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Black History 24/7/365: Celebrating Contributions Every Day | NATALIE R MURPHY, DR CHEN & ZACHERY...... PART 1 BY VISIONARY QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Man, Mad.
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  Speaker 2: And d.
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  Speaker 3: Well. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: I want to welcome you guys to Upcoast and Personnel
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  Speaker 4: with Agela. On tonight, y'all, we are celebrating Black history
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  Speaker 4: here on the Crew Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 3: For those that do not know.
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  Speaker 4: Who I am, I am the visionary of the Crew Podcast.
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  Speaker 4: I am the visionary of Aspiring Authors Magazine, and I
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  Speaker 4: just desire to be the change that I want to
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  Speaker 4: see in this world. And I am so excited because
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  Speaker 4: on tonight we have some amazing authors. They have taken
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to utilize their gifts and their talents to
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  Speaker 4: really be a voice and to be an outlet. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited tonight to allow them to be able to
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  Speaker 4: share and to share what legacy is to them and
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  Speaker 4: how they are leaving their blueprint. And really we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: talk about Black history and what that means and look
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  Speaker 4: like to us. So I'm gonna move on out the way,
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  Speaker 4: because y'all know how I can get. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: move on out the way. And I'm gonna allow my
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  Speaker 4: first amazing author to come on up and introduce herself
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  Speaker 4: and let me find her because y'all know.
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  Speaker 3: I got graphics.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all know I got some stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You know we got.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for this new platform.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to I ain't gonna mess up their name,
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  Speaker 4: but shout out to them because I love how we
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  Speaker 4: can just play with the little the little graphics and
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  Speaker 4: it won't let me do it right now, but it's coming.
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  Speaker 4: It's got it's got somebody else up on the screen, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: But those those were those blueper moments, and I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna show that at the end of the season
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  Speaker 4: when when that happened. But we're gonna have fun right now.
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  Speaker 4: Why it's happening because you know what, because we just
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  Speaker 4: talked about this adapt We just talked about it, and
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  Speaker 4: I tell you it never it don't take long before
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  Speaker 4: it comes.
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  Speaker 3: It comes right back. Invite me in the face. But
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  Speaker 3: here it is.
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  Speaker 4: Here she come, she comeing, y'all, She coming, she coming,
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  Speaker 4: she coming, she coming, she coming, And y'all, when y'all
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  Speaker 4: see it, y'all gonna be like.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's worth it.
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  Speaker 3: It's worth what's worth that?
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  Speaker 7: And you she comes, y'all welcome. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 7: for having me. I am wonderful, absolutely wonderful, Happy Black
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  Speaker 7: History Mom.
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  Speaker 4: To have you here and be in a voice, because
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  Speaker 4: for so long they have said they have silenced us,
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  Speaker 4: and they have not allowed us to be a voice.
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  Speaker 4: So I want you to allow those that are tuned
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  Speaker 4: in and those that will hear the replay to know
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  Speaker 4: a little bit about Miss Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my name is Natalie R.
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  Speaker 6: Murphy.
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  Speaker 7: The R stands for romance junkie. That's my story. I'm
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  Speaker 7: sticking to it. By my name, you can guess that
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  Speaker 7: I am a romance writer. I'm an award winning romance writer.
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  Speaker 7: And I started my journey back during the pandemic. It
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  Speaker 7: was not a plan that I would be on this journey,
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  Speaker 7: but God gave me this idea for a story, and
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  Speaker 7: he told me to write the story. And I told
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  Speaker 7: him no, and I gave him every reason why I couldn't,
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  Speaker 7: and I fought for about three weeks telling God I
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  Speaker 7: was not gonna write this story. And I told him
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  Speaker 7: because I don't know anything about writing a full story.
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  Speaker 3: I've always been a writer.
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  Speaker 7: I've always liked writing poetry and short stories, but I
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  Speaker 7: knew nothing about publishing. I didn't know how much it
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  Speaker 7: was going to cause I didn't know anything about literary
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  Speaker 7: agents things like that. And my girlfriend read my manuscript
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  Speaker 7: and she said, Nat, you got to do.
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  Speaker 3: Something with this.
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  Speaker 7: So I was like, okay. Then my mom and my
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  Speaker 7: sister read and they're like, this is good. You gotta
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  Speaker 7: do something. So I decided to do my research, and
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  Speaker 7: through doing my research, I self published my first romance novel.
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  Speaker 7: Then came You, and it won a Distinguished Authors Guild Award.
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  Speaker 7: And I tell people that that battle that I tried
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  Speaker 7: to have with God was the best battle that I
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  Speaker 7: ever lost, because since then, I've not only won Distinguished
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  Speaker 7: Authors Guild Award, the first for my first book, four
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  Speaker 7: of my books have won Distinguished Authors Guild Awards and
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  Speaker 7: I am currently a Distinguished Authors Guild Brand Ambassador.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited about that position this year.
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  Speaker 7: Because what to do my with the year with DAG
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  Speaker 7: and it's been an amazing journey if you are if
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  Speaker 7: you are an author and you're looking to take your
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  Speaker 7: book to the next level, you need to join the
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  Speaker 7: Distinguished Authors Guild because Gina Gadson has created something amazing
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  Speaker 7: for US African American authors and I, just like I said,
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  Speaker 7: it's been such an amazing journey. I've met so many people,
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  Speaker 7: so many authors, so many publishers and things like that,
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  Speaker 7: and it's just been an amazing, amazing writer. And I'm
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  Speaker 7: gonna tell you, if God tells you to do something,
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  Speaker 7: just do it.
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  Speaker 3: Just do it.
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  Speaker 7: No Sinason fighting, you can't beat him. He's always got
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  Speaker 7: a better plan than we do. And so yeah, so
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  Speaker 7: I'm very excited about this. February is my month because
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  Speaker 7: it's a month of love and me being a romance
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  Speaker 7: junkie that I am. I'm all into it and my
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  Speaker 7: romance novels. At this point, I have seven and I
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  Speaker 7: just released a new book. Now, this one was not
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  Speaker 7: a romance novel, but it's a romance guy and it's
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  Speaker 7: called make Room for Romance Up A Sorry a flirty.
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  Speaker 3: Guy to play in passion.
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  Speaker 7: And this book gives you ideas on how to make
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  Speaker 7: your romance steamy because as African Americans, our love life
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  Speaker 7: is played down. We don't we're not seen as being
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  Speaker 7: the passionate, loving people that we are. We love strong,
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  Speaker 7: we love hard, and that's what I write for. I
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  Speaker 7: write for African American strong, African American independent women who
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  Speaker 7: are not afraid to ask for what they want, and
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  Speaker 7: that's one of the things that I like about writing romance.
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  Speaker 7: The other thing is I like for my romance novels
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  Speaker 7: to be an escape, especially in this climate where we
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  Speaker 7: are now. I write so that we can escape all
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  Speaker 7: the social ills, all the hustle and bustle of the
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  Speaker 7: every day, and it's my I feel like my stories
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  Speaker 7: are a reminder of the passion and the joy and
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  Speaker 7: I happily ever after is that we all want to experience.
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  Speaker 3: So that's my story. Wow, So.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not an author by trade, So what
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  Speaker 4: made you get into writing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, like I said, I've always love to write.
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  Speaker 5: You're right.
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  Speaker 7: I originally started out as a preschool teacher. I loved
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  Speaker 7: the little bitties, and then I started my business as
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  Speaker 7: a photographer.
