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Season 8 - Jaylon Martin · Kickin’ It With KeKe: Life, Love, & MINDSET

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kicking In with Kiki.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Kicking It
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  Speaker 1: with Kiki, Life, love and all that other ship. I
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  Speaker 1: am your host, the author Kiki Chanel, Award winning author,
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle blogger, owner of nineteen Lifestyle Magazine. Today, I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: with the regular of the show now right Daylor and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about some great things that he
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  Speaker 1: has coming in store. We're going to talk about something
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  Speaker 1: a milestone that he just had. Yes, so proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: He is also one of the contributing authors of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: Lifestyle Magazine. So Jayleen, telling people who you are, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Thank you for coming to Kicking it with
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  Speaker 1: me today.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I'm happy to be here. So for
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  Speaker 3: those of y'all don't know me, my name's Jaylen Martin.
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  Speaker 3: I've been writing ever since I've been thirteen published authors
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  Speaker 3: since I've been sixteen. I recently just gained my first
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  Speaker 3: best selling book on Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So before we get into all things Jayleen, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about life and love and
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  Speaker 1: all that other stuff. The last time where you were
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  Speaker 1: here was a few months ago. So how has life
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  Speaker 1: been life in since then?
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  Speaker 3: Life has been a whirlwind. Like ever since I Talked
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  Speaker 3: to Horses has been released, I received like a lot
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  Speaker 3: of positive feedback. More people are wanting to engage in
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  Speaker 3: equin therapy, especially when I shared like my stories and
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  Speaker 3: my reasoning behind why I started doing equin therapy to
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  Speaker 3: begin with. It's something people are excited about. People feels
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  Speaker 3: that it's definitely beneficial and it's also for free, and
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  Speaker 3: it's also very healing as well. So I'm just very
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  Speaker 3: happy that not only my poetry but also play like
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  Speaker 3: I could play like a part and people wanting to
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  Speaker 3: engage in this.
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  Speaker 1: For those who may not know what equin therapy is,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about that a little bit. Explain to the
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  Speaker 1: listeners what that it actually is.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, So equin therapy is a therapeutic process that
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  Speaker 3: incorporates horses. So if you've heard of goat yoga, it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of like that you bond with the horse and
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  Speaker 3: it's it's for free, like I've been friends with the
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  Speaker 3: horse that I bond with for like over a year now.
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  Speaker 3: Bo bo Yes real good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, absolutely when it comes to life now, because
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  Speaker 1: I know you are are recovering, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to call you an addict, but I guess I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, just just just talk about I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to offend. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to offend you in any way.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not offended. I am recovering alcoholic and it is
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons why I've started doing equin therapy
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  Speaker 3: because I had a lot of unresolved trauma back from
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  Speaker 3: my college days that I was still inhaled from and
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  Speaker 3: when I'm what I've mainly learned from equin therapy is
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  Speaker 3: that not only horses, but animals can be much more
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  Speaker 3: loving than people. And I believe I said this the
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  Speaker 3: last time, but I'll say it again, but when horses love,
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  Speaker 3: they love blindly. They don't care who you are, they
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  Speaker 3: just know, they just feel the energy and they resume
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  Speaker 3: that same energy back.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, how's had journey been? Have you you know,
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  Speaker 1: had any setbacks? Have you have? How's how's it been
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  Speaker 1: going with your sobriety?
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  Speaker 3: Very good, I've been I've been sober for two years
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  Speaker 3: and I just gained my two year sobriety tip in AA.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely congratulations, congratulations. So let's talk about Amazon bestseller? Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so how do you feel? Soaked that in? Tell the listeners,
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  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? Because you were here
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  Speaker 1: promoting your book when you were here the last.
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  Speaker 3: Time, yes, the book was even released.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so talk about that. How did that? How did
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  Speaker 1: that all happen? When you found out that you're an
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  Speaker 1: Amazon bestseller? How did you feel? How do you feel?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie, there are some days where I'm
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  Speaker 3: just like, Wow, I actually have like this title. So
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  Speaker 3: there's some days I'm just like, is this like really real?
