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SC BookGal & Friends Presents A Heartfelt Conversation with Dr. Josias Jean-Pierre, Author of My Hurt Taught Me, But My Pain Motivated Me · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, I have your attention. Please the show stops hit.
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  Speaker 2: Why eight.
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  Speaker 1: Seven six hi four three two?
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, this is your girl sc book out eight
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  Speaker 3: four three and it's a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 2: I know y'all wondering, hold up, what's she doing on here?
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  Speaker 3: You know? I gotta bring you the books. That is
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  Speaker 3: my job, that is what I do. I make sure
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  Speaker 3: I introduce to you, guys, to some of the hottest
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  Speaker 3: authors around. Well, we're gonna take it up the road
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  Speaker 3: to nonfiction. Yes, I am a fiction girl, but I
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  Speaker 3: think sometimes we need a little bit of reality in
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  Speaker 3: our life. And I had a great time talking to
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  Speaker 3: this author. We had a great conversation offline. None of
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  Speaker 3: your business. That's between me and me and the author,
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  Speaker 3: So don't don't be nosy. But it's an honor because
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  Speaker 3: I think we're gonna be talking about this memoir My
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  Speaker 3: pain taught me, But I'm sorry, my hurt taught me
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  Speaker 3: about my pain motivated me? Do y'all hear so much
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  Speaker 3: knowledge in that one statement, like your pain motivated you?
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  Speaker 3: Like how do you do that? But he gonna give
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  Speaker 3: us some tips, Okay, So on this beautiful Thursday night,
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  Speaker 3: we are gonna be chatting with author Jonash Jean Pierre.
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  Speaker 3: Come on up, Come on up, so we could get
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  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing good? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: You see them trying to be noisy about our conversation earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Tell them that's none of their business. That's between me
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  Speaker 3: and you. Welcome to sci Book Gowns and Friends on
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  Speaker 3: this Thursday night, and I appreciate you coming on and
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  Speaker 3: talking with your old readers, new readers, and those who
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  Speaker 3: will be looking at the show and become new readers.
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  Speaker 3: So before they can do all that, you have to
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  Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just sorry. I'm Pierre. I'm educution coach, a mentor, educator,
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  Speaker 4: a minister, and what I do is I empower others
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  Speaker 4: to be equipping the tools they need to. I love
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  Speaker 4: a fully into whom God raithm to do with no limits.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this show is for me because y'all know a
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  Speaker 3: cereal procrastinator, very bad at that. So you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to help me out with that. Why tell us a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about your book. This the cover body it
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  Speaker 3: self speaks volumes, Okay, and we're gonna bring the cover
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  Speaker 3: up you guys, we're gonna show a minute. Tell me
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  Speaker 3: why the cover that is so simple with that one
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  Speaker 3: statement in your face makes it so powerful. Why did
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  Speaker 3: you decide to go with a cover like that?
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to, I was thinking about, but it's the
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  Speaker 4: best way to have a cover. I was like, you
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  Speaker 4: know what this book is about me, let me go
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  Speaker 4: ahead and have us you know this look that I
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  Speaker 4: have where it shows kind of sadness anytime, it shows
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  Speaker 4: kind of like glory behind it also, And so I
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  Speaker 4: was like, what's the best way to about my life journey,
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  Speaker 4: my life story? And I was like, this picture right here.
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  Speaker 2: And you did that.
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  Speaker 3: You did that, So tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 3: My pain taught me. But I'm sorry I keep on
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  Speaker 3: saying it wrong. My hurt taught me, but my pain
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  Speaker 3: motivates me. Now let me start real quick, and let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you why I keep on saying it wrong
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  Speaker 3: because the average person we learned from the pain and
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  Speaker 3: we keep hurting ourselves, but yours is totally different. So
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  Speaker 3: tell me tell me about your book.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so really the journey on the Obstacles to Child's
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  Speaker 4: relations of life, Like you know, you talk about the
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  Speaker 4: hurt of a young boy who was told about his father.
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  Speaker 4: Don't ever call me that met your dad, call me pastor.