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  Speaker 3: But it was, like I said, the pandemic.
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  Speaker 7: It shut down my photography business, and I again, I've
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  Speaker 7: always loved to write. So once I started writing, once
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  Speaker 7: I was obedient and I started writing, then it just
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, it's like that bug grabbed me and
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  Speaker 7: I just I can't stop. I think even at this point,
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  Speaker 7: if I didn't publish, I will still continue to write,
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  Speaker 7: just because I love to write. It's my expression, it's
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  Speaker 7: my way of expressing myself, and at this point in
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  Speaker 7: terms of publishing, it's my legacy. I want my children
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  Speaker 7: to have that legacy. As African American people, we are storytellers.
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  Speaker 7: So I feel like I'm living up to the legacy
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  Speaker 7: that was already out there and being a storyteller.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's amazing, And I want to thank you for
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  Speaker 4: stopping by and sharing with us. Make sure you hang
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  Speaker 4: around because we're gonna talk about some more.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna dive into some more of those.
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  Speaker 4: Books how individuals can connect with you, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: tap in on the conversation because of all the stuff
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  Speaker 4: that's happening right now, I really want people to hone
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  Speaker 4: in on the importance of what black literacy mean right now,
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  Speaker 4: in Black literature and us having a voice and us
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  Speaker 4: being able to put these things out there and getting
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  Speaker 4: it before people because they're taking so much from us. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: I definitely want you to hang around. I'm gonna bring
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  Speaker 4: up my next guest and I'm gonna bring you all right,
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  Speaker 4: can continue continue this conversations as a panel, So bring
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  Speaker 4: my next guest up, Doctor Chen.
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  Speaker 8: I feel really beautiful and great, right now I'm still
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure what to follow with. I wish you
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  Speaker 8: asked me first, because sister Queen not to Lee kind
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  Speaker 8: of set a particular standard that I hope I can
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  Speaker 8: still just kind of roll with this anchor with because
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  Speaker 8: you have given us a wonderful array of what you
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  Speaker 8: bring and continue to bring in terms of your work
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  Speaker 8: as a literary artist, as an author, and especially when
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  Speaker 8: I heard the photography piece and I said, okay, we're
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  Speaker 8: diversifying too, I said, this is powerful, powerful, beyond measure.
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  Speaker 8: So it's honor to be amongst such great persons that
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  Speaker 8: are willing to engage with this visionary sister Queen Angela
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  Speaker 8: and all of the different elements of one hundred authors
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  Speaker 8: to watch in twenty twenty five, and I won't limit
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  Speaker 8: it to twenty twenty five. I'll just say one hundred
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  Speaker 8: authors to watch period. Yeah, grateful, see you know you.
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  Speaker 6: I can just keep it going.
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  Speaker 8: I'm listening and I'm anchoring because I just heard a
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  Speaker 8: lot and I was sitting here taking notes.
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  Speaker 6: I brought a pan out. It's not just my laptop.
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  Speaker 6: I had to write, and I know.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sitting here and I'm like, I just told
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  Speaker 4: her to talk about herself, and I know she's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna do that, so let me come on.
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  Speaker 3: On here so I can not her and to share
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  Speaker 3: and tonight because she's y'all.
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  Speaker 4: When I tell y'all, a lady that wears many hats,
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  Speaker 4: a other six, a grandmother, a professor.
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  Speaker 3: A a A, a.
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  Speaker 4: Natural path and the least go on and on and
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  Speaker 4: I and I cannot give her.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't do it right.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't even want to introduce her because I
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  Speaker 4: know I messed up.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's from your heart, nocess. It's really important that
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  Speaker 8: how we engage with each other, especially through the space
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  Speaker 8: of being creative artists. Just what you said is enough
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  Speaker 8: because no one here is looking for my CV I
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  Speaker 8: hope not. But if you do want to see that,
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  Speaker 8: that could be available via email. But that's not the
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  Speaker 8: nature of this way that we're engaging. You know, we're
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  Speaker 8: sharing who we are, what we bring to the table,
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  Speaker 8: why our voices matter, and being a grandmother and of
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  Speaker 8: itself is just bringing truth to light because we're carrying
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  Speaker 8: on legacy. Being an author has been something that has
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  Speaker 8: always been part of my journey because I was always
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  Speaker 8: writing either for myself learning to copy edit for other persons,
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  Speaker 8: you know, serving as a journalist in my professional realms
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  Speaker 8: teaching communications and media and technology, you know, in an
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  Speaker 8: academic space, and so there's like a fusion. It's one
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  Speaker 8: thing to do writing for others or giving voice to others,
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  Speaker 8: but it's a different realm when you get to share
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  Speaker 8: it from your own space, from your own heart space.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm very grateful to be able to be a
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  Speaker 8: part of this. And as I've shared in the past,
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  Speaker 8: yes I do things in the academic realm. I do
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  Speaker 8: a lot of work that is guided to humanitarian efforts,
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  Speaker 8: you know, really helping people, to help people, to help
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  Speaker 8: people right. You know, I've had the honor and privilege
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  Speaker 8: of delivering hundreds of children naturally, usually spaces that are
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  Speaker 8: not fully equipped with the traditional quote unquote maternity care,
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  Speaker 8: prenatal care, you know, for our women folk, and really
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  Speaker 8: helping families to live well, to live naturally, irrespective of
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  Speaker 8: whatever liquid wealth capital wealth that they might not have.
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  Speaker 8: So some of my work, that's where the naturopathic holistic
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  Speaker 8: element comes in, and not just here in the forty
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  Speaker 8: eight contiguous US or even in the Caribbean America, as
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  Speaker 8: a lot of my work does take me and keeps
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  Speaker 8: me doing work and giving and being participatory to efforts
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  Speaker 8: in the African continent. And it's not limited to a
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  Speaker 8: resurgence of the enslavement experience. It's always about how do
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  Speaker 8: we honor our women, our men, our children, our elders
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  Speaker 8: in these communities, regardless of some of the challenges and
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  Speaker 8: chaostical forward So a lot of my writing has been
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  Speaker 8: through creative lens, whether it's to write place that give
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  Speaker 8: people can handle the story of some of the issues
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  Speaker 8: that have happened to people of African ancestry, through a play,
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  Speaker 8: through a musical, through something that has a little humor
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  Speaker 8: in it so that persons can at least take it
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  Speaker 8: a liqulaito then the trauma that may be engaged, but
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  Speaker 8: it's still a teaching tool. So some of my publications
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  Speaker 8: have always been around doing writing prose that tell a legacy.
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  Speaker 8: For example, I did a piece called Queens of Divergins.
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  Speaker 8: When I first wrote this particular publication, it was just
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  Speaker 8: called three Queens of the Virgin Islands because it was
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  Speaker 8: literally the history and the legacy of the freedom fighting
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  Speaker 8: women of Saint John, particularly Queen refew In seventeen thirty three,
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  Speaker 8: an African woman that originally we thought came from West
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  Speaker 8: Africa and Ghana later found out that she was actually
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  Speaker 8: from a space in the interior closer to what is
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  Speaker 8: now the Congo and parts of Angola and connected to
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  Speaker 8: the Endongo Kingdom. She was captured. She was a freedom fighter,
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  Speaker 8: a warrior queen. When she was captured, she was brought
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  Speaker 8: again into Ghana, taken from Ghana across the Atlantic into
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  Speaker 8: Saint Thomas, our sister island where I'm sitting now, from
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  Speaker 8: Saint Croix, and they took her over to our smaller
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  Speaker 8: island where it was more controlled, they thought. In the
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  Speaker 8: seventeen thirties, and specifically seventeen thirty three, in the early
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  Speaker 8: parts of the year, and by November twenty third, this
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  Speaker 8: woman led a revolution that was one of the earlier
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  Speaker 8: revolutions of colding the island of Saint John as an
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  Speaker 8: independent African nation, flag and everything, and they were able
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  Speaker 8: to hold on in the.
