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The Art of Finding and Sharing Your Voice Through Gospel Poetry · Stuck No More Voices

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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm so glad you could join us.
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  Speaker 1: Yet another edition of Unleashing Kingdom Voices.
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  Speaker 1: We'll share a little three minute video in the voice notes and the notes here on this episode.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a treat.
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  Speaker 1: My guest is a gospel poet author professional.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a project specialist, book editor and journaling guide.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, his mission is to share his writing journey with others and by tapping into writing and expressing our voice, we can actively contribute to the world we live in.
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  Speaker 1: Will you please help me Welcome Dwight Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: Dwight, such an honor to have you on today.
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  Speaker 1: Blessings.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, back to you.
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  Speaker 1: Quite exciting that you're called the right warrior.
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  Speaker 1: If you're on the podcast, you can't see that the W-R-I-T-E warrior Now Dwight there's got to be a background story to all this.
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  Speaker 1: Can you help me?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get the details out of your journey to where you are now a gospel poet into publishing project manager.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the beginning of a backstory on all that, dwight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, theresa, thank you so much for having me in this space and being on your wonderful platform.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing, happy, wonderful, blessed sunrise to whoever's listening and to you especially so.
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  Speaker 2: My government name is the right warrior, aka Dwight Thompson, and the way it came about was when I first started publishing in 2020, I wanted to have a pen name that represented my mission, sure.
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  Speaker 2: However, when I went into Amazon to make my author account, I realized you need to have first and last name in order to make it work.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I ended up publishing under my government name, dwight Thompson, and then I started using the right warrior as my social media platform name.
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  Speaker 1: Like that yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the main concept is this I believe fundamentally that, as human beings, one of our missions is to connect our mental with our physical.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes that entails writing down our visions, our dreams, our goals, our aspirations, our fears, our doubts and reasoning with ourselves and finding ways to come to terms.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know that's very correct, because I'm in some neuropsychotherapy and one of the biggest things is daily getting those feelings out, getting those things out.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you I loved to write.
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  Speaker 1: I've been journaling since 2012.
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  Speaker 1: So I went, I started going to an Evernote, though, because the notebooks kind of pow-ha and get dusty, so everything's up in the cloud.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to ask you where you come from, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 2: Pump on a Beach Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So we were going back to the journey and you said something about your mother.
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  Speaker 1: But continue on.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so my mom instilled in me a love of reading because, she would read to me from a very young boy and it enabled me to understand and appreciate the value of words.
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  Speaker 2: And my father, who I write about in my poetry.
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  Speaker 2: He left my life at the age of 13 and I have a poem about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll share it later on.
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  Speaker 2: There's no book, no book.
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  Speaker 2: He was very big on education.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right.
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  Speaker 2: Time he was in the household.
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  Speaker 2: It was all about education and my mom Giving me that nurturing to read and love.
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  Speaker 2: So what ended up happening is I read the entire Bible by the time I was 12 years old and I read Tolkien's work Lord of the Rings by the time I was 13.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you know so from there I entered into different poetry competitions and I was a part of the the youth Competitions from the Rotary Club, the Lions Club in all those great organizations that I kept winning short stories and essays and everything, and then I end up getting married and starting a career in the corporate and the public sector, and it wasn't until 2020 when COVID, that I Refound myself again, and that's why my first book is called pivot, which is the banner behind me, because what I realized was these years I've been working for other people and work as a civil service, but my voice Was no longer relevant, not even to myself, Wow, however when happened and there was job loss, there was homelessness, there was illness.
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  Speaker 2: What it taught me was who I was Internally and what my faith was to me was always there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Into, pivot a little bit, back into that purpose, back into that path, and for me, writing is everything.
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  Speaker 2: That's how we get closer to our self, closer to our beliefs, close to our God, closer to Jesus Christ and.
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  Speaker 2: The warrior part.
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  Speaker 2: It's about you prepare for the battle, but you pray that you never have to fight.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's good, so say that again this world is a lot of different.
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  Speaker 1: Proud brothers say, that again war you prepare Lessons in war.
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  Speaker 2: You prepare for the battle, but you hope you never have to fight.
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  Speaker 2: It's good and I realize that in our world today there are a lot of distractions there are a lot of different things that seek our attention, that want to Make us do things out of our purpose.
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  Speaker 2: You know it could be friendships, it could be family, it could be co-workers, it could be Opportunities, and you never know, unless you stay grounded in God's word, in prayer and your own purpose, so that you stay focused on the path and I wish everyone to be yeah right here, not just myself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's you?