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  Speaker 4: So first twenty reears of my life from five to
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight, I struggled with his father womb of you know, followless,
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  Speaker 4: and I realized, at some point I gotta heal who
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  Speaker 4: gauts down my road. I'm gonna have kids, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: be married, and at some point if I don't heal,
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  Speaker 4: then the same toxicness is gonna pass down to my children,
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  Speaker 4: and they're gonna pass into their children's children. So now
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about legacy. What is it that I want
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  Speaker 4: my last name to carry for my own family? So
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  Speaker 4: my hurt taught me pay more of it. Me shows me, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: yes this happened to you. That's not about what happens
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  Speaker 4: to you, But how do you respond to what happens
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  Speaker 4: to you? And your hurt can either build you or
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  Speaker 4: could kill you. But the only we could kill you
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  Speaker 4: if you allow them to.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's profound. So it sounds like.
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  Speaker 3: The audience of this book issue your future selves, the
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  Speaker 3: future generations that you have. And I'm about to jump off.
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  Speaker 2: Cliff And how old are you again?
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  Speaker 4: Thirty five?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how profound that is?
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  Speaker 3: Because people, you know, this generation that you're second, they
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  Speaker 3: don't think like that. So is your thought pattern? Is
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  Speaker 3: that from the hurt and pain that you had before
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  Speaker 3: when you were younger, that brings you to where you
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  Speaker 3: are right now?
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people see the glory, but they don't
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  Speaker 4: know the story. I was like, man, I see you
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  Speaker 4: doing all this type of stuff you do all the
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  Speaker 4: how do you get there? And I was like to
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  Speaker 4: talk about my story of how I got there and
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  Speaker 4: how I got here? You know, because not only that
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  Speaker 4: I am a three times suicide attempt of vib depression,
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  Speaker 4: mental illness, mental I just don't know what I've been
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  Speaker 4: through and God been that good to me. Uh, But
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  Speaker 4: I battle depression, I battle anxiety. I am so suicide
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  Speaker 4: three times. And I literally now use this as a
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  Speaker 4: motivation to go down an elevator to help others who
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  Speaker 4: battle depression, who fe like they aren't equipped for life.
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  Speaker 4: I always say this, You're born on purpose for a
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  Speaker 4: purpose and what they purpose, and nothing about you was
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  Speaker 4: an accident. So I use the same love stories that
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  Speaker 4: I endured my struggle to make that become an impact
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  Speaker 4: to others who might be connected to the same story
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  Speaker 4: that I had to go through, and that that become
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  Speaker 4: a testament for them to have hope that they can
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  Speaker 4: endure it too.
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  Speaker 3: You just spoke volumes. You literally spoke volumes and being
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  Speaker 3: a black man and paying attention to your mental health.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Kodles.
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to put you on the spot.
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  Speaker 3: But what would you say to other black men who
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  Speaker 3: are experiencing the same issues but is afraid to focus
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  Speaker 3: on their mental health.
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  Speaker 4: I will say, you come first, the first part of work.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with you, and it is okay to go
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  Speaker 4: to therapy. It is not short weakness that you cry.
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  Speaker 4: It's show strength and true kings do cry. True kings
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  Speaker 4: do ask for help. True kings do put themselves first.
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  Speaker 4: So don't fake it until you make it. But you
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  Speaker 4: gotta face it until you make it. I think you're muted.
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  Speaker 4: You're muted. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: On my computer is.
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  Speaker 2: Doing some weird stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard so many times people will tell our young boys, man, man, man,
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  Speaker 3: stop crying. Why did we do that to our young men?
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  Speaker 3: But we'll let our girls cry it in a hard set.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's because of the man stigma that society
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  Speaker 4: has put on. You look at media, look at the music, vieal,
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  Speaker 4: look at the message being played. You always see men
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  Speaker 4: being tough, men being hard, may do all this, and
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  Speaker 4: if you look at I can't even say, man. It's
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  Speaker 4: really the portray of black men, how media portrays black men,
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  Speaker 4: how we're supposed to look like I was supposed to be.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you think about a black household, you
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  Speaker 4: don't really think much about, Hey, what's an average house?
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  Speaker 4: Sort of? A black man has a father in the home.
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  Speaker 4: So if that child isn't see a representation of themselves,
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  Speaker 4: then look for a presentation. Where can I be valued at?
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  Speaker 4: Who looks like me? Where are they at? Now here
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  Speaker 4: comes media, Well this is where they're at. So now
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  Speaker 4: you have stigma of magicas saying, hey, you got a
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  Speaker 4: man up, boys on, cry stuck it up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: or you're here. Determine a black house quite often. And
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  Speaker 4: if you don't have crying, I will give something that's
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  Speaker 4: a cry about all right. Yes, that one we're told
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  Speaker 4: your own, boys is you cannot be emotional, so now
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  Speaker 4: you gotta suck it up. So it's come from at home.
