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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST HOSTED BY PATRICE GRIMBALL | SPECIAL GUEST MONIQUE PEARSON · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your Girl sc bookal eight or three.
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  Speaker 2: And it is another hot Tuesday here in Charles, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord knows when I say heart, I mean heart.
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is. But how are you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Hey me, I mean good, just getting my baby girl
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  Speaker 2: ready for sixth grade. And I think that's taking a
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  Speaker 2: tool on me because it's so like.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's hands off. Now you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I told my kids, I guide you from K to five,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm here to listen and and buy us from
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  Speaker 2: six to eight and from nine to twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to listen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm very proud of her student and ped
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  Speaker 2: metal scholars or gift me the talented school here in
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  Speaker 2: South Carlina.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud.
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  Speaker 2: So all your kids just getting ready to go to school,
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  Speaker 2: you know, say your prayers, say your affirmations. Know that
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  Speaker 2: your mom, your dad, your auntie's, your Internet aunt tis,
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  Speaker 2: your Internet uncles. Everybody have your back, and you have
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  Speaker 2: a village that surrounding you. Go ahead and knock out
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  Speaker 2: the twenty six twenty seventh school year and just make
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  Speaker 2: it do what it do. Okay, all right, So, of course,
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  Speaker 2: a new Tuesday, a new book Beyond the Diagnosis, Stories
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  Speaker 2: of Living and Thriving. We all have taken tests, We've
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  Speaker 2: all had those medical tests.
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  Speaker 1: And it's something about that word diagnosis.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the biggest, most scariest words words.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, word that I've ever heard. Most people think cancer. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's that word diagnosis. Why because you don't know which
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  Speaker 2: way it's gonna go. Okay, But I have an author
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  Speaker 2: and you guys, this book, y'all know, I'm a cover girl.
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  Speaker 1: This book is beautiful. If I say your book is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: I just wish sometime that I can have book covers
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  Speaker 2: as art. You know, I'm looking around in my room
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I just wish I could have all
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  Speaker 2: these book covers as art on my wall instead of painting.
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  Speaker 2: Just really have a bunch of book covers. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why I say it. If I can, I think
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  Speaker 2: I should. You know that'd be my thing. But I
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  Speaker 2: am going to bring up author Morning Pierson, and she's
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  Speaker 2: going to talk to us about the book Beyond a Diagnosis,
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  Speaker 2: Stories of Living and Thriving.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up, Morney, come on up, girly, come on up.
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  Speaker 1: Table three. Hey listeners, Hey everybody, how y'all doing? I
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  Speaker 1: am doing well. How are you doing? Girl? Doing good?
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  Speaker 1: For what's today? Tuesday?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, for Tuesday evening. We cannot complain. We are happy
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  Speaker 6: to be here and happy to chat with the audience.
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  Speaker 2: So before we go any further, tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I am Monique Pearson. I'm originally from upstate.
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  Speaker 1: New York, born and raised.
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  Speaker 6: I'm currently now in the DMB that's DC Maryland, Virginia area.
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  Speaker 1: I'm been here for abably ten years or so. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an army veteran. Now I still am a dupreneur.
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  Speaker 6: I work for the federal government as well as have
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  Speaker 6: my own business. So I call myself a woman of
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  Speaker 6: many hats, so to speak. And I just believe that
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  Speaker 6: we only get one life. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: have to go and leave saying SHOULDA could have whatever?
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  Speaker 6: I want to go leaving saying I remember when. So
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  Speaker 6: that's important to me that we maximize each day and
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  Speaker 6: operating in the gifts that God has given me.
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  Speaker 1: So I just have a zest jest for life, for real,
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  Speaker 1: for real.
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  Speaker 2: Now I like that, because you know we all got
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  Speaker 2: the fifty million hats.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask, how did you keep organized?
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  Speaker 6: Who I'm a I'm a written person, like I keep
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  Speaker 6: my calendar in my phone, I have my paper planner.
