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The Benefits of Podcasting | with Desiree Danielle | EP76 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl, Jessica and Smith, and you already
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  Speaker 1: know that you've entered the safe space for influencers to decompress,
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  Speaker 1: for another day.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I know we could be another way.
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  Speaker 1: And Juicy Jay ain't got nothing know me from I
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  Speaker 1: knew you by the live You are not I know Jesseica. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: somebody tell her to come in. Who Juicy J is?
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  Speaker 1: Because Juicy J he's in a rap well, he was
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  Speaker 1: in a rap group. He stays along. Okay, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I will not sing any of his songs on his platform,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew there's one in particular that comes to mind,
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  Speaker 1: and I will not sing. I'll tell you off care.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, that just that just interrupted my spirit. But
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay. It just lets me know that
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  Speaker 1: you were not of the world. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, not Juice. If it ain't gorillas, O, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know gorillas? Okay, Young Jock, I heard a young job,
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  Speaker 1: young job from back my day. Gorillazol and Juicy J
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  Speaker 1: are definitely back in your day. You're older than me. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's just get into it. Welcome and just ask the
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  Speaker 1: podcast when we create a safe space, influences decompriens half
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  Speaker 1: of it, just as East your girl just and I'm
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  Speaker 1: here with the one, the only A. What's it up
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  Speaker 1: for you guys? I don't know. Sorry, like I'm very
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  Speaker 1: confused right now. Okay, Well, I put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times, I may hear the music, may
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  Speaker 1: know the music. I may not know the people. Juice
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  Speaker 1: J say his name in the songs too much for
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  Speaker 1: you not to know who he is. It's okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. But we don't really listen to
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  Speaker 1: the type of music for real anymore. I ain't gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: I have my moments, but not with Juice J. I
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  Speaker 1: might have my moments like t I. I'm on the grind,
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  Speaker 1: grand hustle, got the mind and the muscle like that's
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you know I'm old if it ain't, no,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't know. You didn't know the song that
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  Speaker 1: I just said about t I. Do you know who
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  Speaker 1: t I is? I know who t I is. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at me like I know who. Okay, Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I have to hear that motivation understand. Yeah it's me'am,
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  Speaker 1: it's ma'am. Well, no, that was that was that I
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  Speaker 1: just did. Wanted to acept Rocky not. That's not right.
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  Speaker 1: I wish y'all could have seen her face. Y'all. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, we're not gonna disrespect these folks establishment with
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  Speaker 1: ignorant okay, by these folks, I'm talking about the j
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  Speaker 1: D and the D fun listen. We appreciate you, guys,
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  Speaker 1: We love you, guys. Man. The link is really where
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  Speaker 1: it said, y'all. So if y'all not coming, y'all not booking,
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  Speaker 1: they have a podcast room, they have a conference room.
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  Speaker 1: They have i'm gonna call it an auditorium because literally,
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  Speaker 1: they got the screens, they got the sound system, everything
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  Speaker 1: that you need is already here. You just gotta show up,
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  Speaker 1: pull up and pay, pull up and book, book, book
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  Speaker 1: your reservation. Okay, and the tour pays a virtual option.
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  Speaker 1: Pay pay them, pull up, pay and pull up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't get to pull up, you don't pay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all right, shout out to the link, right,
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  Speaker 1: here in Birmingham, Alabama, y'all. So outside of talking about
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  Speaker 1: Juice J and T, I thanks, don't get mad, y'all. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: y'all know y'all listen to them back in the day anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So don't come for me, come for somebody else, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So today I really want to talk about the benefits
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  Speaker 1: of podcasting, right, the idea of the podcasting world. Why
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  Speaker 1: why are we doing this? Why you should do it?
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  Speaker 1: If especially if you're thinking about it. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good conversation to have it, especially especially for Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: matters or Kingdom matters, right, And a lot of people say, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ask the question how do I get into this?
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  Speaker 1: How did you start? Or whatever? So I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: answer that part right now. So back in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: I had just met my spirit who I consider now
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  Speaker 1: my spiritual father, Apostle. How y'all remember him. He came
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  Speaker 1: for when he came on a podcast and did so
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  Speaker 1: when I was doing that, when I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: talking to him and getting to know him and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. Man, one day he randomly just called me.
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  Speaker 1: I think he called me, and we won't have a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: He said, just you need to start a podcast. Who
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  Speaker 1: are you talking to me? Who are you talking to
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  Speaker 1: And I said, okay, what is that? I don't you
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  Speaker 1: know I heard of a podcast. I didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: what all went into having a podcast, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: he had a podcast, right, and so that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things we talked about or whatever. But he was
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  Speaker 1: just so adamant about having a podcast, right, And so
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  Speaker 1: when he told me, I was like so confused on
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  Speaker 1: why he would ask me, because, for one, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like people didn't appreciate my voice, people didn't listen to me,
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  Speaker 1: and what I was already doing on YouTube wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting attraction that it needed, right. So, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to operate in obedience, right. So
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  Speaker 1: once he put it in an atmosphere, it just did,
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  Speaker 1: like it did not stop ringing from my from my
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  Speaker 1: my head, like it just kept So he had planted
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  Speaker 1: the seed baby, he planned a seed baby, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: was watering it in. Somebody was watering it. So I
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  Speaker 1: did it. So behind the scenes, he helped me pretty
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  Speaker 1: much with everything, Like for instance, like for all our platform,
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  Speaker 1: for our audio, we used a spreaker. That's how everything
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  Speaker 1: the host platform. It goes and distributes to Apple podcasts, Spotify,
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  Speaker 1: our Heart Radio, anybody that you apply and get approved
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  Speaker 1: for right well ask you just real quick, Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: know there are multiple different distribution typed platforms. What made
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  Speaker 1: you land on Spreaker? So Spreaker was the what he
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  Speaker 1: introduced me to, so I went with what he trusted.
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  Speaker 1: You know there, I think it's called red Dots, So
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of them up there, like even spotifyy
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  Speaker 1: that has they have their their own But the other
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  Speaker 1: thing about Spotify is that you only get to use
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  Speaker 1: it on Spotify. It's free, but you just get to
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  Speaker 1: it's only on Spotify, which nothing's wrong with that if
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  Speaker 1: you okay with just being on Spotify. I wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an Apple girl, so I have Apple podcasts. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to listen on my Apple podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: So just the flexibility of it, Spreaker is very easy
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  Speaker 1: to use. I don't know why I'm doing this ad
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  Speaker 1: for them right now, They're gonna have to pay me,
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  Speaker 1: but honest to god, y'all, Spreaker is a good a
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  Speaker 1: good host of the audio for the podcast, so use that.
