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MEET 1 OF 100 AUTHORS TO WATCH CHARLOTTE SIMON 3-25-25 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Crew Podcast.
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Speaker 3: I am the visionary of the Crew Podcast. I am
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Speaker 3: Andrela Thomas Smith, and I am excited again yet to
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Speaker 3: be right here in the same spot. I wish I
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Speaker 3: would if you would please take a moment to share
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Speaker 3: this in your circle of influence while I prepare to
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Speaker 3: bring my guests up for tonight. If you would just
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Speaker 3: share this out in your circle of influence. We have
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Speaker 3: yet another author, a part of the one hundred author movement.
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Speaker 3: She's one of the queens that's being highlighted for Women's
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Speaker 3: History Month. So I'm gonna move out the way, bring
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Speaker 3: her up and allow her the opportunity to share with
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Speaker 3: you guys. So if you would just share this out
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Speaker 3: in your circle while I bring You're not on the
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Speaker 3: screen yet, please welcome, Welcome, Welcome. You're alive now? Can
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Speaker 3: you not see yourself?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I can see I can see myself.
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Speaker 3: You're live now. You weren't live, but you're live. Now
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Speaker 3: you can introduce yourself.
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Speaker 5: Well, good evening everyone. First of all, I like to
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Speaker 5: apologize for this inconvenience interview. I was waiting for parking.
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Speaker 5: I did speak to Angela earlier. However, there's just a
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Speaker 5: lot of stuff going upstairs, so I have to do
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Speaker 5: my my interview in the car. But my name is
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Speaker 5: Charlotte Simon Ralson. I just want to give Angela a
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Speaker 5: shout out, you know, just for always thinking about me,
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Speaker 5: for pushing me even when I don't understand the process.
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Speaker 4: But it's it's, it's this has been a beautiful experience.
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Speaker 5: In reference to me doing the anthologies, the poetres the
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Speaker 5: column every month, and I'm just humbly grateful and in
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Speaker 5: me doing all this, I just want to give God
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Speaker 5: all the glory also just to give a testimony about
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Speaker 5: what He has brought up through and that this is
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Speaker 5: a great opportunity for me.
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Speaker 4: And I just want to say thank you again. And Adela.
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Speaker 3: Man, So if you would, just if you would just
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Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about you. You can tell
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Speaker 3: us about your author, Johnny, whatever you would like to share. Today.
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Speaker 3: We want individuals to get an opportunity to know who
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Speaker 3: Charlotte is.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, Charlotte, let me just back it up a
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Speaker 5: little bit. I always knew that I had had the
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Speaker 5: gift to write. However, I always spoke or wrote like
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Speaker 5: how I spoke, and and you know, I kind of
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Speaker 5: got deterred. In reference to I would like to say,
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Speaker 5: my secondar job has always been management, and sometime I
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Speaker 5: will get so excited and I would definitely right the
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Speaker 5: way I speak. However, you know, fast forward to COVID,
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Speaker 5: I had an opportunity to work with some other women.
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Speaker 5: In reference to writing, I spoke about my process or yes,
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Speaker 5: my process when my mother had transitioned, and when my
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Speaker 5: mother had transitioned, just to share it was the most
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Speaker 5: devastating thing that I have ever experienced in my life.
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Speaker 5: You know, I always you know, I had people around
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Speaker 5: me that had lost their mother or their parents some
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Speaker 5: type of way, but I never knew that kind of
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Speaker 5: that type of hurt in my life. And in the
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Speaker 5: process of all this, I was given an opportunity to
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Speaker 5: write about it, but it was it was a lot
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Speaker 5: to deal with. Charlotte, is is a I think I'm
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Speaker 5: a fun person. I'm an honest person. If you ask
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Speaker 5: me something, I want to try to speak the truth,
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Speaker 5: what I hurd of your feelings. But I always get Charlotte,
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Speaker 5: you keep it real, and that's how I like to be.
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Speaker 5: I like to be honest with people. Sometimes I'm a
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Speaker 5: little too honest and some people don't know how to
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Speaker 5: take that. But at this point in my age, I'm
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Speaker 5: just trying to be honest. I don't care how you
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Speaker 5: take me as long as I give God the glory,
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Speaker 5: and that's just really it.
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 5: I have grown children, I have a teenage daughter, and
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Speaker 5: they keep me helping, helpless and as well as not helpless,
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Speaker 5: but they keep me focused and they help me to
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Speaker 5: grow into be honest as well as the people that
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Speaker 5: have surrounded me, from my church family to my friends,
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Speaker 5: and they keep me grounded.
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Speaker 4: Whereas I have to always be true to Charlotte.
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Speaker 5: And again, like I said, I really try not to
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Speaker 5: hurt people's feelings in the interim, but I try to
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Speaker 5: speak the truth.
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Speaker 4: And that's what I want others to do for me.
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Speaker 4: If I'm doing something wrong, call me out on it.
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Speaker 5: If you don't like the way I'm acting, or or
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Speaker 5: if I'm throwing some type of shade, be honest with
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Speaker 5: me and say, hey, Charlotte, I don't like what you're doing,
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Speaker 5: but this writing journey has been a beautiful process for me.
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Speaker 5: While I'm also able to heal, heal myself in reference
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Speaker 5: to you know, just to share a look, like I
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Speaker 5: just said, reference to my mother transitioning, I wanted to
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Speaker 5: take my own life, and to this day, I can
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Speaker 5: honestly say that I don't have any suicidal thoughts anymore.
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Speaker 5: I was able to transsition or trans transcribe that that
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Speaker 5: that pain into paper, and and I'm able to look
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Speaker 5: at it. And then I'm also able to give a
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Speaker 5: testimony and reference to just people, not only losing a parent,
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Speaker 5: but people I don't like to say losing, I like
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Speaker 5: to say the word transition, but even when a loved
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Speaker 5: one has transitioned, I've been, I've been actually give prayer,
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Speaker 5: comphany words, because when somebody transitioned, it it's a lot,
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Speaker 5: it's a it's a heavy process to go through it,
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Speaker 5: and and nobody knows the depth of it unless you
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Speaker 5: went through it yourself.
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Speaker 3: Right. Brief is something that us I tell you, we're
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Speaker 3: actually we're getting ready to launch a grief podcast on
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Speaker 3: the network this Sunday. Actually, we have quite a few.
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Speaker 3: I think we have five, five or six hosts that's
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Speaker 3: going to be a part of that particular show. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: grief is something that does not have a time limit
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Speaker 3: on it, and and it does not have an order
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Speaker 3: in which the way you will go. We know that
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Speaker 3: there's five stages of grief, but you never know which
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Speaker 3: stage you may stay in long. You never know which
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Speaker 3: stage you may get to first because and you never
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Speaker 3: know which stage you may repeat. Because I find myself
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Speaker 3: sometimes still with the shock, can't believe that you know,
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Speaker 3: my loved one is gone, you know that my loved
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Speaker 3: one is transitioned. You know, I found myself just the
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Speaker 3: other day having a conversation with my sister and just
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Speaker 3: out of the conversation, you know, we both we both
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Speaker 3: could not believe that my brother's not.
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Speaker 2: Here with us.
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Speaker 3: You know, we just and I don't know were we
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Speaker 3: just started that conversation. So it could come up anytime,
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Speaker 3: any anywhere. But just finding things. And I'm grateful because
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Speaker 3: even through this platform, through the one hundred author movement,
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Speaker 3: I've been able to see individuals that have been through
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Speaker 3: grief and the outlets that they have used to allow
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Speaker 3: that grief to come out We have a host here, Shannette.
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Speaker 3: She lost her son two years ago. Well it hadn't
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Speaker 3: been two years. She had it to be two years
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Speaker 3: this November, and she's had a hard time, but she
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Speaker 3: wants to you know, she don't. She she's never gonna forget.
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Speaker 3: She she wants to heal and she wants to help
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Speaker 3: others heal by sharing her journey and sharing how she
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Speaker 3: gets through it. You know, she had good days, she
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Speaker 3: had bad days. We all have good days, we all
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Speaker 3: have bad days. But just you know, just watching my
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Speaker 3: friend go through and then going through myself, and then
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Speaker 3: other people going through around me, you know, I was
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Speaker 3: just like, it's hitting a lot of us at the
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Speaker 3: same time, and it's hitting us different, you know, and
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Speaker 3: you know, some of us being able to be there
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Speaker 3: for the other ones in different ways. You know, sometimes shouldn't.
