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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS INTERVIEW WITH DR. CAROLYN STEPHENS LIVE EVERY TUESDAY HOSTED BY PATRICE GRIMBALL ON DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I have your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 3: The show starts in ten eight seven, six, five four
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  Speaker 4: Hey everyone, this is your girl Ssie book out eight
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  Speaker 4: four three patrees crumble and you do guys know it
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  Speaker 4: is Tuesday night. It is time for a new book
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  Speaker 4: and a new author. So ladies, this book, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would say, it's for us.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, were black and brown women.
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  Speaker 2: We are going through some.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff right now, and yesterday we had some ladies that
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  Speaker 4: came on that share their book that give us a
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  Speaker 4: little hope to hang on through everything that's going through.
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  Speaker 2: It has me on the screen. Okay, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure what's going on with Patreth. She was
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  Speaker 5: in the studio, not sure what happen, but she has
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  Speaker 5: an amazing guest here with us tonight, so I don't
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  Speaker 5: see if we can get her back in the studio.
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  Speaker 5: But meanwhile, gonna go ahead and bring up her guests,
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  Speaker 5: and we're gonna jump on in the conversation. Y'all know
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  Speaker 5: how we do, because y'all know, time to time things happen,
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  Speaker 5: but we don't stop. We keep it pushing. So I
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  Speaker 5: am going to bring up our guests, and of course
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  Speaker 5: I am the visionary Angela for those that do not know.
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  Speaker 5: Sometime I have to jump on. But let me bring
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  Speaker 5: up the guests for tonight. She's been on the platform
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  Speaker 5: before doing some amazing things. Of course, I can never,
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  Speaker 5: I can never, never give our guests the right introduction.
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  Speaker 5: So guess what, I'm just gonna move on out the
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  Speaker 5: way and allow her to introduce herself. So let me
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  Speaker 5: move and let me bring her own up. Welcome, doctor Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? I am doing fantabulous.
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  Speaker 6: I am always excited to be on air and to
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  Speaker 6: be on this platform, which this feels like home for me,
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  Speaker 6: and so yes, I am super excited about being here
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  Speaker 6: with sister Patrice, and I know that she'll be coming
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  Speaker 6: back to be with us. Hey, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 6: this experience.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I'm sure she has a lot of questions
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  Speaker 5: that she wants to ask. But if you would please
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  Speaker 5: introduce yourself to those that may not know you. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: Patresea's show is about author, so you know she has
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  Speaker 5: to be an amazing author to be sitting in this
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  Speaker 5: hot seat tonight. So if you would just introduce yourself
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  Speaker 5: to those that may not know you, sure.
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  Speaker 6: Well, good evening to everyone who is watching with us
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  Speaker 6: live and those who are going to watch us on
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  Speaker 6: the replay. My name is doctor Carolyn Stevens and I
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  Speaker 6: am currently the CEO of the Black House Media Group.
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  Speaker 6: I also serve as a clinical mental health therapist here
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  Speaker 6: in Atlanta, Georgia. I am a best selling author as
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  Speaker 6: well as a publishing consultant and so absolutely love love,
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  Speaker 6: love writing books. I love authors. Authoring is my passion.
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  Speaker 6: Helping and working and networking with authors is next to
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  Speaker 6: therapy is my passion as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York.
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  Speaker 6: Here but here now I've been in Atlanta for I'm
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  Speaker 6: probably a little over thirty years. So this is Patrice.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I'm I'm no longer an apple maybe now
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  Speaker 6: I'm a peach since here in Atlanta. Wow, But I
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  Speaker 6: am still a Brooklyn girl in my heart of heart.
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  Speaker 6: So that's a little bit about me.
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  Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question. Do you prefer
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  Speaker 4: to be the apple or the peach?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Wow, you asked a good question. Nobody has ever asked me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say that I would prefer to be the
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  Speaker 6: apple because my Brooklyn roots run real deep, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: since I've been here in Georgia for quite some time,
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  Speaker 6: somewhat lost a little bit of my Brooklyn accent. But
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  Speaker 6: there are words that I say, like, for example, I
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  Speaker 6: say coffee.
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  Speaker 2: See that's like a Brooklyn thing.
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  Speaker 6: We say coffee, but in Georgia they say coffee, but
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  Speaker 6: we say for you know, we say I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: the mall.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So that's so some things I said.
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  Speaker 6: Still, you can people can tell, hey, you must be
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  Speaker 6: from up North Gown. So I guess again, I'm an
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  Speaker 6: apple in my heart. Okay, Okay, there ain't nothing wrong
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  Speaker 6: with that. But now you're you're okay.
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  Speaker 4: But well before I can say you're a true Southerner,
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  Speaker 4: how do you like your grits?
