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BELIEVE IN THE JOURNEY 12/26/24|DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2 | HOST TRIVEDA HARRIS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
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  Speaker 1: show starts in ten.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to Believe in the Journey podcast
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  Speaker 3: where I'm your host Trevida Harris, and Tonight, I am
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  Speaker 3: honored to close out my season, season two of Believing
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  Speaker 3: the Journey with dot to Carolyn Stevens.
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  Speaker 4: She is an amazing woman and she.
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  Speaker 3: Is always thinking of ways to uplift and empower other
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  Speaker 3: African American women. So before we do anything, we have
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  Speaker 3: to go to God in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank
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  Speaker 3: you for bringing us together as you do each and
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  Speaker 3: every time we come in front of you. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for an amazing season. For each and every guest that
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  Speaker 3: you have brought to me has been one that has
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  Speaker 3: allowed me to have confirmation in what I have been
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  Speaker 3: called to do. Each and every guest has solidified that
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  Speaker 3: I am on the right path. I am doing exactly
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  Speaker 3: what I'm supposed to be doing. Even though there have
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  Speaker 3: been moments where I have wanted to run away from
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  Speaker 3: what it is that you are calling me to do,
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  Speaker 3: but I know that every guest has been a confirmation
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  Speaker 3: to stay on track and stay focused. Let the words
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  Speaker 3: of my mouth tonight fall upon the ears that need
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  Speaker 3: to hear. Let what Miss Carolyn has to say tonight
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  Speaker 3: fall upon the ears that need to hear. Continue to
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  Speaker 3: watch over us and protect us. And let no hurt,
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  Speaker 3: harm or danger come anywhere near us. Let no openings
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  Speaker 3: that are forming, do not let them prosper. And your
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  Speaker 3: precious and holy name, I pray Amen. Now I want
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  Speaker 3: to tell you a little bit about my guest that
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  Speaker 3: is coming on tonight. Doctor Carolyn Stevens was raised in
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  Speaker 3: New York. She now resides in Atlanta. She serves the
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  Speaker 3: community as a clinical therapist and family support specialist. As
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  Speaker 3: I said before, she focuses on empowering and developing African
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  Speaker 3: American women. She is a founder of I Am Black Woman,
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  Speaker 3: in the book series that you can purchase on Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: Please welcome doctor Carolyn to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, good evening.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I am good? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing absolutely wonderful and good evening to each and
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  Speaker 6: every one of them.
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  Speaker 5: You who you're tuning in.
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  Speaker 6: And maybe some of you might see this on a
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  Speaker 6: week play or something, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, well, I thank you for being here tonight. I
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  Speaker 3: thank you for actually being my final guest of this
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  Speaker 3: season of Believing the Journey. It has been an amazing
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  Speaker 3: season too. So I want to start by asking you
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  Speaker 3: to introduce yourselves, because I have known you for just
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  Speaker 3: a short amount of time, but you are an amazing woman,
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  Speaker 3: and you have connected me with some amazing people and
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  Speaker 3: they are now my other sisters. So tell me a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about you so they can get to know you.
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  Speaker 7: So let me see where I would begin. Well, first
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  Speaker 7: and foremost, my name is doctor Carol and Stephens. I
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  Speaker 7: currently reside the Answer, Georgia. I am a clinical family therapist.
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  Speaker 5: Love love, love what I'm doing so and.
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  Speaker 6: I hear music in the background, so I want to
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  Speaker 6: make sure that I'm kind of talking, so.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where the music is coming.
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  Speaker 5: From, but I did. I didn't. I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 5: almost scared to continue going with the people.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm here in Atlanta, Georgia. That's a clinical family therapist.
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  Speaker 6: A okay there is awesome. So that's also a publisher.
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  Speaker 6: I am an author.
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  Speaker 9: An award winning offer, so I'm really thankful to God
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  Speaker 9: for that, and most importantly, I'm woman.
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  Speaker 5: That loves God God.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, amen, anybody.
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  Speaker 5: Knows anything about me. I want them to.
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  Speaker 8: Know that I am a woman that loves God. That's
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  Speaker 8: the same man important thing. And so that's a little
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  Speaker 8: bit about me. I'm a mom of beautiful children.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, ages because I get the ages right, Let's see.
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  Speaker 10: So they're all adults now, Okay, So the ages of
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  Speaker 10: the children are twenty four, twenty five, and thirty one.
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  Speaker 5: My son is thirty one, David thirty one. And so
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  Speaker 5: out of anything that I've ever accomplished, that is my
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  Speaker 5: beat is to say that I'm a mom with children.
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  Speaker 5: So I have people now, Queen, who are texting and
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of things are going on because they're asking
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  Speaker 5: me how can they join?
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  Speaker 4: And uh and the watch.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they might see the replay.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, but I haven't told the people who
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  Speaker 8: are texting me right now asking.
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  Speaker 5: How can they join?
