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The Race to Freedom: Our Woman Evolve Experience | FT Pat & Stacy Doss | EP119 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl, Jessica as Smith, and you already
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  Speaker 1: know that you've entered the safe space for influencers to decompress,
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  Speaker 1: have fun and just ask God for another You already
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  Speaker 1: know what it is and then you know it's about
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  Speaker 1: to get real. So be sure to show your girl
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  Speaker 1: the love and like, come in.
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  Speaker 2: God for another day. Hey, hey, I know we could
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  Speaker 2: be another way.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, we need to take this off the holder.
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  Speaker 1: Because when I was listening back you could hear, but
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  Speaker 1: you can also hear a lot of the backgrounds.
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  Speaker 3: Just to make sure you know.
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  Speaker 1: So just yes, that is yo, yo. Yo is a girl,
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  Speaker 1: Jessica as Smith, and I am here with my girl.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know where you have entered, you enter
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  Speaker 1: the safe space for where influencers decompressed, have fun and
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  Speaker 1: guess what just just oh, I mean spirit.
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  Speaker 4: That was y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a sinking spirit because we we have we're
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  Speaker 1: in a space. It's live in here to y'all. I
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  Speaker 1: hear a lot of extra it is it.
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  Speaker 3: It's our first.
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  Speaker 1: Time doing a live on location location. Were at the
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  Speaker 1: location is the location desil Ray. We in Georgia at
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  Speaker 1: the State Farm Arena for woman Evon yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: So we are honored that they gave us some credention.
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  Speaker 3: Man, we had we had press passes, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We was pressed.
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  Speaker 3: So we we ain't just attendees.
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  Speaker 1: Look, we attended, We attended, but we attended on the
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  Speaker 1: other end as we pressed out waiting.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't see the little boy doing that brush your
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  Speaker 1: He pressed his way to the convocation. We pressed our
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  Speaker 1: way to Woman Evolve, hosted by the wonderful Sarah Jakes Roberts. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: don't she bums down every time? Man, Listen. It's the
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  Speaker 1: it's the outfit changes and it had changes. But I
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  Speaker 1: think her hosts changed wigs.
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  Speaker 3: She did. She changed about two three times today and
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  Speaker 3: the house she.
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  Speaker 1: Had a short wig, a long within down alarund about everything.
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  Speaker 1: I got it going. But listen to you, guys. We
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  Speaker 1: know that we're not in our normal atmosphere, but we're
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  Speaker 1: in the space that we're supposed to be. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know, we do not go anywhere without doing a
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  Speaker 1: community highlight. And that's the way. I think it's only
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  Speaker 1: befitting to shout out the ladies that decided to race
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  Speaker 1: the freedom this week. This weekend has been so phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were here at Woman Evolved, we want
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  Speaker 1: to see, uh, connect with you, talk to you, see
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  Speaker 1: how you you enjoyed your just knowing the comments if
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  Speaker 1: you if you attend it, yes, because we want to
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  Speaker 1: know and we want to follow you back, like follow
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  Speaker 1: us and we're gonna follow you back because we ain't.
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  Speaker 1: We ain't bougie like that. We we ain't.
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  Speaker 3: We ain't holding the love.
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  Speaker 1: But shout out to the women that chose to invest
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  Speaker 1: in themselves in this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: This was does a race first, this is my first time.
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  Speaker 1: This first time, how did you enjoy it? So as
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  Speaker 1: an introverted person, this is just from my point of view,
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  Speaker 1: I am glad I was pressed because I mean I
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  Speaker 1: get to stay in the background, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But that also gave us the opportunity to enter into
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  Speaker 3: the space.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's it's a lot of women here, like
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  Speaker 1: over how many twenty three three thousand women? Over twenty
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  Speaker 1: three thousands? This event sold out last year. Last year
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  Speaker 1: at the event. Okay, so my introvert itself was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's so many women here. But I
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  Speaker 1: just remember standing the I think it was Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: I remember standing there, was getting ready to leave, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and the spirit was high, and I just remember stay
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  Speaker 1: and just looking around, like at all the women and
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  Speaker 1: apparently this is only half of what was there the
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  Speaker 1: year before, right, like a little bit underhlf to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: because the baseball field the first year it sold out,
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  Speaker 1: it was over forty thousand women, over forty thousand justice.