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  Speaker 1: It was easy to set up and then I already
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  Speaker 1: had my YouTube YouTube channel, which was interesting y'all. So
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  Speaker 1: just as was already what I was already using that
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  Speaker 1: for my blogging or you know, discussion time or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But little I was sitting in front of a camera,
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  Speaker 1: camera and I would talk. I learned how to edit
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  Speaker 1: then I was doing already doing my thumbnail. I'm already
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  Speaker 1: doing then what I'm doing now, just not as intensified. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So when he put the label podcasts to it, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, that's responsibility, that's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I'm doing it, but I
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  Speaker 1: just don't want to call him what I'm doing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: playing at this point. I'm playing, and he like, you
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  Speaker 1: need to take this thing serious, right, not knowing that,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm literally interviewing my friends. I'm having a discussion
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  Speaker 1: with Brie. Brie. Brie has shout out to you, baby,
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  Speaker 1: you have been down for the count. So and Bree'
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  Speaker 1: is the reason why I started a l YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wasn't really seeing myself
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  Speaker 1: doing this. So fast forward, we had a conversation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the background doing my research doing the YouTube thing,
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  Speaker 1: also getting feedback from him, and so literally I told
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  Speaker 1: Greg shout out to Greg that I was going to
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  Speaker 1: do the podcast, and he was. So he helped me
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  Speaker 1: accountable and I recently learned that accountability is basically helping
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  Speaker 1: people to push to where they said they wanted to be. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So literally, I might have gotten frustrated with him asking
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  Speaker 1: me questions, but all he was doing was asking reminded
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  Speaker 1: me of what I said. I was what you said,
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  Speaker 1: all right, but that's another podcast for another day. So
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  Speaker 1: when I did that, when I told him that, he
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  Speaker 1: was on me. So I started just as the podcast
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  Speaker 1: October twentieth, twenty twenty two. That's actually my Mama's birthday.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I can remember it too. So it was
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday, because I was like, God, if you
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  Speaker 1: really want me to do this, okay, if I'm started
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  Speaker 1: on to October, what day I want to do? You
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  Speaker 1: want me to start it off? And I'm big on
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  Speaker 1: I've always been big on birthday. So things happened literally
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  Speaker 1: on people that special to me on their birthday. So
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  Speaker 1: my mom's birthday is October twentieth, it was on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: That's how just as the podcast started coming out every Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing deep like that. So whatever day of
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  Speaker 1: the week you want to choose to do your podcast,
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  Speaker 1: do it. Just just do it, Okay. And so now
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  Speaker 1: we're almost two years. In my eyes, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: like blown away with everything that has happened in less
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  Speaker 1: than two years. So when we get the five, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be like bro like like I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna cry because it's like I thought that this. I
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  Speaker 1: almost gave up before you got here. Before you got here,
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  Speaker 1: so people really be asking, like how the DESI rate
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  Speaker 1: get involved? She inserted herself and did and did tell
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  Speaker 1: the folks about this. I was just being obedient, so like,
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't kind of like just like I'm a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: what does that mean? I was learning. I knew how
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  Speaker 1: to use a camera for photography, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: courses that I took did a combination of both, so
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: it taught the basics, so photography and videography, right, So
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  Speaker 1: I was learning how to use the camera to record video.
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  Speaker 1: I had a friend Keani who actually had a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: She had an audio podcast called Becoming My Best Me,
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  Speaker 1: and she would take the audio and put the audio
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube with a with a with a graphic. I
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  Speaker 1: said that ain't what YouTube for YouTube is for video, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, well, I got a camera. So
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  Speaker 1: it's literally just my thinking. We're just just trying to
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  Speaker 1: just trying to help. I was like, oh, well, I
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: got a camera. Can just turning in her pot and
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: her and her segments was only like five to ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They were like like these little quick bikes to kind
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  Speaker 1: of just kind of get you through your day kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. And so she would come over, we would
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  Speaker 1: I'll put the camera on. I had a little I
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  Speaker 1: was using like a little lapel mic a little situation,
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  Speaker 1: and we recorded record the video. I give it to
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  Speaker 1: her and she put on a thing. So after kind
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  Speaker 1: of doing this consistently, now my mind is like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of cool, Like how can I make
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  Speaker 1: this better kind of thing? So I'm like the Lord
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  Speaker 1: dropped drop dropped you in my spirit because one I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, is this something that people actually do
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  Speaker 1: or like do people like that's doing it themselves. I
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  Speaker 1: knew you was doing it yourselves. I was like, is
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  Speaker 1: this something that people will like need help help with?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that looks like. So I
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  Speaker 1: just did I just reached out and say, hey, So
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  Speaker 1: I was recently reaching out just to ask you questions,
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  Speaker 1: like like, hey, you're doing this on your own, Like
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  Speaker 1: is this something that if you have the opportunity, like
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  Speaker 1: would you want somebody to help you with this? Or
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  Speaker 1: like what pieces would you be cool with releasing? And
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I was just really asking questions, just trying to like
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  Speaker 1: form this that that entrepreneur like creativeness in me, Like
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  Speaker 1: what does this look like? And so I reached out
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  Speaker 1: and I asked the ship, but they look like I
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  Speaker 1: was really asking questions. And then the Lord was like,
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  Speaker 1: Boom dead? Is Boom? You want to help her? And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know that. But the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't know at the time. I'm in season
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  Speaker 1: two right, So at first, with the it okay, with
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  Speaker 1: the consistency your podcast needs. If you that you're going
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: to be there weekly on a certain day, you have
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  Speaker 1: to plan to be there that certain day. Right now,
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: it's no secret that we pre record, like we'll do
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  Speaker 1: bad recording and let the episodes come out. It's nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that, Like that's the best way. She has
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: a business schedule. I'll have a big schedule. But in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning it was all me, and I never really
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  Speaker 1: planned out well enough to like, what do I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about because at this point I'm not really
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: having that guests, Like the guest thing just started and
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  Speaker 1: it started booming like crazy, especially this year, and so
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  Speaker 1: it was just me. And then when Desilray came around,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking and I felt like I got better
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: having somebody that was least looking at me. And then
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  Speaker 1: she was talking so good. I was like, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: have to get a mic. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: on a camera site. So we had to go back
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: and forth about her being on camera. So everything that
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  Speaker 1: y'all see has been like a development point, but it's
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: because we decided to go right. And so but when
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  Speaker 1: I first started, I was doing seasons. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: doing seasons before the first podcast summit, and I was
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  Speaker 1: doing ten episodes per season. And now I don't even
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: understand why I did that, but I because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have a valid excuse to while I did it.
