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VISIONARY OF DA CREW PODCAST QUEEN ANGELA 4-23-25 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: But hello, hello, hello, and welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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Speaker 1: I want to welcome you guys to the Crew podcast.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I am the visionary and we do not
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Speaker 1: y'all know how I am. I like to make sure
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Speaker 1: that we are, you know, taking care of the space
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Speaker 1: that we are giving charge over. So today I'm just
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Speaker 1: taking this opportunity to jump on y'all. It is a
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Speaker 1: World Book Day, So if you are an author, I
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Speaker 1: want to celebrate you on today. Thank you for sharing
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Speaker 1: your story. Thank you for taking the opportunity to write
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Speaker 1: that book and to get it out there. So you
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Speaker 1: should be proud of yourself. You have yet another day
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Speaker 1: that you can celebrate, another day that you can celebrate.
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Speaker 1: You can celebrate, you can celebrate, I tell you so,
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to you. If you are an author, congratulations to
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Speaker 1: you again. I am the visionary of the Crew Podcasts,
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Speaker 1: the one hundred Authors Movement, Aspiring Authors Magazine, and aa LAC,
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Speaker 1: the Chasing Your Dream Book Tour. So y'all, I just
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Speaker 1: desire to be the change that I want to see
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Speaker 1: in this world. All of this started back in twenty
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Speaker 1: sixteen working with some babies in Anderson, South Carolina. Who
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Speaker 1: would a thought, little country girl from Leveland in South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: what we be doing? All of the amazing stuff that
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Speaker 1: she's doing. An opportunity to impact lives, an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: help other people make their dreams come true. Y'all, we
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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to travel the world and see the world.
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Speaker 1: A lot of our ancestors, a lot of those that
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Speaker 1: came before us, they didn't have the opportunities because they
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Speaker 1: didn't have the means, they didn't have the resources, they
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Speaker 1: didn't have the things that now a lot of us
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Speaker 1: have before us see a lot of us we are
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Speaker 1: the first to do a lot of things within our family.
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Speaker 1: And that gives you, It should strengthen your faith, and
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Speaker 1: it should make you want to continue to stay on
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Speaker 1: this journey so that you can continue to open doors
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Speaker 1: for those that are coming after you. You know, a
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Speaker 1: lot of the things that a lot of us are doing,
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Speaker 1: we're not doing it for ourselves. We're not doing it
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Speaker 1: for you know, us in the now, you know, we're
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Speaker 1: concerned about that generation that's coming after us, those authors,
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Speaker 1: those those creatives, those individuals that are coming after us.
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Speaker 1: So those are the ones that we are concerned about.
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Speaker 1: And I am definitely proud of all of the amazing
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Speaker 1: individuals that are making a difference that's out here sharing,
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Speaker 1: they're out here being a part of the things that
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Speaker 1: is transpiring. We have one of the amazing poets authors
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Speaker 1: joining us, y'all were popping in. So if you are
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Speaker 1: inside of one of those groups that I've shared the link,
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Speaker 1: I'm giving all of you guys an opportunity to come
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Speaker 1: on because today is World Book Day. If you have
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Speaker 1: a book out, you should be celebrating. You should be
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Speaker 1: somewhere celebrating yourself because you took the opportunity to tell
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Speaker 1: your story, to share your message, to do to do that.
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Speaker 1: So welcome, y'all. We have our poet of the Year
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Speaker 1: for Aspiring Office Magazine in the building. She is in
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Speaker 1: the studio with us. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Ms Martine. How
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Speaker 1: are you tonight?
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm good.
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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm great. I can't complain, no need.
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Speaker 1: It's it's always a great day when you on this side.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say right, so, yes, well, thank you for
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Speaker 1: joining me. Of course, I we don't have a and
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Speaker 1: I just be transparent because I like to let people
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Speaker 1: know what's going on. So we don't have a host
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Speaker 1: during this hour. So I said, you know what, I've
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Speaker 1: I've committed to this podcast and I've committed to you know,
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Speaker 1: this hour at eight o'clock. And I said, Okay, we're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be on from Sunday to Friday. So I
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Speaker 1: don't have a host. So guess what, you gotta go host,
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Speaker 1: baby girl, So get it together. And I say, you
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Speaker 1: know what, let me give those that want an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to share, to come on and share it because it's
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Speaker 1: World Book Day, so why not give you that opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to hear your interview with Patrice,
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Speaker 1: so I understand that you have another book that's coming
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Speaker 1: out Like this lady, y'all when I tell you and
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Speaker 1: I just have to and and we're gonna be transparent tonight,
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Speaker 1: and we just talking. We just having a conversation. And
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Speaker 1: anybody that's in any of those chats, because I shared
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Speaker 1: the link in the chats, so anybody in any of
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Speaker 1: those chats that want to jump on, you can jump on.
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Speaker 1: We're just talking tonight. And we got about fifty three
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Speaker 1: more minutes. But when I met this young lady. I
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Speaker 1: must say she was a little bit shy, she was
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Speaker 1: a little bit timid. But I tell you she's truly blossomed.
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Speaker 1: And it's not even been it's been a little over
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Speaker 1: a year, and it's like she's done a one eighty.
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Speaker 1: And I am so happy for her because she is
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Speaker 1: truly she's truly moving in her element. Because she is
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Speaker 1: definitely moving as a poet, as an author and being
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Speaker 1: bold about it. And I love what she's doing. She
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Speaker 1: is going out, she's being out in the community. She's
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Speaker 1: participating in these these poet slams, and she's taking the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to take on these interviews.
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Speaker 2: Y'all.
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Speaker 1: I turn on a friend of mine over in the
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Speaker 1: UK and turn on his what's the name, and I'm looking, I'm.
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Speaker 2: Like, that's my friend.
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Speaker 1: Times a right, she's stay in Texas now, y'all all
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Speaker 1: the way in the UK. And then I don't heard
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Speaker 1: her on a podcast say that she do spoken words.
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Speaker 1: She does this poetry thing with someone in Japan. I'm like, like, y'all,
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Speaker 1: she when you say international, Yeah, she's truly truly stepped
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Speaker 1: in those waters. If you have not, I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: she's definitely someone that you want to connect with. So
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Speaker 1: maybe she can help you step in those waters. Because y'all,
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Speaker 1: that's what we do over here. We believe in those
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Speaker 1: four seas and let's connect, collaborate, create a community bill
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Speaker 1: that's what we believe in. So Ms Martin. For those
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Speaker 1: that may not know who you are, and just in
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Speaker 1: case they didn't tune in last night, and just in
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Speaker 1: case they have never come across you, just briefly tell
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Speaker 1: them who you are.
