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CHATTING WITH QUEEN ANGELA LIVE ....TALIKNG ABOUT 21-DAY CHALLENHGE COMING UP JUNE 1ST-21ST JOIN US · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to go live on some other plays, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to drop on y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in, come on in, Come on in, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: come on in. Gonna share a couple of things with
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  Speaker 1: you guys, and then I'm gonna get on off. Get
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  Speaker 1: on that your way so you can continue to day, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We got a couple of things coming up that I
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you guys so that you guys
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  Speaker 1: can be in the.
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  Speaker 2: Loop to what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: For those that don't know who I am, let me
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  Speaker 1: quickly do some little housekeeping, give out a couple lood
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  Speaker 1: catch you up. So I am the visionary of AA
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  Speaker 1: L a C, which is African American author Libacy Awareness campaign,
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  Speaker 1: The Crew Podcast, which is a network of podcasters. We
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  Speaker 1: can currently have nine amazing hosts over on that network,
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  Speaker 1: nine amazing queens that share their voice. I often say
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  Speaker 1: that we are the change that we desire to.
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  Speaker 2: See in this world.
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  Speaker 1: So that's who I am. I am just someone that's
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  Speaker 1: out here trying to make a difference, trying to be
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  Speaker 1: that change that I want to see in this world.
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  Speaker 1: Change starts and ends with us. So I'm just out
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  Speaker 1: here trying to be that voice for that person that
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  Speaker 1: think that they don't have a voice. Know that you
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  Speaker 1: do have a voice, and there is something that you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be doing regardless of where you are, Know
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  Speaker 1: that you are right where you're supposed to be. Because
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  Speaker 1: God knows what we can go, what we can handle.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what we're going to go through. He knows
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  Speaker 1: all that before we were even conceived in our mother's womb.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to go through the process. We have
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  Speaker 1: to stay the course and stay encouraged. You know, things
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  Speaker 1: come up, we go through things, and we just have
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to deal with those things and how
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  Speaker 1: to get through those things.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all. I am.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know this month is Mental Health Awareness Month and
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  Speaker 1: we're getting ready to close it out, but this month
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  Speaker 1: is Mental Health Awareness Month. Those that follow me and
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of things that I do, know
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  Speaker 1: that that has been one of my struggles, that has
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  Speaker 1: been one of the things that I have struggled with
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  Speaker 1: on this journey. Today, I'm fifty years old, and I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you that for most of my life I
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  Speaker 1: struggled with it and didn't know what it was. But
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  Speaker 1: probably about six or seven years ago, well, a little
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  Speaker 1: longer than that now, y'all. I keep wanting to push
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  Speaker 1: things back, but it's been a little longer than that,
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  Speaker 1: because I just celebrated ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Being a domestic violence survivor.
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  Speaker 1: During that process was when I found out about a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the mental health issues that I was dealing
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  Speaker 1: with and that I had been struggling with for years,
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  Speaker 1: depression being one of them, PTSD being another. I was
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  Speaker 1: borderline bipolar, I was a mantic depressiont So I had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things going on, y'all. But I did
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  Speaker 1: not find out until I went through domestic violence, going
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  Speaker 1: through domestic violence and finding out a lot about me,
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  Speaker 1: finding out a lot about who I was dealing with
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  Speaker 1: things from my childhood, because there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that you know, you you just you cannot identify
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  Speaker 1: because you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know what they are. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have nobody talking about depression, didn't have nobody
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  Speaker 1: talking about PTSD, didn't have nobody talking about these things
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  Speaker 1: that I was dealing with. So if they're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, they're not dealing with it, then how can
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  Speaker 1: I get helpful it if they're not even acknowledging it.
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  Speaker 1: So going through that process of going through domestic violence,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to discover some things. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to find out a little bit about who I was,
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  Speaker 1: find out a little bit about what I was dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity to sit down with a psychiatrist, had
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to work with two therapists. Y'all, I had
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  Speaker 1: to have a therapist about one of my therapists. So
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  Speaker 1: that just tells you how deep things were. But I
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  Speaker 1: was willing to go through the process, willing to go
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  Speaker 1: through those things that I needed to go through so
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  Speaker 1: that I could be doing some of the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: y'all see me doing today. Am I am I perfect? No?
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  Speaker 2: I am not perfect. Do I still struggle? Yes? I
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  Speaker 2: have my days. Depression and grief.
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  Speaker 1: Have been one of those things that I have struggled
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  Speaker 1: with over the last i'm gonna say five years. But
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  Speaker 1: I have learned because now I'm able to identify these
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  Speaker 1: things and now I know I know when I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: that depression spirit coming over me. I know when I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through grief. Even on yesterday, I had a moment.
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  Speaker 1: I had a moment where I was missing my brother,
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  Speaker 1: and then when I began to miss my brother, I
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  Speaker 1: start missing other people that have gone on before me.
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  Speaker 2: And then I cried a little bit, and then I
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  Speaker 2: moved from that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because I knew my brother, I started hearing
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  Speaker 1: those voices. That's why, y'all, I'm telling you, create memories.
