she's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Commit to her new school.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you guys yet, but paying attention to
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  Speaker 2: my Facebook page and you'll find out what school she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be going to.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody who's very special to me has a birthday today.
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  Speaker 3: It's a happy birthday, the Kendrick. And then on top
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  Speaker 3: of that, next.
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  Speaker 2: Week Wednesday, at this time, my baby oh no, next
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  Speaker 2: week Wednesday, my baby.
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  Speaker 3: Girl will be graduating from the fifth grade.
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  Speaker 2: Summer readings getting started. The only thad things are going
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  Speaker 2: on right now is these swarmers. Okay, so y'all know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: If you live in Chelseton.
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  Speaker 2: They're here the weekend, they'll be gone. But I have
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  Speaker 2: a new author, so y'all know it's Tuesday. So a
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  Speaker 2: new author and a new book. So it is nothing like.
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  Speaker 3: Being a daddy's girl.
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  Speaker 2: And I am one that could say I am a
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  Speaker 2: daddy's girl. I remember being four or five, six and
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  Speaker 2: down here in Charleston, we used to have the black
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  Speaker 2: baseball teams.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so every Saturday and every Sunday we would go
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  Speaker 3: to the park, right and all the guys, all the
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  Speaker 3: fathers would have their kids on the stands, sitting down
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  Speaker 3: and they would be playing with their teens.
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  Speaker 4: I loved this.
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  Speaker 2: I remember my dad coming to pick me up on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoons, walking down to the park, and I had
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  Speaker 2: me a pickle, I had me a chili bear and
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  Speaker 2: a hot.
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  Speaker 3: Dog, and I was good.
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  Speaker 2: My dad were out there pitching or hitting, he'd look
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  Speaker 2: back at me, give me a wink, and I was
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  Speaker 2: good to go.
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  Speaker 3: But this book and this author.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to explain how searching for a father's love
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  Speaker 2: is a journey from brokenness, healing and grace. So you
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  Speaker 2: got I would love to bring up author Michelle Breaks.
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  Speaker 3: Come on up, curly.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Oh hey, heyes, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am good, Mama, how are you? I am well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to be here. Me too.
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  Speaker 4: I even excited.
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  Speaker 3: I even excited.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know about you, But how about you tell
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  Speaker 2: the audience about Miss Michelle Breaks. All right, everybody, my
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  Speaker 2: name is Michelle Brings. As you can see, I am
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  Speaker 2: an author. I am a new author. I currently live
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  Speaker 2: in Texas. I have lived around in many different places.
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  Speaker 2: I was born and raised in Chicago, and I have
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  Speaker 2: lived in other states, many other states, and life brought
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  Speaker 2: me to Texas.
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  Speaker 3: So my journey to Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Was a little different because I went through a divorce
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  Speaker 2: after twenty year marriage, and I decided that I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do something different with my life. My oh, my
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  Speaker 2: youngest child, had turned eighteen. She went off the college
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  Speaker 2: in Virginia. I came back home and said, okay, Michelle, what.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: Because I have been a mother and I have been
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  Speaker 2: a wife, and I never been me and so at
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  Speaker 2: that time, I didn't know how to make that decision.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know how to even start. So I
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  Speaker 2: went online one night and I said, let me look
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  Speaker 2: up the top ten treep oft cities to live in
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  Speaker 2: the US, and Temple, Texas was one of them. So
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  Speaker 2: I came to Temple, Texas in September Labor Day weekend
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: Checked it out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they had a Walmart, right, they had a Sam's Club.
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  Speaker 2: Small town, but they had just the necessities that I needed.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, okay, I think I can live there,
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  Speaker 2: went back home and started applying for jobs, and the
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  Speaker 2: doors began to open. I received the job, came back
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  Speaker 2: for the interview, and then the time I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I don't know if this is something
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  Speaker 2: I really want to do, because I've never been on
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  Speaker 2: my own.
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  Speaker 3: I've been married, you know. I met my husband.
