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Voices of Change: Mekeshia Lee & Tracy Adkison on Purpose and Empowerment · Mrs. PIE

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  Speaker 1: Music been Toriyan Media Corporation.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good evening everybody.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I am back y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mrs Pie is.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night and I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a short change in our program.
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  Speaker 1: My guests could not make it tonight, but I did want to still come on.
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  Speaker 1: I dropped a link and I'm calling this open mic night for a hot 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So if you all want to come on, the link to come on live with me on stage is in the chat in the comment section.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to do a shout out and give you guys some information about this organization that was going to be represented by Stephanie Ligas tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure we talk about this organization and I think it's going to be really helpful and we're going to need your help.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for everybody who's watching on LinkedIn and YouTube and Twitter and Mrs Pie on Paradec live TV.
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  Speaker 1: I see y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching and support.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular organization is called the Floyd McAllen Hope Center and this organization is a Christ centered network for homeless veterans and their families.
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  Speaker 1: It gives them a safe place to begin again their mission is to give a stable place of restoration and hope for again homeless veterans and their families, and then that includes a shelter, a residential drug rehab program, vocational and employment training and other opportunities just to give veterans a chance to be stable in all aspects of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Right now this organization is in their planning phase and they're looking for donations and grants so that they can set up their facilities for use, and that, essentially, is what Stephanie was going to come on and talk to us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm asking if you could help the cause and support by contributing as much as you can to enable the Floyd McAllen Hope Center to join.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit more about the team there is.
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  Speaker 1: There's board members include Dr Laquita Monley.
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  Speaker 1: She's a devoted wife and a mother of five and again, she's also a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: Stephanie Liggins I mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: She graduated from.
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  Speaker 1: Hampton University.
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  Speaker 1: She's an active duty for six years as three kids just an amazing woman, and also Caleb Liggins, who is also on the board.
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  Speaker 1: So a really cool organization that's trying to help veterans that are homeless, veterans and their families that are homeless, and that's giving them career opportunities and kind of all the kind of support that we know veterans need.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to drop the link in the comment section because I want y'all to go out and, you know, support as much as you can.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all, you know, support as much as you can, even if it's nothing more than you sharing this link FMCH hope.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show y'all in the in the live chat FMCH hopeorg, even if all you can do is share that link to your friends and family and then ask them to go and support this organization.
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  Speaker 1: Please, please, go ahead and support the Floyd McCallan hopes.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it's all about, you know, providing opportunities for homeless veterans and their families, giving them a safe place to start again, restoration, you know, shelter, drug rehab program, employment, training and just a lot of opportunities to help them, get their lives back to them Our veterans are like.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to shout out that organization know Stephanie can make that, just want to make sure that we take a take a pause to just give her a shout out and I hope everybody is doing okay.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't been around for a while but I've been very busy doing a lot of amazing things.
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  Speaker 1: I want to call out grace and grit media calm.
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  Speaker 1: That has other Christian leaning events on that site that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We have vision planning event coming on this virtual and it's free, so you guys can go to grace and great media calm and register for that event.
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  Speaker 1: It's open to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's February 18 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a great way for us to prepare for the year.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's just a cool way for you to also network and meet other amazing men and women who are building out their vision boards for this year.
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  Speaker 1: So come and check out that event.
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  Speaker 1: And again, that's on racing great media calm and I'm here every Thursday still Thursday mornings, live at 7am leading prayer here.
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  Speaker 1: So again, you can, you can catch me there and obviously Tuesday nights at 7pm, you know, just talking to our business community and our veteran community.
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  Speaker 1: So so that's what I wanted to share.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you know I'm missing you, stiff at Stephanie.
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  Speaker 1: You know I understand that you can make it, but we just want to make sure that, even if she's not physically here that we got a chance to to shout out her organization Alright, so I'm waiting for one other person who's going to join my my job up
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  Speaker 1: on stage, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: If you again, if you want to join me on stage, this is the night to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The night to do it, to come on up.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up to the stage and you know, share your thoughts and how are y'all doing and you know what is some of the kind of programming you're looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I'm so blessed because I've been able to have just an incredible round of guests all of 2222, 23 and here we are in 2024, and so I'm really, really excited about the programming.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: We're going to make some changes in terms of saw, the content you guys are going to get.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I started out just coming on to talk about branding and business and y'all that was great.
