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3-16-25 MEET 1 OF 100 AUTHORS TO WATCH DR. DEBORAH IVEY · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Tim extemp, dimnity, intem perfect.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention? Please? The
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Speaker 2: show stops in my eight seven, six, five, four three
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Speaker 2: two one go.
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Speaker 3: Well, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I want
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Speaker 3: to welcome you guys back to up close and personal
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Speaker 3: with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Authors magazine. Say, I'm
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Speaker 3: super excited tonight I get another opportunity to introduce you
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Speaker 3: guys to another amazing queen during International Women's History Month.
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Speaker 3: She's also one of the amazing authors that's a part
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Speaker 3: of the one hundred Authors to Watch. So I tell
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Speaker 3: you we're in for a treat on tonight. So I
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Speaker 3: want you to go ahead and share this with someone
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Speaker 3: in your circle of influence, because I guarantee you we're
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Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna have a treat for tonight. Have an
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Speaker 3: opportunity to have not had an opportunity to meet doctor
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Speaker 3: Dever in person, but we have cross paths sometime back,
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Speaker 3: and I am truly honored to have her on tonight.
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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna bring go ahead and bring her up
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Speaker 3: and allow her the opportunity to introduce herself. Because y'all
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Speaker 3: know I don't do. I don't do no justice. I
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Speaker 3: always leave something out, and I never want to leave
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Speaker 3: anything out. So I'm gonna bring her own up and
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Speaker 3: allow her to introduce herself. Welcome, doctor Dever, how are you.
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Speaker 4: I'm well in yourself.
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Speaker 3: That's good.
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Speaker 4: That's good. My name is Steborah Ivy. I am an author.
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Speaker 4: I'm a veteran disabled vet. I work for the federal government.
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Speaker 4: I am a mom of two daughters and a grandmother
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Speaker 4: of three granddaughters. I've been married twenty two years and
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Speaker 4: I just love to empower women. And what else can
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Speaker 4: I say?
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Speaker 3: Wow, Well, you definitely are wearing a lot of hats.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for your service. Definitely, thank you for your service.
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Speaker 3: I thank you for taking time to come on today
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Speaker 3: and share with us. I want to talk a little
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Speaker 3: bit about your journey as an author because this is
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Speaker 3: Women's History Month. You are a part of the one
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Speaker 3: hundred author's movement. So I want to talk about your
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Speaker 3: journey as an author and empowering women.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So I guess some years ago I started writing
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Speaker 4: about my life about that I've overcome, and I procrastinated
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Speaker 4: for such a long time about you know, getting this
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Speaker 4: book out, and so I guess. A couple of years
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Speaker 4: ago for my birthday, I said I was going to
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Speaker 4: get it out and I had somebody to help me,
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Speaker 4: you know, like put it together because I didn't know
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Speaker 4: the first thing about you know, like publishing a book.
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Speaker 4: And you know, we did it through Amazon. So that
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Speaker 4: was my journey. And you know, I feel like a
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Speaker 4: lot of times, you know, we're told that we can't
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Speaker 4: do this, we can't do that, but we can. We
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Speaker 4: just got to you know, put our mind to it
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Speaker 4: and put that focus to it and do it. So
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Speaker 4: that was my journey of being an author about talking
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Speaker 4: about my life. And then I think my second one
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Speaker 4: was like a journal, like an inspirational journal.
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Speaker 3: Wow, So what made you just decide to go ahead
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Speaker 3: and get it out? Because, like you said, a lot
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Speaker 3: of people, you know, they procrastinate because they don't know
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Speaker 3: what to do or where to start. So what made
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Speaker 3: you want to go ahead and get this out?
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Speaker 4: I was a part of a book collaboration, and I
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Speaker 4: liked how the person that was helping. I liked how
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Speaker 4: she set the steps up for us to you know
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Speaker 4: do this, you know, get out there and talk about
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Speaker 4: your book on social media, you know, send her your
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Speaker 4: bio send her your head shot. So that's what really
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Speaker 4: made me do it because I always wanted to do it,
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Speaker 4: so I went ahead and did it.
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Speaker 3: After that, Wow, that is amazing. And you mentioned that
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Speaker 3: you had daughters and you had grandchildren. What a legacy
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Speaker 3: that is creating for for them? Yes, it is definitely
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Speaker 3: an amazing journey. So you say you are you do
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Speaker 3: empowerment empowerment?