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Speaker 2: Hi. First of all, I want to say thank you
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Speaker 2: to my sister Angela. It's been an awesome journey. I
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Speaker 2: owe thanks to you for a lot of things to
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Speaker 2: You've helped me. But for those who don't know me,
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Speaker 2: I'm Marsine and more, I'm an author, out of author, poet, poet,
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Speaker 2: first out of Dallas, Texas. I have two best selling
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Speaker 2: poetry books, the Phoenix series Phoenix Heart and Reflections Rising, and.
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Speaker 1: I released my.
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Speaker 2: Excuse Me I Hate Saying. I released my first novel,
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Speaker 2: my freshman novel, Gemini Echoes in January, and I'm in
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Speaker 2: the middle of completing my second novel in third poetry book, Paleidoscope,
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Speaker 2: and then Blueprint is a novel respectively and I'm miss
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Speaker 2: Angela is a Spine Author's magazine poet of twenty.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention, y'all, we just like she's in a
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Speaker 1: couple of collaborations with me. Not to mention our last
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Speaker 1: collaboration that just dropped two days ago, awaken Versus Unleashing
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Speaker 1: the Power Within. It's available in audio. I woo woo woop, because, y'all,
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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to have my books in audio, so
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Speaker 1: we are. Our book is available in audio. Y'all can
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Speaker 1: go on over there and download it for ninety nine cent.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's gonna be ninety nine cent,
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Speaker 1: but you can download it. It is an hour and
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Speaker 1: forty eight minute listen, y'all. I'm excited because I got
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Speaker 1: picked as a beta tester for Amazon Audio Books, and
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Speaker 1: I've been able to transcribe I think about eight of
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Speaker 1: my books into audiobooks, y'all. Our last book, Awakened Versus,
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Speaker 1: is a audiobook. It is available digital, so if you
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Speaker 1: got Kindle, you can go on over there and get it,
12:15
Speaker 1: and then you can get it in paperback, and you
12:20
Speaker 1: can get it in hardcover, so you have options, y'all. Y'all, y'all,
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Speaker 1: have options and you can go and check out some
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Speaker 1: amazing poets. It's eight amazing poets that decided to share
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Speaker 1: with me inside of this book, and they are truly sharing.
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Speaker 1: And then I went even a little far further and
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Speaker 1: we broke it down and we analyzed the poems and
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Speaker 1: we kind of told you guys what each one of
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Speaker 1: these poems meant, because a lot of time people will
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Speaker 1: read a poem and sometimes they may not truly understand
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Speaker 1: what the poem is saying. But we went as we
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Speaker 1: went on a little further and we broke it down
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Speaker 1: because we truly want you guys to grasp what these
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Speaker 1: women are saying inside of this book. Because it is
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Speaker 1: awakened versus unleashing the power within. We want everybody to
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Speaker 1: understand that power within you, and we had the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to release it in the form of poetry in this book. So,
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Speaker 1: if you would miss Marcene, share a little bit about
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Speaker 1: your experience with writing that book, and yeah, what was
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Speaker 1: that journey like for you? Wood?
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Speaker 2: It was an unexpected journey. First, you're talking about my
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Speaker 2: poetry book or the novella. The novella, Oh okay, that
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Speaker 2: one was completely different. That because that was me coming
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Speaker 2: out of my elements.
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Speaker 1: So the story was there.
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Speaker 2: And as I started writing a story and building the characters,
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Speaker 2: most authors say the same thing. The characters took on
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Speaker 2: the life of themselves. And so I had characters that
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Speaker 2: came into my plot that I don't know where they
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Speaker 2: came from, but they fit into the plot, and the
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Speaker 2: story started kind of writing itself because I did do
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Speaker 2: what I was supposed to do that my editor told
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Speaker 2: me to do, write out you know, you go buy
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Speaker 2: an outline and write it out. But my characters were
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Speaker 2: talking to me. So that was a whole new experience
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Speaker 2: and it was enjoyable because I was writing my book
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Speaker 2: and I was just like some of my beta readers.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, but you know, I
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Speaker 2: got to see what's going to happen with each character,
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Speaker 2: you know, so it was amazing. Anybody who knows me
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Speaker 2: and has heard my interviews know that my least favorite
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Speaker 2: part of writing is it's not after you complete it.
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Speaker 2: It's the editing phase because it's just like pulling teeth
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 1: That is the worst part for me.
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Speaker 2: And with the novel, it was even more intricate because
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Speaker 2: I had to work with my editor she sent me.
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Speaker 1: I got.
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Speaker 2: I received a whole light Amazon box of books. Right,
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Speaker 2: it was like, you gotta do these workbooks and you
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Speaker 2: don't think about writing intents because you want to write
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Speaker 2: how you speak. So I had to literally do these
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Speaker 2: work books that Joy Hi Joy Joyce sent me to
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Speaker 2: learn the differences of writing in first person third person,
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Speaker 2: knowing what gendre I was going with. So it was
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Speaker 2: a completely different experience. It was enjoyable though. It's made
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Speaker 2: writing this second one easier because I know not to
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Speaker 2: For me, I wrote my first novel in first person,
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Speaker 2: so this second one is not in first person, that's
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Speaker 2: in third person. And then I was speaking with Patrice
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Speaker 2: last night, and it's very critical and crucial for you
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Speaker 2: as an author, especially as an African American author, to
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Speaker 2: know how to classify your books, because you want to
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Speaker 2: classify your books to where it hits the right audience,
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Speaker 2: your target audience. And so I learned with my Gemini
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Speaker 2: echoes that I had written a cozy murder, a cozy
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Speaker 2: romance mystery, and so that's what my my novel falls
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Speaker 2: of under. It is a cozy romance, small town mystery.
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Speaker 1: Wow. You you and Patrise touch on a lot last
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Speaker 1: night on your interview, and I can't wait to get
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Speaker 1: it up. But y'all touched on a lot last night.