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  Speaker 1: I think like seasons in series have their place too,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's something like I kind of look at like this,
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  Speaker 1: so you can do one episode. So let's say I
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: just want to just try to see what this is
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: kind of like right, And then most of the time
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: when people do that first episode, they kind of realize
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: that it's a little bit more than what they thought. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the commitment is a little bit more they thought,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and they'd be like, Okay, I did it. Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: I think a season allows you to you know, be committed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, give up, give a point in time for commitment,
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  Speaker 1: or let's say it's a it's a certain topic or
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  Speaker 1: a certain thing that you want to have a series around.
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  Speaker 1: I think a season is great. But when you like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in this thing for real, I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the distinction that you had to begin
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  Speaker 1: to make. Like I think at first she was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of doing it because it was like aposs a house,
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  Speaker 1: I should do this. Okay, cool, I'm kind of already
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Let me just commit kind of. But then
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  Speaker 1: you had to make a decision to like really really commit. Well,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: when you came along, I didn't have no choice with
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  Speaker 1: the commit So I think it was it was levels
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about a lot of good stuff right now,
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  Speaker 1: But let's let's stick on the podcast for because if
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: we go from podcasts to partnership. This whole thing is
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: shift real quick, but I need it as a rate
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  Speaker 1: in order to commit. There's a thing that God wanted
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: me to do, so I'm I'm focused on trying to
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: get it done. And I was like, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I did. I did the ten episodes by myself. I
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: did it by myself. Now all of them didn't have
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  Speaker 1: video because I didn't. That wasn't my expertise, right, I
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: only did stuff off my phone, but at this point,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I'm using my computer. I didn't invest it in a well,
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  Speaker 1: I won't call it a real investment. I paid money
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  Speaker 1: for it, but it was a broken investment. But it
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: was a camera and it would flicker on it all
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  Speaker 1: y'all can if the stuff is still on now, y'all
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  Speaker 1: can go. It does not look like the quality of
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  Speaker 1: work that we have now. And I was in my
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  Speaker 1: office at home and I had to, you know, headphones
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  Speaker 1: to look like I'm cool, and I had to you know,
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  Speaker 1: I did it because I thought it was all I
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to do, right, and I made it work
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  Speaker 1: now audibly we have all those episodes itself for my
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: dad's because that was a bad, bad audio moment, but
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  Speaker 1: audibly we have all those episodes, and but the visual part.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, Because technically podcasting is audio. Technically
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  Speaker 1: podcasting is audio, So if you chose to just do audio,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: you make it a lot probably a little bit easier. However,
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  Speaker 1: people are into being able to see who they hear. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's all almost shifted with saying just that. But people
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  Speaker 1: like to see who they hear, and it's a benefit
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  Speaker 1: to being able to have both. Right, So you're satisfying
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  Speaker 1: those needs, right, yeah, I think you too. When you're
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: when you're kind of deciding to do which lane, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's easier to start with the traditional like audio
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  Speaker 1: podcast And there's nothing wrong with that, Like there's people
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  Speaker 1: who only who only have audio podcasts and are like
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  Speaker 1: doing doing really really well. It's just the you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the times as things shift and change. Of course, YouTube
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: is really has been big for a minute now, so
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: now people are like, oh, I can you know, actually
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: watch you know who I'm actually listening I can get
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to see like it it's different when you actually get
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to see like, uh, expressions and things of that nature
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: for people. And it's and if I'm honest, like you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: can kind of do it simultaneously, Like if you have
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: audio going into the camera, why not just throw the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: camera up and then now you have the video and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the audio to put the audio on the audio platforms.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: But there's obviously there's nothing wrong with if you just
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: decided to start to do audio, because I think at
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: some point in time in my life I will have
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: an audio podcast, and I think it's just gonna be, honestly,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: just audio. That's what's been the sound, Like I just
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: give hear the Lord talk about the sound, and I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: think that's the direction that that I will go in
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: at that at that point in time, even though I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: can do video, and I may still throw the camera
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: up for now every now and then just to get
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like some you know, clips and stuff like that and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: social media. But ain't none wrong with it started with
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you are and it's cheaper, Like you can literally you
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: can use your phone for all of this. Yep, I'm
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: gonna repeat, you can use you can use your phone
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: for all of this. It does not have to be
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: even what we have. And the gag is that we
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: ain't even got with everybody else. Hell listen, let me
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: tell you. But just because talked about me so good
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: when I came up and I had these microphones and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: she said, what kind of microphones these church mics? Church microphones.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: But these is good dynamic microphones and that's what we've
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: been using my church mics. Oh, speaking of the link,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: these are their microphones. Appreciate it. They provide the microphones
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: for All you have to do is really literally bring
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the card for the podcast room. But like literally like
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you all, you all, you need your phone, right, the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: phone really picks it. You picks up good audio as
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: long as you know, and then when you're editing, you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: can remove the background. NOI It's like, there's so many
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: tools that are in your favor. Yeah, I'm gonna say
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that again for the people in the back. Yep, there
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: are so many tools in your favor. You just got
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to decide to do it right. So sound is the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: more more uh comfortable option for people that don't want
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to do the video. But what about the people that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: don't like their voice? All right? I was one of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: those people. I was one of the people that I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was like, uh, like right now, what you're getting right now?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Go listen to my first my first episode. I was like, hello, guys,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: is Jessica Smith voice O? Baby, I lifted that boy
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: so good because I was, like, I sound like a man, right,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: but didn't. Nobody watched this, probably because it was my
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: first episode, but also like I was my first season.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I had some good what you would call it, some
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: good messages or some good moments, but I was not myself.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I was I really wasn't myself. And so if you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: ever go back to my few of my first episodes,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I think you would enjoy them, but you'd be like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: who is in the world is that girl? Because I didn't.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I was trying to get comfortable with me.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So this is what the benefits. That's why I said,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the benefits of podcasting beyond