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Speaker 2: Wow?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what made you want to empower empower other people?
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Speaker 4: I took a a certification of Women's Empowerment certification out
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Speaker 4: in Kentucky, and you know, like I said a lot
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Speaker 4: of times, you know, women, we are always beat down
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Speaker 4: and told that we can't do this, we can't do that.
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Speaker 4: So once I took that that certification, like, okay, you
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Speaker 4: know I need to start by empowering myself in and
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Speaker 4: in turn empower other people. You know, I always send
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Speaker 4: out journals and be like, Okay, you can do it.
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Speaker 4: You know, don't don't, don't count yourself out. You can
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Speaker 4: do it.
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Speaker 3: Wow. It's nothing like being able to heal, and when
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Speaker 3: you heal, you're able to help others heal alone. This journey,
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Speaker 3: you know, I think that that's what it's all about.
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Speaker 3: Because I'm a spiritual person. So I know that, you know,
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Speaker 3: alone this journey, things are gonna come, because it shows
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Speaker 3: us that in the Word. But he also gives us tools,
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Speaker 3: and he also gives us things that we can you know,
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Speaker 3: prepare and you know, work through it. You know, we
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Speaker 3: know it's gonna come, so we have these tools like
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Speaker 3: you're giving out these tools, you're giving out these empowerment
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Speaker 3: on tips and things that can help somebody get through,
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Speaker 3: you know, because at the end of the day, we
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Speaker 3: know that we're gonna get through. But how we get
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Speaker 3: through it? It's the question, you know that that that
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Speaker 3: be the thing, you know, and we ain't been here before.
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Speaker 3: So while we have is to draw off of a
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Speaker 3: the people experiences and those things that have been left
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Speaker 3: to us. And I'm reminded the Word tells us that,
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Speaker 3: you know, we should do greater works. And I keep
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Speaker 3: telling people, you know, how would people know those greater
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Speaker 3: works if we're not sharing them, if we're not doing
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Speaker 3: the things that you're doing, like you know, getting empowered
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Speaker 3: so that you can go out here and empower other individuals,
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Speaker 3: you know, so that they can come out of what
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Speaker 3: they're going through, so that they can do the same
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Speaker 3: for the next person. I tell people it's to rip affects.
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Speaker 3: You know, once you get once you grab hope to
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Speaker 3: that pebble and you toss it out there in that
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Speaker 3: river and you let it go and it just begin
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Speaker 3: to just those those waves just begin to just riple
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Speaker 3: off of each other. And that's that's, that's what we're
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Speaker 3: doing here. I thank you for being a voice, for
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Speaker 3: allowing your your your the things that you've been through,
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Speaker 3: your experiences, your journey to help your testimony, to help
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Speaker 3: others come out and to get through. So thank you
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Speaker 3: for that. Tell us a little bit about your book
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Speaker 3: and where can we find it.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So my first book is Overcoming the Obstacles, and
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Speaker 4: it's pretty much about my life, you know, me growing up,
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Speaker 4: you know, my father not really being there. My mom
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Speaker 4: struggled with four kids, and how you know, we had
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Speaker 4: to move to the projects, and even though you know
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Speaker 4: she had the four kids, you know, we struggled, but
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Speaker 4: you know she always you know, made a way for us.
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Speaker 4: And so coming up, you know, I wanted better for
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Speaker 4: my kids. I wanted better for my kids. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I didn't want to have to struggle with my kids.
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Speaker 4: But it's like I went into the military. I was
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Speaker 4: about seventeen. I turned eighteen into the military. When I
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Speaker 4: was in the military for my birthday, and so it's
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Speaker 4: just that, you know, I wanted to you know, make
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Speaker 4: sure that I had a legacy to leave my kids.
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Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure that my kids didn't struggle
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Speaker 4: like I did. So I went into the military. I
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Speaker 4: did sixteen years. I did an early retirement because of
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Speaker 4: some medical issues, went into the you know, work for
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Speaker 4: the government, and you know, got my bachelor's degree, got
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Speaker 4: my master's degree, got an honorary doctorate degree. So I
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Speaker 4: wanted my kids to know that, you know, just because
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Speaker 4: you come from you know, certain circumstances, you can come
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Speaker 4: out of that. You can you can achieve anything that
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Speaker 4: you put your mind to.