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  Speaker 6: I think before we got started, I had my little
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  Speaker 6: board for a quarter like I'm a person who is
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  Speaker 6: I love writing stuff down. To me, that actual writing
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  Speaker 6: it down I don't know, gives me a and be
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  Speaker 6: able to check it off gives me a sense of satisfaction.
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  Speaker 6: So there are multiple stop gates h in place that
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  Speaker 6: I'm able to manage, and I pretty much plan all
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  Speaker 6: my day from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I take the time block. I'm being able to.
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  Speaker 6: Keep things going in then plus being able to have
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  Speaker 6: help like assistance, because I would not be able to
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  Speaker 6: be successful by trying to do everything by myself.
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  Speaker 1: We see my assistance.
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  Speaker 2: She ain't no help, she's elabing I'm don't have to fear,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean, good God and help.
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  Speaker 1: And I was kidding. I have tried that. Writing it
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  Speaker 1: all down does not work for me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess everybody got to figure out what's their
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  Speaker 6: best method.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That has always been my thing, the
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  Speaker 1: checklist and.
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  Speaker 6: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So that has
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  Speaker 6: been working for me for over thirty years and I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna keep riding with it. I'm gonna have to try
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  Speaker 6: that again. I mean, I got a plan. It's like
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  Speaker 6: right here looking at me. But if I would go
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  Speaker 6: on the road like that, everybody carries their phone everywhere
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  Speaker 6: there go and put in alerts on it like this
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  Speaker 6: is this I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you gotta play with what works best for you.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good idea of putting it in my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 2: to do better. Okay, what made you want to become
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  Speaker 2: an author? I mean all I hat you have you
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  Speaker 2: do author in there?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 6: H it wasn't intentional, To be honest with you, I
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  Speaker 6: started my business so without them as enterprises, like during
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  Speaker 6: the pandemic, and once the world opened up and we
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  Speaker 6: were able to travel, I was miss, I guess inadvertently
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  Speaker 6: put into a coaching position trying to give women courage
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  Speaker 6: and overcome their fears about traveling internationally because many that
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  Speaker 6: I work with had not been out the country and
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  Speaker 6: they wanted to, but they were stopping themselves because of
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  Speaker 6: the fears. So I found myself in the coaching lane
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  Speaker 6: and advertently working with.
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  Speaker 1: Them to get them over that.
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  Speaker 6: And I had so many people come to me as
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  Speaker 6: asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, instead of just.
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  Speaker 6: Limiting my advice and my experiences to just the people
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  Speaker 6: who I'm able to touch as clients, why not write
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  Speaker 6: a book to be able to get this out there?
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  Speaker 6: So that is how take that trip Girl? The Ultimate
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  Speaker 6: bucket List Journal got started in twenty twenty two, which
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  Speaker 6: was my very first book.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now I'm kidding, I would be one of those women.
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  Speaker 2: I've only been on the plane twice. That's the going
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  Speaker 2: and come back. Actually, yeah, that'll be three point my.
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  Speaker 6: Urbul that stopped you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I am okay, So I am about to to
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  Speaker 2: give y'all big, big, big revelation. I am definitely afraid
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  Speaker 2: of heights. Like when I'm telling you that, if it's
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  Speaker 2: I can walk up a flight of steps, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: It always stands from something or experience and maybe how
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  Speaker 6: big I am. I drop a French fry or a
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  Speaker 6: piece of chicken or something, but me and heights, I've
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  Speaker 6: never What would you say to a woman like me
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  Speaker 6: who wants to trap world?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm afraid of height.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I said I would have to get to
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  Speaker 6: the root, cause most of our fears stem from an
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  Speaker 6: initial incident and then we are trapped in whenever that
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  Speaker 6: time frame came and have not been able to walk out.
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  Speaker 6: It is somewhat similar to therapy, having to get to
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  Speaker 6: the root of what the trauma started. So we'll have
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  Speaker 6: to start there as to what is your earliest memory
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  Speaker 6: of the fear of heights, Like trace it back, when
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  Speaker 6: did that start?
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  Speaker 2: You might have to talk after this because jan Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't know the root cause of an issue,
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  Speaker 6: how are you gonna overcome it?