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Speaker 1: As an author, as a poet, as a creative how
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Speaker 1: important is it for you to be able to truly
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Speaker 1: allow your voice to come forth and to allow your
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Speaker 1: voice to represent who you are.
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Speaker 2: That is the number one thing on my list, because
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Speaker 2: I feel, especially in my poetry, if you don't be
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Speaker 2: your authentic self, you're not writing for you, and I
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Speaker 2: feel like you lose your edge because you should always
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Speaker 2: do right for yourself and be authentic because that's what
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Speaker 2: that's what makes you unique in the poetry community, right
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Speaker 2: because everybody sounds the same. You don't want to keep
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Speaker 2: hearing the same thing from five to six seven different people.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: So I always tell people, especially if you start now,
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Speaker 2: true to yourself. For me, it's very important for me
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Speaker 2: to be true to myself. Now. When you get criticized,
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Speaker 2: of course, you're gonna get critiqued in anything that you
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Speaker 2: do right, but at least if you know you're doing
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Speaker 2: it honestly for yourself, you'll feel good about yourself and
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Speaker 2: the criticism will not hurt you. You just listen and
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Speaker 2: take it in and it could be some truth to
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Speaker 2: maybe what someone's saying. But as long as you know
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Speaker 2: you're doing it for yourself and you're using your authentic voice,
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Speaker 2: it really shouldn't bother you, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And when you can take criticism, that shows that
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Speaker 1: you want to grow, and then that's room to grow.
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Speaker 1: So you should always be open to taking criticism because
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Speaker 1: none of us are perfect and we want to be
18:53
Speaker 1: able to you know, don't mean we're gonna go back
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Speaker 1: and change it, but we always want to know you know,
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Speaker 1: what people truly think and you know their perspectives and
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Speaker 1: things of that nature, so that we can build on it,
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Speaker 1: you know, And that's what I tell people sometimes we're
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Speaker 1: not gonna go back and change it. So don't think
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna go back and rewrite what we don't done.
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Speaker 1: But we want to hear from you, so going forward,
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Speaker 1: we really know what you want. You know, that's the
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Speaker 1: only way we can improve, you know. That's that's a
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Speaker 1: part of you know, having these lessons and having these experiences,
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Speaker 1: because then you can advance and go to the next
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Speaker 1: level once you've been able to conquer that. Because now
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Speaker 1: I know what's wrong. I know what you're looking for.
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Speaker 1: So that's what you've been able to do because I look,
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Speaker 1: I listened to you talk, and I listen to you
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Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the different phases of different things
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Speaker 1: that you've done. You started out being a poet and
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Speaker 1: writing poetry. You got a novella. Now you doing you
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Speaker 1: doing mystery, You're doing cozy romance. I mean, you're you're
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Speaker 1: doing like different. You're you are willing to step outside
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Speaker 1: your box and to look at other generals and other
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Speaker 1: opportunities to be able to express yourself and to allow
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Speaker 1: your writing to come forward. Because in each one of
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Speaker 1: these years, you're gonna write different, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: they'll get to see a different side of you. Because
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Speaker 1: I've even stepped into some things that I normally wouldn't do.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I've actually written something that
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Speaker 1: you when you read it, you'll be like, no, that
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Speaker 1: ain't her. You're gon be like, no, that ain't Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I've even did children books. I have I have
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Speaker 1: some children activity books, I have a leadership children leadership book,
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Speaker 1: and I have a teens book out, and then I
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Speaker 1: have adults. Most of myself is for adults. But I've
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Speaker 1: dabbled in you know, the different arenas, in different areas,
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Speaker 1: in different types. I'm on this poetry keep right now.
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Speaker 1: But I got a hundred Look, I got a variety
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Speaker 1: for people. I got a hundred and that things said,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty four pieces of work. Literally, it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't hurt to expand because to be honest, I
21:15
Speaker 2: have a granddaughter that has awesome, awesome artistic skills. She
21:20
Speaker 2: can draw, and she's very creative. And so what kind
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Speaker 2: of mentor would I be if I'd the mintor my granddaughter.
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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna bring her into the author world and
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Speaker 2: do a coloring book.
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Speaker 1: Is that mean no?
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Speaker 2: But to mentor my granddaughter, Samari, I will be doing
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Speaker 2: that and I'm real serious about doing that. When I
21:42
Speaker 2: wrap up the other book, I've already kind of laid
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Speaker 2: the blueprint.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it doesn't hurt.
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Speaker 2: And then, like you say anything that I do, I
21:53
Speaker 2: have a panel of people. Even when I do my
21:55
Speaker 2: poetry before I put out my poetry books, I have
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Speaker 2: people reading critique my stuff because it does help, and
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Speaker 2: especially when I was writing my novel, like I have
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Speaker 2: a panel of beta readers. I have from the conservative
22:10
Speaker 2: end to the way liberal and to people who are
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Speaker 2: down the road. And that helped me writing a novel.
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Speaker 2: So if it's your first time writing a novel or
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Speaker 2: any type of book, they helped me connect like the
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Speaker 2: scenes or the pieces, because when you're writing, sometimes you think, oh,
22:28
Speaker 2: well they'll understand it, but maybe you know you missed
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Speaker 2: up because in your mind you know what you're trying
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Speaker 2: to put out to people, but it didn't make it.
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Speaker 2: And so that's why I always bounce my work off
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Speaker 2: of my panels. I don't mind the criticism at all,
22:46
Speaker 2: and I don't think it's criticism. I guess because I'm
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Speaker 2: hr directord so I look at things a little bit differently.
22:53
Speaker 2: I always have to tell my employees, like when they're
22:56
Speaker 2: getting so much disciplinary, if someone's telling you how to
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Speaker 2: improve your job, you have A and B and if
23:04
Speaker 2: you need ad C, you'll be complete. That's how I
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Speaker 2: look at it, any type of criticism.
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Speaker 1: Right, and and that's how it should be. You know,
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Speaker 1: if if somebody took the time to even share with
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Speaker 1: you something that can help you, we should be thankful.
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Speaker 2: M HM should because my point of view isn't the
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Speaker 2: only correct point of view.
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Speaker 1: It's not. And then it's gonna be many more where
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Speaker 1: that one come from. Mm hmm. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Because you're gonna come across many more people and it's
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Speaker 1: not always gonna be the same. So we look, we live,
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Speaker 1: we ne we grown that.