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Speaker 3: Wow, and that is so amazing because I'm sitting here
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Speaker 3: and I'm just just just things just running through my mind.
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Speaker 3: You know, your journey is my journey is similar to
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Speaker 3: your journey because I think you're a little older than me.
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Speaker 3: I went through the same thing growing up in the
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Speaker 3: country and you know, didn't have to live in the project,
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Speaker 3: but living in you know, not having as much as
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Speaker 3: other people had, you know, I grew up on like
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Speaker 3: a farm area in the country, so you know, it
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Speaker 3: was kind of different. You know, if we didn't grow it,
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Speaker 3: you know, if we didn't form it, if we didn't
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Speaker 3: grow it. A lot of the times we didn't have it.
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Speaker 3: So I truly understand and then being able to, you know,
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Speaker 3: be in a place like I think I was one
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Speaker 3: of the first girls in my family two go off
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Speaker 3: to college, you know, to even play sports, and to
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Speaker 3: even get a scholarship. You know, it was none heard
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Speaker 3: of in my family. But now I have a nephew
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Speaker 3: that has a master's degree. Matter of fact, he just
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Speaker 3: texts me telling me he's going through customs now, getting
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Speaker 3: ready to get on the plane. He's in the military,
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Speaker 3: you know, And I'm grateful, you know that we were
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Speaker 3: able to break that general because in my family, everybody
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Speaker 3: worked in meals and plants, and you know, all people
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Speaker 3: know was to work in warehouses. That's that's all they knew.
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Speaker 3: You know, that their thing was to go and work
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Speaker 3: at one of the top fortune five hundred warehouses like
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Speaker 3: BMW and in places like that that that that's their goal.
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Speaker 3: That wasn't mis you know, I didn't want to go
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Speaker 3: work at the meal, I didn't want to go work
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Speaker 3: in the plant, so I wanted to do something different.
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Speaker 3: So how I ended up here. This was not part
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Speaker 3: of the plan. This was not something that I dreamed of.
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Speaker 3: This is not something that I had on my on
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Speaker 3: my cars, even being an author. You know, a lot
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Speaker 3: of the stuff that I'm walking into, I never dreamed
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Speaker 3: of doing it. But God had plans for me, you know.
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Speaker 3: He he he had already mapped it out, he had
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Speaker 3: already ordained. It seemed like everything that I wanted to
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Speaker 3: walk into it he would shut it down. And it
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Speaker 3: always led towards these things that I'm doing now. So
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Speaker 3: I tell everybody, you know, just just try to step
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Speaker 3: out on faith. I had my nephew. He just got
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Speaker 3: promoted to chief of the fire department in South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: He just walked up to the fire department one day
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Speaker 3: and said, I'm about to walk up here and see
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Speaker 3: if they'll let me volunteer. And he walked up there,
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Speaker 3: and he come back with one of the walkie talkers
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Speaker 3: and one of day, what's the name, And next thing,
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Speaker 3: you know, he was when he graduated from high school.
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Speaker 3: He never went to college. When he graduated from high school.
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Speaker 3: They had already gave him a position. He worked as
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Speaker 3: a for the last year he was the intern chief,
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Speaker 3: but he was a lieutenant at another fire department. So
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Speaker 3: I tell you just looking at him and he said, Untie,
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Speaker 3: he said, I have great role models. He said, y'all, y'all,
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Speaker 3: y'all made us do this. He said, y'all, y'all, y'all
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Speaker 3: set the y'all set the standards. So I'm grateful that
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Speaker 3: I was able to set a standard for somebody to say, hey,
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Speaker 3: I want to live up to that. And you are
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Speaker 3: definitely doing that. You are definitely creating a legacy. You're
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Speaker 3: definitely you bachelor's doctors, masters like you. You are doing it,
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Speaker 3: Like what a legacy. It is an honor to have
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Speaker 3: you here today, Like I want you to share, Like
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Speaker 3: I want you to share with the people whatever it
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Speaker 3: is that you have laid on your heart today that
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Speaker 3: you want them to know about you so that they
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Speaker 3: can stay in contact with you, so that they can
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Speaker 3: follow your platform. Just that short time that I've had
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Speaker 3: here with you today, it just made me want to,
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Speaker 3: you know, find out what more are you doing? Like
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Speaker 3: how are you empowering? How are you empowering? Well, what
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Speaker 3: are you doing? Like, just hearing you just say those
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Speaker 3: words just make me want to just come and just
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Speaker 3: find out. So how can people get some of your
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Speaker 3: empowerment tools, get some of your tips? What can they do?