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  Speaker 6: And I am deeply humbled and appreciative of the support.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that I have some family that may
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  Speaker 5: be watching me. I'm actually so imber the house with.
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  Speaker 11: Family, a family who wants to join this time YouTube
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  Speaker 11: with me and uh so I will try my best
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  Speaker 11: to navigate and send weeks if I can, but they
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  Speaker 11: will send the replay.
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  Speaker 5: If we can't get that done, well, I.
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  Speaker 6: Have music.
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  Speaker 5: I have music playing at the same time, pense So
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how I.
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  Speaker 4: Tagged you in a post. So if they go to.
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  Speaker 3: Facebook page right now, which is Trevita Harris, they should
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  Speaker 3: be able to click on the link and be able
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  Speaker 3: to watch, And if they have questions and want to
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  Speaker 3: interact with the show, they're welcome to do so.
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  Speaker 4: I encourage them to do so.
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  Speaker 3: But they can always go to YouTube excuse me, the
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  Speaker 3: Aspiring Authors magazine and look for the YouTube link the
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  Speaker 3: crew podcast and it will it should be there for
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  Speaker 3: them to watch. But I know they're gonna keep texting
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  Speaker 3: and asking questions as we go through.
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  Speaker 4: That's how fair.
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  Speaker 6: I I've got people, I've got people on my who
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  Speaker 6: happened to people how they can get on. Uh so.
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  Speaker 5: Are we we are live kind of on Twitch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, twitche.
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  Speaker 6: LinkedIn and YouTube and uh so anybody out there who's listening,
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  Speaker 6: I would say, maybe you could tell some people that's
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  Speaker 6: what that's what we're on, and that that they could
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  Speaker 6: come in. But you know the good news is that
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  Speaker 6: they can always I I'm actually well, while I'm speaking
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  Speaker 6: with you, Queen I'm actually, uh, kind of maneuvering my
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  Speaker 6: mold device because I'm out of town. Yes, all of
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  Speaker 6: my equipment properly uh set up, but I'm I'm kind
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  Speaker 6: of multitasking here a little bit.
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  Speaker 11: And see the replay at the ad all.
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  Speaker 5: You know at all. But I'm here. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 5: mad about.
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  Speaker 6: I'm here. I'm here with you, and I knew I
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  Speaker 6: would be traveling. I'm actually in the state of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I could not tell you no because you've
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  Speaker 6: you've been, you have been so absolutely fabulous for us,
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  Speaker 6: and I could not say no. There's just sometimes that
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  Speaker 6: you just can't tell a sister no. You just have
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  Speaker 6: to make yourself available and you have to make a
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  Speaker 6: way and uh, and you were one of those people
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  Speaker 6: that I wanted to make a way for because you
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  Speaker 6: deserve it and you've been good to me, and so
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  Speaker 6: I had to make a way, and so I made
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  Speaker 6: a way and I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thank you for including me in your time
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  Speaker 3: and your space with your family, because I know family
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  Speaker 3: is one of those things that we don't really think
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  Speaker 3: about until the holidays sometimes come around, and we want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that we're creating memories and everything. So
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  Speaker 3: for you to include me in that time, I am
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  Speaker 3: great for that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I see that, and I absolutely love her.
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  Speaker 6: So I guess I'll go ahead and give her a
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  Speaker 6: shout out. Uh. So I always call her my little sister. H. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going to make a pre record prerequisite here.
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  Speaker 6: So not because I'm old, Okay, don't get it twisted.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Hap think to be a couple of years older than
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  Speaker 6: angel or Thomas, okay, And so we have just deemed
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  Speaker 6: each other as I'm big sister, she's little sister.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: And uh, Angela, if you're listening, I just love you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how to even.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know in what way to express that, but
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  Speaker 6: the bottom line instead, if Angela tells me to do something,
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  Speaker 6: then I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Whether I know how to do it or not, I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna do it. Whether I have time to do it
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  Speaker 6: or not, I'm gonna do it. So if Angela Thomas
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  Speaker 6: tells me to do something, I'm just only gonna ask
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  Speaker 6: how do I get it done? So Angela and I
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  Speaker 6: see that Angela, she's just got that place in my heart.
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  Speaker 5: And because Angela is.
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  Speaker 6: That kind of person, yes, that she's always going to
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  Speaker 6: be there for you, And I guess that kind of
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  Speaker 6: goes along with the subject matter that we're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: But in any reason, Angela has sent me, she has
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  Speaker 6: sent me some kind of a text. I do see
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  Speaker 6: that she has done that, and uh so, you guys,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm going to share as best as I can.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to share Angela Thomas's text, uh because she's
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  Speaker 6: the person that can help us maneuver here and get on.
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  Speaker 6: So anyway, if you see me sharing texts and and
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  Speaker 6: all that kind of good stuff, That's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 6: But she's just she she She's one of those kinds
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  Speaker 6: of people that.
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  Speaker 5: She hating to do something and I automatic for the
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  Speaker 5: old days.