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  Speaker 6: Midst of enslavement.
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  Speaker 8: Just keep in mind the Danish were enslaving the Spanish War,
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  Speaker 8: enslaving the English. It was a lot going on in
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  Speaker 8: those areas, and this freedom fighting woman, alongside other royals.
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  Speaker 8: You know, they referred to them as Kanta and Claus,
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  Speaker 8: coming from other parts of the African continent. So I
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  Speaker 8: was writing this story, and when I was writing it,
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  Speaker 8: you know because you hear people talk about these things.
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  Speaker 8: But then it forced me to have to go not
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  Speaker 8: only into Saint John and look at the archives that
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  Speaker 8: we have from Danish record, the academic side, and then
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  Speaker 8: go to Ghana and look at that record. That's how
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  Speaker 8: we found out that she was actually transported from the
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  Speaker 8: interior of Africa. So it was like I used my
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  Speaker 8: academic side alongside my creative side and created this play
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  Speaker 8: that allowed us to have the actress maintain.
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  Speaker 6: Character as if she was really her.
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  Speaker 8: They called them chittaquas, right, So I did the same
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  Speaker 8: thing for women of the Revolution of Labor, the Fireburn
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  Speaker 8: of eighteen seventy eight, the Saint Kroid that was Queen Mary,
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  Speaker 8: and then the first six that's for nonviolent protests in
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  Speaker 8: Saint Thomas led by another woman, Queen Kaziah.
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  Speaker 6: And so this piece was one of my early.
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  Speaker 8: Journeys into authorship because I was attempting to find a
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  Speaker 8: way to be able to tell stories in a creative way,
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  Speaker 8: but to make sure that it wasn't just like make believe,
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  Speaker 8: that it was grounded in authentic humanities and social science
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  Speaker 8: research and studies, and it allowed me to have another
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  Speaker 8: tool to use, another resource to use when I was
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  Speaker 8: teaching my students or my children or my grandchildren. And
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  Speaker 8: it ultimately has been expanded into a short film which
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  Speaker 8: people are really trying to get me to produce as
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  Speaker 8: a full film. So my authorship is multi is multi
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  Speaker 8: pronged because some of these very research based and then
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  Speaker 8: some of it is creative. People don't know it's you know,
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  Speaker 8: it's just it's an opportunity for us to be able
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  Speaker 8: to bring another layer of the work together. So I'll
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  Speaker 8: use that one because there's other pieces. I mean, I
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  Speaker 8: really didn't want to focus just on my academic writing,
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  Speaker 8: especially after listening to Sister Queen Natalie. I better come
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  Speaker 8: with some diversity on that.
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  Speaker 3: I learned something new about you today that I didn't know.
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  Speaker 6: Play right, Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You never disclosed that play right?
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  Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 6: I actually earned that Humanities Award for that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, see another Humanities Award for a Playwrights Award for poetry.
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  Speaker 3: And then you don't want me see what I've been
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  Speaker 3: talking about see.
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  Speaker 4: See see, I'll tell y'all, y'all have to know those
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  Speaker 4: that labor amongst you.
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  Speaker 3: Get to know those in your circle. It.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know you had all that in in in
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  Speaker 4: the suitcase.
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  Speaker 6: The backpack, backpack small small.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm.
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  Speaker 3: See you just close something new.
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  Speaker 4: So now while you're sitting over there on the back
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  Speaker 4: burner waiting to come back on, yeah, let me see
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  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna be now, I got to bring him up. See, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: see see what I y'all see what I've been talking about. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: it's all fun. It's all fun. I love doctor Chen.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know that she was a playwright. See, I
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  Speaker 4: learned something, I'm telling y'all. I really learned something about
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  Speaker 4: this queen. Every time we get a chance to sit down, See,
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  Speaker 4: we don't often get a chance to really sit.
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  Speaker 6: Down and do this.
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  Speaker 4: So I am really enjoying this because most of the
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  Speaker 4: time I'm always the one that's behind the scenes making
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  Speaker 4: sure that you know they're getting seen and.
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  Speaker 5: They're able to to to to do this.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: So I'm enjoying this because I'm learning something new about
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: a lot of these authors, a lot of these holds,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a lot of these amazing people like you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you. I'm so glad you said.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and we're grateful that you gave us an opportunity
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  Speaker 8: to be able to be in this type of collaboration.
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  Speaker 6: This is powerful.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: A lot of times we don't get an opportunity to
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: have these types of cross pollination, this synergy with persons
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: from different walks of life, different perspectives, you know, various
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: cultural traditions and various backgrounds, and it gives us an
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: opportunity to be able to expand and let the world
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: see the type of greatness, the type of resilience, the
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: type of creativity, and the power of prosperity, whether it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: in culture, healing, arts, technology, spirituality, whatever areas.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: So we're always appreciative of being.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Able to bring this type of knowledge, not just knowledge,
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: but wisdom.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: That's the word I was looking for, you know.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: And give them thanks, you know, to the Almighty for
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: being able to bring us in this type of fusion.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: I'm grateful.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, while we're gonna move on and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: bring up mister Zach and we're gonna bring you back
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: in a little while. We're gonna bring everybody together in
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: a little while, because y'all, we're gonna dive in this conversation.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: So hold on, I'll bring you back back. I'm gonna
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: bring you back.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: As soon as I get Zach ready. I should have
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: been getting you ready, but.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I was over here.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I was see she She caught me off guard because
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: she was talking about something I ain't know nothing about,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: and I was.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Over here listening and taking notes because.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be ready.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: M h.