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Speaker 4: Okay, so they can always reach out to me through
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Speaker 4: my email m R. S I. V. E. Y at
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Speaker 4: hotmail dot com. I don't mind sharing tools to empower
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Speaker 4: I'm also you know, I'm in the I'm in the
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Speaker 4: process of trying to start a nonprofit, you know, with
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Speaker 4: my husband, and it's pretty much, you know, like passing
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Speaker 4: forward blessings you know, to people, because I believe that
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Speaker 4: my gift is to help others, you know, help find resources,
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Speaker 4: and I don't mind doing that. You know, That's something
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Speaker 4: that I'm passionate about, you know, helping others because sometimes
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Speaker 4: people don't know, you know, certain things, and it's up
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Speaker 4: to us to help each other. So that's what, you know,
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Speaker 4: that's laid on my heart, you know, to do community service,
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Speaker 4: you know, helping out in the community. You know, I'm
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Speaker 4: a veteran, so I want to give back to veterans.
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Speaker 4: So those are some of the things that's laid on
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Speaker 4: my heart.
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Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome, awesome. I definitely. I want you to share
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Speaker 3: about being a part of the one hundred author's movement
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Speaker 3: and what that means to you.
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Speaker 4: So, I mean I've always like watched you, and I've
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Speaker 4: you know, I've generated a couple of your platforms with
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Speaker 4: you know, like authors poetry. So I've watched you for
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Speaker 4: quite some time. And when I saw that. When I
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Speaker 4: saw that, I saw it on like one of my
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Speaker 4: friends page, doctor Tina Baker.
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Speaker 3: It's like, okay, you know what is that about? And
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Speaker 3: so she was telling me, and I was like, oh, I.
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Speaker 4: Gotta jump over now, because I want to you know,
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Speaker 4: get more out there with you know, writing books, just
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Speaker 4: getting my brand out there and just you know, learning
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Speaker 4: all that I can learn and network with like minded people.
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Speaker 4: So you know, I think that, you know, this platform
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Speaker 4: is going to push me to greater heights, greater exposure.
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Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome, awesome. What are two things that you would
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Speaker 3: love to take away from this platform?
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Speaker 4: I mean I would love to take away you know,
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Speaker 4: building my brand and you know, just networking with people,
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Speaker 4: because it seems like the people that I've come in
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Speaker 4: contact with, you know, everybody is willing to share, everybody
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Speaker 4: is you know, just just willing to just step out there,
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Speaker 4: and nobody seems to be you know, like selfish or
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Speaker 4: holding back any information that can help somebody else.
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Speaker 3: And that's what it's all about, you know. I have
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Speaker 3: these four sess what was dropped in my spirit, and
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Speaker 3: it is to connect, collaborate, create, and to build a community.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: I want people to have a safe space where they
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Speaker 3: feel comfortable in sharing, where they don't feel like people
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Speaker 3: are using them, taking advantage of them, and all of
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Speaker 3: those things, because you hear it so often, and I
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Speaker 3: mean you hear it constantly in this arena, you know.
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Speaker 3: And I want people to know that, you know, you
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Speaker 3: don't have to go broke trying to be an author,
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Speaker 3: that their resources out there if you just do the work.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you just gotta you know, do a little work,
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Speaker 3: do a little research.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes I may know something that you don't know. It's
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Speaker 3: just simply I like to top on them phone. I
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Speaker 3: like for people to pick up the phone and call me.
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Speaker 3: If you don't know, just pick up the phone and
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Speaker 3: call me. And that's, you know, see if we can
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Speaker 3: help each other. You know, I don't mind. I've had
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Speaker 3: authors tell me that they were stuck. They didn't know,
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Speaker 3: you know what to do now, you know. And I
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Speaker 3: sit with the author on the phone. We talked for
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Speaker 3: about two hours and when we got off the phone,
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Speaker 3: she was just like wow. She was like, I never
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Speaker 3: thought of a lot of this stuff, she said, wow.
