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Celebrating the 150th episode of KIWK "Embracing the Journey" · Kickin’ It With KeKe: Life, Love, & MINDSET

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the one hundred and fiftieth episode
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  Speaker 1: of Kicking In with Kiki podcast. I am so humbled
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  Speaker 1: and excited. This journey has been amazing. I have met
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  Speaker 1: some amazing people. You listeners are still tuning in and
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  Speaker 1: downloading your girls episode, So thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I am here with some amazing and wonderful women in
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  Speaker 1: my life who pour into me on a daily who
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  Speaker 1: I try to do the same thing too. I'll let
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  Speaker 1: them tell you if I'm doing a good job. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you just have to vibe with your tribe, and
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  Speaker 1: you have certain people that radiates different energies. And these
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  Speaker 1: women who you see on this screen, minus a few
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  Speaker 1: that could not make it, have been that for me
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  Speaker 1: doing this journey. So welcome and thank you for coming
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  Speaker 1: to kick it with me today.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 1: I love y'all back. But y'all know how I like
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  Speaker 1: to do. I'm not gonna celebrate me without celebrating y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So tell these people who y'all are and what you do.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start up here with Butterfly.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, this is Kim you b your perspective coach
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  Speaker 3: of Butterfly thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: I am what do I not do.
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  Speaker 3: I am an author, I'm a speaker, one of the
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  Speaker 3: writers of nineteen magazine, and so much more. I'm also
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  Speaker 3: a UH journal general therapy coach, and I'm working on
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  Speaker 3: some other certifications in the background, so look.
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  Speaker 2: Out for that.
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  Speaker 3: And I cannot wait. And I'm so so so so
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  Speaker 3: proud of you, Kiki, for just keep on pushing, keep
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  Speaker 3: on going, keep on keeping that smile that everybody loves,
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  Speaker 3: that radiance through every last one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I just I thank you for being my sister.
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  Speaker 3: I thank you for keeping me going and keep pushing
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  Speaker 3: me because you keep pushing. So congratulations to one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right, we got over here.
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  Speaker 1: Joy, Joy of joy for connections. Tell the people who
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  Speaker 1: you are.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. I guess I'm looking on the camera. You're away, Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I give an honor to God for having.
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  Speaker 6: Us all here and as symbol together. I couldn't be
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  Speaker 6: inom I couldn't be in the room better than these
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  Speaker 6: women here, And I am so grateful that it took
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  Speaker 6: one person, you and the draws all here together just
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  Speaker 6: to celebrate a beautiful occasion in your life. This is
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  Speaker 6: a momentous occasion and my name is coach joy here
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  Speaker 6: if I'm a personal development coach of Joyful Connection is
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  Speaker 6: Life Coaching, Retired Stylence after thirty three years, and Keiki
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  Speaker 6: has played an integral part in my life. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know how to do content. I didn't know how to
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  Speaker 6: I just didn't know how to flow. I just jumped
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  Speaker 6: out there because I didn't want to be fearful and
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  Speaker 6: not do it. So I've been flailing and feeling my
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  Speaker 6: way around and She's been a big part of that.
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  Speaker 6: When I found out she was a coach and she
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  Speaker 6: has this grace that she has, this graceful spirit that
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  Speaker 6: is it makes her a force to be recollected. She's graceful,
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  Speaker 6: but she's a force, and I love that she always
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  Speaker 6: shows up. She's so authentic and she just makes me better.
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  Speaker 6: I can't have a bad moment. I can't be have
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  Speaker 6: a bad moment in my business without knowing that she's
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  Speaker 6: going to be there and she's going to fine tune
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  Speaker 6: some things as well as a lot all these women
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  Speaker 6: in this room and somewhere form does that. But I
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  Speaker 6: want to honor you today and thank you for having
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  Speaker 6: us here and being in your elite group of beautiful
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  Speaker 6: collective of women.
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  Speaker 2: To help celebrate this beautiful and I love you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you love I love that. All right, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go down to Tiffany.
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  Speaker 7: Hello. I am Tiffany D.
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  Speaker 8: Young.
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  Speaker 7: I am an author.
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  Speaker 9: I do own a couple businesses, Tita Publishing and Tita
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  Speaker 9: Bakes Bakery in Michigan, newly formed. I would like to
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  Speaker 9: say thank you again, Kiki, because if it wasn't for you,
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  Speaker 9: being on lives and recording would be something I would
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  Speaker 9: still be afraid of doing. You have pushed me to
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  Speaker 9: greater lengths. I mean, you help me believe more in
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  Speaker 9: myself every day, even on personal issues that I deal with.
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  Speaker 9: So I'm so thankful that you are in my life
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  Speaker 9: ever since what I guess twenty nineteen, I met you
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  Speaker 9: and then I flew to come see you in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 9: my first trip by myself ever, and I said, I
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  Speaker 9: just have to go and meet her, and ever since
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  Speaker 9: then she has been my bestie forever. So congratulations on
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  Speaker 9: one hundred and fifty. I'm so proud of you. I'm
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  Speaker 9: so proud of you. And I am a nineteen magazine
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  Speaker 9: contributor to So I.
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  Speaker 5: Forgot that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and joy is one. Two guys, I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: not to get emotional on here so quick. You're just
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  Speaker 1: doing It's.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, it's all good.
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  Speaker 11: We're going we were growing with the flow, going with
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  Speaker 11: the flow, and we're.
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  Speaker 10: Gonna let go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: We're gonna shed some tears and we're gonna celebrate and
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  Speaker 11: we're gonna do all the things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look y'all better listen to Coach Risks. She just
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  Speaker 1: said it. All right, So we're gonna go down below
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  Speaker 1: me to miss the arena.
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  Speaker 8: All right. It's so funny because I feel like we're
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  Speaker 8: in Hollywood Square. Remember that game show just had a flashback?
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  Speaker 8: All right, So I just aged. But it's all right
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  Speaker 8: because we are gracefully aging gnet Rock. So my name
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  Speaker 8: is Serena Wills. I wear a couple of hats and
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  Speaker 8: my writer and author world. I'm also known as Divine
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  Speaker 8: Rights and s W R y t E. That is
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  Speaker 8: my poetry and spoken word name. I have four poetry
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  Speaker 8: books underneath my belt. Book five, the anniversary edition is
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  Speaker 8: out on ebooks and paperback is coming coming coming. Okay,
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  Speaker 8: so we know about Timeline's right, Okay, it's coming right.
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  Speaker 5: There, you go there you go.
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  Speaker 8: So I teach workshops on how to become a self
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  Speaker 8: published author and how to do so on a budget.
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  Speaker 8: And I also teach poetry workshops as well. I work
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  Speaker 8: with everyone from eighth ninth grade apparently all the way up.
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  Speaker 8: I work as a contractor for a local high school
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  Speaker 8: with their poetry club. And it's it's great. So that
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  Speaker 8: part of me is expanding, and the other hat is
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  Speaker 8: I too, am a coach. I'm a National Board certified
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  Speaker 8: Health and Wellness coach and I'm also an Associate certified
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  Speaker 8: coach through the International Coach Federation. I have my own practice,
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  Speaker 8: Divine Right Wellness again, wryte. I met all these lovelies
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  Speaker 8: through the pandemic. We all met the world of IG.
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  Speaker 8: It's so funny cause my cousins pushed me onto Instagram.
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  Speaker 8: I was so fearful. I didn't want to do it.
