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SEASON 2 EPISODE _108 _ DA CREW PODCAST _HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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A four three Patrese Grumble and we are here tonight with another great author.
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Now we have this author before, and we had a little bit of technical
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difficulties, but his message is so strong and so powerful that we had to
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bring him back again. Okay, so joining us again. You've seen him
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on my other sister's podcast, but he's here with us tonight. We have
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author Elijah Lewis, and he's going to talk about his book Your Jewels Are
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in Your Journey. Hey, how are you tonight? I'm doing good,
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Miss Patrice, how are you doing this evening? I am good. I
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am good down here in this Charlston hot weather and ready for some rain some
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more. So tell us a little bit about you so well again, as
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miss Petrie said, my name is Elijah Lewis, and good evening to everyone
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watching. As she said, I am the author of the book Your Jewels
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and Your Journey life Lessons leads to your Optimum Self. I'm also a motivational
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speaker. Also my day job, A little bit about me. I'm an
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engineer with Navsey and Indian Head, Maryland. Have been doing that for nine
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years. My background, I am from Baltimore, Maryland. For those who
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in the Baltimore area went to Polly As my high school. I went to
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undergrad for mechanical engineering with the minor Material Science and Engineering at Tuskeig University.
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And for those of you who also know, we can tell by my shirt.
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Ironically, this is the second time I've been on this type of podcast
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with this shirt. I also got my Master Tyvis and Security from the illustrious
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Morgan State University, So this is the second time I'm on a podcast representing
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Morgan. So shout out to all my Morgan bears out there who might be
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watching. And yeah, just a little bit about me. I love hanging
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out with friends, my family, so yeah, pretty much. My philosophy
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is I want to see people win and see the greatness inside of them and
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ultimately get to that goal of being their optimal self. Now, see that
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is so cool that there is finally someone not saying that there aren't others,
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but they are willing to say it in your African American mail, is willing
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to see others succeed. I have to admit, you know where I am
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that crab and the barrel syndrome is very bad here in Charleston. Like only
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one person can make the best Goali crabs, only one person can make the
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best book. But to see other people come together and it's beautiful. So
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optimal self, What is that exactly? Well, I would say optimal self
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is living in the purpose that you were meant to be created for. Ultimately,
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it's getting to that level where you yourself know that I've achieved the goals
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that I set out I wanted to achieve. I am being my optimal self
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or my best self, not only physically, but mentally, spiritually, emotionally.
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In other words, I am giving the best representation of myself to other
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people. But also I'm being authentic and true to my own self and not
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trying to, you know, put myself in a box, trying to fit
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in or lower my standards for other people. Just knowing my worth as a
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person, and like I said earlier, tapping into the greatness that we are
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all meant to live while we're on this earth. Wow, that sounds like
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a lot of work, do you think, But no, you're not wrong.
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It is a lot of work. And what I would tell people is,
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you know, we're all humans, so we're all going to make mistakes
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mistakes. But the way I see it is, you know, if you
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just take it one day at a time, you know, I have a
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high school friend. I think he always says like one day made better and
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I forget the rest of the pool. But it's something to the point of,
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you know, we have a each day, we have an opportunity to
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get better. So yeah, it may be hard, but my philosophy is
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that if you take it one step at a time, you can get to
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that goal that you have for yourself, to be your optimal self. And
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it's like that old sayings that people might say, you know, you have
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to take small bites of the elephant instead of trying to you know, digest
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it all at once. Well, that's how it is. Sometimes if you
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take it one step at a time, you can see some progress. And
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it's like the old saying, a little progress is better than no progress at
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all. So, you know, it may take a while and it may
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take some work to get there. But instead of trying to and I talked
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about this in my book, instead of trying to focus on the destination,
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you know, it is important to focus on the moments along the way to
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that destination that you're trying to get to. You know, those small victories
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as people talk about that you can celebrate, you know, along along your
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journey. So it is a lot of work, but I think if you
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take it one step at a time, it is a feasible bigot. So
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it is okay to celebrate those small victories that you have along the way.