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Speaker 2: And even even in my poetry, I have stepped into
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Speaker 2: different genres. I'm in a Sposcar's coming up next week
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Speaker 2: at the doc Bookshop. It's the it's the skirts for
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Speaker 2: poetry in the Dallas area, and and I am in
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Speaker 2: the gospel category. Who would I would be entered in
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Speaker 2: the religious gospel category writing for them because I consider
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Speaker 2: myself a love for it and I am a love poet.
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Speaker 1: That's what I do, that's my that's my specialty.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm jumping into that little into that little lake, uh,
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Speaker 2: dipping my feet in that and I'm just gonna do
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Speaker 2: it to see how you go.
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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, And I see you have not slowed down
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Speaker 1: since I had a chance to actually meet you in person.
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Speaker 1: Yeah see, and you have truly not slowed down. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what lit the fire within you, but I
24:52
Speaker 1: am glad and I am so glad to see you
24:56
Speaker 1: out here. Definitely operating and moving in your element. You
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Speaker 1: are doing that, so definitely keep leading away because you
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Speaker 1: are doing that. You're definitely lit my angela.
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Speaker 2: You lit my fire. You didn't know that. I gotta
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Speaker 2: give you your your roses, your flowers. You did that.
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Speaker 2: You don't know it, but you did do that. Because
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Speaker 2: I'm like, this lady is on podcast, she's on radio,
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Speaker 2: she's writing books, she's traveling, and you're trying to enrich
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Speaker 2: people's mind and you are for literature. You're poor authors.
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Speaker 2: And then you had you have the Prison Outreach podcast.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're in everything. You lit by fires.
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Speaker 1: Just so you know it's you, my friends, guy, you
25:47
Speaker 1: need to come on over there to the one hundred
25:49
Speaker 1: autor movement. We have a one hundred author movement. Actually
25:53
Speaker 1: right now, we currently have forty five authors attached to
25:57
Speaker 1: the movement. It's called the one hundred out the movement
26:00
Speaker 1: because our goal is to have one hundred authors attached
26:03
Speaker 1: to that movement before the end of the year, and
26:06
Speaker 1: then we're gonna start over in January with a new
26:09
Speaker 1: bunch of one hundred authors. So every year we're gonna
26:13
Speaker 1: add a new bunch of authors. So until we get
26:19
Speaker 1: up to a million authors. Oh wow, Yeah, we're gonna
26:23
Speaker 1: get a million. We're gonna we won't uh we don't
26:26
Speaker 1: have the million Black March. We don't have the million
26:29
Speaker 1: Man March. We don't have all that. So now we're
26:32
Speaker 1: gonna have uh, million Black Author movement. I ain't heard
26:37
Speaker 1: nobody talk about that. So we're gonna have the million
26:42
Speaker 1: Black Author movement. And it started with the one hundred
26:45
Speaker 1: Author movement. It's already begun and we've already we're on
26:50
Speaker 1: our way. So come on over there and join us.
26:52
Speaker 1: I'll send you an application. I'll send you a little
26:56
Speaker 1: application out. So it is a great community. We have
27:00
Speaker 1: some amazing authors over there. Patrisa is one of the
27:02
Speaker 1: group leaders over there. We have some group leaders, so
27:08
Speaker 1: you're not just over there and just a part of something.
27:12
Speaker 1: We actually have group leaders, and the group leaders encourage
27:16
Speaker 1: you to be acting. We do challenges like this week,
27:20
Speaker 1: the challenge is author shout outs, so every day they
27:24
Speaker 1: are challenged to do something different with authors an author
27:28
Speaker 1: within that group. So I've been seeing some amazing individuals
27:33
Speaker 1: posting about individuals, book covers, about their books, just talking
27:39
Speaker 1: about the different authors. So it's it's an amazing space
27:45
Speaker 1: I believe in the Four Seas, connect, collaborate, create community,
27:52
Speaker 1: and that's what we're doing over there. We share resources.
27:55
Speaker 1: So when there's opportunities like the other I got nominated
28:02
Speaker 1: for an Influencer's Award out of the UK, so I
28:09
Speaker 1: dropped the link let them know. Hey, they you can
28:12
Speaker 1: self nominate or you can nominate somebody else that you
28:14
Speaker 1: feel self deserving, because they sent me the link, so
28:21
Speaker 1: I shared it. When I happened across something, I always
28:24
Speaker 1: shared with somebody that I think can benefit from it.
28:28
Speaker 1: And why not. I got a group of forty five authors,
28:31
Speaker 1: why not share it with them? Why not give them
28:34
Speaker 1: the opportunity to benefit? Like just just this past what
28:40
Speaker 1: was it March? The awards in December? I mean up
28:44
Speaker 1: in DC this past March, I nominated thirty people for
28:51
Speaker 1: that awards. I nominated thirty people about I said about
28:59
Speaker 1: fifteen of them actually received awards, but not one of
29:04
Speaker 1: them recognized or said anything about it, none of them.
29:11
Speaker 1: But I had one person. All she did the whole
29:15
Speaker 1: time she was gone was recognized me. Even though she
29:18
Speaker 1: didn't get an award, she recognized that this I allowed
29:22
Speaker 1: her the opportunity to be in this space out of
29:27
Speaker 1: thirty people, and I got the emails. I ain't nothing
29:29
Speaker 1: I do. I don't have the receipts to prove it,
29:33
Speaker 1: but I do it from the kindness of my heart.
29:35
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It wasn't I wasn't doing
29:38
Speaker 1: it for accolades. But the fact that people don't even
29:40
Speaker 1: have the courtesy. I mean, if one lady did she
29:45
Speaker 1: when she got nominated, she called me and she told me,
29:47
Speaker 1: she said thank you, she said thank you for allowing
29:50
Speaker 1: me in your space, and she thanked me for that,
29:55
Speaker 1: you know, and I get that sometime, but there's been
29:58
Speaker 1: several people that and then they look at you like, okay, yeah,
30:05
Speaker 1: but that's not the space. We don't have that. That's
30:07
Speaker 1: that's not the space we have over at the one
30:10
Speaker 1: hundred of the movement. We're not doing that over there.
