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__BONUS EPISODE__NOV.21ST _DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ HOST BLAQUE DIAMOND · DA CREW Podcast

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the show tonight. It's going to be a wonderful episode. So let's get
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started. Chantey Read had been on a journey marked by a relentless pursuit of
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independence. Her books, Love Letters from God and I Am the One are
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too powerful for us not to talk about. You can use them as a
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guide or companion through challenging times. And most of the time people just read
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books to read them, but these are two books that you're not going to
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be able to put them down. Chante takes a new approach to spiritual awakening
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and she plays she plays an essential role in self discovery and just flipping through
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it, you're going to understand what I'm talking about when I say she plays
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in a central role in self discovery, because you're going to discover yourself throughout
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both of those books. Please welcome a real Georgia Peach, Miss Shante Read.
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Hello, Hi Shantay, how are you. I'm doing awesome? That's
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good. I'm so glad that you're able to make it tonight. Think you
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think you thank you? Thanks for having me being a writer is not enough
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for you. You are also a speaker, an advocate, and a minister.
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You are described as being a driving force, a force to be working
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with. How would you describe yourself in one word? One word? I
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think when I was thinking about it, how do I describe persevering person?
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I believe in persevering. That's pretty much what my life has been. A
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person somebody who's tried to persevere, perseverance. Tell me you said your life
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has been like that? Give me a little something. So I was born
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legally blond. I grew up in rural Georgia where I was the only person,
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at least in my class at that time, that had a visual impairment.
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So I was kind of the one that, you know, they looked
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down upon, and I wasn't able to, you know, told I've even
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had teachers that told me I wasn't smart enough for college, that I would
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never live on my own, and I think I always think about, you
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know, the little train that were that said I think I can. And
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so that's how I've lived my life. When people tell me I couldn't do
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something, it's always been my drive to persevere and show them that I'm gonna
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show you I can do it, since you think I cannot. Okay,
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and you've been showing them every since. Huh, that's been the goal.
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So I hope that you can find that teacher. I'm not gonna say rubber
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facingto it, but rubber facing it. She should be ashamed of herself being
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a teacher educator to tell any student that they're not going to make anything of
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themselves, they'll never go to college. You know, how was she felt
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if somebody had told her that she would never be an educator? You know?
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And you know, people should teach their children better. I'm not going
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to sit there and say kids will be kids parents and adults will be adults.
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That's the way that I can put it, because children are still learning,
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and they're actually learning, you know, from their parents. Your writing
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has taken many on a journey of self discovery, in which one of your
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books involves examining your life and figuring out what's missing. Oh, that's an
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easy one for me. That one is the one that is called I Am
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What You See. And that book took me a while to write because I
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was in the state where I didn't want to. I had to go back
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and deal with those things that happen in childhood that I have been avoiding all
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my life. I'm still working through some of those, but just that initial,
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you know, realizing what caused me to deal with depression, what caused
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me to you know, be so hard on myself. And that book right
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there is where all that was poured into. Wow, we have Patricia says,
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hey, hey, hey, oh my gosh, I am currently reading
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your book now. Now. Patricia reviews books, so she's probably looking at
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it right now. She's going to be reviewing it. And she's one of
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my sisters that also has a podcast. Now, I don't review books,
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I just enjoyed them, which is your book, but she does. So
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she's reading your book. That's telling you something. I'm quite sure you already
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know that you're something. Just like I said, you're a force to be
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reckoned with. So you'll probably be getting a call real soon from Patrice with
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that book that she needed look letters from God. Was it a person?
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Was it personal at a time when you needed God the most? Or was
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it about God's gift to you of eternal life? Or was it writing this
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book a way of describing the Bible. It was more so about my relationship
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with God, as I did mention, I've struggled with depression all my life
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and it took me to just now to realize, you know, because being
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a Christian, you always hear, oh, you know, God gets you
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through it. You know you're gonna you always think, oh, I'm not
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gonna have to deal with this. Well, if we understand as even in
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the Bible, you know, the illness or whatever it was that Paul was
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dealing with, he told him that my love is sufficient enough for you.