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  Speaker 6: And that's because I love her and she loves me,
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  Speaker 6: and I don't ask her no questions. He just tells
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  Speaker 6: me what to do and I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: She has effect, she definitely has well.
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  Speaker 12: She has that effect on people. She has that effect
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  Speaker 12: on people because she practices what she preaches.
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  Speaker 4: That she does.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the best way I have to say it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Angela Thomas is one of those people that if
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  Speaker 6: she tells you to she tells you to support, she
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  Speaker 6: has she's qualified to tell you that because she's a
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  Speaker 6: person that supports, and she does, you have no you
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  Speaker 6: have no option but to support. Because she is a
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  Speaker 6: person that supports, she does it with all of her
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  Speaker 6: strength and all of her might. And so I just
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  Speaker 6: I just I just took Angela into my heart and
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  Speaker 6: so automatically.
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  Speaker 5: Click on being obey button.
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  Speaker 3: Angela a couple of years ago doing a virtual monologue
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  Speaker 3: and we've been locked in ever since. And as you say,
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  Speaker 3: she's your little sister, she's my big sister.
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  Speaker 4: So that's how we go with each other.
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  Speaker 5: So that I.
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  Speaker 6: Have it needs to be that that I have some
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of cloud because I'm a big tescher.
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  Speaker 5: It gives me a little bit of cloud.
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  Speaker 6: But if she tells me to do something, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and I have to tell you, now, if somebody bothers her,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna take it personal.
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  Speaker 5: So so if.
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  Speaker 6: She's just one of those people that is in the
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  Speaker 6: in the secret place of my heart that I'm just
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  Speaker 6: I'm just there for her. And then I have to
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  Speaker 6: tell you, you have to be a special kind of lady
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  Speaker 6: to have that kind of position in someone's heart. But
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  Speaker 6: she never does anything. She never tells you to do
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  Speaker 6: anything that she does not do.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That is true, and that is what.
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  Speaker 5: That that is what encourages you.
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  Speaker 6: Encourages you to do what she asks you to do
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  Speaker 6: because she's not going to ask you to do something
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  Speaker 6: that she's not gonna do. She's gonna be do it,
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  Speaker 6: and so you basically kind of following suit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how it goes with Angela Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: I'm totally committed to her world though. Angela, I know,
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  Speaker 6: I gotta be honest. There are things that she asked
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  Speaker 6: me to do and sometimes I get a little backed
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  Speaker 6: up because of my schedule, but she knows that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna make it up to her.
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  Speaker 13: So I'm always I'm always going to do whatever she
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  Speaker 13: tells me to do, whether I got to come on
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  Speaker 13: the late end or the front end.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm gonna I'm always gonna do with Angela has this.
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  Speaker 3: Way of pulling things out of you that you didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know you had in you. That is one thing
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  Speaker 3: that I can say that lady definitely knows how to do.
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  Speaker 3: She will see something that you probably never even thought of.
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  Speaker 3: It may have been just a little twinkling of something,
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  Speaker 3: and once she sees it, she's like, oh, you can
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  Speaker 3: do this, so let me just go ahead and just
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  Speaker 3: give you that little extra push so that you can
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  Speaker 3: get it done. Because I have doing this podcast is
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  Speaker 3: one of those things. When she was initially looking for
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  Speaker 3: people to do it. I inquired about it, wasn't quite
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  Speaker 3: sure if I could do it. But I have done it,
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  Speaker 3: and I have been consistent in doing it, and she
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  Speaker 3: just keeps adding extra little things on to me, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna make it happen regardless of what it is
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  Speaker 3: that she says, because she sees me in in other
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  Speaker 3: areas that I'm still getting my feet wet, but in
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  Speaker 3: her eyes, I already know how to do it, so
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  Speaker 3: just get.
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  Speaker 5: It done, So you better do it. That that is
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  Speaker 5: that is.
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  Speaker 6: Angelain and I have connected because we're a lot alike.
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  Speaker 6: Mm hm. When you're a visionary, you see people, you
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  Speaker 6: see things in people that sometimes they don't see in themselves,
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  Speaker 6: and when you have the heart of a sister mm hm,
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  Speaker 6: you want them to do the things that they don't.
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  Speaker 5: See in themselves.
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  Speaker 6: And you don't have a motive, Yeah, you want them
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  Speaker 6: to go ahead because you want them to get it.
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  Speaker 6: M h and you don't have a motive. And unfortunately
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  Speaker 6: in this life, you're not going to meet very many
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  Speaker 6: people people right that you can call a sister, because
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  Speaker 6: what a sister does is a sister.
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  Speaker 5: Wants more of the best for you themselves.
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  Speaker 6: That that is because and that's because they see a
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  Speaker 6: part of themselves. Yeah, and they say to themselves, if
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  Speaker 6: I can't do it, they yeah, you go forward and
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  Speaker 6: you do it for me.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think about I don't want to get teary
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  Speaker 6: out here, but it's fine not to.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to hold back on emotion. But that's.