30:14
Speaker 1: Everybody over there is providing resources, were sharing, we were
30:19
Speaker 1: encouraging each other. Like this morning yesterday, one of the
30:24
Speaker 1: authors had to have surgery and she came in to
30:29
Speaker 1: give us a report, and everybody was encouraging her and
30:32
Speaker 1: you know, telling her that, you know, take it, taking
30:35
Speaker 1: easy rest. You know, they were really encouraging. So that
30:39
Speaker 1: that's what we're over there. We're trying to be supportive.
30:43
Speaker 1: We're trying to come out. If we can come to
30:46
Speaker 1: these events and support each other, that's what we're doing.
30:49
Speaker 1: We're trying to come out to these events and support
30:52
Speaker 1: each other. We're going to go We're going to Chicago
30:55
Speaker 1: in June, we'll be in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and July.
31:01
Speaker 1: We'll be in New York. In August and I leave
31:05
Speaker 1: the August day. I was twenty ninth through the thirty first,
31:10
Speaker 1: the thirtieth, which is that Saturdays when we're gonna have
31:13
Speaker 1: the main event. It's gonna be from It's gonna be
31:17
Speaker 1: from twelve twelve to five.
31:20
Speaker 2: Is it is that the one in Harlem or in Brooklyn.
31:23
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be in the Bronx. Yeah, that's gonna
31:26
Speaker 1: be that I can go home. Yeah, it's gonna be
31:30
Speaker 1: in the Bronx. We actually we actually, oh my god, well,
31:35
Speaker 1: I guess I can let the cat out of the
31:39
Speaker 1: bag because we have you definitely might want to come
31:42
Speaker 1: to this one. This this You definitely might want to
31:44
Speaker 1: come to this one because we have someone very special
31:47
Speaker 1: that's gonna be at this one out of Brooklyn. She's
31:52
Speaker 1: also a professor, and I said, I was gonna let
31:56
Speaker 1: the person that arranged it make the announcement. So I
31:59
Speaker 1: ain't gonna bring it all the way. I ain't gonna
32:01
Speaker 1: let it. I ain't gonna bring it all the way
32:03
Speaker 1: out the bag. But I'm just gonna let you know
32:07
Speaker 1: that this this this event you may want to come
32:10
Speaker 1: out and be a part of because it's gonna be
32:13
Speaker 1: some amazing people there, some people that you have some
32:17
Speaker 1: things in common with that you may want to meet.
32:22
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that would be great because my family
32:26
Speaker 2: back east, it's like, when are you coming to do
32:28
Speaker 2: something Jersey, New York? So this would be great.
32:33
Speaker 1: Well that's what we are, brons and and those are
32:37
Speaker 1: two of the one hundred Author Movements participants. They're out.
32:43
Speaker 1: We actually have, but we just had two more to
32:47
Speaker 1: join that represent New York. So we have a total
32:52
Speaker 1: now of maybe ten New Yorkers a part of the movement.
33:02
Speaker 1: So come on over there. I'll send you the application.
33:05
Speaker 1: Come on and join us and be a part. Black
33:08
Speaker 1: Diamond is the part. You got them too, You got Rolanda,
33:12
Speaker 1: you got.
33:12
Speaker 2: Oh I remember Black Diamond.
33:15
Speaker 1: Yes, she's from New York, she's from Brooklyn. I think
33:20
Speaker 1: I think, don't don't quote me on that now, But
33:23
Speaker 1: then you have you have quite a few people that's
33:28
Speaker 1: up that we got some more people that's from Brooklyn.
33:30
Speaker 1: ROLANDA is from Brooklyn. I think there's one, two, two
33:37
Speaker 1: more people on there that maybe from Brooklyn as well.
33:41
Speaker 1: But we got New York in the building. They in
33:46
Speaker 1: the building.
33:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you definitely, I sure can and just flying
33:51
Speaker 2: in and see my family and come socialize with you guys.
33:57
Speaker 1: Well, we definitely we got there's some information floating around.
34:01
Speaker 1: We got some I can sinue the information about New
34:05
Speaker 1: York too. We actually we got a couple of things
34:09
Speaker 1: in the works. So definitely, yeah, get attached, get attached, Yes, yes, yes, yes,
34:20
Speaker 1: So World Book Day today is World Book Day? What
34:24
Speaker 1: what does that mean to you? What? What does that
34:27
Speaker 1: sound like like World Book Day? Who? Who would about?
34:34
Speaker 1: Mm hmm man?
34:36
Speaker 2: What does sound like to me? Like?
34:39
Speaker 1: Who would have thought? Like when you were in school?
34:42
Speaker 1: Did you think that this would be you? Did you
34:44
Speaker 1: think that you would be an author? Did you want
34:46
Speaker 1: to be an author? I did not just have to
34:49
Speaker 1: just tell the truth. I'm talking people like people like
34:53
Speaker 1: a hundred and something books, and you didn't want to
34:55
Speaker 1: be an author. No, no, what I want to do now?
35:00
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't want to be I always wrote.
35:03
Speaker 1: I was.
35:03
Speaker 2: I was writing junior high and everybody's like, ooh, you
35:06
Speaker 2: should be a writer, and I'm like, no, I wanted
35:08
Speaker 2: to be a psychiatrist.
35:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. I want. I wanted to be a
35:13
Speaker 1: teacher until I got to my junior college and they
35:20
Speaker 1: allowed me to student teach my freshman year and my
35:25
Speaker 1: first semester and I didn't even get through the semester.
35:29
Speaker 1: I think I dropped out of that class met through.
35:34
Speaker 1: So whenever I came to Morris Broun, I changed my
35:36
Speaker 1: major all together. I didn't even do education. I was like, no, no,
35:39
Speaker 1: I can't teach nobody. I don't know how they say
35:41
Speaker 1: I'm want to be a teacher. I can't teach nobody
35:43
Speaker 1: to child No, no, nerve.
35:45
Speaker 2: That was not for me to commit for even thinking
35:49
Speaker 2: of it. I would never think to teach kids. And yes,
35:52
Speaker 2: I'm a mother and a grandmother, but yeah.
35:56
Speaker 1: And then I wanted to be nurse. I can care
35:59
Speaker 1: for people, but when it come to giving shots and
36:02
Speaker 1: and and and and the drawing of the blood and
36:04
Speaker 1: all that, I can't do that part like, if somebody
36:07
Speaker 1: else can do that part for me, I can do
36:10
Speaker 1: the rest. But I I them two things I can't
36:13
Speaker 1: do right, So that part I knew I couldn't do
36:17
Speaker 1: that either. But I've dabbled and I've done home health care.