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  Speaker 8: I was Facebook and Facebook only some YouTube here, but
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  Speaker 8: they said you need to be on IG. And two
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  Speaker 8: months later pandemic hit and sort of mean, all these
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  Speaker 8: beautiful souls in the pandemic and me and Kei Key
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  Speaker 8: just clicked. Fellow Capricorn queen in the building. Our season
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  Speaker 8: is coming very soon, Okay, very soon January caps in
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  Speaker 8: the building. And I'm so thankful invited to write for
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  Speaker 8: nineteen magazine where I could share both my worlds poetry
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  Speaker 8: and I share my health and wellness stuff as well.
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  Speaker 8: And Keiki, just keep blooming and blossoming and growing and thriving.
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  Speaker 8: I just see so much for you, I really do.
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  Speaker 8: As my pastor always says, the best is yet to come.
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  Speaker 8: So congratulations on one hundred and fiftieth. I'm gonna say anniversary. Hey,
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  Speaker 8: it's an anniversary. It's a celebration, and it's so good
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  Speaker 8: to be here with y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So good, absolutely thank you for being here. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: move on over to a little bit to coach a Riska.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Hey, beautiful souls, it is your girl coach a Riska,
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  Speaker 11: your selfish coach who are none other than your selfish coach.
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  Speaker 11: And I am a bull certified Christian mental health coach,
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  Speaker 11: and I work with women. I help women tap into
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  Speaker 11: that selfish era that means striving, elevating, leading and flourishing
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  Speaker 11: and life and business. Lord, and I'm an author, and
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  Speaker 11: I'm as I got too many heads. I'm not about
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  Speaker 11: to name all of them because it's not about me.
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  Speaker 11: It is about Keiki tonight. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 11: I met Kiki in these Instagram streets just like everybody else,
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  Speaker 11: and we connected.
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  Speaker 10: We just connected from day one. Being from Louisiana is
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  Speaker 10: a connection and.
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  Speaker 11: Just some other things that has transpired and through the years.
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  Speaker 11: But I will say that Kiki has been intricate in
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  Speaker 11: my life when I'm going through things like I don't
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  Speaker 11: know how she be knowing, but I get that that
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  Speaker 11: message hastis I'm just checking on you. I love you,
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  Speaker 11: just you, I love you, and I'm thinking of you,
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  Speaker 11: and then she just don't know it.
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  Speaker 10: Just be right on time. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 11: She sensites it, but she does, and that that just
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  Speaker 11: does something for my heart and my soul. I am
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  Speaker 11: truly blessed in honor to have you as my sister.
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  Speaker 11: I cherish you, I honor you. Congratulations on one hundred
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  Speaker 11: and fifty. We're looking to get the ten thousand mark
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  Speaker 11: because it's coming so right there.
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  Speaker 1: We go.
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  Speaker 11: For everything that you do, everything that you are, and
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  Speaker 11: I can't wait to see. Just like Serena said, the
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  Speaker 11: best is you have to come so and I can't
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  Speaker 11: wait to celebrate with you.
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  Speaker 12: Oh all right, last, but not least, the lady that
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  Speaker 12: was Shah didn't want to be.
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  Speaker 1: On the camera.
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  Speaker 13: I'm oriell with old customs. I do custom items from
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  Speaker 13: tumbler shirts, all those things.
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  Speaker 14: But let's get back so I personally O got okay.
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  Speaker 14: I don't want you to make sure.
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  Speaker 13: You know, there's not too many people from I mess
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  Speaker 13: with in general. It's not just an idee, but there's
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  Speaker 13: not too many people that I mess with.
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  Speaker 14: In general in my life.
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  Speaker 13: There ain't too many females guys, and I don't mean
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  Speaker 13: to get their females, but there's not too many people
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  Speaker 13: people that I will pick up my phone because I'm
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  Speaker 13: thinking about them, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 14: Versa It's like I'm not for everybody. Everybody's not for me.
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  Speaker 13: I know, during the pandemic there was even that overload
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  Speaker 13: that came in, but there's some people that just stoock out.
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  Speaker 13: It was like, listen, I can't be but you you
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  Speaker 13: stick out. You know what I'm saying, And it's just
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  Speaker 13: your spirit, you know what I mean. It's like when
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  Speaker 13: there's a few of you y'all know, like I'm a check.
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  Speaker 14: Even you know.
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  Speaker 13: It's just when you meet people when you're younger, everybody's
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  Speaker 13: your friend. Everybody you feel like you got to have
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  Speaker 13: a certain type of connection.
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  Speaker 14: All the time with people. I talked to this person
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  Speaker 14: every day.
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  Speaker 13: Now, when you begin to get older than your age
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  Speaker 13: and things like that, that's when you know it's like,
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  Speaker 13: I don't have to talk to you.
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  Speaker 14: I can feel your spirit. I could see your spirit.
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  Speaker 14: We're good. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 13: When I talk to you, it's gonna feel like I
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  Speaker 13: talked to you five minutes ago, like those kind of things,
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  Speaker 13: And that's your energy all day. When I'm not comfortable,
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  Speaker 13: y'all make me comfortable. When I know if I need
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  Speaker 13: to talk, I can hit that text button because y'all
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  Speaker 13: know I'm a text donald call.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 14: I'm a text first, you know, call later. But I
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  Speaker 14: know that y'all gonna answer.
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  Speaker 13: And even the other things that you've done, you know
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  Speaker 13: you're right in your podcast, your content creation, your magazine.
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  Speaker 14: Did I say that?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 13: But even starting the prayer sessions, that was a big
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  Speaker 13: thing for me because I don't I'll listen.
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  Speaker 14: I don't jump in everybody's prayer room.
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  Speaker 13: Now, Leston, I just want to say like that, I
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  Speaker 13: don't jump everybody's prayer room. But it was comfortable because
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  Speaker 13: that was one of the biggest things for me is
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  Speaker 13: to find comfort when I'm going to rooms like that,
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  Speaker 13: because I'll leave a room in a second, but I
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  Speaker 13: wanted to be there and that was a big thing.
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  Speaker 14: So don't stop doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 13: You wear many hats, okay, and that's not buy a
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  Speaker 13: mistake because you're meant to touch people and you do.
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  Speaker 14: And for you ladies there, I'm so glad. I'm met all.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah as well, you know, but he congratulations on one
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  Speaker 13: hundred and fifty. Keep it going, keep it going, and
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  Speaker 13: keep that magazine going to Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I love that and I love you ladies so much.
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  Speaker 1: And let me just shout out the rich Auntie Anita.
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  Speaker 1: If it was not for you, I would have not
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  Speaker 1: have met a lot of these women that's sitting here.
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to Auntie for just going live and
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  Speaker 1: stuff and we all just connected. And I'm so glad,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being up all night because we don't have
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to go, because it depends just talking and just
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  Speaker 1: just be in that safe space for each other because
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  Speaker 1: we needed it. We needed to be able to have
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  Speaker 1: some type of community because we were stuck at home,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just glad that y'all know we all going
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  Speaker 1: through our little trials and tribulations within the last five years,
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  Speaker 1: and y'all have been there to poor to me as
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  Speaker 1: I pour into you, as I pour into these these listeners,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just a blessing to be able to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty. When I saw that come up,
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  Speaker 1: I was like a minute, I'm there. What wow? And
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  Speaker 1: it's like when you do what you love, it just flows,
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  Speaker 1: It just flows. And it brings me to the topic
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be. Although we're celebrating, we're getting
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  Speaker 1: into some some things that people may need to hear
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  Speaker 1: tonight or today, embracing the journey, like going with the flow,
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  Speaker 1: like flow, don't force it, and nothing has ever felt
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  Speaker 1: forced with you ladies. Oh damn, I love you so much.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, oh, y'all almost got us there,
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  Speaker 1: You almost got us there, but we.
