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SC BOOKGAL and FRIENDS LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 8PM EST ON DA CREW PODCAST and MEDIA NETWORK · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome through.
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  Speaker 3: There's a place.
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  Speaker 2: Down in South Carolina, where the stories rise. There's a
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  Speaker 2: queen with a mission, fire in her eyes.
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  Speaker 3: 20 years and counting, serving wisdom on the shelves.
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  Speaker 2: Helping voices find the courage to believe in themselves. She
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  Speaker 2: opens up the pages, lets the hidden stories shine.
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  Speaker 3: Black and brown authors.
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  Speaker 2: Stepping boldly into time.
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  Speaker 3: With a mic and a message, she's changing the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows her name.
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  Speaker 3: She's the literary queen.
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  Speaker 1: From the library sales to the library.
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  Speaker 3: The podcast stream. You lift every offer, you wake up
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  Speaker 3: a dream. Tuesday night at eight and the room leans in.
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  Speaker 2: Patrice Grimbaugh, let it all begin.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee Book Goal, keep shining your light.
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  Speaker 2: Lifting up the offers, bringing stories to life.
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  Speaker 1: Patrice Grimbaugh, we.
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  Speaker 3: See your dream.
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  Speaker 1: Literary queen, literary queen.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee Book Goal, let the.
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  Speaker 1: Whole world see. Patrice Grimbaugh, your legacy. From the page
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  Speaker 1: to the air, you set it free.
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  Speaker 3: Literary Hey, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: This is your girl, SCBookGal843. And how are you tonight? Okay, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? First of all, I just want to say,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, y'all doing your thing. Do y'all know that
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  Speaker 1: right now, South Carolina... has exceeded itself in early voting.
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  Speaker 1: This is the largest early voting turnout they have ever had.
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  Speaker 1: So let's keep going. Let's turn South Carolina blue, and
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  Speaker 1: let's make those changes, okay? For me, you guys, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm out here in Columbia, and I am at the
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina Library Association Conference. And I just did a presentation.
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  Speaker 1: Happy that it's over. You would think that me doing
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  Speaker 1: this for you guys next year would be year five,
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  Speaker 1: that I would be used to public speaking. No. I
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  Speaker 1: had like three breakdowns today crying because I knew I
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  Speaker 1: would speak in front of people. So I'm glad this
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  Speaker 1: is over with, and I'm so happy to be ready
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  Speaker 1: to go home to my baby on Thursday. But, you
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  Speaker 1: will have to bring a new book and a new author. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, I get to interview Patrice. No, not me.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Patrice. She has a book that is entitled,
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  Speaker 1: I Am Patrice. I am going to be welcoming and
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  Speaker 1: bringing up author Patrice Williams. Richardson. Come on up, girly.
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  Speaker 3: Come on up. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, girly.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to SC Book Gals and Friends. We are glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: So, from Patrice to Patrice, tell me a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I am.
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  Speaker 3: As they say, I'm a trade of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things to none, basically, as they say a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Mobile, Alabama. Originally, my parents still live there.
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  Speaker 3: I am the second youngest sibling. I have an older sister.
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  Speaker 3: And right now I live in multiple states. And I
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  Speaker 3: work in health care as well as federal government.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you got two stressful jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: How did you find time to write with those two
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  Speaker 1: professions in your life?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have the federal government at the time. And
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  Speaker 3: so I just took my time. And it took me
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  Speaker 3: over three years to write the book. And I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to release the book. That's what the issue was,
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  Speaker 3: is that I wasn't going to release the book because
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  Speaker 3: I cared about the people in the book. But I
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  Speaker 3: didn't add names in the book. So my characters don't
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  Speaker 3: even have names in the book. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's a first for me. You got to tell
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  Speaker 1: me about this. None of the characters in your book
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  Speaker 1: have names? No. No.
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  Speaker 3: None of the characters have names, and the reason why
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  Speaker 3: I did that is to protect people's identity. And the
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  Speaker 3: craziness that happened, I didn't want anybody to look down
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  Speaker 3: on those people, so I did not add any names
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  Speaker 3: to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's wonderful to protect. Okay, I see it. I
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  Speaker 1: see it. So, what made you want to become... An
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  Speaker 1: author with those two careers. Why an author?