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Speaker 3: Just we would just be on the phone and she
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Speaker 3: would be talking, and sometimes I would be on the
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Speaker 3: phone and I would be the one on the talking,
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Speaker 3: and some days I just listen, you know. We we
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Speaker 3: just was there to try to help each other get
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Speaker 3: to a point to where we can get through today.
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Speaker 3: That's what it's about, getting through today, because we'll never
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Speaker 3: get over.
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Speaker 4: Losing.
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Speaker 3: You never get over losing anybody or anything, or you know,
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Speaker 3: once something has been a part of your life, you're
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Speaker 3: always gonna have that connection. You're always gonna have some
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Speaker 3: type of reference. It's just coping and getting through and
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Speaker 3: how you get through. That's so being a part of
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Speaker 3: a lot of these platforms, I would like to hear
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Speaker 3: what this journey has been like as far as getting
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Speaker 3: your books out there and just I guess finding your
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Speaker 3: niche and and and finding that audience and finding that
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Speaker 3: thing that works for you. What has that been like.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I want to say thank you again
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Speaker 5: just for the opportunity to do the one hundred authors,
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Speaker 5: because it's given me a chance to hone in on
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Speaker 5: my leadership skills. Now this, to be honest, this is
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Speaker 5: still new, but I think my my niches is just
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Speaker 5: to encourage you know, each other in the group. What
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Speaker 5: I have done recently I reach out to everyone in
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Speaker 5: the group and so far, you know, it's like I
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Speaker 5: was listening to Keisha's interview this morning, and it's like,
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Speaker 5: you know, we're here. We're here to help each other
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Speaker 5: grow and and to encourage each other, not only as
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Speaker 5: part of you know, being an author, but just being
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Speaker 5: human beings, and if I can just also be honest
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Speaker 5: to being black and brown people, especially in this climate
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Speaker 5: that we are living in. And you know, I find out,
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Speaker 5: you know, my when I write, I'm just so humbly
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Speaker 5: grateful because I'm able to touch women in general, black
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Speaker 5: and brown women in general. I even have some friends,
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Speaker 5: you know, that are not of black and brown persuasion,
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Speaker 5: but they're able to give me some type of feedback.
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Speaker 5: And so when I'm when I write my niches for women,
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Speaker 5: I like to include men because one day I do
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Speaker 5: want to hone in on the men before. Right now,
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Speaker 5: my gift is for women, whether it's just you know,
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Speaker 5: just to share it to you, I have really not
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Speaker 5: had said this openly. I also suffer from stuttering, and
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Speaker 5: what I try to do is I think before I speak.
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Speaker 5: I get excited and sometimes you know, I'm trying to
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Speaker 5: get all my words out. But I learned to peace
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Speaker 5: of my still for a minute, calm down, to get
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Speaker 5: my thoughts out. And that's how I'm able to speak
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Speaker 5: publicly sometimes because sometime I get excited, I'm just going
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Speaker 5: I'm a ramble on and on. But I learned how
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Speaker 5: to control my stuttering where it's not so noticeable. And
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Speaker 5: when I tell people I have a stutering problem, they said, no,
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Speaker 5: I don't believe.
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Speaker 4: You, but I do.
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Speaker 5: And it's like I'm able to control it when when necessary,
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Speaker 5: and able to control myself when I have when I
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Speaker 5: have all these thoughts running through my mind.
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Speaker 4: If that makes sense, Sorry, well it.
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Speaker 3: Makes plenty good sense because I also stutter when I
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Speaker 3: get excited. I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure your child have
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Speaker 3: caught it a couple of times on the podcast, because
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Speaker 3: I have caught it. So it is there. It happens.
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Speaker 3: It is something that just recently started happening. It is
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Speaker 3: not something that I've always done, because I had a
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Speaker 3: problem of doing that.
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Speaker 4: That was a problem.
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Speaker 3: And how I gained that problem. It was in elementary school.
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Speaker 3: We had to read out loud in school and my
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Speaker 3: teacher said I was reading too fast, and she told
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Speaker 3: me that I needed to slow down. So I got
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Speaker 3: an attitude like normal kids do, and when I got
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Speaker 3: to the end of every sentence, I huh, did that?
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Speaker 3: And I developed a very bad habit because I started
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Speaker 3: doing it all the time, and it became a bad habit.
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Speaker 3: And it's something that I had to deal with when
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Speaker 3: I got in college, when I started taking public speaking classes,
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Speaker 3: I had to deal with that. But yeah, I've had that,
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Speaker 3: So don't feel bad. It's something we all have, something
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Speaker 3: that we deal with that none of us are perfect.
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Speaker 3: There is something that we all have to work on
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Speaker 3: every day to I mean it is we just every
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Speaker 3: day we I have something to work on that we
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Speaker 3: are not fluent in. I guess that I would say
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Speaker 3: an area that we may be weaker in than stronger in,
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Speaker 3: and that we have to focus on. Right, that is
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Speaker 3: one of the areas that I have to focus on,
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Speaker 3: like making sure that I get this work done. I
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Speaker 3: don't have to worry about that because I don't get
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Speaker 3: that done if I have to say it, but making
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Speaker 3: sure that you know I am poised, and sometimes you know,
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Speaker 3: I have to write notes down so that I can
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Speaker 3: keep my thoughts together so I don't be all over
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Speaker 3: the place because we're all over the place. Sometimes your
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Speaker 3: mind is trying to keep up. And when your mind
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Speaker 3: is all over the place, then it don't it don't focus.
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Speaker 3: It's like you be out of focus and things don't
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Speaker 3: go right all right. And that's when I started a
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Speaker 3: lot and.
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Speaker 4: I have to so, oh, Charlotte, you know, calm yourself down.
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Speaker 4: And I say that out loud. You know, people don't
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Speaker 4: look at me and it type.
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Speaker 5: Of way because I feel myself getting excited, and I said, okay,
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Speaker 5: you know, while Missensus, somebody could be talking.
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Speaker 4: I said, okay, Charlotte, calm down, and I get my
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Speaker 4: words out.
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Speaker 5: And it's like, you know, like stuttering is not something
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Speaker 5: that you know, I'm I'm not ashamed at this point
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Speaker 5: in my age because it's it's it's unfortunately is a
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Speaker 5: part of my a part of me. And you have
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Speaker 5: great speakers out there. I'm just gonna say, Moses used
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Speaker 5: to stutter, and look at him. He let people out
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Speaker 5: of Egypt, you know. So my thing is, you know,
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Speaker 5: President Biden, he was he used to study you know,
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Speaker 5: great people. Yes, yes, you know, it's just a it's
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Speaker 5: something that you know, we could we could home, you know,
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Speaker 5: if we think before we speak, you know, it could
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Speaker 5: it could be smooth.
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Speaker 4: And sometimes it's funny.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 5: Another family member of mine had a studying problem and
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Speaker 5: he is a great speaker. When I hear him speak,
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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god. So I'm not ashamed of it,
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Speaker 5: like I used to be when I was little. You know,
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Speaker 5: kids to be mean and that's another story. But hey,
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Speaker 5: I'm here now and I'm able to speak to you
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Speaker 5: live without any stuttering.
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Speaker 4: That was corny. I don't care.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's it's just all about focus. When we
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Speaker 3: focus on those things, were able to do it and
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Speaker 3: you know, just having that that that that mindset to say, well,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna focus on this and being being grounded. So
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Speaker 3: what are some things that as a group leader, because
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Speaker 3: you are a group leader with the one hundred the movement,
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Speaker 3: what are some things that you would like to possibly
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Speaker 3: implement or bring to the movement that you would like
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Speaker 3: to leave with the movement?
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Speaker 4: What I would like to leave, I don't you know,
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Speaker 4: not to you know good. I want honesty.
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Speaker 5: I want us to be a group, you know, because
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Speaker 5: our group is name Real Encounters, and I want and
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Speaker 5: I saw I was speaking to one of the ladies
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Speaker 5: on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: You know that that that has a lot of depth
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Speaker 4: to it. You know. When we tell our story, we're able.