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  Speaker 7: Almost got it.
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  Speaker 1: You almost got us there. So I have this this
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirt on and shout out to a black girl hug
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  Speaker 1: Tanji y'all make sure if y'all not following black Girl
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  Speaker 1: hug on I g our Instagram, I mean our Facebook
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  Speaker 1: or TikTok go follow them. She is amazing. She started
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  Speaker 1: her business ground up with different scenes and she has sweatshirts,
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  Speaker 1: she has t shirts. She has these Black Girl Hug
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  Speaker 1: Experienced cards cool and I put some cards so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be answering some of the questions that she has
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  Speaker 1: in here. And it's all about healing with the women
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  Speaker 1: in your lives, like having those tough conversations that need
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  Speaker 1: to be had so that we can raise up the
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  Speaker 1: next generation to communicate because it needs to be normalized.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people hold things in and I think
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  Speaker 1: expressing how we feel helps us grow as well as
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  Speaker 1: hell and flourish in our purpose that God has put
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  Speaker 1: us here to do. So shout out to Tangi in
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  Speaker 1: the Black Girl Hug and her shirts. Her shirt says
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  Speaker 1: find joy in the journey and the back says flowedn't
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  Speaker 1: force on the arm. It says inhale confidence, exhaled doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I love that she has all different sayings. Go to
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  Speaker 1: the Black Girl Hug dot com. She has all of
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  Speaker 1: her information on there. She has all of the shirts,
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  Speaker 1: the cards, anything. She comes and do different live events
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like in person events. So if you would
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  Speaker 1: like to partner up with Tangi. Y'all, hit u up,
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  Speaker 1: hit her up. So embracing the journey, let's start there.
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  Speaker 1: And this podcast was like it started because I just
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  Speaker 1: I kept saying I want to do it, and then
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  Speaker 1: God said, well, I'm gonna sit you down so you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a choice but to do it. It was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what you're gonna do. You'll have number of time
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  Speaker 1: and opportunity. Let's get it. And going live on Monday
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  Speaker 1: nights on IG has been the best thing thus far.
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  Speaker 1: And then starting this podcast in twenty twenty two, three
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  Speaker 1: years in and I have one hundred and fifty episodes, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's unbelievable because it's like, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: the way my voice string Louisiana and I love I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't see myself not doing it, like I
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  Speaker 1: thrive off having these conversations with people meeting everyday, people
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  Speaker 1: who are making a difference in the world every day,
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  Speaker 1: who are embracing the journey. So when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the theme of embracing the journy n what is something that
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  Speaker 1: you do on a daily to continue to embrace the journey?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know for me, I pray a lot, I
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  Speaker 1: talk to God all the time. It's not always easy
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  Speaker 1: because I've learned that people are not gonna support you
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  Speaker 1: because it's you.
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  Speaker 15: That's a whole word right there.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to be okay with it because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not doing this for them. I'm doing this because this
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  Speaker 1: is what God put inside of me to do. And
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  Speaker 1: I have to be obedient. And I am being obedient.
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  Speaker 1: And like O said, I'm not for everybody, and I
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  Speaker 1: know everybody is not for me, and I've accepted that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little girl that used to hade under the
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  Speaker 1: bed or in our closet and read books and write.
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  Speaker 7: This is Kiki.
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  Speaker 1: So back to my question when it comes to and
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  Speaker 1: embracing the journey, what do you guys do every day
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you stay in that space of embracing
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  Speaker 1: the journey? Because we've all had our moments, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: start with Serena, because you are still still going through
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  Speaker 1: U being sick. You know, just life has been throwing
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  Speaker 1: curve balls. So what do you do to embrace that journey?
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: It is really nothing, but God, I can't tell you
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: all the amount of tears I cried, you know, for
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: the listeners out there. I got had my third round
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: of COVID at the end of August. It's supposed to
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: be summertime. We're supposed to be outside, Okay. I had plans,
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: and at first it was okay, I'm like, all right,
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: you know, I'll get through this in a few days.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: And I just every day I asked, God, what do
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: you what are you trying to show me? Eventually after
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: I was whining, because I you know, we whine sometimes
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: to God, I was like, what are you showing me?
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: And the way my COVID hit, it was so hard.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: And it was literally fifteen days after me and my
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: ex split, and family was like, it's the purge. They
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: were like, you you you held on to so much toxicity,
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: holding that man up, doing all the things, some things
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: you're not supposed to be doing. And it was like
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: my body just let it all out through COVID sat
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: me down for weeks, okay, weeks. I couldn't work. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: was out in and out of er twice in September,
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: twice in October. Just went to a specialist last week
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: and a doctor of the week before. And because I
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: also have chronic lime disease, so it really started triggering
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: some of that, and I was at first I was
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: mad at guy, like, what are you doing? What do
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: we I had all these I had my plans, but realizing, Okay, God,
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: what do you What do you want me to do?
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: And what do I need to do? As hard as
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: that journey it has been, to embrace it, he really
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: it sounds crazy. But in the six I found a
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: lot of peace. I mean, my house has not been
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: this peaceful, y'all since we moved here, okay last July,
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: and not only me, but for my son, and even
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: in the sickness, the illness, I just love the peacefulness,
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: the peaceful moments, listening to the birds, watching the clouds,
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: cause there'll be days I couldn't even go outside, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: and reading read lots of scripture I always, I mean,
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: I pray often, but I'm like, God, how am I
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: supposed to pray to you? How am I supposed to pray?
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: Period?
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: I feel like my prayers have to change. And He
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: showed me. He revealed so much during these weeks. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: mean so much. Twenty twenty six has a lot for
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: me and my son, a lot of great things. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: God told me what to work on what not to
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: work on. You know, stop stop running after these people. Okay,
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: you're a part time worker here, stay part time. They
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: don't want you full time. They would have brought you
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: on by now. And it was things like that, like okay, God, okay,
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: it's just you know he really it really woke me
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: up a lot. So as hard as it is to
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: embrace the journey when you are ill, I had to
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: embrace it when I was first diagnosed with lime thirteen
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: years ago, and that was hard. But the journey God
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: has brought me on and brought me through is I
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: wouldn't have gone on it if I was if I
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: had not battled lime disease and now with this long
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: COVID that I'm dealing with. So the second you asked me, Kiki,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: can you come on? I said, I don't care how
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: I'm feeling, Okay, I'm gonna come on here. And because
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: God gave me life, because there was some really scary
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: moments in September, it was like who has to come
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: get Jordan because I don't know if I'm gonna make
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: it type moments, and I would come on social media,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: I would be quiet, I'd be listening to certain people
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: and very very strategic on what and who I was
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: listening to. And God even showed me then who who
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: you're not supposed to be listening to, who's not supposed
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: to be in the front pew of life, the front
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: pew of your own, of your sanctuary, your son's sanctuary,
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: and who else you need to let go so.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: That you were listening to the God's voice during that time,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: because otherwise, you know, we get so sucked into social
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: media and the noise of everything, we forget to listen
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to the voice that matters most. And I'm glad that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you say you found peace in it all because a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't don't have that peace. I thank
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: God for peace. I do. I think God for peace.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because some people don't have it even in their
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: own homes like this this afternoon, I sat still in
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: my living.
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: Room and ate lunch and it was quiet, wow.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Just that, nothing else on, just me and the living
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: room eating lunch. It's simple things like that that we
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: don't take advantage of sometimes, but a lot of people
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: don't have peace in their own homes.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Right dangah, I mean thank you for sharing that because
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you being vulnerable. I'm glad that you feel okay enough
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: more than okay to share.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Uh, thanks for that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Anybody else want to answer that question? Embracing the journey,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the things that you have done to embrace the journey,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: because again, all of us have had things that we've
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: overcome and still overcoming. How do you how do you
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: embrace the journey of it all?