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  Speaker 1: Get out here and create memories. Create those things that
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  Speaker 1: when you start going through, when you start missing your
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  Speaker 1: loved one, you can remember.
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  Speaker 2: Those things that y'all did to You can remember those laughters.
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  Speaker 2: You can remember the good things.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what helped me get through yesterday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that my brother would not want me doing this.
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  Speaker 1: He would not want me sitting here crying. He would
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  Speaker 1: not want me sitting here moping and having a pity party.
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  Speaker 1: He would want me out here enjoying life. He will
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  Speaker 1: want me out here pursuing those things that we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that he and I talked about.
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  Speaker 1: He would want me out here doing those things so
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  Speaker 1: that I can create and leave a legacy for those
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  Speaker 1: that are coming behind, so that those that may not
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  Speaker 1: knew my brother, they can know my brother because I
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  Speaker 1: vowed to create something that would remind people of who
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  Speaker 1: he is and the things that he done. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what we have to do, and that's what I did
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  Speaker 1: on yesterday as I was preparing to get ready for
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  Speaker 1: this twenty one day challenge. Y'all know, I'm the visionary
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  Speaker 1: of the one hundred douth the movie. So with the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred Out the Movement for those that may not
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  Speaker 1: know what the one hundred Out the Movement is. We
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  Speaker 1: are a diverse group of authors, creatives. We have publishers,
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  Speaker 1: we have editors, we have graphic designers, we have educators, professors, ministers,
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  Speaker 1: you name it. We have all of them a part
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  Speaker 1: of this group because we are a diverse group of
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  Speaker 1: authors that have different backgrounds and our main objective is
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  Speaker 1: the forces, and that is connect, collaborate, create in community.
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  Speaker 1: Bill y'all, we have to learn how to support. And
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  Speaker 1: when I say support, it's not a one way support
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of times we often we want to
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  Speaker 1: solicit services. We want to solicit our services to other
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  Speaker 1: people so that they can be a part of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we're doing, but then we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: offer anything back. It's like it's always one sided. We
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  Speaker 1: don't We're not one side at the one hundred author movement.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give constantly anyway, because that's just who
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  Speaker 1: I am. Those that know me, anybody that invite me
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of their platform and to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of what they're doing, know that I just.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go by myself.
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  Speaker 1: If you want, we need to come be a part
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  Speaker 1: of your platform, I need you to be able to
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  Speaker 1: invite some more of the people that's a part of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I'm doing because I'm What I am
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  Speaker 1: doing is not just for me. What I'm doing is
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  Speaker 1: for a community of people. Currently, we have forty nine
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  Speaker 1: amazing authors a part of the platform.
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  Speaker 2: They're active in and active.
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  Speaker 1: Because we do have authors that work jobs, that do
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that can't be active inside of the group.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. So they are still a part of
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  Speaker 1: what we do, they're just not active inside of our chat.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: We do challenges, we do shout outs, We do stuff
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  Speaker 1: to bring about visibility and to show UH camaraderie, UH teamwork,
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  Speaker 1: shows partnership, things that would keep us together.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at some of the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Chanette says, I have a jar that I started to
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  Speaker 1: fill up with memories of my son so that when
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  Speaker 1: I have those moments, I can go back and read
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  Speaker 1: the memories.
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  Speaker 2: Good idea. That is a very great idea, Channette.
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  Speaker 1: You should think about maybe designing some type of jars
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  Speaker 1: or some type of things that you can maybe go
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  Speaker 1: along with your book, and that can be something that
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  Speaker 1: you can incorporate with your brand and name it. Name
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  Speaker 1: that jar, some type of grief jar. Come up with
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  Speaker 1: something that you can incorporate that with your book. That
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  Speaker 1: is a great idea, Chanette.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that Shanette is chiming in
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: She said that she would. She started a jar and
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  Speaker 1: she filled them with memories of her son. So she
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  Speaker 1: jopped down things and write them put them inside of
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  Speaker 1: the jar. So when she's having those moments, she can
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  Speaker 1: go back and she can pull out one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that she have in there, and she can read
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  Speaker 1: about her son, and she can reflect on her son,
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  Speaker 1: and she can enjoy the moment. Because see, y'all, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's okay to have these feelings, and we
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  Speaker 1: all should be able to experience these feelings. If you're angry,
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  Speaker 1: feel angry, feel sad, feel however you feel. You should
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  Speaker 1: be able to feel that way. But know that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to stay there. And that's what it's about,
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  Speaker 1: not staying where you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay to feel how you feel. Come on, TikTok, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, shoot me some basketballs.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot me some basketballs. Shoot me some basketball, Show me
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  Speaker 1: some love, show me some love.
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  Speaker 2: Show you girls some love. Show your girl some love.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Thank you for tuning in, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for tuning in. If you would, please share this,
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  Speaker 1: person may be in need of. We are getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to launch our twenty one day Challenge and I would
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  Speaker 1: love for a lot of you guys to participate in
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  Speaker 1: this challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over in just a second what the
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  Speaker 1: challenge is going to until, y'all is twenty one days
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  Speaker 1: and it is detailed. It's really going to dive into
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  Speaker 1: some things, gonna really show you how you can be active.