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  Speaker 2: You like salt and sugar?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think true Southerners put sugar in it. But
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  Speaker 6: I like salt in my grits. Okay, I think, I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I think true Southerners like sugar in their grits. If
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  Speaker 6: I'm not mistaken, because I got friends that eat it.
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  Speaker 2: Is that about right? Okay? And Chasten is kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a mixture.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm a salt girl. I can't do the sugar
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  Speaker 4: on the grits. I never understood that, but to.
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  Speaker 2: Eat just me.
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  Speaker 4: So what drawll you to that love that you have
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  Speaker 4: for authors and being an author yourself?
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  Speaker 2: What drew you to that? Well, what drew me.
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  Speaker 6: To my love of authors, which is why I don't
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  Speaker 6: promote myself as a publisher but a publishing consultant, basically
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  Speaker 6: meaning that I help authors to build their author platform.
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  Speaker 6: Not necessarily mean we can publish books, but primarily the
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  Speaker 6: bulk of my job as a consultant is to help
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  Speaker 6: authors build a platform, which part of their platform is
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  Speaker 6: that they happen to have a book. And what drew
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  Speaker 6: me into that I've always loved authors, but I drew
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  Speaker 6: on my own experiences as a first time author and
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  Speaker 6: a lot of the challenges that I had, questions that
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  Speaker 6: I could not get answered, a little bit of money
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  Speaker 6: that I spent that I didn't want to spend that
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  Speaker 6: I should not have spent, but I didn't know any better.
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  Speaker 6: So on my journey of not knowing, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: developed some knowledge and some skills and actually, Patrius, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I'm part of a couple of authors groups. People were
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  Speaker 6: just asking me questions, I mean, really like, how do
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  Speaker 6: I do that?
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  Speaker 2: What do I do?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: Do I do? What do I do?
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  Speaker 6: And beknownst to me, I had no idea that God
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  Speaker 6: was helping me to build a platform.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to help people and help.
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  Speaker 6: Authors so they wouldn't have to spend a whole lot
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  Speaker 6: of unnecessary money and time. And then they produced beautiful
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  Speaker 6: books and they weren't selling them. So God for me,
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  Speaker 6: He built that platform for me. So really it was
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  Speaker 6: out of my own love for not wanting to see,
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  Speaker 6: especially our people know, become misguided in their journey, especially
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  Speaker 6: as first time author.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so if you can give one piece of advice
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  Speaker 4: for a new author, what would that one piece of
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  Speaker 4: advice be?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Boy, because I got so many, but what would
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  Speaker 2: the one What would the one piece of advice be?
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  Speaker 6: So I say this because I work with self published
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  Speaker 6: authors and I'm a self published author, But what the
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  Speaker 6: one piece of advice I would give even though you're
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  Speaker 6: a self published author.
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  Speaker 2: Don't work alone? Just don't work. Don't don't work alone.
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  Speaker 6: At least support people or somebody you trust to advise
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  Speaker 6: you while you're on your journey.
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  Speaker 2: But don't be self published.
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  Speaker 6: That is okay, Just don't work alone and know that
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  Speaker 6: you are not alone. That you're now won build a
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  Speaker 6: support team around yourself, you know, because your.
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  Speaker 2: Book is your baby. That's your baby, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as a child, you got that village mentality
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  Speaker 4: somebody when you're sleeping, they you know, taking care of
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  Speaker 4: the baby somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that that makes a lot of sense. So
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  Speaker 2: that would be my advice I will give.
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  Speaker 4: So you have this wonderful book that came out early
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  Speaker 4: this year called Sacred Seeds of wants them things that
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  Speaker 4: every black and brown woman.
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  Speaker 2: Need to know.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us a little bit about this book, Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: And I got the book here and since a patrice
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  Speaker 6: you know what I failed to do. So, but I
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  Speaker 6: need to get your address so I can send you
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  Speaker 6: a copy. I want you to have you I want
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  Speaker 6: you to have your own copy. I try to make
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  Speaker 6: sure that I remember to do that when people so
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  Speaker 6: graciously have me on their platforms, because it's an honored
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  Speaker 6: Here our Sacred Seeds of Wisdom. Oh my goodness, this
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  Speaker 6: is a compilation book written by There's eleven of us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there is eleven of Us. By far one of the
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  Speaker 6: easiest projects I had ever done, because we have gotten
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  Speaker 6: asked all the time, what kind of complications did you
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  Speaker 6: have working with eleven women? And how was it having
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  Speaker 6: eleven women with eleven different personalities. I can honestly tell
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  Speaker 6: you we had none. We published this book so fast,
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  Speaker 6: there was no complications, We had no challenges. I believe
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  Speaker 6: it was a group of women that just came together
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  Speaker 6: at the right time. We all had something to say.