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  Speaker 2: I met him at the age of seventeen and we
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  Speaker 2: were divorced at age forty one. So I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: anything else. I didn't know anyone else. And on top
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  Speaker 2: of that, he was a pastor, so I was a
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  Speaker 2: pastor his wife at the time. So it was a journey.
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  Speaker 2: It was a real good, real.
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  Speaker 3: Good ad slash challenging. I don't want to say difficult.
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  Speaker 3: It was a challenging journey.
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  Speaker 2: And so in the meantime, I packed up where I
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  Speaker 2: could fit I got the job, got a place to live,
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  Speaker 2: I packed up where I could fit in my equal Knox,
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  Speaker 2: and I've drove to Texas and I've been living in
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  Speaker 2: Texas for ten years.
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  Speaker 3: And so just this past year or so, I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been feeling a nudge that it's time for me to
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  Speaker 2: tell my story. And I learned that you can't really
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  Speaker 2: tell your story really like you need to until you
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  Speaker 2: become in a place of healing because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times triggers. You know, sometimes we have scars there and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes if you touch it's tender underneath the skin, or
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  Speaker 2: you have a scar there and you look at it
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  Speaker 2: and it brings back the memories.
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  Speaker 4: But I've learned that when you come.
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  Speaker 2: To a place of healing, those scars are the battle scars.
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  Speaker 2: They're there to show that you came through the battle,
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  Speaker 2: but you survived it. And so in my book, I
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  Speaker 2: want I talk about a lot about my survival mode,
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  Speaker 2: but I also wanted I try to go to that
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  Speaker 2: thriving mode because it's not Life is just not meant
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  Speaker 2: for us to just to survive.
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  Speaker 4: Life is meant for us to thrive.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm gonna talk I'm a spiritual person, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk spiritual, So the Bible tells us. In John Tanten,
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  Speaker 2: he says, God says the thief coming out to put
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  Speaker 2: to steal, kill and destroy. He said, but I come
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  Speaker 2: that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 2: So that in that Patrice, it's like, people think we
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  Speaker 2: have to die and go to heaven and have that
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  Speaker 2: abundant life. But God was talking about he wants us
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  Speaker 2: to have abundant life right here on earth right And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people think, oh, I'm suffering in my marriage and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through this and I'm going through that. But
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  Speaker 2: God in for us to have abundant life, and it's
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  Speaker 2: to us.
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  Speaker 4: It's us to.
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  Speaker 2: Obtain that abundant life. A lot of people don't see
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  Speaker 2: it like that. I mean, okay, so okay, y'all know
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  Speaker 2: everybody out there that I was born and raised in
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  Speaker 2: the church. There's this one song I just never could
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  Speaker 2: well actually too.
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  Speaker 4: Shake the devil off.
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  Speaker 2: I truly never did understand that song. But then this
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  Speaker 2: is the one that really used to get me, y'all know.
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  Speaker 2: B et late that night I'm coming, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I understand there's gonna be trials and tribulation, but why
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  Speaker 2: do we have to choose to go up the rough side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the mountain? Can the journey? We don't have to
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  Speaker 3: climb the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: Speak to the mountain. Just speak to it.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even have to climb the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And to have amount to be that move and be
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  Speaker 2: cast into the midst of the sea, and shall not
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  Speaker 2: die in your heart. But believe that whatever thing you desire,
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  Speaker 2: when you pray, you receive them and you shall have them.
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  Speaker 2: So why are you climbing when all you got to
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  Speaker 2: do is speak? What's the energy?
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 4: You got me? Because I can see them right now,
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  Speaker 4: That's all we say. It on my nerves.
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  Speaker 2: I just never understood, like, why we going up there?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you choosing to go up.
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  Speaker 4: The rough side of the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's gonna be trial and tribulation, But how I
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  Speaker 2: tell friends of mine, if you're always in a trial
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  Speaker 2: and tribulation and you never have a time of peace, man,
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  Speaker 2: you might need evaluate your.
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  Speaker 4: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: We understand that you wrote this book to tell your story, right,
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  Speaker 2: what part of your story were you wanting to tell?