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  Speaker 1: If you do this, and if you are consistent, you
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  Speaker 1: should be able to see a difference in your visibility
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  Speaker 1: and your followship and all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to put in the time. You have
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  Speaker 2: to put in and do the work.
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  Speaker 1: You can't expect for something new to happen if you're
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  Speaker 1: doing the same thing and you're not changing anything, and
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  Speaker 1: it's insanity. That's what it's called insanity. And we're not
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  Speaker 1: moving into insanity. We are moving in excellence when moving
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  Speaker 1: in greatness. So I challenge you TikTok, I challenge you Facebook, YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: Twitch subs that I challenge you to get involved in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty one day Challenge. Y'all, we've been floating the
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day Challenge all around. If you are not
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  Speaker 1: aware of the twenty one day Challenge, if you do
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  Speaker 1: not know how to get attached to the twenty one
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  Speaker 1: day Challenge, please go over to linked treck Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Collaborations and check out the twenty one day Challenge. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: join the twenty one day Challenge. Let me tell y'all
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the twenty one day Challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Let me pull it up. I got another I got
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  Speaker 2: to pull up on another device.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all, I'm gonna tell y'all, I'm really not that
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  Speaker 1: tech savvy y'all see me doing all this stuff, y'all
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  Speaker 1: probably think I am so tech savage.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I got y'all going on full different devices right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to pull up something on another device.
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  Speaker 2: So know that. Know that I just try to make
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  Speaker 2: it happen where I can make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: I just try to make the best of what I
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  Speaker 1: can and use the resources that I have to do
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  Speaker 1: what I can do to make a difference. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about. Because we got to remember, if
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  Speaker 1: we take one step, y'all. It ain't in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe it because that's what I've been taught.
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  Speaker 1: If we take one step, he gonna take, he gonna
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  Speaker 1: take for a couple of months of us and it's
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  Speaker 1: just us just having faith and believing. So, y'all, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go over the twenty one day challenge and
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  Speaker 1: give y'all an overview of what the twenty one day
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  Speaker 1: challenge is. I just gotta pull it up over here
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  Speaker 1: on my other device. Again, the music that's playing in
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  Speaker 1: the background is not my music. It is playing on
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  Speaker 1: Alexa and it is for my entertainment person pers purposes.
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  Speaker 2: It is playing it.
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  Speaker 1: Is playing lightly in the back, so you may hear
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  Speaker 1: faintly some music playing in the back, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not part of the streaming. It is for my personal
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment as I do this stream. So I am trying
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  Speaker 1: to pull it up, y'all. Gotta find it.
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  Speaker 2: H let me see shout. Mm hmmm. Gotta check my
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  Speaker 2: blood pressure real quick, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking for I'm trying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for what's the name so I can go
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  Speaker 1: over it with you, guys, because I want to share
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  Speaker 1: it with you.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it was just taking me just a little
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  Speaker 1: longer to get to it. I told you I ain't
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  Speaker 1: the I ain't the best with this technology, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do with it. I'm gonna make it do what
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  Speaker 1: it do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the on One Day Challenge starts on June first,
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  Speaker 1: which is Sunday, and we break it down into weeks
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  Speaker 1: and then we break it down in today. So the
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  Speaker 1: first week is called break the Ice and Build your Story.
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  Speaker 1: The very first day, we're gonna do your origin story.
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  Speaker 1: How did you fall in love with words? That's that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the first day. The second day the book
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  Speaker 1: that changed my life. You're gonna review a book and
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  Speaker 1: invite people to come and participate. So you're gonna share
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  Speaker 1: this with your audience. You're gonna engage with your audience.
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  Speaker 1: The third day, we're gonna boost a literary myth, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the truth about becoming a best selling author. So whatever
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  Speaker 1: myth that you have heard, we want you to talk
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  Speaker 1: about those myths, and we want you to dispell of
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  Speaker 1: those myths, like we want you to tell people if
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  Speaker 1: if you know a myth about becoming a best selling
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  Speaker 1: arts so of course we are. Most of us are
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  Speaker 1: now best selling authors. So y'all we know, we know
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  Speaker 1: that it is a myth, so we can tell we
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  Speaker 1: can share with somebody how we became a best selling
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  Speaker 1: author so that they can be encouraged to try to
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  Speaker 1: become a best selling author. So again, that is day four.
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  Speaker 1: Day five is going to be the power of passages.
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  Speaker 1: So what you're gonna do is read a passage from
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  Speaker 1: your book, or if you apart if you haven't done
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  Speaker 1: a personal book, you'll read apart from an anthology. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta do that, and then I say I'm sorry, Day
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  Speaker 1: four I skipped Day four. Day four is a day
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  Speaker 1: in my literary world. So that is you can do
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes of your workspace, things that you do
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  Speaker 1: to prepare to write, things that you do to whatever
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  Speaker 1: your routines is when it comes to writing. Because you
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  Speaker 1: want to bring people inside of your literary world. So
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  Speaker 1: how do you do that. That's gonna be Day four.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have an opportunity to do videos, go live.
