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Author/Speaker Melanie D. Phillips discusses STRENGTH THE BOND on Conversations LIVE · Cyrus Webb's tracks

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations Live. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus Webb. and strategist. We're going to talk to her
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  Speaker 1: not only about what it's been like for her to
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  Speaker 1: build on her strength in the bond and what she's
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  Speaker 1: been able to do with that platform, but also how
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  Speaker 1: it's been able to rise and include others as well.
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  Speaker 1: She's been talking with mothers and daughters, and particularly with women,
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  Speaker 1: but also she's expanding that as well. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to her about that and let you guys know
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  Speaker 1: how to stay connected with all the updates on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with her. Melanie, welcome back to the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, Starla, for having me. I am excited.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Melanie, you've been doing a lot. In fact, one
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  Speaker 1: of our other CMG members recently had an interview with you,
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to catch. You've had a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: You and I were just talking before we went live here,
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  Speaker 1: and you started Strength in the Bond, you were just
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  Speaker 1: sharing with me, in 2016, so a decade ago. What
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  Speaker 1: has it been like for you now to look at
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  Speaker 1: those 10 years, Melanie, and all that you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to do under that umbrella and platform?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? It doesn't seem like it's been that long,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a long time. You know what? It's been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: When you think about the inception of Strength in the Bond,
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  Speaker 2: where it started off bringing just mothers, not just, but
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  Speaker 2: mothers and daughters together, and then expanding it with the men,
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  Speaker 2: with the family in its whole totality, including me and men,
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  Speaker 2: including the sons, including bringing organizations together as well. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. It's surprising to me because I never would
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  Speaker 2: have thought that Strength in the Bond would be doing
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  Speaker 2: as much as we're doing. But I'm excited, excited to
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  Speaker 2: be used this way as the vessel to help everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And not everyone, but the people that need Strength in
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  Speaker 2: the Bond. Because when we help the people from the
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  Speaker 2: inside out, especially the family, the individuals, that means you
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  Speaker 2: are helping the community and everyone else. So I am
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  Speaker 2: excited to what Strength in the Bond is doing.
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  Speaker 1: So let's stay with that for a second, Melanie, because
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  Speaker 1: it's been a while since you've been on our platform.
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  Speaker 1: And I want our audience to kind of get a
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  Speaker 1: better idea of who you are and why this was
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  Speaker 1: even started in 2016. What made you want to answer
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  Speaker 1: the call? Because I think, you know, when we look
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  Speaker 1: at life, we have a choice, right? We can either
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  Speaker 1: be a bystander when we see situations happen, or we
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  Speaker 1: can be part of the solution. What made you say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I see a need here, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to do something to fill that need?
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  Speaker 1: What was that motivation for you?
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  Speaker 2: So when I started working with Mothers and Daughters, listening to,
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  Speaker 2: coaching the mothers and daughters and partnering with them. I
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  Speaker 2: listened to them and what affected the mother sometimes, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just the daughter, but it was bigger than that.
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  Speaker 2: It may have been generational. It may have dealt with
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  Speaker 2: the loss of the husband, whether it was divorce or
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  Speaker 2: whether it was death or, you know, just based upon
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  Speaker 2: that aspect of the family, the men. And also when
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about mothers and daughters, you're not just talking
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  Speaker 2: about the men part. You're also talking, especially if she
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  Speaker 2: has a son, what is it like for the son
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  Speaker 2: to be there as well without the father or with
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  Speaker 2: the father, the father can be there as well. So
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  Speaker 2: not just for mothers and daughters. I knew I had
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  Speaker 2: to expand it because you have the whole family. And
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  Speaker 2: the whole family needs to become stronger because we have
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  Speaker 2: a breakdown sometimes in communication and the relationship. And we
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  Speaker 2: just need to be, you know, help build them back up, individuals.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we build the families up from the
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  Speaker 2: inside out, you know, and coach them and then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do communication conflict resolution, as I would say, then you're
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  Speaker 2: not only helping the mother and daughter, you are helping
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  Speaker 2: everybody in that household. And when you help everyone in
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  Speaker 2: that household, therefore they can go out in the community
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  Speaker 2: and they can go to work, they can go to
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  Speaker 2: their own businesses and they can help others because we
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  Speaker 2: have given them the tools to strengthen, you know, help
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  Speaker 2: strengthen them and they can go out and strengthen others
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the coaching then, Melanie. So Strength in the
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  Speaker 1: Bun LLC started in 2016. When did the coaching aspect
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  Speaker 1: with mothers and daughters and women, when did that start
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 2: The coaching aspect started basically, I want to say, in
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  Speaker 2: maybe 2017.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And workshops and talking to mothers and daughters, but then
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  Speaker 2: we had mothers and daughters that wanted a one-on-one coaching
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  Speaker 2: and I saw a need for that. And then I
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  Speaker 2: have a daughter as well, and I am a daughter.