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  Speaker 6: God will I will because I'm authentic and so if
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  Speaker 6: I have to cry, I will. But that is the
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  Speaker 6: true nature of sisterhood. It sisterhood says. This is what says, go.
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  Speaker 4: For me, Yes, speak for me, Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Do it for me, because maybe I'm in a place,
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  Speaker 6: in a position where I can't do it for me.
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  Speaker 6: But if you go, it's just like me doing it.
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  Speaker 6: You go for me, you speak for me, you do
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  Speaker 6: the book for me, you whatever that may be, you
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  Speaker 6: do that for.
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  Speaker 5: Me and take my spirit of love and move it forward.
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  Speaker 6: And I gotta tell you there's not a lot people
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  Speaker 6: that's gonna do that for you, because people have If
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  Speaker 6: my aunt was on it, if my own bear was
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  Speaker 6: on tonight, she know what I mean when I say this.
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  Speaker 6: People have programs and agendas. I'm gonna speak, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: preach that message one day programs and agenda, programs and agendas.
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  Speaker 6: And sometimes people have programs and agendas and they don't
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  Speaker 6: you're authentic, they don't have your authentic best will at heart.
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  Speaker 6: But let me let me say this to you. And
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  Speaker 6: I know we haven't even gotten into the interview yet,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm just it's everything that God gives you. It
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  Speaker 6: isn't necessarily for you, right when God gives When God
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  Speaker 6: gives you something, whether that could be an idea.
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  Speaker 5: Or whatever that may be, that does.
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  Speaker 6: The mean that it's it's for you exactly that it's
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  Speaker 6: for someone else.
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  Speaker 5: And so you have to you have to be.
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  Speaker 6: Of right heart and right spirit to be able to
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  Speaker 6: say that's not for me, that's for my sister. And
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  Speaker 6: so I've got to release it, and I've got to
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  Speaker 6: do everything that God wants me to do because that's
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  Speaker 6: for her, that's not for me.
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  Speaker 5: I love, I love.
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  Speaker 6: To do what the Bible tells me to do, which
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  Speaker 6: is to prefer my system over myself. I give something
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  Speaker 6: and it's not necessarily for me. That I love God's
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  Speaker 6: people enough to give it to you so that you
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  Speaker 6: can execute it, and that you execute it. If I
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  Speaker 6: see that you do it, it's just like me doing it
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  Speaker 6: because my spirit goes with you to do it. So
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  Speaker 6: I think that goes along with what we're talking about
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  Speaker 6: Tonight's keeping.
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  Speaker 5: Fixing my sister's crown.
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  Speaker 6: You have to make sure, so I guess I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to go into this a little bit early. You've got
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  Speaker 6: to make sure that you got your stuff together inside exactly.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to make sure that you have together inside
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  Speaker 6: and other love properly. Yes, if you don't, if you
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  Speaker 6: don't have you together inside, then you're unable to love properly.
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  Speaker 6: Just because my sister, it's her time, it's her season,
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  Speaker 6: see is it may not be my season right yet,
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  Speaker 6: but it may be her season and not to have
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  Speaker 6: enough healing, and I want you all to underline healing.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to have enough healing inside of yourself to know, no,
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  Speaker 6: it's not my season, but it is her season, and
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  Speaker 6: let let her go forward first, and then when it's
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  Speaker 6: my time. I will come forward whenever God tells me
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: to come forward. But I definitely know that it's her
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  Speaker 6: season at the right time. And I got to tell
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: you that, Unfortunately, Travita, enough of us don't have have
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: our stuff together and be able to properly do that
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: because we're still in competitive mode.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter who goes first, as.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Long as we all go exactly and let me and.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Let you ask the questions. Girl, because I interview, so.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it's not really an interview, it's just a conversation.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I don't really do interviews. We talk and that's just
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: how it goes. But I want to just go back
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: to what you were saying. People don't understand that what
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you were saying is very true because sometimes you are
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the blessing to someone else and what you are going through,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you're connecting that blessing to someone else.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: But sometimes people miss.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That blessing that God has for them because they don't
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: want to be that connection. But they miss out on
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: it a lot of times because it's like, let's say
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: someone came and asked you for a ride somewhere, but
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: your schedule is so busy that you feel like, okay,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I can't do that. I don't have time to go there.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: But you don't understand. If you would have taken that
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: person where they needed to go, you would have been
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: blessed in the season for God has something else for you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: By doing that for them.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Someone else received that blessing, And now you're looking at
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: it because they probably were gonna introduce them to somebody
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: that was to take them somewhere else, and just because
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: you didn't want to do it, you missed your blessing
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: because you didn't want to be that connection, like I
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: ain't got time for all of that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I don't need to do that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: They can find somewhere else to go, and it's like
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: or somebody else to take them. Well, you just missed
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: out on your blessing because you don't want to operate
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: and give them that time in that space that God
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is saying, okay, can you take them somewhere? And when
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: you do that, like if you give your last five
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and say, well, God, I might need this five, but
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: they seem like they need it a little bit more
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: than me. And this just happened to me several times. God,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I'm down to my last five dollars, but this person
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: is in need more so than I am, so I'll
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: give it to them in law and behold, I get twenty.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: On the other end, it might not be right then,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: but it might be a day or two later. But
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: God always gives me what I need for helping someone else.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And that's just like with the knowledge that I have
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: with publishing and things of that nature.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I don't want to.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Die with this information inside of me, anything that I learned.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I want to be able to share it with other
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: people because they know that what God has for me
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: is connected to what they have for me. I'm not