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Speaker 3: And I tell people all the time, you know, God
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Speaker 3: drops stuff in my spirit and it don't be for me.
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Speaker 3: It be for me to give it to other people,
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Speaker 3: you know. And I'm always trying to share stuff. I
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Speaker 3: want people to thrive, you know, if we're thriving, if
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Speaker 3: we're going to the next level. Like, I don't want
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Speaker 3: people to always think that, you know, they got to
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Speaker 3: come and sit up under Angela. No, I want you
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Speaker 3: to be a leader so that you can bring people up,
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Speaker 3: so that you can bring up the next group, so that, hey,
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Speaker 3: you can always come back over here and say, miss Angela, Hey,
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Speaker 3: what you got going on?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 3: What can we get involved in? And then we keep
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Speaker 3: doing it, and we do it over and over and over,
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Speaker 3: and guess what, That's how we all grow, and that's
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Speaker 3: how we all thrive, and that's how we make sure
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Speaker 3: the generations coming behind us are equipped and ready. And
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Speaker 3: I'm so grateful to be in the midst of seasoned
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Speaker 3: individuals like you guys, because y'all may think y'all are
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Speaker 3: getting a lot from me, but I get a lot
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Speaker 3: from y'all, y'all, I pull a lot from you guys.
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Speaker 3: Like sometimes I have to just sit back and be like, Okay, Angela,
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Speaker 3: go over here and see what so and so doing,
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Speaker 3: so you can kind of relax and come down because
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Speaker 3: I be all over the place sometime trying to keep up.
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Speaker 3: I'm in school, So I got two more weeks, fingers crossed,
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Speaker 3: two more weeks and I'll be walking with my masters. Okay,
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Speaker 3: breaking those generations curses, you know, Because I I was,
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Speaker 3: I was on the road to head it back down
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Speaker 3: that path, dropped out of college. And I said, you
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Speaker 3: know what about three years ago, I said, you know what,
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Speaker 3: it's coming up on thirty years I've been out of
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Speaker 3: high school. I said, Angela, is this really what you
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Speaker 3: want to do? I said, going back to school. My
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Speaker 3: nephew encouraged me, and I went back. He was actually
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Speaker 3: working on his masters, And believe it or not, because
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Speaker 3: of all of the schooling that I've done prior, it
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Speaker 3: didn't even take me long to get my degree. When
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Speaker 3: when I got my degree. When I walked with my degree,
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Speaker 3: they told me I had an associate too. Didn't even
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Speaker 3: know I was going for an associate, but they told
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Speaker 3: me I had an associate too. So I got an
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Speaker 3: associate in a bachelor's at the same time. And then
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Speaker 3: now in two weeks, I well, this week, next week,
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Speaker 3: I'll be finished with my masters. So I'm grateful I
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Speaker 3: can go ahead and say I'll be finished with it
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Speaker 3: because I got a ninety eight in the class. Ain't
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Speaker 3: no way I can miss that up now, And no
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Speaker 3: way I have to be crazy to mess that up.
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Speaker 3: Ain't no way I can miss that ninety eight. I
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Speaker 3: worked hard for that one. So I'm excited. I'm excited.
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Speaker 3: That's thank you. I see you guys.
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Speaker 2: I see y'all.
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Speaker 3: Getting them doctorial degrees, and I'm like, they don't put
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Speaker 3: in all this work. I said, I got to go back.
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Speaker 3: I got to do this. I got to do this.
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Speaker 3: And then my nephew encouraged me. He was like, until
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Speaker 3: you can do it. He was like, you can do it.
22:28
Speaker 3: And then he told me, he said, untie, now you're
22:29
Speaker 3: over there doing too much. Now, he said, you're able
22:31
Speaker 3: to make an a's. He said You're making it hard
22:33
Speaker 3: for these accountants, he said, because we don't make a's
22:36
Speaker 3: an accountants, he said, we usually get b's and season
22:38
Speaker 3: and they give us those. They push us up. If
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Speaker 3: we get an A, they give it to it. So
22:43
Speaker 3: he was like, until you need to slow down over there.