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  Speaker 6: So Secret Seeds of Wisdom I felt like at sixty
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  Speaker 6: one years young, I you know, at at that age
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  Speaker 6: and probably at fifty or so half of one hundred,
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  Speaker 6: you start to think about what is it that you
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  Speaker 6: want to leave with people? You know, what do you
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  Speaker 6: want to be remembered by? What seeds do you want
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  Speaker 6: to sew into their life? And so I thought, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: how cool would it be if a group of us
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  Speaker 6: got together and just from our own experiences in life,
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  Speaker 6: talked about something that we've learned and what we want
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  Speaker 6: to sew into the next sister, so that she knows
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  Speaker 6: you're not alone.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to do it alone.
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  Speaker 6: If you're going through something, somebody in this book has
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  Speaker 6: been through what you're going through, and you can draw
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  Speaker 6: off their strength and off of their wisdom. And these
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  Speaker 6: women wrote with so much passion. I mean, I made
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  Speaker 6: it very easy for them. I just told them to
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  Speaker 6: tell people if so what I said to them, I
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  Speaker 6: set it up.
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  Speaker 2: I said, if you in.
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  Speaker 6: A room with a group of black and brown women,
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  Speaker 6: what would be the one thing that you would share
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  Speaker 6: with them? And then I told them just right from there. Y'all,
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  Speaker 6: of course, all of us have different experiences in life,
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  Speaker 6: and that's the beauty of working together with other women,
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  Speaker 6: is that we come with our own diverse experiences and
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  Speaker 6: things that we can share. So that's basically what Sacred
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  Speaker 6: Sees of Wisdom is about.
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  Speaker 2: Whoo.
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  Speaker 4: So this this book is very timely because y'all know,
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  Speaker 4: they ain't paying us no attention. No, yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: tell the honest. They're not paying us any attention when
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  Speaker 4: anything that's going on in the world. And I actually
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  Speaker 4: took today and part of yesterday, and I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what made me go down this rabbit hole, y'all, but
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  Speaker 4: it kept me up last night just consuming myself of
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  Speaker 4: everything that was going on in in the United States. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: very much, very much consumed. But you know what, out everything,
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  Speaker 4: I did not hear one thing about the black woman.
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  Speaker 6: It's interesting that you brought that point up with trees.
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  Speaker 6: This is listen, this is individual. I very rarely try
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  Speaker 6: to watch. I am not interested in watching, nor am
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  Speaker 6: I interested in hearing anything.
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  Speaker 2: About that orange haired man.
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  Speaker 6: However, there was something that came on my phone and
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  Speaker 6: this brother had clips of at least five women and
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  Speaker 6: highly professional women judge were talking judges, lawyers that the
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  Speaker 6: president spouted off fat in a disrespectful manner. Oh that's
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  Speaker 6: why you're stupid, I can tell. I mean, we're talking
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  Speaker 6: like highly professional women. He called them stupid. That's why
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  Speaker 6: you're ignorant. That's why you sound like a baby. You
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  Speaker 6: need to go back to the first grade. You don't listen.
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  Speaker 6: And what the brothers commentary was about is how disrespected
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  Speaker 6: we are and that you know, that's terrible. That that
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  Speaker 6: that is, that is that is terrible. But yeah, on
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  Speaker 6: what you were saying, Yes, and I just view that today.
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  Speaker 6: I just view it and to piggyback off that.
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  Speaker 4: So later on today I went down another rabbit hole
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  Speaker 4: because I saw this come up on my TikTok feed
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  Speaker 4: and it was this.
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  Speaker 2: One young lady.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know that she has any type of
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  Speaker 4: I would say priority seat, but she went against Jasmine Crockett,
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  Speaker 4: and she said some choice words, hmm, how can your
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  Speaker 4: book help a female like me whose anxiety has been
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  Speaker 4: going through the roof and now who's feeling frustrated. How
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  Speaker 4: can secrecies wisdom things that every black and brown woman
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  Speaker 4: need to know?
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  Speaker 2: How can your book benefit me?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for asking that question. And it's
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  Speaker 6: a good question. So I'll answer the question by prefacing
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  Speaker 6: it by saying this, Patrice, this is something that I
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  Speaker 6: never really understood about us as a diaspora and as
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  Speaker 6: a subculture called black women.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, when you go home,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care if you're a doctor. I don't care
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  Speaker 6: if you're a lawyer. I don't care if you the
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  Speaker 6: sister that's working at the grocery store, you're working at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 6: It don't matter what your socioeconomical status is.
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  Speaker 2: But when you go home, sit on.