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: sure what happened to Miss Carolyn, but we're gonna keep
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: talking because God is in the season of giving you
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: what you've been praying for. But oftentimes I think we
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: don't prepare for what we've been praying for. It may
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: look like it's not happening because we have a timetable
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: according to when we should be doing something and when
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it should be done or how it should be done,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: and then we get upset with God because He's not
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: blessing us how we envisioned it to be. So you
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: got to stop rejecting God's blessings, And oftentimes we do
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: that because it doesn't look like he sent it to us,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: but God blessed us in the way that he saw fit.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: You can be on this path to doing something one way,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: and God's okay, I'm gonna send you on a detour
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: just for a moment, but you're gonna end up in
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the right place, at the right time and the right
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: moment where God wants and needs you to be. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: you can't get weary of other people. Sometimes you get
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: distracted by other people and they're running their race and
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: they're doing things on a certain time, and you're like, well, God,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: why haven't you let this happen for me. It ain't
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: your time and it ain't your season. And when it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: your time and it is your season, you will get
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: everything that God has already been waiting for you. Sometimes
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: you hinder your own blessings because you want to hold
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: on to certain things and when God has already told
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you to let go and walk through the door and
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: don't look back. And then you go and you look
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: back and you miss everything that God has already given
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: to you. God doesn't he doesn't barter, he doesn't negotiate,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: he doesn't do any.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Of those things.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: But oftentimes we want to God. We want to negotiate God.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: If you give me this, I'll do this. If you
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: bless me with this, or if you give me that
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I'll do this. I'll do that. God ain't negotiating with
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: you about his plans for you. He ain't doing none
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: of that. He's never been want to negotiate. Whatever God
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: has for you. It was already written before you even
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: knew who you were, and some of us are still
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out who we are on this path
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: that God has for us. It's nothing to be dismayed
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: or to be dislayed. What God has for you has
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: already been written for you. You just got to take
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the steps towards it. Stop running away from what God
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: has intended for you. Because I know I have been
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: one of those people who have ran. Well try to.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I couldn't get away because God said, I come on back,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: hetch child, I got something I need you to do.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: And me sitting here right now, no, guess this is
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: something that would be really uncomfortable for me. But when
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I talk about what God has done for me, I
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: don't know anything other than that because had it been
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: fourteen years ago, I wouldn't be talking.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: If I listen to man.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: But God has allowed me to regain my speech, to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: regain the mobility, to regain all of the things that
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: man told me I should just get used to not
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: having anymore but the God that I serve as a
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: God that continues to bless me and to continue to
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: carry me throughout each and every situation that I've ever encountered.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: So man can talk, but man doesn't know. So when
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: man doesn't know, we don't worry about that. Well, thank
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: you for saying that I'm doing well.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: This is very different. It's a little.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: But all I know is what God places inside of
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: me to be.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Able to do. Not sure what that is, but we
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: are having a little bit of technical difficulties.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: But you know, whenever you're starting to talk about God,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the devil, he always tries to put in, but he's
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: not welcome. So we're not going to give him that
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: grace or that glory. God gets the final say, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: everything that we do and every message that we need
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: to send according to His will will be heard. So
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: the only other thing that I want to say is
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: that season two of Believing the Journey has been one
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: of true confirmation for me. Every guest that he has
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: brought to me. This season has been a confirmation. Even
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: when I didn't think I had the right guess for
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: the right day, for the right topic, or anything of
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: that nature, he solidified during each and every conversation that
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I had with each and every guest, and the timing
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: was always right where it was supposed to be. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: so I'm honored, I'm grateful. This season has truly.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Blown my mind.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know what twenty twenty five is going to bring,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: but I know it is definitely going to be even
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: better than what season.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Two has been.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: And Season two has really been a blessing to me.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: It has connected me to people who have shared similar
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: walks with me, from having major life changing situations from
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: strokes to learning how to walk again, learning how to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: talk again, all of those things. So it let me
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: know that everything that I had gone through in my
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: life and my journey was connected to the purpose and
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: connected to the moment of right now. I get overwhelmed
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: with emotion with thinking about the goodness of God and
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: how He has blessed me, because when I think about
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: two thousand and nine, twenty and thirteen, two thousand and
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: nine stroke, brain aneurism, and.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Excuse me twenty and thirteen, losing my speech.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Nobody could tell me what was going on, what was happening,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: how I was gonna get it back. God said, trust me,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: and that's what I did. I trusted him and he
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: brought me through and I'm able to do exactly what
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: he's told me to do. Little girl, come here, come here.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm I'm crying in my babies in here,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: but I'm just talking about how good God has been
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: to me. Losing my speech in twenty thirteen, being.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Told to just get used to it. They didn't know
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: how tell me.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Him being able to talk and do all of this,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: it was all by God's design.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: So if you.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Don't know him, don't have a relationship with him. You
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: need to get to know him for yourself. Don't just