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  Speaker 1: You can pre record this stuff or you can actually
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  Speaker 1: go live and show people what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.
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  Speaker 1: Requirement is though, that you go live for at least
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes so that people can.
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  Speaker 2: Engage with you and really get involved in what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Day six is going to be a Q and a
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  Speaker 1: ask Me anything. So you're gonna allow your community to
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  Speaker 1: ask you questions. And now what I would do is
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  Speaker 1: I would do it in the form of something that
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  Speaker 1: you can capture their emails so that you can stay
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  Speaker 1: in contact with them so that you can reach out
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  Speaker 1: to them and if you get an opportunity, because you
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  Speaker 1: may not get to answer everybody question, what I would
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  Speaker 1: do is also follow up with those that are active,
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  Speaker 1: those that participate, follow up with them. Now, we got
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to be intentional and how to really
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  Speaker 1: engage and connect with those that support the things that
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  Speaker 1: we do. They don't come over and support us just
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  Speaker 1: because they was drawn to us for a reason, and
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  Speaker 1: we got to learn how to support them back for
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  Speaker 1: supporting us. So we gotta come up with ways to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Day seven A it's tribute time. Day seven
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  Speaker 1: is tribute time. So this is what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to spotlight a unappreciated literary figure or mentor.
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  Speaker 1: So this is your time to showcase those that have
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  Speaker 1: mentored you, those that you think are in the literary
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  Speaker 1: world that are not being recognized like they should be recognized.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It may be your favorite author, it may be a publisher,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it may be an editor, it may be a graphic designer.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It may be somebody that's in the literary world that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: doing amazing work and nobody is recognizing them. So this
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: is your opportunity to put a spotlight on them and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to do a tribute for them.
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  Speaker 2: And that closes out Week one.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So what I did in each section was also if
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you go over and check out the actual outline for
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the twenty one day challenge, it has a reflection and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: summary reflection. So we'll go over what we did throughout
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that week and reflect on that.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what it says.
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  Speaker 1: It says by the end of week one, you should
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: have shared personal stories and values, initiated thoughtful conversation around
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: books and writing, Engage with your audience through interactive content
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and Q and a's a begun to foster a welcoming
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  Speaker 1: and inform loyal community around your literary journey. This is
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: connecting with those that support you. This is connecting with
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: those that come over and follow your page. If these
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: elements took place, you lay a strong foundation for a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: deeper engagement and set in inviting tone for the weeks
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  Speaker 1: to come.
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  Speaker 2: If not, if you did not.
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  Speaker 1: Consider which pieces can be revisited and repurpose to connect
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  Speaker 1: with your community.
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  Speaker 2: Say you you skip a.
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  Speaker 1: Day, or you forget to do one, or you join late,
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  Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to catch up.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You have an opportunity to revisit.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You have an opportunity to go back and repurpose things,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: so you have an opportunity to be involved Week two.
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  Speaker 1: It's called spark the conversation and disrub the norm. Spark
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  Speaker 1: the conversation and disrupt the norm. So day eight is
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the dark Side talk openly about rejection, writers, bark, and failure.
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  Speaker 1: This is the opportunity where you can talk about those
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: things that did not go how you expected them to go.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You can talk about some of these maybe not so
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: good reviews that you may have received, and you can
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: talk about, you know, your feelings, your perspective, how you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: have felt on this journey.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So if you receive.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Rejection letters, for some that have a inquired to these
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: big publishing houses, if you have gotten rejection letters, if
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about those rejection letters and how
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you felt and what you did to move from that,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: this is your opportunity to share, because you sharing could
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: help somebody else. So this is the opportunity to do that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: They dine your shake up debate. So this is what
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: we'll do. Literary fiction versus commercial poetry, versus pros, etc.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So we're shaking it up.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: So you we're gonna have We want you to find
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: someone that is opposite your juror so that you can
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: talk about and discuss differences and lights and just have
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a debate. And this is connecting with someone. For those
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that are attached to the one hundred aufter movement, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: have forty eight other people that you can connect with
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and do this with. And during this process, we should
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  Speaker 1: have accountability partners. We should have someone that is making
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: sure that we are standing the course and we are
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: making sure that they're standing the course. So this will
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: be a great opportunity to have accountability partner, to have
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: someone that is doing this with you, and y'all can
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: keep tabs on each other. Y'all can push each other,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: y'all can motivate each other. Y'all can encourage each other.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: They ten If I was editor in chief, what would
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you change about the literary world? This is your opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to talk about what you would do different inside of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the literary world. What have you noticed that you would
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: do different. What are some things that you would encourage
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: others to do if you were the editor in chief?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Literary controversy, discuss a hot literary topic. Examples diversity AI
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in books. Also, we can talk about band books. You
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: can talk about various different things and these are just
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: examples of things that you can talk about. Day twelve
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  Speaker 1: is the flash fiction Poetry Slam. We want you to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: create a live or invite audience to participate.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And you can do a flash fiction.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Where you can just read, or you can have where
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: y'all can just read different parts of your books. Or
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you can have a poetry slam where you can just share.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: If you are a poet, you can share your poetry
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: because I know a lot of us in the one
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: hundred Author movement are poets as well as authors.