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  Speaker 1: But then it started to shift and it the conversation really really started talking to business leaders and just being inspired and encouraged by.
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  Speaker 1: You know, folks are doing really incredible things in their, in their walk of life, so so I'm really honored to share that space you know with and you know, spotlight those kind of people as well, like me, people like me.
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  Speaker 2: We're just trying to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, do what we can.
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  Speaker 1: Alright.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just, I'm just holding on to see if that a guest who's coming here.
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  Speaker 1: So just out there with me real quick, but y'all dropping in chat and tell me how y'all are doing.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't heard from heard from y'all in a while and I missed y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So how is everybody doing?
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: How's the year panning out for you?
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: You know what, what are some of your plans?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: And how is January shaping up?
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  Speaker 1: Is the 23rd of the month that you already follow up your resolutions?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still following your resolution, still doing those things?
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: You know what's happening with you, so drop it in chat and tell me how y'all are while I wait for my guests to show up.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know there's something I wanted to hear.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: Could y'all hear about the security breach earlier?
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  Speaker 1: So if you're on the LinkedIn streets, make sure you change your fast words.
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  Speaker 1: And also, I know I've got a live on Twitter Make sure you change your password.
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  Speaker 1: I try to update as many people as I can.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that that information pop out there.
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  Speaker 1: So, y'all, if you're on LinkedIn and Twitter and those are the two sites that I'm fully aware of actually, if you're on LinkedIn and you go to my profile, you'll see the post that I put out.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: So there was a security breach and y'all need to change your password, is that okay?
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: So make sure you do that.
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  Speaker 1: These are, these are just the nature of you know, the nature of business right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right the way things are, so alright.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to bring up the key to the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, how are you?
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm alright, but you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm so glad you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I was like you know how I was like out, brows, brows, brows.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, mercy, oh God, close, real close.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, listen, listen, you have been doing a phenomenal job.
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  Speaker 2: You have had some amazing guests, some guests.
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  Speaker 2: I have some guests.
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  Speaker 2: I have approached.
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  Speaker 2: You know I was like you want to take her.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get her.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It's so amazing, what.
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  Speaker 1: See, listen, like I said, open mic night is very, very rare.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all better take advantage of it when we do this, because you know open mic is Okay.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: So, again, shout out to everybody who's going to catch the replay.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all to missed it, tracy.
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  Speaker 2: By y'all during how you doing?
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: We are good.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: We are good.
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  Speaker 1: We had Tracy on the show representing the women voters in 2023 as well, so you know again, y'all can go back and watch the replay for that.
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  Speaker 1: She's just phenomenal as a leader and just a person in jail, so I'm excited that you're here.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you?
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  Speaker 1: What's legal women?
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  Speaker 1: What y'all up to over there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, shut up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you asked.
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  Speaker 2: That is the only.
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  Speaker 2: I just came from the gym, so please excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Working on that, that vision.
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  Speaker 2: I'm working on that vision, them goals, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm so glad you asked because I just came back from our national board meeting in DC and, of course, as you can imagine, we're preparing for these presidential elections.
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  Speaker 2: The league is nonpartisan, so we don't support or oppose any candidate or party, but we work to make sure that everyone is registered to vote, educated on the process, and we fight for our democracy.
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  Speaker 2: So we advocate for voting rights for every citizen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, every citizen.
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  Speaker 2: We don't care how you vote, that is your business in your voting booth.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: We want to make sure everybody who has the right, the desire, the will to vote has the means and knows how to so and when to.
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  Speaker 2: So I just, I just want to come on and encourage your listeners to check their registration.
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  Speaker 2: Please check your registration on your Secretary of State website.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure you haven't been removed from the rolls, especially if you haven't voted in a while.
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  Speaker 2: So check your registration.
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  Speaker 2: If you already know you're not registered, get registered.
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  Speaker 2: If you're 18 years old, even if you're 17 and a half, you can still register and keep start keeping up with what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I know politics can be dirty and ugly and.
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  Speaker 2: But these are your leaders that affect that.
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  Speaker 2: Their decisions, their votes impact your everyday life how much taxes you pay, how many schools are in your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 2: So much stores, new stores coming, funding, yeah, everything, everything you can imagine on the local, state and national level.