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Speaker 5: And I don't want to, you know, not to shade
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Speaker 5: any other group, but we are tell them our real encounters,
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Speaker 5: our life stories. And that's what I want us to
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Speaker 5: be known as you know, people that are able to
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Speaker 5: speak the truth, to tell the truth you know, about
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Speaker 5: what we have been through. And in the process of
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Speaker 5: well this, we're able to help somebody else. And that's
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Speaker 5: what I want our group to be known as. You know,
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Speaker 5: that's I want that to be a part of our
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Speaker 5: legacy is real life stories and and this helped other
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Speaker 5: people to grow from it, whether you know, you know,
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Speaker 5: whether it's from someone transitioning, whether it's from somebody sexual assault, suicide, stuttering,
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Speaker 5: whatever it is. I want us to be able to
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Speaker 5: speak the truth about it and and and so far
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Speaker 5: the group is pretty good. Like I said, I got
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Speaker 5: a chance to speak to some of the people over
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Speaker 5: the phone on Saturday. I also want to start having
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Speaker 5: monthly meetings becas zoom or via zoom. And I want
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Speaker 5: us to also want to try to come together as
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Speaker 5: a group. I know some people live in different states,
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Speaker 5: but I want us to try to meet midway and
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Speaker 5: just to you know, have some type of camaraderie together,
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Speaker 5: just as well to be able to have real life
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Speaker 5: encounters with each other and for actually for other people
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 4: And you put us all together, well, God, you as
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Speaker 4: a vessel draw.
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Speaker 3: Up, and that was the whole purpose, you know, the
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Speaker 3: whole purpose of you know me, even bringing everybody together.
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Speaker 3: You know, I feel like it's forty four authors even
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Speaker 3: though we haven't achieved a one hundred yet, there's forty
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Speaker 3: four authors inside of this group, including myself. That makes
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Speaker 3: it forty four. But there's forty four authors. There's no
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Speaker 3: reason why we shouldn't be having live events, virtual events.
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Speaker 4: We should be done doing.
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Speaker 3: Something every month, Like people should know who the one
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Speaker 3: hundred author movement is. They should know if one person
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Speaker 3: say something, they should know who all the forty three
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Speaker 3: who the other forty three authors is a part of
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Speaker 3: that movement. That should be no reason why we are
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Speaker 3: being so quiet. You know, I see some people inside
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Speaker 3: of the chat. They never respond, they never share anything,
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Speaker 3: They never share anything about their selves yet alone share anything.
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Speaker 3: So it just it's just now it's gonna come to,
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Speaker 3: you know, individuals wanting to see themselves grow and wanting
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Speaker 3: to see their brands grow. You know, I'm gonna continue
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Speaker 3: to provide the resources inside of the group, but I'm
20:38
Speaker 3: gonna start pulling on those that I see that are
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Speaker 3: really wanting to those that want to get out here
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Speaker 3: and really promote their brands and really get out here
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Speaker 3: and do stuff Like we're trying to set up different
20:50
Speaker 3: stops at Barns and Nobles where we can actually do
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Speaker 3: a book tour and go to different Barns and Nobles
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Speaker 3: and set up and you know, we can talk about
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Speaker 3: our books, have a little you know, different little stuff
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Speaker 3: like we do with a LAC the Chase of your
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Speaker 3: Dream Book Tour that is about educating, empowering and encouraging
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Speaker 3: and bringing authors and business owners together. We have workshops,
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Speaker 3: We provide workshops. We have keynote speakers. We have individuals
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Speaker 3: that come in that can talk to you about your brand,
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Speaker 3: about your about marketing, about visibility, about anything from A
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Speaker 3: to Z concerning being an author in a creative in
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Speaker 3: this environment in this world today. We even have individuals
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Speaker 3: that talk on podcasts and anything you can think of.
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Speaker 3: We have individuals that come in and talk about that
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Speaker 3: we what we have inside of this group, Like we
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Speaker 3: have so much talent inside of this group. And people
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Speaker 3: just realize the individuals that they had around them, Yes,
21:52
Speaker 3: like if they just realized, like when God dropped this
21:55
Speaker 3: in my spirit, it was four seeds connect, collaborate create
22:01
Speaker 3: your community.
22:02
Speaker 4: I say, that's true.
22:04
Speaker 3: And collaboration. These are things that we should be doing anyway.
22:10
Speaker 5: Yes, you're right, and sometimes you know, you know, I
22:13
Speaker 5: will take responsibility sometimes I'm just gonna be honest. Sometime
22:17
Speaker 5: I get in my moments where you know, you know,
22:20
Speaker 5: I said, I'm not gonna do it tonight because you know,
22:22
Speaker 5: life happens, but you have afforded us the opportunity to
22:25
Speaker 5: do so. And you know what I put in the
22:27
Speaker 5: group chat today, what are my I shouldn't say it,
22:31
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna say it. One of my peeves is, Okay,
22:33
Speaker 5: we all have life experience. You know, we all are
22:36
Speaker 5: dealing with stuff, going to work, YadA, yah, YadA. But
22:38
Speaker 5: what do you when I'm speaking for me as a
22:42
Speaker 5: group leader, when I give you know, give a shout
22:44
Speaker 5: out of you encouragement, just respond, you know that's it.
22:47
Speaker 5: Keep it moving, That's my little peep. Because even you,
22:51
Speaker 5: I know you do a lot because you and I
22:53
Speaker 5: have conversation on the side. So when you when you
22:56
Speaker 5: say something, I might not respond right away, but ninety
23:00
Speaker 5: five percent of the time I'll respond to you by
23:02
Speaker 5: the end of the day or the end of night.
23:04
Speaker 5: And that's what I want to do with the groups.
23:06
Speaker 5: Also when my particular group, you know, we have to
23:09
Speaker 5: encourage each other. I saw another author in the group.
23:12
Speaker 5: She she did a shout out of recouragement to all
23:15
Speaker 5: of us, and that's what we need. Life is hard,
23:19
Speaker 5: and you know, and we're trying to put our brand
23:21
Speaker 5: out there and you know it is hard. It's hard
23:24
Speaker 5: to work, go to school, be human in general. So
23:28
Speaker 5: encouragement goes a long way. And that's what you know,
23:30
Speaker 5: Like I said, that's that's what I want our group
23:32
Speaker 5: to be, my group to be to encourage one another
23:35
Speaker 5: and then maybe other groups will follow after because you.
23:38
Speaker 4: Are putting in a lot of time and I commend that.
23:41
Speaker 5: So I try to be obedient in reference to that
23:44
Speaker 5: what you do when you give, when you say something,
23:47
Speaker 5: I try to respond back.
23:48
Speaker 4: And if it's something that I don't know, you know,
23:51
Speaker 4: I text you on the side or call you.
23:53
Speaker 3: And I have this thing because my apostle apostle doctor Kimberly.
23:59
Speaker 3: She she out was when she first came to our
24:01
Speaker 3: preg we do a preggrou at five am every morning. See,
24:04
Speaker 3: people don't understand what I go through every day. That
24:07
Speaker 3: it's not an easy day. Now, it's not an easy task. Now,
24:09
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I'm up at four. I'm up every
24:11
Speaker 3: day around four four thirty, and I don't lay down
24:19
Speaker 3: until about sometime eleven thirty twelve, sometime one o'clock. So
24:26
Speaker 3: you do the math. But we know that there's twenty
24:28
Speaker 3: four hours in a day. I say this, and I
24:30
Speaker 3: say this to everybody, and I care not who get mad,
24:34
Speaker 3: because it is the truth.
24:36
Speaker 4: Yes, and it is.
24:39
Speaker 3: We will put in time where we want to put
24:42
Speaker 3: in time. We will do what we want to do
24:46
Speaker 3: when we want to do. We make time for what
24:48
Speaker 3: it's important to us, yes, even right. Nevertheless, we make
24:53
Speaker 3: time for what's important to us. So a lot of
24:57
Speaker 3: people really show me what's important to them. You know,
25:01
Speaker 3: we have twenty four hours in a day. A lot
25:04
Speaker 3: of us. I understand you work a nine to five.
25:08
Speaker 3: I understand that. I don't know what y'all think I
25:10
Speaker 3: do over here, but I know we work, some of
25:14
Speaker 3: us working nine to five. So then we know that's
25:17
Speaker 3: eight hours. We go to work eight hours, and then
25:20
Speaker 3: most of us say we want to get our eight
25:22
Speaker 3: hours of sleep. We got to be in bed by
25:23
Speaker 3: a certain time so we can get our eight hours.
25:26
Speaker 3: I don't because it don't take all that it. Do
25:29
Speaker 3: it take your phone eight hours of charge? Well, do
25:33
Speaker 3: it take your phone eight hours of charge? No, it don't.