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm still partially waiting to wake up because I've
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  Speaker 3: been writing for like years, Like this is like you've
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  Speaker 3: known me for a very long time, so you know
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  Speaker 3: this isn't something that happened overnight. This is year's worth
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  Speaker 3: of hard work behind me, and just it's all about
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  Speaker 3: just reaching out to like the right people and putting
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  Speaker 3: yourself out there. The correct way, and eventually everything else
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  Speaker 3: is gonna piece itself together.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's talk about that a little bit, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to life and all that other shit, because
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  Speaker 1: all that other shit happens. Right Absolutely, stand the course
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  Speaker 1: and not giving up, always showing up for yourself even
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  Speaker 1: through the midst of adversity, because life happens and adversity
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  Speaker 1: will come. But talk to someone who may be listening.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell them something encouraging that will inspire them
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  Speaker 1: to keep pushing, keep going, keep showing up, being consistent
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  Speaker 1: no matter what.
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  Speaker 3: Well to anyone out there who is listening. I mean
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna sound pretty basic, but just don't give
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  Speaker 3: up Like this is. I've been working hard at this
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  Speaker 3: since I was thirteen years old, not giving up yet.
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  Speaker 3: Although I've received that Amazon bestseller title, there's still a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot of work to do. Now that I've earned
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  Speaker 3: that title, there's still more work to do. So even
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  Speaker 3: when you achieve like that goal, just don't get complacent.
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  Speaker 3: Find another goal, find another dream, find something that keeps
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  Speaker 3: you going. Because the more work you out onto yourself,
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  Speaker 3: the more you grow. So don't slow down whatever you do,
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  Speaker 3: just like keep going. Like all guys snow.
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  Speaker 1: Breaks, Oh gas, no breaks, y'all. Hear to hear from
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  Speaker 1: Jalen He is talking about being an Amazon best seller.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people take that title and
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  Speaker 1: it goes to their head. How have you stayed grounded
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of being of a bestseller?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I have to stay grounded because regardless if it's Amazon,
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  Speaker 3: I'm Bestseller, New York Times Bestseller, Today, bestseller. At the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, I'm still a person first, Like,
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely cannot forget like all the sacrifices, because I've
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  Speaker 3: made a lot of sacrifices just to even get to
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  Speaker 3: this point. And that's something I just can't forget about.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that always keeps me in mind whenever
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  Speaker 3: I'm working on my next project or when I'm promoting,
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  Speaker 3: I always have to I always have to remember, like
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  Speaker 3: even though I'm twenty four, deep down, I'm still that
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  Speaker 3: thirteen year old with a dream who would do whatever
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  Speaker 3: it takes to achieve that and still would do whatever
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  Speaker 3: it takes to achieve more so's it's a quote. It's
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  Speaker 3: a quote from Black It's a quote from Black Panther.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to say and when Sury says just because
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  Speaker 3: something works doesn't mean it does not need to be improved.
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  Speaker 3: Quote by Princess Shuri herself.
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  Speaker 1: I love that and that's one of my favorite movies.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, because I'm a nerd, you know I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So we're gonna talk about your upcoming spoken word
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  Speaker 1: country album. Tell us about that. How you got into that?
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  Speaker 3: So I've gotten to country music like a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: like right after I got out of college. I've always
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  Speaker 3: been to Luke colmbs fan, but like I started going,
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  Speaker 3: I start going diving deeper into like the nineties country
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  Speaker 3: to country today, and it's such a magical genre. Like
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  Speaker 3: there's son I'm still learning things about. Like there's so
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  Speaker 3: much about this music that so many people do not know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, people can feel about however they feel about
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  Speaker 3: Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, but I hold that album to a
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  Speaker 3: very high pedestal because despite how people feel about the album,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't until that album that a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: dive deep into the roots of country music and not
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  Speaker 3: only wanted to learn more, but wanted to listen to
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  Speaker 3: all of this of it. And I have so many
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  Speaker 3: favorite country artists. Would be here all day, but a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these poems and I talk to horses, they
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  Speaker 3: read like country songs. So like, after performing so many
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  Speaker 3: like at the local clubs and bars and Lake Charles,
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  Speaker 3: that's when I decided to do like a spoken word
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  Speaker 3: not only a spoken word album, but a spoken word
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  Speaker 3: country album. So it's my voice not reading the poems.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody could read the poems, but it's me. It's me
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  Speaker 3: and my raw emotion saying the poems provided by country
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  Speaker 3: music instrumentals by my good friend Taylor Fillion, who's a
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  Speaker 3: musical artist out here in Lake Charles.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nice, Nice? So when when are you working on
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  Speaker 1: it now? Is it coming out this year or is
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  Speaker 1: going to come out when you finish?