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And so, as someone who has dealt with depression all my life, you
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know it never goes away. And so for him to let me because being
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you know, dealing with my disability and dealing with somebody that you know that
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led me to struggle with the way, you know, people telling me I'm
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not smart enough. And so him letting me know that I was worthy of
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love, that's his way. That that's the way he did it for me
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through letters, and then not only you know he would give me letters,
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but I would write letters to him as my father because I didn't have that
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earthly father. Wow. Well, it sounds like your God, our God,
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has spoiled you, and I'm so glad that he did. He spoiled
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you in a way. We gave you richness, richness in the way that
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you write. And it's just so many people that's going to pick up this
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book, all of your books. And I think you said you have five
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books this how can you give us the titles of your books? I guess
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we lost the full moment here. He yes, I was saying, you
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said you have about five Can you give us the title of your books so
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others can can pick up those books? Just like here? Yeah, can
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you hear me? Put that thing? Hello? Yes, I'm here.
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Can you hear me? She's having some audio problems, so I'm going to
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just reiterate something Hello, talking about can you hear me? Now? Gosh,
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I'm so sorry. No, you're fine, You're fine. This happens,
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This happens. It happens all the time. Hello. She's trying to
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get back on. I can see her, but she can't hear me.
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So audio is just just you know, going down and whatnot. But she
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is from Atlanta, she is currently living in Texas. She is I think
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the author of and like I mentioned in the beginning, she is just an
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awesome person. She's doing so much. She did share with us that she
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was born and I don't want to say blind, and that's her words that
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she used. And she says that she has a disability. For me,
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I say an inability, an inability to do certain things, but it doesn't
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stop her. She mentioned that there was teachers that told her that she would
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never go to college and that children, you know, some children are this
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way, that they were cruel to her. But she's an author, she
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is a minister, and you just heard what she had to say just a
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few minutes ago, so that should put you on point with exactly who Chantey
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Reed is. She's just she's just relentless. Like I had mentioned, she's
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a speaker, and that's something that I want to talk to her about as
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well, being a speaker and an advocate. I'm dying to find out that
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she's an advocate of What is her platform with advocacy. I'm quite sure it's
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a strong platform. I did tell her that we do have miss Patrice Sprimble,
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who is a reviewer. She reviews books. So she did mention that
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she was currently reading her book. Now, Patrice, if you're still there,
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which book are you reading of hers? If you can put that in
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a chat, I can let her know which book of hers that you're actually
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reading. She did mention that she has a book called I Am the one
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and the other one is The Letters from God, and that's what we were
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talking about before she went off the air. She's really trying to get back
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on. If she's unable to get back on for tonight, what we'll do
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is we'll continue the show and we'll talk about you know this young lady,
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maybe she's back. Can you hear me? I am. I specifically put
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my phone on. Do not disturbing, That's perfectly okay. I was just
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giving them a recap of those who have joined us late, and also speaking
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to miss Patrice to just find out which book of yours that she was reading.
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She might have stepped away for a moment. It's that time of the
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year. We're all cooking for Thanksgiving, so and forth. And I don't
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blame him, because that's exactly what I'm going to do. Once we finish
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he I'm going to get up there and try to do what I can to
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make Thursday a wonderful day. But getting back to you, I mentioned,
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or I had mentioned, we were talking about the Love Letters from God.
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And I was saying that I believe that He has given you so much to
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do and to handle, and he knows that you are the one that can
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do that job. Your book, I Am the One, is a collection
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of poems she to be read aloud or experienced silently. I would probably say
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both. I know, specifically, the one that really sticks out, the
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poem that's the last one in the book, is called she Doesn't Remember,
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and I would probably say that's one that you would definitely probably want to read
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silent because it's I was raised by my grandmother. She now has dementia.
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So it's to the point that she won't even speak to me anymore, which
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is very hard. But for me, I think it's a way for God
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preparing me to deal with her, you know, physically no longer being here
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first, because I don't know how I would have dealt with that. Has
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she just you know, just not been here all of a sudden. But
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you know, the the one solace that I do have is I was able
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to spend my fortieth birthday with her right before she was diagnosed, and so
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I hold that that memory very precious to me. And that's the that was
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the final poem in that book, and that's how I knew that was the
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end for that one. Wow. I often wondered why people write poetry.
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Do you think that you have to figure out the meaning of a poem or
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should it just be felt, something that you just feel, because some people
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look at words or maybe experience certain things. But then some people just have
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a feeling and they just go with it and they just they can just spit
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it out, like you know, just sit it out, spit out the
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words and they put it on paper. Yeah, for me, poetry is
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felt. I love words, and when I write, sometimes got to give
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me a word that I have no idea what it means, and I literally
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have to look up the word to see what it is, and I always
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chuck a wink does that with me? But I'm a person I don't have
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like you know, Stanzas, I just write. It just comes out how
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I feel. So there's like no specific format that my poetry is in.