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  Speaker 2: So I saw a big need for that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to strengthen our relationship. Although I said, okay, Me and
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  Speaker 2: my daughter have a great relationship. But why not celebrate us?
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  Speaker 2: Why not build upon what we have? And although our
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  Speaker 2: relationship is good, sometimes we do have that conflict, you know?
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  Speaker 2: But we're able to sit down and talk about what's
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  Speaker 2: going on and what brought us here at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: For me to strengthen my family, my daughter, and help
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  Speaker 2: with my mother as well, strengthen the relationship between me
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  Speaker 2: and my mother that much more, why not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: help others? So when people wanted me to help them,
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  Speaker 2: give them the tools, I was like, okay, now let
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  Speaker 2: me see what that will look like. So I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you, because you've kind of built this,
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  Speaker 1: as we were just talking about before we went on here,
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  Speaker 1: Melinda Bunn movement, and so one of the things you've
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  Speaker 1: been able to do is to share this in books.
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  Speaker 1: Was that something that you knew automatically was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of this, or was that something that
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  Speaker 1: just evolved as the movement was building?
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  Speaker 2: The books came first, Iris. Going through the divorce, And
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  Speaker 2: back in 2016, God told me to pick up my
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  Speaker 2: pen and paper and write. And that came first. And
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  Speaker 2: within that, and my daughter came to my house one
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  Speaker 2: particular day while going through the divorce, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: I was devastated, you know, going through that divorce. And
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  Speaker 2: she was praying for myself and my younger son at
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  Speaker 2: that particular time because he was in college as she
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  Speaker 2: was over praying for us. And I heard the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit say that your bond is going to be strengthened.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't know what that meant. But then going
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  Speaker 2: back before God, talking to him and asking him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what does this mean? He just led me into a
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  Speaker 2: situation where sometimes there will be conflict. You know, and
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  Speaker 2: and having there will be other mothers and daughters that
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  Speaker 2: will be going through the same thing that you're going through.
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  Speaker 2: There will be mothers that will be going through a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: There will be mothers that will be going through a death.
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  Speaker 2: There will be mothers that will be going through everything
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  Speaker 2: and especially with their daughters as well. So that's what
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  Speaker 2: made me start off with the book. The book came
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  Speaker 2: first and then everything else came after writing it. Writing
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  Speaker 2: about three or four books, everything else came afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So talk to us about that experience, Melanie, because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not always easy when we're going through something, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's not always easy to talk about it. You not
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  Speaker 1: only talked about it, you've been writing about it. You've
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  Speaker 1: been speaking about it. What has that been like for
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  Speaker 1: you to help in your own healing? But what has
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  Speaker 1: it been like for you to see how you're also
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  Speaker 1: helping other people to heal as well?
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  Speaker 2: You're definitely right because it's not easy speaking about it.
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  Speaker 2: And I did not want to speak about it. In
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, I said, I do not want to speak
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  Speaker 2: about this because I don't want anyone knowing that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going through a divorce. However, the Lord put it on
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  Speaker 2: my heart to say, I am allowing you to go
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  Speaker 2: through this, not just for you, but for you to
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  Speaker 2: help other people out. Who's going to be going through
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  Speaker 2: this as well? And prime example, I had my own business,
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  Speaker 2: one of the businesses. It was a... a hair salon
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  Speaker 2: and barbershop. And I was going to work for two
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  Speaker 2: or three weeks running my business, and no one knew
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  Speaker 2: that I was going through a divorce. And I had
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  Speaker 2: been married at that particular time for like 25 years, Cyrus.
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  Speaker 2: No one knew it. And they would be asking me
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  Speaker 2: about my husband, my then husband. And I was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: was just could not say anything because I was so devastated. Now,
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  Speaker 2: fast forward. When I started, people wanted to know more because.