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  Speaker 8: M hmm.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: That's okay. I don't know what happened to my other
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: pictures that, but that's okay. I'm gonna bring him up
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: on it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: On the red carpet. That's okay.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I bring him up on the red carpet.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: That's okay. Come on in, Come on in, Zack.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: You you want me to come behind that? You want
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: me to come behind like that? Hey, hey, listen, you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: were writing. I was taking notes in my phone. Listen, listen, listen,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: this just Adam on Laser top of Layers day. We're
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: gonna bring on Zack. You need to bring me on
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: no time. I just sit here.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Just listen.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You gotta tell everyone to who you are, so I had.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: To bring you home.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, thanks for having me number one. So
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: my name is Zachary. I am from Chelestera, South Carolina,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the Geechee Galla place that you ever you know. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: am a poet first writer second. So the reason why
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I said that because I like to have people listen
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to what I have to say before I write it down.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And I just want to capture the moment on people
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: faces and how their impact on my words. So that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: why the reason why I said that first, and I
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: got a book out there called datut Emotion of the Journey.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And this is like a book called like it's look
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: said a therapy book for people who.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Was reading it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's all about heartbreaking, betrayal, loaning list. It got different
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: sections in it. So the reason why I started writing
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: this book because.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I was lost. I was lost, I was.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Heartbroken and I wanted to help somebody who feel the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: same way I feel. And I didn't know where to
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: start at where too directly, like I ain't have no clue.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: So one of my good friends said, just start writing,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: just to start writing, start writing, start writing, start writing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And I started writing, create this poetry book. And I
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: was like, how can I ask something different for somebody
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: who can read this, so before you start reading different
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: sections of the book, it's like a therapy. It's ask
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you a bunch of questions before you realad and after
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: you read each poem, it asked you a couple other
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: questions afterwards. So it gets you really thinking who you
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: are or as a person.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: It gets you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Really thinking of thinking about your past or how you
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: grow up, or how people treated you. And it thinks
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: of you in the presence, and it thinks of you
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: how you moving on the future. And just to just
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: be in this movement is it's so amazing because I
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: don't get this opportunity a lot, like just being from
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: my generation, on my part of Generation z E, we
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: don't get this a lot of importation and just to
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: connect with different people around the world.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: So I'm very grateful for that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: And especially we are celebrating Black History Month like well,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: we celebrate Black History Month like thirty six seven every
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: single day.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: But to just.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: To have this moment and have this Black movement and
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: showing that we can't do anything we put our mind to.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: M hmm.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: That means we can write, we can speak, we can cook,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: we can clean, we can pick anything that we can
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: do put our mind through and for me, I choose
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to write, I choose to use my words in different
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: ways that can help people down their.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Way if they get stuck.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, but like just having those two other ladies speak.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Before me, I learn a lot just just then. I
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: really learned a lot.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And like I'm saying, continue learning a lot during this
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: conversation because baby, like you said, I was just listened
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: to her and I'm trying to write this thing down
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: like speaks some more speaks. The more we need this,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: especially like my generation, we definitely need this. So yeah,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: that's a little that's a little bit. So that's a
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: It's something about me.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: But we're gonna jump on in this conversation. It is
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Black History Month and with all that's going on, don't
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: want to make it political, but with all that's going on,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I d e, I, oh gosh, what what what?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: What?
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I want to know what that? And that was that
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: just popped in my head. That was not that was
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: not one of the questions. I don't think that was
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: one of the questions. But d e, I, that's something
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: that I've been seeing.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Floating around all of the social media sites. What does
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: that word mean to you?
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Guys.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna share before I go around and let you
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: guys share what that means to you, because when everybody
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: kept talking about this, it was just like my spirit
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: kept saying, why is you even listening to that? Because
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: you are divinely purposed, so you you ain't got to
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: worry about that. And then if you if you say
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: that you trust and you believe the Word, then that
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven sums it up because he
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: already said, he declared that he had a plan for you,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: so we ain't even got to question that. So divine,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: divinely purposed, So that's shit, D and E.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: The E what did he give me for the E?
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Oh empowerment?
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: We we we we we as we empower ourselves, we
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: empower those around.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Us, and we be intentional.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: The things that he's called us to. According to Jeremiah
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: twenty nine and eleven, he does a plan. So if
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: there's a plan, then guess what. But faith with that
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: works is dead. And that's what the words, So the
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: word say that we gotta we gotta be intentional about
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: those things. So that's what y'all doing tonight. Y'all are
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: being intentional about your legacy. You're being intentional about those
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: things that that you were purpose to do, that you
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: know that you were called to do. So that that
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: That's what I want to hear about. What does d
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: e I mean to you? Because when they say it
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: was being took away, it didn't phaze me? So did
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: did did it? Did it fade? Who did it phase
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: on the panel? Did it phase anybody on the panel?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: It phased you?
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: It didn't quickly face me.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: It FA's like a lot of people around me, And
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it does affect a lot of people around me because
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: those like d I opening doors for a lot of
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: people for you for the script out of way, and
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of people lost their jobs, especially some of
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: my friends that I know it hurts because we could
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: not go in and be like, Okay, this person could
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: be better than us and we don't even have a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: chance because they don't look like me. And just for
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: him just to erase all that and just based off America.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: It is so wrong because now it's setting me back
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and some of my friends like, we don't have we
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: we it's like we can't compete.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: In the room.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: And I know that's hard for saying that we have
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: a chance back for like, think about it, we don't
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: have a chance in the room because people we don't
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: have people to look like us in the room. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I feel like we have to fight more to just
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: even getting in the door, not sitting down with them,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: just to even just like getting the door. That's even hard.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: So that's how I feel about you know, d I.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: So while I'm talking to them, I want you to
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: think about because we we we share and then we're
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: at this point, so now what do we do about
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: it that I want you to think about?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: What?
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to follow up with you Angela in
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: the respect that if you say that you are a
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: follower of Christ, you can't you can't let this get
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: to you because it is. It's a depressing situation that
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: we're going through. It's easy to get caught up in
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: all the negativity, but you have got to stand on
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: God's word that he has a plan and everything is
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: going to work out for our good.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: So exactly, I hear you.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: It's affecting people around me in the sense that people
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: are losing their jobs. That's that is heartbreaking. That is
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: our heartbreaking because with everything being as high as it
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: is already people are barely making it now, so He's
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: just made it that much harder. But we have got
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: to stand on the world of God. And that's where
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: I am, because if I let myself get caught up,
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna be depressed. I'm gonna be stressed, and that's
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: not what God has for me. So that's where I
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: am on the whole Dee.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: I have a very similar perspective because of where I
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: sit in the daytime, which is probably why many persons
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: in my non gen Z generation are in a stress mood.
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: If you don't have strength in your spiritual groundings. Some
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: persons use that term faith, some persons use the term
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: my arts, some persons use that phrase that's really grounding
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: to all that the Creator gives you if you're not
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: in a place of strength. And I'd like persons to
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: recognize that all of these things that have happened to
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: interfere with DEI and for those in the back of
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: the room, the diversity, equity, inclusion piece, this is something
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: that we were doing as humans before they called it DEI.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: We already knew.
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: About balance and justice and righteousness and order, and it
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: wasn't just equality because equality isn't always the quest. It
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: was so that persons would have that equitable distribution of wealth,
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: that equitable distribution of education, that equitable distribution of belonging right.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: Because what is happening now is another form and I
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: speak truth to power when I say this, but it's
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: a very very deep form of trauma, very deep form
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: of an institutional intentional enslavement of our very body, mind, soul,
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: spirit and consciousness. If we let it do that, absolutely,
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: the more that we keep ourselves grounded, you know, as
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: you've shared and that word and that journey that tried,
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: that walk of Christ. You say Christ, I say kiosk right,
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: some people say yes you are so you know, there's
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: like the names, but the essence is that we are
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: walking in divine light, protected by a creator that keeps
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: illumination at the center of our protection. And if we
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: forget that, which is easy to forget because you can't
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: afford to buy food, you have to choose between buying mediciation,
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: sending the turan with the resources they need to in school,
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: or pay rent or which bill will you delete?
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: Will it be the cable which is easy to let go.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: But yeah, like things like electricity, clean water, your sewage,
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: your wayt management issues and rent and least or mortgage
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: or whatever. If you're worried about just existing in your
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: day to day, it becomes very challenging to then deal
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: with this next trauma and this next chaos where persons
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: are questioning the very rights, human rights, inalienable rights that
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: we as people of African ascent not gonna keep coming
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: back to that. I'm so grateful that we're doing this
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: during the quote unquote band Black History Art. How you
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: gonna ban something you didn't start? How you going what
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: kind of authority? And again, yes, you sit in that
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: potus chair and you have some armor bearers that support,
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: but you don't have the authority, the right, and you
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: should not exercise such a privilege and a protocol to
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: dismantle something that preceded you by decades and scores, right,
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: And I think it's a it's a disregard to the
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: very humanity of our of our of our communities, of
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: our families. This is to what else can we do
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: to dismantle the families of African people. We're done and
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: slave them? They okay, they survived that, all right, we
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: don't mash them up. Okay, they survived that. All right,
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: we don't interfere with their formulation of their spiritual religious engagements. Okay,
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: but they survived that. To wait, we take all their money.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: They survived that. To wait, we didn't give them land.