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  Speaker 1: Just to be in that space, and I was just
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  Speaker 1: in a moment of like awe of like the glory
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. But also I was I was really
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  Speaker 1: thinking about and praying for Pastor Sarah, Yeah, because just
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  Speaker 1: to stand there and just imagine the weight that she
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  Speaker 1: feels carrying this mantle of not only woman evolved, but
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  Speaker 1: also now stepping into the role of being a pastor
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  Speaker 1: over a mega over a big church and a ladacy.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, Wow, Lord, like the love and to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's love, right, because that just shows that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: really trusts her, yeah, with his people, with his sheep.
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  Speaker 1: And these women came houngry man and every speaker was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: like the race to freedom, Like if you didn't leave,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't leave here free.
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  Speaker 3: It was because you chose not.
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  Speaker 1: To leave her bread and it's on big Grit. That's
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  Speaker 1: as our brother said, as Trisian McFarland say, that's on
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  Speaker 1: big Grit. Listen, I agree with you, like I think
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  Speaker 1: this year was different for me. If you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been the woman involved the past two years and
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  Speaker 1: I served for on the press team, so I served
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  Speaker 1: as a volunteer for to pick the space that I'm
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  Speaker 1: in right now, which I consider a blessing and walking
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  Speaker 1: in you guys, I don't know. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I thought I expected, but I didn't expect. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I knew I was loved so much. Like
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  Speaker 1: Deseil Ray and Liz shout out to our sister, listen,
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  Speaker 1: she's not here yet. She's she's on the media in
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  Speaker 1: the media department as well. But she was saying to
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  Speaker 1: desel Ray, she was like, no, just to do know
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  Speaker 1: everybody knew, but I didn't know. I didn't know who
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  Speaker 1: I knew. I didn't know who was keeping up with me.
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  Speaker 1: Because the enemy of trying to trick you in your
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  Speaker 1: mind to say, like the enemy will try to really
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  Speaker 1: make you think that you're not love. Yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a suggestion. It's like, do people really like you?
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  Speaker 1: Do they really love you? Do they really mean what
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  Speaker 1: they say about you? And the truth is like God
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  Speaker 1: has really placed people in our spaces and on our
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  Speaker 1: path to really show show us Him and in a
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  Speaker 1: human form, you know what I'm saying. And if we
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  Speaker 1: just believe the life we take it, well, think that
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  Speaker 1: nobody like us. But just go walk into space and
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  Speaker 1: people was like, oh Jessica, Like what's that? Good to
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  Speaker 1: see you? It's like, oh, she just lever. I was surprised.
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised. And then people were like, oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: so humble and da da da da. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: but why not? Like I don't in my mind, if
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  Speaker 1: y'all walk up to me, just be just for one,
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  Speaker 1: be gentle, be gentle, don't be rough for me gentle,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna speak back. I'm just like, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: that's Keana, my girl Keana. Like I won't say that
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  Speaker 1: yet but will now say it later. But my girl Keana.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all follow me, but last year
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  Speaker 1: at I met her at Target and she talked to me.
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  Speaker 1: She's spoke to me, and she was like what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing here? You live in Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, who is she talking to?