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  Speaker 4: Bringing that comment to now the affirmation starts with the
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  Speaker 4: world just because it's giving me the same message from
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  Speaker 4: what's being at home. And it's not until we realize
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  Speaker 4: that one God who created us and put us together
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  Speaker 4: gave everybody a sense of emotion. But when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to bed, we have learned how to be on tap
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  Speaker 4: from emotional self because we're never given up proper tools
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  Speaker 4: or their career or the atmosphere to be emotional. And
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  Speaker 4: by the time we cry, it's because somebody is dead.
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  Speaker 4: So now we're reaching. We are now shedding tears off
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  Speaker 4: of the funeral because we never created space for our
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  Speaker 4: brothers to actually process what could have been processed if
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  Speaker 4: we created space for them to actually talk about what
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  Speaker 4: they're going through. And if you look at mental health
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  Speaker 4: in the black community, even suicide, it is high in
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  Speaker 4: the black community, m hm m m. And to tell
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  Speaker 4: we actually put the center stage of hey man, talk
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  Speaker 4: about your heart. Go to therapy. The best the best
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  Speaker 4: thing I ever did in my life is going to therapy.
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  Speaker 4: The best thing I ever did was searching ofself, was
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  Speaker 4: saying hey, I gotta admit it. I need help. I
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  Speaker 4: to admit it first that I need help in wonder
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  Speaker 4: for me to take that step of saying hey, let
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  Speaker 4: me seek help. And if you don't admit that you
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  Speaker 4: need help, you would ever seek help.
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  Speaker 3: That is the true because in the Black church, black
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  Speaker 3: households period, when you have a mental issue or mental
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  Speaker 3: problems or mental situations or whatever it is, when it
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  Speaker 3: has to do with your mental they always say go
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  Speaker 3: to church. Well, and I'm gonna talk to you from
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  Speaker 3: a girl who used to go to church, that's where
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  Speaker 3: some of the pain came from. So you're telling me
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  Speaker 3: to go and deal with the pain at the place
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  Speaker 3: that's causing the pain. I need y'all to make it
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  Speaker 3: make sense. But I actually did. I went through therapy
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  Speaker 3: and the process was it was hard. I found out
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  Speaker 3: some stuff about myself that I didn't even know. And
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  Speaker 3: I would like to ask is is, as a woman,
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  Speaker 3: how can we support the African American man when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to his mental health journey because you know, females,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes we we be the issue man on they crying
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  Speaker 3: like you know what, but you don't know what that
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  Speaker 3: brother is going through. And when you do see a
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  Speaker 3: brother cry and stuff like that or expressed his emotions,
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  Speaker 3: we ready to walk away because he's too soft. But
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  Speaker 3: as the African American female, how can we.
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  Speaker 4: Help make sure you see them? Don't say you see them,
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  Speaker 4: but make sure you actually see them. Can you since
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  Speaker 4: can you sense the difference of energy being shifted when
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  Speaker 4: something happens, or does he have to wait to tell
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  Speaker 4: you what's going on or anything like that? Or look
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  Speaker 4: at the different signs of the way they talk. Was
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  Speaker 4: there a trigger that changed how they talk? And be
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  Speaker 4: consistent at being present. Don't be present only when things
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  Speaker 4: look good, when there are happening, be present even in
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  Speaker 4: the midst of the storm. You have to understand. We
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  Speaker 4: have to first understand that our natural state, of the
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  Speaker 4: natural state of a man is to not talk about
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  Speaker 4: it because of the media. But until you actually become
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  Speaker 4: the ruth for him, that he could be able to
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  Speaker 4: talk and be free and release. But if we don't
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  Speaker 4: create that space to do that, it'll be hard to
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  Speaker 4: talk about it. You know, they you know, and like
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  Speaker 4: you were saying, my church church is a hospital for
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  Speaker 4: the broken. Everybody's sick in church. And even with that
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  Speaker 4: aspect of itself is everyd's looking for healing in church,
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  Speaker 4: and nothing's wrong with that. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: how many people in church are actually seeking the help
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  Speaker 4: that they need? And when it comes to even African
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  Speaker 4: American or black men, the way that the sisters could
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  Speaker 4: be present for them is really speak life into them
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  Speaker 4: and don't affirm what the world says about the black man,
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  Speaker 4: but speak lifly to them and be consistent of words
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  Speaker 4: affirmations because the words affirmations could change the whole thing around,
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  Speaker 4: especially when the man is in the broken point.