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  Speaker 1: What's in your journey you actually found your voice, going back to writing, and the writing tapped into your beliefs and your faith and then out came Really the strong identity that you have.
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  Speaker 1: Do so.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really believe that?
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  Speaker 1: Someone's looks wondering how can I find my voice?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, then they say, well, I'm not a writer, but we're all have emotions and feelings.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say to someone about Getting those out and really finding their voice again?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I would give it an equivalent of a virtual hug.
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  Speaker 1: I meant it.
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  Speaker 2: Because that is a journey we're all on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so good.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the books I've read.
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  Speaker 2: Ah and it's actually a journal that I developed, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that on Amazon and the whole concept behind it is if you used to write poetry yes, if you used to write people or write poetry or you don't know how to express yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's what that is for, and my next book coming up here's a premise for it.
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  Speaker 2: I want someone who does not like poetry to pick this book up turn to any page, read that page and feel inspired and empowered to write their own poem and to answer your question directly.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about rhyming, it's not about having fancy words, it's not even about trying to be labeled a poet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Self expression.
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  Speaker 2: Mental health is all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good To the individual, you have to be able to say you know what I feel hurt because this happened to me yesterday in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Or I want to plan a trip to the beach because I think the sound of the ocean will calm me.
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  Speaker 1: That's so good.
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  Speaker 2: That is sufficient.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That is a start.
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  Speaker 2: That is where you express yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So I would tell that person don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think that some measure of standard you have to achieve.
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  Speaker 2: Just understand that your mind and your spirit connecting to your hands and to the paper is your journey.
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  Speaker 2: Just take a paper, just take a pen.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good.
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  Speaker 1: That's so applicable.
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  Speaker 1: We were on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: They won't be able to see that book that you have on Amazon for the journal, so will you name that again, so those listening on the podcast could go and find that you had it held up for our cameras.
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  Speaker 1: What's it called again?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so this is a funny story.
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  Speaker 2: The book is called Dwight Thompson's workbook and vision journal, right.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: I did not want my name to be on the book, However what happened was and this is a little technical this is my poetry book.
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  Speaker 2: It's called In the Center protecting my peace through poetry.
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  Speaker 2: And it's 30 points about faith, life, love, community, social media, the universe our mother nature.
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  Speaker 2: And so I developed a journal to go along with it I love the poetry now I want to write my own and I wanted to be called the Innocentum Vision Journal.
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  Speaker 2: But then Amazon flagged me as I was attempting to upload and said the title was too close to my previous book, the cover was too close in design and it took me about a month to do a customer service and redesign it, because I do all of my design.
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  Speaker 2: And then by chance I said you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna call it Dwight Thompson's Workbook and Vision Journal.
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  Speaker 1: And it took it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw it, I looked up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any time to waste on this project.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can get it out, so yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, and it's 250 pages, and it's filled with affirmations, writing prompts, tidbits of what I learned about college essay writing, business plans, how to like.
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  Speaker 2: One of the prompts in here says write a letter to yourself as a 10 year old.
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  Speaker 2: Another prompt says what would you tell yourself five years ago?
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  Speaker 1: It's good, really good.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just about tapping into the ability that we all have as human beings.
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  Speaker 2: Like oh, the greatest gift that God gave us was choice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so good, so good, Dwight.
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  Speaker 2: The choice we have is to decide what to do with our time, for example, and how we view our lives, and how we view true perspective things that happen around us, and then how we react to it.
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  Speaker 1: So good.
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  Speaker 1: I love to hear that You're just really giving some great value.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I noticed about you.
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  Speaker 1: Would someone should take note Now?
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  Speaker 1: Dwight self-published this, but imperfect action is better than no action.
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  Speaker 1: If Dwight didn't get the courage to say this needs to be in people's hands, he wouldn't have gone through Amazon's publishing.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanna commend you on that, for you know, not waiting for a publisher because you get that out yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, dwight.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you as an example of that, and on the show notes, I will definitely do a link to Amazon so you can look up Dwight.
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  Speaker 1: And definitely I think they need to get that journal notebook because I just believe, like you said, you said it better than me.
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  Speaker 1: I think any path that I've had to healing has come from writing.
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  Speaker 1: Now tell me if this isn't true.
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  Speaker 1: You were reading the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: You read Tolkien books.
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  Speaker 1: Good readers make great writers, so what would you say to that is encouraging.
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  Speaker 1: Any more words to that thought?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite quotes is if you want to be a good writer, you have to be a better reader.