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the money, beyond advertised, beyond saying okay, I'm gonna do
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: beyond all of that. I want to get to get
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: y'all to understand why if you're gonna be in this world,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this podcast world, or even in entertainment, these are the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: things you should look forward to. Okay. So there's a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Ray's gonna help me out on these. She don't even
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: know what I wrote down, all right. So the first
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: one was the benefit was voice activation. So, like I said,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I felt like I sounded like a man. I felt like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you know, nobody really was listening to me. But everything
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I started saying as I developed and I got comfortable,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I started to show up as myself. I started allowing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: my voice to be what my voice is gonna be,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: which started activating things such as the Tabitha Brown situation.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So if y'all don't know, if y'all go play it back.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I think it was the last episode of last year,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and in that episode, I said, no, no,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that wasn't that episode. No, it was the episode I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: prayed I prayed for the next year. But then it
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: was another episode right before my birthday. What I said,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: dees A Ray was like how you feel? And I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, I'm nervous because something's about
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that happened, and literally I think we were talking about
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I think we were kind of talking about your birthday. Yeah, okay,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: literally something. The next something happening was Tabitha Brown just
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: allowing me to bust the ceiling on my voice. So
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: now my voice is being not just reached for my audience,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but it's starting to expand over the globe. Right, So
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: when you think about it, especially as a believer. When
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you think about it, we're supposed to be We're called
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to the nation, call to the nations. We're called to speak,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to speak and voice, activate and use our faith. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: if we're not doing that, then things don't come alive.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And so when I start podcasting, I start speaking more.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I started speaking up for myself. I started speaking up
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: for what I desire. I start altering how what I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: say right. I had to be mindful of my words.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And you know, I used to study a whole lot,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: like I still stutter, but even now, because I keep
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: pushing beyond that, there are things that were about my
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: voice that I'm not intimidated by or scared to use
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: right a lot of times at this point me and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: that's where we have had this conversation. Oh, I can't
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: be saying that because things be happening. Yeah, don't like
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: real talk, just I can wholeheartedly agree, like I ain't
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: want to be the only reason why I'm right here,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: right here in this camera and this microphone is because
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of Jessica. I would have been perfectly fine sitting right
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: behind here with my little switchingboard and I seeing nothing, Okay,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: But like she said it me being obedient honestly and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: actually allowing myself to share, Like I don't always have
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: anything to say, but when I do, it's okay, you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it has made me more
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: comfortable in my just regular life using my voice cause
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: kind of like I don't know, like I've had this
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: thing too. I'm like, I don't even got nothing to say,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: because honestly, within these last couple of years, I'm now
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: just stepping into being comfortable with my voice at all,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: just because it had got muted so young, you know
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And so I'm like, man, I ain't
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got nothing to say, but it's so interesting. Now I'm
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: paying attention to people respond how people respond to me
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: when I'm talking, Like even my mama, my mama the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: one that shut me down, honey, and she will call
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: me for my opinion. She will call me just to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: hear what I have to say about something, and I'm
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just like wow, like this is this has been us
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and like you said, like some and now I'm aware
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that I have to be very careful with the things
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that I that I say because even this morning, crazy thing,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: this and this happened twice this week. I was praying
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: about a friend. I look at my phone a friend
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and text me, I'm praying this morning about my mama,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and my mom's getting she's in the process of, like,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you know, she's about laying, she's trying to get new
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: home and stuff like that. So I'm, you know, thanking
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: God for her new home. Blah blah blah blah blah,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: not even I don't know. Ten minutes later, she called
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: me and was like, Hey, did I tell you I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: talked to the lady about the house. And I was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just like, oh man, lord, this is so cool. But
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just getting more comfortable because everything is voice activated.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: It is. Everything is definitely voice activating. And that's a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: beautiful thing that you brought up, that that you're becoming
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: more comfortable outside of the camera. Like the think about
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it is people think that the podcast really starts right here. Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: but it really starts all cameras. Like a lot of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: our conversations that we have people that we talk about,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: people that we say, hey, we would love for them
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to be on the platform whatever, they end up reaching
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: out to us and saying, hey, I want to be
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: on your I want to be on your platform. Why
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't just present their voice, but we believe
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that on this specific platform it activates another level, Like
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: anybody that touches this platform that like just because of
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: what God has done in us and the gifts that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we have within us beyond what you see right here,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it makes them excited about themselves. And so your voice
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is connected to a lot of greatness and you just
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: got to be stop being afraid or allowing the enemy
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to punk you out on what your gift is. Right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So that's my first one was activation. The second one
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is that the benefit is that it builds confidence. Maybe
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: when I tell you, I don't I don't even know
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: how to genuine express the lack of confidence that I've had,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Like a lot of people see me as oh Jessica,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you have red hair, you have this, you have that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I did all of that for like, so that I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: could have confidence like I've always and me and Desiret
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: was just talking about this right before we started recording.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I have a issue with my body, my appearance, right,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I am very hard on myself on the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: way I look, the size that I am and just
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a little different nickpicky things, and I deserate as the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: one of the people I talked to about it. But
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: what the podcast does is it allowed me to just
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you know, this is my space to develop, This is
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: my space, my safe space. If I'm saying, okay, we
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: create a safe space for influence, the decompress, have fun,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and just as why can I be safe? That's just
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: that's just crazy. So when you have your intro, whatever
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you're developing or whatever, you got to figure out what
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: do you need for you that you're gonna give others?