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  Speaker 6: The edge of your bed, you know, take off that
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  Speaker 6: bra and that girdle, sometimes taking off that wig I
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  Speaker 6: left whatever. We're all the same. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, when we unmask all
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  Speaker 6: this stuff that we put on right to be out
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  Speaker 6: in the public, as a sister. We basically are all
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  Speaker 6: the same. We're gonna have some man problems, some money problems,
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  Speaker 6: some chilling problems, okay, And we're all the same. We're
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  Speaker 6: all facing similar disparities. And with that, that is that
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  Speaker 6: should be our connecting piece where I'm able to say
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  Speaker 6: to you without even knowing the details of your life,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm able to say to you since I understand
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  Speaker 6: you know, I understand. Just we just have that subliminal
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  Speaker 6: language that you and I could look at each other
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  Speaker 6: and say, okay, sis, I got you, and I understand
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  Speaker 6: in sacredcyes of wisdom. That's what we're saying through the
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  Speaker 6: words that we have penned on paper. We are saying
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  Speaker 6: one we are all the same. We come from different backgrounds,
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  Speaker 6: but we're all the same. And since I got you, okay,
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  Speaker 6: I understand the anxiety, I understand the depression, I understand disrespect,
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  Speaker 6: I understand the failures and relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I understand the children problem.
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  Speaker 6: I understand your disparity because your disparity is my disparity.
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  Speaker 2: I understand it.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what this book is saying to the sister
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  Speaker 6: that picks up this book and reads it, that if
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  Speaker 6: nobody else understands you. There are eleven women in this
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  Speaker 6: book based on their experiences that get you, that understand you,
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  Speaker 6: and that want to sew a seed into your life
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  Speaker 6: that you can hang on to and say, hey, I
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  Speaker 6: got some hope because this sister is talking.
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  Speaker 2: To me to this book and that's what we need.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what we need.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's so so perfect for the time.
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  Speaker 2: That we are in right now.
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  Speaker 4: Because tell you truth, now, I work at I work.
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  Speaker 4: You guys know where I work at. Okay, And because
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  Speaker 4: we're having this political talk that's coming in, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to say exactly where I work.
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  Speaker 2: If you are looking at the show you know I
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  Speaker 2: work at.
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  Speaker 4: And I will say that I have yet to see
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  Speaker 4: a book that has come through to encourage an African
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  Speaker 4: American system have yet. I've seen two or three that
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  Speaker 4: I placed on a list, but I've yet to seen
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  Speaker 4: your coming as system. So this book is perfect. If
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  Speaker 4: you could take one of your seeds of wisdom and
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  Speaker 4: give to me as a black woman right now, what
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  Speaker 4: would it be?
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  Speaker 6: Oh boy, I'm telling you, Patrice, you are the host
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  Speaker 6: with the most girl. I mean, because you're asking me
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  Speaker 6: some really profound things. I mean, there's so much good
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  Speaker 6: stuff in this book. I don't know, because I think
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  Speaker 6: about the author, Tony Winston, I think about Trevida. I meant,
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  Speaker 6: we've got some powerful sisters here in this book. But
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  Speaker 6: I'm just I would say to you, I'll give you
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  Speaker 6: my seed that I that I put in the book.
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  Speaker 6: And my seed was I need because all the all
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  Speaker 6: the stories started with I leave you with, which is
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  Speaker 6: a bad story in itself, because we wrote the book
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  Speaker 6: utilizing and giving an homage to Mary Mary Bethune and
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  Speaker 6: her last will and testament, I leave you with, And
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  Speaker 6: so that's what we all wanted to do, was leave
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  Speaker 6: the sisters with. So mine's was I leave you with
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  Speaker 6: an exhortation to set your soul free. And so my
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  Speaker 6: seed was sisters, be friend, be friend, just just whatever
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  Speaker 6: that means to you, just you know, get held and
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  Speaker 6: we just get held in so many bondages by other people,
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  Speaker 6: other people's opinion, what social media says about us, what
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  Speaker 6: we should wear, what we should look like, and the
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  Speaker 6: truth be told.
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  Speaker 2: Patrious.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, most of us black women, at some point
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  Speaker 6: in our lives we have just flat out almost but
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  Speaker 6: killed ourselves trying to be somebody else, and so with
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  Speaker 6: my seat, I'm saying, just go on and be you
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  Speaker 6: whatever that is, because guess what, when you're you, it's
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  Speaker 6: a beautiful thing. I mean, that's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 6: At sixty one, I accept myself, all my roles, all
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  Speaker 6: my curves, some of my wrinkles, stuff that you know,
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  Speaker 6: I need a little work on. But hey, Erika Batdou
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: has a song where she says, I'm all right with me,
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: and that's what I was telling the sisters in my part,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: be all right with you. Get to the point where
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: you all right with you. So that's what I would set,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: set your soul for it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: And I accept it. I so accept it. I so
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: accept it. Yeah, because there's.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Some rules like right now, y'all aren't kidching on my
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: stomach around it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Not.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: So yes, I will accept all of this imperfections and
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: all their imperfections are my perfections.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I say that to myself now.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I keep saying that to myself even when I have
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: those doubts. Is something that cowork of minds told me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: You were placed here for the reason, so standing your
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: place absolutely. So remember we talked about those fun questions.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm on damn so My fun question for you, you.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: If you can get a female comedian, because we all
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: need a great laugh right now, we all just need
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: to smile. If you can get a female comedian to
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: narrow narrate your section of sacred seeds of wisdom, who
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: would you give.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: That honor to? And why?