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  Speaker 2: What are you wanting your readers to take away from
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  Speaker 2: their book? I wanted my readers to take away a
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  Speaker 2: place of healing, that they are not alone, and that
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  Speaker 2: God is a god of restoration. To know that you
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  Speaker 2: can be restored, you can find that place of peace,
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  Speaker 2: that you can find that place of happiness and joy.
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  Speaker 2: And so I really want my readers to know that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you might have gone through some things, like we all
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  Speaker 2: have a story, right, your story's not mine, My story
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  Speaker 2: is not the next person. However, in the midst of
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  Speaker 2: our stories, I want people to know that there is
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  Speaker 2: in your brokenness, there is a wholeness and a wellness.
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  Speaker 3: That God wants to give us. And that's what I was.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about with that abundant life. And you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to share this with you because you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we feel like.
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  Speaker 3: But like nobody else going through this but me, right,
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  Speaker 3: nobody else. I'm the only one.
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  Speaker 4: That going through this.
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  Speaker 2: And so many many years ago, Buttrice, my godmother, mother,
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  Speaker 2: Mama Lisa, if you listening, hey, my godmother, tell me
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  Speaker 2: you got somebody's delivers inside of you. You need to
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  Speaker 2: tell your story. Somebody's waiting to hear your story. This
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  Speaker 2: was many many years ago, many many years ago, And
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  Speaker 2: so she told me that, and I sat on it
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  Speaker 2: for so long you know why I said on it
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  Speaker 2: because I wasn't healed, and so I didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: I should tell this story because I'm still going through
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  Speaker 2: the process, right And sometimes our victory is in the process.
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  Speaker 2: Our victory is while we're going through that struggle or
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  Speaker 2: whatever we're going through.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes we have to go ahead and tell the story.
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  Speaker 4: So in little groups or little.
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  Speaker 2: Side piece of one on one, I would tell my
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  Speaker 2: story to different individuals that I felt led to. However,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like I have a bigger platform now. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's time for me to share my story.
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  Speaker 2: And because you know that you heard the saying you
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  Speaker 2: see the glory, but you don't know the story. So
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  Speaker 2: I want them to see my glory. But I do
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  Speaker 2: want them to know the story, Okay, So that's what
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  Speaker 2: I want. I want to share that story so they
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  Speaker 2: can see where I am now. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: ask me, how did you do it? How did you
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  Speaker 2: move with just what you fit in your car? If
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  Speaker 2: you look at my house right now, you couldn't tell
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  Speaker 2: that I moved in here. What I feel in an
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  Speaker 2: equinox because God has restored me with so much abundance
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  Speaker 2: that I don't have. I don't have nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: I got more than enough. So I just realized that
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you see the glory, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to tell the story.
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  Speaker 4: So I just know that this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful for your platform being able to be here.
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  Speaker 4: On sc book goals.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so thankful for the platform.
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  Speaker 2: But I also know that my my platforms gonna get bigger,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to take it to a stage. I
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  Speaker 2: want my book to be my leverage. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: times paper right, say, a whole lot of books out
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  Speaker 2: there that nobody's opened it. And so I have a
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  Speaker 2: mentor who told me, Michelle, look at your Amazon cart.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, how many things you got
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  Speaker 2: in an Amazon cart you're gonna put on your wish list?
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  Speaker 2: You gotta sit in there, and you know you haven't
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  Speaker 2: body yet, and how long has it been there? Ooh? Right?
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  Speaker 2: And so, and she said, your book is probably sitting
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  Speaker 2: inside somebody's Amazon cart.
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  Speaker 4: And they just have not purchased it yet.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to take it.
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  Speaker 2: To a further I want to do just not the books.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have healing lunches, lunches. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to have retreats. I want this to go global.
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  Speaker 2: I really want this to be able to share. I
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  Speaker 2: want to share my story on stages. As I told
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  Speaker 2: you before we even started, I love to talk, can't
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  Speaker 2: you tell? I love to talk? So I just I
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  Speaker 2: love to share. I want to share it because I
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  Speaker 2: want to see. I don't want to go on this
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  Speaker 2: trip and this journey by myself, this journey of the
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  Speaker 2: brokenness and the healing and the grace. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to share this healing grace of what God
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  Speaker 2: did for me. And because there's no secret what he
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  Speaker 2: can do, what he's got for others, he'll do for others.