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: take my word for it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Get to know God for yourself because he is an
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: all knowing, all singing, all hearing. And if you've been
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: praying to him and asking him for something, God's understanding anything.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Let him give you what it is that you need.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Because God's knows more. He's never late, He's never he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: never not where.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: He's supposed to be. When you call upon him.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: So if you know him, if you don't know him,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: get to know him for yourself because God has a
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: plan and he has a purpose for you.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: But I see you're back, miss Carolyn.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I am back. I am Listen. I'm a fire, I'm
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: not a quitter.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: So difficult, Yeah, I just kept coming back.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: But I'm glad to love your testimony and I love
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: the timony resilience.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: And that's why we have to be in the position
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: of being being each other keeper, yes, ma'am, because in
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: those times which we will have those times, yeah, in
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: those times when.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Because we don't.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: Feel then we have that says, come on, you can
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: do it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Exactly, do that, you can win it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: And that's what we need to have each other in
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: them and then so but to be there listen, Uh,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: if you have questions out here, I mean I've talked well.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you about about what do you
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: do to keep your sisters uplifted and empower them and
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: what it is that you do.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: So one of the things that I do periodic I'll
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: put this out on Facebook, m and a check on
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: your strong sister, Yes, And I'll I say check on
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: your strong sister because lots of times if we see
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: somebody out on social media. Yeah, let let me say this.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm known for my candidness and my.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Author best way to be.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: That's that's the things that I'm known for.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Best way to be.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: It's good for reaching millions of people in the setting.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Oftentimes social media can be.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: A facade, yeah, illusion, because what you see on social
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: media may not always represent who I am. You see
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: the makeup, the hair we post mm hmm, but there's
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: always something.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Behind that, Yes, ma'am.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: You don't know what it takes, what what what it takes.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: For me to post, what it takes to do an event,
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: mm hmm, need to write a book.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: We don't know all of what it takes Trevida to
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: do what he's doing right now.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I don't know, yes, ma'am, because I run a media platform.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I think you just get on a laptop or
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: a camera and you just pop up. But I know
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: it takes lots of purple and Queen I says this
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: for you to give you your kudos, I've seen how
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: you wrote mm hmm. I gotta tell you, and not
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: that y'all asked me to tell you but I'm gonna
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: tell you I trippy Harris.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I've seen how she rolls.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: When when you guys look on this screen and you
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: see the graphics and the fonts and all that, this
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: was a lady that puts out a lot of energy
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: and a lot of time to make sure that she
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: presents a good show for you guys. She don't play
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: with it. I mean, she puts out graphics, she's working
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: hard to make sure that she's making her guests look good.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: She's sending out emails, she's she's doing this same here.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: And that's one of the reasons why Trevida tells me
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: to show up. Listen, I'm gonna show up because I
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: know that she just doesn't haphazardly do something.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: I know that she puts her heart in doing what
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: she's doing.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: So what you guys see the finished product is not
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: what's all behind the scenes. Some of what she shared.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: It takes her time to get her body together. She
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: may be going through some pain and some other things.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: You know, we're getting we're getting technical stuff together, we're
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: getting fun together, we're getting computers together and what not
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: because we're getting paid, but because we want to make
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: sure that we bring you, guys and excellence and the best.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Way that we can. And so.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: It is incumbent of me because I know all that,
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: because I know the behind the scenes to applaud. My
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: sisters were saying, hey girl, I know what you're going through.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I know a lot of people don't see you, but
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: I see you.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: I see and.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: So I one of the ways that got the power
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: of the women is by seeing them and telling them
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: that I see them. Oh, I know that you're strong
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: to all other people too, yeah, but I just want
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: to come behind the scenes and tell you that I
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: see you, I love you, I applaud you, and most
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: of all, without sounding like Wendy Williams, how you doing real?
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: See of putting on a facade, especially if we're of
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: the Christian persuasion, how you doing? Oh I'm blessed, girls,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: I said, how you doing for real?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: I tell everybody, but I'm talking about how you doing
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: for real? You feel like crying right now, you feel
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: like breaking down right now, You don't feel like really
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: doing this right now, you don't feel like doing no
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: interview right now? It's okay to not be Okay, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: so and so to answer your question, trivita. I try
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: to be that sister that be in the it's okay
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: to not be okay space. I'm not gonna judge you.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna love you. I'm just gonna walk you
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: through that space. I'm gonna be with you through that space.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: And I think that all of us, especially women, we
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: need to have somebody that's not going to judge us,
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: that's going to see us as we authentically are and
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: say I'm here with you. Because everybody can be with
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: you when you're on top of the mountain and when
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: you got some money, everybody, when you got some likes,
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: and when you got u what we're doing on stage
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: and stuff like that. Who's going to be with you
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: when you don't have all that going on.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: You don't have the bikes, we don't have the money,
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: we don't have.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: He who's gonna I choose to be that kind of
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: a sister that's gonna be there with you and you
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: authentically are.