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  Speaker 2: It affected the business as they thought it was going
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  Speaker 2: to affect the business, but it really did not. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing that affected was him not being there. But
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  Speaker 2: then there were other people, my clients, other people's clients,
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  Speaker 2: the other stylists, their clients. Some of them were going
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  Speaker 2: through divorce or separation, and they would call me to see, Melanie,
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  Speaker 2: you are so strong. Can you please tell me how
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  Speaker 2: you're getting through this? Can you please pray with me?
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  Speaker 2: And at that point, I didn't think I was strong. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have a mask on. I was strong at the business,
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  Speaker 2: but at home I was falling apart. But no one
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  Speaker 2: ever knew. So I had to just be an open
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  Speaker 2: book and let them know, hey, I'm falling apart here.
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  Speaker 2: This is what's going on. So let me just take
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  Speaker 2: off my mask. to let you guys know this is
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. And yes, I can pray for you
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  Speaker 2: because not only am I praying for you, I am
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  Speaker 2: helping myself as well. So I was able to pour
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  Speaker 2: into people, which in turn helped me myself. And then
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  Speaker 2: people started asking, how do you do this and how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing that? And especially with children, my kids were,
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  Speaker 2: you know, young adults. My youngest son was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's his last year in college. So although they were devastated,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't even imagine about a young child going through that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why God had me to write that very
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  Speaker 2: first book, Divorce From My Point of View, which dealt
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  Speaker 2: with a young child dealing with the divorce of their parents.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to write it and the aspect from
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  Speaker 2: a young child's point of view. So, that was able
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  Speaker 2: to help me help others as well to get through
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  Speaker 2: all of this. And that's what brought on silence. When
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  Speaker 2: I say it's been a domino effect from that book
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  Speaker 2: for the mothers and daughters, and then the men was
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  Speaker 2: actually just always on me. When are you going to
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  Speaker 2: do something for men? When are you going to do
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  Speaker 2: something for men? You're always talking to the women. And
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  Speaker 2: so it had me to... It led me to go
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  Speaker 2: back in the barbershop area and just sit there and
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  Speaker 2: talk to the men, too. You know, have conversations with
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  Speaker 2: the men. And so I had to think, fast forward, okay, men,
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  Speaker 2: they are a pivotal part of family. They are a
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  Speaker 2: very important part. It wouldn't be any children without the
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  Speaker 2: mother or the father, regardless of what people say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how it's done. In vitro fertilization or whatever, it would
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  Speaker 2: not be any children without the mother or the father.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the nuclear family. And that's how we all
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  Speaker 2: get through everything by seeing what is how they are affected.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I ended up pouring into and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: coaching all of them. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And now, of course, you're able to speak to them.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say for those who are just tuning in, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: You all are listening to Conversations Live. We're excited to
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  Speaker 1: welcome back Melanie D. Phillips to our broadcast. You can
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  Speaker 1: tell she wears many hats. She has the LLC, Strength
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  Speaker 1: in a Bond, that's celebrating 10 years this year. Also,
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  Speaker 1: of course, she's an author. She's a speaker, motivator, as
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  Speaker 1: well as a media host. We're talking with her about
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  Speaker 1: the brand she's been able to build. So for yourself then, Melanie,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like, and I think this is true for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, I think even for myself, your
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  Speaker 1: purpose really did come from your pain. You were able
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  Speaker 1: to take things that you personally had experienced, had dealt with,
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  Speaker 1: had even overcome, and able to use that to help others.
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  Speaker 1: How does that feel to look at the after effect,
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  Speaker 1: to look at the people who read your books, the
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  Speaker 1: people who watch your programs, the people who attend your events?
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel to know that you are giving
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  Speaker 1: them something that can help them in their own journey?
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  Speaker 2: It feels great. It feels great. It's a blessing. It's
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  Speaker 2: a blessing that the Lord has allowed me to be
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  Speaker 2: the vessel to be used in this aspect. It is
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  Speaker 2: a blessing, and you just don't know out of the
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  Speaker 2: pain that I was in, thinking that no one needs
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  Speaker 2: to know my business, but eventually sharing my business because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I had to be seen. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: work every day. I'm going to church. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: being around people, and what affected me affected Some of my,
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  Speaker 2: especially my close friends and everybody else that was around me,
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  Speaker 2: the people that really loved me. So when I was hurting,
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  Speaker 2: they were hurting as well. So it allowed me to say, okay, God,
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  Speaker 2: I know you say it's bigger than me. So now
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  Speaker 2: I see it. I see it and I feel it.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand what I am here to do.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and it's a blessing. I can't even say anything more, Cyrus.