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  Speaker 3: It's I wanted my story to be told, but not
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  Speaker 3: only I wanted my story to be told, but I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to share the book because you never know when
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  Speaker 3: people are going through things. And we especially as African-Americans,
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  Speaker 3: we go through things silently and we don't want people
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  Speaker 3: to know that we're going through things. So this book
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  Speaker 3: is to show them you can have everything in the
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  Speaker 3: world or you can be this person, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean you don't go through anything. And so now I
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  Speaker 3: am Patrice is not only a book, but it's a movement.
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  Speaker 3: So it it supports women that are homeless, women that
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  Speaker 3: are going through bad relationships or just going through some things.
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  Speaker 3: And so I wanted to share my story so they
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  Speaker 3: know that that's not your end game. You want to
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  Speaker 3: move past that. You need to grow past that. So
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  Speaker 3: that's just your situation right now. But you can grow
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  Speaker 3: past the situation and become so much more because I
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  Speaker 3: became so much more after the book.
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  Speaker 1: You came so much more after the book. So your
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  Speaker 1: book showed you yourself and you place yourself in the book.
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  Speaker 1: And you gain the benefits of the book.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I like that. You're going to have to tell
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit about that. How does it feel
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  Speaker 1: to gain from your own book? Because some authors, once
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  Speaker 1: they write the book, they just put it on the
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  Speaker 1: shelf or they sell it. But you gain from your
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  Speaker 1: own book. So how does that feel?
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  Speaker 3: It feels, it's a huge blessing. Sometimes I get emotional
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  Speaker 3: because to see how far I've become in my life
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  Speaker 3: and then the woman that I became in my life,
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  Speaker 3: it just shocks me. And to see my book blessing
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  Speaker 3: people and families and I get messages saying, hey, can
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  Speaker 3: you talk to this person? Or when you're in this state,
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  Speaker 3: can you talk to this person? And I love that
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  Speaker 3: because they do see me as that motivator that's going
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  Speaker 3: to help somebody themselves or want to do better in
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  Speaker 3: their life and then show them different things for them
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  Speaker 3: to grow as well because I'm all about growth.
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  Speaker 1: Growth. That's a big word and people don't realize how
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  Speaker 1: much weight is in the word growth.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So my next question is what is the biggest benefit
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  Speaker 1: that you gain from writing your book I Am Patrice?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, more so just giving back. I give more than
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  Speaker 3: what I receive. And so now that I'm global, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not only in the United States, but I'm in every country.
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  Speaker 3: So my book is everywhere. And so I, I like
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  Speaker 3: giving back and I, uh, that's something I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to do is giving back, uh, to women, to men,
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  Speaker 3: because my book is just not about women. It's to
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  Speaker 3: help a woman, but it's all about entrepreneurs because people
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  Speaker 3: think you got to be rich to be an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 3: You don't. I started with $ 10. I had $ 10 and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I didn't want to be broke anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And so that was one of the things how all
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  Speaker 3: of my companies grew because I started with $ 10. And
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people don't realize that. I just went
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  Speaker 3: and got my business license and I made it do
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  Speaker 3: what it do. And it has manifest. All of my
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  Speaker 3: companies are moving, shaking and growing all at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just that is the benefit for me and
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  Speaker 3: for me to give back to people that are in
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  Speaker 3: need or even just giving them a word of encouragement.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I love to see. And that's what I
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  Speaker 3: get back from the book is just being able to
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  Speaker 3: help somebody else in their life.
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  Speaker 1: So you published this beautiful book that you guys will
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  Speaker 1: see in a moment. Not yet. I'll show you all
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  Speaker 1: the cover in a moment. How did it feel to
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  Speaker 1: have your baby, your book? Because your book is your baby.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When you first had it in your hands.