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  Speaker 3: So it's crazy because when you say be when you
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  Speaker 3: were saying be present, the first thing I thought is
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  Speaker 3: when I come home from work, my son worked home.
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  Speaker 3: I don't ask him how was your day?
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  Speaker 2: I asked him, tell.
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  Speaker 3: Me about your day?
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  Speaker 2: Because when you have.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody, how was it it? Fine?
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  Speaker 2: Good, okay?
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  Speaker 3: When you ask them tell me about your day, you're
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  Speaker 3: getting them to talk and release whatever was good, bad, ugly, indifference, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: But they're able to have that communication with you, and
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  Speaker 3: even with my daughter is not what did you do today?
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, what hurd?
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  Speaker 3: I change it up. It's like, tell me how did
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  Speaker 3: you make someone smile today? Tell me what did you
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  Speaker 3: do in math class? Not how was school? Because the
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  Speaker 3: first thing is say is good, and then the next
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  Speaker 3: question we always ask our kids. Well in my house
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  Speaker 3: because you know, we like to eat, we have lunch.
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  Speaker 3: So that makes so much sense. So let's go back
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  Speaker 3: to your book. My hurt taught me about my pain
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  Speaker 3: motivating me. What is one of the takeaways you would
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  Speaker 3: want your readers to gain from your book.
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  Speaker 4: Every when you think about cooking food, you add seasons
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  Speaker 4: to make it better, And every life storm, it's just
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  Speaker 4: seasons of impact being made. And every when I say
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  Speaker 4: life be lifing, it's because what happens is you can't
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  Speaker 4: control happens in life, but you can control how you
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  Speaker 4: respond to what happens in life, and how you respond
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  Speaker 4: with determined the season you put in for impact. So
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  Speaker 4: I understand that one thing I want to take away
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  Speaker 4: is behind every mess there is a message, and behind
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  Speaker 4: every test there is a testimony, and that testimony could
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  Speaker 4: be used for impacting others around you your story how
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  Speaker 4: you made it through, because how can they have hope
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  Speaker 4: that they can make it through if they don't hear
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  Speaker 4: anybody's story on how they made it through.
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  Speaker 3: And every mess there is a message. For every test
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  Speaker 3: there's a testimony. I never heard that before, and if
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hear a message, wasn't paying attention. That's that's
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  Speaker 3: that's that's that's that's mind bombing, that's how did you
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  Speaker 3: come up with that one?
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  Speaker 4: I came up with that when I realized that the
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  Speaker 4: message of my life that I was taking place I
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  Speaker 4: had no control over, became a voice of a message
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  Speaker 4: that I never knew where to have this much impact.
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  Speaker 4: And when it came to the test of my life,
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  Speaker 4: I realized that when I passed the test, I had
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  Speaker 4: a story of overcoming what I had to endure. So
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is a testimony right here.
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  Speaker 4: I endured this and I made it through here. This
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  Speaker 4: is the testimony. And when I think about the message
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  Speaker 4: of life that I had no control over, I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: this mess Now give me a message where now my
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  Speaker 4: my wholet slogan is you're doing off purpose for the
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  Speaker 4: purpose and what they purpose? And it all came from
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  Speaker 4: the mess that created a powerful message.
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  Speaker 3: Where can you Can you tell me about one time
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  Speaker 3: where you had to go back and read your book
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  Speaker 3: to motivate yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that was last week. So you know one of
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  Speaker 4: my one of my seven books that I have, I
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  Speaker 4: have to go back and read. So what is your why?
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  Speaker 4: Because I really can't a threshold? Uh running on E.
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  Speaker 4: I was on low e, low fuel, and I didn
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  Speaker 4: feel like I could keep on going anymore. I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: like mentally depressed. It was just my energy was on
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  Speaker 4: e because of the work that I do.
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  Speaker 5: So because I would all eat and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, I need to have some motivation, motivation
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  Speaker 5: because I'm mentor kids and I'm mentoring with thirty plus
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  Speaker 5: kids as a mentor, and so they call on me
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  Speaker 5: and they reach out to me and they're going through.