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  Speaker 1: I would have never known. She was my first person
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  Speaker 1: that would looked at me. I didn't know who had
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  Speaker 1: heard from a canapaign, but she knew me. And now
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  Speaker 1: she's not only a part of the community, but she's
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  Speaker 1: helping us grow the community outside of just this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm excited to meet you guys. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to just do this.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I walked in here not expecting anything but to just
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  Speaker 1: get not just get content, but the the tools and
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  Speaker 1: strategies to remain free. Because if you watched last week,
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  Speaker 1: you saw that and heard that I came out abundane
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  Speaker 1: and stopped doing relationship. Come on now, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: ashamed to tell my testimony. I'm not gonna say it
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  Speaker 1: right now because you should go look at the episode
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  Speaker 1: because the episode was rich. It was rich, and so
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  Speaker 1: to come here and not really no forget that this
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  Speaker 1: was the race of freedom God was. I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like God is very tuned into us being free as
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  Speaker 1: a community. Yeah, as you were talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: meeting Keana, what came up was the importance of really
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  Speaker 1: being obedient and just going like even going into unknown, right,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know, like why the Lord would have you
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  Speaker 1: start a podcast as a branch manager working for enterprise.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, This doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Make sense, right, But it's always going to be so
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  Speaker 1: much bigger than the moment, and it's always going to
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  Speaker 1: be so much bigger than the limitations that we believe
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  Speaker 1: about ourselves, you know what I'm saying, Like we had
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  Speaker 1: some I remember reading a comment from a young lady
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  Speaker 1: that's in Virginia that has genuinely been listening and gleaning
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  Speaker 1: and learning, and honestly, I ain't nobody, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I look at myself, not like I
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  Speaker 1: ain't nobody.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, like who am I?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, But just to see, like
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  Speaker 1: the magnitude that our voices are reaching not because it's us,
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  Speaker 1: It's because the Lord that already had a plan. There's
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  Speaker 1: already people that are attached to your voice. There's already
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  Speaker 1: people that are attached to the thing that God has
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  Speaker 1: caused you to do.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Obedient in that, we can't keep complaining about resources. We
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  Speaker 1: can't keep complaining about finances. We can't keep complaining about
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  Speaker 1: not having the help if we have not hit go yet.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, as soon as we hit go, like
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  Speaker 1: the race, the race, the journey is already out there.
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  Speaker 1: You don't go, you gotta get You cannot race if
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  Speaker 1: you have no movement. You have to get up, plant
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  Speaker 1: your feet and move forward. Oh oh, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what I love. I've never ran a marathon. Come on now,
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  Speaker 1: I fee little annoying and coming. I've never ran a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen them right, and let's say it's like a
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  Speaker 1: you know, they got five k's and twenty k's, right,
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  Speaker 1: so after you start, they have checkpoints all along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Right at these checkpoints you can get water, you can
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  Speaker 1: get the things that you need to help you continue
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  Speaker 1: on to the rest of the race. So that's just
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  Speaker 1: like life, like we have to go and along the
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  Speaker 1: way like God has already had the checkpoints, He already
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  Speaker 1: has the people, he already has the resources that are
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  Speaker 1: already in place for us to continue to walk out
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  Speaker 1: the standing. He's already getting us. Yeah, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: so good. And even y'all come over here, y'all come
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  Speaker 1: over here, hey, let them excuse me I'm sorry, this
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  Speaker 1: is a little ghetto.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Let them all. We rerecording live though I have not
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  Speaker 1: seen you, y'all. This is my family, y'all. And that's fine, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We all okay a.
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  Speaker 3: Little different, but this my family has come around.
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  Speaker 1: Just come around this week, y'all. This is my family, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I' gonna introduce y'all. But no, you remember the times
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  Speaker 1: where they had the baton. Yeah, they had the baton
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  Speaker 1: and at one point they were dancing, and at one
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  Speaker 1: point they were giving away the batons and everybody had
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  Speaker 1: their turn to hold their baton, but the last person
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  Speaker 1: had to wait until their perton was in their hand
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  Speaker 1: and they were holding theirs. Sometimes we don't go because
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  Speaker 1: we always feel like we have to share.
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  Speaker 3: What we're giving.
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  Speaker 1: But at some point, you're gonna get to hold the
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  Speaker 1: thing that God has given you, and you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to run and not get rivered. You're gonna able
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  Speaker 1: to walk and not faint because it's your turn. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who this is spared us, but it is
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  Speaker 1: your turn to not only hope your patn but to
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  Speaker 1: go with your pa ton because in the actual race,
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  Speaker 1: when you're thinking about track and running and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's always somebody else's patime. But when you it's your
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  Speaker 1: turn turn to run, you have to go because you
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  Speaker 1: got a job to do. Like we all as a
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  Speaker 1: body of believers, we all have a particular job to do.