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Well, you know if the first person that came to
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: my mind is Monique, now the only thing you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: and Monique is born in the same birth of month
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: as me, in December, so she's a December girl. She's funny.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I probably would choose Monique. I probably just say Monique,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: just probably bleak some of it out now, girl, just
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: just give us the clean verse. But it would be
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: it would by far I would I would pick Monique.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. So you're a December me too, December?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Yes all right.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So let's say we have an opportunity to have a
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: female artist place music to your book. What song resonates
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: with you when it comes to this book.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Let's see if I can think of the name of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: her song.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: But it would definitely be a Jill Scott song for sure,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: because Jill Scott is just Jill Scott. I mean, I
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: don't you know, I like it is it the way
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: you love me? But it wouldn't be for this book.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: But there's another one that where she says, do you
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: like it on your colleague Greens?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Do you like I don't know if I can't think
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: of the name of it, but I know you know
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about on college Greens. Okay, yes, so it
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: would be Jill Scott for me though.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I love that answer Jill Scott and Jill Scott done cares.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: She said this does me take it and leave it?
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: I mean she did the star Spangled Bannon, but she
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: changed all of the wording and that was like you
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: co girl, Like yes, okay, lifetime is on the line.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: They said, you know what.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: We love Sacred Seeds of Wisdom, and we want to
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: make this book into a movie. Who would you I'll
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: give you two people. Who would you want to play
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: any part in this book?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I'd love for Angela Bassett for sure.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: I'd love for her to play a part. She is
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: so strong and so powerful and I'm trying to think
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: and trying to think.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Think.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Uh, I could see Karen Washington. I can see her
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: playing a part in it as well, to represent the bull.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: But definitely, uh yeah, that those are the two that
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: I would definitely pick. Yeah, play a part from yourself. Nonsense.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I actually thought Regina King. Oh yeah, now now yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: now that that I'm.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Trying to think of who who part with Regina, Uh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: I probably would get Regina Regina to do Trevida's part.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: I only say that because Regina is kind of sure,
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: she's cute, but she she's a whip.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: You know, Regina, Regina is a she's a whip.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: So I think that she could probably do Trevida's part
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: pretty good, pretty good.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and if you guys don't know who that is,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Trevida Harris is one of the sisters on our podcast group,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: The Divas of the Airway. She is sure and she
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: is powerful, so.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Don't let it fool you.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Her show is on Sundays, and I want to say
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Thursdays if I'm right, Trevida, please let you know. I know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: definitely Sundays and Thursdays. But yes, I you know, I
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: truly can't see that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Like Tina King could do Trevida's part for sure. Yeah,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: that would be a that'd be a good actress that
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: could do her story in the book for sure.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: All right, Lifetime is back there saying, you know what,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: this went off perfectly, and now we want to do
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: a biopic on you. Who would you give the honor
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: plane you in your bio pick?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: And why did you choose that person?
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, I don't even know.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't be an actress. It doesn't have to
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: be a singer. It can be somebody who you know.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Personally, Oh, somebody somebody I know personally.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd have to get somebody to help
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: me with that one.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: I just I don't know, you know, because in my
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: younger days, people used to say that Jackie Harry and
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: myself that we we resembled and had similar personalities. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: don't know though, because Jackie she's I think she's a
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: bit more flamboyant than me. But but she's funny as
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: all get out, you know. I might we choose Queen Latifa.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You know, she's funny, she is in tune.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: So yeah, that I think that's that's that's that's that
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Those are people that I would pick.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Probably somewhere you got some.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Good choices because those women have staying power and they
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: stay true to theirself. Even when Queen Latifa lost herself
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: after her brother passed away, she came back and she
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: came this powerhouse. Jackie has staying power from her show
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Women Abused to play sister's sister and who knows what
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: she gonna be on soon because she's still in some
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: more movies. So you picked two great choices.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I particularly like that about those actresses. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: you said it right, they have stay in power, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: I think that's pretty true to my character. You know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: they are the queen who bounced back, and I love
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: I love a sister that bounces back.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: But hey, I am a black woman. That was my
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: first best seller, is I I'm a black woman.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: Black women, We're gonna always bounce back. I mean we
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: that's that's that's what we do. It's in our DNA.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: We got we got the.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Spirits and we bounced back. We will have a new
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: heir do the match. Okay, So okay, new here attitude.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Oh ay, it's just brand new. So that's absolutely correct.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: But while we're closing, what would you like to say
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: to your old readers, your new readers, and the readers
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: you will gain after this podcast?