36:24
Speaker 1: I've done When I was at Morris Brown, I was
36:26
Speaker 1: a therapy recreation major, so I worked with people with disabilities.
36:30
Speaker 1: So I was able to work at this residential home
36:33
Speaker 1: with people with disabilities. I love that because it wasn't
36:37
Speaker 1: like they were confined to their beds or anything like that.
36:42
Speaker 1: They just had disability and most of them was like
36:45
Speaker 1: a mental illness. So I've I've come to really like
36:51
Speaker 1: working with people with mental illness. That that's something that
36:56
Speaker 1: I have come to enjoy.
37:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, the mind is something. The mind controls everything. That's
37:03
Speaker 2: why I had wanted to be you know, And I'd
37:06
Speaker 2: say that literally and figuratively because whatever you believe. It
37:12
Speaker 2: was just I wanted to be a psychiatrist because to
37:14
Speaker 2: study like the different illnesses, Oh what makes you you know,
37:21
Speaker 2: make people psychotic? Not? And so in a roundabout way,
37:26
Speaker 2: I ended up doing that working being an HR director
37:31
Speaker 2: because I work with people indirectly. I started out as
37:38
Speaker 2: you said, dabbled. I started out and was a certified
37:41
Speaker 2: respiratory therapist. I was in clinicals when I was in school,
37:46
Speaker 2: and I could draw blood. I could do all of that,
37:48
Speaker 2: and I never would forget. I was in clinicals and
37:51
Speaker 2: I had a several palsy patient. I woke up and
37:56
Speaker 2: I was looking at the ceiling. I passed out, and
37:58
Speaker 2: I said, oh, let me get out of the field.
38:00
Speaker 2: This isn't for me. After I had went through everything
38:04
Speaker 2: and I ended up getting a job at a hospice
38:08
Speaker 2: and administration. So I worked in hospice for five or
38:12
Speaker 2: six years and changed my major and went into business.
38:18
Speaker 2: And then what was ironic is I got a double
38:20
Speaker 2: major in business and psychology and then got my master's
38:23
Speaker 2: in HR. So I thought being a psychiatrist would take
38:27
Speaker 2: too long, but I still did the same amount of time.
38:29
Speaker 2: And I'm still working with people in around the back way,
38:32
Speaker 2: dealing with people's minds and moves. And now as an author,
38:36
Speaker 2: I still can use.
38:37
Speaker 3: That too, because I can write some of the experiences
38:41
Speaker 3: into my characters, right, yeah, exactly, exactly exactly, and then
38:49
Speaker 3: people don't understand what it takes some time to write
38:53
Speaker 3: these books and to write these stories and how sometimes
38:56
Speaker 3: you have to get into character.
38:59
Speaker 1: Like Black Diamond. She was talking about her book and
39:05
Speaker 1: how she had to see she had to see somebody
39:08
Speaker 1: throing the process of writing her book. You know, she
39:12
Speaker 1: had to see a therapist. You know a lot of people.
39:15
Speaker 1: You know, when we take on these projects, sometimes it
39:20
Speaker 1: triggers some things that we may have been through coming
39:26
Speaker 1: coming up. So you know, it's important. It's important, and
39:32
Speaker 1: I think with you having that experience in that background,
39:35
Speaker 1: that really can give you some insight and you can
39:38
Speaker 1: share it a lot within your book. I've shared me too.
39:44
Speaker 1: I've had some psychology background because with therapy recreation we
39:51
Speaker 1: had to go down that psychology route. I had to
39:55
Speaker 1: take human anatomy and kinesiology. I had to take medical
40:03
Speaker 1: terminology because we had to know those different terminologies and
40:09
Speaker 1: all of that. So it is a lot had to
40:12
Speaker 1: go into that. So to think that I didn't even
40:15
Speaker 1: get a degree in that, but I took all those
40:18
Speaker 1: years of those classes and now I got a master's
40:21
Speaker 1: in business. I got a master's in business, you know,
40:26
Speaker 1: but I have all those classes. Like I probably could
40:29
Speaker 1: go somewhere right now and say here can I present
40:32
Speaker 1: this and what can I get for this? They probably say,
40:35
Speaker 1: you've got a semester left and you can have a
40:38
Speaker 1: human service. They probably say human service, psychology, social work,
40:43
Speaker 1: and somewhere like that. Those are probably the four different
40:46
Speaker 1: degrees that they could tell me that I could get
40:48
Speaker 1: off of those classes that I've taken. But I've used
40:52
Speaker 1: all of that experience on my jobs because everywhere I've went,
40:56
Speaker 1: I've always been in management, and it's always been in
40:59
Speaker 1: upper of a management where there's been times where I've
41:02
Speaker 1: had to train incoming store managers. I've even trained incoming
41:07
Speaker 1: district manager's assistance, you know. So I've worked with all
41:13
Speaker 1: types of people and then working with individuals behind prison whiles,
41:18
Speaker 1: you know, being able to you know, help them share
41:22
Speaker 1: their story and keep them encouraged. You know, it takes
41:26
Speaker 1: special type of people to work with people and environments
41:31
Speaker 1: like you having to tell me they've done something wrong,
41:35
Speaker 1: or when you're having to deliver bad news like it
41:40
Speaker 1: takes a special person to be able to.
41:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does because a lot of I'm speaking for
41:46
Speaker 2: me because I do h advocates with my career. A
41:50
Speaker 2: lot of the times, you know, people's livelihood hangs on
41:55
Speaker 2: the decisions we make, you know, as far as you know,
41:58
Speaker 2: if they're breaking rules of company and terminating someone or
42:02
Speaker 2: even writing someone up, you have to have some passion.
42:06
Speaker 2: And terminations they always have to blame someone in HR is.
42:13
Speaker 2: When I'm terminating, it's normally me and I'm just like
42:16
Speaker 2: they're human, you know, I just take it and I smile.
42:22
Speaker 2: I try to be compassionate, help them out. Yeah, I've
42:25
Speaker 2: had some experiences and I and I think one of
42:28
Speaker 2: my experiences I wrote about in this new book coming up.