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  Speaker 1: I ran I remember in college, I ran the four
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  Speaker 1: by one right, So that's a straightaway, a curve, a
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  Speaker 1: straightaway in another curve right. So there's four of us,
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  Speaker 1: and each one of us had a part on the
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  Speaker 1: track to run, right. So when it was my turn,
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  Speaker 1: my job I ran a curve, you know, leaning on
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  Speaker 1: this side. I ran that second leg curve, and my
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  Speaker 1: job was to get from that straight point around to
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  Speaker 1: the other curve.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and to be able to pass the baton off. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If I dropped the baton, guess.
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  Speaker 1: What, our team is just qualifized. Now I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that sport, but no, but it's true. If you drop
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  Speaker 1: the baton, your team is disqualified. So in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to do I know, I know sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh lord, I don't know, like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can do this? Why meet all these things?
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible says that Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven
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  Speaker 1: before I know the plans that I have for you,
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  Speaker 1: said the Lord. Their plans to prossip you, to give
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  Speaker 1: you hope in the future, and they're not to harm you.
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  Speaker 3: So if he.
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  Speaker 1: Already knows your future, right, I keep thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, we be so scared to go. So we
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  Speaker 1: be so scared to go? Says that he already has
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  Speaker 1: a plan for us. That means he already knows the outcome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all we have to do is continue to walk the
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  Speaker 1: plan until keep leaning into him. We can't do it
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  Speaker 1: on our own. We have to lean into him for
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  Speaker 1: the directions for the plan. And that's so good because
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to what we said last week that
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  Speaker 1: we don't own our freedom. God owns our freedom. That
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  Speaker 1: we steward our freedom. And when you run like you're
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  Speaker 1: managing versus ownership, when you run in the freedom of stewardship,
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  Speaker 1: that is freedom and stewardship. That was some trip Fontaine,
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  Speaker 1: because I always said, almost said fortune trip Fontaine, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to you, my brother.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 1: We did an interview with him, but it was a
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  Speaker 1: lineup of press and we just listened to his answers
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things that he brought up was
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  Speaker 1: that he's learned how to allow God to be God
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  Speaker 1: and allow him to do it in the mess, the
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  Speaker 1: missingness that he is because he understands that God has authority,
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  Speaker 1: that God has given him the permission to to to
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  Speaker 1: do it in failure like to fail and he said
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  Speaker 1: he has to trust God to just basically gather him
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  Speaker 1: and keep him in perfect peace. We don't allow God
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  Speaker 1: to do his job. That's why we don't get to
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  Speaker 1: experience the freedom that God owns. Because the question was
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  Speaker 1: I think he was getting a little irritated with I
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  Speaker 1: think he gets irritated when people make the.
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  Speaker 3: Comment of how strong he is. That's what it came from.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm not strong and I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: strong because in my weakness, that's when the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: able to show her if we're strong, like, where's there
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  Speaker 1: place for God to move and to do his cho
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: And I was, I was chucking a little bit. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Oh, you don't like that, you don't like.