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Oh well, I'd like I'd like to say, first and
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: foremost I definitely want you to buy a book. You
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: can go to my website, which is doctor Carroll and
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Stevens dot com and you can purchase the book there.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: In conjunction with purchasing the book, I want to encourage
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: you to write your book. Everybody has the book, everybody
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: has a story.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: There's not enough.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: We need more books written by black women for black women,
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: about black women, just black black black Okay.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And I unapologetically uh.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: And that's why I love this platform because I know
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: that Queen Andreel's not a sister that mine. We talk
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: about our people, and I apologetically will speak very openly
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: and supportively about our people and our women because black women,
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: we are incredible. And the thing is, everything in life
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: comes from us.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: So write. I'd say that, write your book. You know what.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: That is one of the reasons why I do this
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: is because black representation in books in literature and that stereotype.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: If you want to hire something, put it in the
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: book from That is the reason why I do this. Here,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: to give authors a color a platform to speak about
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: their books, their author's journeys.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: And if you even.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Got some social cause that you want to talk about,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: believe you me, you got me and you got about
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I think there's like none of us right now, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: you can come on our show and talk about it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: So yeah, we need to and we need to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: able to talk about it. And I love this platform
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: because here's the thing. I'm in media right and the
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: way that we are depicted in media. Definitely didn't want
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: to leave without saying this, you like you see it, Patrees,
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: there's something that happens in the community, and they're gonna pick.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: They're gonna pick the sister that doesn't know how to articulate. Well,
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: see dim And look, I'm not knocking nobody for your
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: education what I'm saying, but what they do, they do
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: these things intentionally to make it look as if though
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: we are not intelligent, and that person represents the whole
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: of who we are. And so I appreciate these kinds
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: of platforms that put us out there that lets the
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: world know we are intelligent, we are smart, we are funny,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: we are educated. We do know how to talk, we
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: know how to use the dictionary. Now, depending on what
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: day of the week it is, you might get told
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: because we are black women, we can't help that part.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Because we're very passionate but for the.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Most part, we need to be represented as the people
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: that God has created us to be the powerful, powerful,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: dynamic queens that we are, and so we need more
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: platforms like this that put us out out there demonstrating
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: and showing who we are. We need more people like
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: you that pushes us to do the books we do.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Black women writing books for black women. I'm all for it.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, and I think it's very important. And sisters
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: out there that's listening, let's buy each other's books because
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: we have to circulate our dollars amongst each other. Okay,
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: that's how we circulate and we stimulate the economy is
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: when we buy books from each other. And I won't
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: go into that, but that's why I told everybody go
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: to my website and get my book and I'll leave
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: that right where that is.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I totally understand.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I totally agree with you because I saw it firsthand.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: TV sh well, it was a TV shows What's the News, and.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: It was so funny how I saw this happened in
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: front of my eyes. Right, they had a sister who
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: was dressed. She wasn't dressed well, but she was casually dressed.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Bob maybe.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Eight feet between them two, okay, but then you got
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: the other sister over here. And I'm not knocking y'all, no,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: i am, because if you got a bonnet on in
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: the street, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, Yes, that
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: is a pet peeve of mine. If you got a
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: bonnet on in the street, what's the sense of pain
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to get your hair done?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: The purpose of getting your hair done so everybody can
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: see it? I don't want to see your bonnet.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. No, I'm not sorry, not sorry, not at all.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: But they chose the sistem with the bonnet. See what
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: happens they are.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I'm geechee, I gotta but they chose her. And I'm
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: sitting up there across the street looking like, really, of
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: all the people out here, that's what you choose.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: But what what we need to understand, those of us
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: in the media, we know this that is intentional.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: That's the thing that that's intentional to do. To do that,
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, even when you talk about crime and you
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: see our boys, our men, so our men and our
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: boys are the ones that are committing most of the crimes.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Get out of here. There are tons and.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Tons of white boys and white men that are committing crimes,
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: but you're not gonna hardly see You're not going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: see a plethora of them plastered all over the news.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: Why because they want to preserve they want to preserve
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: the culture.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: So if you put if you put us out there, you.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: Know, eighty percent of the time, then that means that
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: we are committing eighty percent of the crime.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: So they say logical.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: So audience, let me ask you, guys, I mean the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: school shootings that you've seen was done by African American
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: All wait, how many mm hmm.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Let that sink in for a second. Exactly exactly. Somebody
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: said two and ten years.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: That is totally, totally totally what I'm saying, mm hmm.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: Not to mention, Not to mention that culturally, there are