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: This is so good. What are you? What do you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: need for yourself that you're gonna give others? And so
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: what I did was I created a safe space not
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: because other people needed it, but because I needed it first.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: That's why that first season was by itself, by myself primarily.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: That's why we did like a lot of things so
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that I could be comfortable with me, because I wouldn't
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: be comfortable. If I wasn't comfortable with me, I wouldn't
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: be comfortable with other people. And so this is a nugget.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't even write this in my notes. Before you
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: start trying to interview people and do all this other stuff,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: get you some get you comfortable with your space first,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: because if you're not comfortable with your space, you're not
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: gonna have a good conversation. You're not gonna interview well.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: But beyond the research that you do, it's just not
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be good. Like even if even if you study it,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: it's just not gonna be genuine. It's just not gonna
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: be good. And just because you can have a good
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: conversation off camera does not mean that you can have
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a good conversation in front of the camera. The cameras
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: make things different in my in my life, the cameras
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: make things different. Sometimes your anxiety can get up, you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: can be acting fake. You know what I'm saying. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: love Devon shout out to Debora. She told me the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: other day. She was like, I enjoy your platform because
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you're the same girl you are on the camera. You
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: can meet her on Saturday. Yeah, you can meet me
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, and I'm gonna be I'm going to show
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: up the same way. And before before I didn't have
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the confidence that I could be me, and so it
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: made me. It brought me to me, and it made
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: me confident that I can help people be comfortable and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: safe enough to be themselves here. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: definitely what I've what I experience is kind of like
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you said, like, what do you need that you want
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: other people to be able to experience? And so if
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: you need a safe space in order to be able
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to let your let your hair down and let your
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: guard down and be safe in a vulnerable space, then
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that's the same kind of thing that somebody else would
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: need to especially if you think about like influencers, you
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: think about like people in ministry, like there's probably so
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: used to being like on all the time, you know
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But creating a space, You've created a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: space where they can just come in and just like, oh, yeah, okay,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I like this. Yeah, and not to brag, like people
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: really like coming here. It's bigger than you just getting
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: exposure and getting some clips and being able to collaborate.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: It's bigger than it. Like people genuinely like being around
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: me and Desert Ray, and the thing that they've said
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: has been like man, they's so nice, you know, like
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: God has given us a platform to where we can
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: host people and just be nice to them. Like I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: don't want to, I don't want to gossip. I don't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: want to I don't want to talk about that. I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: don't like what what's what comes out here is just
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: genuine conversation. And so check check your heart even why
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you want to start one, you know what I'm saying,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: because it's not gonna last if you're just starting it
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: just to be seen, just to be just another trendy
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: thing to do, because it's not baby listen, this is
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: not a trend the baby listened. Like the amount of
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: work and time and effort that really goes into not
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: even not even necessarily like the quality, right I'm talking
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: about even when you started with where you were, there
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: were still times work that you had to put into it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: So like just say, like you just really have to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: check your heart and your motive behind the thing. Because
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: when things happen, because things are gonna happen, plenty of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: things are happening, plenty of plenty, I say, plenty, plenty
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of crazy things in the moment happens. And so if
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you don't keep your why in front of you, why
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: why you even started, it's gonna be easy for you
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to shut the camera off and go and not do
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it again. And then so I'll bring up the partnership
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: thing again. You may not have. Before I had Desiree.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I had Greg and Greg. He's been on a couple
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of shows. When he time permits, he'll be back. But
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I had Greg too. He was listening to every episode.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: He was providing me feedback. He was telling me what
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he saw as I was pushing forward. He was excited
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: about me going to the podcast. Like literally, even though
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: he wasn't physically, you know, helping me with you know, editing,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: recording anything like that. He was partnering with me even
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: in the feedback. So sometimes partnerships look well, a lot
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of times partnerships look different. You may you may not
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: have your desiree yet. I always talk about tell people
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that you need a deserraate and I stand on them.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I stand on the words. But you also need a Greg. Yeah. Greg.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Greg gave me. This is so good. Greg gave me
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the partnership he could give me, which was through accountability
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and support. If nobody else was listening to my podcast,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Greg was listening to my podcast, if nobody else was
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: giving me feedback, Greg was giving me feedback and new
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: ideas and pushing me to this point to where I
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: could manage a desireate. Before I had Desiraate. I had
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to learn the stresses that Desiree would have. I had
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to learn what I wanted, Right, some of us don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: want to do certain things. We want to pay pay
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: everybody to do everything. But one thing I love about
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: that dog on David Shan's he gonna figure it out
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: himself and then he gonna pay some pay somebody. But
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to tell somebody what they want.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: They want what he wants. You're not gonna just do
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: his do his work any type of way. Now, if
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: he's just not an expert in it or whatever, he
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: might do some research and let you do your thing
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, I don't think that sounds right. But
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that man, he gonna he'll get behind the camera, he'll
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: start editing or whatever. You'll never know how to do
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that if you don't put your hand to the to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the test. And so I can appreciate that desert right
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: because I have done it for myself. Man, it's a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: it's a lot, and it's just funny because I'm just
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: going back to you just have to keep your wife
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in front of you, like, because when I tell you like,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it wasn't until I said, like yes for real like,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: like I said, I was doing the things. But as
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I said, yes, you know, I was able to elevate
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: my knowledge and things of that nature. But things would happen. Yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and I'll be mad. I think a lot of things
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: have happened. One of the things that happened was when
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Daddy we did the Father's Day podcast and that was
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that was for me. A lot of people enjoyed it.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Y'all enjoyed it. That one was that one was personal
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and that dog on audio went out. Now, keep in mind, y'all,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we had this is this is the third episode of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the day. At the time, I was using a different recorder. Okay,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it's done going to Jesus. Okay, it's done, going on
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to Jesus. And I think that was his last I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: didn't know. So we had recorded two episodes that day
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and then we did just as Dad episode. And keep
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: in mind, it's it's lit like it's recording. Okay, the numbers,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the numbers is counting up and everything. The next day
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I had a project to do. I had to do
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: audio recording everything, and we did a podcast later on
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that evening. Why did it record? It recorded the first
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: two that day? It did not. It was like empty
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: files of Jessica's dad's audio. Then the next day the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: project I did empty files of the audio, and then
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: it decided to record the last one other day. Right,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So here we are, and at that time, her dad
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: was getting ready to go into surgery. You know, he's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: overcoming and fighting through the cancer and things of that nature.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And so it was I knew it was a very
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: special moment, and like I felt really defeated in that
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: moment because I'm like, dang, like this was a big moment,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and I felt like I dropped the ball, even though
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't drop the ball, right, And so it's just
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: little pieces like that, like what has been happening where
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I know the enemy is trying to throw me off.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I know the enemy is trying to make me second
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: guess what I know God is telling me to do.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I know what
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: God told me to do. Right, So regardless of I'm like,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: all right, Lord, so what So thankfully I had had
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I had somebody that that that gifted a roadcaster. So