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Okay, all right, Well, it's good to know. What is one
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of the best things that someone has said about your poems? I would say
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recently, I did. I like going to events and trade shows, and
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I have one lady, you know, she purchased a book from me at
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the show, and she emailed me me and let me know. You know,
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she had been putting off writing and my book inspired her to, you
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know, finally take God up and start writing that book. And that,
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like men, not so much to me that you know, it inspired her
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to do what she's been putting off doing. That must be a wonderful honor
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for someone to tell you that that that they wanted to write, but after
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reading what you've written that it inspired them. I'm gonna ask you something.
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Don't be a little spoiled myself right now. Can you one of your poems?
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Oh? I was like, that's the one your grandma or I would
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love to hear one. I think the one that I always because I always
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tell people that's something I struggle with and working to get better is being you
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know, able to speak it out. Well. You know what about freestyle.
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We have somebody here which is my producer, saying freestyle, whatever whatever
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is on my heart's on your heart. Now everybody out there is listening.
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She's saying whatever's on the heart. But don't go writing it down and trying
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to get it published, because it's on here first, it too Okay.
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Life is a journey. Life is a life is a journey. Life is
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a test. Through this life, we all must we all must understand that
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we are blessed. Even in the hard times, the times we feel alone.
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God is always with us. We are never on our own. And
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the times we're broken, and then the times we're afraid, He's always with
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us. Like a lamp shade. He covers us, he protects us.
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He's our our healer, and he defends us. He loves us more than
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we could ever know. And through his love we are able to grow.
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We're able to heal, We're able to thrive because He depends on us to
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survive, to lead those who don't know him. Let them see his love
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through us. We're all the only Christ that many may see. So let
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them see their love, His love through you and me. And that's from
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the heart. Oh my, I asked you earlier, do you think that
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you have to figure out the meaning of the poem or should it just be
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felt? And you set both And I get it now of why you say
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both, because I get the meaning of it. I just got it.
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And it's saying somebody saying snapstep snap, but it's something that I felt and
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just feeling. I got a blanket on me right now because I stay cold,
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but this is not cold from what you just spit out. And he
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chose the right person. He chose the right person and that was beautiful.
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And again I told her if I don't go writing down what she just said,
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because that belongs to her. Yeah. The reason that I tell you,
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the reason that one popped up is because one of the questions you were
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asking it was mentioned about people who don't believe. Well, living in California,
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I met a bus driver. He was actually on the voice, but
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he was telling me that when I was just sitting speaking with him. He's,
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you know, driven around many Christians who you know, cursed people out,
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who you know, talked about people. And I was the only person
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that actually spoke to him in love and that was more. That was more,
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you know, I was showing more of Christ to him than he had
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seen Christ before. And that's what a lot of people don't get. You
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know, Yes, we have you know, there are certain things that we
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have to do as a Christians, but we have to be able to show
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His love and not you know, because we don't realize who's looking at us,
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right, I definitely get it. You know, sitting there at one
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time, you self publish your books. Now you're all with a publishing company.
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What are some of the most important things you've learned about self publishing.
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I would suggesting anybody start self publishing first, because you understand the process.
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Once you self published, and then you go to a publisher, you understand
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because like even with the ones that I published through the publisher, I had
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already you know, had them edited before I sent them to their editors.
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You know that there's things that you don't think about as the writer that that
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need to be looked at. And understanding that process before you go with the
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major publisher. I think it's very important. Yeah, please listen to me,
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because I've read some books and I'm not an expert, but I know
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when I read something, I want to read it to understand what I'm reading.
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And I've read one particular book and I just shook my head and I
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said, well, maybe this is the way that they write. And I
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would definitely say so. I could never do. Yeah, my first book
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I just released, I didn't do anything. And I think that's important to
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understand because now I know, you know, when I go back to edit
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it how it needs to. You know, flow, there's a flow like
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even with you know, when you're writing, whether it's poetry or anything,
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and you just write it, but there needs to be some type of organization
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for people to get it. Yeah, and that's why the editors are so
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important to have. But you have some people just so anxious to get their
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book out and say, oh, I finished it, I have my manuscript.