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: We teeth that land. We still teeth in that land,
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: and bulldozing people's homes and places like Costa Rica as
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: we speak to black people and mind you and then
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: you're saying you want to take over the Panama Canal
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty five, saying.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: But you worry't about a while, you worry't about a
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: anyway I could.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: And it's not.
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: Because I could do this one as a political it's
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: just the truth of how do we restore our humanity?
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: You know we are?
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: And then to then aggravate things in the African continent
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: in places where there was a quest for peace. You
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: see people trying to get over very hostile, very terrorist
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: driven activities. When you see them starting to put the
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: Creator and the word of the Creator at the center
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: of establishing peace, you're gonna still throw another set of
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: bombs and trauma at them. That's like, that's no longer human. Yeah,
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: So I agree, yea. I tend to see that DEI piece,
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: that's just one of them, you know, But it's the DEI,
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: the land, theft, the If you say anything that's anti Semitic,
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: what about anything that's anti African. If you want to
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: talk about we can't say nothing about Israel and genocide,
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: then you should be saying we don't appreciate genocide anywhere.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: How about that? Like, you should be consistent. You can't
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: just pick one over the other. You can't just pick
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: up all the black and brown people and say that
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: they're supposed to be deported and some of them never
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: ever live in the places that you deported them to,
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: like one in this country called the US. That means
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: you should stop singing the Pledge of Allegiance. You should
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: stop talking about liberty, freedom and justice for all. You
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: should just smash down this little constitution. You keep making
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: people think that you amend and now you're trying to
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: take away the amendments to a document that allowed you
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: to be in a position you're in. So I'm just
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: suggesting strongly. I usually don't bring these particular things up
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: because people it becomes, you know, very challenging to some.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: But when we our authors, when we are doing was
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: that put pen to pay a bond.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: It's our responsibility to bring truth to power and to
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: keep the word, as you say of God, I say
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: of Netada, of the word of the Creator at the
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: center of what we're bringing to the to the table,
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: so that that way, even when people read what we write,
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: they still have not just hope, not just faith, but
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: they have like a lifelong eternal resolve that what they're
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: doing over there, that's the distraction lead them over. So
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: you know, how you say Satan not today, how you
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: say the wicked arrow, go back to sender that one.
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: You know, the I'll yield on that one.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, I mean you you nail did you
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: every you hit everything the head?
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I mean you did that?
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: And just thinking, like I send out some questions that
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I may ask, and just sitting here looking at the questions,
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: I was like, man, this man is wiping away everything.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: One of the questions was reflected on legacy left by
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: prominent figures in Black history. How do you envision your
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: work to your work contributing to broadening the narrative that
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: they've left, like Martin Luther King, like all those that
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: have come before us, that they are now wanting to
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: wipe away with the wiping away of the civil rights.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I mean what I mean, what more than a slap
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: in the face to all of us, you know, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: even the ones of us that looked.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Like us that voted for this man.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: God, you know, it's so many that and proudly voted
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: for and and and now it's like a slap in
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: the face because now he's slapping you.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: He like going left and right in your face, telling you.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: That he don't care when he already told you before.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: But you're still voted for him, right. So I want
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: to know how important it's being an author right now
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: in this season for y'all?
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, being an author right now in that season
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: and having all this stuff that's going on. How important
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: is being an author being able to leave your voice
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: to y'all?
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: It's a ultimate I mean, he may be he may
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: be wiping away what's on paper, but what's in our
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: heart and in our spirit, he can't touch that exactly.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: So when we put that on paper and we get
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: it out to the world, we pass that on to
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: our children, then there's nothing he can do. He can talk,
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: but he can't he cannot crush what's inside of us, right.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: I echo that because there's a lot that is being
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: shared from and it's intergenerational sharing, and there's some elders
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: that are just so overwhelmed. Like I was sharing that
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: with one of my family members earlier today, there's just
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: some persons. You know, you see them at services, you
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: know you have certain fellowship with them, and there it's
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: almost like a despondence. And this was intentional to if
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: we can't break their spirit, then we're gonna break their bank.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: We're gonna threaten it. If you say the wrong thing,
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: if you right the wrong thing, if you express what
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: we say, whatever we is because it's not just him,
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: like one of the things that's you know how they
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: like to say that this is the leader and this
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: is the person of source. Make sure I say this
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: in the most diplomatic way possible. He doesn't possess the
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: skilled talent or expertise to be the formulator of many
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: of the things he's doing.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: There's an entire institutional machinery.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: Multiple persons, that facility and allow that head plice that
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: sits in that potish chair to appear XYZ. So I
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: want to give some disclosure I have, like all of us,
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: we have family members that were out there supporting that
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: party have As a matter of fact, it created hostility
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: inside of our bloodlines in a way that was really
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: unprecedented for many because we were like, but why are
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: you questioning democracy forgetting that? To some people, not all,
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: but to some people, democracy has been being challenged, not
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: just with him, but before him, a lot of challenges
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: on what is this authentic democratic policy principle, et cetera.
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: And through our writing, the more that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: We start to assess give that narrative offer perspective on
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: what is democracy really, what is capitalism really, what is
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: imperialism really? And what is things like you know, various
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: policy zionism Aparthey, you know all these different ism thingies
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: that came up. Notice that none of the things I
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: mentioned were grounded in What we started with is a
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: way of us healing ourselves through spiritual acuity, strengthening our
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: knowledge base in the creator right. If we just stayed
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: on that space, we would probably not you know, we
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: would see these things happening. We've seen crazy, We've had
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: crazy people in the poste chair before.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: This isn't the first time.
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: It's just that it's like we're seeing it live and direct,
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: and it's like a it's like a slide show.
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: You know, you look at the White House dot Go website.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: You know in the.
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: Past you saw activities that were going to happen in
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: proclamations from previous presidents and so forth. Now it's just
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: like a slide show of to me by me, I was.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: I was In twelve hours, we watched an entire website
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: just get turned to some kind of like Facebook X
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: media show. And contrast to helping the people in the
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: United States to be aware and clear of the activities
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: of the executive branch, the judicial brands, and the legislative
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: all of that changed. And that's okay because it's their
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: time to shine. This is who the majority of the
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: electorate in the country shows. Yeah, and see, now I
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: get to I get to claim a little bit of
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: And I have to give that disclaimer too, although I
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: reside in a unincorporated, non self governing territory, make sure
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: you hear what I'm saying of the United States real
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: world colony. In twenty twenty five, in the most expensive
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: real estate per acre at the United States of America
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: ever purchased I just want to highlight that in these
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: Virgin Islands, twenty five million dollars not in dollar money,
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: not in fiat, in gold in nineteen sixteen, if the
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: purchase took place nineteen seventeen, the actual activity happened, right,
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: and people still celebrate this. So we don't get to
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: vote for the president of the United States. Wow, but
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: selective registration. Our people are in the military and have
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: to support whatever the sitting president desires. Just a point
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: of information. Have a representative in Congress, right, and she's
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: doing what is in her best and she's trained and
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: skilled for that position. Yeah, but she cannot vote on
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: the US Congressional floor.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Oh wow.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: And just to add on top of that, you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I think as an author is our due, it's our
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: duty to make sure we get our message across mm
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: hm exactly and being intentional what you mean. And even
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: with this society, even with all the stuff that goes
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: on around especially January, do I feel like January, what's
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: the longest money.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: I've ever been in?