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  Speaker 4: All their own stuff and I'm over like I need
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  Speaker 4: to get some motivation. And you know, people always think
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  Speaker 4: because you're you know, you're inspiration or motivation also like
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  Speaker 4: that that you don't call through anything. And sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: just like that's where got to sit back and read
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  Speaker 4: my own work. Just I can have inspiration. Now, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I need to keep on going to do this work.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how do you motivate yourself?
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  Speaker 3: You're motivating all these love people.
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  Speaker 2: How do you motivate you.
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  Speaker 4: I have the kountability partners. I have people hot me accountable.
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  Speaker 4: When I feeling like I'm in my lowest, I'll read
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  Speaker 4: my book. I also call my unt of believe brothers,
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  Speaker 4: tell them how many comble this way, so they will
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  Speaker 4: show up and they will performance actually what I tell
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  Speaker 4: them to do and the times where I'm feeling a
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  Speaker 4: certain type of way. So yeah, I got kind of
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  Speaker 4: partners on people whom accountable and at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm on low, I also have my prayer groups,
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  Speaker 4: people who you know, step step in prayer with me,
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  Speaker 4: inform me at the same time, and I make sure
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  Speaker 4: that I'm not silent in the midst of where I'm
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  Speaker 4: going on E because I've been there before when I've
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  Speaker 4: been silent, and I was like, I can't do that
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  Speaker 4: ever again. So I make it a point and I
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  Speaker 4: make it the foundation of Hey, don't be silent in
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  Speaker 4: the moment where you're waiting on E call. You got
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  Speaker 4: people who care about your people who love you, talk
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  Speaker 4: to them then know what's going on. People you trust
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  Speaker 4: that you know won't go around telling your business around.
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  Speaker 4: Because that's another scary thing too, is being able to
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  Speaker 4: be vulnerable. It's hard. Sometimes you could trust and could
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  Speaker 4: count on that I will be there for you. That
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: becomes another motivation. But okay, the persons and heart when
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  Speaker 4: me call them, and I can call people three or
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  Speaker 4: four in the morning, don't answer the phone.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: So we all know about the prayer group. So then
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people do not know what accountability person is.
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  Speaker 3: Can you explain to them what an accountability person?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, accountability person is someone that you trust that you
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  Speaker 4: tell them, Hey, for example, say you have a goal
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  Speaker 4: of mine, so I won't go to the gym three
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  Speaker 4: days a week whatever, and you tell them, hey, I
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  Speaker 4: want you to make sure that I go to the
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  Speaker 4: gym three days a week. That kind of person is
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  Speaker 4: gonna go ahead and do the very thing you tell
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  Speaker 4: them what to do and what they might do. What
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: they will go ahead and do is execute that but
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: be hard on you because you told them how you
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: want to show up for you for this good become
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  Speaker 4: manifesting for yourself. So basically they're your cheerleader behind the scenes,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: in front of the scenes, and who'll be hard on
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  Speaker 4: you and you may not like it, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do it because they love you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I like that. I think we all need to
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  Speaker 3: think about who our accountability partner could be. Not that
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  Speaker 3: person who, like he said, it's going to go talk
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  Speaker 3: about what you're going through and everything. Is this person
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  Speaker 3: who's gonna tell you when you're right, and that person
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  Speaker 3: who wonta tell you when you're wrong and look in
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  Speaker 3: your face and tell you now you.
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  Speaker 2: Shouldn't have done it a good job.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: So my next question to you, you said you've written
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  Speaker 3: seven books. Yes, out of these seven books, if you
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  Speaker 3: had to recommend one for me to read, which one
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: would it be?
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  Speaker 2: And why.
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  Speaker 4: Black Chronicles?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: The reason why I say Black dimon Chronicles is because
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: this book is actually collaboration book where it's authors coming
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  Speaker 4: together in different parts of the parts of the world
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  Speaker 4: sharing their story. There's a every chapter is an author's chapter,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: and it's basically the Black domochannical about people's mess of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: life that they go through and how that's shaping has
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: become a diamond to the impact of doing now. And
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  Speaker 4: the reason I recommend that for you is because the
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  Speaker 4: work that you do, I know you love what you do,
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  Speaker 4: and I know that this gives you feel of hearing
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  Speaker 4: people's stories like that, but it's a way to see
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: how other jewels had to get pressed and shake it
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  Speaker 4: together to be put together to become a bright light
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  Speaker 4: in a diamond that can impact others.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I like that one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I like that one. So we are about five minutes
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  Speaker 3: away from closing out, and I do this session that's
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: called my front time. Okay, I've already give the session
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: so many names, but I'm gonna let you guys help
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: me with the name next time and not tonight. Okay.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I love music, I love TV.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, so my question to you.