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  Speaker 3: It comes out August fifteenth to all music stream platforms.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I love because I'm that you when you wear
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  Speaker 1: a baby at a book festival, and to see how
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  Speaker 1: much you've grown and overcome, overcome all of the things
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  Speaker 1: that that you have gone through, graduating college, you know,
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  Speaker 1: become teacher, continue to write and put out things. It's
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  Speaker 1: just amazing that you didn't quit because some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you talked about in your last interview, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna share that you guys, go back. It's
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  Speaker 1: on the platform. You can listen to it. But it
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  Speaker 1: was very hard. I could tell that you went through
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  Speaker 1: a hard time, a dark time, and you're sitting here
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  Speaker 1: now fulfilling your dream, smiling and looking beautiful doing so.
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  Speaker 1: I am just so have a fan in me and
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  Speaker 1: I always tell you that that I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: So you continue to be an inspiration because you are
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  Speaker 1: and we need more people like you in this world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm emotional. So we're going to talk about your fantasy
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  Speaker 1: is coming out next next year. So yes, what they
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  Speaker 1: can expect, what inspired you to write it?
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  Speaker 3: And it is it.
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  Speaker 1: Alikans alagans alkans. Okay, all right, that's that up. Y'all listen,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's okay. Tell the people about the fantasy book,
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  Speaker 1: what inspired it, and what they can expect.
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  Speaker 3: So Alakans is possibly my biggest project today. This is
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  Speaker 3: the start of a multi book series. Because first met me,
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  Speaker 3: I was doing a sci fi trilogy. I was wrapping
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  Speaker 3: that up. So I've seen this series going to either
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  Speaker 3: five to six books. It is a huge world. So
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  Speaker 3: this idea came about like when I was at MacNeice.
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  Speaker 3: So this book was in the works during the COVID
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  Speaker 3: era back in twenty twenty. So I was up in
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  Speaker 3: like Monroe, like just debating if I even wanted to
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  Speaker 3: continue it because twenty twenty was such a crazy year,
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  Speaker 3: like we were in Monroe for Hurricane Laura, and did
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  Speaker 3: Hurricane dealt to happen? And I'm just like, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: I'm just I was like, I'm just so like exhausted,
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  Speaker 3: plus me dealing with the pandemic. But then summer of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, I have finished the book, but I
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  Speaker 3: never just up and published it. I always went back
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  Speaker 3: and forth, read it, fixed it up and everything to
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  Speaker 3: the point I'm just like, you know what, I have
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  Speaker 3: a finished manuscript. What I have is what I have.
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  Speaker 3: This is a multibook series. Whatever ideas I don't use
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  Speaker 3: for this one, I can, I can use it for
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  Speaker 3: its upcoming sequels. So Ale Can tells the story of
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  Speaker 3: nineteen year old Florian Casturo from a small a fictional
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  Speaker 3: small town in Louisiana, who discovers that he has magical
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  Speaker 3: fire abilities after a monstrous creature called a night Lane
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  Speaker 3: and so this causes to unearth like a certain family hit.
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  Speaker 3: After learning this, that's when he goes to this other
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  Speaker 3: universe called Alec and he enrolls at the magical college
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  Speaker 3: called Lanacea University, which is heavily inspired by my alma mater,
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  Speaker 3: Mechneese State University. There's a lot of similarities between the schools,
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  Speaker 3: and so there that's when he joined us guild. So
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  Speaker 3: in this world, guilds are a substitution for fraternities and sororities.
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  Speaker 3: There's the all men, there's the all male guilds, the
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  Speaker 3: all female guilds. And the guild that he'll join is
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  Speaker 3: a co ed guild and it's an up and coming guild,
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  Speaker 3: so there's only like five members so far, and they
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  Speaker 3: help him find out who he is and what his
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  Speaker 3: passes and how he can control his abilities. Because when
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  Speaker 3: when you're like when you're a college kid with bad
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  Speaker 3: anxiety and fire can come out of your hands at
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  Speaker 3: any times, it's a very stressful time for this young
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  Speaker 3: man's life. Basically, I'm a lover for two thousand fantasy,
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  Speaker 3: like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed the Vampire Darist. Those
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  Speaker 3: are heavily inspired when I wrote this book, and I
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  Speaker 3: really hope those are the readers that I could draw
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  Speaker 3: in with this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm definitely getting this book because you just named
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  Speaker 1: like the top shows that I love. I always go
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  Speaker 1: back and watch the Bnpire Diaries. I'm watching The Angel now.