42:32
Speaker 2: But it's through a character. It's through a character, right,
42:36
Speaker 2: I get to express it. You know, I can live,
42:39
Speaker 2: I can live vicariously through my character because this character
42:43
Speaker 2: is a firecracker, So she can do what I wouldn't do.
42:47
Speaker 1: Okay, that that that's my that's my what you call
42:51
Speaker 1: it alter ego. Yeah, I have one of those. I'll
42:57
Speaker 1: let her come out sometimes, and she expressed those things
43:01
Speaker 1: that I sometimes want to express, but I'd been like, no,
43:04
Speaker 1: people might get it. The Yeah, So I let her
43:07
Speaker 1: come out sometimes and let her express those things. But
43:10
Speaker 1: she only come out in the writing world because if
43:13
Speaker 1: she came out in the real world, people may not understood.
43:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. In my in my first book, I said a
43:22
Speaker 2: book festival back in February, and everybody came up to
43:28
Speaker 2: me and I never knew this.
43:29
Speaker 1: They're like, is that you on the.
43:30
Speaker 2: Book cover or you those characters? And I'm like no,
43:34
Speaker 2: and I didn't realize that when my graphic artist designed it.
43:39
Speaker 2: The girls on the cover do come does sheep? Pair
43:43
Speaker 2: kind of like me?
43:44
Speaker 1: But it's not me. Just so y'all know it's not me.
43:49
Speaker 1: It really was a design.
43:50
Speaker 2: Let me show you. Can you see can you see
43:53
Speaker 2: the face of the cover. Yeah, people think that looks
43:57
Speaker 2: like me, and it's really not.
44:00
Speaker 1: It just.
44:04
Speaker 2: It's just a coincidence, isn't it. But the characters in
44:09
Speaker 2: the book are wild. I'm like, yeah, one of them
44:12
Speaker 2: could be me, but it really, it really isn't cos wow.
44:19
Speaker 1: But then you gave them something to think about, you
44:21
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You gave them something to think about,
44:25
Speaker 1: because that's how many people pick up that book and
44:27
Speaker 1: they actually think that that is you, and they don't
44:31
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to ask you that, so they thinking
44:35
Speaker 1: it is you. So hey, so when they reading that book,
44:40
Speaker 1: they thinking, oh, maybe they put you in in that spot.
44:45
Speaker 1: They yeah, they don't go. They don't work you into
44:48
Speaker 1: that book.
44:49
Speaker 2: They don't work me into it. It's twins. It's twins.
44:52
Speaker 2: It's twins in that book. So they don't work you
44:56
Speaker 2: into that book.
44:58
Speaker 1: They don't look, they don't make you both of them between.
45:00
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't. They don't make you clone yourself
45:05
Speaker 1: a whole new plotue. You know how we make up stuff,
45:11
Speaker 1: that's how we do. So I heard you got the
45:15
Speaker 1: sposcars coming up? And when is that again? Tell everybody
45:20
Speaker 1: when it is that and shout out to the doc bookshop.
45:23
Speaker 2: It's Michael again. He's a he's the actor, well known
45:29
Speaker 2: poet m c n double, a c P member on
45:35
Speaker 2: the Literary Board, and he puts on the sposcars. He's
45:40
Speaker 2: we call him the hardest working man in poetry. So
45:44
Speaker 2: it's a yearly it's a yearly competition of the of poets.
45:48
Speaker 2: You can enter in up to five or six categories.
45:53
Speaker 2: They have religious Gospel, Best High Cool, Best Monologue, Storytelling,
46:00
Speaker 2: slam and best Children's Story. And I'm maybe missing a category.
46:05
Speaker 2: And the poets get up there. You get trophies, he
46:08
Speaker 2: gets cash prizes. It's really a great event for poets
46:13
Speaker 2: and you get to meet poets because you have poets.
46:16
Speaker 2: Last year we had poets coming from Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana,
46:21
Speaker 2: and I think we have one as far away as
46:24
Speaker 2: I think she came from the Missy.
46:28
Speaker 1: I think Mississippi. Mississippi took from Mississippi. I think some
46:34
Speaker 1: people came in from Mississippi.
46:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they come to the to the Swaskars, and
46:41
Speaker 2: I mean it's really awesome because as a poet, I
46:46
Speaker 2: get inspired hearing other poets speak, because it's just like
46:50
Speaker 2: you're getting your element and and you you you hear,
46:54
Speaker 2: and you watch everybody perform and speak differently, and it's
46:59
Speaker 2: it's just it's just a wonderful thing. I love poetry.
47:04
Speaker 2: So I can't tell you that it's not one person
47:08
Speaker 2: that I have never listened to and not gotten anything
47:11
Speaker 2: out of. So that's going on. Well.
47:18
Speaker 1: I definitely want to thank you for jumping on and
47:22
Speaker 1: sharing with me on tonight. It's truly been a blessing
47:26
Speaker 1: to have you here. I just like to be obedient.
47:31
Speaker 1: I have been given this space. I was given charge
47:34
Speaker 1: of the Poo podcast three years ago. I dropped it
47:38
Speaker 1: in my spirit, so I started this podcast and when
47:45
Speaker 1: I dedicate to something. I try to make sure that
47:49
Speaker 1: I follow through. And even though we didn't have a host,
47:52
Speaker 1: that was a sign to this hour. I said, you
47:55
Speaker 1: know what, the stot is going to be open, and
47:58
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I keep up my end.
48:00
Speaker 1: Another bar and so I said, you know what a lot,
48:02
Speaker 1: just come on and sitting this time. We was only
48:05
Speaker 1: supposed to be on thirty minutes, but we've been on
48:07
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes, so we well exceeded our time. We
48:10
Speaker 1: provided what we needed to do. So we did what
48:14
Speaker 1: we did. You know I love you because I was.
48:18
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of my nap time, nap time.
48:23
Speaker 1: I can't nap this late at night. Because I left
48:25
Speaker 1: nap this late at night, I'll be up all night
48:28
Speaker 1: and know I have to get up at four o'clock
48:30
Speaker 1: in the morning.
48:31
Speaker 2: I'm an hour behind you.
48:32
Speaker 1: Though I know I can't nap this time.
48:38
Speaker 2: Girl, I am. I take a nap every day, and
48:42
Speaker 2: anybody who knows me knows my nap time. They know
48:46
Speaker 2: noting not to call, not to bother me.