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  Speaker 1: No, he was very pad he was too. It was
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  Speaker 1: two things he was passionate about. That's being strong, but
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  Speaker 1: also them kids. Was the kids. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that the young lady brought up last night, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Bishop Chaelle or Bishop Sho Well, she
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  Speaker 1: was old, ancient oil, she said. She looked ancient like
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  Speaker 1: wisdom like you from the Yeah, she said, in that
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  Speaker 1: drank water, she said, yeah, yeah. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: she brought up to to I remember is is that
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  Speaker 1: there were three generations here her generation, our generation, and
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  Speaker 1: the direct generation of girl evolved. And why it's so
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  Speaker 1: important for us to be in one room and for
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  Speaker 1: a trip to have so much passion for the X generation.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta know how to manage your freedom so you
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  Speaker 1: can teach your children's children how to manage their freedom.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, our ancestors was fighting for something that
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  Speaker 1: was rightfully theirs. Right, we ain't fighting You're fighting yourself
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  Speaker 1: at this point. And so now when we when our
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  Speaker 1: children don't experience experience us being free, then that limits
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  Speaker 1: them from being further along in their freedom. Because you
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  Speaker 1: decided not to actively activate your freedom, You decided not
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  Speaker 1: to properly manage your freedom. You decided to limit yourself
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  Speaker 1: in your freedom. That's good. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take a small break right here We're gonna get some
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  Speaker 1: opinions from some of the leaders that has attended the conference. Y'ah,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on, in, come on, come on, in.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on. Andy.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know, yes, no speak speak to the people, speak
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  Speaker 1: to them. Okay, So y'all always hear me talk about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Remember we were recording now okay, well remember let me
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  Speaker 1: off shell the mike. Y'all. Always you can sign any
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  Speaker 1: consent right now, y'all always hear me talk about my
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  Speaker 1: sister Stacy. I've been trying to get her on this
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  Speaker 1: side of the camera for a minute. If I not
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  Speaker 1: come yeah, she and she here, she's present. And this
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  Speaker 1: is my mother, my other mother, Mama Doss. Because so
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  Speaker 1: this is Stacy and this is mother dos So she
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  Speaker 1: does she look seventy.
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  Speaker 3: This is seventy. She is fine.
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  Speaker 1: We had a we had a good time. We had
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  Speaker 1: a good mama. Make sure you pull push the micaelup
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. Okay, So, Mama, I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about your experience. You've come every year in the
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  Speaker 1: past three years. How have you been enjoying woman.
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  Speaker 5: It's been an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 4: You know, at seventy you still have a desire to
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  Speaker 4: learn and get closer to God and strip what you
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  Speaker 4: thought may have been to learn something new and just
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  Speaker 4: make yourself available to grow and teach and learn and share.
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  Speaker 4: You know, all of that, you know, you get all
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  Speaker 4: of that here.
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  Speaker 5: Plus more, plus more, plus more, plus more.
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested in knowing what you thought about doctor Phillips's
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  Speaker 1: speech yesterday, her topic on grief. I thought about y'all
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  Speaker 1: when we were talking about that, because y'all have been
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: through some things the past several years. What did that
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  Speaker 1: do for you? When she talked about freedom and grief, It's.
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  Speaker 4: Just confirmed what I had already came walked into myself,
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  Speaker 4: because the world allows you to grieve in different ways,
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  Speaker 4: and just knowing that it's okay to grieve, you can't
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  Speaker 4: cut it off.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you can cut it off and cut it off,
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  Speaker 5: but it's always there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It could be a song, it could be a picture,
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  Speaker 4: it could be an image of something that's gonna remind
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  Speaker 4: you of that person that's no longer here, but you
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  Speaker 4: rejoice that they're up there because that's a role that
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  Speaker 4: we all have to take. And you know, when you
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  Speaker 4: know what the word of God say about dying, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to be absent here to be present with him.
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  Speaker 5: And who would want that loved person that.
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  Speaker 4: You love to be present with the Lord and know
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  Speaker 4: they're up there just cheering you on, and you get
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  Speaker 4: another chance to get it right so you can join
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  Speaker 4: that person in here.
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  Speaker 5: Because I've lost.
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  Speaker 4: A sister, my grandmother, my grand my grandmother and my grandfather,
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  Speaker 4: my husband and my mother, and they're different. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a different grief when you lose a parent. It's
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: a different grief process when you lose a sister or
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: a sibling, and it's a different process when you lose
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  Speaker 4: your spouse.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: So they're all different.
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  Speaker 4: You know, because I saw my father lose my mom,
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  Speaker 4: his wife, my mom.