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: You, to help you rise up, To be with you.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Behind the scenes, not talk about you, not judge you,
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: and to see you rise up, and to be the
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: first place a person clapping her hands and saying, sister,
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: I love you. I knew you could do it, you
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: could rise up because guess what, at the end of
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: the day, we all need that sister. And I choose
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: to be that kind of sister. Not just a sister,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: but I choose to be that kind of sister because
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: I know what it means to be on stage and
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: not have nobody clap for you. I know, to be
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: up here doing great things and nobody patched on the
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: back and say, sister, you're doing great things. I know
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: what it needs to be doing something awesome and nobody
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: is there for you.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: And I God that I would.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Be that kind of sister, that I would be there
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: for my sister in whatever way or a capassion. And
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: I'm able to be there because guess what. The only
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: things to think about me is used to be some nails.
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: But I got a real nails man, so there might
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: be a couple of things, not too much so the
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: real sister that would be there for real, for real,
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: as young people say fr as fr I choose to
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: be there for real, for real, okay. And that's how
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: I help women, That's how empire women.
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I think that most.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: Women who network with me, who will collaborate with me,
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: can say after Carolyn gave it all these degrees and
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: everything I got. I'm the for real kind of sister
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: like to be alone. I know it alone. I know
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: it's like to not get applause. I know what it's
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: like to not get a I'll tell you, I'll be.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: Real transparent with it.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Okay, coming on here tonight. And I contact people and
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: I said, hey, to tune in. So my my very
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: good colleague.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm right yeah.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: Uh, Shamika said, Hey, that's Carol. I'm gonna tune in.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: That's my girl. I love you, Shamika. I just need
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: her energy to be here. I mean straight up, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean. Uh. I have a few other
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: people that I contacted, and I said, hey, I just
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: need your energy because guess what it's it's always good
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: when you're on and when you're when you're on stage
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  Speaker 6: and when you're doing something that you have those people
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  Speaker 6: in the room that you will say, oh God to
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: kill you did that?
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  Speaker 5: Girl?
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you all sleep whatever. We all need that.
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  Speaker 5: And so thank you Shamikha for being on.
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  Speaker 6: Christina Fisher, I think she might be on, but I
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: thank God for her, I mean, And so I texted some.
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  Speaker 5: People, and I said, hey, I need.
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  Speaker 6: Your energy while I'm on this thing tonight. And I
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: just need to feel that you're there with me. Ohka, listen,
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: don't get twisted. I can do a lot of things blown.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: And most of us women are walking alone that we're
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: walking along. But if most of us be real honest
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: about it, we don't always like walking blown. And you
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: don't have to be walking along. If you can't do
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: anything else for a sister, you can show up. Just
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: show up, just show up, just just be be there.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: I have, I have. I have great memories and great
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: experiences with some people. When I'm talking about Shamika, she's
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: a therapist like I am, and she and I go
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: off the service.
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  Speaker 5: I thank God for Shamika because she and I go up.
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  Speaker 5: We eat, We eat fish dinners together, and that's I mean,
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  Speaker 5: just a fish.
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  Speaker 6: She knows, she's probably laughing right now what I'm talking about.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: We got a place we go to and dinner every week.
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  Speaker 6: Helps keep me and her stay, don't It doesn't take
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: much to be your sister's keeper, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You make up in your mind, I'm gonna keep my
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be there for her her.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna I'm thinking about another sister that told
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: me many years.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Ago, I'll never forget it. I asked her to do something.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: She's a play playwright. You know what, doctor killing my schedule.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: I'm not available to help you right now, she said,
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: But I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, she said,
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: if I have to get you some help. What I'm
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: what I'm gonna do is i might not be there
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: with you to walk you through it, but I'm gonna
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: make sure you don't fall. So I wanna say this
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: to every woman that's listening tonight. Maybe you can't be
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: there financially, maybe you can't support, but what is it
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: that you can do to make sure that your sister
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  Speaker 6: doesn't fall? Because, if I tell you, quite contrary to
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: public belief, if I fall, we all fall. If fall,
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: we all fall. You know what I'm saying. So I
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: got you up so that we're up exactly that that
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: is what is dependent upon. So one of the ways,
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: one of the ways that I things that I do
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: to ben to help empower women is I have made
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  Speaker 6: a part of my life and a part of my
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: platform to go up and.
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  Speaker 2: To be there just to support you and to be
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: your background to your foreground if it's if that's necessary,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: but just to be able to because we don't know it.
