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Season 5 - Episode 47 - An untold story from the past that needs to be heard! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning.
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  I want to share something with you that I read this morning.
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  Every day I try to take in some information, educate, put
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  something in my head so that I feel like I am constantly
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  learning. Well, listen to this Jefferson
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  Davis. Never, ever worried about this
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  person that worked in his office.
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  OK? This is during the time, you
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  know, when we had the Civil War. And he never worried about this.
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  He never considered any of the the people around him that could
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  take him down. There was this girl that worked
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  in his office, OK, And she, Mary Bowser, she was a slave that had
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  been placed to work in the office by another woman who was
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  absolutely instrumental. These two women were
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  instrumental in being a part of what took down the the self
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  during this time, OK. And this particular situation,
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  they were trying to figure out how to get a spy into this, into
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  the the White House, the then White House of the Confederacy.
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  However, they were struggling to get people in there.
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  So what happened? Mary was born into slavery of
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  this Van Lewin family, and she had been freed after the senior
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  person, whoever he was, passed away.
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  Well, his daughter Elizabeth ended up helping, educating,
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  going through all of this and, and working with Mary.
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  And Mary became a spy. Now, how cool is that?
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  Elizabeth saw this, but she was, she was a wealthy woman, but she
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  was one of the union's most committed spies, as was Mary.
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  And here's the cool thing. Mary had a nearly photographic
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  memory. Everything that she read or
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  heard or saw, she could absolutely remember it.
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  So she he would come back from the White House after working in
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  there all day, taking care. She served them every day.
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  She was around general strategist, cabinet members, the
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  Confederate president himself. She was there the whole time and
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  she was secure because she was a servant of the White House.
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  They didn't think that she was intelligent.
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  Their thought was that she couldn't even read.
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  But you know what? She was a brilliant actress and
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  she could come back and she could just glimpse at something
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  and remember it. And she all this was downloaded
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  to Elizabeth and then Elizabeth would take this information and
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  get it through the spy network up to the North and it right
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  into the hands of everyone that specifically needed it, Which
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  was incredible that this was such a big deal.
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  Because when you think about it, if you're able to get something
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  out of the South into the north, she with such detail and such
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  precision, it was insane. Not to mention it was going
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  directly to General Grant, who at that point was running
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  everything. How insane is that, that these
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  women were brave enough to do this like I am?
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  I'm stunned when I read things like this that we have never
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  been taught this. I'm stunned that we have never
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  made a movie about this because I got to tell you that would
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  probably be one of the greatest movies of all times.
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  If somebody had the guts to make this movie, it would be
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  incredible because they never saw her coming.
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  She had every little thing that she could possibly have again
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  against her and she used all of it because they were arrogant
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  and thinking that nothing could, you know, take them down in
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  these ways. And and if it was, it certainly
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  wasn't going to be a woman and it certainly wasn't going to be
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  a black woman. And look at what they they did.
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  Look at how that turned out. And and she was arguably one of
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  the most instrumental, along with her and Elizabeth to get
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  this information out. I mean with such detail and such
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  bravery, I think of this and I as soon as I read it, I was
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  like, holy cow. We worry about making small
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  little choices and being brave to maybe try our new business or
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  do something brave for ourselves and look at what they did.
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  I mean, come on, we would not have the, the, the country we
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  have right now if they had failed.
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  If they were not a part of it, we would not be where we are
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  because we know the butterfly effect effects everything.
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  So one thing changes one thing changes one thing.
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  But think about that. We wouldn't be where we are
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  right now in this world if all of that hadn't happened.
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  And a few women who were considered inconsequential and
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  unimportant hadn't been brave. So if you're hearing this, and
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  whether you're a man or a woman, but especially if you're a
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  woman, if you are afraid to do something, remember Mary,
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  remember, Elizabeth. Mary Bowser was beyond brave.
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  Elizabeth Van Lewen was beyond brave to do what they did.
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  I mean, that alone should be motivation for the day.
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  OK my friends, I hope you're going to have a blessed day and
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  I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.