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  Speaker 3: I was in the airport and it came the day
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  Speaker 3: I was leaving to go on a trip. And it
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  Speaker 3: came and I was like, I'm all in the holding
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  Speaker 3: my book up, taking pictures with my book in the airport.
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  Speaker 3: It was exciting, emotional, and I celebrated that moment. I
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  Speaker 3: loved it. It was like I really birthed this baby
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  Speaker 3: right here. It amazes me to see how far I
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  Speaker 3: became with writing the book and then now my second book.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you guys. I know y'all saying, okay, Treece,
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  Speaker 1: we don't talk about this book. We don't talk about
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  Speaker 1: her being an author. We want to look at this book. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you diva, this cover is diva. So,
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  Speaker 1: we are about to bring up the cover of I
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  Speaker 1: Am Pretty Treece. Y'all look at this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What's the inspiration to this.
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  Speaker 3: Cover yes it's bold elegant and it tells you a
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  Speaker 3: story without you even opening the book.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting sister girl I got this and if I
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  Speaker 1: don't have this I'm about to have this it's giving
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  Speaker 1: watching me grow just Just why that cover? It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's simple. Just why that cover?
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  Speaker 3: I chose that cover because I wanted to signify myself.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted it to be about not taking anything away
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  Speaker 3: from anybody. It's just I am Patrice. It's just that
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  Speaker 3: one person. And you, I, anybody else could be a Patrice.
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  Speaker 3: So and that's why it's a movement. So I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be just elegant, but just something classy to show
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  Speaker 3: that you can be homeless for three years. But then
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  Speaker 3: this is what you look like after the fact. So
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  Speaker 3: you can look like what you want to look like.
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  Speaker 3: But just know I went through the hard times. I
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  Speaker 3: went through all the struggles. And this is what I
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  Speaker 3: came out looking like.
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  Speaker 1: So now here's the time for you to tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the book. We already talked about the cover. We
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  Speaker 1: already talked about you becoming an author. Now it's time
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  Speaker 1: for you to tell us a little bit about the book,
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  Speaker 1: I Am Patrice.
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  Speaker 3: So the book is a true story book. It is
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  Speaker 3: based off of my life when I was much younger,
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  Speaker 3: in my 20s. And the book takes you through me
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  Speaker 3: moving to California to be with a family member. And
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  Speaker 3: the family member was going through a traumatic experience. separation
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  Speaker 3: and divorce. And she put me out, but she dropped
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  Speaker 3: me off at a homeless shelter. And I stayed homeless
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  Speaker 3: for three years in Long Beach, California. And literally I
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  Speaker 3: worked every day, but I lived in a homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 3: And it takes you through what I endured in a
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  Speaker 3: homeless shelter coming, how I became out of the homeless
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  Speaker 3: shelter and as well as the growth after that. And
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  Speaker 3: then when I got saved, I got saved while I
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  Speaker 3: was homeless. So it talks about my spirituality and it
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  Speaker 3: talks about my growth once I accepted God in my life.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. How did you keep Patrice alive? When going
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  Speaker 1: through all of this. That you were going through.
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  Speaker 3: Faith and a bunch of angels. Faith in God. And
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  Speaker 3: I never lost faith. I just knew I needed to
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  Speaker 3: be back in church. And that was something I wasn't doing.
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  Speaker 3: And not only that. But now. I talked to God
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  Speaker 3: multiple times. During the day. Then I wasn't even thinking
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  Speaker 3: about God. Me being honest. And so now I am.
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  Speaker 3: seeing myself in a whole nother light when I got
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  Speaker 3: saved on the street corner. And so with that being said,
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  Speaker 3: it is, it's just a whole nother tone for me.
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  Speaker 3: Like I could conquer the world now. And before they
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  Speaker 3: say that, you know, the rich people are happy. I
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  Speaker 3: was happy or poor to be honest. I had a
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  Speaker 3: better life. I didn't stress. I didn't worry. I didn't have,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think about who the president was. I, I
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  Speaker 3: just lived every day with no thought, no care, no
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  Speaker 3: stress in my life. And I know that's crazy to say,
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  Speaker 3: but I was more peaceful homeless than I am having
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful home, jobs, cars, all of those things. Because
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  Speaker 3: we let those things control us. We don't allow God
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  Speaker 3: to lead us. That's the biggest difference in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: So when God was giving you all the insights for
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  Speaker 1: this book, What were you saying? You're like, hold up, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to do what?