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  Speaker 2: So, please, please, get out and vote, please.
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  Speaker 1: I love.
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  Speaker 1: We need that reminder for real y'all.
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  Speaker 1: And I know again, I know it's hard, you know most of us kind of get checked out because we just we're just sick of it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 1: But just just be clear you get what you vote for, right.
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  Speaker 1: So if you don't vote, you can't complain.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have a dog in the fight.
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  Speaker 1: If you can stay home, if you want to stay home, just stay home.
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  Speaker 1: But you have no dog in the fight.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to see things change, whatever, all the way down to your school board, right, you've got to.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to actually be active, actively participating in your government, right?
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  Speaker 1: Not just church y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The.
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  Speaker 2: Bible says you have to pray for your leaders.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to pray for somebody.
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  Speaker 2: You need to at least put your some faith in and some action in it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So if you got an opportunity to do it, do it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, ooh, tracy, you just came in right now, jesus yeah, with that announcement for people 2024,.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: You know, this year is 1212.
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  Speaker 2: And 12 is for government, perfect government.
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  Speaker 2: Because God, I'm sorry, shalana came on, come on.
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  Speaker 2: He's beginning, but you know when it was prophesying in the Old Testament that Jesus was coming, that the government would be on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: So that should be your government and it's to.
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  Speaker 2: This is 24, right 1212.
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  Speaker 2: So it's double perfect government.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure you do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that Especially, especially, I call them extra Christian folks.
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  Speaker 1: You know extra Christian folks.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to get involved in that.
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  Speaker 1: They all vote, vote again.
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  Speaker 1: You know it does impact everything zoning rights, everything, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, study up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, study, read, understand who you're supporting, vote based on your needs and go.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Charlie, you have you, you have an educated, you have audiences, you have.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Your audience are business owners.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you are talking about resources and funding and grants and you know availability and accessibility and equal rights.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, because, as you can see, our, our rights are under attack y'all, and so we have to, we have to be plugged in and fighting for our rights and our voice is in our vote, our voice.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: We can march up and down the streets all we want, but if we don't show up at the polls, yeah, the person elected is going to be the person that wins the most votes, so don't you just vote.
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  Speaker 2: Also, take your friends, families, remind them, make sure they know where to go, and that's the other thing.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Look up where to go.
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  Speaker 2: But let me say one more thing, shelley, yeah, we need our elected bodies on all levels should look like the communities that they serve.
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  Speaker 2: So we need diverse leadership male, female, all color, all ages, because we all bring something different to the table.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't, we don't want all of one kind making decisions for different people.
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  Speaker 2: We need everybody's perspective at the table.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: So run for office.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should be encouraged.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if that you said that's your thing, do it right, Don't you know and this is this holds us accountable, for those of us who say we want to see change if we keep putting the same people again.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be preachy, but at the end of the day, if you, don't vote you don't have a say.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Please, please, please, please, take a seat.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Makisha has an anniversary four years coming up for the Duffin Ground podcast and I want to hear about.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I am so excited for you oh my God, so like this.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I still can't believe it's been four years.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: It's like that time has rapidly flown by and what we basically?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: We're setting a tone for community.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you know we're part of many different groups, so many different things.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: But we're up.
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  Speaker 2: My thing is teaching you how to serve.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: You know, we're the captain of service and I need you to be serving in your church, in your community, in your neighborhood.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Like it's time for, like you guys says, change the change with you, like so people around me I'm going to be asking a lot.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Of course, they probably not going to be my friends, no more but it's okay, right, because if we're going to be the hands and feet of Jesus but we're going to be the house and we don't know our neighbors and not our neighbors, garage up, garage down, like that, what kind of life is that?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We need to learn how to serve and serve people like that's what Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: He left his throne of glory, made himself a servant.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: What did I do?
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: He came to serve.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: So it's going to be your time, your talents, your treasure, serving in each one of those capacities.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: So my show is going to be in your business, in your nonprofit.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: What are you doing to make an impact in your circle of influence?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Are you having a brand, just to say I got a brand?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: What impact are you doing with this brand?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: So that's what we're bringing, Like now that we started our show off with Audrey Bill Canara.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: She is like the woman of Gwynette.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: She's the president finder of Gwynette.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Women of Chamber of Commerce.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So, we start love with heavy hitters.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like I got to keep that momentum.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Like you start how you finish, right, yeah, Gotta keep up the momentum.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: But I also like the fact that she pulls women alongside her and people alongside her.
