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Best Thing · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, what's
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  Speaker 1: the best thing you've ever done? Well, let's ask our
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  Speaker 1: American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Alma Mama, she said, and joining us now our American
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  Speaker 2: mama is Terry Neediville and Kimberly Burlison. Y'all have done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Look, you've each raised beautiful children.
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  Speaker 2: I know all of y'all's kids.
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  Speaker 1: They're amazing people.
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  Speaker 2: What's the best thing you've ever done in your life?
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  Speaker 3: Well, besides raising three incredible kids, I think one thing
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  Speaker 3: that I have done in my life is I have
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  Speaker 3: paid attention to people with wisdom. I have listened to advice,
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  Speaker 3: I have watched. I am not one that has to
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  Speaker 3: go through things the hard way and learn the hard way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I listen. I pay attention when my dad and
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  Speaker 3: my mom shared stories about not drinking and the choices
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  Speaker 3: that they made. I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't try drugs. I saved myself. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things I did based on the wisdom that
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  Speaker 3: I was taught, and so I feel like that's been
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  Speaker 3: a very valuable thing in my life. You avoided some pitfalls,
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  Speaker 3: avoided some things because I pay attention and I follow
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  Speaker 3: suit where I can. I mean, I fail in every
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  Speaker 3: other way you can think of.
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  Speaker 1: But I find that interesting is you're the eldest child.
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  Speaker 1: That you were able to do that because as the
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  Speaker 1: youngest child. I think the best part about being the
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  Speaker 1: youngest child was I got to watch my brother make
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  Speaker 1: all those mistakes and I got to avoid them. So
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  Speaker 1: because I watched my brother do dumb things, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that, Robert. My brother would
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  Speaker 1: get in trouble for breaking curfew all the time. My
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  Speaker 1: mom would wait up for him, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why he wouldn't learn this lesson, don't break curfew. What
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  Speaker 1: I learned was just call ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to stay out a lot longer than
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  Speaker 1: my brother, simply because I learned the mistakes that he
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  Speaker 1: was making that he never called. I'd call mom, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes before my curt feels like, hey, I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Can I stay a little bit longer?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Fine? And then I'd come home and my parents were asleep, right,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't staying up for me.
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  Speaker 4: Very smart.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned from other people's mistakes and it saved me
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  Speaker 1: a lot of preference.
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  Speaker 4: That's good stuff. Well, I, well, I love what you said.
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  Speaker 4: I think you know I'm going to say ditto to that.
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  Speaker 4: But also, and I also want to preface it, like
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  Speaker 4: Kimberly did, the greatest thing I did, the greatest thing
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  Speaker 4: God allowed me to do is to be a wife
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  Speaker 4: and a mom, a mom to three incredible human beings.
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  Speaker 4: And I took that job seriously. I knew that I
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  Speaker 4: was going to raise them to be amazing human beings
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  Speaker 4: that would go out into this world and do beautiful
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  Speaker 4: things and be good to people. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: They're confident, and they're confident, but they're not unreasonably confident.
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  Speaker 1: They're not over confident. They're not arrogant. They are compassionate people,
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  Speaker 1: both both the Alls kids.
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  Speaker 4: That really, I feel like that is the greatest blessing.
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  Speaker 4: I also hope that one of the greatest things. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if this was just a gift that
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  Speaker 4: was given to me or if I just know how
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  Speaker 4: to pick them, but I've always been able to surround
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  Speaker 4: myself with friends who had my best interest at hearts.
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  Speaker 4: I think surround having the ability and the wherewithal and
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  Speaker 4: the knowledge and the gut instinct to let go of
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  Speaker 4: the ones that you feel like don't have your best
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  Speaker 4: interest at heart, maybe that there's not interested in you
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  Speaker 4: as a friend, and to really hold tight and be
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  Speaker 4: true to those friends who you know are your people
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  Speaker 4: who want you to succeed. They want to be there
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  Speaker 4: when you succeed, they want to be there when you fail.
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  Speaker 4: They want to be there, you know. And on top
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  Speaker 4: of that, I hope that I'm that person for so
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  Speaker 4: many because I will say one of the things that
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  Speaker 4: I remember when Aunt Carrity are aunt, we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about everybody's talent. Kamerly decorates and she can sing, and lindsay,
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  Speaker 4: you know, everybody has their talents. I was like, I
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  Speaker 4: don't really one, and my Aunt Karity said, she said,
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  Speaker 4: you your talent, you are a good friend. And it's
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  Speaker 4: the time. I joked it was like, oh, really, everybody
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  Speaker 4: can be a good friend. Are you saying that's my talent?
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  Speaker 4: Aunt Charity? But actually the more I thought about it,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, it is a gift. If you people know
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  Speaker 4: me as an encourager, I am not afraid to tell
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  Speaker 4: somebody if I see somebody walk into a room who
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  Speaker 4: is beautiful. I am not so insecure that I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to say you are the most beautiful girl I
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  Speaker 4: have ever seen in my life. You know what makeup
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  Speaker 4: or what hair or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but I wish you hadn't said that to.
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  Speaker 4: Me, and so I you know, that's one of the things.
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  Speaker 4: But really and truly, I think, UH, just learning how
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  Speaker 4: to uh be a good friend and acknowledge those who
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  Speaker 4: are your friend and.
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  Speaker 3: Really love that that's one thing that you do do.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like I have learned from you and
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  Speaker 3: I do the same because it's kind of like, uh nerve.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of nervous to compliment a stranger, but it
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  Speaker 3: is amazing when you do. When you just say what
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  Speaker 3: you think to somebody and you tell them something out
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  Speaker 3: of the blue that makes them feel good, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: they just light up.
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  Speaker 1: It's just we're supposed to be nervous to talk to strangers.
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  Speaker 4: Not terry. And that was one of the one of
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  Speaker 4: the strengths I guess because I think and also uh,
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  Speaker 4: we were raised with such self confidence. Our parents poured
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  Speaker 4: self worth and self confidence, so I never felt diminished
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  Speaker 4: just because somebody was pretty or smart smarter, funnier, more athletic.
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  Speaker 4: It never diminished my light. I never felt less than
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  Speaker 4: because I wasn't as pretty or I wasn't as good.
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  Speaker 4: I just felt like I have my own gift. And
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  Speaker 4: you know theirs is jealousy. No, it's part of it.
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  Speaker 4: It is I just don't. I don't because I'm fine
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  Speaker 4: with who I am.
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  Speaker 1: of Kimberly Burthers and thank you so much, thank you,