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You know, I've heard people say, oh, don't celebrate the small ones
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because you know the big one is still out there. And I'm like,
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okay, but how do I continue a motive motivate myself and I don't celebrate
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the smaller ones. So you're saying that it's okay to do that, absolutely,
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yeah, And I think because without those small victories, it's almost,
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I would say impossible to even get to the bigger victories because I think we're
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in a generation now where there's a lot of entitlement or there's a lot of
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the microwave generation philosophy where I want everything right now and not everything you get
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in life is like that. Sometimes it's going to take some time to get
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to a certain goal. You know. For example, it could be you
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know, whether you're trying to maybe save money for you know, a house
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or expensive purchase that you want to get, or maybe trying a certain amount
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of weight, you know, it's going to take time. You can't just
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snap your fingers and say okay, I want this right now, Like you
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have to actually take it one step at a time, as I said.
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And if you have a small victory, you should celebrate because as you said,
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miss Patrice, if you don't, you know, you should be able
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to celebrate that. And it helps you stay motivated because without those small victories,
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a lot of people tend to lose that motivation towards their bigger goal.
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So the small victories are like a push forward to that bigger goal. It's
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almost like reaching a landmark and saying, you know, for example, my
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father and I we traveled to Philadelphia yesterday, so you know we can just
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snap our fingers and say, okay, I'm gonna go from Baltimore to Philly
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like that. You know, we had to go from Baltimore, then we
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had to go to Delaware, then we eventually got into Philadelphia. So it
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takes time to get to your destination, you know, but when you hit
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those landmarks or those small victories, you realize you're getting closer and closer to
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that ultimate goal with end of the journey. See that's great. So how
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do I start? Where? Where do I what's the starting point? Well,
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I think the starting point is a lot. I would say, definitely,
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what are your ultimately thinking about? What goals do you have and what
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and plan? Okay, how can I get to that certain goal of being
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my best self? So some people like to do things like maybe have a
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vision board. Some people like to you know, maybe write their goals and
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say, okay, this is what I would like to do. So I
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think planning is the first step. And if you think you are not at
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your best self, they always say, the first thing is you have to
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solving a problem as that maning you have one in the first place, Well,
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admit to yourself, Okay, this is where I am. Now,
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this is what I need to work on. These are things I need to
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do to get to that goal. Like I said, just take it one
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step at a time, you know. I think I talk about this in
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my book. Like a perfect example, if somebody maybe wants to lose weight
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or try to get more exercise, you know, they might say, okay,
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well I would like to maybe go for a jog. But it may
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not be a smart idea to say when I start jogging, I want to
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run five miles as soon as I start my exercise. Probably not not a
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good idea, but maybe you want to say, you know what, maybe
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I just want to take maybe thirty minutes to walk, you know, and
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just do that maybe before maybe about a week. Then maybe I want to
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start you know, maybe you know, jogging for an hour, and then
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maybe I want to start seeing if I can run you know, half a
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mile, then a mile. Then slowly you start getting to that goal of
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what you're trying to accomplish. So, like I said, I think it
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all comes down to admitting where you are, planning on how you would like
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to do better, what you need to get do to get better, and
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then find a way to have a rude map to get to that goal that
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you're trying to get to down the road. So I'm hearing building blocks in
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my head. I hear that absolutely you got it. Okay, so your
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book would be the ideal person to grab your book? Well, you know,
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it's interesting. I honestly think it's really it's funny because I don't think
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I have a really set audience for the book, because I have so many
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different people who want to buy it. I think because I'm young. I'm
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twenty seven going on twenty eight. So idea listening with I like the younger
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people or people my age to get it because we're kind of starting on our
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journey in life to get it. I think it's and I've had some young
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people by it, you know, whether it was you know, family members,
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or recently, I had one of my Baltimore Tuski alumni club members.
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They had a youth program and she brought my book for the students. The
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students loved it. I got a chance to speak at their closing ceremony.