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Raah Well, Okay, prayer on the daily basis, on a continuous,
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: consistent basis throughout the day, not just no one time
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: in the morning and at night. For me, it had
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: to be consistent and intentional. This year, for those that
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: don't know, this was my first year as a full
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: time entrepreneur. So the adjusting to that has been a
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: journey in itself. We get on social media and everybody's
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: glorifying entrepreneurship.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: Oh I can help you make five K and ten K,
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: and I'm doing this and I'm doing that, and.
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: You falling for the hoop. I thinking, oh, that could
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: be me too. And when you really get into it
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: and go to deep diving into it. Because as long
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: as I was doing it part time, I was okay
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: because I had something to fall back on. So even
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: when I didn't want to show up in a bound
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: or for solution. I still was showing up on them
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: people job. But when the people job got taken away
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: and I had to depend solely on a bound of
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: for solution, and that means I got to put in
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: the time and effort, the energy and really dig deep
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: into this and get into this. It's been a process.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: There's been a lot of tears, it's been a lot
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: of stress. It's reason I coultn't my lock though, because
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: I can't control. I couldn't control nothing that was going
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: on in my personal life is in my professional life.
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: So for me, when everything else seems out of control,
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: I could always control my health. So we cut it
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: off and we're starting fresh, but embracing that journey. It
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: has indeed been a journey. There's been a lot of release.
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: There's been a lot of revelation of who's really there
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: for you? Like Serena said, who's there for you? And
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: who's not there for you? People you thought was going
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: to be in your corner during that time, and doing
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: this process.
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: Who are really not there? And just it's just been
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: an eye opener.
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: But for me, it has definitely been consistent prayer and
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, like on the floor on the knees, hands
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: stretched wide, surrender prayer because I can't.
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: Do it without you, Lord, and I need you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Right yep, Tiffany, look you had something to say, go ahead.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: I'm just I'm with you, guys. It's just like prayer
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: is number one. It has been number one for me
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: this year because I've been going through a lot of
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: medical things as well. I just got out the hospital
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: in October. Spent the whole week there to do an
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: EEG study of my brain because I'm epileptic. I became
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: epileptic at seventeen when I was one of the first
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: cases in Michigan to contract virolmeningitis and encephalitis. And it's
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: been a journey since two thousand and two. And when
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: I tell you, so much of my life has been
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: so traumatic, but growing in my faith with God has
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: brought me through so much this year, even trying to
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: conceive Eve and have a child. You know, a lot
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: of people don't talk about wanting to be a mother
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: and being a single mom by choice, you know, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: going through the whole IVF process. You know, a lot
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: of people look at situations like that. It's like, oh,
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: you shouldn't tell your business don't tell No. God put
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: me in this situation for a reason to be able
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: to share and say, if you feel strongly that you
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: want to be a mother and there's not someone in
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: your life, you can do that because I've created it
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: for you. So I've been going through many challenges. And
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: you know, just like you guys said, if you're not praying,
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: if you're not on your knees, if you're not feeling
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: you know, the presence of God, it is going to
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: like life is going to be life and take you out.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: But I thank God every day no matter my journey,
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: even when I feel like giving up. Is that peace
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: that He gives you when you crying and you feel
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: like you can't just keep going, when you got that
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: last and it's like you just fall asleep because God
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: is just like you did it. You cried, Let me
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: take it from here, let me let me guide you.
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Just have some peace for the night. So embracing the
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: journey of growing. I'm forty one years old. Thank God,
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: because I'm walking, I'm talking, I'm writing. The doctor said
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: I wasn't gonna be able to walk. The doctor said
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: I wasn't gonna be able to go back to school.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: The doctor said all these things God, but God had
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: a different different Okay, I'm just I'm trying not to cry, y'all.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: But the other girl that was in my high school
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: that contract environment editis, she lost the ability to walk,
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: she lost so much. But God allowed me to get
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: to where I am today. And even though when I
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: feel like I haven't done enough, he keeps reminding me
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: with people like Key Key, with you guys, he keeps
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: reminding me my life is not over, my journey is
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: not over, and He has so much. So even though
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: it's hard, we gotta always remember to keep God first.
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: You always keep Him first. Yeah, so that's what I
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: wanted to say.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Tify, thank you for being vulnerable as well.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And that's the one thing that I have learned on
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this podcast and journey is I love God. I talk
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: about God on my podcast. I'm not gonna apologize or
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: change who I am for viewers, for followers, for endorsers,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: for investors or anything. I don't know who else to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: be besides somebody that loves God, because otherwise I wouldn't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: be here. If it was not for God, I wouldn't
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: be sitting here with you guys. It devil came to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: me when I was twenty five and told me I
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna live to be twenty six. Another time, I
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: had standing in my living room saying, Hey, if you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: go to sleep, you won't wake up. But God, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: these are these are the conversations that I like to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: have because being vulnerable enough to share your experience to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: help somebody else. That is the overall theme of kicking
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it with Kiki. So thank you guys, so much, thank
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you so much. Enjoy you were wanting to say something,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: go ahead, because I know you have learned how to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: embrace the journey time and time again.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And y'all, I wasn't trying to cry, but it's gonna practice.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: It's just been. It's been a fine almost five.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Year journey, but a good journey because I've learned a
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: lot more about myself than I thought. And I also
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: see that i've been I've been totally underestimated, because see,
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: all I need, all I don't know. All the people
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: that I thought I needed, they are not here. And
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: the ones that act like they're here and they're really
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: not here. God is told showing me that your business
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: is not gonna build. You're not gonna be built, and
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: your business is not gonna be built with those people,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be built with me alone. So he's kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: of kind of got me on my own, like I
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: be buying myself a lot, but God is funneling and
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: downloading so many things into.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Me, and then I have to keep my faith high,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: my prayers high.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Often a lot everybody knows, Oreo knows we do is
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: prayer because I don't see what I need to see
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: what I think I need to see yet in this time.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: But God's using me in other ways to do other things.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: But He's testing me to make sure I don't give
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: up and aboard the plan.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: And then often am I doing on the right track?
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Is I'm gonna stay on this track till he keeps
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: continue navigating me until I get to where I'm getting
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: to because I know He has an ultimate plan for
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: me and my business and what I'm doing.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I just haven't struck it yet, but I'm not stopping.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: And the people who you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Would think you know, and I'm just thinking about how
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: many years, all years and years, me and my son
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: we always celebrating everyone.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Else, Oh you got your new book. Always let me
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: come and help stamp some books for you.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Let me help package it as always me doing celebrating
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: everyone else.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: And those very people have seen.