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  Speaker 2: Day thirteen Host a guest. This is when you bring.
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  Speaker 1: Another author or creative onto a live and y'all y'll
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: talk about you'll brands you in gauge with that author
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that you bring into the platform. Day fourteen crowd source
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  Speaker 1: a story. Write a story together with live suggestions, take
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: suggestions from your audience, Get your audience involved, get them
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: involved in the storyline, get them involved in the characters,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: get them involved, and y'all write that story together. And
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that is they fourteen. So this is a reflection for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: day for week two. So and I outline this, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it's an outline so that you can follow it and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you can keep up with it, and you can make
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: notes so you can jot it down. So once you
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: join the challenge, you would get outline of this so
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you'll know exactly what you're supposed to be doing every day.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And then it gives you like little examples and stuff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: So after we've completed week two, the reflection, spark the
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  Speaker 1: conversation and disrupt the norm.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Disrupt the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on wrapping up a bowl and thoughtful, provoking week.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Let's reflect on how your creative community face challenges, debated ideas,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and embrace new ways of thinking. Consider exploring these things
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and these are suggestions are these are just options that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you can explore. Again, this is coming from the twenty
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: one day challenge that keeps off on June first. You
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: still have time to join. It is not too late.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So these are things that you can consider exploring. Which
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: day topic rejection, gear, debate, controversy, ETETA spark the most
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: discussion and emotion. How did your audience feel about opening
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: up to uncomfortable or controversial subjects. Did your coming say
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: around the topics like literary norms, AI or diversity change
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: your perspective? It's so how like we got to have
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: these conversations with our audience, with ourselves and with those
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that are around us, because we want to know that
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: if we're going to continue to be writers, we're going
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to continue to be answers, We're going to continue to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: push our work that we have out here. We want
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to know what are our supporters, what our readers, what
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: are those that are engaging with us? How do they
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: enjoy our stuff? What are they doing? And what don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: they like about our stuff? We want to know at all.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We want to know it all because we want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: know how that we can do better, How can we
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: perfect the things that we're doing, and how we can
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: better what we're doing so that we can continue to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: put out stuff that you would want to purchase, stuff
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that you would want to support. Also, which live event,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: your flash fiction, your poetry slam, your guess check, your
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: crowdsource story which generated surprising ideas, connections and collaborations. So
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: this is this is what you want to see what works.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: This is how you evaluate what works and what does
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: not work. So you can go back and you can
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: see what works for you and what doesn't. So how
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: can you carry forward the momentum from these from this honest,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: wide range conversation in your ongoing writing or creative journey.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: And that's what I wanted to do. Spot spark that conversation,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you know, get that conversation going, whether we're having it
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: for with ourselves or we're having it with other people. Okay,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: wrap up your reflection by noting this any changes you
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: like to see in your literary space after the week's dialogue.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Is there anything that you would do different, anything that
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: you want to change, any risk you took in what
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you learned from them?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: So did you step outside your box with participating in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this twenty one day challenge? Was it something different than
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you normally do? Did you step outside.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Your comfort zone? We participate and.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: If you did, how did you feel stepping outside your
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: comfort zone? How did you feel doing something totally different?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: In one conversation or moment you want to remember or
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: an inspirational moving forward?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: What one thing that you can take away from here?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Always when you go into something, be purpose and intentional
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: about taking something away from what you're doing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Don't just go in open, go in with an intention
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: of taking something away.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Now we got a couple of more We got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of more sections week three, So now we're moving
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  Speaker 1: on to week three.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Week three is.