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: when the thing went down, we just went went on. Now,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: look now we're in a space where we can use
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: what they got. Yeah, most most definitely, I think the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: biggest thing to add to what you're saying regarding that
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: situation is now you gotta when things happen like that,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: she gotta tell me. And if you know, we talked
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: about type A and a few episodes ago, if you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: know me, you know that I'm a little a little special.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Got better though, Jessica, I got you know what. But
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it then is before before or Dad's episode, we had
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Coach d Well the Phumbies and the Wilson and we
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: had some struggles with the audio there, and so this
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: process has really taught me. I didn't even put this
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: on the list. This process has really told me to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: go with the punches. Like Carl can't even think of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: like Carl's last name right now, but he's on on
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the podcast with CJ and E T and them, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: he's into the tech. He's the tech guys, right. So
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I was able by being in the seven figure podcast
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: community to communicate, hey, this is what happened with this episode,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and he was like, Okay, send me a link to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: let me see you. And he's the one. If it
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't for him, by god, I would have been messed up.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: He was like hey, just use this, just just just
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: go with it, because he understood the sentiment behind it,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and then I would never get that. Sometimes you just
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: gotta go with the punches and go go with what
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: you what you know. But people still watch it, and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: people still enjoyed it, and so give yourself grace, Give
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: yourself grace. Let's go to the third thing. So the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: one of another benefits. Another benefit for podcasting is that
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it promotes consistency. It makes you either be a liar
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: or truth teller. You either gonna lie to the people
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and say you're gonna show up and will not show
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: up when you said you're gonna show up, or you're
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: just gonna show up. Like people say, Oh my gods,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you because you're proud because it's
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: something that you don't think you can do. But you,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: like you said, we have to push beyond ourselves. Push
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: like knowing your why. I'm glad you brought the up.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Knowing your why of why you're like why you're doing this.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I know that this podcast thing is breaking yolks every week.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I know it. I know it's building my bloodline. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: know it's setting myself, my my family up when I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: get my own, you know, for success. I know that
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: when my children see me and I go on to glory,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: they still get to come to YouTube or whatever platform
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I'm still on and say, oh my gosh, that was
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: my mama. My mama was doing it, my grandma was
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: doing it, my great grandma was doing it. I'm leaving
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a legacy, and so that is what gets me out
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of my punk anytime it's time for me to say, okay,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: it's time to turn on, when I'm already on, if
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm being myself, man, yeah, my girl in deep thought
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: over there, my girl, I was like booming in and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: just went I was like, dang, so we wanted to
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: come back that one. But yeah, y'all you watch this.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: You deserve to be consistent. You deserve to be consistent.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I have this thing asistent. Yeah that go, thank you boom.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: If I'm honest, this podcast it has helped me so
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: me just a very different I don't know if you
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: notice that or not. She's very She's very type A
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of like, hey, we're here. But
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: what this podcast has helped me to do is to
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: really get more disciplined and consistent in my regular life
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: because I know, so we have we have a night
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: So as we've grown, now this ain't what we was before.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Before we was just were just trying to figure it out.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: But now as we've grown, we've come up with a schedule.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: We have like a recording schedule, we have releasing schedule,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: we have like processes and procedures in place now that
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: helps us stay consistent so that we can continue to
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: do what we know that God has told us to do.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And having the process and procedures helps the planet execution.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Like we literally we review anytime something come up, like
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: we're reviewing it, like I'm listening to the podcast the
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: same episode multiple times. We gotta look at Okay, what
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: did we say? We got to look at it to
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: get you know, get the title and the clips that
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we want on our So it's a lot into it
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: than just pressing and record and going right. So the
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: consistent part of it is that being consistent allows you
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: to see, Okay, I got this flow right here, this
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: is so good. I got this flow right here. Am
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I gonna fix it? Or I'm gonna let it go.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I don't like this, or I think we should change this,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: or we can see what's working right. The reason why
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you guys like the show is because we're consistent with ourselves.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: We consistently show up at the same time every week.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: You know, you know what's coming, what's coming, And so
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that desil Ray said this podcast
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: allowed me to be consistent with myself. This podcast is
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: breaking things for me personally, like I can't even I
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: cannot be the same person at my house and show
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: up a different way. You don't get the genuiness out
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: of that. So you're gonna feel everything that we're going through.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: So consistency. Watch this consistency allows people to trust you.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It makes me trustworthy, It makes Desiraate trustworthy. When we
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: say that we're gonna do something and we're actually doing
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: it and we're not just doing it, we're doing it
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: every week because in y'all mind, and I'm gonna say
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: it was in y'all mind, it's really it's hard, and
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen yourself be consistent with you, and that's
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: what you really want. You don't want to sometimes you
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: don't want the podcast. Sometimes you just want the evidence
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: of the consistency and whatever area, maybe it's not podcasting,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: whatever area that you said you was gonna show up
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: for get some accountability, get your partner, tell them, okay,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: this is what I want to do, and allow them
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to hold you accountable for that, because that's gonna help
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: promote the consistency that you want. Because I know you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: ain't just worried about lying lying to people, but you
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: worried about lying to yourself. You said, listen, you're talking
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: about to somebody that was sick, has been sick and
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: tired of lying to themselves things I've been lying to myself. Well,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like, God, okay, I just how do we deal
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: with this? How do we deal with this? We we
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: continue to denounce our flesh and we operate in the spirit.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: That's my answer. That's good. That's good. All right. So
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: the fourth thing is, and I love this. This is
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: probably one of my favorites. Podcasting creates community. I love
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: our community. Shout out if you have been riding with
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: just as. First of all, I want to say thank you,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: but I want to know who you are, so I
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: need you to comment below. I need you to I
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: want to I want to say thank you to each
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and every one of you. Y'all. This community has been growing.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: It's been growing, like it's growing real, like genuinely and
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: like shout out to my TikTok family because y'all really
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: help your girl out. But the people that we get
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to meet, not just that are part of our community,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: but the people that we get to bring on like Trician,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Like who would who would the thought we got to
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: talk to Patricians Meg Farland aka Flosto met Who would
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: have thought that we got to talk sit down with
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Bishop Jonathan or Wood? Who would have thought that we
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: get to sit down with Shanty Boutis? Like who thinks
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: that we get to sit down and talk to these
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: amazing people and we're connected for life. Like people really
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: didn't like they rock with us after they leave here,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: like they were like, okay cool, Like I like y'all
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: y'all real cool people like real it was like, oh
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: my god, like real talk. And it's it's such a rewarding,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: uh thing to be that place where people just like
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: to come back to. I think one of the things
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: that I enjoy is the people. Like why I like
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: being behind the camera a lot of times is because
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I just get to sit and glean and listen and
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: listen to these amazing people. Like who sometimes would have
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say opportunity, but now like as we
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: build network, as we build community, like their voice, their
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: messages now get to resonate out to those who are
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: who've really been looking for and just had not been
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: able to find them. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's one of one of the beauties
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: for me is I heard the Lord say help the helper,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and that's exactly what that looks like. That's helping to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: create spaces, helping to create platforms, helping to capture the sounds,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: capture the videos that he's giving for the messages that