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: some crimes.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: We're not guilty, Patrice. I mean, you know we're guilty.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: We're Oh yeah, we do some stuff. There are something
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: some things that we just don't do. We don't go
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: around chopping up our mamas, killing our babies. These are
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: not were we're culturally, We're not guilty of that. Black
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: people are by far some of the most loving, the
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: most embracing people that ever walked the face of the planet.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Will take care of us.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: We'll take care of your children, their children, regardless of
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: whatever culture you you you come from, other cultures come
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: and they're accepted and nurtured by our culture, by our women,
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: So, I think it's very important.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: Kudos to Queen Angela for having this platform for any
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: woman that has something on television.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: We need more of it. Uh, we need more of it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: We need more movies that depict us in a proper light,
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: in the light that we should be in to tell
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: our story, whether that's a book, whether that's television, whether
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: that's a podcast, so that our story is authentically it's
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: being told, not what they not tell us, because that's
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: all psychological.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: That's that's not that's not facts, what they understand that
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: it's it's crazy. Because woo, y'all.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Just let's put it like this, y'all. I'm glad I
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: worked for the people that I work for.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Too.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: Wo y'all, I'm glad I work for the people who
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I work for because some of the things I want
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: to say, if it wasn't for these two people that
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: I had to feed, and these two people that God
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: insisted in giving me who I love daily. I will
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: tell y'all a couple of things. But hey, that day
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: is going to come because they got.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: To grow up and that that that that day will come.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: But what what, what's even sadder for me is that
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: I want my people to stop drinking the kool aid. Though,
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: that's all I'm saying. Okay, let's let's let's let's let's stop.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: Let's stop drinking kool aid. Oh it's got to be
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: true because we saw it on TV. Are you serious
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: now that they gave you what? They gave you what
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: they wanted you to believe. And the thing about media,
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: The thing about TV is that it works by way
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: of repetition. So if you're constantly seeing an image constantly
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: back to back to back to back, you know, you
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: know that how media works. It's it's psychological.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: If I if I say just do it, immediately, everybody's
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: going to tell me what brand that's associated with? You know,
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: you know I say do do do do do, I'm
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: loving it, Everybody's gonna know who that's with. So media
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: knows that there is a psychological conditioning that has to
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: happen in order to get people to buy into something.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: So we are being psychologically condition and I would like
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: to add on to that, we are being raped with
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: our pants up because we're constantly being fed these images
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: that are just not true, and then we buy, we
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: buy into it, and we can't say we don't buy
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: into it. Because if we have our men of creating
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: music where we're calling where they're calling us b's and
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: h's and stuff like that. Brother, you drink the kool aid.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: You drink the kool aid. That's what you did. You
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: drank the kool aid. Okay that, So you know we
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: have to we have to. That's why we have to
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: create our own media. We have to have our own
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: voices so we can tell our stories the.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Way that they need to be told. And that's the
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: first music that they hear.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Because I can't think and I might be wrong of
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: a song where as someone of an white person, I'm
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: gonna go straight there.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: And yes, I do love some of y'all, but some
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: of y'all can't deal with is.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Down plane and using the words that we're using our
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: song against their women.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: You're not gonna find it. You're not gonna find an
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Oriental man talking about his woman. You're not gonna find
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: even in the Caucasian man. You know, he's singing this
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: country western song. He's not gonna call her be I
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: T c H. He's not gonna call her age. You know,
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: he's not gonna see that. We're we're gonna do that, right,
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: We're gonna do that. But but here's what, here's what's
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: Saturday again? Because I believe in on the ship. But
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: you know women, they are women that are sitting and
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: bopping their head and they buying that music, right, they
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: buying it. They supporting it instead of saying, listen, brother,
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: we're not supporting nothing with you downgradeing us, We're not
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: gonna support you. And let me tell you something. If
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: any man wants to be successful, he know that there
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: is one thing that he must have in order to
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: go to the next level, and that would be a
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  Speaker 6: black woman. If you plan on being successful, you must
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  Speaker 6: have black women in your corner because we make stuff happening.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, to be down going off the plane. I
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  Speaker 2: got y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I got my hands sitting on my desk like trees
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  Speaker 4: looking ahead. Look at here, old doctor Carolyn. Please tell
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: us where we can get your book from, how we
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: can follow you.
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  Speaker 2: Just give us the running down. I see you in
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: the in the post. It's somebody.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's They got two out there now talking
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  Speaker 6: about venching and hanging.
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  Speaker 4: And share it vide on TikTok and they cancel Kanye
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  Speaker 4: for talking Let me and they cancel Kanye for talking
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  Speaker 4: down about another reason white privilege is real.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it is yo ooh.