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  Speaker 2: That's better.
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  Speaker 2: She's not the smartest person in the room and she's okay with that, Because she's learning from different people with that and she's bringing her skills too and they're learning too.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what the dumping ground is about to be about Serve and celebrate your wins.
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  Speaker 2: Like bro quiet, I haven't said it for a while, I'll let y'all rest.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Like I haven't been typing it up, I am taking it to the 15th power.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Like how are you going to activate your faith if you swallowing your testimony?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: How are you going to impact others if you're just fordering everything God brought you out of so many things?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Moses, all of them, Aaron, they have so much to talk about that we're still talking about it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: What are you, what legacies are you going to pass down to your kids, to your kids, kids, kids, Kids can't keep ordering.
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  Speaker 2: Double, break these wings.
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  Speaker 2: Spread these wings around so people can know, man, if she could do it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: God is not a respected person.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: If he can do it with Shelly, that's right, you'll do it for anybody.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'm the least least.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even on the totem pole, right?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm saying that's what?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: So every time you hear me, see my face, you see my post is going to say hashtag celebrate your win.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: You probably going to start blocking me, and I'm okay with that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I can be okay with that, because now I'm tired.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get you to open your mouth and start prophesying to yourself.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Encourage yourself.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: You can't work on me, you can't work on Shelly, you can't work on the pastor, you can't work on the apostle, you can't work on the bishop.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, you better reach your hand out to God and all his angels that's right on the sideline with you and encourage yourself.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: So pull yourself up by your boot scraps and just stay the course and do what he called you to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's what my mission is for the totem pole.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a shout.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I know I'm not sitting here, like I'm here, like she's getting us ready.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We have a prayer meeting at 8 30.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: 8 30 PM y'all.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So y'all, you know, get it together and show up to the prayer meeting, otherwise you don't catch the replay.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: You want the live stuff?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, but yeah, you are so right that there was been a shit, even with them, with Mrs Pyle, is like what do I do?
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like that has also shifted what I want to talk about.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Like I love branding, but I don't want to talk to y'all about that.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It just feels like okay and you know, and so even with that, I'm trying to figure out where are we going to go.
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  Speaker 1: We covered so much ground in business, but it's much more to life than just giving y'all free advice and free marketing and stuff and it's like okay, and and what and what.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see where I'm going to take this next.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like all of us are being kind of called to the carpet a little bit right, Like you have to show up differently, the way we showed up in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: And I was, I was very, very blessed in 2023.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I'm still seeing some of the residue from that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, I got a shout out from an organization that I literally I was so shocked I wasn't Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the Rosie network.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I was not thinking, I was even in that thing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I was the last image.
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  Speaker 1: They did a little clip thanking mentors, and so I was watching it, because the first image that came up was my friend, my brother Enrique, and I was so happy for him that I saw another lady in there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm just, I'm actually going to watch this, and I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: There was no notice or anything sent, I wasn't even tagged on it, and so the last person was my picture and I was like that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I went back like four or five times, so I was like that kept me right, right, but it was just like it's just that just being blessed when all you're doing is minding your business.