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  Speaker 5: Almost sixty seven years of marriage. And but I order
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  Speaker 5: how he grieved her still with joy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you know, you he missed the memories, but the
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  Speaker 4: joy I see him because she still have grandkids in
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  Speaker 4: life and to share his love for mankind and for
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  Speaker 4: the love of God. So I order to see how
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  Speaker 4: he more my mom, and it helped me to more
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  Speaker 4: my hustan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because you because being able being an actual
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  Speaker 1: weakness to how y'all choose to love y'all. This is
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  Speaker 1: probably the most loving family I've been around with y'all.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I tell y'all this quick story. I had Christmas one
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  Speaker 1: Christmas my family. I don't know what my family was doing,
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  Speaker 1: but my girl Stacey invited me, and she ain't tell
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  Speaker 1: me that they do gift squaps and stuff. So I
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  Speaker 1: just start would come and eating fellowship and this one
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  Speaker 1: of my first time fellowship with him and baby. I
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  Speaker 1: was crying so hard they had gifts for me. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: didn't know. I was like, this, what did you tell me?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: She was just like, I just wanted you to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to receive, and so I want I want you
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  Speaker 1: to lean into that.
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  Speaker 3: Stacey.
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  Speaker 1: I know I get on your nerves and I'm finna
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: get on your nerves some more. Mama, pants and pants
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  Speaker 1: are like the Stacey. How has your experienced been here?
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  Speaker 1: Woman evolved?
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  Speaker 6: Actually, I'm not a comforts person at all, and so
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: my first year coming to a woman involved really opened
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: me up to some areas I didn't even think that
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: needed to be tapped into first of all.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: So the experience is being great.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Each year you get something different, you experienced something different,
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: you meet new people to hear their law, walks to
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: hear kind of where they are on their journey. So
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I just like the fellowship most of all. The speakers
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: have been great, the worship has been great, the Word
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: has been great. But I think I've been really being
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: enjoyed and I really haven't enjoyed the fellowship most of all.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the Stacey, for one, she the Queen of Birmingham,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and she knows everybody, so when she comes out of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: state and then she still know people's and.
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  Speaker 6: I have ran into a couple of people that I'm like, wait,
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: hold on, So yes, I have ran to a couple
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: of people that I've known here.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So which session has spoken to you the most? I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: don't know if I can be a point.
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  Speaker 6: One session last night was amazing, So I don't know.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I think I get something different out of each session.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I sat in on the podcast kind of Sessions yesterday
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: where they were speaking about women knowing how to take
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: care of themselves. I am a brisk cancer survivor, so
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: they spoke on early detection, on knowing how to listen
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: to your body and being tested and if you go
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: to one doctor and they don't give you what you need,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: advocating for yourself to kind of go and get the
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: answers you need from other places.
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  Speaker 1: So that was interesting.
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  Speaker 6: Then also just being in the atmosphere just seeing lives
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: being transformed. It's always exciting for me to see just
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: women just coming into just new seasons of their life. So,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: I don't know there's been a favorite. I've just enjoyed
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: everything's thus far.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: You know, my favorite for both of us because I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: know the season. You already know what.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I know the.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Season that we've both been in, and I can't who
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: was that that was talking about praying basically praying without.
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  Speaker 6: Correct and going back and asking God again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was really good.
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  Speaker 6: So she and I were tax some kind of points
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: like did you hit his?
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  Speaker 3: Did you hit this? You hit his? So that was
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: really good.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And then to hear it tied in again.
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  Speaker 6: It was like basically asking again, going back and just
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: reminding God of the promises that he made to you.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: And sometimes it doesn't.
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  Speaker 6: Look like the way that we wanted to look, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: it's okay to go back and kind of asking again
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: and remind him again and going through that process.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: So that's been interesting as well. Man, Mama dass, I
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  Speaker 1: got to ask you this with you being a beautiful seventy,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a beautiful setding when you'll tell you fine, you fine girl,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you fine. I wonder to give Mama the monkey. I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: wonder what it looks the race looked to freedom looks
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like for you at this age.