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  Speaker 3: His Lifetime just called you and said, you know what,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: we love your book. My pain taught me, My hurt
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: taught me, but my pain motivated me, and we want
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to make it into a movie. We would like to
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: know who would you like to play you? And why
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: do you want them to play you?
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  Speaker 4: Said, oh man, mm hmm, I would saying less Brown Brown.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I would want Less Brown to play me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so now you gotta give me a show that
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Les Brown was on. Y'all know I'm about to get
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the phone.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: He's one of those, He's one of the top and
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: wiial speakers. Okay, doctor loves Brown. I would want him
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: to play me just because him and I had the
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: same struggle. So for me, I don't think he will
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: be acting. I think he will be himself because he
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: had the same shoule I had.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, seem okay, okay, all right, And where would you
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: like this movie to take place? And why did you
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: chose that location?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hollywood, Hollywood. Okay, so why Hollywood?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I said Hollywood, that's in my mind. But I
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: think at the same time, do you think about the
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the attraction and you think about the the stent. A
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: lot of people go through Hollywood and watch a lot
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: of stuff, So like Hollywood or if it's a movie theater,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: AMC or something.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, So we're down to our last five minutes,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: and I always like the authors to tell us first,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: what would you like to say to your old readers,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: new readers, and people that will become readers once they
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: see this podcast, what would you like to say to them?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: To the old readers, I'll say, don't give up and
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: keep on hanging in there and keep on going strong.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: To the new readers, I'll say that understand that this
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: too short. Pass whatever you're in and to the current readers,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: keep on standing.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: All right now the rundown at the bottom. We have
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: all your social media links, but tell us again, where
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: can we follow you? The title of your books, any
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: upcoming projects, or if you have book signis coming up?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can follow me on Facebook, Josie Jean Pierre
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: LinkedIn Sies Jean Pierre Instagram coach with Underschool Josiah's. A
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: new project I have coming up is I'm actually releasing
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I'm diverse to finding my genre, so I'm releasing a
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: children's book coming up soon. It's called Dear Black Boy,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Dear Black Boys, a se message for young Black boys.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: And it's being already been a lot of schools and
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: watching the state has already question before the book to come.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: So around two hundred fifth elementary schools are going to
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: have the book as their schools already. So I'm getting
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: a lot of piordiers coming in already. Uh. In August,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I'm actually going to a speaking tours. I'm going to
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: a forty five day speaking tour in August, and I'll
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: be on a New York billboard against the team. So
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I'll be in New York on a billboard on Times Square.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Oh my, you gotta take a picture at man. Well,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: y'all heard it forty five days, so y'all got forty
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: five chances to see him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 3: You can't help but to support this African American male
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: or some of you guys say one of the brothers
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you have no choice about to support because you heard
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: nothing but great motivation. I mean, what else do we need.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you could support anybody else what they're doing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm nice and I'm not gonna say some things,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: tell me why we can't support him. Okay, so y'all
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: got the rundown. If you look at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the screen, I'm pretty sure he's going to lay out
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: those dates. Y'all can support him on his dates, support
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: him by buying his book. School is about to start
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: where I live in South Carolina, so this would be
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: a great way to start your kids off right. And
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: then guess what, Christmas is right around the corner. This
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: is a great way to implant into their lives so
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: they could start off next year right. Okay, thank you
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  Speaker 3: for being with me tonight.
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  Speaker 2: All kind of.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Stuff what I'm talking about, But again, thank you for
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: being a part of sc bookyards and friends, and just
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: remember that we have your back and reappreciate you. And
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: from a black woman, thank.
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  Speaker 4: You for having me.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you well, you guys, there's no secret word of
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: the night. Remember you only get your secret words on Tuesday.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: But guess what I'm coming again to you guys Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be here.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: With a new author and a new book again. We
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: thank mister Jonas for being with us tonight, y'all. Go
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: grab My hurt taught me, but my pinion motivated me.
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  Speaker 3: And it's new children's book that's coming out. Go and support.
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  Speaker 3: Remember there's no such thing as an old book, because
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: not everybody is read every book. You guys, have a
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: great night.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.