22:45
Speaker 3: But he was my tutorer. Yeah, so I told him,
22:49
Speaker 3: I say, well, you did your job. I said, you
22:51
Speaker 3: learned so that you can teach me Andy, But yes,
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Speaker 3: enough about me, enough about me. What do you have
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Speaker 3: plan for the rest of twenty twenty five because we
23:06
Speaker 3: only three months in what what do you have planned?
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Speaker 4: Well, as I mentioned earlier, me and my husband were
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Speaker 4: talking about, you know, starting a nonprofit, so that's one thing.
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Speaker 4: And then I'm always looking to learn. I'm looking to learn,
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Speaker 4: you know, like some continuing education credits. I want to,
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Speaker 4: you know, learn Spanish. I've been doing the dual lingo
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Speaker 4: at not as uh I guess, not as committed like
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Speaker 4: I should with the Spanish. And then one of my friends,
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Speaker 4: you know, she's Spanish, so you know, she kind of
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Speaker 4: helped me sometimes. But those are two you have.
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Speaker 3: You also have two two young ladies in the in
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Speaker 3: the authors group that speak Spanish. They're from the islands.
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Speaker 3: One is from one is from where they both are
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Speaker 3: from the Virgin Islands, but one was born in the
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Speaker 3: Dominican Republican but they both speak Spanish. So okay, yeah, yes,
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Speaker 3: we write in the mix. Yeah, we have a lot
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Speaker 3: of tools. We have a lot of tools. So I'm
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Speaker 3: excited for you. I'm excited about the nonprofits. So you
24:22
Speaker 3: definitely have to keep us posted up updated on that.
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Speaker 3: Definitely want you to tell and share about that. Okay,
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Speaker 3: definitely that. What about any writing projects, got anything coming
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Speaker 3: up in the writing avenue?
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Speaker 4: Well, I have an idea for a collaboration book about marriage,
24:47
Speaker 4: you know, some of the things that you know people
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Speaker 4: went through and what did they do to kind of
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Speaker 4: like get through. So that's, you know, something that I'm
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Speaker 4: working on. And then my daughter, you know, she wants
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Speaker 4: to become an author, so I want to help her
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Speaker 4: with her book because I think she wanted to talk
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Speaker 4: about relationships.
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Speaker 3: So cool, yeah, cool, awesome, awesome. I look forward to that.
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Speaker 3: We have some people in the in the group. I
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Speaker 3: think we have a couple of people in the group
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Speaker 3: that deals in that, and we also, you know, we
25:22
Speaker 3: have a couple publishing coaches, in the group. We have
25:26
Speaker 3: a couple of professors, so we have we have some
25:31
Speaker 3: We got some Ammo, I said, we got some coition
25:34
Speaker 3: in that, so we have some tools if we just
25:38
Speaker 3: work with the tools that we have. And I also
25:42
Speaker 3: I've been trying to incorporate this Lunch and Learn series.
25:47
Speaker 3: I know everybody can't always come on during lunch time,
25:50
Speaker 3: but it is recorded so you can go back, and
25:53
Speaker 3: I try to do clips so that we can try
25:57
Speaker 3: to keep information flowing. Everybody wants to know how I
26:00
Speaker 3: get my books in all these different places. I actually
26:03
Speaker 3: did a two day talk on how I get my
26:07
Speaker 3: books and all those different places. I showed them how
26:09
Speaker 3: to upload it to the different platform that I use
26:13
Speaker 3: to be able to get it in those different places.
26:16
Speaker 3: I also did a I did a live on funneling
26:21
Speaker 3: because people often want to know, you know, what they
26:24
Speaker 3: can do with their books and stuff, So I did
26:27
Speaker 3: a thing on that. I'm not really big on it.
26:31
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of about it, but I
26:33
Speaker 3: shared what I knew. And there's a guy because I
26:37
Speaker 3: saw I stayed. I stood in for a guy. He
26:41
Speaker 3: was supposed to been there, but someone had an accident
26:45
Speaker 3: in his family. So he had to go to the
26:46
Speaker 3: emergency room with them, but he's gonna come back. That's
26:50
Speaker 3: his thing, So he's gonna come back and share with us.