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: he's given people, and helping them be able to get
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: it out to the people who need it. Like we're
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: called like we're literally we're called to every somebody and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: then we call it everybody, but we're called to somebody
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: and if we're not showing up authentically. We talked, You
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: talked about how your first season used you know, bicking
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: somebody I don't know, but the people who are looking
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: for you couldn't find you because they couldn't recognize that.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: So good that was like I'm looking for this sound,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for this voice but that ain't it, but
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: it it is it, but it ain't it, you know
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's the face, but it's the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: face but not the sound. That's why the sound is
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: so important. Takes back to your point about God being
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: specific about the sound, like he gave us a sound
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: for a reason. And if something's voice activated, it does
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and your sound is not recognizable, then nothing moves, nothing opens, y'all.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. If you are trying to
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: manipulate the God given sound that you were given, what
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: happens is the door doesn't open. And what happens when
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the door doesn't open, you become frustrated like you're doing
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the wrong thing, but you're sounding the wrong way. And
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: so it is. Really it has really increased our community.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Our sound has increased our community, like just on both ends.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: And so we're I think that that part makes us happy.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Mo's just because we we love to serve. Like there's
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a there's a there's a serving aspect to this this
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: space to where we allow people that don't normally get
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to have a platform to speak on to speak because
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: there's some really there are some when I say some
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: really dope people really do. Man that don't get the
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: opportunity to have only want to say they're they're shine,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: but to be heard. And God has given us a
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: platform I think I'm giving. I'm getting over the point
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: of trying to get these uh celebrities or the most
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: well known people. Now there's some people that say they
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: want to be on a platform, some celebrities or some
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: strong influences that's going to be on just as I'm
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: not negating that. But what I'm saying is me going
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: after it like I was like, Oh, why need this
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: person for just ask to be seen or I need
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: this person for just ask to go. No, it's gonna
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: go as God goes. We didn't have that many people
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: following us before Tab with the Brown, and even after
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Tab with the Brown, people still didn't subscribe. It was
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: people like Kayla Lan and Sean Tay about this when
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: you look at the analytics and pastor Andrea Gates like that,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: now that one that one is going ham like people
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: follow because of those type of people and those type
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: of interactions that are not necessarily known worldwide, you know
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so that's the importance of this platform.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Speaking of that it leads me into my last one
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to where the benefit for me of podcasting is that
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: is that it does increase influence. And as a believer,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: sometimes we can be like, oh, you're just trying to
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you're just trying to be influenced. So you're trying to
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: do this, But why wouldn't I That is part of
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: a mountain, It's part of a mount of the mounts
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: of entertainment. And if we're not in front of people
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: who are who's in front of the people the wrong stuff?
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: So we complaining about, you know, gun violence, We're complaining
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: about the kids not having things to listen to, We
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: complain about entertainment, we complaining about people dying, We complain
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: about all these things. But then we don't want to
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: go be the people that influences or are in front
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: or willing to be in front of the people, because
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: you think entertainment is just of the devil, And that's
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: a lie, it's a complete that is a complete lie.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: And so I think that we have to get get
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: in our minds and get and digest properly that although
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: you know it works, it's good to be an influencer.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: But although that although we see influencers in a different way,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: and it's you know, this content creation, it's kind of
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: you know, it can have some great, great moments sometimes. However,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the thing that we do, if we're leaning not until
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: our own understanding in all that ways acknowledging him so
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: he can make our path straight. We know that the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: things that we do, the things that we promote, the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: things that we submit and to the world are of God.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: And why wouldn't we want to do that? Yeah, I
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: think God can use if we're honest. God created out everything, right,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: it's just because we're in the world, the world uses
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: it in a in a dark way. And so He's
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: God is literally waiting for you, waiting for us to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: step into our God given abilities talents that He's given
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: us to influence who He's called us the influence. Otherwise,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: like what are we doing? Like He didn't give us
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the gifts and the talents for ourselves. He gave He
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: gave them to us to help to build, to edify
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: other people. And he will use a platform you will use,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: somebody saying on the corner to do what his will.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: His kingdom is on this earth. You know what I'm saying.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And I think sometimes when people make those types of comments,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's more internally, more internally some things that
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: they're not okay with, like cause, So if I'm honest,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: like I would see, Let's say, if I see somebody
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: on social media and they're constantly posting all the time, like,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: dangn ain't posting all the time? What the reality is
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: because I'm not comfortable posting because I'm not comfortable with
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: putting myself out there like that. That's the truth. It's
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with them. They're doing exactly what they supposed
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: to do. But I had some insecurities of some things.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: So when you really step into this thing like wholeheartedly
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and give it your all, like, you're gonna get the influence.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: And it may not be the influence that you're thinking
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be, but you're gonna get the influence that
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. As long as you allow God
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to lead and you keep leaning on what the plan
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: is that He has for you're gonna get the influence
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to have. The beautiful thing I'm learning
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: even about the influence space is that you can influence up. Yeah,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: you can influence up. What do I mean by that
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the people that you think that would be you would
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: be influenced by are influenced by you. And I'm learning
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: that through this journey. People have been finding me on Instagram.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Out of all places, people have been finding me personally,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: and like, I've been getting dms from people like I'm like,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: who is this person? Oh? This person look like this person? Oh,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: this person connected this person? Wow? And you're dming me
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: or you when I tell you I've gotten I've got
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a random DM that just blessed my spirit, okay, and
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the men of God start following me. And it's been
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: it's just been rewarding to people that you don't even
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: know that you look on the page and you look
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: at the numbers. All right, now, I don't even have
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: three thousand followers on Instagram, but yeah, I got most
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of blue check people that really got followers,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: not the fake blue checks, the real real blue checks,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the real blue chicks. And yeah, that that means something
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: that they have a status. Right. They got sixty five
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: k following them on one hundred, one hundred k following them,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a million, four million people following them, And I'm just confielming,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: like I only got three k. God told me the
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: other day. He was like, it's quality over quantity. And
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: so the impact not even just influence, but the impact
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: that this this podcast is making is allowing me to
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: be seen by the people that need to see me.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: It's allowing desil Ray, y'all. Desi Ray has been like
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: on the road like she been outside y'all. She been
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: a work and I'm proud of my girl. Like it's
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: giving Desiree another level of confidence. It's like when I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: walk into a room, I change things, like I'm the
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I capture things. That is my gift. I help you,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and I capture you, the real you. I ain't got
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: time for the fake you. And I can watch this.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: The guy has given her so much discernment. And Bridges
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: did a video about discernment. If y'all need to know
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: what discernment, look up Life Life with Brianca and she'll
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  Speaker 1: teach you about discernment. But God will give you the
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  Speaker 1: sermon that you need. And her discernment sticks out when
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  Speaker 1: somebody's not being themselves, when they're being inauthorical, and she
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  Speaker 1: can just be the mit you. She ain't gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to be around you. I ain't seen nothing like it.