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  Speaker 2: It is a blessing. It's tremendous how God has allowed
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  Speaker 2: me to move, strengthen the bond further.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about then the balancing act, because you do,
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  Speaker 1: you wear a lot of hats. You're also an educator, Melanie.
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  Speaker 1: How do you refresh yourself? I think for an audience
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  Speaker 1: out there that may feel like they're dealing with a
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  Speaker 1: lot or juggling a lot, they sometimes wonder, okay, how
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  Speaker 1: can I take time for myself? What helps Melanie to
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  Speaker 1: be able to take that time?
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  Speaker 2: This is something that I just recently started. At first
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  Speaker 2: I was like, let me just go. Taking time for
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  Speaker 2: myself means going to get a massage, spending time with myself, just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, traveling and all of that. However, my son,
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  Speaker 2: my youngest son made it so clear to me. He said, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: since you're not married right now, go on a date.
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  Speaker 2: Go on a date with God. He said, yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: okay to go on a date. He said, but go
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  Speaker 2: on a date just you and the Lord. You just
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  Speaker 2: speak with the Lord and talk to the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: just have him to pour into you and you just
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  Speaker 2: pour into him, you know, and not ask for anything
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  Speaker 2: when you're on your date with him. Just be there
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  Speaker 2: and just communicate. So when I say that helps me,
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  Speaker 2: just being able to pour back into myself to get replenished,
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  Speaker 2: to be refilled, and just reconnecting, just being by myself sometimes. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be with my friends. with my family members. I
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  Speaker 2: love and love to travel. I've lived overseas. I travel overseas.
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  Speaker 2: So I love traveling. But to just reconnect, I unplug.
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  Speaker 2: Reconnecting to me is unplugging everything, not having my devices
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  Speaker 2: with me, not having my laptops with me, just being
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  Speaker 2: by myself, getting a hotel room, and just spending time
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  Speaker 2: with myself and on a date with the Lord. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that it helps pour back into me. It
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  Speaker 2: helps give me the fuel and the energy that I
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  Speaker 2: need so that I continue to do His work.
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  Speaker 1: Great. Well, I love that. And I think that's such
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  Speaker 1: a great thing, too. And I think, too, I love
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  Speaker 1: what you said because, you know, I'm also one of
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  Speaker 1: these people as a homebody who, Melanie, I'm not, even
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  Speaker 1: though I travel and stuff for work, you know, I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: I don't never have felt like I had to go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere to actually be able to be by myself, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and to be able to enjoy that time.
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  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, even here from God, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: being able just to separate ourselves in a room sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: away from the disturbances, the distractions, definitely is all we
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  Speaker 1: need for sure. So as we talked about this decade
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  Speaker 1: that you've been enjoying with Strength in the Bund, Melanie,
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I've noticed this year you've been doing,
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  Speaker 1: you've been back to doing your in-person events. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about that. Did you always know that in-person was
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  Speaker 1: something you wanted to do, and what has it been
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  Speaker 1: like for you to see the benefits of that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love in-person events. You can only do
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  Speaker 2: so much via social media, but I want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to not only– Do the social media?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But I also want to be in the mix of everything.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be able to talk with the people.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have a connection with them because we're
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  Speaker 2: not just, I'm not just talking with them. I am
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  Speaker 2: building a relationship with them, relationships. of may it be
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  Speaker 2: me coaching them, may it just be us standing there
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  Speaker 2: talking together, communicating, us praying together. So I am enjoying that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very much so enjoying that just being able to
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  Speaker 2: be there and being in the midst and getting, getting
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  Speaker 2: back out there. Cause I had, I stopped for a minute,
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  Speaker 2: well for about a year or so. And now it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I need to refuel and let me get back out
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  Speaker 2: there so that I can also not only help those,
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  Speaker 2: which helps me myself. So by me being doing the,
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  Speaker 2: like the mother daughter hikes, and journal. That was so
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  Speaker 2: passionate to me. I enjoyed being in the mountains with
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  Speaker 2: those women and those mothers and those daughters. And some
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  Speaker 2: mothers didn't have their daughters with them. Some daughters came
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  Speaker 2: and didn't have their mothers with them. Some mothers, some
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  Speaker 2: daughters came and their mothers were deceased. And they were
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  Speaker 2: just there to just feel the love And I had
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  Speaker 2: them not only to, we went hiking together and just
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  Speaker 2: poured into each other. I gave them prompts. We listened
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  Speaker 2: to music that got us motivated as we hiked the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And we also, after we prayed and we were able
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  Speaker 2: to journal and to write about different experience, what it
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  Speaker 2: felt like being out there, thinking about the conversation that
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  Speaker 2: they had with their parents, mother, or the conversation that
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  Speaker 2: they had with their daughter, or how can they reconnect
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  Speaker 2: with their daughter or mother. So it was, Cyrus, when
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  Speaker 2: I say it was amazing. So those events to me are,
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  Speaker 2: they are much needed. They are much needed to bring
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  Speaker 2: the family that much closer together.