25:35
Speaker 3: But when your phone sometime it may take it thirty minutes.
25:38
Speaker 3: Sometime it may take an hour. Sometime it may take
25:40
Speaker 3: two hours. It depending on how dead it is. Huh,
25:44
Speaker 3: So it don't take all of that. Yes, nowhere do
25:47
Speaker 3: it take all of that? I ain't never seen in
25:51
Speaker 3: the Bible do it talk about it? Do it talk
25:53
Speaker 3: about how long we supposed to sleep? I ain't never
25:55
Speaker 3: seen nowhere in the Bible we talk about no time
25:57
Speaker 3: for sleep? I never saw it. I ain't never seen
26:00
Speaker 3: where it say eight hours to sleep, it's good for
26:03
Speaker 3: your body, know where? That ain't a part of the regiment.
26:07
Speaker 3: But anyhow, we made eight hours for that. We made
26:10
Speaker 3: eight hours for work, so we that's sixteen hours. So
26:13
Speaker 3: I asked this question, and I ask this for everybody.
26:16
Speaker 3: What are you doing with those other eight hours?
26:19
Speaker 4: That's true?
26:20
Speaker 3: True, because it is twenty four hours and today, let
26:23
Speaker 3: them let them tear it. It's twenty four hours and today.
26:26
Speaker 3: So if there's twenty four hours in today and you're
26:29
Speaker 3: spenting eight on your job and you're spending it on
26:32
Speaker 3: your sleeping. Then what are you doing then with the
26:35
Speaker 3: other eight hours? Tell me what are you doing with
26:39
Speaker 3: the other eight hours? Are you mapping out those other
26:42
Speaker 3: eight hours? Are you being intentional about those other eight hours?
26:47
Speaker 3: Because he gave you a plan? And another thing, Another
26:52
Speaker 3: thing I want to ask, So when you lay down
26:55
Speaker 3: and go to sleep at night, do you go to
26:56
Speaker 3: sleep intentionally or you just go to sleep? Do you
27:01
Speaker 3: intentionally go to sleep or do you just go to sleep?
27:06
Speaker 3: Because see, people don't understand that that you don't just
27:09
Speaker 3: go to sleep. See people think you go to sleep
27:11
Speaker 3: the rest babad, But baby, bab bab bad bad bad,
27:15
Speaker 3: that's not what you go to sleep for. That is
27:18
Speaker 3: not what you go to sleep for. I mean, I
27:21
Speaker 3: got to I got to school. Some people that don't know.
27:23
Speaker 3: So when you go to sleep, you're not going to
27:25
Speaker 3: sleep the rest. Yeah, yeah, you're going to sleep. When
27:30
Speaker 3: when when when your physical body, When your physical body
27:33
Speaker 3: is sleep, your spiritual body is very much awake to
27:36
Speaker 3: see your spiritual body. The spiritual body is he ain't
27:40
Speaker 3: gonna say they sleep while you woke, But your spiritual
27:44
Speaker 3: body is letting your physical body do its thing during
27:47
Speaker 3: the daytime, so it ain't so much awake. So while
27:50
Speaker 3: we're walking around here thinking we woke, ah, we ain't
27:54
Speaker 3: really woke. We really sleep. We really sleep because we're
27:58
Speaker 3: walking in the flesh. But when you going to sleep
28:00
Speaker 3: at night, Yes, when you go to sleep at night
28:04
Speaker 3: and you tap into that that realm. And that's when
28:08
Speaker 3: he started downloading those things. And I want to tell y'all,
28:12
Speaker 3: so now that you know, so now you know, when
28:15
Speaker 3: you know, you do better. So they say, when you
28:18
Speaker 3: now that you know, you do better. So now that
28:20
Speaker 3: you know that when you go to sleep, that you're
28:21
Speaker 3: supposed to go to sleep intentional. Why do you think
28:23
Speaker 3: a lot of people meditate before they go to sleep.
28:26
Speaker 3: Why do you think a lot of people pray before
28:28
Speaker 3: they go to sleep? Why do you think a lot
28:31
Speaker 3: of people really concentrate on things before they go to sleep,
28:36
Speaker 3: Like people try to clear out all of this from
28:39
Speaker 3: the day and all of that stuff so that they
28:42
Speaker 3: can really be in tune with the spirit when they
28:47
Speaker 3: go to sleep at night. Let me ask you another
28:49
Speaker 3: question so people can really understand what I'm saying. So,
28:53
Speaker 3: have you ever been sleep and you you you you
28:59
Speaker 3: try to wake up and it seemed like you can't
29:01
Speaker 3: wake up. It's like you you just can't wake up
29:04
Speaker 3: to save your life, It's like you just can't get Yeah,
29:08
Speaker 3: you know why do you know why? I'm gonna tell
29:15
Speaker 3: you why. Because your yo, your physical baby, your physical
29:20
Speaker 3: body baby, he ready to get up, but your spiritual
29:23
Speaker 3: man ain't made it back yet. Your spiritual man still
29:25
Speaker 3: like they're running around doing whatever he's supposed to be
29:28
Speaker 3: doing whatever he doing while we sleep. See them dreams
29:32
Speaker 3: and them visions that you haven't you know how you
29:35
Speaker 3: think you you don't seen something before, and you like
29:37
Speaker 3: you having days, Jah blue baby, it ain't days, y'all.
29:39
Speaker 3: Vill You actually experienced that. You actually went through it
29:43
Speaker 3: in a dream. That's how when some people say they
29:45
Speaker 3: go places and they feel like they don't been there before,
29:48
Speaker 3: you have that in the spirit. You were there in
29:52
Speaker 3: the spirit. See most of the time, you visit all
29:55
Speaker 3: of those places before you go there. A lot of
29:58
Speaker 3: people you don't understand this that you're walking into now,
30:02
Speaker 3: this this you probably already been here before this, this conversation.
30:06
Speaker 3: You've probably been in the middle of this conversation before exactly.
30:10
Speaker 4: And didn't know.
30:11
Speaker 3: He probably gave it to you, but you probably didn't
30:13
Speaker 3: know who it was gonna be with. But you probably
30:16
Speaker 3: don't sit there and had some of this stuff running
30:19
Speaker 3: through your mind, but you just didn't know who the
30:21
Speaker 3: person was gonna be. You didn't know what was gonna
30:23
Speaker 3: be me what you knew that the conversation was gonna happen.
30:27
Speaker 4: That's right.
30:28
Speaker 5: I have dreams like like you said before where and
30:30
Speaker 5: like you said, it's not dej'all bou, And sometimes you know,
30:34
Speaker 5: it happens more frequent, but I know, like you said, yeah,
30:37
Speaker 5: my my spirit has already been there.
30:39
Speaker 4: It's this my soul trying to catch up. So I
30:42
Speaker 4: do agree with you in reference to that.
30:45
Speaker 5: So you know, we are just playing a role, and
30:48
Speaker 5: you know, and you know, sometimes like you said, when
30:50
Speaker 5: we dream stuff that we've been here before, it's just
30:53
Speaker 5: also trying to catch up.
30:54
Speaker 4: And that's how I feel. It's not I don't believe
30:56
Speaker 4: in dej'all boo.
30:58
Speaker 5: I can tell you some dreams that I had and
31:01
Speaker 5: I've seen it come to pass now and it's like
31:04
Speaker 5: and I'm trying to like, did this really happen or
31:06
Speaker 5: you know, what happened? I've been here before, but like
31:09
Speaker 5: it's just my soul trying to catch up. And that's
31:12
Speaker 5: an I do a career, Trea. In reference to that, I'll.
31:16
Speaker 3: Tell you we we it be a lot going on.
31:19
Speaker 3: It be a lot going on. It be a lot
31:21
Speaker 3: going on. Well, Minister Alma, thank you for posting and
31:26
Speaker 3: letting us know that you are home. Minister Alba is
31:29
Speaker 3: one of the hosts over here on the Crew podcast.
31:33
Speaker 3: She has been she has been in the hospital. She's
31:36
Speaker 3: also from New York. She said she lives in New York.
31:40
Speaker 3: She lives out in Amityville. Yeah, just wanted to give
31:45
Speaker 3: her a shout out because she had tuned in. She
31:47
Speaker 3: had tuned in and said hello, So I wanted to give.
31:49
Speaker 4: Her and you want us tune it in.
31:52
Speaker 3: So what do you have in store for twenty twenty
31:58
Speaker 3: five on a personal level as far as your your brand?