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  Speaker 2: So what he's done for me, he'll do for other people.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to be able to share my
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  Speaker 2: story with them. And we're going to bring up your
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  Speaker 2: book and the Sonatas says Through a Blend, a bend
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  Speaker 2: of memoir and reflective storytell Michelle Brings shares the journey
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  Speaker 2: of a daughter's shape by abandonment, broken relationships, and deep
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  Speaker 2: emotional runds. When her parentsrey connected after years of separation,
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  Speaker 2: she dares to hope that healing will finally arrive, but
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  Speaker 2: even as an adult, she discovers that a longing to
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  Speaker 2: be known by her father still remains. You, guys, am
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  Speaker 2: about to bring up the book cover so you can
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  Speaker 2: see this cover.
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  Speaker 3: Look at this. Oh my god, I had to cover
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  Speaker 3: speech so much.
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  Speaker 2: What did you want your readers to see and to
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  Speaker 2: think when they see your book cover? I wanted them
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  Speaker 2: to see and I had this idea what I did
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  Speaker 2: the book cover because it starts my first chapter is
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  Speaker 2: talking about waiting on the porch. And so as a
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  Speaker 2: little girl, I remember my brother and I getting dressed,
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  Speaker 2: my dad promising me to pick us up, and my
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  Speaker 2: mom set us outside on the porch, and she said
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  Speaker 2: that while we waited and waited and waited and waited
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  Speaker 2: and waited, and he never showed. And so I remember
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  Speaker 2: that day, and that little girl sitting on that porch
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  Speaker 2: is me waiting for my dad to show up. And
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  Speaker 2: at the in the background you see a silhouette of
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  Speaker 2: an older woman in the rocky chair, still on the porch, waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Because even though I grew up and I was matured,
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  Speaker 2: I was grown, I still was way for my dad
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  Speaker 2: to show up.
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  Speaker 4: Stone and that whole.
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  Speaker 2: Thing I wanted to just give you a little syknoxis
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  Speaker 2: of what I was meaning by that because my dad
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  Speaker 2: did show up, he did come back into my life.
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  Speaker 3: He remarried my mom after sixteen years of divorce. He
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  Speaker 3: came back into my life.
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  Speaker 2: But I never really had that father daughter relationship that
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  Speaker 2: I always longed for. And so even in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of him coming back, even though he was there, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there. And so that thing that I longed for
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  Speaker 2: for years and years and years to be love at
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  Speaker 2: my father, what it means to jump on my daddy's lap,
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  Speaker 2: what it means to lay my head on my dad.
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  Speaker 4: What it meant to just be able to share who.
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  Speaker 2: I was and what I brought to my family. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have that opportunity totally. So that was one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I talked about, is that that journey
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  Speaker 2: of just being able to have that father and so real,
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  Speaker 2: and that a father's love, a father guides us and
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  Speaker 2: to our choices as women, as young girls of who
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  Speaker 2: we marry, right, And so I ended up marrying a.
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  Speaker 3: Man that was basically like my father.
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  Speaker 4: Almost.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that is true, because they always say that
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  Speaker 2: a girl's first love is a father.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: They always say that. So I'm gonna digress, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: because I have to. This is on my mind. So
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  Speaker 2: I was you'all know, I served Facebook and I was
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  Speaker 2: doing that tonight, getting ready for the show. And there
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  Speaker 2: was a father who went to his daughter's kindergarten graduation
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  Speaker 2: here in South Carolina matter fact was Columbia, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: And the mother.