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  Speaker 1: Building community and launch your vision. So now we started
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to develop some things. Now we're working on establishing and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: developing the community that you have. Most of us have
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: already developed a community. We already have followers. We already
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: have pages, we've already established the brand, We've already start
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the footwork. Now it's time to just keep it up
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and to reflect on what we are starting to be.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So building a community and launching your vision. Day fifteen
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Reading Challenge, Assign a prompt, discuss with the community what
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the prompt is about and what you're what whatever you're
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about. So you assign a prompt and then
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you discuss it with your community. So if you have
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a book out already and you wanna talk about your book,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you put a promp up about your book and then
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: y'all discuss that. Day sixteen is called a rapid fire.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's in literary questions in ten minutes, invite audience to answer.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna have ten questions that you're gonna be
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: posting for your audience.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: You come up with these questions and post.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: If it's about your book, if it's about something that
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: y'all have been engaging on your personal page. Because I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: hope that you are engaging with the people that support
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you on your page and you're not just posting stuff
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and not engaging with them. So if they are engaging
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and they have been engaging. You have an opportunity to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: do the rapid fire just ten literary questions. It can
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: be all about your book if you want to find
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: out how much they know about you, know about your book,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: know about the platform.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It can totally be about nothing but you. But if
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you want to just.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Be about the literary world, you can incorporate it into
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: about the literary world as well. So Day seventeen Future
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: lit Predictions for publishing, tech and storytelling.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: We want to hear what you think the future of
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: literature is going to be. We want your perspective, So
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: this is your opportunity to share those things.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: You can do it in the form of a life
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: or you can do it in the form of a post,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: but we.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Just want your feedback.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Day eighteen we want you to do a live book pitch,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: share your brand, your book in sixty seconds, and invite feedback.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: That is Day number eighteen. Day number nineteen is give back.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Announce a freebie, a giveaway, or a resource for your audience.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You always should be willing to give something back. If
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they have been supporting you, they have been sharing you,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: they have been encouraging other people to come over and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: support the things that you're doing, you should be giving
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: back as well.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: So give away a freebie, give away, a.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Discount, a resource, give away, something that can be beneficial
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to those that support you, so that they will continue
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to support you and that they would share what you're
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: doing with somebody else. Day twenty one, y'all, no, I'm sorry.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Day twenty it's testimonies and shoutouts. This is the highlight,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: community members and audience impact. This is the time where
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you can shout out all those that have supported you,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: all your supporters that have shared, shared your lives, they
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: shared your book. They have actually actively committed and participated
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: all twenty one days.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: They have supported you. They have I mean they have
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: been there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: This is the time that you want to give those
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: shoutouts and give those testimonies and share with people what
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: has been taking place over these last twenty days.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: So that is your time to do that. And then
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Day twenty one it is the brand finality, y'all. This
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: is the end. This is the last day.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Y'all have fought through it, you have stoock with it,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you have you've stood the test you endure. So the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: grand finalite, we want you to celebrate your wins. We
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: want you to celebrate your wins, y'all. That's what it's
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: all about. Celebrate your wins. How do you celebrate your wins?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You share results, make announcements of your next big move,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: your book launch, y'all.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Celebrate your community, those that support you.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Talk about if you got courses coming out, you got
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: upcoming events, you got opportunity for anthologies, anything that you
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: may have, y'all, that is.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: The time to share.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So that is week three. Now reflection for week three. Again,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: congratulations because now you are completed Week three. This has
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: been a powerhouse of connections, creative and forward thinking energy.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: As this chapter wraps up, take a moment to look
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: back at all you and your community have achieved. Know
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: that you didn't do it by yourself. That there were
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: some people that were cheering you own, that were supporters,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: that were tuning in every day, that were sharing. Those
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: are the ones that you want to celebrate. Now we
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: want you to dive into a You have read your stuff,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: You've done challenges, you've shared discoveries, you've done book recommendations,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you've done inspiring discussions. You've done a lot to really
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: get people engaged. So now test your literary instinct with
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: your your rapid fire questions. We want to make sure
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that you that you are able to.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Connect with your audience. Reflect on those questions that captured
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: that captures your attention, and then we want to reflect how.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You grew over these twenty one days. You know what work,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: what didn't work, That's what we want to know. How
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: did your own vision for this space shift and expand
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: through the process. So what did you think in the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: beginning and how did it change towards the end. Did
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you think that you were going to be able to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: do all of this stuff as you begin to partake
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: in it, As you begin.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: To do it, did it get better? Was it beneficial?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Like we want honest feedback, but as you move forward?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: After we have an as you move forward section, we
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: reflect on all the it and then I give you
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: some tips buzz for boosting tips is what it's called.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So I give you some tips to boost your visibility
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and to help you during this process. So using consistent hashtags,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: create your hashtags, create you some hashtags that you you
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: want to use throughout this twenty one days, something that
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you can incorporate into your brand that you're already doing.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: So for us, we use hashtag one hundred Authors on
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the move. We use hashtags one hundred authors to watch,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: hashtags authors on the Rise, and then hashtag, collaborate, hashtag, create, hashtag, community,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: hashtag aa LAC, and you hashtag your brand because we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that you are recognizing your brand.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So if you want to be a part of the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: twenty one day challenge, please make sure to get connected,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and we also encourage you to share it with somebody
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: pay it forward. If you're not attached to the one
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: hundred Author movement, y'all, we have fifty one more spots
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: join be a part of the movement. You get to