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: Me in survival mode in the dark hole all the time,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: and I'm noticing there's a little few problems.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Because they're seeing a different thing me and my son.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: God is doing a big thing with me and my
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Son's letting us know, this is your season, this.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Is your You've been working out for change. It's your
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: season to see positivity.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: And I mean I see it in what I'm doing
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: for my stuff, but I'm seeing it even through what
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: I birthed.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: And that's good enough for me right at this time,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: because I know that God has a plan. We're connected
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: and I'm seeing the fruit of my prayers. I may
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: not see my coaching business, i may not see all
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: the clients I want to see, but I'm seeing the
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: fruit of my prayers coming to fruition, even just through
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: my do my health and me when I was walking
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: and can't even get out of bed some days because
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: of my back and stuff, now I can get up.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: I haven't had no shots, I haven't taken any pills
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: for my pain, and I don't know what you know
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: I have not my bad You guys will see me
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: on here, but I could even get out of bed
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: most of the time, and then when I'm in there,
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: I would be laying be at watching y'all doing whatever,
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: butterfly going live or risk of going like you guys
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: are not, I'm laying in bed with racked with pain.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I don't have this like I have.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: You know, he has diminished my pain because he's using
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: me for something more.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: He used DMS praying for for He's using me to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: do that like I need you to do this first.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna give, gonna do the business, but these people
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: need and I've just been doing that a lot.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: And I've been just buying myself a lot.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: Even as holiday, I decided, I say, you know, I'm
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: tired of fake love. I'm tired of I'm tired of
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: the halfway crumbs that people give me. I don't have
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: to sit at your table for crumbs, because God is
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: the table where I got a full by fame, and
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: if that bumpy just had me living there, that I
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: spent Thanksgiving by myself by choice, because I'm tired of
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: always going, always predictable.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Old joy come and.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Do this old joy of bringing this joy and bring
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: nothing joy sat at home if my son was at work.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: I have my I took my own food.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: My beautiful turkey.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Wrote it down.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: I just had this beautiful day, and I have never
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: I have felt this. I have felt so joyful being
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: home in this house. But nobody was here on Thanksgiving,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: and I felt no kind of way. I wasn't lonely
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: at all because I got a chance to be with
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: my mama and my grandma and my dad cooking their
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: traditional things the way they did it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I don't got to go to nobody else's table and
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: do what they say do and we're gonna do this.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: I just I'm just making this this stand up solidarity
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: with myself, absolutely, and I'm not gonna continue to explain myself.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Oh joys, act them. I'm not acting. If anybody know me.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Acting joy does not ever go in the same sense
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: because I don't have I either am or I'm not.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: With people. I'm not gonna waste my.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Time with people who got comfortable seeing me in the
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: box that they thought I was gonna stay stuck.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: In always gotoy's gonna do.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: A divorce old joys.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: A single mom now old joys whatever, No, that story
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: is different now. So get ready, I'm tired of like
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: everybody else is thriving. All my friends have the houses,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: the money that this and all this success and the husbands.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: I'll have none of those things.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: But I feel this little undercurrent, passive, aggressive issue, little things,
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: and that's okay.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I'm really tired of it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm just.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Making my own stand and I'm doing what I want
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: to do I always have, but even more and apologetically.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: And I'm working in my business. Me and this notebook
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: as best friends. Thoughts come to me and I just
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: write down things, and God is gonna help me continue
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: to put it together. Each one of young, even Tiffany,
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: when I see you baking your cookies and I see
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: you doing, don't think I don't see you.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, there.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: Has I wouldn't be where I'm at here now, where
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: I moved away from my own old life and moved
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: to a place where I didn't know anyone, and I
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: came on here.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I had never been on social media before I came
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: on here.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: What twenty twenty one y'all already been here, and each
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: one of y'all have helped fine tune what I'm doing,
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: and I'm nowhere near where I need to be at.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: But you, I'm closer than I was. And so I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Keith for teaching me. You.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: Even I was so definitely ill, sick, didn't know what's wrong,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: you said, well, you just come to come content class anyway,
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: even if you just sit and watch. I sat there,
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: couldn't eat. I was sick, didn't know what's round. I
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: sat there with you and drew energy from you or yeall,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: you've helped me so much with this. You always helped
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: make me great. Butterfly. When I see whatever glasses you wearing,
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: and I see a butterfly, I'm a riska.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: You can't a riska would just get.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: In my DMS and say, hey, listen, you're gonna burn
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: yourself out doing it that much.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Won't you do this here?
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: And I listened to her like God has talk, because
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: I know God sitting to say that to me. She's
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: not critical of me because I don't know everything I'm
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: doing yet, because we all trying to figure it out.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: She's trying to help not to avoid pitfalls that she
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: didn't avoid. You know, and Serena, you your general heart
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: and your strength is you.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: You don't even know. I draw from all of y'all.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: So I just wanted to thank y'all because I'm in
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: a new season where, you know, my other career had
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: a down pack. I had the following, I had, the people,
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: I was old, the name all around Toledo. That God
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: lifted me up and put me in a whole nother
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: city where nobody really knows me and he's doing a
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: new thing and I have to figure out what this
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: new thing else he already knows. I'm still He's still
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: rolling out to plan for me. So I just got
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: to stay focused, faithful, trust the process, and keep my
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: faith high and trusting what I don't and that's what faith,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: and just do the work. So that's where I'm at,
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: and you guys are helping me in so many ways.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And I know I thank y'all all the time and
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: all that, but just y'all just do things. Y'all help me, y'all.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: I know, y'all this nobody else loves me and care
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: bout know this core women, this group of women are
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: not frenemies.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: They're not hating.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you don't know, You're not waiting.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: They're not waiting for me in myself.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: They want to help me, even if it's a little
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: little gym here to help me get further hand.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: So I appreciate it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I don't have it in my real life.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Not having and I love that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: I love correct that, correct that she said, you don't
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: have that in her real life. We are really already
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: here here I'm not talking.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: About I'm talking about the friends and I've had for
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: twenty years and stuff. They don't daily daily like my
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: regular people that I've been growing up with. And I
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: was just thinking to I said, you know, I had
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: my graduation from coaching. Not one person said. All the
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: people who know I was going to school. Now when
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: them said girl, congratulations, they knew great. Nobody said nothing.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: They always celebrate everybody's birthdays and everything. My birthday comes to,
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: nobody does nothing. Just my brothers and my son are
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: me and.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I has been seeing.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: So now I'm just like kind of just doing a
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Rubik's cube, moving some things here, and.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: It's going to be it's gonna be different, you know what.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not your people, no more joy outdoor people. That
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: is a part of embracing the journey, knowing when to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: let go of relationships to whether you want these people
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: for since you was kindergarten, whether you met them in
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: college or you just met him. Sometimes it's okay to say,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: you know what, I love you, but I love me more.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I'm choosing me.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm heah.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm ask you got the question, and we're gonna
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: start with Butterfly because she hadn't said too much yet,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and you to ask me questions too. But I want
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to ask this question. Okay, what what's a dream? I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: go You've kept quiet because you're afraid of being judged
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: or unsupported. This is one of the questions in a
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Black girlhoog like your collection.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, mm hmmm, that's a tough one.
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: Give us one, you just gotta give.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I say that it's a tough one is because I'm
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: such an open book and I'm so deep rooted in
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: who I am and whose I am that just about
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I could say about just about everybody.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: In here knows about my my past.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Or my president or what I what I You know,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: the tribe that I thought I was going to have
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: in my life, that it did not happen in the
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: way I thought it would have.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: However, Uh, she.
• 42:01
  Speaker 16: One dream or one go you kept quiet about because
• 42:06
  Speaker 16: you're afraid of not being supported or judged, and if
• 42:12
  Speaker 16: you don't have one, that's fine.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think that I would say this.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I've kept some stuff from my mom fear.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Judgment.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: For those who don't know, I've been bisexual pretty much
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: all my life, and that was one of the things
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: that I've kept for my mom for a very very
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: long time until I want to say, the second time
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I went to Nope, when I went to Texas a
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: couple of years ago.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: So I would say that way.
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: M hmm.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: That's that's the thing. Sometimes you have to like, some
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: parents are not friends.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Let's put it like that, exactly exactly.
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: That's on.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: That's like some parents are my friends. Okay, So.
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: Mm hmm.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: If I take away one burden or stronger or stronger
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: from your life, what would you want it to be?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: That's wow. That is a good one.