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: But we just can't get sidetracked is what's really important.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people, like us, we
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: get sidetracked like, oh this happened, This happened, that happened.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: We have to mean focus, We have to mean like
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: what is important to us. And as writers when we
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: put things on paper, we have to be intentional what
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: we are doing.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: And who we are reaching to.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Like I said, like, yeah, black history just this one money,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: but I said, black history is every single day.
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: Day.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Not forget that, like even like for me, I want
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: to pass the baton to my next generation who's behind,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: who's going to be in in front of me, to
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, keep writing, don't let this stop you
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: because before before me, there was a lot of great
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: writers who passed the baton to me. And I want
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: to pass baton to you and I want you to
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: keep writing. Don't stop because they are taking away so
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: many rights, are so many laws are banning whatever he's
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: doing that he's thinking it's fit.
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah. They started.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: They started by taking little books out of here, taking
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: little books.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: Out of there.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: You can't do that, but you can see you can.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: And so they took and curse it right now, so
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: children don't know how to sign their names no more.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: They they took social studies out, so kids don't know
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: where they're going.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: They just out here, just ryding, just going.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: If they say it's north, you could be going south
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: because they don't know because they don't took they don't
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: took everything out and and and they don't lie and
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: and and told us that that this is this and
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: this is that. And then you go and you find
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: you you research it yourself. It's totally different from what
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: they told you. They want to tell you that we
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: came from some some some some.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Apes and chains.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: And you you don't want to to give the real
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: history to our kids because you say it's causing y'all
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: kids trauma. But what about the trauma that we that
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: we was caused, that this happened to us, so the trauma.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: We endure, but want to you want to take everything
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: away from our kids.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: You don't want our kids to know their history because
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: it's causing trauma to the ones that cause the trauma.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I don't get that.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I think for that and just to I think it's
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: our responsibility, right even though they moved the books and
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: everything outside of the classroom, is our responsibility to tell
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: our history and what we learned, Like it's our responsibility,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: like I said a pastor baton, like the race the
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: history is never relates like you can write all these
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: They could burn all the books down in the world,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: take it out, whatever they could do with it. But
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: like I said, it's our responsibilities to tell the story
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: before us.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: It's it's our responsibility to make sure that our kids
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: are being educated because it's not happening within the school system.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: That's what the school system is designed for the school system.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: If you if and and and I look back over
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: all the the all the years that I went to school,
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: and I was one of the like they they never
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: taught us anything but how to go and work in
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: somebody job. How they were developing us to go work
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: in plants and meals in my area. I'm gonna save
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: my area because I'm from a place where everybody I
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: could say, all my family, because that's where everybody at.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm outside of the norm because I didn't do it.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: I said I wasn't gonna do it, and I stepped
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: outside and I didn't. But everybody else they retire from
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: these plants, and then they they want to go see
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: which plant they can go work in to make the most.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: And and and and it's the which one you can
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: get in.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the BMW, Bibo, all the Fortune five
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: hundred companies. These are the plants that they trying to
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: get in in my area. But I was not competing
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: for that. But that's what they teach our kids. And
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: they're not teaching our kids how to be entrepreneurs. They're
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: not teaching them how to to to invest. They're not
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: teaching them how to do nothing but to to help
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: somebody else chase their dream and not chase their own dream.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: That that's what they're they're teaching our.
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: Kids, and that's that's that's.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: What I have. That's what I've observed. Now, what have
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: you observed?
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: See I've seen? Okay, I always start with the area
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: of disclosure. So I was very fortunate to have parents
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: that used to let me loosen libraries and let me
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: read everything in the children's section until I got bored,
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: and they would grant me permission to go into certain
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: sections because some of the it was some trash in
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: the adult section. So my parents were very particular learn
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: what I was allowed to read, et cetera.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: But they gave me things.
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: And I'd like to go back to the peace on
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: the children and what we're what our responsibility is to
• 55:11
  Speaker 8: teach them, and hence you have parents like myself. I
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: do not homeschool my grandchildren yet, but I homeschooled my
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: birth children because I knew that there were certain things
• 55:24
  Speaker 8: that were going to be challenging for them in the
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: public or even a private school setting. Right but even
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: in a limited small space. It's only eighty four square
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: miles the island of Saint Pour, so we're very small,
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: and I knew that there was going to be some issues.
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: But that didn't mean that I didn't give them that
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: opportunity to be able to socialize. Those that know my children,
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: they're probably more social than they need to be. But
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: that I've been able to help other families to know
• 55:54
  Speaker 8: how to engage with homeschool and we started a Virgin
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: Islands Homeschooling and Natural Educators and Sociation, so the parents
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: that were homeschooling would actually be more proficient and have
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: the support from educators to help educate our children in
• 56:11
  Speaker 8: the areas. You know, some of our families were Muslim,
• 56:14
  Speaker 8: so they didn't have a Muslim school at that time here.
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: Once they got that, then many of them moved into that.
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: Some of our.
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: Children are part of the Rastafari community and it was
• 56:25
  Speaker 8: a challenge for them. There were times where children that
• 56:28
  Speaker 8: had lucks even now, they couldn't go to public or
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: even private schools, right, so we had to find ways
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: to assist them and the content. Like I tell persons,
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: I'm not interested in doing a Eurocentric form of education
• 56:43
  Speaker 8: for children that are African ascendants, right. We have to
• 56:48
  Speaker 8: give them a very wholesome, a very wide, a very
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: global type of education. You can't use the British infantry
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: system and think it's going to educate Those systems were
• 56:58
  Speaker 8: not designed to educate our children, and that's something that
• 57:03
  Speaker 8: we tend to overlook. So I wanted to come back
• 57:05
  Speaker 8: to this. What we now know is the Association for
• 57:08
  Speaker 8: the Study of African American Life and History, which used
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: to be the Negro the Association for the Study of
• 57:16
  Speaker 8: Negro Life, et cetera, et cetera. These are the things
• 57:19
  Speaker 8: that doctor Carter G. Woodson, the founding formulator of black history.
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: At one point it was Negro History Week, then it
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: became Negro History Month, then it expanded into various associations.
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: It wasn't only the Black History Month. The designation that
• 57:38
  Speaker 8: he should be remembered for wasn't only his publication, The
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: Miseducation of the Negro.
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: He was about black people publishing.
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: So for us to be sitting here talking about authors
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: and authorship during Black History Month, we're doing exactly what
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: our forefathers and great achievers like doctor Carter G. Woodson
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: formulated way back in the early parts of the twentieth century.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: And it's our responsibility to add that layer of how
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: we engage, how we compose, how we publish, how we distribute,
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: how we market, how do we give our own entrepreneurial
• 58:18
  Speaker 8: twang or niche, whatever you'll technique, your strategy to this
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: entire movement, so that our authorship that persons not only
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: are going to look for what we're producing, not that
• 58:31
  Speaker 8: they're gonna just criticize it. They will critique, but they're
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: going to benefit and assist us in getting that message.
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: These messages plural out, whether it's a romantic novel, whether
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: it's a self help book, whether it's a historical publication,
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: whether it's a play.
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: Whatever we produce.