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  Speaker 2: Because sometimes ladies, I have to admit it be us,
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  Speaker 2: we be the one. But this father showed up and
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  Speaker 2: he's always shown up. The principal acknowledged that. But the
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  Speaker 2: mom was so bitter that she did not let the
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  Speaker 2: daughter graduate.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Took her out of the ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes mothers we have the and even single mothers.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna speak because I am a single mother.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have to open that door to let the
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  Speaker 2: fathers come in. How or even have you addressed this
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  Speaker 2: in your book? Like if if that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: How does the healing? How would healing.
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  Speaker 2: Come if it's from the mother's side, like how? So
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  Speaker 2: one thing I can say, Patrece, is my mother was
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  Speaker 2: my strong. She was she was my strength and she
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  Speaker 2: still is my strength, even going through everything she's gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: My dad is now in prison, he's serving a sentence
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  Speaker 2: and my mom is still married to him.
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  Speaker 4: She supports him, she's there for him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: And my mom has shown.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Me the tenacity and the strength of a woman, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: so I really have a lot of that loyalty and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that strength that I get from my mom. My mom
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: never kept my brother and I away from our dad.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: My mom never said that we couldn't see our dad.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: And my mom was always that bridge that helped bridge
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the relationship between my dad and her children, because my
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: mom had two children by him. The thing is, as
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I remember, sometimes I would go to her and talk
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: to her, and she said, well, go talk to your
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: daddy now. They got remarried when I was twenty nine
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I was twenty nine years old, and I had already
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: been married eight years and had four children of my own. Right,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: But the little girl lings side of me longed for
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: that father's love, and so I felt like, more so
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: my dad was more of a father to my children
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: than a grandfather than he was to me. And so
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: there was times where I had a little jealousy there
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: because he was being the time with my children, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: he was doing things for my children that I didn't
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: get a chance to experience.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: And so that was a little.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It had a little made me feel a little some
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: type of way, right, And so I had to heal
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: from that part because I'm like, you know, I would
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: tell my kids, that's my daddy and y'all, and he's
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: treating y'all more like he y'all, y'all his children than
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you know me.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I'm as biological. You know it, y'all wouldn't be here.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: So my whole thing is I wanted to make sure
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that my mom, I mean, awesome woman. My mom is
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: an awesome woman and I love her, and so Mommy,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: if you watch and I love you. But she taught
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: me so much. She taught me so so much of
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: how to be strong. And so I have a new
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: book coming out. We didn't even talk about this earlier,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: but in a few weeks I have a new book
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: coming out. It's called Loving Me while Becoming In that transition.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I talk about that because we as women tend to
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: go through transitional moments and we are our worst enemies,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: we are worst critics, and so in that loving while
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: we becoming who God has created and predestined us to be,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: we got to continue to love ourselves.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: We can't say, oh, I'm fat. Oh I'm ugly, my
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: head is short, I don't look good. I love you
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: while becoming all right?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Can you stop coming in front of my far though
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: with that one, because I I'm gonna need you stop
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: sweeping in front of my all. I have a tennessee
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of doing that, you know. Oh I hate this, I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: hate that. And I have somebody that speaks into me,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: and then sometimes I even block them off, like look
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: for I ain't even trying to hear you right now,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: but you are so right now. You know you got
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to tell me when it's the next book coming out,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: we can talk about that, man, will do?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: You have placed so much.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Of what we need, especially in the African American community.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: If the younger you were sitting in front of you
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: right now, what would you say to her? I would
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: probably tell the younger me, stop looking for what's already
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: inside of you. Oh snap, I looked, and I jumped
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: in and out of relationships until I got married, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: then after my marriage I did. I jumped in an
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the relationships, even encountering some situations where I was in
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: a relationship with a person who I later found out
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: was on crack, who took me down and through there