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  Speaker 1: We got to start for the route.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm, if you don't know the root cause of the issue,
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  Speaker 2: how are you going to overcome it?
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  Speaker 1: Because we'll be treating symptoms versus the actual issue. So
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  Speaker 1: it applies here too. Can find out she is trumping
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  Speaker 1: the nuggets and I have to think.
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  Speaker 2: Hol she does drop a whole one, right, then get.
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  Speaker 1: To the root of her did that one on me?
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  Speaker 2: So you have the book Beyond the Diagnosis? I've seen you, Bluton,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. I went to your website, which
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  Speaker 2: is a beautiful website at that Oh, thank you? What
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  Speaker 2: means you want to write beyond the diagnosis? That's that's
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  Speaker 2: that'd be titled like what made you want to say?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to write this and it looks like it
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  Speaker 2: might be for women only, but you know me, I
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  Speaker 2: don't like to put it in a gender type, but
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  Speaker 2: you know what made you want to write this one?
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  Speaker 1: Well? That was personal for me.
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  Speaker 6: April eighty, twenty twenty four, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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  Speaker 6: So even at the onset of that diagnosis. Being a
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  Speaker 6: woman of faith, I said, God, I know that this
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  Speaker 6: is going to be bigger than me, and that you're
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  Speaker 6: going to use this in a positive way. What it
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  Speaker 6: was I didn't know at the time, but I knew
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  Speaker 6: innately that this something positivest was going to come from
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  Speaker 6: this diagnosis. So probably a year and a half later,
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  Speaker 6: it was finally revealed to me what that purpose was,
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  Speaker 6: and that was to get other women who also are walking.
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  Speaker 1: Out this journey with autoimmune disorders.
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  Speaker 6: Chronic illnesses and share their stories because I know the
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  Speaker 6: power that comes in testimony and having others being able
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  Speaker 6: to have someone who they can relate to and like,
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  Speaker 6: if she was able to overcome this, I can too.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody has to be that flag post, be that example
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  Speaker 6: who'll be willing to put themselves out there where most
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  Speaker 6: people have a diagnosis, possibly they'll shut down that life
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  Speaker 6: is over for them. And I don't know why, but
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  Speaker 6: for me, it fewed me to have like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 6: can't take any day for granted, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Just motivated me to truly.
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  Speaker 6: Walk this thing out and be able to be a
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  Speaker 6: resource for other women who may be newly diagnosed or
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  Speaker 6: who doesn't have a community. So I wanted to be
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  Speaker 6: that person to be able to give them that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, that's so true because like I
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  Speaker 2: said that that were diagnoses. It's very, very scary, and
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  Speaker 2: I think people take that.
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  Speaker 1: And they they start to shut down.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've had a friend of mine, I won't
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  Speaker 2: even say a friend of mine, I'll go more recent
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  Speaker 2: a family member of mine found out.
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  Speaker 1: That he had kids.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, he kept fighting and he kept fighting, But it
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  Speaker 2: is that when the doctor came back again, they stopped fighting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I kind of I'm kind of confused, Like
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  Speaker 2: when we get that diagnosis, we sit in fear until
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  Speaker 2: we get the test results. Some people, as of yourself,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna fight, and then some people they still continue
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  Speaker 2: to live in fear. And I guess that's where your
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  Speaker 2: book comes in to say, hey, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: live in fear.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and fight.
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  Speaker 2: This is that one of the reasons why you wrote
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  Speaker 2: the book Beyond the diagnosis is to let them know
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  Speaker 2: that you know, and it ain't over well.
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  Speaker 6: I would say too, that stems from the experience when
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  Speaker 6: I was diagnosed. I wanted my I'm being honest, I
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  Speaker 6: was like, I want to find my MS bestie. I
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  Speaker 6: want to find somebody who could be my person that
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  Speaker 6: I can touch base with when I'm experiencing something, ask questions,
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  Speaker 6: Just somebody who can relate to what I'm going going through.
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  Speaker 6: And I was referred to some of the larger organizations.
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  Speaker 1: And I did not relate to.