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So what I'd like for the youth to get it. Absolutely, But I
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have to appreciate my elders too, because my elders have bought the book and
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they say, oh, I love it. You know. For example,
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my aunt bought the book. My aunt is an elder, not going to
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put her age out there respectively, but I do appreciate the fact that,
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you know, she told me last week when I went to go see her,
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like, oh, yeah, have loving the book. I enjoy it.
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And it means a lot to me when my olders do buy the book,
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because they don't necessarily have to do that. Some of them say,
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well, you know what, young men, I think that's great what you're
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doing. But hey, I've I've lived my journey. I don't need nothing
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else. I'm good, you know. But to see them still open to
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learning is really important, and to hear it from a young person that means
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a lot. So really, I would say my book is for anybody who's
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looking for that guidance to be their optimal self, maybe looking for someone who's
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gone through challenges in life and who are trying to overcome those challenges and just
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need that push in the right direction. So for anybody, whether you're young
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or old, if you're looking for that guidance to be your better self,
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than I think this book. No, I don't think the book. I
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know the book is definitely right for you. Okay, Okay. Now,
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I hear a lot of of a lot of strength, a lot of defining
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power. If you could say that or define an identity, what gives you
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all of that push or who? Who? What? Where? Why did
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you get all that pushing motivation from? Well, I would say definitely who.
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I would definitely say, And I talk about him in my book and
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almost every time I tell people about my book, and I have to give
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him a shout out because sometimes he tries to promote me when I'm out with
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my book. Really, who I have to give a lot is definitely to
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my father. I think my father. I talk about in my book that
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I really felt lost on my journey, and that's kind of the motivation as
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to why I wrote the book, especially in high school. You know,
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I had a two point five a GPA when I graduated. And I was
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telling Miss Angelo on her show, I said, if they had a cum
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latte for high school graduates, mind would have been thank you, dear Lordie,
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because I barely got through the high school. It was. But but
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I don't want other people to feel lost on their journey and had that sense
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of hopelessness. And I tell the story in my book. You know,
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I told my dad. You know, my dad asked me, like,
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Elijah, what would you do if you if you didn't go to college?
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And I looked Dad in his face, I said, Dad, I don't
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know, I will go I'll probably go work at Walmart, you know.
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And little did I know, I was giving my version of the theod speech
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from the pilot episode of the Cosmi Show. So my mind was, Hey,
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I'm gonna try to be like regular people, you know, go to
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Walmart. And I told my dad, I said. He asked me how
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much money are you're gonna be making? He said, I said, well,
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I don't know, Dad, I probably about ten thousand dollars a year.
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And in his Brulliana's voice, he said, yeah in nineteen So you
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know that the plans that I had. But really he has been a huge
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motivating factor because when I was in Philadelphia, I was at a program called
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the Urban Youth Racing School and they teach kids about engineering and NASCAR and motornsports.
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And I got a chance to speak and as a former student and now
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an alum, and one of the former students was asking us to ask me.
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He said, hey, what is it what is so unique about having
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your father in your life? And I just told him that, especially in
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our community, when you have the black father in the home, you get
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so much discipline and guidance, especially as a boy. So for me,
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my father was always the person who at times he definitely could show me love
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when he needed to, but he was not afraid to get tough on me
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and push me when I didn't feel motivated myself, and there were times that
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I felt like give up on myself. He was definitely that motivating factor to
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want to push me to do better because I think he saw a lot of
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potential in me that I was not seen in myself. And I thank him
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tremendously because without him, I don't have a lot of the success that I
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have today. And certainly not without my mother either. I don't want to
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discredit her either, but especially from the sake of a young man, where
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I am today, I'm so thankful that I was blessed to have my father
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in my life. So really the motivation for me is my backstory of having
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that hopelessness and that lost lostness, if that's a word, on my journey.