• 43:32
  Speaker 13: I mean, money seems like the most simplest things, right,
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: I mean, it fixes a lot, but not from that
• 43:41
  Speaker 13: era where you work for what you want, you know
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: what I mean. At the same time, so it's like
• 43:46
  Speaker 13: it'd be nice, but I think stability would be distressed stability.
• 43:53
  Speaker 13: Not that's not money stability, like just knowing that I'll
• 43:58
  Speaker 13: be good my kids, like no, just that piece that's
• 44:02
  Speaker 13: probably the grades piece of instability, like that.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, all right, So Risk, what do
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: you think has been the most transformative, transformative experience in
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: your life thus far? And how did it change you?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Oh that's too.
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's the right persons.
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: I don't been through so much, so I don't I
• 44:36
  Speaker 11: don't know which one to pretty much pick because each thing,
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: each challenge, Because I will say it's a challenge that
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: I've been through, I came out a better person. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: learned something in each stage of what I've been through.
• 44:55
  Speaker 11: The hardest one, I will say would be raised and
• 45:00
  Speaker 11: a baby after my husband was murdered and losing everything
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: in Katrina and relocating to another city, another state, not
• 45:11
  Speaker 11: even just a city, just another state away from all
• 45:13
  Speaker 11: my family because all my family was in Arkansas at
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: the time Katrina happened. I did have some family in Texas,
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: but trying to figure out just telling a four year
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: old dad, your daddy died, your daddy was murdered and
• 45:30
  Speaker 11: he's not coming back. Then losing everything in Hurricane Katrina
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: literally the next day relocating. Can't get to a funeral
• 45:39
  Speaker 11: because you don't know, you're trying to figure out this
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: new space that you and that you ain't never been in.
• 45:45
  Speaker 11: So we didn't even make the funeral. So that was
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: the most That was the hardest thing that to me,
• 45:55
  Speaker 11: that was the hardest thing adapting to because I lost
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: my dad. My dad was murdered when I was five,
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: So for that cycle to be repeated with my baby,
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: and trying to change the narrative and switch it up,
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: and even having those thoughts like because I have another baby,
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: like what if this happens again with my next child?
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: So those thoughts, but knowing that God is faithful, yes,
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: no matter what you're going through, and that as long
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: as we continue to trust and lean on Him when
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: we're weak, that He's going to carry us through.
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: That has been the blessing in it.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: All Right, Absolutely, I love that.
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: I love that.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. So Tiffany, what's a piece of advice
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: or wisdom you've been carrying that you've never shared with me?
• 46:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, that I've never shared with you? It would just
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: basically be not to sweat the small stuff, because I
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: feel like sometimes when we have our conversations, it'll be
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: something that's really.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Big to you.
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: And not that it's saying that it's not big, but
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: I'd be like, you know you better than this.
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: You got this.
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: It's like it's not that big, it's not that deep.
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: You know, you can overcome any situationship. Let's say that
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: you know, no matter how deep it is, if you
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: kind of get my drift, but you know, no matter
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: how deep and no matter how bad, you are worth
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: more than what some people see you for. And I
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: just want you to know that just because they can
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: see it, I see it, and you need to just
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: don't sweat.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: The small stuff.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I'm taking that because as a Capricorn, I
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: can be an overthinker and a pessimist at times. So
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: thank you for that. And I try not to, but
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: it's hard, and I'm working on myself, y'all.
• 48:10
  Speaker 17: Yeah, you know myself, but but you But it's but
• 48:13
  Speaker 17: it's a beautiful thing because you no matter what you
• 48:16
  Speaker 17: go through and no matter how emotional we get sometimes
• 48:20
  Speaker 17: with the things that we go through, you still overcome it.
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: It's just sometimes I just don't know if you know
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: how beautiful you are. And when people can't see it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: You just it just it gets you. And I just
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: want you to know you gotta keep going, bull and
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: no matter what, no matter what.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: So thank you.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: That was good.
• 48:47
  Speaker 10: She she don't see herself like we see her.
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, absolutely.
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: We can't help that. Other people miss the mark.
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah absolutely, And what they what they what they're losing?
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: They gonna see it. I mean, because you shining. I
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: mean since I've seen you, since I've known you, you
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: have come.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: You know your ladder.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: You're just going, going, going, and you can't let not
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: one person knock you off that ladder, because they will
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: try and they will be jealous. I don't care if
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: it's a man, I don't care if it's a woman,
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: they will be jealous and they will try to hold
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: you at a place where God saying you gotta go further. Baby,
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: I got something in mind for you. Wait and don't
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: hold on.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: To this person. Just let it go, Let it go.
• 49:37
  Speaker 11: But mm hmm, everybody ain't meant to go to distance.
• 49:46
  Speaker 11: Everybody ain't meant to go to distance. Relationship change. People evolved,
• 49:50
  Speaker 11: and when you're evolving at a level and this person
• 49:53
  Speaker 11: is staying stuck, that's that's that's not that's not balanced,
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: that's not we're not growing together in any relationship. Because
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: a relationship is supposed to take you somewhere.
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: I don't care where. Nobody said a relationship. It's a ship.
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: You get on a ship, you're expecting to go somewhere
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: day man.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: I like that.
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: That's a destination. You're planning on going a destination.
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: And when you journeying with somebody, you expect them to
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: evolve and grow with you. And if they're not doing that,
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: you gotta let them go. Baby, I need to leave
• 50:24
  Speaker 11: you on that that dessert desert island over here because
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: the rule boy is over here waiting on me by yourself,
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: because I'm not about to be here with you. I
• 50:34
  Speaker 11: got Greg over here for me, and yeah, actually hits home.
• 50:40
  Speaker 15: Yes, y'all got hot real quick.
• 50:53
  Speaker 11: I had to tell my ladies that a couple of
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: months ago. Your relationships are supposed to take you somewhere.
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: It ends in ship. When you get on a ship,
• 51:00
  Speaker 11: you're expecting to go somewhere. You're traveling, So anything that
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: and then ship, our friendship, partnership, hey.
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: Whatever ship it is, I like it. You're supposed to
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: take you somewhere.
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: And if it's not, if it's still docked and that
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: anchor is still dropped and you're trying to get they
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: gotta go, they gotta go.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, that ship already, I'm hearing a post with
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: that ship.
• 51:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah right, that's what I was saying.
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: Writing it down.
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: Look, I just worship and I can build somewhere around that,
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: because it's like I'm gonna say, these relationships, you know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: when the relationship is supposed to take you somewhere, it's
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: supposed to take you somewhere.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: And if the ship is still docked, that means you
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: need to dock those down.
• 51:52
  Speaker 11: That them people anchor down or they poking holes in there.
• 51:56
  Speaker 11: You're not gonna get that. They sabotaging you.
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: I don't need I don't need you to be around me.
• 52:00
  Speaker 10: If you're not, I need you to elevate me. I
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: don't need you to sabotage me. And if you can't
• 52:04
  Speaker 10: elevate me like I'm elevating you, like I'm building you
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: up and I'm encouraging you.
• 52:08
  Speaker 14: And motivating you.
• 52:09
  Speaker 11: If you can see me what I see in you,
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: I gotta gotta I gotta go.
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: I don't have nobody around I love it though it's fine,
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: because it's really it makes me know who is fool
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: And it's like, I look at this is the people
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: that I have. It's like, it's crazy that all them
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: mirrors and then look at this group of folks that
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: you've been knowing this time, and you feel more closer.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: I feel more like comfortable anything personal.