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  Speaker 6: The people in their majority of them were sharing what
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  Speaker 6: they couldn't do, they what was stopping them. All I
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  Speaker 6: heard was the negative aspect. And for a person like me,
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  Speaker 6: don't tell me what I can't do, show me what
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  Speaker 6: I can or what can I do to adjust to
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  Speaker 6: be there. So I was like, if I'm experiencing this
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  Speaker 6: and can't find my tribe, then I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 6: others who are experienced this as well. So I was like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be intentional about making a tribe, about
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  Speaker 6: letting other women know who possibly can't see the positive
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  Speaker 6: side of this diagnosis, that here are eight other women
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  Speaker 6: who are walking out various journeys of their own, but
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  Speaker 6: yet are still thriving, nonetheless beyond what is associated with
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  Speaker 6: their health.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you said eight other women.
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  Speaker 2: Are there others that have co written this book with you?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: It is an anthology project.
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  Speaker 6: So it's myself and seven other co authors who have
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  Speaker 6: been brave enough and willing enough, and I thanked them
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  Speaker 6: all for their yes to come in and share their stories.
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  Speaker 2: So how was it build thing that that sisterhood and
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  Speaker 2: everybody writing their chapters and telling their testimonies, Like, how
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  Speaker 2: did that feel?
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  Speaker 6: I would say, this is a journey. This is my
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  Speaker 6: first anthology. I've written three books by myself, so this
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  Speaker 6: was my first anthology project. And finding the women I
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  Speaker 6: think initially was the challenge, like really having to sit
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  Speaker 6: and talk, because that's asking someone to possibly expose like
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  Speaker 6: some of their most vulnerable moments and they have to
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  Speaker 6: feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember each individual author like having an.
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  Speaker 6: Hour or two conversation with each of them and I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to know their journeys and listening to them, I
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  Speaker 6: was like, do you see the strength in what you've
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  Speaker 6: overcome where you are? And if I can feel that
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  Speaker 6: I can sense that, imagine how many women you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: bless who are able to be able to share your story.
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  Speaker 6: So for me, it was an honor to be able
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  Speaker 6: to be trusted, as I said, this is my first
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  Speaker 6: time taking this project, that they trusted me to be
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  Speaker 6: able to tell their stories, to honor whatever boundaries they
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  Speaker 6: had in place, and to make.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that it was handled with care and that it
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  Speaker 1: was genuine and that they felt safe. So it was
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful experience starting this anthology.
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  Speaker 6: And then on top of that, to be able to
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  Speaker 6: launch this project with them at the Beyond the Diagnosis
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  Speaker 6: conference which we just had and made it was just
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  Speaker 6: it was awesome because it was everything that I thought
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  Speaker 6: in my head what it would be, but even better
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  Speaker 6: so and just to hear them and once they saw
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  Speaker 6: their stories and they got to read it, and they
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  Speaker 6: just got the book, and people came to the conference
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  Speaker 6: and was just talking to them and sharing how much
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  Speaker 6: their stories helped them. To me, it was all worth it.
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  Speaker 6: It was just it was a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: So you have this conference, Oh my god, how oh
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  Speaker 2: the energy in that room. I can just imagine what
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  Speaker 2: made you want to say, you know what, we got,
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  Speaker 2: the book got us stories.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take it a step further.
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  Speaker 2: How did you and these ladies have the courage to
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  Speaker 2: sit in front of everyone else? Because writing in the
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  Speaker 2: book you can hide behind the pages, but now you're
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  Speaker 2: out in the open, Like.
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  Speaker 1: How did you? Like, I know, I'd be all over
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  Speaker 1: the place if it was me. But how did you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: do it?