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  Speaker 1: I found it on, so I'm watching that now. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. Not to mean to cut you off. You
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  Speaker 1: was just that was nostalgic right there for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I basically wanted to recapture that early two
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  Speaker 3: thousands fun that it had, because I mean, there's some
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  Speaker 3: good fantasy shows today, but they just don't hit the
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  Speaker 3: way the early two thousands to do with like Buffy
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  Speaker 3: and Charmed and Supernatural, Like it's just something like extremely
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  Speaker 3: magical that they were able to do back then, not
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  Speaker 3: only creating like these characters that are strong, but also
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  Speaker 3: interwoven human themes and complexity with them, and that is
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  Speaker 3: what alacans are all about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, I love that you were inspiring me because
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  Speaker 1: I started working on like a fantasy sci fi type book. Ooh,
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  Speaker 1: it had to be twenty eighteen maybe, and it's called
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  Speaker 1: Childhood Friends, And so you're inspired me to go back
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  Speaker 1: and see it. God, yes, it's all about it's about
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  Speaker 1: the teens. When they turn sixteen, they developed their superpowers.
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  Speaker 1: Because their parents leave and so they're now left to
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  Speaker 1: try to figure out what's going on. And it's about
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  Speaker 1: angels and falling from the sky. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: tell too much about it, but yeah, I'm excited. My god,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go back and finish that book.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to go back and finish that Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to talk about you know, we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about like the importance of finishing what you start. Like,
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  Speaker 1: talk to someone who may just feel like they're not
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  Speaker 1: good enough for their story, or shouldn't be out there,
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  Speaker 1: or they don't know where to start. What would you
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  Speaker 1: say to them.
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  Speaker 3: I actually been seeing a bunch of TikTok videos and
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  Speaker 3: quotes online about this. You have to finish what you started,
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  Speaker 3: whether if it's writing or music. You cannot think about
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  Speaker 3: the criticism or the outcome. You have to do it
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  Speaker 3: for you because when you're doing it for you, like
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna come up with your best work possible. Because
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  Speaker 3: that's how it was for me. That's why it took
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  Speaker 3: so long for me to like finish Alegance, because I
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  Speaker 3: was always worried about, like, oh, with the readers, like this,
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  Speaker 3: will they not understand this? But I have to write
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  Speaker 3: this book for me before having anyone else's eyes look
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  Speaker 3: at it. So to anybody out there listening, finish what
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  Speaker 3: you start, but finish for you, like worry about like
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  Speaker 3: the outcome later, but you have to finish it for you,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to be proud for that final product
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  Speaker 3: because regardless of what happens, that's the legacy you're leaving behind.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you have to make sure. You have to
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  Speaker 1: understand that not everybody's going to support you, not everybody
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  Speaker 1: like what you have to, you know, say, not everybody's
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  Speaker 1: gonna like your book. I had one lady from my
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  Speaker 1: very first book. She said, I love the book, I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't like the ending, so she gave me a
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  Speaker 1: two star review. I thought the world had ended. You
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  Speaker 1: heard me, oh my, and I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a reality check and it was like
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  Speaker 1: people just don't understand and that those people are not
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  Speaker 1: your people. Your people will come. So keep showing up,
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  Speaker 1: keep doing the work, and like Jalen said, do it
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  Speaker 1: for you, do it for you first and.
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  Speaker 3: Foremost people are so relentless when it comes to discouragement.
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  Speaker 3: Like long story short, I had a teacher in high
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  Speaker 3: school who told me I would never publish a book,
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  Speaker 3: And I published my first book when I was a
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  Speaker 3: junior in high school. I was around people in college
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  Speaker 3: who told me that I would never get sober. I'm two.
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  Speaker 3: Your sober now me is if I when I say
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something, I will do it regardless of
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  Speaker 3: how long that it takes me. So that will power.
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  Speaker 3: That's a muscle regards like I don't care if, like
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  Speaker 3: if you're ripped or not. That's a muscle up here.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's something that those people who relentlessly put
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  Speaker 3: you down wish that they had.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's projection. A lot of people they project stuff
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  Speaker 1: onto you because that's how they feel about themselves. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people see the pretendularly you and they
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to tap into that. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to see it because they know that it's something special.