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and thinking, at fifty years old, I'm experiencing this.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I should know better, I should be bigger than this.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: And that's what I'm talking about, loving me while becoming
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: because we're gonna make some decisions.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: And just because you make decisions.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: That is not your end. It's not the end.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I always say, that's nothing that I can't get into
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: that God and me can't get out of.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: So we can get into a lot of things.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: We put ourselves into a lot of things, but it's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: gonna take God and your participation to.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Get you out of it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just really, really, I would tell myself
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: because the love was already inside me because I love
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: people and I love heart. Honey, I love heart. When
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I love you, I love you and I love heart.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So it was already inside of me, but I couldn't
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: see that inside of me. I couldn't see that love
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: inside of me because I wanted it from the external,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and the person that I wanted from really was my dad.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: But you know what, all along, God was there. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: was saved and I sanctified and baptized in the Holy
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Spirit at the age of nine years old, and God
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and God was my everything.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: I love the Lord, and.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I still do. But I was missing that human connection.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And sometimes we missed the human connection, whether it be
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: from my children, from our parents, from our siblings, from whoever.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: We missed the human connection. And that I was just
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I would hold myself, girl, looking side of yourself. You're
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: exuding what you want and a lot of times what
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: we put out. But sometimes we're so thirsty, were looking
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: for it so bad that we don't even see the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: signs and the signals of people who are not even
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: good for us because we're searching. When I talk about
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: searching for our father and stuff, you're searching, that means
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you're here there, You're going places, you bear with people,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: building relationships that you shouldn't have. You're looking for the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: love that you wanted from a physical father. But our
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: heavenly Father has been there the whole time. And that's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: what I talk about the end of the book is
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: what our heavenly Father provides. He provided the love that
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I was searching for all along.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Who hooky ya she she Downe brought it home.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Listen you Downe brought it home.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Spread the table, we got the chicken that we got,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the ham over here you down and bring it all.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: But I gotta give you the apple pie.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get the dessert going.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Girl.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Remember we talked behind the scenes and I told you
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I have those fun questions.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, all right, you are.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Really like.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So lifetime is on the line, right, Lifetime saying you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: know when we love your book.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: We need this book. This book is needed. It needs
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: to be on film. We got to find a correct
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: actress to play you as a young child.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: What child star would you give the opportunity to play you?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And why child star?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I thought he was going to ask me which person
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I would be, and I would pick one of my
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: daughters because they both act like me in the ways
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and they look like me.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: But we can do that. We can do your daughters, okay.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And what are their names?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Courtney and the Data.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Hey y'all, y'all, all right, so we got Courtney DaVita.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: They're about to make their debut.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We're about to make this a family thing. But we
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: need a man to play your dad.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: So that's what we're going to get the star power from.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: What male gospel artists would you give the opportunity to
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: play your dad? Mm hmmm.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: It probably be a cor teest.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Singer Uh.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Courty said, hey, mom, Hey, focus, Wow, I'm trying to
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: think clean Mama, I'm so proud of you all.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Look at the beata all.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think that probably a court text singer.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: My dad loved to say, and he was a preacher.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to think.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Of Okay, So one of my favorites is Rance Allen.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it would be Rance Allen and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I would Harvey Watkins maybe a little bit Harnie Watkins
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: from the Canton spirituals.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Ooh, you took it back, then.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: You took it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, So we got Harvey. His name is Harvey. What's
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the last Nians Watkins, Harbbie Watkins, and we have DaVita
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and Courtney. But you know, every good movie has a soundtrack.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: What song would be the soundtrack to your healing?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: God is trying to tell you something? Why do you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: choose that song?
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: And color purple?