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This is what I want. I know what I want because I wrote
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it, and they send it out. But if that's your first book,
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I would advise that you get it edited, have somebody else look at another
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set of lens. It's always a great thing to have. I guess some
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people may be setting their ways where they figure that I don't need anybody to
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tell me what I need to be doing because I'm writing and it belongs to
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me. That's all, well, and do that's great. But you have
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people. You're writing for people to read your stuff. You're writing for the
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readers to be either entertained or either you're giving them some kind of information or
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you're just giving them something just to read. But you're writing for them,
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right, some people, you know, I don't know people do whatever it
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is they wanted. They put their books out, and I've read some wonderful
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books, but that one I just had to go through it again. I
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said, I don't know if this is this person's first book or not.
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I haven't found any other, but maybe they're using another name by now.
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But it was just I'm not gonna say it what was horrible. I'm just
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saying I just saw a lot of things that should have been shifted around in
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there. But maybe that's something they're experiencing. That's the way they wanted to
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talk about it. So you know, I hope that that person is listening
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because you know, hey, advice is yeah, and that's the time you
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know you you have a progression. And like I can say, I know
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for me that my writing has definitely elevated since my first book, and that's
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what you'll notice, Like you know, as you start to go through them,
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you should see a progression. Yeah, you ge growth in many writers.
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And I hope that person don't stop writing. You know, that was
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your first one out and that's great. You should be excited about it.
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It's your work, is your name on that book. Just just go to
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an editor, Go go to a community college, speak to a professor at
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one of the other universities or something, and just ask them if they don't
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mind editing your book. And sometimes they may charge a little something, but
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it's worth it you m so just go for that. You're an advocate and
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a speaker. What are the key issues you advocate for and do any of
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them involve community outreach of social justice justice initiatives. I am a disability advocate.
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As I mentioned, I'm someone that has lived my entire life with a
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disability and I had to learn how to advocate for myself. So it's important
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for me to help young people know how to advocate them for themselves early.
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And so as far as reaching out, I had mentored young young ladies before
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right now in the current Houston area and also when we lived in California,
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we started my spiritual sister and I started a nonprofit and back in California that
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we actually relocated here to Houston called Diamonds Do Brunch. And so the purpose
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of that nonprofit is to help how to bridge the gap between what we say,
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seasoned and young ladies, because there's such a gap in this world today.
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You know, everybody's doing their own thing, and so it's important for
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us to help them know, you know, there are commonalities that we can
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help each other grow. And so actually with that agency, we just did
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our first cheer we're doing working with cheerleaders and so we had our first tryouts
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on Sundays. So not only will they be able to do something positive,
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the goal is to help mentor them to keep them going in a positive direction.
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Well, so, can you repeat the name of that organization again?
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Diamonds Diamonds do Brunch? Is it d o do? Uh huh d o?
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Yes, Okay, gotta look that one up. It sounds like it's
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something. Okay, question though, when you said that that you also are
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speak Do you speak to informal do you speak to motivate? I do both.
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It depends on you know, what's acts to me. So I speak
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if people, you know, want to know about living life with a disability,
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I can definitely speak on that. And then if you know, if
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they're just needing somebody to motivate, Hey, you know I to speak on
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what I've gone through. I do that also. Okay, Wow, See
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she's a speaker, she's an advocate, she's an author. What are some
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of the wait no, you just mentioned that, But tell me how did
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you cross over to different avenues and stay so grounded you know, from going
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from going to the other and you stay with it. Some people just the
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thing and then they'll jump out of that and go into something else. They'll
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start something else and they'll jumping. But you've seen them how then course over
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and just stay grounded the way that you know, the thing that God showed
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me that that helped me do that was when He showed me that I you
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know, we always hear, oh we have a life purpose. Well,
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our purpose in life is not one dimensional. So the job I currently work
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at is as a customer service representative And when I tell people, I learned
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I had a lot more patience for young people than for older people. But
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customer service, you know, just speaking and speaking to different type of people
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and just being able to speak life into them and also have them speak life
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into me as well as you know, that's part of my goal. That's
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what He has me doing, not only you know, doing it for my
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job with my business, profer your wisdom where you know, go sharing my
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books and speaking publicly. So that's how you know, it all ties in
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because everything we do. It's part of our purpose in life, whether we
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realize it or not. Everything works together. Well, you know, I
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haven't heard many people say that they work with younger people, and they also
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been around older people, but the younger people or who they can relate to
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more. Some people feel as though relating to the young, especially with this
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day and age, they're at a loss, you know, and some people
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have given up on them. And it's wonderful and refreshing to hear that you
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have not. So that's that's great. You're also a minister. When did
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you know you were chosen? Well that I never knew. I didn't know
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I was chosen. It was just my pastor was like, okay, you're
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taking this class. And I didn't even realize it was to become ordained.