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  Speaker 4: Love of Jesus, come down trees. Who yo? I saw
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  Speaker 4: that video. I saw another picture. There was a pastor
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: in Georgia and she there is a newspaper article where
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: they are suiting up in their white suit and their
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: coon hats. Yes it's a small but here's the thing
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: that that's not really no shock for trees.
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  Speaker 6: Like did we think the crew cross down with dead
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: or something. Nah, they're not there. They just took off.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: They just took off them hoods and stuff like that,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: and they put on doctors suits and eyes. Yes, they're
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: not dead, because that's a spirit. See, racism is a spirit.
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: It's a dmonic spirit. It just it just it just
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  Speaker 6: infeels traits its way into other people. But do we
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: think like after slavery was over, like that was gonna
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: die or whatever.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: No, it has not. It has not gone anywhere.
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: It's just it's just dressed up in a different in
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: a different set of clothes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that that's about that's about all.
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  Speaker 6: My My family is from South Carolina, and uh, I
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: have friends who is a very small town called Bamberg,
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: South Carolina, right and in this town. At that time,
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: my former mother in law was having problems with her
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: legs and she says, well, the doctor told me that
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: I need to get my leg amputated.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Patrice.
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: Then I found out because that's I was walking around
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: and and and and looking at nearby town near Bamberg.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: It's like every other person had their leg amput Like
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: the doctors are telling y'all, whatever problem you got, Like
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: your problem could be way up here in your neck,
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: but your legs need to be amputated.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 6: This is intentional and this stuff, this this stuff is
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: just it's intentional, you know, because we are targeted for
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: this kind of things. This shouldn't be like like every
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: other person in the town walking around with no leg
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: or no arm and telling me that that's that's a
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: health issue. Now, that's not a health the issue, you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: that's racial targeting. We're being targeted, and we have to
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: you know, be more into the way. The way that
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: we stay in tune is that we you know, we
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: talk about it, and we better talk about it before
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: folks go around censoring us.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: And then we can't be we won't be able to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: say nothing, okay, story because they are started that.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: And and and and yeah, they already started that, you know.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: And I and I am sc buck yald, so I
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: totally understand where you're coming from.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you know, we were gonna have to
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: come back. Me and you're gonna have to come back.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I don't even care if we do a pre recorded
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: interview and then share it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: But me and you we're gonna come back and we
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: gonna have us a good little chit chat.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: But yes, Lord Jesus, y'all go grab secret of wisdom.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: And it is true, Trevita said, it is very much
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: important to advocate for yourself when it comes to your health.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: That is true because.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: When I took my daughter to the doctor about a
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: week and a half ago, they were like, when I
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: picked her up at school, Oh, she just have a fever,
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: let her go home. I looked my child in the
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: eye and I say, it is not a fever. It
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: is not a fever. And yes it was something minor.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: It's COVID.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: But it could have been worse because I lost my
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: sister to the flu. It could have been way worse.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: So yes, we do have the advocate for ourselves, even personally.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: You guys, I am, you're not wrong with therapy. I'm
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: getting back with one they sent me to. I said,
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: do you have somebody African American female I prefer.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, we can find one. She's all the way in Florence. Cool.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: It's called online virtual they could do what to do.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: These are services that I gave every day.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: So yes, I thank you for joining me tonight, Doctor Stevens.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: We went, thank you for having me.
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: I had a wonderful time, wonderful looking forward to us
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: coming back and talking some more because these are the
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: kind of conversations that we need to be having.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, And you guys before we end out,
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: I know, and I had this conversation with my son.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: I know we all think, oh, I'm not gonna do it.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. I'm not gonna do it.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: But y'all go get your voter registration, go pick up
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: your neighbor you're eighteen year old. When they get that
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: driver's license, go get them.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: A voter registration card. Have a voting party when you
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: go out with your girls. Make sure everybody voting. Hey, yo,
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: let me see your card. If you got your card. Now,
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: I'm not telling y'all to drink, but this can be
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: an idea. If you got your car, the first drink's
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: on me. Let's get back into voting. It's something that
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: our ancestors fought for that we're losing because we're not
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: fighting for it anymore. Okay, I actually go help at
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: the polls. Yes, I do it for the mono Harry Good,
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: but then I also do it because I want these
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: little black boys and little black girls to see a
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: black woman. Okay, so you guys, promise me go get
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: your voter registration because it comes down to the next
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: time we vote, and then this situation happened again and
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: you didn't vote. I don't want to hear you. I
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: don't want to hear anything you got to say. I'll
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: talk to you in four years. Well, pretty cod is
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: four years, because how were you trying to do it?
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, So thank you? This demens for being with us tonight.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: You guys, remember there's no such thing as an old book,
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: because not everybody is read every book.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Go grab secret seeds of wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: Good Night everyone, Bye,