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  Speaker 1: So anyone who is listening, stop the negative self talk
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, and get away from those people that
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  Speaker 1: are dream killers. Because if they don't have what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to make their dreams come true, guess what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna try to deter you from making your dreams
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  Speaker 1: come true. For fear that you're gonna get better than them,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna leave them behind? Are you not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: that crutch that they're used to? So at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, take a deep breath and keep pushing
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  Speaker 1: because you are here for a reason. That gift that
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  Speaker 1: God has made room for you is gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: make room for you. So keep walking, keep growing, keep creating,
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  Speaker 1: and just keep believing. As long as you do that
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  Speaker 1: you will be. You will go as far as you
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  Speaker 1: can think or you could dream, or you believe, you
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  Speaker 1: will go there.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's amazing that you bring up God into it,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm gonna bring up like this little, short, little
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  Speaker 3: short story that happened to me in my final semester,
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  Speaker 3: right when I was like getting sober from like from
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  Speaker 3: my alcoholism. One like, I was around like a group
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  Speaker 3: of people that were not at my favor, and it
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  Speaker 3: took one day when I literally, I believe Tuesday. I
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  Speaker 3: still think it was God's voice to Lily told me
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  Speaker 3: to leave these people. I didn't question it, I obeyed,
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  Speaker 3: and ever since then, I feel like that's among many
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  Speaker 3: great things God has done for me. But God whispering
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  Speaker 3: that voice in my hood to tell me to leave
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  Speaker 3: that place had to be one of the best things
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  Speaker 3: to ever do, to ever do for me, because when
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: you leave, like a person or a group of people,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: not only a window, but a door opens to you.
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  Speaker 3: Like literally, when you turn your back, the door opens.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm not making this up.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely you have to be you have to be obedient,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and you also have to have that discernment to know
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  Speaker 1: that the voice that you're hearing is God and not
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  Speaker 1: the end. Because that that happens, it has happened to
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  Speaker 1: me and me too. I thank God that I'm able
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  Speaker 1: to sit here and talk about it without getting teary
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  Speaker 1: eyed are emotional about it because being in a dark
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: place once upon a time, I felt like hell to
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  Speaker 1: claw myself out of that dark place. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: about anyone anyone take me back to that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm not. I just can't and I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's friend, family, whatever, whoever. It just can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Like God has been too good to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: can talk about God all day long because I love
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  Speaker 1: him so much. And yes, and let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: mindset though, because a as a certified mindset coach. That
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  Speaker 1: is something that I am passionate about. You have to
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  Speaker 1: believe or to won't make that decision to actually do
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it and bring it to fruition. So talk about the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: importance of your mindset so that you can get away
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  Speaker 1: from that scarcity mindset to a mindset of prosperity in
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  Speaker 1: a bundance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So two years ago, summer twenty twenty three, I tell
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  Speaker 3: people at my signings, I tell people in AA I
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: consider that the most devastating time but also the most
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  Speaker 3: life changing time of my life because there was just
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: so much much that God was revealing to me. So
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  Speaker 3: there's this quote that always passes around on Facebook and
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I always get chills, like every time I look at it.
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  Speaker 3: But it says, if God removes people from your life,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: it means that he was present in a room and
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  Speaker 3: heard things that you didn't and wasn't present for It's
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  Speaker 3: something it says something like that, and I get chills
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  Speaker 3: about it every single time because that was so true
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  Speaker 3: for my case, because I would have people, because I
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  Speaker 3: was around people who would act like they loved me
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  Speaker 3: to my face. But what's plotting my demise when I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: wasn't around? Because the thing is like that last semester.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I ever told you this, but I
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: put on my first play at McNeice. I told myself,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: like when I got sober, I'm like, this is a
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: message that I need to share with people, Like I
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: just can't sit on this. So I put on a
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: play and they told me that no one was going
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to go see my play, and that MacNeice all the
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: seats were filled. It wasn't even about people showing up
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: for me, but it was about people showing up for
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: the message because like what I go through, what many
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: go through, like it is very common, especially on a
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: college campus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, well I'm glad that you did that.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I would have been there to support you.
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  Speaker 1: When you're walking in purpose, you have to know that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it's bigger than you. Always about inspiring somebody else to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: become them their best selves. That's what I've You know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: if you're doing anything for the sake of money, you
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: already messed up, because when you are your purpose, money
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: will come because God go make sure that he got you,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Otherwise he wouldn't have given to pour into other people.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And so I've lost a lot of people by thinking
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: this way, and a lot of people don't realize that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm a very genuine person. So when they encounter me,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: it's almost like, wait a minute, she's too good to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: be true, or what does she want? Or I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's always something, and I just have to tell people
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am, I'm who God made me.