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But God is so important in my life. I knew it was gonna happen
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eventually because we you know, back in California, we led youth services.
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So up until I was, you know, based in California. I joined
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that church back in twenty fifteen, and you know, up until twenty twenty,
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when COVID happened, we ran services. So I had to speak every
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fifth Sunday. Wow, that's well. Like I said, you were chosen
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and you didn't even know it. But there you go. How important is
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ministry to you? It's fundamental. I mean without God, I don't know
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where I would be. The thing my my church family always says, this
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guy kicked me out of out of Georgia because leaving Georgia forced me to get
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out of my comfort zone. And had I not been forced out of that
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comfort zone, I wouldn't have I wouldn't have known who I was. I
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wouldn't have known what he called me to do. I wouldn't have had the
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confidence to do it. So he speaks, and when he speaks, everyone
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listens, at least they should. I know I do. I'm scared not
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to. You do so much. What role does prayer play in your daily
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life? In ministry? Prayers fundamental? I mean I can't go. You
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can't, don't. I don't know how you can go without it? How,
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No, No, it's fundamental. Yeah. With that said, you
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must be reaching out to help all the people going places in your path.
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Ideally it would include both believers and those who have yet to know Jesus in
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your hand and saying, hell, let me help you take the next step,
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how does that work when people question their own faith? I mean,
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and even as Christians sometimes you know, we all go through stuff where you
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know, and that's the thing, you know, Like I mentioned before about
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speaking to I worked with people who were atheists, who were non believers,
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and it was always funny to me, like they all knew to come to
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me, Even those who said they didn't believe in God would come to me
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to ask me to pray for their family because they knew, you know,
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how important that was. And people see how you live. So that's why
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I always say, you know, you think they not paying attention to Like
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I mentioned about the cursing and you know, being hypocritical. People see your
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walk, and when they see your walk, they know if you are who
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you truly you say you are, that's what they see. Well, you
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know, just I asked you again earlier about your poetry as far as it
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just being felt in something you experienced. People I believe feel you, and
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that's when they know to come to you, because you're just so comforting.
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I'm feeling comfortable just sitting here talking to you. It's almost as if we've
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had conversations before. It's not that I would be oh my god, it's
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almost time to get off of here. I wish you would harry up or
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anything like that. And I've never really felt like that anything. I guess
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that was on it, but for you, particularly right now, I'm feeling
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that comfort too, So I'm understanding where those people are coming from when they
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feel so comfortable to be to talk to you. And like I said,
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you were chosen, and you were chosen for a reason, for maybe many
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different reasons, and it's just it's wonderful to sit here and talk to you
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and to hear this coming out of you. So again I'm gonna say thank
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you again for just taking me on this journey with you. You mentioned some
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of the challenges that you've had. How were you able to overcome so much
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adversity? Definitely my faith even when it was not where it is now,
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you know, knowing that, Okay, God, I know you have me
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here for a reason, you know, And just like I mentioned before,
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knowing that, Okay, people think I can't, I'm gonna show them that
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I can. And that's always been a driving force for me. But I
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also have to say with that comes this year, well not just this year,
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but back in twenty twenty. I actually had to learn that I had
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been so forceful in that manner, you know, I had to realize that
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was also a former pride of refusing to accept help when I needed. So
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we have to learn that everything has has there's like a balance between that.
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Oh did you mentioned balance, because I'm going to ask you that next.
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What are some of the most important things that you learned about work life balance?
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Who you definitely have to have a work life balance. Now somebody's calling
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me. You have to know, you know, be okay with taking that
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time away, because especially with me working in customer service, it can be
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very you know, I take calls where we get literally cursed out for something
33:52
that we can we can do absolutely nothing about. So you have to be
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able to, you know, walk away and know they not is not is
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it not towards me, It's just towards the situation. And so spirits knowing
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have in my faith in God is what helps me to be able to have
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that balance. Well, they need some of that when they come in there
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to you, because you know, some people just come in off the street
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and they already have an attitude just set in at somebody sitting there supposed to
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be helping them, and because they can't find whatever it is they need to
34:30
find, or can't do the thing that they need to do, or had
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to come back for some other reason, you're the first person that's on their
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attack line. So absolutely, definitely get it. You have a personal brand.