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: I would say one that I believe that I don't
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: know how I've always been this way, that I don't
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: like to have a fear hold me hostage. If there's
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: something that I'm afraid of, I take it as a
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: personal assignment to overcome that fear, and that most fears
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: are worse than our heads than if we were allow
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: ourselves a chance to give ourselves an opportunity to overcome it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: So was the fear there putting this together? Of course
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: it was because I was like, Okay, I've done one conference.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: But it was with other women.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: This was my first time, so I just had a
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: bunch of first at the same time putting together this
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: project at the same time organizing the conference. But I
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: knew that once I started sharing what this project was,
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: what it was about, that God was going to bring
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: to ordained people who would help me to carry forth
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: this mission and without a shedof with doubt, as I said,
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: not being able to do this by myself. He appointed
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: people at the times that I needed them most, who
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: partnered with me to serve as ambassadors, to serve as
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: the MC which is one of the co authors that
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: we've met and shared several stages, and she was like, Monique,
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I'm in because she was like, I want to be.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The host because they can relate to it. There was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a need for it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: So once you get outside of your fear and look
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: at far as what this is going to do on
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the other end and the people who is going to
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: bless and the impact that you're going to be able
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: to make, that is what was the motivation to keep
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: going forward with this. And I wanted these women to
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: come out from behind the pages. I wanted people to
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: be able to meet them, to greet them, and to
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: see that this is not just a story, this is
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: in a fantasy, this isn't nonfiction. These are real life
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: people who are walking out these journeys that you're seeing
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: in this page. And I wanted them to be able
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: to make that connection, and for people who were in
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: the audience and who participated to know that it's possible
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: for you as well. And here is a visual depiction
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: of live and in person from.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Beyond the page to the stage.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: To be able to see these women in person and
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: be able to connect with them, I think that was
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: important for me to be able to be and have
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: us be those images that this is truly possible.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: It's not a dream. Yeah, it's something when you see
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it in person.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It's like a little extra light to the fire when
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you see that person person.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I totally understand.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the difference between watching church online and being in
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: the building, it's the same concept to me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: There's something you just can't get unless you're in the room.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: You're right, you surely is right there is. That's a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: big difference. You hit the bill on the head of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that one. When I'm talking to my dog, Why do.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: We have to go to church in person? Doesn't mean
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: when you go there and she yeah, I like it
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: better in person. Yeah, because you ain't for home to sleep,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: little girl. So I totally understand. Yeah, since we're talking
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: about stages here, I don't know if you kind of
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: remember I said we have that fun questions. Yes, Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it's time to come on in the hot seat, girly,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: it is time.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's time. I ain't never scared. Go ahead, cannot I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: seen you? I see you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: We were dealing with Lifetime moving network, but then you
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: know what, you guys, I just discovered all all black.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's an actual TV channel. It's called All Black.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was looking to just it was Chloe and Wendy,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Wendy and Chloe.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, but you know it's in the middle
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: of night and I can't sleep, so I need something
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to look at on TV. But we usually talk a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: lifetime but I want to bring it to us. Okay,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: All Black said, you know we love you both. Okay,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: we want to have documentary with you and the Lates.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: We need to get someone to be able to help
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: us put this documentary on. Who would you give the
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: honor of being your assistant putting this documentary on? Have
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: to be okay, someone that has playwriting skill or an
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: fellow author. Who would you choose and why did you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: choose that person? This is your right hand man that's
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: going to help you bring your.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Your stream. Who would you choose?
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: You said, they have to be a playwright and we
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: can say Shonda Rhyme.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: You know what's her name, Ava Duby, what's the lady? Yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: when you started talking, book.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: In my head and it's so funny that you mentioned documentary. Oh,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I know, that's confirmation because God revealed that to me
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: the last podcast that I was on. She was like, Monique,
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I see a documentary for you. So you're the third
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: person who told me that. So I know that that
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: is going to be the next flow of succession, that
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: that's gonna happen.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, the Bible say out of mouth the two or
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: three womens's let my word be established, sim.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Why did you choose this either?