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But more so the who behind it especially is my father, because he
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was really a huge driving factor of where I am today. And that is
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that is so important in the black community that the father is present, even
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if mom and dad doesn't get along, long as dad is there and involving
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the child's life, that makes such a big difference. And I'm starting to
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see now more African American men bring their kids to the library. It was
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crazy that I want to say about maybe a week or two weeks ago,
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I was helping out in the children's apartment, and it was father. Now
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was father engaged? No, my father was there. Father was all a
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whole different world, but he was there. And when the kids were ready
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to check out, he took them to the counter, he checked out their
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book, and they left all together. That was excellent. Okay, Now,
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col kodles if he was in the moment, but you know, you
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can't, you can't, you know, push the issue. No, but
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having the having the black male in the family does make a big difference.
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So see that you do have the element of God. Where does he come
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in in the picture? Well, you know, I always think about one
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of them you mentioned God. I talk about a lot of scriptures in my
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book, and even though this scriptures out in my book, I always think
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about it because I think it's a great context for my book, being that
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it's a journey. Always think about Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, where the
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Lord says, I have plans for you to prosper, to not harm you,
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to give you a future or an expected end. The way I interpret
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that is that the Most High has blessed us and knows what greatness we have
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inside us. But I always tell people we have to put that work in
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to get that because as anybody who's ever read the Bible knows, faith without
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works is dead. So a lot of times if we don't put the work
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in, you know, we can't just you know, pray and say okay,
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you know, God help me, please bless me with this, and
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we're not putting any work to do that. So, you know, I
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think God comes in because, as I said earlier, the most how I
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knows that we have greatness inside of us, and we have that potential to
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achieve that, but it's up to us to hold our end of the bargain
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to do that work to achieve that. So if you don't put the work
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in, it's kind of hard to obtain the blessings that you want the most
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how to get it? So I sense that scripture in particularly as to where
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God comes into my journey. It's almost like, hey, I see it.
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As I saidler, I see a lot in you, But what are
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you going to do to bring that potential out and manifest that into the world.
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So that's how I look like where God comes into play in our journey.
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You could have not said that better. Faith without words is dead.
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So I understand the song Melodies from Heaven ring down on me. But guess
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what you've got to do with the cultivating of the soil. You got to
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get the soil ready to receive the blessings that's going to read down. People
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don't think that way. They just think that there's going to be a house
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that drops out the sky. They think there's going to be a car that
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drops out the sky. That's not going to happen. You have to do
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the work, yes, to get the blessings that are promised to you in
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his words. So you know I love that. So I have your book,
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M what chapter should I go to? And why should I go to
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that chapter? I can read one? Now, one chapter I can read?
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Can only give me one? If I can only give you one chapter
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out of the ten chapter book, I would say, you know what I
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almost wanted. I almost want to cheat that question and give you two.
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Almost I'm gonna try. I give it the two. I would say the
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first one is definitely the last chapter where I say the greatest jewel of all
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is knowing that you yourself are jewel. And I say that because I tell
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people all the time, if you don't know who you are, it's hard
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to know where you're going. So picking back what I said in the last
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conversation where he's asked about God. You know, if you don't know the
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potential that's inside of you to be great, it's almost like, Okay,
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what is the point of the journey? You know, if I don't know
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who I am and what I meant to be, I almost lose the motivation
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to go about my journey because I tell people, we all have a purpose
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to be here, but we have to figure out what that purpose is and
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how does that purpose fit within our lives. So that's number one, and
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I would say number two. I would say number two is Chapter five,
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which is don't let others put you in a box. And I say that
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because one is very true. You know, you don't want to have people
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limit you or constrict you to a certain level, or seeing that, oh
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you only can do this one particular thing, you can't do this that.
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And third, because that's not fair to you. You know, who is
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anyone to tell you what you can and cannot do? You know, so
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that's ultimately up to you. So I say that's a good chapter two.
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And also I say that because it's one of my favorite jewels in the book.
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I mean, of course, all ten are good. But I say
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that because I'm not going to give it away. But in chapter five I
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talk about a very interesting life event that makes me tell people, do not
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let other people put them in a box. I'll just leave it like this.
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I kind of dive in a little bit into my religious background with that.