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  Speaker 2: And if you want to be a great writer, you have to be the most excellent, the most prolific reader that you can.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's so good, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that statement and keep in mind that, of course, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind that humanity is based on learning from others.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So we've had some phenomenal philosophers.
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  Speaker 2: We've had, for example, Confucius.
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  Speaker 2: We have had Edgar Allen Poe.
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  Speaker 2: We have had so many great writers and philosophers throughout the centuries.
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  Speaker 2: However, what we can gain from them is what their intent was right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay and if you read, for example, the works of Khalil Gibran or Maya Angelou, you'll realize that, behind all the poetry and all the symbolism and all the essays, what they're trying to show is that we are connected as human beings.
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  Speaker 1: So good.
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  Speaker 2: And how we are kind to each other, how we treat each other, is a reflection on how we view ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: So the more you read, the better you'll become at writing, and by reading all of these wonderful authors and writers and books and stories, you find your voice.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, come on.
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  Speaker 2: I call it and your style is yours.
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  Speaker 2: It's for you, that's so good.
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  Speaker 2: No one can judge it, no one can take it away, no one can critique it.
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  Speaker 2: It's yours.
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  Speaker 2: I used to laugh sidebar when.
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  Speaker 2: I would take an English class and the professor would have us write an essay and then grade us on it and they would say oh B.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like how you said this.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind I always knew it's my words, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Those are how I feel I understand the criteria for judging and the different aspects as we met, but my voice is my own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's my message for everyone your voice is your own and it matters.
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  Speaker 1: So good.
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  Speaker 2: That's what gives us this ability.
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  Speaker 1: Mm.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the angels can't choose, the demons can't choose.
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  Speaker 1: You have to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the humanity.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you realize your as your voices can be connected to your identity and who you are in Christ, your voice can come out clear.
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  Speaker 1: I've got one more question for you.
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  Speaker 1: I have a real heart for those women, because it's men who, because of trauma, they feel voiceless.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe they're caught in the corporate world and they feel voiceless.
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  Speaker 1: What would be two tips for those that feel voiceless right now?
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  Speaker 2: Number one should be number two, but I'll just say to no particular order, Number one is you are not alone.
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  Speaker 2: The mistake that we often make when dealing with trauma is that it's only happening to us.
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  Speaker 2: It never happened to anyone else?
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  Speaker 2: In the entire history of humanity in the past 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, it could be domestic violence, it could be abuse, it could be job loss, homelessness, it could be any unspeakable crime or any misunderstanding you could think of between family and friends.
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  Speaker 2: Someone else has been and guess what they made it through.
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  Speaker 2: You know, no matter how you think your situation is, it's been done before.
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  Speaker 2: Folks have found a way out, and you can also.
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  Speaker 2: That's not number one.
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  Speaker 2: You are not alone and you can find out.
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  Speaker 2: This second thing is that it's okay to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay to in that form moment and find your parents again.
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  Speaker 2: So on my social media, my main platform, the right warrior on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Last year I had tons of stuff going on posts and wheels.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also a social media manager, so you know, but rely something after doing some more research that even the most prolific creators always take a break.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so everything for my social media accounts.
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  Speaker 2: And I just placed three posts up.
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  Speaker 2: One said unplugged Okay, detox.
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  Speaker 2: Wow and the third one said restart.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's the second thing I would tell someone who's a?
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  Speaker 2: Trauma and trying to cope with it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't say thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: That is just so.
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  Speaker 1: So much wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Well, where can they find you?
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  Speaker 2: so you can find me on any platform as the right warrior Protecting my peace through poetry and, of course, dwight Thompson's workbook and vision journal on Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: Just look me up and you'll find all my words.
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  Speaker 1: I could go to your author page.
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  Speaker 1: Well, dwight, I want to thank you for being a man of God, for stepping up and speaking such truth.
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  Speaker 1: I believe God's gonna make your voice even expand more, because you're obedient to the simple things, and those who can handle the small Things are destined to handle great things.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe this is the beginning of your voice Reaching out and igniting other voices.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of look at you as like a jumper cable Hook up to the power.
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  Speaker 1: We know God's the power, but hook up to what God is doing in Dwight Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for joining us for this version.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks, dwight Kingdom voices.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this isn't for a pat on our back, but we want this kind of inspiring, this kind of practical advice that is connected to God.
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  Speaker 1: We want this out so you, truly, can find your voice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Teresa Croft, with unleashing Kingdom voices.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you in the next episode.