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: I just think far as the authenticy of her storytelling.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: What's the show where they had the sugar cane fields.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, you know which one I'm talking about
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: with the two sisters and then the father passed and
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: then the brother and he was raising the farm.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't think of the name. And
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I see his face. You know what I'm talking about?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: That show.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: The two sisters, Queen Sugar, Queen Sugar, and when you
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: were speaking and when you asked me, who is gonna
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: be her?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And my her name came.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: That show came because one I relate to shows that
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: are realistic, that showed truth struggle, that showed real life.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: And that's what I believe will be given. Justice is
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: not trying to fantasize and make things better or polished
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: or shiny. I want people to be able to see
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: the true authentic story of what this looks like walking
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: out this journey of having this associated diagnosis, but that it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Doesn't have you.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: I still want the authenticity of the good, the bad,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: but also being able to show the grit, the resilience,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: the strength, the hope that the dreams don't have to
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: be let go.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And I think she'll be able to translate that very well.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That is so true, because she did it all. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was just thinking about the one, the five, such a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: part five that was so hard that one broke me.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a hart. I can never watch that again.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I cried too much, too hard that was and I'm
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: an impath. That was too hard for me. That was Listen.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I still remember watching that and you felt every energy
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: in the young guy who's actually the South Carolina go
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: baby who played.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Corey Corey that the young man.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: The way he oh, the way he did that was
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you you picked somebody that that's aod.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what she has to think about that. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: that story, Oh lord.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: She did another one, didn't She did the four? Is
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: it a fourteen or nine seventy something something project? He
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: did that one too. She does a lot of documentaries
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: that have to do with real life issues that has
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: happened as in too and I'm gonna say it like this,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: you guys. And if you got a problem with saying
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: thing like that, oh well, at a happened to our people, soap.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Flogging for that choice.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so now we have asam we have here. You know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: all documentaries have to have on even movies have to
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: have a theme song. You first had your book in
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: your hand, you couldn't think of a theme song for
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the first time you lead your eyes on the completed project.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: What would that theme song be?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And why? Well, my theme.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Song has been for the past two years building something.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know the artist's name.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: I know, I know a song, but I'm so bad
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: at knowing the artist's name. But that has been my
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: theme song for the past two years whenever I go
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: to speak. When I walked in and opened up this conference,
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: because we are just getting started and I can just
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: see how this is going to continue to build, how
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: it's going to continue to bless and this is just
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: the beginning. So that will be the theme song, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: that has been the theme song for the past two years.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: All right, So we got your theme song, and we
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: have your right hand man. But then, you know what,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: we have to have someone to play you because now
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Lifetime say, oh no, y'all ain't getting all that we
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: want to. We want to do a movie about her life.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Who would you give the honor of playing here?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And why? Hmm?
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Well, the person that's bringing in that for I always
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: gotta go with. My first thought is Sonnila Fan.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You know I ain't hear her name in a good minute.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because I want I want the casting to be
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: somewhat I hate when you know it's based off of
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: by I'll be in. This person doesn't even have any
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: resemblance because I feel like you can't get into the role.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: So and it's also close and similar in age and
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: then going off for her acting chops. So yeah, that's
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: she's the person who popped in my mind. So that
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: would be my person.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, because her and disappearing that and then her and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: the best Man Holiday are like two different people.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Mm hmm. Yeah, So I said each role I see her,
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: I don't see her in her previous one.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: She's able to morph into what that character calls for.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, you know you have to give us the
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: rundown because my understanding is you got some events coming
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: up pretty soon, and you got websites and social media pages,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: So howbout you go ahead and give us the rundowns
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: so we can follow you and choose your books, or
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you can come see you in.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Person, yes, ma'am.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: So everyone can reach me out all social platforms, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: LinkedIn as Monique Pearson, or you can go to the
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: business page which is Soaring without Limits Enterprises.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And we just launched our.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: New website for all Things Beyond the Diagnosis, so you
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: can go to www dot Soaring Beyond the Diagnosis dot
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: com to see all of our upcoming events, which in
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: case September twenty six, we are hosting Myself and Health
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: Heavenly Bodies Live. We'll be co hosting a walk for
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: wellbeing for the ladies here in the DMV and those
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: who want to come and travel.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You definitely come and join us. We're going to do