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  Speaker 1: You know, didn't have to ask for it, didn't have to beg for it, but it was such a blessing to be recognized.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And so for those of y'all who are, you know, worried about who's going to give you the shout out and the recognition.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about it, god will take care of it, right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Every single time I have that sense of oh Lord, like he, he blesses me and somebody else gives me the recognition.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I don't have to chase it, fight for it, compete for it, nothing.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It just shows up every single time in his time and it just makes it somewhat sweeter.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So, again, for those of y'all who are trying to shift and do things a little bit differently, this year again, you know, every year you come out with resolutions, and maybe this year is going to be a little bit different.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean the way that you approach a resolution, which is why we had the vision work party in February.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's why we didn't have anything in December, you know, like most people do, to get ready for the new year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We wanted to wait to hear from God about what we want, what he wanted us to do with our lives and our time and our treasure and our purpose.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And so I encourage those of you who are, you know, trying to figure out what does that look like for you?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Come to the event.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: It's free.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Like I said, you can go to graceandgripmediacom and sign up.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That's, you know, mainly just for you know you to be able to get the Zoom link.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It's just easier for us to get the information that way.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: But for those of y'all who are watching, if you're in the prayer ministry the come out of the wilderness prayer ministry you already have the Zoom link.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So y'all don't trip and just show up and don't make excuses.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's, it's a Sunday evening at 3 pm and I know the next day y'all won't have to work because it's the holiday.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So February 18, 3 pm, you spend a standard time and tell your mama and your auntie and your friends, Amen, that's awesome.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: So you guys know, like I've shared this multiple times, I'm the queen of vision board.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I do business off of Becca, write the vision and make it plain.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Like that was my mantra.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Like my daughter graduated from high school, I literally went into like this, like, oh God, what am I going to do with my life?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: So I became a life coach because I was like you know what I'm going to do?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: All the emptiness for mom.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to come together and we're going to start a club.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: We're going to start a club and we're going to go live our dream and live our lives and I'm going to be this life coach that helps you through and they're going to help me get through.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: And so we're going to start off with the vision board.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: So in 2016, I thought that was my path Start off with vision board.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I started in corporate.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I got corporate on, cop them on.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can do this, this could be your every year, you can bring this to us and everything.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And then Kelly says we're not.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I got my whole family on board, like my whole family, my whole family, down to my husband.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: He was like go ahead and buy me a poster.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I already know you about the rah, rah, rah about this.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: So my son, before my son-in-law, became my son-in-law when New Year's Eve I made him an aerial, my daughter come.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I was like yo, I got all these magazines.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I got the good, the good, let's go.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I need to see what you guys got going on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Like everybody on board, my sisters, my sisters are the artists to get on board.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: They were like sis, I got my vision board Right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Don't do a vision board Like huh, like you're 16.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I've been doing this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Now I can't do it Like oh wow, I'm excited.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: It would have been a hot mess because you would have been putting things on there Like, for those of y'all who don't know what we're talking about, again, come into ministry y'all.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for helping find us.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: But literally the Lord was like.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: He was like absolutely no, just no, because people were going to throw stuff on there that were going to be so outside of his will.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And then, come August, the Lord doesn't speak to me, you know everything is.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: God's fault.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: What was meant in his will is planned and listened.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: He just had some pretty photos of shoes and bags and travel and diets and cars and the dream job, but nothing had anything to do with him and he literally was like no, put a pause.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: But now I think now going into that, now that you do that and then you have a contrast, is for me.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: For me, he tells me, don't do it at all, so he can feel it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And when I look back at 2023, I realized that there was absolutely no way that I would have even dreamt of the things that I received in 2023.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: So he proved it out to me, like, let me feel it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And I did.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: He filled it and so I'm so excited to come to the end of this year already I'm like, oh my gosh, it's going to be so amazing.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Just letting him feel it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Let him feel it because I was talking myself out of some things because I thought they were too grand for me.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: These opportunities are gonna come for me.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't think I deserved it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't think I had the same value in the kingdom as some folks who've been in the N-word ministry.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say the word ministry, I wouldn't say any of that, you know.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: So, right, we can say like I had to be convinced to use the N-word, I just wouldn't do it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But I had been out here doing this work for so long, and so he was like no, let me show you.