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: And lit care. Nobody's bringing on my downfall in this room.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: All the time in the background.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Every day we on the phone together, and I kid
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: you not if it's some if it's not something that
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: we are helping each other to do.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: We collaborating together. We're making sure we both elevate.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: We're listening to each other, whatever we got coming up,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: whatever we got going on, and helping each other to
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: tweak it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: This is what your relationships are supposed to do. And
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: when I tell you, I kid you not people.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Family members which I call relatives and good friends and whatnot,
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: who I've.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Grown up with.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: I have surpassed all of them because of pretty much
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: each one of you in here.
• 53:29
  Speaker 14: Yeah you know what I mean.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: I have not since COVID, I have met the most
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: beautiful souls, the most beautiful people, the people who want
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: things to be elevated in their lives, and they're going
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: to make sure they poured that out to other people.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: And I just love the people who I have met
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: and has poured into me to bring me to where
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I'm at today, right, you know, And I just I
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: can't with other people who it's not on that ship.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: You're not on that ship. I don't know what to
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: tell you, but.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I'm out right absolutely.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: Do my mind. That ship is in my brain for
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: the rest of the night.
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: Listen, we all got our writing brains home right now.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: I got a couple of things in my mind. I'm like,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: thank you for that word. Yes, absolutely, that.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: Word is the word.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: ILL be missing, Like you know what.
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: It's not.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: We ain't on the same thing, and I'm not gonna
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: trying to You're not gonna pull me back where you are.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to go this way, And so thank you
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: for that word. Ship's room.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: That was That was? That was? Yeah, okay, An, what's
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: a fear I worry about the future that you don't
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: often share with.
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: Others mm hmm.
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: It happened this past season. I said, God, what if
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: I don't make it? What if I get sick again?
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: Everything that I felt fall twenty twelve. I was misdiagnosed
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: nine times before they said it's lime disease. And even
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: after they said it's lime, there was some foolish doctors
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: like I don't think you have line disease. I think
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: you have something else. And all of that hit me
• 55:22
  Speaker 8: like a map truck in September and October, mainly September,
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: and that's been a fear.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Much as I have.
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: Family praying over me, Oh, pray through it, do this,
• 55:33
  Speaker 8: you do all the things, but I will say dark
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: thoughts started creeping back into my mind this season, really
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: dark thoughts. I haven't shared that with a lot of people.
• 55:44
  Speaker 8: And the first person I think about is my son.
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: You know, is just the two of us. And during
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: this sickness you learn a lot about people like you
• 55:54
  Speaker 8: ain't even get on the bus to come down here
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: and grab your son. Okay, so I get better? Why
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: am I still doing this by myself? And so that's
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: one fear I haven't shared with a lot of people.
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: And I noticed the enemy attacking my mind. He doesn't
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: want me to get well. He doesn't want me to
• 56:14
  Speaker 8: be like one remission as we call it, because there's
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: stages to remission. But the enemy's not happy with how
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: well I've gotten. Like I was supposed to take you
• 56:24
  Speaker 8: out thirteen years ago with limes. Why are you still here?
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: So because I ain't done, he's.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Not doing.
• 56:37
  Speaker 8: That has been a fear.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for sharing about it. I didn't when
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I when I picked these cars, I didn't know that
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: they was gonna come out like that. So I think
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: this is a light one right here. But Joy, if
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: you can describe our relationship and one word, what would
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: it be? And why?
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: And beyond it just even flow. There's no break in there,
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: there's no there's no division, just symbiotic. It just is
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: equally back and just flows back and forth. I would
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: say a symbiotic relationship, that's what. Yeah, it's symbiotic. It's
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: like it's just it's just this flow. It's like I
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: don't know where it starts or ends. It's just like
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: this consultation. I don't got to think, I don't got
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: to talk to you, I don't got to be in
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: the dams with you. It's just a knowing that I have.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: It's an in dwelling. I know that's my sister, that's
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: all these people there and it's just dwelling. And when
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: you I have to have those kind of people around,
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: because I mean, I get I'm we're quarius as me
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: and a risk.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: We kind of go onto our own little thing. I'm
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: in there. When I go in that thing, I'm like,
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm like, okay, I'm here again. And
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: then but it's like when I.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: Come out, I got some more plans, I got some
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: more things. And you guys never well you don't see
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: me nor whatever. Nobody takes it like, oh somebody whatever.
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: Y'all just know that's how I am. It's like I'll
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: kind of pop, go in and I come back out.
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: And when I come back out and come out with
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: new ideas, God's downloading and that, and so I love it.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: And you you know, you know me and I've only
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: known you.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: This short time, like almost four or five years, but
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: you know that when you see me as authentic, everything
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: is real. If I say I love all of y'all,
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: have your own seat in my heart. Everybody has it.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: Just like at the doctor's office they say reserved for
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: the doctor his thing. Y'all got your own space. When
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: I see y'all posts, I'm excited to see them. I
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: just you know, I love reading them, I love seeing them.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: I love cheering for y'all, and even if I don't
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: hear my voice doing it, And so that's what it is.
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: It's an even flow because I know that you feel
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: the same way about me.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: So absolutely, I love that. This has been amazing, guys,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: this has been amazing. So before we get over here,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: are there any questions that you guys want to ask
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: me anything?
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: What's coming up?
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: What can we look forward to in twenty twenty six,
• 59:02
  Speaker 11: because I know some greatness is coming.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Listen, and I Am going to be a part of
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: an anthology coming in twenty twenty six where we hope
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: but that's the goal. We're sscribing for twenty twenty six.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: More episodes, I mean, yeah, more new episodes, more amazing.
• 59:18
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Working on another book. I don't have the title to
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: it yet, but it is coming coming. It's going to
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: be my second poetry book. So I'm excited about that.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: More of nineteen Lifestyle magazine just dropping. The next issue
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: comes out in January. It is our bleak like excellent edition,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Just living life and allowing
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: God's will to be done in my life. You know,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I look forward to another one hundred and fifty episodes.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: You know, the journey to two hundred is well underway.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I am booked throughout January and working on booking through February.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: People just have been in my inbox and find me
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: on like sending emails, Hey watch this episode, are stumbled
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: up on this episode with you and such and such.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I have people that I think would be good today
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: for the show. So I am glad that I praise
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: that prayer over myself and say God, you send the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: people who I am supposed to be connected with to
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: be on my show, and it has been happening. So
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just excited about all of those things coming. Yeah.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, Okay.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 9: So I have a question, Oh, go ahead, Okay, Okay, So,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 9: since this is your one hundred and fifty episode, I
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 9: want to know.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: What guests has made you really sit back and think.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 9: About a direction in your life that you could change
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 9: or make different Like positively. Has there been a guess
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: that positively affected your life, that made you do something differently,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 9: made you.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Change It has been a lot, but I'll say the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: most recent one was Bishop Foreman. Yes, he made me
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: see life through a different spectrum when it comes to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: listening to the voice of God, because sometimes you'll listen
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: to God, you know it's God, but you'll stay, oh,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, and you don't do what you're supposed to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: be doing. And I have been sitting in church where
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: God says, so accede and he gives me the number
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to sew, but I'll say, well, I'm down. I don't
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: really have it like that, so I'll just lean back.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: And I've noticed that the times that I have song
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: the number that he's told me the song to sew,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: blessings on top of blessing.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 9: I love that.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: So he has given me a different perspective on when
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: it comes to pouring into other people. All right, Yeah,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: shout out to Kevin, Shout out to Bishop for me,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: he was amazing. He was like a couple of episodes back.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he has actually helped me embrace the journey
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: of doing what God put inside me to do without
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: worrying about the consequence. Because if God tells you to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: do it, He's gonna bring you to it and through
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: it and give you more than what you can possibly fathom.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you that I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 11: needed to hit that because I've been battling with some
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 11: things and I talked to Pastor Pasta Tamika earlier today
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 11: and I needed to hear that because now I know
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 11: that's my confirmation. I need to push forward with what
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 11: he's been I know I wasn't running away from it
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 11: because I've already been on that end.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 10: And if you haven't been whipped by God, you you
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 10: know it's.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a loving.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: But you feel you feel it.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Though he loves.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 11: So I don't want to be on that and so
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 11: I'm going to push forward with what he's been showing me.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 11: So I'm thank you for that confirmation.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: So my question to you is, with that means of
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: your what inspired you to the most? Out of all
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: your episodes, I'm going to ask you what was your favorite.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 14: One and why?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: My favorite episode?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 9: Oh my god, that's spot Spotlight and why and why exactly?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: I really don't have a favorite favorite episode, but there
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: is one that stands out to me and shout out
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: to q Pillar talk with the Tu her episode when
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: she's been on multiple times. But the one that stands
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: out is just own your Ship.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: YEA.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: Sometimes life will get stinky. Sometimes you'll smell up the joint.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: But you have to know when it's time to just
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: own it, let it go, and move forward, because you
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: can't sit in it. You can't sit in it because
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: then you'll never grow. If you sit in something too long,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: it's gonna get in your mind. So you just have
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: to acknowledge it, adjust and move forward. So, yeah, that
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: that episode really was a great episode. B it's too many,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: it's too many, but yeah, I'll say that one because
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: you know, when we're dealing with stuff, we sometimes like
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: the play the blame game or not take accountability. But
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: when you have gone through a self reflection journey and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you become self aware, that self discipline and all the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: other selfs, like being selfish in a good way should
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: become the forefront of growth, right And if you if
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: you're not, if you're not gonna be real with yourself,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: you ain't gonna grow. Just just deal with your ship.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, that's one of the top five for sure, right,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: And I want to.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: Add this, when you say I'm selfish in a good way,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: being selfish is always good, right.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: However, being self centered is a different story.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean I used to be selfish in
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: a bad way. So that's why I say in a
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: good way because it was always my way of no way,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: I'm selfish.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: You don't do it my way?