32:04
Speaker 5: Okay, on a well, on a personal level, not part
32:08
Speaker 5: of the brand, but on a personal level. I'm in
32:12
Speaker 5: Bible College. And also, hopefully I'll say it correctly, I
32:15
Speaker 5: hope my bishop is not watching. I'm in a ministerial
32:20
Speaker 5: Catechism class, and so that is going to because even
32:25
Speaker 5: though I'm a minister, I have not been licensed yet.
32:29
Speaker 5: So now we're in the process, like doing the trenches
32:32
Speaker 5: of actually being trained as a minister. So that is
32:37
Speaker 5: we do that, well it's myself and the other ladies
32:40
Speaker 5: that are doing that. Maybe I think I don't want
32:42
Speaker 5: to lie. I think every first and fourth Sun Saturdays.
32:47
Speaker 5: So that's sighting coming up. Then as far as my brand,
32:52
Speaker 5: I'm working on a on a on a book called
32:55
Speaker 5: Roses for Betty. Now that has been a long process
32:59
Speaker 5: for me personally because kind of it's emotional and you know,
33:03
Speaker 5: sometimes my mood swings changes because like I said, I
33:07
Speaker 5: don't want to keep on going on Harper on that,
33:09
Speaker 5: but like it speaks about my mother's life as well
33:12
Speaker 5: as my life as mother and daughter. My mother was
33:16
Speaker 5: you know, she was a god funeral woman, but she helped.
33:20
Speaker 5: She said how it was, and I think that's how
33:23
Speaker 5: I got.
33:24
Speaker 4: My I'm from.
33:26
Speaker 5: And and and you know, she she she was, she
33:29
Speaker 5: she she does, loved life she had and also in
33:32
Speaker 5: reference to music, she had us listened to all types
33:35
Speaker 5: of music, exposed to all types of music. So the
33:38
Speaker 5: book is going to be based on her life as
33:40
Speaker 5: well as my life a mother daughter relationship. As we
33:43
Speaker 5: all know, sometimes it's not you know, peaches and cream
33:47
Speaker 5: and and it's gonna be some real stuff in there,
33:50
Speaker 5: and I'm just grateful for that to come out because
33:52
Speaker 5: I think it will help, you know, my daughters also
33:56
Speaker 5: to you know, because I have a friendship with my daughters,
34:00
Speaker 5: but they also know that I'm the mother first, and
34:03
Speaker 5: that's how my relationship was my mother. I was able
34:05
Speaker 5: to speak to her about everything and anything, but realizing
34:09
Speaker 5: that she was my mother first.
34:11
Speaker 4: So that's that's the that's gonna be the premises of
34:13
Speaker 4: the book.
34:14
Speaker 5: And as far as the one hundred hundred authors, I
34:19
Speaker 5: definitely want to meet everybody in person.
34:22
Speaker 4: One day.
34:23
Speaker 5: Hopefully it's gonna report the year and hopefully kind of
34:27
Speaker 5: wink up with everybody hopefully, but.
34:30
Speaker 3: I definitely will challenge you to to get together with
34:34
Speaker 3: the other authors that are in New York and hopefully
34:38
Speaker 3: you guys can put together an event that will allow
34:42
Speaker 3: everybody to be able to come. I would definitely get
34:45
Speaker 3: with you guys and we can all coordinate an event.
34:49
Speaker 3: That is what I am hoping a lot of us
34:51
Speaker 3: will do to bring an event to their area. I
34:54
Speaker 3: know we're doing that here in Atlanta, and then we're
34:57
Speaker 3: gonna be doing it in South Carolina and we're gonna
35:00
Speaker 3: be doing it out in California, so it's gonna be
35:02
Speaker 3: opportunity for you guys to come out to California. Sanett
35:06
Speaker 3: is going to be hosting an event out in California.
35:08
Speaker 3: We're trying to do it in June. She's gonna be
35:10
Speaker 3: doing a book release in June, and we're gonna extend
35:13
Speaker 3: it to invite those that would like to come out
35:17
Speaker 3: and be a part of it. Also, we're gonna be
35:21
Speaker 3: doing a little more with I think we're gonna be
35:25
Speaker 3: doing an event in Florida. Apostle Kimberly wants to do
35:28
Speaker 3: an event, So we're gonna definitely be doing some events.
35:31
Speaker 3: So there's gonna be opportunities for individuals to connect to
35:34
Speaker 3: do events. But we definitely want those group leaders to
35:38
Speaker 3: be thinking about hosting events in their area and bringing
35:43
Speaker 3: those authors that are in their area together. You know,
35:46
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be there. I'm showing up at every everyone
35:51
Speaker 3: everybody that will host one, I will be there. And
35:55
Speaker 3: those group leaders that will travel, I know some of them,
35:59
Speaker 3: we'll be there. Like Charita, she she she'll be there
36:04
Speaker 3: at some of them, the ones that she can be
36:06
Speaker 3: yet and those that she can't get off work. She
36:09
Speaker 3: she loves to travel. Those that love to travel, I
36:12
Speaker 3: want them to get out here and be a part
36:13
Speaker 3: of this. We have podcasters that can come, we can
36:16
Speaker 3: do interviews, we can do the whole yard, and then
36:19
Speaker 3: we can arrange for individuals to come out and set
36:22
Speaker 3: up workshops because I always I want people to walk
36:25
Speaker 3: away with three things. Anytime they come in my friends,
36:28
Speaker 3: I want them to walk away with the three e's.
36:30
Speaker 3: I want them to feel like they've experienced the ultimate
36:33
Speaker 3: E three experience. I want them to feel educated, in
36:36
Speaker 3: power and encouraged so that that that is exactly how
36:41
Speaker 3: I want individuals to walk away from a AA L
36:44
Speaker 3: A C. Chasing your dream bout tory event. Y'all. I've
36:48
Speaker 3: been doing this since twenty sixteen. When God dropped this
36:50
Speaker 3: in my spirit. You know, I was it was a mandate.
36:54
Speaker 3: It was not something that I could just put down
36:57
Speaker 3: and pick up and put down and pick up. I
36:58
Speaker 3: have not I'm not step back. I've not stopped. You know,
37:02
Speaker 3: people have walked away, people came, people come and go
37:05
Speaker 3: and they walk away. But I God would not allow
37:08
Speaker 3: me to lay it down when when I said I
37:11
Speaker 3: would be a voice, and that I would be an outlet.
37:15
Speaker 3: I just wanted to be used. If he raised me
37:18
Speaker 3: up off my bed of affliction, I will share his goodness.
37:21
Speaker 3: And this is how he gave me an outlet to
37:24
Speaker 3: share his goodness. So in order for me to be
37:27
Speaker 3: able to share his goodness, I have to allow and
37:30
Speaker 3: be an outlet so that other people can do it too. See,
37:33
Speaker 3: somebody spoke Queen of Collaborations over my life. It wasn't
37:36
Speaker 3: something that I started. Somebody spoke that thing over my
37:39
Speaker 3: life and people started calling me that. People started calling
37:42
Speaker 3: me that, so I began to walk into it, and
37:45
Speaker 3: then it just became a thing, and people just began
37:47
Speaker 3: to call They stopped calling me Queen of Collaboration and
37:51
Speaker 3: just started calling me queen. So it wasn't just like
37:54
Speaker 3: something that. No, I don't think I'm a queen, and
37:57
Speaker 3: I really don't even know they don't even know the
38:00
Speaker 3: definition of a queen. I just know that there's just
38:03
Speaker 3: something that, you know, everybody just started calling me, and
38:07
Speaker 3: I just said, well, it must be something good, so
38:10
Speaker 3: let me walk into it. So I just walked into it,
38:14
Speaker 3: you know.
38:15
Speaker 5: And I just believe in being obedient, yes, and it
38:18
Speaker 5: fits you, and this is you know, lasting or personal thing.
38:22
Speaker 5: I'm turning sixty, That's why I said, I'm pushing it
38:25
Speaker 5: over to hopefully July or August. But I'm turning sixty
38:28
Speaker 5: in June. My daughter is graduating in high school, and
38:33
Speaker 5: so there's a lot of stuff coming up. So that's
38:35
Speaker 5: why I didn't say anything about June. But hopefully July
38:39
Speaker 5: or August. That's what I want to try to, you know,
38:41
Speaker 5: try to just have some type of fellowship together.
38:44
Speaker 4: And you know, I have a couple of areas that
38:48
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to call.