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: connect with ninety nine other like minded individuals that are
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: doing the same thing. They have the same goals, that
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: have the same aspirations. Our number one goal is to
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: be the change that we desire to see in this work,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and change starts and ends with us. So with that
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: being said, y'all, I want to challenge you guys to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: get attached, get attached to the things that we're doing
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: over here with the Crew Podcast, Aspiring Autic Magazine aa LAC,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: which is the African American Author Literacy Awareness campaign.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: But we truly believe in bringing awareness to black and
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: brown aptors around the world in those topics that are
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: affecting our black and brown community because a lot of
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: things people don't want to talk about that need to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: be a talked about in address within our black and
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: brown community. Again, y'all, as we close out Mental Health
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Awareness Month, it does not stop. Mental Health Awareness is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: a three hundred and sixty five day thing for me twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Four to seven because I am I am a overcomer,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I am a warrior, I am a conqueror, because I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: deal with these things, and I want other people to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: know that you can. You can't still function, you can
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: still thrive, you can still walk in your purpose and
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: deal with those things.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Because we have to understand too.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: If we read and we understand our Bible, there were
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: people in the Bible that deal with anxiety, depression, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: all those other things everything that we're dealing with. Know
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: that people before us deal with those same things. He's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: already made a way out. He provided us with resources,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: he provided us with doctors. They are here for a reason. No,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: they may not be able to do all of the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: work because then now once you get your diagnosis, now
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you know what you're dealing with. Now you figned out,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you can research yourself. You can find out what you
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: need to do to be the best version of yourself.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, y'all, we got
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to understand that doctors, y'all, they have a license to practice.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: They are not the say it all, know it all,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the end of it all. Because they have a license
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to practice, they're practicing on you. They're they're practicing these
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: different drugs. They're practicing. They're not they're not the final
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: say so as they can practice, so can you. So
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: when when when things are I'm telling you you need
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to know what's going on with you and learn how
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to incorporate, y'all, the word. He don't give us all
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the things that we need. We got to learn how
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: to put that word in our life and apply it
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: to our life. Because we pick up that Bible and
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it may say John, it may say Mark, it may
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: say Mary, it may say Susie, it may say how
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: whole lot of other names. But you got to learn
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: how to put your name in the place of those names.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Because what he did for one, he said he would
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: do for us all. So we got to know that
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and we gotta understand that, and we got to believe that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: So know that. So I am Queen Angela.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I am the visionary of AA L a C, which
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: is African American out the Legacy were in this campaign,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: also the visionary of The Crew podcast, which is an
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: amazing all female network of podcasters.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: We are a diverse group of podcasters.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: We come from social workers, professors, librarians, medical workers.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Individuals with disabilities, entrepreneurs, you name.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: It, we are that group. We're all authors in our
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: own rights. Some of us are do publishing, we are coaches.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We do a lot, but we're able to share other
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: people's perspectives. We're able to share them through the outlets
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: that we have. We have a magazine and we also
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: have a grief support group. We on live on The
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Crew podcast every fifth Sunday, So whenever there's a fifth Sunday.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: In the month, we will be on live. We will
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: be sharing this.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Coming up in June, we're gonna have two guests on
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and we're just gonna be talking and sharing. Matter of fact,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: one of our co hosts is also going to be
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: one of our guests because she has been dealing with
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: she's had to deal with the grief process of losing
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: her mom. So she's gonna be on that podcast with us.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: If you are dealing with grief, I encourage you to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: follow us. We are on Facebook. We are the Healing
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Voices NAVI Navigating through Grief. That is the name of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: our podcast. And again I say we air every fifth Sunday.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: We are also we are also attached to the Matters
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: of the Art conference is a quarterly conference. We're getting
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: ready to go into our third. Our third conference. I
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: think we had the first one back in February. The
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: second one was the beginning of this month May, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: then we're gonna have the third one. It's gonna be
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: in August, and then we'll close out in November with
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: our fourth conference. And it's called Matters of the Heart
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: because we all know that God deals with our heart.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: He deals with our heart, and if we are passionate
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: about those things, if we place it on our heart,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: if we place it down in our heart, we can
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: see and we can see how God works in our life,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: how He moves in our life. But y'all, we have
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to put it in our heart. A lot of us
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: we have good intentions, but it's really not what's in
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: our heart. So we wonder why things don't always go
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the way that we want them to go. I tell you,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: God deals with the matters of your heart. You put
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it in your heart, and you truly, you truly mean it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: It's gonna come to pass. It's gonna manifest in your life.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And we have to learn how to use these words
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: that he's given us. Now he's given us the instructions
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: in the Bible. He's given us these instructions like this
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: is the basic. It is the basic instructions before leaving earth.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: So we have to apply these things. No, everything in
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: there may.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Not work for you, because you have your.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Own journey, you have your own everything were all made
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: up different, so it may not exactly.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Work for you. But you'll never know what will work if.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: You're not applying. So a lot of us we're sitting
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and we're waiting. We're waiting for things to fall out
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the sky. We're waiting for things to happen that's not
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: going to happen. We have to be we have to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: be the blueprint of our our lives. If you want
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: to leave a legacy, you have to get out here
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and do something to leave a legacy. A legacy is
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: just not gonna fall out the sky.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: You know, no one is.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Coming to help you. He told us to look to
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the heels from which our help comes. And it was
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: just to remind us. If we look up and we
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: look out and we see all of this amazing stuff
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: out here, he our daddy owns it. It belongs to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: our daddy. Our daddy got all this. So guess what
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: If it belongs to our daddy, that means we got
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: access to it. And how do you get access to it?