26:53
Speaker 3: So we have a lot of tools, and we have
26:55
Speaker 3: a lot of different things that are gonna be coming
26:57
Speaker 3: for I'm gonna be spending more time within the group,
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Speaker 3: working with the group leaders and doing a lot of
27:05
Speaker 3: the stuff trying to, you know, to get people active,
27:09
Speaker 3: because I do a lot of challenges too, to you know,
27:12
Speaker 3: try to get individuals to engage with each other. There's
27:17
Speaker 3: some authors that have really been you know, shouting out
27:20
Speaker 3: to other authors and you know, really promoting each other,
27:23
Speaker 3: and that's what I'm trying to get everybody to do.
27:25
Speaker 3: So we're working on it. Now that I'm getting close
27:29
Speaker 3: to getting out of school, I can spend more time.
27:31
Speaker 3: I can really devote more time to it. So I'm excited.
27:36
Speaker 3: I'm excited. So you tell your daughter to go ahead
27:39
Speaker 3: and get on that book, and we're gonna be looking
27:45
Speaker 3: forward to that. So what what else would you like
27:51
Speaker 3: for the audience, for those that may have never had
27:55
Speaker 3: a chance to hear you, what what would you like
27:58
Speaker 3: for them to know about you?
28:03
Speaker 4: I would like them to know that I'm one of
28:05
Speaker 4: these type of people that always set goals for myself
28:08
Speaker 4: each year, like things that I want to accomplish. I'll
28:11
Speaker 4: set goals and then I'll you know, like set small
28:14
Speaker 4: goals to kind of like accomplish them. So that's the
28:17
Speaker 4: type of person that I am. So any goal, if
28:21
Speaker 4: I said I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.
28:24
Speaker 3: So any any personal vowels that we not talked about
28:30
Speaker 3: yet that we want to do. Any bucket list, anything that.
28:34
Speaker 4: I don't really believe in, like bucket lists because to me,
28:37
Speaker 4: that sounds like you're dead. But always have like these
28:40
Speaker 4: wish lists, you know, like of stuff that I want
28:43
Speaker 4: to do. Like one year, I said I wanted to
28:47
Speaker 4: conquer my fear of heights, and so I did a
28:50
Speaker 4: skydive in the tandem sky dive. So it's you know,
28:53
Speaker 4: it's stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: Wow, I think we When you said that, I kind
29:02
Speaker 3: of I thought I was over my fear. I got
29:05
Speaker 3: on the I used to go to six Flags because
29:09
Speaker 3: I lived in Atlanta where I'm back here now, but
29:13
Speaker 3: I used to go to six Flags a lot, and
29:16
Speaker 3: I used to be scared of heights. So I think
29:18
Speaker 3: my nephew took me out on the the free fall,
29:22
Speaker 3: and I thought I had got over that. But when
29:24
Speaker 3: you said you did bungee jumping, I'm like, you did
29:30
Speaker 3: sky Yeah, I want to do that too. But I'm
29:35
Speaker 3: looking at my niece. No bench, she did a whole
29:37
Speaker 3: bunch of stuff. She know, been out on the cliff
29:40
Speaker 3: and you know, been swinging out because she don't been
29:42
Speaker 3: to all kinds of different countries. She's always somewhere. She
29:47
Speaker 3: loves to stay on the other side of the country.
29:50
Speaker 3: I've never seen somebody travel so much. I think she
29:54
Speaker 3: got I think she ran out of space on her passport.
29:56
Speaker 3: She had to get another. Yeah, I want to be
30:00
Speaker 3: like that. I told them to keep traveling because I
30:01
Speaker 3: want to be like that when I grow up.
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Speaker 2: I just do it. Just do it.
30:08
Speaker 3: And that's the second time I know heard just do it.
30:12
Speaker 2: I'm just do it.
30:15
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna do it. I said that about planes,
30:19
Speaker 3: and now I can't stay out a plane, even though
30:21
Speaker 3: they keep having all this this, I just can't get remember.
30:26
Speaker 3: I can't help it. It just I can't getting in
30:30
Speaker 3: a car and driving eight hours and six hours, I
30:34
Speaker 3: just can't see it. For the lights of me no more.