38:49
Speaker 5: And it's funny that you said that, but I don't
38:51
Speaker 5: want to say anything yet until I reach out to
38:53
Speaker 5: certain hotels.
38:54
Speaker 4: But yes, you are definitely invited and I want to.
38:58
Speaker 5: I see Keisha's on the line, and what definitely use
39:01
Speaker 5: all the authors that are in New York.
39:03
Speaker 3: Another person, Well, there are six and I've called all
39:07
Speaker 3: of them out. I've given you the names so you
39:11
Speaker 3: can connect with all six of them, even though they're
39:14
Speaker 3: in different groups.
39:15
Speaker 5: You know.
39:15
Speaker 3: That's why I posted inside of the chat today. You know,
39:19
Speaker 3: even though you may be in a different group if
39:21
Speaker 3: you're from a city. That's why I was asking what
39:23
Speaker 3: state everybody was from, so that you can connect with
39:26
Speaker 3: the person that's in your state, because there's no reason why.
39:30
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna keep saying that there's no reason why
39:32
Speaker 3: we have forty three authors attached to this movement that
39:36
Speaker 3: we should not be doing something, even if we have
39:38
Speaker 3: to do it virtually, even the ones that are not
39:41
Speaker 3: doing nothing, it's enough of us that are doing something
39:45
Speaker 3: that we need to be out here allowing people to
39:48
Speaker 3: see who we are. You know, there's opportunities. I can't
39:54
Speaker 3: do everything, but there are a lot of places, like
39:56
Speaker 3: there are bookstores, there are black owned bookstores. There the
40:00
Speaker 3: own places that will allow you to come in and
40:03
Speaker 3: have these different events, you know, the local libraries. You know,
40:08
Speaker 3: if you go and sit down and talk to people
40:10
Speaker 3: like it's all about being a relationship. That's how I
40:12
Speaker 3: tell people. We can't be so focused on selling books
40:15
Speaker 3: and pushing books and pushing up. We got to build relationships.
40:18
Speaker 3: We got to have relationships with people so that you know,
40:21
Speaker 3: I can go up to some people. I had a
40:24
Speaker 3: lady tell me one time before it wasn't about the book,
40:27
Speaker 3: she said, because if I printed something blank, she said,
40:31
Speaker 3: She's still would buy. Yes, it was about the relationship
40:34
Speaker 3: that she the things that the relationship that she was
40:37
Speaker 3: able to build with me, you know, being able to
40:41
Speaker 3: you know, relate to the things that I was sharing
40:44
Speaker 3: and being able to connect with the story, you know,
40:49
Speaker 3: the journey that I have had. You know, people wanted
40:52
Speaker 3: to be able to connect with you. They can buy
40:54
Speaker 3: anybody book that they can go on. You gonna have
40:59
Speaker 3: it's beings to be the books. But people want to
41:02
Speaker 3: know who you are. And when you allow people to
41:05
Speaker 3: get to know you, they ain't got to know your
41:07
Speaker 3: personal get all your personal where you live and all
41:10
Speaker 3: that stuff, but stuff that you want them to know
41:13
Speaker 3: around your journey. I allow them to get that close, yes,
41:18
Speaker 3: so that they can think that they have that that
41:21
Speaker 3: personal relationship with you. And I promise you they will
41:24
Speaker 3: support the things that you do. You you you have
41:26
Speaker 3: an event, they'll come out you you you you launch
41:29
Speaker 3: a book that they're they're subscribe to it. So they'll
41:33
Speaker 3: get that same notification you get when your book, when
41:35
Speaker 3: they say your book was coming out, Amazon has send
41:37
Speaker 3: them something to just all about building relationship.
41:41
Speaker 5: It is it is and that's why I'm glad that
41:43
Speaker 5: you gave us that name and you know, just you know,
41:46
Speaker 5: a quick thing. When you said, like people wanted to connect.
41:48
Speaker 5: I always hear my story, you know, you know, in
41:51
Speaker 5: reference to just being a sub a survival, just some
41:55
Speaker 5: life in general. And I'm able to testimony. And when
41:58
Speaker 5: I tell people that, I they was like, oh, Charlotte,
42:01
Speaker 5: let let let me know when you're gonna, you know,
42:03
Speaker 5: start selling your books. Like I said, it's not even
42:05
Speaker 5: about selling the book. They want to hear what you
42:07
Speaker 5: have to say. And that's what I'm you know, sometimes
42:11
Speaker 5: you know, I'm gonna say my children just say.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you know, you tell too much.
42:15
Speaker 5: I don't really care at this point because I'm able
42:18
Speaker 5: to help somebody else and and and somebody spoken to
42:22
Speaker 5: my life, whereas I was when I wanted to commit suicide.
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Speaker 4: You know, I just a quick story.
42:29
Speaker 5: I was at a woman's function when I finally brought
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Speaker 5: it out, and I'm telling you, so many pray over me,
42:36
Speaker 5: and it was you know, I'm able to pay it
42:38
Speaker 5: for it. It took me a minute to get myself together,
42:41
Speaker 5: but look at me now, and I'm so grateful unto
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Speaker 5: God that I could tell, you know, tell my story
42:47
Speaker 5: about you know, all the people that have transitioned after
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Speaker 5: my mother, and like I said, I don't have those
42:53
Speaker 5: suicidal thoughts. I'm able to share my story about the stuttering.
42:57
Speaker 5: You know, that's a lot to me or just you know,
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Speaker 5: just being a a woman of color, you know, and
43:04
Speaker 5: and it's just you know, just being a human being general.
43:08
Speaker 5: So you know, that's how I'm able to, like you said,
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Speaker 5: to connect with people. And like I said, I like
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Speaker 5: you aren't and real.
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Speaker 4: So that's that's just me. But I you know, reference
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Speaker 4: to the group. We are going to do better. That's
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Speaker 4: a promise. We are gonna do better.
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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen. Well, I definitely have enjoyed sitting down and
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Speaker 3: talking with you tonight, but I really want you to
43:35
Speaker 3: share with those that tune in and those that were
43:38
Speaker 3: here to replay, how can we connect with you? How
43:41
Speaker 3: can we stay connected and see what you're doing and
43:49
Speaker 3: follow you because I know you be dropping some nuggas.
43:52
Speaker 3: I know you gotta be dropping some nuggas somewhere.
43:54
Speaker 5: So I'm on Facebook. I really love Facebook, but I'm
43:59
Speaker 5: also on and on Instagram. It's under Star's Web of Artistry.
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Speaker 5: That's also my email address with the stars web of
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Speaker 5: Artistry at gmail dot com. I also have, Charlotte says
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Speaker 5: right now. And also I have a website. I'm still
44:20
Speaker 5: I'm in the process of revamping it. So once I
44:23
Speaker 5: get that out, I'm definitely gonna push forward with that.
44:26
Speaker 5: And you know, just if you want to. I don't
44:29
Speaker 5: like to say hit me up, but if you want
44:31
Speaker 5: to hit me up, just reach out to me via Facebook,
44:33
Speaker 5: DM me I'm I'm. I'm more easily acceptable, as well
44:37
Speaker 5: as on Instagram. And if also you can just tell
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Speaker 5: angel hey, I saw Charlotte, you know, and I and
44:44
Speaker 5: again answer I notice is you know, you've given us
44:46
Speaker 5: the opportunity to speak. But I do want to say
44:50
Speaker 5: thank you for you know, just for allowing God to
44:53
Speaker 5: use you as a vessel, because I always say I
44:56
Speaker 5: say this to you. You have allowed me to be,
45:01
Speaker 5: you know, so visible out there. And I don't know
45:04
Speaker 5: if you know people ever knew. I never met anyone,
45:08
Speaker 5: but we have connected. We have known each other I
45:11
Speaker 5: think for two years or maybe more.
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Speaker 3: And we've been knowing each other alone than two years years.
45:17
Speaker 3: You've been right for the magazine for two years.
45:21
Speaker 5: A quick story about the magazine, so I'm this last
45:24
Speaker 5: story so reference to the magazine. Angela was looking for authors.
45:28
Speaker 5: So I said to Oh, I want to do poetry.
45:31
Speaker 5: She said no, she said, she said I have something
45:34
Speaker 5: that you could do. She said grief and gratitude. And
45:37
Speaker 5: I said to myself, I said, Lord, I don't want
45:40
Speaker 5: to do that. Iver said that to my family. I said, why,
45:42
Speaker 5: don't want to keep on talking about that? But Angel said,
45:45
Speaker 5: you know, and you could do it. I reached out
45:47
Speaker 5: to a mentor and he said to say, my family
45:50
Speaker 5: said to do it. I prayed over it, and God
45:53
Speaker 5: said to do it. So I'm able to share my story.