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  Speaker 1: I was not always this person, So be glad that
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  Speaker 1: you getting this person and not the person that I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: hated looking at that in the mirror, who didn't care
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: about people's feelings are anything. It was my way or
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the highway. And I did not like myself when I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was that way. So I worked on me. I work
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: on me every day. It is a daily process that
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you have to go through in order to become better.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: When you go through a healing journey, and I know
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that you notice, and we didn't talked about this before. Absolutely,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you see life through a different lens. You hit you off,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you just roll off your back. Now what the things
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that you used to worry about are take on because
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: sometimes we take on other people's problems that they never
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: asked us to take on. Absolutely, I found myself trying
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to fix everybody else's problems, realizing that I was covering
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: up being broken on the inside. So that was like
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: if it don't if if you ask for my advice
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and I give it to you, you don't take it,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'm washing my hands with it and to do that
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: with me. So I'm just learning how to mind my business,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you know, just learn how to mind my business. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I am enjoying the ride. I get to talk and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: meet to people like yourself. Have you on the podcast,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you know? And I'm just I'm just excited about life
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and where God is taking me as well as taking you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm so again I just can't say how proud
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I am enough of you, because I am so Besides
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: everything that you got coming up, how how are you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: like spending your time before you get back into the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hustle and bustle or things beside the Ecoin therapy? What
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: do you do to just relax and enjoy life?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you can relate. I think you can
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: relate to this. But when do us writers actually relax?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: When we finish one thing, we go into the next.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: So I guess my definition of relaxation right now would
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: be working on the sequel Alicans fantasy book. This will
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: be my eighth book. But that's all. I'm not planned
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: like right now, I can't share too much. But that's
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: that's pretty much it as a right now. But even that,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: that's that. I'm just blessed to still be able to
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: be busy and also be busy in a positive manner.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And then when you when you are operating into
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: things that you love, you don't see it as work.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I don't, not at all.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: It's like just another day, right, It's another day, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing. Yes, When do you sleep?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: When I go to sleep, I sleep.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. One thing about dream chasing, I tell people,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: if you're chasing any dream, prepare to lose sleep, Like
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I just I just gotta be blunted about that. If
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: you're when your dream, lose a lot of sleep. But
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: it's worth it, though, no matter how small or how
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: big the result.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But see, I'm old, I'm old, I'm older now. I
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: am older now. So I get my sleep. I love sleep.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I go to bed early, and I'm not apologizing for it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Whenever I feel like I need to go and rest,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I allow myself to rest because my mind I don't
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: it's constantly going. I don't turn it off. Absolutely, I
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: cannot turn off, and so some nights it's hard for
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: me to sleep. Some nights I don't get any sleep,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But some nights I like ten hours of sleep because
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bed by eight o'clock. Good night, right,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: all right? So tell the people how they can connect
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: with you. How can they get I Talk to Horses
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and your other books? How they how can they follow
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you so they can find out all the information about
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: your upcoming album and the upcoming fantasy book.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: So my Instagram and TikTok Candle is the exact same
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: stallion of stories. I have my own author website now
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: that is titled Jalenjmartin dot com. And if reading when,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: like if anybody out there wants to learn more about
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: upcoming things, I have my official author newsletter, Thrivee on
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: my author newsletter and as far as that I Talk
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: To Horses album, it'll be available on all music platforms
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: August fifteenth. The actual book is available on Amazon. There's
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: print book and eat.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Book, and listeners don't be alarmed. All of this information
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: will be in the show notes so you can get
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it and support and follow and get to know Jalen
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Moore as he shares his story and his journey with us.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So before we get off, are there any words of encouragement,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of parting, words of inspiration that you would like to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: share with the listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be afraid of hard work. There's gonna be there's
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I've had many days like recently where it just feels
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: like very hard. Like when it comes to sacrifices, there
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: is no limit. God will have you sacrifice as much
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: as He needs you to in order to get to
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: His plan, not your plan, his plan. So if you
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: just feel like, oh, I'm just sacrificing too much, trust me,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you have not sacrificed enough. So my so before I close,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I would just say, don't fear sacrifice. It will be
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: worth it in the end. Trust me.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I co sign on that I concur But thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys again for listening to another episode of Kicking in Wikiki, Life,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: love and all that other shit. Thank you again Jaggling
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: for being on the podcast this evening which you continued
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: success nothing beloved, You are know it uh and I
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• 30:07
  Speaker 1: you continue to love on yourself, continue to believe in yourself,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: continue to show up, and everything else will fall into place.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Your vibe would make room for your tribe and until then,
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  Speaker 1: purple hugs later
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  Speaker 2: Chicken it with