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  Speaker 3: The crazy thing. This is the craziest story because I
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  Speaker 3: decided I wasn't writing a book. And a friend of
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  Speaker 3: mine connected me with a prophet. And I had never
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  Speaker 3: discussed writing a book with anyone. But this prophet that
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  Speaker 3: she connected me to, we talked. And he said, ooh.
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  Speaker 3: God gave me a word for you. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what is it? And he said, God told me to
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  Speaker 3: tell you to go ahead and write the book. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, whoa, like that was confirmation. And I
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  Speaker 3: still didn't write the book after that. It took me
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  Speaker 3: another two years after that to write the book.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, you were being hard headed.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And God will show enough, put you down and
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  Speaker 3: make you, but I did like, I started looking for
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  Speaker 3: publishing companies. I was just winging it on my own,
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out, okay, how do you get a
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  Speaker 3: book out? Because you see people that are self-publishing and
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  Speaker 3: then you see published. And there are two different things. Self-published,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be on Amazon. For me, I am
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  Speaker 3: published through a publishing company. And so I had all
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  Speaker 3: these different type of things that were accessible to me
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  Speaker 3: through the publishing company. So it helped me to grow
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  Speaker 3: a little bit stronger and faster when the book came
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  Speaker 3: out Christmas day.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas day.
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  Speaker 3: The book came out Christmas day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so being with a publishing company was more beneficial
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I interviewed authors who have done the indie route
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  Speaker 1: and have, authors that have done the self-published route. So
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see how some work for some and
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  Speaker 1: some work for others. That's why I tell a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that publishing a book is not stone on
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  Speaker 1: how to do it. Right. There's so many ways. You
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  Speaker 1: just have to figure out which one works best for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to give the readers one take away,
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  Speaker 1: from I Am Patrice. What would that takeaway be?
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  Speaker 3: Don't give up on your dreams. Don't give up on
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  Speaker 3: something you believe in. Go for it. Don't never let
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  Speaker 3: anything hold you back. Go for whatever it is that
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  Speaker 3: you want in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you guys got that. So remember I told
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  Speaker 1: you that there was a session of this show that
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  Speaker 1: I really couldn't tell you about, but you will see
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  Speaker 1: later on? Yes. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I am ready.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I am ready.
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  Speaker 1: I call it the fun question, so I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: put you back in the hot seat with me. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So let's roll on back over here to the hot seat. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know the biggest thing right now is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of authors are getting their books on television, okay? I
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  Speaker 1: always used to do this spiel where I asked authors
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  Speaker 1: who would do this and who would do that. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to do that. But I've noticed looking at BET,
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  Speaker 1: BET +, Paramount, Tubi, especially Tubi. Tubi is very creative. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very creative. So a lot of authors are taking their
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  Speaker 1: books and they're having them into movies. So guess what?
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  Speaker 1: That's Paramount. Paramount is, they at your door there say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we love the book I Am Patrice.
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  Speaker 1: It's giving us deeper vibes, okay? We want to make
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  Speaker 1: this into a movie. We have to cast some characters.
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  Speaker 1: But we want you to help us out with this casting.
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  Speaker 1: But we just want you to help us out with
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  Speaker 1: one character. And that is you, Patrice. You get the
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  Speaker 1: honor of playing you in the movie, I Am Patrice.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Taraji P. Henson.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so why Taraji?
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  Speaker 3: Because her energy, just her ambition alone. And then I've
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  Speaker 3: met her before. So I feel like she would play
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  Speaker 3: the part to the T. Like she would be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: At the part. And she just gave me a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of life on. Why did I get married.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Because she. She just set the tone. And I could
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  Speaker 3: see all of me in her. But I think she
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  Speaker 3: could definitely play the role. Alright.