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  Speaker 6: And I gotta say this again in my authentic way,
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: as African American women, as After American people, we don't
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: realize that there is power in numbers, exactly, and it
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: is a powerful power if you hear nothing so I said,
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  Speaker 6: and I listen to me.
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  Speaker 5: It is a powerful thing when we show up.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Why other cultures have certain privileges that sometimes we don't
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: tap into, it is because they show up for if
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: they show up for their people. Exactly, we don't show
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: up for our people. And so because we don't show
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: up for our people, they count count us as less
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: than nothing. So there's nothing else. Let's begin to show
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: up for each other. Let's begin to show the world
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: the heck she not by herself, people walking with her.
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: If I don't say nothing, I'm here, I'm showing up
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: for her. Let's show up by each other. That's how
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: I'm my sister's keep up because if I do gon'ta
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: do nothing else. I show up for my sister, show up.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: And I believe that's one of the big things.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: That we need to do more of There isn't a
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: good way to be in competition with your sister.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: My thing is this, This.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Is one thing that I've always Anybody knows me, knows
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: that anything that I have, any knowledge that I get,
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: I'm sharing it with you. I don't want to die
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: with this information that I've learned within because what I've
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: learned is you not taking none of this stuff with
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: you anyway when you go, and nothing that you possess
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: is going with you except for what is on your
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: body and within your organs. That's that's really all that's
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: gonna go with you. Anything that you have that you
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: can share with someone else, share it with them, because
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I do know what it's like to feel alone, to
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: be alone to while even getting the bad news of
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: having a stroke, I was alone. There was no family,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: there was no friends, There was no one there when
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: I got that news, when I got when I had
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: the second episode, there wasn't anybody else there with me.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: But as I continue with.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: That walk as my healing, I had my children with me,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: but they were very young when this all started, when
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: I got diagnosed with this condition, and there is a
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: lot that goes into every thing that I do. But
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: I don't just take it lightly because God put me
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: in a position to be able to share what I
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: have with other people. So I'm never gonna be in
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: competition with my sister or my brother for the simple
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: fact of we are here to love on each other.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Our time here on this earth is limited. We only
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: have a small amount of time. We can't make deposits
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: on time, we can't really make with draws. But the
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: time that we have is the time that God has
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: given and you got to make the most of it.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: And so if you are sitting over here worrying about
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: who's doing what, when they're doing, and how they're doing,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: that ain't your business. If they don't like you, that
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: ain't your business. What you have to focus on is
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: what God is telling you to do and being obedient
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: to everything He's called you to do. And we get
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: so lost and so distracted on trying to be the popular,
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: popular person.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: And my thing is this.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I made a video a couple of years ago, and
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: it's called purpose over popularity? Which one would you rather
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: be popular with no agenda, no purpose, no nothing, or
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: would you rather have a purpose and do something with
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: that popularity?
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: If you want to be.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Popular that's fine, But if you have absolutely no reason
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: for being popular, there's no purpose behind it. So stay
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: focused and do what it is that God has called
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: you to do. Y'all, we are at fifty two minutes
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: and twenty nine seconds. Miss Carolyn has gone out. There's
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: no connection, But I thank Miss Carolyn for being here
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: tonight because she drops some very useful gems on each
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: and every one of us. And I am just as
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: transparent and goofy and silly as the next person. I
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: don't know how to be a serious person's per se,
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: because I find humor even in the most serious moments,
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Even when I was going through my trials of a
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: stroke at the age of thirty, being diagnosed with KRII
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: my information, which is a serious neurological condition that there's
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: no cure for, being told to just simply get used
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: to that, To be.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: At the age of thirty.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Three and lose my speech and lose the use of
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: my left side again, and being told by doctors to
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: not worry about it, to just simply get used to it.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: But God has brought me through, and He's connected me
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: to the people that are connected to the destiny. That
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: is one thing that I can say about prayer. If
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: you pray and you ask God for something, understand that
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: He's going to take those people away that you are praying. God,
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: connect me to the people that are connected to the
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: destiny and what you have for me. That is the
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: prayer that I prayed in twenty nineteen. And when I
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: tell you, guys, I have not met a person that
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: has not been connected to the destiny that God has
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: for me. Only thing that He has asked me to
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: do is to continue to take one step at a
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: time towards that destiny. And I'm going to close with
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: this and I want to thank everybody who has taken
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: the time to tune in at any capacity of any
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: show that we've done this season, because Season two has
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: been a great season of honor, confirmation.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: Testimonies for person that part of the show.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on, but God has truly
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: blessed me to be in this position and be in
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: this space and have the opportunity to say thank you
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: for making season two an amazing season. I thank you,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: and I look forward to you guys tuning in to
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: season three, because we're only getting started. This is still
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: just the beginning, So remember to stay out of God's business.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: The only thing that God needs you to do is
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: be obedient to what he's called you to do. I
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: love you, guys, and until next season starting in February
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, I'll see you then, love you.
• 55:18
  Speaker 8: I'm going