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But what I would say to people is, whatever you go through in
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life, whether it's your job, the people you associate with or have relationships
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with, your religious beliefs, whatever it is, do not let those Do
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not let that limit your potential that you have inside of You always meant for
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something more, and you have the ability to change your mind and make different
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decisions along the way. So I would say those two chapters in particularly would
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be the two I would say, Hey, if you got the book,
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read chapter five and then read chapter ten. Sou chapter five in chapter ten,
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those are the chapters. Do you ever think there's a point where you
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can't go any farther or is there always a higher level? Because some people
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feel that when they get to this point that they're there, that they can't
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go any farther. Is there ever a point where you're just quote quote made
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it. I think it's hard because I think the reason I say that is
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because that's almost come from a place of complacency. Almost. I think you
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should always be striving to get better, you know. I mean unless you're
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just physically not able to go any higher. I think there's always got to
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be some room for improvement, or there has to be some person. I
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think as an entrepreneur or even as a creative person, there has to be
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some room inside of that says Okay, what can I do differently and how
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can I make different make things better? Or what is the next goal that
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I have to achieve? Because I think it keeps you going and it keeps
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you motivated, because a lot of times you get complacent, you sometimes lose
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value what you were trying to do. You know. For example, that
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could be anything if a person you know says, hey, I've I've won
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a championship in a sport. I don't need to practice of her again,
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I don't need to do anything. I'm good. Well, you kind of
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just stay at that same level. You don't win more any championships. You
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just you might just be a one time champion. That's it now. Don't
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get me wrong. There are some people who have played sports and practice as
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hard as they could and never got a championship. But the goal is just
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because you achieve a goal, I don't think you should stay at that same
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level. You should always be open to trying to be better as a person.
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You know, somewhere in my father's house is there's a there's a picture
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that says, you know, at no point is the paraphrasing, but at
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no point is the spiritual journey. Complete knowledge is infinite. You know,
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so you don't know everything. I even talked about it in my book.
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You know, you don't know all there is to know. You know,
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or you don't think you know all there is to know like you think you
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do. You know, there's always and grow from there. You know.
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One of my favorite things, and I mentioned this man in my book,
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I'm a big follower of a man named doctor Ray Hagen's. He's the chief
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elder and the spiritual leader of the African Village and Cultural Center. And one
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thing that doctor Hagen's always does before his lecture is he tells everybody to hold
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up their circle and he says, the space inside this circle represents my realm
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of knowledge. He says, all that I think I know about whatever I
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think I know is depicted right here within this circle. He says, I
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must keep in mind that there is more to know than than than what is
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within the circumference of my awareness. So there's always more room to grow,
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There's always more more information to know. So I tell people, you know,
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even if you've achieved experience, which is great, always continue to set
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the bar higher and higher. And I'll end it off with this. My
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dad always to say, when I was in school, it's like, well,
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you know this problem is when I was in high school too, it's
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like, well, you know, Dad, I passed. You know,
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I got to see you know, I'm good. He's like, Elija,
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you should be striving to get all a's because even if you don't get the
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aid, let's say you miss it and you get a B, you still
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you still tried as hard as you could to set the bar as high as
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possible. So that's my philosophy. Anybody, you know, celebrate your success,
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for sure, but don't stop. Keep building and keep trying to go
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first and further and further until you just can't go further anymore. See,
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there was a reason why you're supposed to come back. There was a reason
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why that technical difficulties because you drop more knowledge here and I'm like, wow,
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So tell everyone, how can we get your book? Your jewels are
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in your journey life lessons to lead to you too optimal sir. Where can
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we get this book? Absolutely? Well, well, I can kind of
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see it that you have in linked below. Yes, my book is on
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Amazon and it's on Barnes and Noble. But if you are definitely would like
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to get a signed copy of the book, you can visit my website www
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dot Elijah Lewis dot org. You can order your copy. I will sign
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it and I'll send it to you in the mail. And definitely it's a
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great read, as we talked about earlier. Like I said, it's really
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great for anybody who's willing to get that knowledge of how to be their best
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self. And definitely I'm looking forward to seeing where the journey takes you.
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And one little tidbit about the book too, is that at the end of
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each chapter, for those of you who get the physical copy, you can
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it may be hard to see, but there are places for notes and insights.