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: We are creating a pathway for persons to really engage
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: and support this level of excellence, this level of edification,
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: not just education and not just schooling, but edification where
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: we're helping people to invoke and evoke the levels of
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: excellence that take us into these future generations, regardless of
• 59:12
  Speaker 8: gen Z, general, millennial whatever. Yeah, yeah, I think I
• 59:18
  Speaker 8: can yield there.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Like I said, girl, I'm taking notes over here, like
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: what she's saying.
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna send. I'm gonna send you what I'm reading from.
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: That's how that's how we do. That's you know, there's
• 59:34
  Speaker 8: a technique to a lot of this, because there's I mean,
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: we would as we're speaking. It's just making me remember
• 59:41
  Speaker 8: persons like doctor A. Shillier the third, May he rest
• 59:44
  Speaker 8: in peace, in his name be honored whenever it's spoken,
• 59:47
  Speaker 8: because he spoke to this, he wrote a curricula and
• 59:51
  Speaker 8: publications and handbooks. And see, that's what many people are
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: starting to glean from. So even though this chaos in
• 59:59
  Speaker 8: the midst of the body politic really is designed to
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: traumatize and make everybody become so desponded that they don't function,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: we have to fast from that and move with that
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: focus into what we know and have been ordained to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: implement and make it so that we have actionable deliverables
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: that benefit us.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: So that's another element of this authorship.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: Whatever everybody's writing, and it could be funny stuff I guess,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: could be animation. Whatever the whole idea is, each portion
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: is adding to the pool. It's like a laser beam
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: of light in terms of what persons are going to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: be producing and bringing out. And for that, you know,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: I keep saying thank you, sister Queen Angela, because not
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: everyone is comfortable pulling together like that.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: Some persons I don't know if I want to write
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: with you.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I want to do them kind
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: of thing I don't have time to do and just
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: do what is it procrastination exactly. So this is forcing
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: the hand of all of us to, like you said,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: work together, communicate within our groups outside of our groups,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: the group leaders persons that you know. For me, sometimes
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: I have a spurt and I'm writing like all the time,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: every day, NonStop, and then there's times where it just
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: slows down and I just go swimming and scuba diving
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: to get my balance right, and other people do other things.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: But whatever that is, if we keep our energy and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 8: our focus on what is the great outcome of this
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: movement of authoring work that is of a quality, that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: actually helps and saves some people. Oh then we've we've
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: done our charge and I think come is great.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: Wow, absolutely, I agree. Well, I want to go.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: Around the room because we've been dropping some nuggets tonight
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: and I want everybody to be able to connect with
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: you guys and be able to support your platforms.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: And all of the stuff. So I'm gonna start with
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: doctor Chan.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: How can we connect with you, stay connected with you,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: bother you, support you.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: I am honored.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: One of the fastest ways is by looking for chin
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 8: Zera c h E n z as and z I
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: r A Khena and I'm on virtually all social media
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 8: probably accept X right, and that way you can find
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: out some of the things that I'm engaged in and
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 8: the projects. You can also go to my YouTube page
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: which is ast speaks A S T s p E
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: A K S. Again A S T speaks s P
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: E A K S. And that way you can see
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: some of the videos and media that I've been involved
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 8: in in some of the lectures, workshops, presentation and dance shows.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 8: Sometimes we just have like a you know, I like
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: to DJ, but I just like to DJ like the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: music I like, and I have my own personal party,
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  Speaker 8: and I just invite people to come to my personal party,
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  Speaker 8: so that's another option. And then if persons would like
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  Speaker 8: to know more direct kind of conversations, then I encourage
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  Speaker 8: you to email me at ost Speaks A S T
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  Speaker 8: S P E A K s at gmail dot com
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  Speaker 8: or per unc P E R A n k H
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  Speaker 8: per unc at me dot com. And per unc simply means.
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  Speaker 6: House of life.
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  Speaker 8: So you have a variety of ways of reaching me.
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  Speaker 8: And always look at whatever's going on around the visionary
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  Speaker 8: sister Queen Angela, she'd be pulling us in right. First
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  Speaker 8: and third, I gotta remember that podcast, the Crew Podcast.
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  Speaker 8: My broadcast is the first and third Thursday at eight
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  Speaker 8: pm Eastern Standard Time within.
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  Speaker 6: The Crew podcast network. You have a variety of ways
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  Speaker 6: to reach good.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks amen, Amen, And if you did not get that,
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  Speaker 4: you always can reach out to me, miss and Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: How can we follow support and connect with you?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 7: Well, you can follow me on Instagram at Natalie R.
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  Speaker 7: Murphy Author. I also have Natalie R. Murphy Author on Facebook.
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  Speaker 6: That page.
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  Speaker 7: If you're looking for tips on writing and self publishing,
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  Speaker 7: then that's the page you want to follow. Because I
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  Speaker 7: self published all of my books. I've also created a
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  Speaker 7: workshop to teach people how to self publish, and to
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  Speaker 7: date I started about a year ago. I have five
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  Speaker 7: authors who have completed the process, who have published their
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  Speaker 7: books to our Distinguished Authors Guild Winners, So I'm very
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  Speaker 7: proud of that. You can also reach me if you
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  Speaker 7: want to follow my romance writing journey with some fun
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  Speaker 7: stuff at make Room for Romance on Facebook. Yes, make Room,
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  Speaker 7: Make Room for Romance, and then you can also contact
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  Speaker 7: me on my website. You can also see all the
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  Speaker 7: books that I've written. If you like hot and see me,
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  Speaker 7: I got you. It's My website is natsbooks dot net.
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  Speaker 7: That's it A T S b o O k S Yes, Zachtly,
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  Speaker 7: you will need to take your glasses off for some
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  Speaker 7: of these.
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  Speaker 6: Off start fanning.
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  Speaker 3: But and you're really gonna fan now this one. This
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  Speaker 3: is my new release.
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  Speaker 7: This is Making Room for Romance, a flirty guy to
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  Speaker 7: passion and play and it gives all kinds of too.
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  Speaker 7: So let me ask out is did y'all know that
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  Speaker 7: June ninth and six nine days, Yeah, broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: I already put it out there.
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  Speaker 7: So and the Sunday after Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 6: M H.
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  Speaker 3: I got all this kind of stuff in my book.
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  Speaker 7: If you want to spice up this Valentine's Day or
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  Speaker 7: your love life in general, hit me up on my website.
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  Speaker 3: I got you.
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  Speaker 6: Where's my fan? I'm gonna have to get. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: have to get.
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  Speaker 3: You can polish yourself. I think zactly gone.
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  Speaker 6: You saw I went and got my fan.
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  Speaker 8: All right, I'm good, just learning new things, new things.
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  Speaker 6: Check it out.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't nothing wrong keeping this spicy. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been married thirty eight years for nothing.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, okay, now experience, ma'am. Thanks, Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, I am all over social media. I
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  Speaker 2: am Zach and Matthews Wims. You can find me on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same that my snaptap TikTok lack Attack one
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  Speaker 2: ninety six. Also, I do have two broadcasts. My first
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  Speaker 2: broadcast is called just Just Two of Us. It's on
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  Speaker 2: all social media just and Also I got a new
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  Speaker 2: broadcast starting on Belly Nation Radio host intern show and
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  Speaker 2: it's called The Black Canvas. It would be February to
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  Speaker 2: eighteen on nine thirty Live. And you know your special
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  Speaker 2: guests is you all? So check me out. I am
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  Speaker 2: so grateful for that opportunity. And like I said, you
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  Speaker 2: can find me anywhere you need to ask me a
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  Speaker 2: personal question.