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And he filled it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So for those of y'all who need a little encouragement also, you know sometimes our dreams, you know we have these dreams and they don't manifest, if you will, in the worst language.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It doesn't turn out the way you think it ought to, and sometimes the truth is that the first time you got that seed and that idea.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you corrupted it because you misunderstood what it was supposed to be about, because you didn't pray about it right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So he gave an idea and maybe in 2016, he said write a book.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: But maybe in 2016, he was a book and because he lost, that seed is no longer a book, it's a business, right?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: So you have to be able to know what opportunity looks like, because it does change over time.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Things happen, and so you have to be willing and able to hear his voice and then pivot when the change happens, because I feel like I keep saying there's always opportunity in chaos.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Most people just don't wanna look for it, right, there's always opportunity in chaos.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And so I look for opportunity in the Muck and Meyer and I always find it, always find it, but that's the people, right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, I bought the storm and they used the slide.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So you have to have that mentality in the storm of life and don't get down with the chickens.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Right, that's the time to be at the ground level, right, because it's not stable.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Right, this is the time that you need to shore above so you can have perspective to see all the different pieces and everything, and God can give you clarity to see.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, I did kinda flip off on that, that was my emotion.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: You can see so different from that level of dimension, of height, versus down on the ground level in the storm, because then you like it starts to cave in on you, right?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's that chaos you're talking about.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's straight chaos.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And you know, something else that he showed me is so I know the gifts that I have.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: One of them is he shows me people's hearts, he shows me their potential.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: But then I can see like years ahead.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And so a lot of times he'll tell me to open a door for someone because this is the thing, right.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And so when he uses me to open the door for somebody, that assignment, now that is now a test for you, not for me.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So when I watch people fumble that assignment, I'm like Lord, but that person just failed.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, but watch their response, right, watch your response.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: When you get that thing you've been asking God for, and if it doesn't pan out the way you thought it would, what is your actual response?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: If your response is to fold into negative, nancy and you know what I'm saying you dissing everybody and it is a lesson for you that you're not ready.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So a lot of times, like when I watch that happen, I'm like why did you like?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Why did you Lord, why did you tell me to tell this woman so and so it's a test for him or her.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And so, again, what do you do when you get what you've been praying for, and you realize either you are ready for it or you're not.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And if you're not ready for it, then you spend, just spend the time to prepare so that you can maintain this answer, this get, for you realize like, yeah right, I wasn't really ready for it, right?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So, man, I let me tell you, like Mckisha, I am a vision board junkie.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I love, love, love, love, love, all of it, all of it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I love being preparation, you know mentally right and you know getting all the whatever you're gonna put on there together and thinking through and praying about what I wanna put on there, and then doing it, the fun with other people, and then you know the pretty product.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: But then also I love looking back.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: So I have, like my last few years, several years, the vision boards and I started just using the front and the back because I'm not wasting.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: But from the vision board I start.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I have a gold sheet.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: So those those, because the pictures are just pictures, right, and there's a lot of steps that have to happen to make that picture and that vision come through.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So you know, I go dig down a little, a lot deeper into what I need to do day to day, week to week, month, month, whatever, not day to day.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Let me back up.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not, I'm not that detailed, but but you know, those goals I have to meet to make the bigger vision come through.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I was glad that you said what are you not doing?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Visual boy, at first, my face, what did you say?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Well, it's.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But I was glad because I feel like, of course, you know, november, december, can y'all even like remember what you had, what you did?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: It was a.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Now a couple of days and work, it's just like it's a bear.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: And in January you make it.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, I made it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: But it provided, shelly, that pause, that reflection, yes.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: And then you know, I don't want to go too deep on here, but you know the confession we are doing, the let's get right in here and here, you know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And then you know, start to dream and reflect and plan what you know, what, what we want to do, what God wants us to do.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: However you want to put it, you know, yeah, so I'm glad.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: So for me it's like it was a pruning of the desires of your heart.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: So if you'd like yourself in the me, I'll give you the desires of your heart.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: So this was like the pruning, like do you, do you really want me?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Do you want what I can provide for you?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Like, like, like, dude, are you really chasing after me?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Is your heart really longing for me, or what I can give to you?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: So it was really a hard type of moment to really dissect, to see what a mode is about.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your motives?
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Truly pure, to build my kingdom or are you trying to build your kingdom?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Are you trying to build your babble.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: What are you trying?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: What are you trying to build?