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen anything like it, and so I'm
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  Speaker 1: grateful for this podcast. People say I'm proud of you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of myself. Yeah that's big es I am.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for your proud but it's nothing like
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  Speaker 1: me being proud of me. And because I know what
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  Speaker 1: this entails. But if you're thinking about start a podcast
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  Speaker 1: or you know, whatever you're thinking about starting, don't just
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  Speaker 1: look for the money, because the money has to gradually came, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna gradually call. Look for the things that are pricing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look for the development. Look for being the best version
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. And so I appreciate you even coming here
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  Speaker 1: and lending your ear to this platform. If this resonated
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  Speaker 1: with you, if you know somebody's trying to start a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to send this out. That's where you
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  Speaker 1: had something to say, No, this was a good episode.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think I knew so before we were
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  Speaker 1: part of the The only prep that we have when
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  Speaker 1: we're together is she may send me what she may
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  Speaker 1: think we talking about kind of thing. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: so when I started, I was like, oh, okay, but
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  Speaker 1: I really think it's important, like she said, even if
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  Speaker 1: it's not a podcast per se, Like there is something
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  Speaker 1: that that God has given you to go and you're
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  Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, you're hesitating, right, but you just
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  Speaker 1: have to start. He said, I'm in this process right now.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody asked me what my plan was. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't got no plan. The Lord didn't say go
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  Speaker 1: and figure it out. He said, go and follow me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, go and be obedient. And as we take
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  Speaker 1: steps in faith, like the other pieces will come, like
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  Speaker 1: your destiny helpers will come, the blueprint will come. But
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  Speaker 1: you first have to make the step to say yes,
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  Speaker 1: Lord and then move forward towards that thing. And so
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  Speaker 1: I'm just grateful just to be here because I can
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  Speaker 1: only see I've seen. I think we've only scratched the
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  Speaker 1: tip of what God is really trying to do in
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  Speaker 1: this space, in this media space, in this entertainment space,
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  Speaker 1: because it is amount of influence, and He has called
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  Speaker 1: us to dominate the earth in general. And if we
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  Speaker 1: don't step into that, we can't complain about what we see.
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  Speaker 1: That's so good, that is so good. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do something that I really feel the Holy Spirit leading
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  Speaker 1: me to. I'm gonna pray for y'all pray for us.
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  Speaker 1: Right so, God, we thank you. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity for one to acknowledge who you are. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the opportunity just to be called your
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters of the Kingdom. God, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunity to speak well of you. And so, God,
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  Speaker 1: in this moment, we ask that you continue to reveal
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  Speaker 1: what you want from us. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for allowing us to see how you see us.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you, Lord God that as we go and
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  Speaker 1: as we obey, that you reveal even the more to us. God,
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  Speaker 1: specifically for people that are interested in the entertainment in
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  Speaker 1: the mounts of entertainment, God, bless them. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: right now, Lord God, that you're giving them the tools
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  Speaker 1: that they need for not only for themselves, but for
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  Speaker 1: the impact that they would bring. God, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the tenacity. I thank you for the consistency. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord God, that they see themselves as you see,
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  Speaker 1: as you see them, because they deserve to be consistent
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  Speaker 1: with themselves. First, I thank you right now, look God,
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  Speaker 1: that they even thank you, Holy Spirit, they even start
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  Speaker 1: to trust themselves what you have embedded into them. God,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God, that they start to trust
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  Speaker 1: themselves so much that they invest in what they see,
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  Speaker 1: that they invest time, they invest finances so they can
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  Speaker 1: can grow and develop. God, I thank you that you're
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  Speaker 1: allowing them to be in the proper place, around the
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  Speaker 1: proper people, to build community, not just for themselves, God,
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  Speaker 1: but to enhance the Kingdom. For we do nothing without you,
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  Speaker 1: O God. And so God, I trust you. We trust
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  Speaker 1: you with what you say about us. We trust you
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  Speaker 1: with the activation of the voice, with the consistency, with
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  Speaker 1: the confidence, with the influence God, with the community. God
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  Speaker 1: is all by you. And so God, before we go anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: before we do anything, before we press the record, but
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  Speaker 1: before we activate the sound, we look to the heels
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  Speaker 1: which cometh our help, and our help comes from You.
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  Speaker 1: And so God, bless the platforms. God, bless the the
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  Speaker 1: thought processes, Bless the planning and the execution. Bless the partnerships.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, and continue to have your
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  Speaker 1: way in this space, in this realm of podcasting, in
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  Speaker 1: this realm of community, in this realm of entertainment, in
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  Speaker 1: this realm of impact and influence. And God, we trust you,
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  Speaker 1: We honor you, We glorify you in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode. Since
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  Speaker 1: you've made it this far, you might as well connect
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  Speaker 1: with us on all social media platforms at the Jessica S. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I know I won't see you back until next week,
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  Speaker 1: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always stay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God for one another day. Hey, hey, I know
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  Speaker 2: we could be another way, he pray. Thank God for
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  Speaker 2: another day. Hey hey, I'm just thankful another day. Hey hey,
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  Speaker 2: another day, Oh, another day wise, another day to get
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  Speaker 2: it right, another day to rise up, another day living,
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  Speaker 2: Another day. We loved ones. I always remember, hold it
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