30:36
Speaker 3: Now that I've learned how to fly and to fly lightly,
30:41
Speaker 3: not just get on there with all them bags. I've
30:43
Speaker 3: learned how to do light flying. So I tell you, well,
30:49
Speaker 3: I'm excited, and I definitely want to thank you again
30:53
Speaker 3: for stopping by and sharing with us. Again. I want
30:57
Speaker 3: you to share with everybody how they can follow you,
31:02
Speaker 3: how they can support the things that you are doing
31:04
Speaker 3: really quick.
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Speaker 4: Okay, some on Facebook doubra iv. I'm on Instagram as
31:12
Speaker 4: IV three and also my email address is Mrs iv
31:19
Speaker 4: e Y at hotmail dot com. So those are ways
31:22
Speaker 4: that you can follow me.
31:25
Speaker 2: Wow.
31:26
Speaker 3: So definitely, y'all, we want to stay connected to her
31:30
Speaker 3: and catch some of this empowerment that she's passing alone
31:35
Speaker 3: to help you get through, because I tell you it's
31:39
Speaker 3: nothing like being empowered so that you can help empower
31:43
Speaker 3: those around you. So definitely go over check her out,
31:47
Speaker 3: check out some of her books. And I want to
31:49
Speaker 3: tell y'all, I always tell people, try to get the
31:54
Speaker 3: book from the author so you can get that personal
31:56
Speaker 3: live autograph. They can send you a personal miss and
32:01
Speaker 3: that way you get to know the author. We like
32:04
Speaker 3: for you to leave reviews, We like for you to
32:06
Speaker 3: give your perspective, your thoughts so that we can, you know,
32:12
Speaker 3: continue to develop our crafts and continue to bring you
32:16
Speaker 3: the content that you know you're wanting to read. So
32:22
Speaker 3: when y'all pick up the book, please leave a review
32:25
Speaker 3: and go over and check out her page and check
32:30
Speaker 3: out the things that she's doing. Stay connected. I tell you,
32:34
Speaker 3: it's nothing like developing those relatable relationships with people. So
32:42
Speaker 3: definitely thank you for stopping by and sharing, and again,
32:46
Speaker 3: thank you for your service. Thank you for all that
32:49
Speaker 3: you do and continue to uplift and courage and inspire
32:55
Speaker 3: those around you because you're doing an amazing job. So
32:59
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know that.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, I.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for this opportunity. I thank you for all
33:10
Speaker 4: of your resources and opportunities that you put out there.
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Speaker 3: So I want to say thank you, You're welcome, and
33:18
Speaker 3: thank you guys for allowing me to do it before
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Speaker 3: we leave. I always like for my guests to share
33:26
Speaker 3: something inspirational or empowering for those that are tuning in
33:32
Speaker 3: and those that may hear the replay that may help
33:35
Speaker 3: them get through the rest of this day or tomorrow
33:38
Speaker 3: or wherever they may be at that moment they hear this.
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Speaker 4: Okay, The thing that I would like to leave is
33:44
Speaker 4: that don't let nobody tell you that you can't do something,
33:48
Speaker 4: because you can. How President Obama say yes we can,
33:53
Speaker 4: Yes you can.
33:56
Speaker 3: So y'all have heard it from doctor Debh on tonight.
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Speaker 3: I tell you, if you need some inspiration, if you
34:06
Speaker 3: need to be empowered, she shared her page, you can
34:10
Speaker 3: go over and check her out and be empowered. I
34:14
Speaker 3: want to thank you, guys for tuning in on tonight.
34:18
Speaker 3: Before we leave, I want to give her a round
34:21
Speaker 3: of applause for all that she does for us. She
34:25
Speaker 3: serve our country, and she's leaving a blueprint for those
34:30
Speaker 3: that are coming behind her. So y'all, let's give her
34:33
Speaker 3: a round of applause. And I want to thank you
34:41
Speaker 3: guys for tuning in on tonight. I truly was blessed
34:44
Speaker 3: by her presence. Y'all go over check her out, check
34:47
Speaker 3: out her books, show her some love, show her some support,
34:51
Speaker 3: and see what she has in store for twenty twenty five.
34:54
Speaker 3: I'm excited about her nonprofit that's coming forth because it's
34:58
Speaker 3: gonna help relationships and we need that in our black
35:02
Speaker 3: and brown community. So y'all stay tuned and stay connected
35:06
Speaker 3: to doctor Deborah Ivy. Y'all have a great knight.