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Are you truly thinking about me?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Are you just saying you think about let me test this hard?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And that's what we've been going through.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: We've been going straight up surgery in the heart, like penetrating hard moments of like oh god, this wasn't my heart.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, sorry.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I was straight up, hyperventilating Like I can't believe.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: That was still in my heart.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I still haven't forgave that person.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I am competing with that.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, and it really made you, especially if you're doing a fast.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: That fast will show you a mirror that you will be so scared that you will walk in the dark.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: You will be like lights off.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: That fast will reveal everything and in that fast you will test everything, everything to see if it's true.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: But you know the thing I love about God Even in the test here, give you a cheat sheet.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: It's not like you're going in a test like you know how we were in college in the company professor, be like that's what I've talked to you about in this test.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: You're like well, what's the purpose of you getting the salary, my dude?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: My god, why are you here, we're just basically teach ourselves right.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: He gives you a cheat sheet, he gets in and he gives you a helper.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: A helper, the Holy Spirit.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: He helps you through the test because he brings back everything, all the remembrance, all the scriptures, everything.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: So he's like mm-mm-mm-mm you guys seeing what I post, if you're part of our group, that came in where I went.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Oh bro, that was so mean that is for me to the tip power because I get so distracted, I get so engulfed in other things.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He's like oh wait, I didn't tell you go that way.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't say you do that, mckisha.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: There you go again, mckisha.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't say that my ways are not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Stop trying to Uh-uh, you know.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: So that's it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So, it was a hard thing, it was a hard thing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: And it's still continuously being a hard posture.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Where is your heart?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: What is the heart?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Because that's what it is and that's why we have to say every day create and be a clean heart Every day, and even in that structure, that's 24 hours Trust and believe.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Hoseb, we were like uh-uh, so you want me to tell you that you were clean heart.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Tell truth, tell truth Let me test that mouth of yours, because I don't know what this co-worker?
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Let me let you see how you really going to respond to that.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, you're right.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Every time we level up and I can't, you know, people say these things all the time.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I want to be accelerated, you know, I want to level up, I want to go deeper, and then when the Holy Spirit starts, he, literally he, will give you the test.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the enemy.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: It's not the enemy.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: You asked for this.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: You got to pass this test.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: If we can go next, yeah, this is so.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: This is.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that y'all came on tonight.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: We needed this for y'all who are listening in a few days on our audio podcast streets, on audible and Spotify and wherever y'all get your stuff.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I can't think apple, I can't remember.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: There's a lot, there's a lot of the audio streets.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna get some really good jewels, more than the people on the video, because you'll be able to sit back and just listen without looking at it.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: You'll sit back and really absorb all of the jewels that we drop.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You know I'm I'm sorry that Stephanie wasn't able to.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Stephanie, I hope you're doing okay.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: We shouted out your organization, but I'm really grateful for you, tracy and Mekisha, that you were here tonight, because I think what needed to go out was what went out, so I'm grateful that y'all are voting, well y'all.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Please don't forget to register and vote.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Your vote matters.
• 39:59
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• 40:02
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• 40:03
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• 40:06
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• 40:10
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• 40:11
  Speaker 1: You know I'm I'm again just sharing.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: If anyone's interested or you're looking for a community that you can pray and grow with, come out of the wilderness.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: It's on Facebook streets.
• 40:21
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• 40:26
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• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Come on Facebook, find the come out of the wilderness prayer ministry.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: You know we will invite you in and you can come and join us on Monday morning 6 30 am for prayer, tuesday nights at 8 30 pm for prayer and then, obviously, I am back every Thursday on all the live streets for Thursday.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Thursday it's a lot y'all.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Just come on, just come register, come, come, come see us and come on in.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: You know we'll go, we're going to do this together, so we're going to tell us how you're going to get fed.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: We are, we're this week, we're talking about renewal of the mind and it's been very, very, very challenging.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: But you know these are, these are good things and, by the way, you can catch the replay of our prayer sessions on the Mrs Pied channel on YouTube.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: We do actually do take prayer requests, so if you're, if you're not in our group, you can email me.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's contact tracing.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm everywhere so you can finally find your word.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Just email me, dm me, ask for a prayer request and and we're going to cover you.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: So let me just make sure I didn't miss anything in the comments, because I need to just ignore this.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And Mckisha that that interview with the Gwinnett county yeah, commerce president was absolutely fired it was awesome.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Also, that's another one on on the YouTube streets, on the dumping ground, that you can go back and watch that YouTube.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Gwinnett county too.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're in Georgia, so shout out to Gwinnett county.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I'm over here full on my shout out to Gwinnett county and everybody who's represented.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Don't forget what I said about the security breach.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Y'all Please go on and update your LinkedIn and your Twitter passwords, because there was a breach announced today.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: So you know, protect yourselves, don't be crazy.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: And we're going to hang out in the back room while we tell these wonderful people thank you for a dead TV SC all over there.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you for reading TV live, for watching.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Shout out to all the veterans and mill spouses Good night, bye.