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Because God has been trying to tell me something for
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: so many years. I have been running. I have been hiding,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and not that he's been trying to because God don't.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Try to do anything.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: He has been telling me something, and so I have
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: been turning a death ear and so if I had
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: listened earlier, I may not have had had as many.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Stumbling blocks along the way.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: And so I really believe that that would be the song,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: you know, for both of us. I think for my
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: dad and myself, that God has been trying to tell
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: us something in both our healing journeys, because we always say,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: hurt people, hurt people, right, And some things my dad
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: did is either because he didn't know any better or
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: because he was hurting himself and he didn't understand. And
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I look at that also as it's with my ex husband,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: is that the fact that maybe he was having his
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: own battles and his own you know, situations, and he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: didn't know how to heal himself, and so therefore he
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: couldn't heal.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: You can't heal.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Somebody that's you're not really healed yourself, right.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: We're bleeding on people, We're bleeding, we're hurting, and we're
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: bleeding on people. We're got scars that hasn't been healed,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: and we're contaminating people's spirits.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Even in the church.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: You know, it's people out there who are standing over
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: pulpits who are not healed. And we see that every
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: day on social media. We see it in all these
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: different platforms. People are talking about the church and talking
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: about how this person did and this was said in
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the church and closed the doors and the money and
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the this and the that, and so people are broken
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and they are bleeding, and so healing is a very
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: as a very pivotal point where we can really see
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: God and really see that He is telling and hear
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: what he's telling us. You know what, That's true. There's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of hurd people in the church. It's crazy
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to say that, but there is. So I know, I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: perpetrated for many years the heir with a smile on
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: my face like the happy first lady. And I was
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: miserable as excuse my language, Hell, I was miserble girl.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Left to hear you don't even preach it to the choiet.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting next to you. I'm then alto you. Just
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: sprain them were so and I just want y'all to
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: know I was very upset that they did not put
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: God's trying to tell you something in the new color Purple.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: That was just so disappointing.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: In the most recent movie.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, that just hurt my feelings.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, so now we have the movie, the soundtrack, the actors.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Everything is great, all right, you know what? You want
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: to double ward?
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, they loved it. You want a double ward? Who
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: would you like to think?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: First and foremost?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I'd like to thank God.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I would like to thank my mother and my father,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: and I would like to thank my children. And I
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: would even like to thank my husband, my ex husband,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and so it was all of that has made me
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: into who I am today, honey, if it had if
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: it had not been for those struggles, as Jaquia and
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Carr said, I would never know how much have grown,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: what I can do. I don't even know my own strength.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I surprise myself sometimes. So yes, I would like
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: to thank everyone for supporting me, supporting my book, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: just being there for me. You know, there's a lot
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: of people who I have spoken to talk to share
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: my story. Some people I've had to add actually uh
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: just just vent to them. Even as recent is today,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I've had to vent. So I am very thankful and
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: grateful for people that God has placed in my life.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I'm very grateful there. So before you leave, you have
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: to give us to run down how we could follow
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: you on social media. How we can grab your book
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: when the next.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: One is coming out. Just go ahead and give us
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: to run down.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Sure, So you can follow me on Journey to Hell
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: on Facebook. I'm also Journey to Hell on TikTok. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: have my personal page Michelle Briggs. You can also go
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: to My website is Michelle Briggs the Author dot com.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: You can also.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Email me at Michelle b at Journey to Hell lc
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: dot com. Okay, and so I'm looking forward to I'm
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: even I forgot to tell you I'm a life coach.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I forgot certified as a life coach, and so I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: doing some coaching gigs. So you'll see that coming out soon.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: So I'm willing to share personally, one on one or group.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: We will get into that more and so I'll be
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: coming out with some luncheons and just being able to
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: share with people.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: So please keep.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Me in mind my new book would be out. I'm
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: actually my publisher. You know, I didn't even know how
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: to write a book. And be honest, I ain't know
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: how to write a book. I ain't know what to do.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I ain't no so what I ended up doing. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: ended up searching online and I have a publisher. It's
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: our publishers, and so they published my first book and
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: they've also publishing the second book. They're waiting on me
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: to finish doing my edits and thank you guys for
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: being so patient with me. So I'm working on the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: edits for my second book. Remember, and I'll post everything
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: when it comes out. I am working on a capture
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: page so you can get some things, and I'll be
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: offering some free things on my cap your page, which
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: is also called a landing page, So be looking out
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: for some more things from me. Well, thank you for
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: giving us. Because if you guys look at the bottom
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: of the screen, you see.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: All the information strolling.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I always tell you if you want to support an author,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you know, follow them on their social media, follow them
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: on their web page. I matter of fact, read a
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: book today. The book had the very end of the
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: book had me in a choke hold.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I that author. I was like, what were you thinking?