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  Speaker 1: So as we're in the last quarter of 2026, Melanie,
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  Speaker 1: there's still no time left. What are you looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to as you're wrapping up this year?
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  Speaker 2: I am looking forward to doing a lot more things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm working on now doing a mother-daughter prayer. And because
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  Speaker 2: in May of next year, we're doing a mother-daughter retreat.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Leading up to that, each month we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do a mother-daughter prayer in the park where mothers
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  Speaker 2: and daughters come together. And we're going to be praying
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  Speaker 2: because mothers and daughters go through so many things. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be praying. And we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: celebrating mothers and daughters because not all mothers and daughters
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  Speaker 2: have issues. So we're going to be celebrating those that
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  Speaker 2: have great relationships as well. Also, we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing some family events for the men, baseball. baseball captain bowling.
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  Speaker 2: So this is going to be for the whole family,
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  Speaker 2: for the men, the sons, for the whole family. And
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  Speaker 2: it's so much stuff that I have going on, Cyrus,
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  Speaker 2: and just the strategic partnership with organizations. That's something else
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  Speaker 2: that I'm doing because I figured if you build a family,
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  Speaker 2: if you coach and do organizational development you with the organization,
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  Speaker 2: you're not only strengthening the individuals, you're strengthening the relationships.
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  Speaker 2: You're strengthening the leaders. You're strengthening the families within that
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  Speaker 2: organization because nine times out of 10, unless you are
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: not married or don't have any kids, you are, you
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  Speaker 2: have a family, whether you have children or married or divorced,
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  Speaker 2: you have a family, even if you have children. So
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  Speaker 2: when you strengthen that you can strengthen the organization and
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  Speaker 2: the family from the inside out. So building strategic partnerships
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  Speaker 2: with them through our coaching and our leadership development and
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  Speaker 2: our communication and conflict resolution is great. I'm loving it,
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  Speaker 2: going out there, building strategic partnerships. So it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: When I say a lot going on, it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on. And And even to make a long story short,
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  Speaker 2: Strength in the Bond, you first just started off, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Strength in the Bond, mothers and daughters, Strength in the Bond, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not just mothers and daughters, it's individuals. It's organization.
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  Speaker 2: It's families. You're developing them. And you're, you know, resolving
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  Speaker 2: different conflicts. You're giving them the tools to help the
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  Speaker 2: people grow personally and professionally and from the inside out,
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  Speaker 2: and I love every bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's exciting watching it all come together, Melanie, and
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  Speaker 1: I know it's been great for you to see this
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  Speaker 1: evolution over these past 10 years. Like you said, it
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  Speaker 1: may not have seemed like it's been a decade, but
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see how it started and where
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  Speaker 1: you are today is truly inspiring. Again, everyone, Melanie D.
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  Speaker 1: Phillips has been our guest. We've been talking with her
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  Speaker 1: about what it's been like for her to build the
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  Speaker 1: bond movement, but also, of course, to see how it's
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  Speaker 1: evolved and also been able to embrace different individuals and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: projects as well. Melanie, how can our audience stay connected
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  Speaker 1: with you?
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  Speaker 2: They can stay connected with me through strengthen the bond.com,
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  Speaker 2: strengthen the bond.com or Melanie D Phillips.com. Um, I'm also
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: on Instagram, strengthen the bond or Melanie D Phillips. I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: also on TikTok, strengthen the bond or Melanie D Phillips. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I'm also on, well, I'm redoing my LinkedIn so that
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  Speaker 2: I can put that whole umbrella underneath on LinkedIn, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in regards to everything that Strength in the Mind does.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm working on my LinkedIn, but also I am on,
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  Speaker 2: I'm also on Facebook, Melanie, between Richardson and Phillips.
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  Speaker 1: Got it. Well, congratulations to you again, Melanie. Glad we
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: had a chance to catch back up. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to our next conversation together.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm looking forward to it as well.
• 26:28
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• 26:30
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