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  Speaker 1: So we have Taraji P. Henson. So now. Authors do collaborate.
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  Speaker 1: So they was like. We're going to have somebody to
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  Speaker 1: help you out. Because we know this is your first one.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And we want you to feel comfortable. What author would
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  Speaker 1: you want to collaborate with you on the movie? I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: am Patrice. Any author. Who would you choose and why?
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  Speaker 3: I would choose probably Jermaine Jermaine Brooks and he's a
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  Speaker 3: fellow author and we're actually getting ready to do a
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  Speaker 3: book signing at Barnes and Nobles on November the 7th
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  Speaker 3: in Mobile, Alabama together and I would choose him because
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  Speaker 3: I've read his book and I think he can fill
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  Speaker 3: me into expressing what I Am Patrice is all about.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Alright so we have Jermaine Brooks as collaborating author Taraji P.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Ensign is going to play you but you know it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: every single movie has to have that title soundtrack. Yes.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What does your title soundtrack mean?
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  Speaker 3: Donnie McCurklin, We Fall Down But We Get Up.
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  Speaker 1: Listen here, that song right there. Listen. Have y'all really,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: really listened to the words of that song? I have.
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  Speaker 1: That song will make you buckle.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 3: That's a song I got saved on.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: What?
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: The choir was singing that song that day. And I
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: was standing outside on the corner.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: That song will make you buckle. All right. So we
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: got Taraji P. Harrison playing you. Jermaine Brooks is going
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to assist you. And Donnie McClurkin, We Fall Down. Girl,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that's a movie to watch out for. Yes. You can't
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: touch that, Tyler.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, can't touch this one.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: That combination right there. So, before we leave tonight, tell
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  Speaker 1: us where we can follow you, where we can grab
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: your books. Just give us the rundown.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Well, you can follow... I am Patrice on Facebook and Instagram.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: As well as you can purchase the book on every platform.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You can just Google it and it's in all your countries.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: But Walmart, Amazon, and as well as I have my
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: own website, which is IamPatrice.org. And it tells you how
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: to book me. It tells you how to just connect
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: with me and get on my calendar. As well as
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: you can get t-shirts. Because I am Patrice has his
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: own t-shirts. And Target. Barnes and Nobles. Books a Million.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: You name it. It's on their shelf online.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to have to get one of your shirts.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Because you know my name is Patrice. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That would be nice.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I am Patrice. That's your book? Well no it's not
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: my book. But my name is Patrice. Right. So, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: want you to give your new readers, your past readers,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and your future readers some advice that you have in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: your book, I Am Patrice.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: If it looks like it's not going anywhere, talk to God,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: pray to God, and have faith in God. I'm a
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: strong believer that God will remove and grow you into
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: the person that you're supposed to be. And definitely don't
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: ever give up. You just keep it in prayer and
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: you don't have to display it to everybody. Just go
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: in prayer and talk to God and it will turn
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: around for your good.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Well, there you have it, everyone. I don't know better
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: advice that someone can give you. Someone who's been through it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: overcome now living in her life so you guys go
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: grab the book I am Patrice and Patrice from Patrice
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you being with me tonight.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Yes thank you for having me all.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Her information is scrolling at the bottom of the screen
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: y'all know how it is give me 24 hours and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you have her information on the blog where the links
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: will be clickable and you can go and grab your
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: own copy. Guess what, Kindle girlies? I know we're having
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a problem with Kindle right now, but if you're like
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: me and you're on a budget and you're trying to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: get books, it's on Kindle Plus.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Read it. You need it in your life.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Ms. Patrice, for being with us tonight.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you guys, it's another, another book in the books.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Next week, y'all know what time it is. It is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: awards season. And I will give you guys information about
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the 2027 Aspiring Author Book Gal Awards. November 1st, we're
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: taking nominations. So join me next week, Tuesday, where I
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: give you more information. Remember, you guys, there's no such
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: thing as an old book, because not everybody has read
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: every book. You guys have a great night. Make sure
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you get out and vote. Bye! Mr. Live, catch the replay.
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  Speaker 2: 15, 20, more behind.