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Are we? We ain't doing it.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: I'm not doing it right now.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: When it comes to the good way, it's point into selfish.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: It's not selfish. You have to be selfish when you're
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: trying to elevate and grow and all of the things.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: So that's why I say being selfish in a good
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: way because I've done the other way. Y'all probably wouldn't
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: even like that person because that Kiki was a totally
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: different person, and I thank God for her because that
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Kiki helped me become the Kiki that I didn't want
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 7: Right Wow, all right, so I have one more question.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 7: Can you tell us what have you learned from starting
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: your show in the beginning to now? What's different now?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: What's been the growth for you? The best parts?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: The best part is just believing in myself, believing that
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I am supposed to be doing what I'm doing, Not
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: being afraid to speak up and speak out, not being
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: afraid to tackle subjects and tops of topics. That's gonna
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: make people uncomfortable because you know, we have to get
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: in the space of having those uncomfortable conversations, changing the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: narrative being okay being a bad person. Sometimes you're gonna
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: be the villain in somebody else's story and it's okay.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Like I don't apologize for the guests that I've had,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: on the conversations that we've had, the topics that we discussed.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: It helps me grow as being a person that's on
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the other side of the of the spectrum of interviewing
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: the guests. I love that you're asking me questions because
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: I like to be interviewed sometimes, but it just makes
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: me think about different topics on a different level, so
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: to speak, so that we can continue to have conversations.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Because when the conversations are had, everybody wins.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: And we never know who who's listening, who we're touching
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: in absolute ways and we don't know their story, but
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: they taking what we're saying and you know, applying it
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: to their life and being able to groote from it.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: And that's a beautiful thing, whether we.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Know it or not. Yeah, I thought I was I
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: thought I was shy.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 7: I don't know where no shot is.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, I would think because you just wasn't out there. Yeah,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: you kind of like a introvert.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: You're introverted.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 11: It's kind of hard to come step up to the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 11: limelight and be out front. But you proved it wrong.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 11: And you're showing up every day on camera, behind the
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 11: camera and faith just beautifully smiling and welcoming people to
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 11: your platform who may not we may not ever heard
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: of before, giving them a voice and making them real
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 11: to us and exposing them to individuals that they may
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 11: have never got the opportunity to reach.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I love that you say that because you
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: have definitely made me stronger as a podcast myself. You know,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: we have our show together and then you know, I
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: have my other shows that I do on the other side,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: and you have definitely helped me to perfect some things, yeah,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: perfect some things.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: You have also made me.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: See things and elevate my shows in a way.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: That from the beginning till now it has been a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: tremendous jump.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: So I just want to thank you for that as well.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 10: You've inspired me. I'm gonna come out with a podcast eventually.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Years ago. It's coming.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 10: Eventually, We'll get there, you know, Yeah, but you got
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 10: the name of.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Somebody else to do it.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 14: Right behind her.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yes, I love it. I love it, Yes, I have.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 10: I have always.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 9: When I first went on your Showkiki, I remember that's
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: when I was first meeting you, and you was like, Okay,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: we're about to go live.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 7: Is there anything you need?
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 9: I was like, I just need somebody to calm me
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: down because I ain't never been in front of people.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: I don't like being on camera. Help me, Lord, And
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 7: she was like, Okay, it's gonna be okay, just just relax.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 9: And ever since then, every time she'd be like, if
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: you want to be on the show, be live, Yes,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 9: it's gonna be live.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh Lord, no, no, no no.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 9: But every time, every time, it's just it's bringing me
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 9: out of my shell. And I love conversating with people
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 9: and with like you guys. You guys made it so
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 9: comfortable and so easy, and I just ever since then,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 9: I've been saying no, no, no.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 7: No no to lives because I do not like lies.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: But I'm getting more comfortable, and I think, Kei, Key,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 9: I thank you so much because if it wasn't for you,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 9: my god, my god, all the other interviews that I've
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 9: done after you would have not happened because I would
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 9: have been no to every one, every single one. But
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: because of you, you have gotten me the Leo that's
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: supposed to be center of attention. No, this is a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: different one, baby, this is a different will you have.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: You have brought me differently.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 10: You are not the cowardly lion, I know, you, not
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 10: the cowardly life I am.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 9: I am because I will saying no to everything, everything,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 9: every inter of you know, I know. But she has
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 9: brought me out to be comfortable in my own skin
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 9: and to just enjoy having a conversation, even if it's
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 9: not live.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 7: You know, I'll take record recordings, that's okay.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: But I thank you, honey. I'm really appreciative of you.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 9: I'm thankful to.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 7: God that I have met a lot of you ladies. Serena.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: I don't know if I've actually come in contact with
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: you before, but a lot of you guys. I'm so blessed.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 9: I feel very thankful. And Kiki, you are are magnet.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 9: You bring us all together, baby, and I appreciate you.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 9: I love you so much, thank you so much, and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 9: congratulations again on your one hundred and fifty episode so much.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you all, so much, Thank you for being here.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Anybody have any last words or anything like that before
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: we get out of here. Thank you all again, individually
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: collectively for pointing to my life and being a part
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: of my circle.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 12: Uh.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: It does not go un noticed.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 14: And I love each of you.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: You already know that. So cheers to one and fifty
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: and cheers to many many more.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: To be continued.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 7: Yes, be continue, you continue?
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, guys, so you have been listening to
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fiftieth episode of Kicking in Wikiki, Life,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: love and all the other shit. Until next time, Purple
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: hus and I'll see you later.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: See your leader.