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  Speaker 4: At this age, freedom for me is only how to
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: get up every morning and choosing to have a good day.
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  Speaker 5: It's a choice, no matter.
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  Speaker 4: What it is, no matter where you go, I get
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: to choose. If I'm allowed the lady at Walmart to
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: get on my nerve or the man at the service station,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I get to choose.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: So that's what freedom looks like, no worries.
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  Speaker 4: If I come across anybody having a bad day, I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: gonna let you have that, and I'm gonna go on
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: with my happy self, your happineslf with my happy saf
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: because God has been too good to me to allow
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: someone to come and snatch my joy. Because here's my joy,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: and I can only give it to you if I
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: allow you to come take it. So life for me
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  Speaker 4: is about it's just choosing to stay happy no matter what,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what it looks like, no matter what it
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: tastes like, no matter what it feels.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you still I still to choose. I still choose
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  Speaker 1: to have jow Man.
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  Speaker 3: That's so good.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of the song for this year, for
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the anthem for a Woman Involved twenty five. Listen, we're
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: gonna have to link that. We had to link that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: because it's such a powerful song. It says He's given
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  Speaker 1: me authority, yes, to push back the enemy, to push back,
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  Speaker 1: to fight from my victory. And I think that part
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: is what gets me. And then you got it's about
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  Speaker 1: time I use it like I'm fighting not for my victory,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: but from a place of victory because God already won
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that for me. You know what I'm saying that song
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: bus down, Stacey, got a whole library of songs it
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: should be trying to send folks, and you need to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: be sending that one out. So Stacey, leaving the conference,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: what are you expecting from your role or your race
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to freedom?
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, how would.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I sum that just I just want the people to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: hear you if I had to summon up just the unknown,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: just allowing God to do what he's gonna.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Do next to the release for me, because I like
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: to kind of know what's gonna happen next. So the
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: release of just letting him God and whatever that looks like,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: just being able to yield to just whatever he takes
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  Speaker 6: me in or the direction he takes me in next.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: I'm excited for that. Just tapping into just what's next,
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Just what's what's next. I feel like you're lighter like.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I feel like you're lighter like just being here.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like, yes, you know, maybe it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: me feeling both of us, you know, and it is.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Because you know, you come in with kind of expectations.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: You don't know what's gonna happen, you don't know what
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: the shift is because you do have expectations of Okay,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: I'm ready for the next level. But just those keys
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: about being able to ask again, go back, ask again,
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: go back, that was really freeing for me because it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: like you hear those promises and then it's like, okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: past my time passed. Did he changed his mind about
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the promises? But just to hear the reminder that it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: okay to just bring them back to him. So I
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: think that was that was friend for me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so friend. So fridm y'all. I'm so
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: grateful for y'all. I'm grateful that y'all got on my podcast.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: We were trying to go to that yard. Almost. I
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: almost text y'all and ask se'all to just come over
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: here anyway, but I was like, you know what, they
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: probably I'm gonna let them enjoy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: But the Lord knew the Lord and I so than
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: anything about it is. We walked this way because we
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: were We normally go out the other door, and I
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: was like, let's walk this way because it was less traffic.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just it's time. It's time. I love it.
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• 26:49
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• 27:03
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• 27:10
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• 27:21
  Speaker 1: have come for an encounter, to have come to alter
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: their race to freedom so that they can truly be free.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Because guess what, if the Lord set you free, if
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the sun set you free, you are truly free. Indeed. Okay,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: we made a remix to that scripture, but it is okay,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it's okay. So until next time, until next week, remember
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: life could be much more simple if you just asked,
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  Speaker 1: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: say thank God for one another day.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I know we could be another way. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: pray thank God for another day. Hey hey, I'm just
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: thankful for another day. Hey hey another day? Oh, another
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  Speaker 2: day wise, another day to get it right, another day
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to rise up, another day living another day we loved ones.
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  Speaker 2: I always remember hold it down for a ball one yuh.
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  Speaker 1: Okay