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a walk for all fitness levels.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: We're gonna have some yoga, we're gonna have some giveaways,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: and we're gonna have some girl talk because I feel
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: that that's a component that's missing when we have these events
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: that the ladies don't get time to get to just talk,
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: and you know we love to talk, so that's going
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: to be there. And then in November we are going
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: to have our author search for volume two, Beyond the Diagnosis,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Stories of Living and Thriving for our next set of
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: authors that we'll be willing to continue and pick up
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: the torch and share stories to continue to keep this going.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: And then the new year, we'll be having some vision
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: workshops and in June of twenty twenty seven will be
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: the next and Beyond the Diagnosis conference. So go to
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: my website and you will definitely stay join our newsletter,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: but we'll keep you abreast of all the events that
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: we have coming on that where you can catch us
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: or if we're going to be out in these streets vending.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: So definitely we'll be looking forward to seeing folks. If
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: you are in the New York City area, I will
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: be at the Harlem Book fe So come check me
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: out August twenty ninth.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Y'all, she said in the beginning of the show, she
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: got fifty million hats.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: She is and busy. So if you look at the
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: bottom of the screen, you see the links. So where
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you can purchase her books. You can also have her
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: social media content, and we also have one of her
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: upcoming events, the one that is happening on September twenty six,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: So even on that you have to register. I will
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: have all that information on the blog that refers to
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: her interview, so you can go ahead and register if
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you're in the DMV area.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You know, Okay, tak y'all, we take others, come on through.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: She she already got a welcome for you, she said,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: we take businesses. You know, y'all go ahead and go,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: y'all have fun for me. Now'll have a lot of
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: fun for me.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: But I thank you for being with me tonight. Thank
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you for having me Buttria. It's been fun. Yes, definitely fun. Yes,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: let me ask you a question.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: It is your book on Amazon or we can only
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: find it at your website.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: We have self published and we will be self publishing.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Hear out.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: So all our coins are our coins, so yes, you
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: can find it on our website and definitely will get
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: an autograph copy which you would not be able to
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: get from Amazon.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: So even guys, I've started to ask that question more
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: because I know that we all tend to go to Amazon.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: And this is something that I did too. But let's
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: try to keep our dollars in our communities. So if
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you can, I'm not saying you have to, but if
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: you can purchase the book directly from the author, go ahead.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: There are authors now who are having their their books
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: on ebook format. They I don't know how they're doing it,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: but they're not even using Amazon, they're not even using
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: books and book books familiar, but they have their booking
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: e format.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: If you're one of those girlies or.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: One of those fellas, these fellas, you know, this might
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: be the book for your girl, your mom, your aunt,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: your sister, your niece, you know, because we all work
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: and we need to support each other correct good. So
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and try to support each other. And
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: if you can't, and if you're an author and you
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: really want your books on kindles, listen how you support
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: that author even more?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Leave a review?
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, lead a review. You guys will be shocked how
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: important reviews are to get in some of these arenas.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Wink wink, reading between the lines. Okay, mm hmmm mm hmm. Okay,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: thank you miss Morning for being us tonight.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I would love if all you guys want to come
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: on the show and we all can just go back
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and forth. So if the ladies want to do that,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: tell them I will be so honored to have.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Oh I'm gonna put it in our group chat and
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: see yes, I know a couple of.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Them will say yes. I got a couple of shy ones.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: And if they're shy, we don't have to do it live.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: We could do it pre recorded and we could just
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: go back and forth. I would just love to see
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: these wonderful.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Women and just draw on that energy that they have.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna put it to be in the present. That's like, hey, ladies,
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: we got to offer to come on. I would love
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: to have y'all. So I would definitely follow up and
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: let you know those of us who are willing to
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: come on and we can get that pop and that
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: should be all.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: That we're talking about. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Please have a wonderful evening you too, Bye bye bye.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: So you guys, another one. It's another interview in the book.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I just want you guys to know next week Tuesday
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: will not be here.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I do have an interview with a great author, and
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: we're gonna play it for you.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, but mommy.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Do these calls the first day of school and I
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: really need to beat it for my girl like I
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: always am, because you know you guys, mommy coming first, Okay,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: But I will catch you guys this Tuesday after that
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: with another author, another book. Remember there's no such thing
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: as an old book because not everybody is read every book.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: You guys, have a great night. Bye j.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: We are the check.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the cold. Come on, this is where its thoughts.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: We are the chang