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So for those of you who want to also take notes as you read,
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and you know, digest what you've read in the book that stood out
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to you. That's another thing you can do as well. So definitely,
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again, you can get your physical copy on Amazon, Barnes and Noble,
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but you can get the signed copy if you go to my website, which
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is www dot Elijah Lewis dot org. So before we lead tonight, what
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would be that one knowledgeable thought that you would leave everyone tonight? I think
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the one knowledge were thought I would leave people is definitely embrace the journey.
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And I know that's kind of a little cliche because that's my book title,
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but definitely, we are all on a journey. I tell that to everybody
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who reads and gets a copy of my book. We're all on a journey.
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So definitely embrace it. And like I said earlier, even if you've
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gone through some challenging times, whether it could be anything, it could be,
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you know, a loss on family member, struggles in school, divorce,
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whatever the challenge that has come your way, you just know that's not
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the end of the journey. As long as you have the ability to get
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out of bed the next day and move your life, there's always an opportunity
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to overcome and get better. And I leave people with this. If you
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want to know the three biggest takeaways from your jewels and your journey is this.
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Number one. Obviously, life less are jewels, but number two,
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the people who we meet on our journey who help us be our optimum selves
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are jewels as well. And like I said earlier, that biggest jewel of
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all is that you yourself are a jewel, because like I said earlier,
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if you don't know who you are, it's really hard to know where you're
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going. So that's probably my tidbit that I always say to people is we
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have the opportunity to get better and overcome your challenges. And like I said
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earlier, know that life lessons people will help us, and you yourself are
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a jewel. And we know all of those things, the rest of the
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journey falls into place, and you have that clarity and perspective on your journey
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to be your best self. And when you have that knowledge, it's much
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more easier to embrace your journey. Well, you guys have heard it here.
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You need to go ahead and grab your copy. This is gonna be
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one of those books you want to keep, one of those ones that you're
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going to go back. And I can see you're going to find a new
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point nugget, something gonna make you think again about it. I thank you.
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These are books that we need in our life. Yeah, okay,
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your girl likes to read the urban street literature, but then you know it,
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sometimes I got to feed the soul and feed the mind. So that's
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where books like this come in. So, but you know, you have
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to tell us any of your any places where you will be, any book
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discussions you'll be having soon, how to follow you on social media? Please
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give us that contact information. Yes, so definitely if you want to follow
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me on social media, you can follow me on Instagram at Melanin king Eli.
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That's m E l A n I n k I n G E l
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I on Instagram. I'm also on Facebook at Elijah k Lewis. I'm also
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on LinkedIn at Elijah k Lewis too. Also as far as any upcoming events,
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I'm actually going to be meeting with some people about any some upcoming events.
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So also on my website, I list events, So any announcements about
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events I post on my social media and on my website, so stay posted
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for that. And also pretty soon I do have one thing that's been coming
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up at some point. I am a part of the group that insures financial
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empowerments in the black community. That's the Black Achievement Fund. You can go
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on www Dot BAF dot solutions for more information on that. They will be
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having my book as part of their book club coming up soon, so I
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told them I'm very interested in that. They're finishing a book right now,
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but once that's done, uh, they're gonna bring my book into the book
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club. So I'm done looking forward to that, So stay tuned for that.
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And again, Miss Patrice, just thank you for having me on.
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I appreciate it, loved interact with you and your audience. So I definitely
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wish them the best. And uh, as I say to everybody when I
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signed my book when they get a copy, is may you find many jewels
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on your journey and continue to be the jewel that you are. Well,
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we thank you for joining us tonight and giving us some of the old jewel,
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and believe you me, there's gonna be some people are getting some copies
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of your books. Thank you, guys. Another Saturday Night in the books.
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Make sure you join me next Saturday with a new author and a new
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book. Thank you guys. Thank you missus. Lewis, you guys have
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a good night bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you
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found a new book to read or a new author to explore. Join us
35:44
again in two weeks for SC book galls and friends Chat. Have a good
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evening bye,