45:56
Speaker 5: And it's not always about someone transitioning. I speak about
46:00
Speaker 5: mental health. Mental health is real. I speak about just
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Speaker 5: being a black and brown person in general. Just anything
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Speaker 5: that the Holy Spirit put on my mind. That's what
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Speaker 5: I write it back about. And at the end of
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Speaker 5: the day, I trying to give a resolution. So you
46:14
Speaker 5: know it's you know, I'm just humbly grateful to you,
46:17
Speaker 5: woman of God, because you know, you answer the call
46:20
Speaker 5: and you've pushed you.
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Speaker 4: You are like a midwife and you are pushing us forth.
46:26
Speaker 5: So I'm humbly grateful for you, and I'm gonna take
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Speaker 5: connected to you until Jesus says not so Okay, so
46:32
Speaker 5: I do.
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Speaker 4: So you just stuck with me.
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Speaker 5: I can't say I'm just telling you that. And I
46:36
Speaker 5: just want to say thank you for the opportunity. And
46:39
Speaker 5: I just pray everybody peace and and thank you all
46:43
Speaker 5: for your support. I'm I'm humbly grateful and I want
46:46
Speaker 5: to say thank you for tuning in.
46:49
Speaker 3: So how can they follow you? How can they get
46:52
Speaker 3: your books? How can they see what you got coming
46:55
Speaker 3: out next? Do you have website? You're on social media?
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Speaker 3: How can they say to it?
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Speaker 5: Well, the the social media, like I said, it is Facebook,
47:04
Speaker 5: Charlotte Simon, Instagram, its stars Web of Artistry, like I said,
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Speaker 5: I have my my email accounts as stars well, Web
47:15
Speaker 5: of Artistry at at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 4: That's the one I would prefer for everyone to use.
47:22
Speaker 2: So far.
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Speaker 4: I I don't have my books out as of yet,
47:26
Speaker 4: but I'm going to get better than that.
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Speaker 5: And I do have my website is Simon says right now,
47:34
Speaker 5: and like I said, I'm in the process of revamping it.
47:36
Speaker 5: I want to put my books up here. I I
47:39
Speaker 5: have been allowed to do some of the anthology, so
47:42
Speaker 5: now I have to, you know, put it on my
47:44
Speaker 5: website and the reference to that if you want, if
47:47
Speaker 5: you're looking for someone just to speak, to give an
47:49
Speaker 5: honest word, you could just I don't like to say link,
47:53
Speaker 5: hit me up on the website, via Instagram, Facebook, on
47:58
Speaker 5: my email and I will be there if the Lord
48:01
Speaker 5: says so.
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Speaker 4: And if you do allow me to speak, it's gonna
48:05
Speaker 4: be the truth. And that's it. I know it's corny,
48:08
Speaker 4: but it's the real truth.
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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen, Amen, I thank you for stopping by and sharing.
48:14
Speaker 3: I tell you I truly truly have been blessed. But
48:17
Speaker 3: I always have my guests. I always want my guests.
48:20
Speaker 3: If I can remember before we leave last night out,
48:25
Speaker 3: I think me and Keisha, I don't think I gave
48:28
Speaker 3: her a chance to share something positive because we were
48:31
Speaker 3: so into the conversation. We went over an hour, so
48:35
Speaker 3: I don't think I got a chance to allow her
48:37
Speaker 3: to share something positive. But I always like for my
48:40
Speaker 3: guests to share something positive that individuals can take away
48:46
Speaker 3: from our conversation today. You know, they could take away
48:51
Speaker 3: from you know, just connecting with you and just something
48:55
Speaker 3: that they can remember you by. I want them to say,
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Speaker 3: oh I remember that, and I want to go find
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Speaker 3: So what is something you can pour into us today?
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Speaker 3: That will encourage us to inspire us and and and
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Speaker 3: and keep us on this journey.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm not gonna get emotional, but I'm gonna I'm
49:12
Speaker 5: gonna just say, you know, God is real. He's a
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Speaker 5: good God and you and what I hear in my
49:18
Speaker 5: spirit is to trust him. You know, you have to
49:22
Speaker 5: trust God and in all truth and all humbleness. I'm
49:27
Speaker 5: you know, I'm going through something right now, but I
49:28
Speaker 5: don't look like what I'm going through. Only a few
49:30
Speaker 5: people know. But you know, I tell you this, I
49:33
Speaker 5: get up every morning with my right mind. I'm able
49:36
Speaker 5: to to to to this this thank God just for
49:41
Speaker 5: having me to to be here today. And it's like God,
49:45
Speaker 5: you know, I have to give God the glory, you
49:47
Speaker 5: know when we are and I'm getting excited, but you know,
49:50
Speaker 5: we have to trust God in all things. We might
49:52
Speaker 5: not understand the process, but He is preparing us for
49:55
Speaker 5: the purpose. He is processing and he's making us stronger.
49:59
Speaker 5: And I have been so much all right, but I'm
50:02
Speaker 5: I'm grateful to God on today and I just want
50:04
Speaker 5: to leave with y'all. You know, you know, whether you're
50:07
Speaker 5: a believer or not, I pray that you know that
50:11
Speaker 5: you know who watches did you come.
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Speaker 4: To know the Lord for yourself? But God is real
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Speaker 4: and and I'm telling you he he you.
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Speaker 5: You might not understand the process, but after the end
50:22
Speaker 5: of the day, after you pass that test, glory to God,
50:24
Speaker 5: You're gonna give a testimony like never before. And I'm
50:27
Speaker 5: telling you I have I'm still here. I'm not six
50:31
Speaker 5: feet under, I'm not no ashes. I'm able to testify.
50:35
Speaker 5: I Like I said, I got my right mind. I'm
50:38
Speaker 5: able to sleep in a bed, eat my own food,
50:43
Speaker 5: and and and that's just it. And just to be
50:46
Speaker 5: able to share with people and and be authentic in yourself.
50:50
Speaker 5: You know, that's all I can say. You know, if anything,
50:53
Speaker 5: be truthful about and what you do, just be yourself.
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Speaker 3: They may amen. I tell you that is that. That
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Speaker 3: is it. That's all you can do is be yourself,
51:05
Speaker 3: be true and be authentic. People want that true, authentic
51:09
Speaker 3: version of you. You know, it's hard being somebody else,
51:13
Speaker 3: you know, I'm I'm I'm struggling just trying to find
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Speaker 3: out exactly you know, who, and what I'm supposed to
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Speaker 3: be and what I'm supposed to be doing.
51:23
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: So it's hard for me to try to the faith
51:27
Speaker 3: and try to be like somebody else because I got
51:30
Speaker 3: to try to find out who this person is. You
51:33
Speaker 3: got to try to find out who this person I'm
51:35
Speaker 3: supposed to be and all of this that's in me
51:38
Speaker 3: and all of that. So I can't be keeping up
51:40
Speaker 3: with nobody else.
51:41
Speaker 4: I can't.
51:41
Speaker 3: I'm telling you I can't. I can't.
51:44
Speaker 5: But I know every day, every day, Yes, I got
51:49
Speaker 5: to encourage myself. I know, like I said, hopefully the
51:51
Speaker 5: bishop is not watching, but you know, you know, and
51:54
Speaker 5: also you know, this is a little a little thing.
51:56
Speaker 5: You know, when you when God has a calling over
51:58
Speaker 5: your life, you're supposed to act a certain way. And
52:01
Speaker 5: you know, we we all grow in the process. It's
52:04
Speaker 5: not you know, it's it's hard to be good every day,
52:07
Speaker 5: but we're not all perfect. But you know, in the process,
52:10
Speaker 5: God has building you to something great, greater than you
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Speaker 5: never seen before in your life. And in the interim
52:15
Speaker 5: of all that, you know, I just want to you know,
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Speaker 5: my my my first lady says she. You know, we
52:20
Speaker 5: was talking one time. She says she wants she want
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Speaker 5: to make God proud. And it's when she said that
52:25
Speaker 5: I wanted to cry because I said, I always want
52:27
Speaker 5: to make God proud. I'm not getting emotional, but you know,
52:31
Speaker 5: we're here for a reason and we have to encourage
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Speaker 5: one another. And you know, because like you said, and
52:35
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to be like you know, Carol Burnett
52:39
Speaker 5: or Carol two or whatever.