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  Speaker 5: I'm always willing to help a hand.
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  Speaker 2: I love to connect with other authors, collab with other authors.
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  Speaker 2: I am eager to learn from each other in this
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  Speaker 2: movement that she had created.
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  Speaker 5: And definitely that I'm gonna check the Spicy thing out because.
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  Speaker 7: So Zachary, I'm gonna tell you the current book that
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  Speaker 7: I'm writing. The main male character, his name is Zachary.
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  Speaker 3: Well, right, hold a hold that crown, all that crown.
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  Speaker 6: Let's tell it to.
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  Speaker 3: The right.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm also gonna say for both of you all, I
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  Speaker 7: would love for you all to check out the distinguished
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  Speaker 7: authors guilt you there. It's a world of wealth of information.
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  Speaker 7: There's a book contest. You can enter your books into
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  Speaker 7: the contest. The are they in the year with a
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  Speaker 7: gallop in November.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a real it's it's the real deal.
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  Speaker 7: It's a platform for African American authors and that's why
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  Speaker 7: I really love it.
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  Speaker 3: And they promote you.
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  Speaker 7: They put your books out there in front of other
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  Speaker 7: eyes that you have not been able to get to
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  Speaker 7: get a hold to.
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  Speaker 2: And so check it out on Facebook and speaking of that,
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I am writing my new book this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's very let's to do with trauma, abuse, stalker.
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  Speaker 2: It's like different smaller stories about different people that I
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  Speaker 2: met throughout life, and I just had that in one book.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be phenomenal and I think it's It's
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  Speaker 2: definitely where I'm very proud of writing that. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: very every time I write and every time I hear
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  Speaker 2: the story, it is very emotional.
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  Speaker 5: So list is tuned to that and more information coming sooner.
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  Speaker 3: Much success to you, Thank.
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  Speaker 6: You, much success, much success.
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  Speaker 5: No success for y'all, Like, no, this is our thing.
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  Speaker 6: This is a we take just to be to be.
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  Speaker 2: To be in the room with amazing people and just
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  Speaker 2: open up doors for people you have not met in
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  Speaker 2: the world. And just nick and like she said, a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes ago, people missed the opportunity like this, And
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  Speaker 2: I think for me, I'm like when I got the opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm a harp on. I'm a connect network
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  Speaker 2: because I want to be known. I want to know
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  Speaker 2: other people's story, I want to know other people's backgrounds
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  Speaker 2: so to help me further my education and to improve
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  Speaker 2: my writing. Skills and improved my knowledge on certain things
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know of that's out there.
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  Speaker 5: So that is definitely I'm very grateful to be in
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  Speaker 5: this moment.
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  Speaker 4: We're grateful to have you, so I definitely want to
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  Speaker 4: think I want to thank all three of you guys
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  Speaker 4: are stopping and share with us on tonight. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's not always easy to stop and share, and I
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  Speaker 4: know that you guys are busy, So definitely thank you
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  Speaker 4: for sharing your perspective and really chiming in tonight and
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  Speaker 4: joining in on the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Truly, truly appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Again, before we leave, I always like for my guests
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  Speaker 4: to share something inspirational, something encouraging for those that are
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  Speaker 4: tuned in that will draw those listeners to you. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna start with Zachary. I want you to share something
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  Speaker 4: inspiration or something encouraging that somebody that may be listening
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  Speaker 4: in that they may be struggling, they may want to
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  Speaker 4: write a book, may not know what to do, but
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  Speaker 4: they may have tuned in and heard something tonight that
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  Speaker 4: have inspired them, or they've heard a nugget. So I
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  Speaker 4: want you to drop something in their spirit that would
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  Speaker 4: encourage them to stay on this journey. Like I always say,
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  Speaker 4: you are the voice, and that means stand out for
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  Speaker 4: what you believe in, stand out for you being who
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  Speaker 4: stand up for other people.
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  Speaker 2: You are the voice. You are the voice that stand
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  Speaker 2: up for other people who don't have a voice. Don't
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  Speaker 2: let nobody in the world define who you are at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day. And like I said, if
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  Speaker 2: one door close, another one going to open, and when
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  Speaker 2: you get in that door, make sure all eyes on
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  Speaker 2: you because you are the voice.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna leave that with my people.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Natalie. Can you share something please? Absolutely so.
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  Speaker 7: I have two phrases that I love. The first one
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  Speaker 7: I heard from Joyce Myers. He said, do it scared ooh,
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  Speaker 7: because their fear is there. Fear is there when something
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  Speaker 7: we encounter, something new, we're not used to it, we
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  Speaker 7: don't know what to expect. We tend to back down.
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  Speaker 7: So whatever it is is in your heart that you
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  Speaker 7: want to do, do it scared. My second one is
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  Speaker 7: and I just heard this, No I don't remember who
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  Speaker 7: said it, but they said, just nike that thing. And
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  Speaker 7: that's just another way of saying, just do it, because
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  Speaker 7: if you don't had I not decided to stop trying
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  Speaker 7: to fight with God and give him all the reasons
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  Speaker 7: that I had for not writing a book. I would
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  Speaker 7: not be a multi award winning romance writer. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: have a workshop where I teach other people to be
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  Speaker 7: award winning writers. So whatever it is that God has
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  Speaker 7: put on your heart to do, nike.
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  Speaker 4: That thing, period, Doctor change.
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  Speaker 8: Make sure that you know yourself for the greatest and
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  Speaker 8: highest good, and follow that path that you've been blessed with,
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  Speaker 8: that you've been audained with, that you've been anointed with,
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  Speaker 8: and carry it as far for generations upon generations, of course,
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  Speaker 8: with the blessing of the most High Mother, Father Creator.
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  Speaker 8: And do it well, and do it with excellence, and
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  Speaker 8: keep it moving. Any obstacle that's not for you, that's
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  Speaker 8: only a distraction, and always remember know yourself for the
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  Speaker 8: greatest and highest good.
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  Speaker 6: I hope, I.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you God on tonight, because I tell you I
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  Speaker 4: truly have been blessed by these amazing authors that decided
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  Speaker 4: to stop by and share just a little bit about
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  Speaker 4: their journey and why they chose authorship and how they are.
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  Speaker 3: Creating and leaving a legacy.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that you will follow them, support them if
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  Speaker 4: they have books out that you will go over and
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: purchase a book from their website, leave a review, share
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: your thoughts, your perspective of some of their writings, to
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  Speaker 4: give them some feedback on this journey that they're on.
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  Speaker 4: Because they're sharing from their heart and they're sharing from
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  Speaker 4: their soul, bits and pieces of them, they're leaving and
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  Speaker 4: creating a legacy. I want to thank you guys for
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  Speaker 4: tuning in tonight and sharing just a little bit with us.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be back in two weeks on February the sixteenth,
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  Speaker 4: same time, same space. We're gonna be back showcasing some
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  Speaker 4: more authors that are doing the same thing. They're deciding
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  Speaker 4: to allow their words to speak through the pen, and
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  Speaker 4: they're putting their pen to paper. So join me February
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  Speaker 4: to sixteen, six to eight pm right here as we
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  Speaker 4: continue to celebrate these amazing black and brown authors from
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  Speaker 4: around the world.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all.
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  Speaker 3: I will see y'all then, y'all have a great evening.
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  Speaker 3: Then I