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What are some of the most important things you've done to build that brand?
34:45
One moment, let me let them know. So they called me one
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moment. Sorry, No, that's fine, that's fine. She's she's spiritual
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all the way around, ladies and gentlemen. She is spiritual, and it's
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it's such a pleasure. And I'm back. I'm so sorry. But you're
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fine, You're you're you're are fine. It is, it is okay.
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It's about to know. You have a personal brand. What are some of
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the things that that you have done to build that brand? Definitely networking.
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Uh, and that's the weird thing. I struggle with it, but that's
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the biggest thing. That's how I met miss Angela, you know, just
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and especially now, social media is such a big part. So you have
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to really be on social media. God had took me off for like a
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year, but doing this, it's like you have to kind of be on
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social media. So that's kind of where I'm really focusing my brand on now.
35:58
I want to be able to go to more trade shows and you know,
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go nationally, but I haven't been able to do that as of yet.
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Okay, well, you know it's coming. It's definitely coming. I'm
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definitely gonna be seeing you around and listening to you on the radio and opening
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up a magazine and there you go. Tell me something about yourself that even
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you are most surprised about, Oh, doing this being on the podcast.
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Man, me with being shy and not like being on camera, so being
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able to and I think, you know, even with being a public speaker.
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You know, it's definitely out of my comfort zone. But I know
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that there's a reason for me to do it. It's not about myself,
36:51
but it's about helping somebody else, So that that would definitely probably be the
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biggest surprise for myself that I'm doing And this, Well, let me ask
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you, is this the first podcast you've been on? It is not,
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but it's still I don't I wouldn't take it as being your first because your
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handle on it, you don't appear to be shy of me. Your hands
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on yeah, question the questions and just dealing with everything everybody else deals with.
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Yeah, and I actually have my own, which is Chante's Corner,
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so that kind of you know, helps with that too. So that's why
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I'm just saying in general, getting on camera speaking to people, you know,
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it's when does your show air? My podcast it airs? Well,
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I'm coming up on my finale now, so I do it once right now.
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It's probably going to be more at some point, but right now it
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airs every Saturday. And I had six episodes this this time, thank you.
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And so this was my first season where I actually head I guess,
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so that's surprise that I guess. That would be a surprise for myself too.
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So you're doing it all. You're doing it well, tell me something
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about your even your have yet to learn? Hm hmm. You sing in
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the shower? Do you do you take take the take the hair brush and
38:30
sing around? Do you slide across the floor in your socks? Let me
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see, Because I'm a singer anyway, so of course I sing and sing
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everywhere. Something that's I don't think I really have anything that I can think
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of tonight, ladies and gentlemen. So you are learning a lot about her,
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and you're also want to be checking it out on Chante's Corner and it
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does come on on Saturdays time. On Saturdays, it premiers at twelve and
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noon. Okay, there we go, there we go. What do you
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think your mission in life is? I actually think I'm doing it. My
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purpose is to inspire, encouraging uplift, which is the theme of my podcast,
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and that's that's what I feel. My purpose is, you know,
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to show people that no matter what what your life situation was, you can
39:30
rise above it. I came from rural Georgia, a little small, tiny
39:34
town, and I now live in Houston. So who would have known?
39:39
Where you're moving and you're shaking things and you've inspired me, toname, How
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can we connect with you? I am on Facebook. You can find my
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business page on Facebook Proverbial Wisdom. I'm on YouTube. I'm Shante read as
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h A N T E r e E. I'm on It's the gram under
40:02
Chante underscore m underscore read. Also, my business page is there and I'm
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on TikTok I'm just Chante read. See. Look at all of that social
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media you're on. Look at all of that that you're on you're naming them
40:20
and then just spitting it out real quick. H Next with miss Chantey read
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Miss Chante, I want to thank you for being my guests. You are
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the one, you said I Am the One. Yes, your book is
40:32
saying you are the one, and that means you. Why oh you don't
40:36
forget to get your copy of I Am the One and love Letters on Amazon
40:43
or wherever she hasn't act. Keep scrolling through you'll see her other books as
40:45
well. If you're hearing this message, you listen to the entire episode with
40:50
me and Chante. Oh I like saying that with me as Chante, and
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for that, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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