52:41
Speaker 4: I'm just want to be Charlotte.
52:42
Speaker 5: And when it's time for me to meet my maker,
52:44
Speaker 5: I want him to say, well done, my good and
52:47
Speaker 5: faithful servant.
52:47
Speaker 4: So I have to I have to stand in truth.
52:50
Speaker 5: I have to stand in a stand for you know,
52:53
Speaker 5: what God says well you know, people like it or
52:55
Speaker 5: not and like and also you know, like I said,
52:56
Speaker 5: we go to Bible college or by biblical studies. And
53:02
Speaker 5: I'm really you know, I'm running a lot. You know,
53:04
Speaker 5: I can't be so judgmental, you know, which you know
53:08
Speaker 5: sometime I can be, but I can't, you know, because
53:11
Speaker 5: we we all fall short, and you know, you know,
53:14
Speaker 5: so that's that's the process that I'm running now. We
53:16
Speaker 5: all fall short. And you know, who am I to
53:19
Speaker 5: judge somebody because they not you know, doing what they support. Well,
53:23
Speaker 5: I think they're not living righteous. I have to be
53:25
Speaker 5: concerned about me and you know, and I'm gonna say
53:28
Speaker 5: my seventeen year old and that's just it. And as
53:31
Speaker 5: God built me up and continue to grow me in ministry,
53:35
Speaker 5: if it's if it's meant for me to preach it,
53:37
Speaker 5: then I'll do so. But you know, for now, I
53:40
Speaker 5: can't judge nobody because I don't know. I'm just kind
53:43
Speaker 5: of just saying I said, I still smell funky sometimes.
53:46
Speaker 4: Okay, that's just it.
53:49
Speaker 3: Okay, that's it. I mean, that's that's that's it. We
53:53
Speaker 3: we we can't because we don't have a hand nor
53:56
Speaker 3: a hemn they're puting nobody in Come on, come on,
53:58
Speaker 3: come on. If that pint that fanger, when we pointing
54:01
Speaker 3: that fanger at somebody, you gotta know that one is
54:04
Speaker 3: pointing back at you. One is pointing back at you.
54:07
Speaker 3: Because when you go to point that fanger like that,
54:10
Speaker 3: your thumb point back and then them fingers right there
54:12
Speaker 3: when you got them pointed that way, if you're pointing them,
54:16
Speaker 3: three pingers right there pointing back at you because you're
54:18
Speaker 3: pointing that way. So it's always something pointing at you
54:22
Speaker 3: when you're pointing at somebody else. So no, huh, and
54:26
Speaker 3: guess what that one that you're pointing at somebody else,
54:28
Speaker 3: know that you got three more pointing back at you
54:31
Speaker 3: if you ever look, if you look at it, you'll
54:33
Speaker 3: see it. And we gotta understand that. But I tell you,
54:36
Speaker 3: I truly have been blessed on tonight. I truly have.
54:39
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to all that God is doing within
54:43
Speaker 3: the one hundred Outer Movement, within your group and in
54:47
Speaker 3: your personal brand. I cannot wait to see that book
54:52
Speaker 3: come out and develop and how it can minister to
54:56
Speaker 3: many people. So I'm excited about that. Look forward to
54:59
Speaker 3: just see in a lot with your group, because I've
55:03
Speaker 3: heard you pouring, I've seen you working, I've seen you
55:07
Speaker 3: doing it. So I'm expecting, like I'm expecting. I ain't
55:11
Speaker 3: gonna put a certain type of expectation on it, but
55:16
Speaker 3: I just know I'm expecting. I don't have an outline
55:21
Speaker 3: of the expectation, but no, I'm expecting something great to
55:24
Speaker 3: come from within that group. I am definitely expecting something
55:28
Speaker 3: to come from within that group. So I am looking
55:31
Speaker 3: forward to working with you guys. I'm looking forward to
55:33
Speaker 3: coming to New York because y'all, I have not been
55:36
Speaker 3: to New York as an adult. I went as a child,
55:39
Speaker 3: but I've not been as an adult, and I have
55:41
Speaker 3: family member up in upstate New York, so definitely would
55:46
Speaker 3: like to come and you know, get to see New York.
55:51
Speaker 4: Yes, we're gonna try to make make it happen.
55:55
Speaker 3: But after no June, we're going to California. We got
55:59
Speaker 3: we were going to California in June because Channette, it's
56:04
Speaker 3: it's a significance about June. So we're gonna be in
56:08
Speaker 3: California in June. All those that want to come out
56:11
Speaker 3: more than welcome to come out. We will have details.
56:15
Speaker 3: But those that can't, we'll see you're back on the
56:17
Speaker 3: East coast. Whenever we get New York squared away, maybe
56:21
Speaker 3: we can get it. It would be great if we
56:23
Speaker 3: can do it during the summertime, maybe in August. If
56:26
Speaker 3: we can look at it towards August, that would be great.
56:30
Speaker 3: I'm also gonna be getting with doctor Carry he's down
56:33
Speaker 3: in Alabama. We're gonna see if we can do something
56:35
Speaker 3: down in Alabama as well. So yeah, we even might
56:40
Speaker 3: need to hear and and and and slide on and
56:42
Speaker 3: cruise on and fly on or whatever we're gonna do
56:45
Speaker 3: on to the island because we got we got doctor Chen.
56:49
Speaker 3: We got doctor Chen. We can go over there and
56:51
Speaker 3: and and sit with doctor Chen and and and do
56:54
Speaker 3: some things on that island. So we got a lot
56:58
Speaker 3: in store, So just be on the loo. So everybody
57:01
Speaker 3: know that we out here moving, were shaking, We're moving,
57:03
Speaker 3: we're doing something. We ain't just sitting still. We out
57:06
Speaker 3: here being that change that we desired to see, and
57:08
Speaker 3: we're being a voice for that person that think that
57:10
Speaker 3: they do not have a voice. So with that being said,
57:14
Speaker 3: I want to thank you for joining us tonight and
57:16
Speaker 3: coming on and sharing and being transparent because we know
57:20
Speaker 3: that sometime it's not easy. So for that I applaud
57:23
Speaker 3: you and all those that are with me applaud.
57:26
Speaker 4: You for underpan with me.
57:32
Speaker 3: So thank you, thank you, thank you, And I want
57:35
Speaker 3: to let you know that you're welcome to come back anytime, anytime, anytime.
57:41
Speaker 3: And then if you can't get me, know that we
57:43
Speaker 3: have nine hosts on this network that will be glad
57:47
Speaker 3: to take an interview with you. All you have to
57:50
Speaker 3: do is reach out to one of those devas on
57:53
Speaker 3: the Crew podcast and they will be glad to have
57:56
Speaker 3: you on. So stay connected, stay connected. Again, thank you
58:00
Speaker 3: for being a guest on tonight, I truly truly appreciate you.
58:05
Speaker 4: Thank you, I appreciate you too. Have a good night
58:07
Speaker 4: in mayby amen.
58:10
Speaker 3: Amen, Amen, Amen. I want to thank everybody for joining
58:13
Speaker 3: us on tonight. I tell you it is truly, truly
58:16
Speaker 3: always a blessing when I can share yet another author,
58:20
Speaker 3: another individuals that creating and leaving a legacy. So I
58:25
Speaker 3: want you, guys to make sure that you take an
58:27
Speaker 3: opportunity to share this broadcast in your circle of influence,
58:32
Speaker 3: share it with somebody. You never know what the next
58:34
Speaker 3: person may be in need of. Again, I want to
58:36
Speaker 3: thank you guys for tuning in on tonight. I always
58:40
Speaker 3: I love you guys. I appreciate you guys, and I
58:44
Speaker 3: hope to see you again on tomorrow y'all. Will have
58:49
Speaker 3: another author with us tomorrow night, y'all. We are continuing
58:52
Speaker 3: to bring those authors a part of the one hundred
58:56
Speaker 3: author movement. We want you to know who they are
58:59
Speaker 3: because they've decided to allow their brands to speak, So
59:02
Speaker 3: we are gonna do them a service and allow them
59:06
Speaker 3: to be seen. So again I invite you to come
59:09
Speaker 3: back on tomorrow nights and be with the Queen once again.
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Speaker 3: All right, y'all, be blessed, have a good night,