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: She was like, you read it? I was like yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: She's like, oh my god. I love the people do this.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: This is encouragement for them. Okay, encourage them like, hey,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I've read your book. I really like this. Some authors
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: just love that.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: So you know I'm gonna read your book. I have
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: made a vow to read almost all the books that
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I interview.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Love.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: That's fifty two books, y'all. Y'all praise, but it is.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: But I like doing it because it it switches up
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: my genres because if you know me, y'all know what
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: type of look ivery.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: And we got the lovely past the lady.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Here, So I can't talk about scandalous books, certainly, but
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: you know, but miss Michelle, thank you. I think, not
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: even knowing that you put some nuggets in me and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: helped me, gave me some flashbacks.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: And even now that I am forty six years.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Old and my dad I want to say, he's like
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: sixty four, makes me want to go back and rekindle
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: because we did lose each other when I got older
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: and once my mom died, and this will be a
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: great way for me to rekindle what I had with
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: my dad.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: So I am going to.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Take some words of encouraging from you, yes, and stop
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: my healing journey, but the healing journey that I think
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: me and him would need to do together.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: So I think you for be with me tonight.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your platform. And everybody that's watching you.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: See everybody, Miss up Davida, And.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, y'all, I need y'all autographs on lifetime.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Call y'all for the movie, y'all. Remember y'all see me
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: autograph y'all those books.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I tell Amazon shopping car and pay for them books
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and read my book? Please, Oh miss Teresa, please don't
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you read my girl? Miss Teresa's lest I do. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: can't put it like this, Misteresa. I can't even say
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the book that I've read today in my keep Me
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: in Trouble, But I love to read.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: That's my little rock.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Hi, mister Arkansas.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I didn't know black people were in Arkansas.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I have children in Arkansas. Oh, past Chris Briggs, here's
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: in Arkansas. My daughter Courtney is in Arkansas. I have
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of people in Arkansas. I just I guess
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: someone's just an old South girl. And when I hear
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: states like you tell.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Him like people actually live in those states. Yeah, ye,
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  Speaker 3: my head.
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  Speaker 2: And on my heart, Miss Michelle. I will continue to
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  Speaker 2: follow you and anything we can do here Sie book,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: yall and France. Remember the journey doesn't stop here with us.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, ma'm.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I want to thank you guys for being with me
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  Speaker 2: to know night it is a Tuesday night, so lately
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  Speaker 2: i'm in, you know, before we in, I do like
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a little monologue kind of liking this stuff. I heard somebody,
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  Speaker 2: remember last week we talked about voting, you guys. I
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  Speaker 2: heard somebody said, let's give them what they want.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: When I get off this show tonight, I usually work
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: on my social media pitches and stuff. But tonight I'm
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: gonna go and look at these election results because I
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: know a lot of you are voting right now.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Let's do give them what they want.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize that the redistricting is
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  Speaker 2: for the two thirds votes, because you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: got two thirds votes, you could change the constitution. But
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the thing is they're expecting us to not vote. But
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  Speaker 2: one gentleman said it. He said, we better start for
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  Speaker 2: this comes back to get us.
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  Speaker 3: So let's give them what they want.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, vote if you don't want to vote for yourself,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: vote for your kids, your grandkids, your community, your job,
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  Speaker 2: your life, just those that are around you.
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  Speaker 4: Vote.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Also, to all the graduates out there, congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: I will say that I know.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all been through a lot, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: and now you are seeing the fruits of your labor. Okay,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I say congratulations, you guys did it. And even if
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: you kind of fell a little bit, remember it's not.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: How you stay down, it's how you get back up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So I want y'all guys to know that nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't tell you I love you. Get out, vote, walk
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  Speaker 2: across that stage, and let's make it do what it do.
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  Speaker 3: Okay you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back on next week Tuesday, with another author
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  Speaker 2: and another guest, missus Michelle Briggs. We thank you one
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  Speaker 2: more time being with us Tonight, Girly, everybody, let's tell
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  Speaker 2: her bye. Remember, remember, you guys, there's no such thing
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: as an old book, because not everybody has read every book.
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  Speaker 4: I see you guys next week.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: What another book and another author. Goodnight,