48:53
Speaker 1: I take a.
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Speaker 2: Nap on vacation, at home, on vacation, after work, I
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Speaker 2: take a nap. I take an app I'm gonna advocate
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Speaker 2: for naps.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, but I can't take him right now.
49:07
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a nap. I'm gonna take a nap.
49:08
Speaker 1: In a couple of months, I'm gonna take a nap.
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Speaker 1: I'm able to wrist. San Antonio, December.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm looking for a location.
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Speaker 1: What is it?
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Speaker 2: Colored poetry gallery, poets, ball vibes.
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Speaker 1: And versus gay Lie. No tennis shoes, no jeans. We
49:37
Speaker 1: we want you to dress up. It's gonna be a
49:39
Speaker 1: nice time. We're gonna be giving out some awards and
49:42
Speaker 1: we're gonna be celebrating this amazing queen here as we
49:48
Speaker 1: close out twenty five and in like twenty twenty six
49:52
Speaker 1: in Yeah, that's what we're doing. So we're definitely coming
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Speaker 1: to San Antonio and we're gonna do our thing. Yes,
50:04
Speaker 1: so you wanna, Yes, we'll have opportunity for y'all to
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Speaker 1: come out, meet some poets and and and and here,
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Speaker 1: some spoken words, some live entertainment. Yeah, we're gonna do all.
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Speaker 2: That and not ask me some poets in San Antonio
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Speaker 2: to Angela.
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Speaker 1: Yes, So we definitely need to get them involved and
50:28
Speaker 1: get them attached to what we're about to do because
50:31
Speaker 1: we want this to be something that they want to
50:34
Speaker 1: bring back here after year, right, Yes, vibes and verses,
50:41
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be spending them versus and we're gonna
50:44
Speaker 1: be chilling to some vibes. So hey, we want you
50:48
Speaker 1: all to come on out and be a part of that. Again.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be in December, December sixth. Location. We have
50:54
Speaker 1: not disclosed that yet. We're still looking, but no, be
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Speaker 1: ready to go to San Anton decembery six. Okay, So again,
51:04
Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody for tuning in tonight because
51:08
Speaker 1: guess what, you could have been anywhere. But I want
51:10
Speaker 1: to thank all those that jumped on, all those that shared,
51:13
Speaker 1: all those that even said hello, good evening. Whatever you
51:18
Speaker 1: did to participate in this podcast on tonight, I definitely
51:21
Speaker 1: truly want to thank you. Not only that, I want
51:23
Speaker 1: to thank you for being a part of the crew
51:26
Speaker 1: podcast them d us all the airways before we leave.
51:31
Speaker 1: When is your next show? Mine? Yes? When is your
51:37
Speaker 1: next show? Actually?
51:41
Speaker 2: I have book festivals, so I bet the Sposkars.
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Speaker 4: No, when is your next podcast? Oh jesus, okay, June thirtieth,
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Speaker 4: June thirtieth, right here, I think she's on Mondays. So Monday,
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Speaker 4: June thirtieth, right here, eight pm live should be right here.
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Speaker 4: Will you have some poets with.
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Speaker 2: You right now? Have one, But if it's any poets
52:11
Speaker 2: out there, reach out to me. Reach out to me
52:15
Speaker 2: about being on the podcast. And of course I write
52:18
Speaker 2: for those fine authors, and if you need want to
52:21
Speaker 2: be featured, send me an email at author Marceina Moore
52:27
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com and we can talk about the
52:30
Speaker 2: magazine or the podcast. You can you can email me
52:33
Speaker 2: on either and just put aspiring authors and then that
52:36
Speaker 2: way I know what it's for, whether it's for the
52:39
Speaker 2: podcast or the magazine. Yes, because I do need two
52:43
Speaker 2: more guests for June or June thirtieth, which is the
52:48
Speaker 2: fifth Monday.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, y'all heard it. So
52:53
Speaker 1: make sure you tune in June thirtieth, the fifth Monday,
52:57
Speaker 1: and support this queen again. I want to thank you
53:01
Speaker 1: guys for tuning in tonight and being a part of
53:04
Speaker 1: this broadcast. I tell you it's always a great time
53:08
Speaker 1: to be able to share with you.
53:09
Speaker 2: Guys.
53:09
Speaker 1: Make sure that you go over and support some of
53:12
Speaker 1: these amazing authors that's a part of the one hundred
53:16
Speaker 1: author movement. Y'all. We're coming to Chicago June fourteenth and fifteenth.
53:21
Speaker 1: We will be in the building. We're going to be
53:24
Speaker 1: having a pop up book showcase on the fourteenth, and
53:30
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing an amazing book release for Coach
53:35
Speaker 1: Rachel on June to fifteenth from two to six. So, y'all,
53:39
Speaker 1: if you are an author, I'm telling you, this is
53:43
Speaker 1: going to be an amazing weekend that you do not
53:46
Speaker 1: want to miss. I have some amazing stuff that is
53:49
Speaker 1: lined up. I tell you when I tell you, we
53:52
Speaker 1: are connecting with some amazing people. I hopefully, Fangus Cross
53:56
Speaker 1: Frangus Cross that this person will be able to make
54:00
Speaker 1: an appearance in the building because I love for people
54:05
Speaker 1: to show up and surprise those that are part of
54:09
Speaker 1: things that I do. Because a lot of people don't
54:11
Speaker 1: think we think about them, but I always think about
54:13
Speaker 1: those around me. So again, y'all join us in Chicago
54:20
Speaker 1: June fourteenth, fifteenth. You don't want to miss it. In
54:23
Speaker 1: AA LAC, they're chasing your dream book tour. Y'all, We're
54:26
Speaker 1: on the road. We're coming to a city near you soon.
54:30
Speaker 1: If you're not attached to the one hundred After movement,
54:33
Speaker 1: I encourage you to get attached, because you're missing out
54:36
Speaker 1: on forty five amazing authors that sharing their brand again.
54:42
Speaker 1: I am the visionary Queen Angela and it's been amazing
54:45
Speaker 1: sharing with you on tonight. Thank you, miss Martin. A
54:49
Speaker 1: great night.
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Speaker 2: Bye.
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Speaker 1: No, I got to give you your applausas before we go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thank you, good night,