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Not by sitting down. You got to get up and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: do something. He said, faith with God works is dead.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: So if you're not doing anything but believing it ain't happening,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it ain't happening. And I do not want to be
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: one of those people that end up in that box.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And I got all these things inside of me that
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I did not allow to come forth that He's placed
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: inside of me because he gives us gifts and talents.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: And if you keep coming across this page, and you
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: keep coming across this live, you keep coming across the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the reals you keep coming across, then know that there's
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: something that you're supposed to be doing. Because stuff is
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: not gonna keep popping up and keep coming across your path.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: If there's not something that you're supposed to be doing,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence, because I don't believe in coincidence.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Everything is ordained.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: He knew that this day would be this day before
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I was even conceived. In my mother's room Jeremih twenty
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: nine and eleven. It says he declared. If he declared,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: that means that he past him declared means past tend.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: That means that he's already done this stuff for us.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: When he said it was done, y'all, it was done.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: There's nothing new following under the sky. There's nothing new.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: There's no white savior horse coming out the sky to
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: save you. There's nobody coming to save you. If you
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: want to be saved, you gotta save yourself. How do
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you save yourself? You gotta know who you are. You
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: gotta know what your purpose is. You gotta know why
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: you were placed here on this earth. There are people
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to be impacted. No, we may not
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: reach everybody. It's not our job to reach everybody. We're
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: not gonna reach everybody, but you got to be able
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to reach those that are in your path because you
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: don't want blood on your hands.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: And that's how I have felt.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I felt like when I got out of place, when
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I got out of course, there were people that were
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: depending on me. There were lives that could have been
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: railed when I was out there doing what I was
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: doing and not doing what I was supposed to be
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: doing when I got off course, when I got off track.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So now we got to make sure that we are
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: in a line.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: No, we're not perfect.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you got to be perfect, but you
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: got to have a heart, a willing heart, a heart
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: that's willing to change, that's willing to train as form.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: See when we repent and be willing to turn from
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: those things, y'all, God, he's just to forgive us. He's
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: said he will forgive us. And once he forgives us, y'all,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: we just got to forgive ourselves and move on. We
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: can't continue to hold things over our head and hold
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the past over our head. I'm often reminded by something
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that one of my prayer best Desactioneeria. She's saying, it's
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: our past. It is our past that brought us to
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: this prayer line. It is our past that makes us
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: fall down on our knees. It is our past that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: that that that pushes us and makes us want to
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: do right. So don't think we just got here, and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: don't think that we are perfect, because we are not.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Y'all.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: We struggle a lot of us, A lot of these
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: people that you see doing this stuff, that's doing these lives,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: that's that's that's coaches, that's motivational speakers, that's doing the
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: things that you see us doing. We're doing it because
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the place that we come from and us not wanting
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: other people to go down the roads that we went down,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: wanting other people to have better wanting people to not
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: have to go through what we en doing. So if
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I can help loosen that, if I can help, you know,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: make your.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Journey less uh.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: But turn off and and hardship and less distractions, then
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that's what I want to do. I want to be
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: a helpmate and not a distraction, and that's what we
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: should be doing. So I want to encourage you guys.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: If you are authors and you are not attached to
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the movement, I want you to get attached to the movement.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: It's an opportunity for you to connect with other authors.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: It's an opportunity for you to network. It's an opportunity
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: for you to be involved in the live events that
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: we do because we go out and we go to
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: different cities. We have currently the Chase in Your Dream
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Book Tour. Were getting ready to head to Chicago. We're
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: headed into Spartanburg, South Carolina. We're headed to New York.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: We're headed to.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Charleston, South Carolina, California, Riverside, California, and then we're gonna
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: close out in San Antonio, Texas. So you guys have
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to connect with other like minded authors if
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: you are an author and you're looking for a platform
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: an environment like that. We have a group chat and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: then we have two pages that we uh well. We
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: have two groups and a page, and then we have
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a group chat where we do a lot of our communication,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of staying in communications with each other. If
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: you're on Facebook, we have a chat where we're inside
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: of the chat, we share in words. If there's any
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: opportunities that come up, say individuals are doing podcasting, they
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: have radio shows, they have magazines, there have been awards
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: that have come across. We share all of that inside
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: of that chat so that you can have an opportunity
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: to showcase your brand. It's not about competition over there.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: It is all about us bringing these things to the
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: forefront so that if others want to participate. We have
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: individuals that have been nominated for awards and they come
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: and they share how they got nominated so that other
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: people can get nominated and share their brain. And that's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: what it's all about. At the end of the day.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: It's all about us helping and supporting each other go
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: to the next level and helping each other get visibility,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: to get seen and to get heard. I'm new to
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: this over here on TikTok. I'm getting used to it.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I'm learning a little bit. I gotta know, I gotta
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: engage a little more. I'm not new to TikTok, but
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: as far as the lives and the engaging and the interaction,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that's something that I have not been doing. But it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: something that I'm going to do more of. I'm going
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to do more of in the near future. We are
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: working on that now, so y'all will see me, y'all
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: will see me going.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Live right now. I am live on.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Most all of our platforms that we stream live through
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: which is substat.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out how I can stream
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: TikTok through our streaming platform because we have.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I use.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: EVEV moots even even it even moots whatever it's called.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: That's a platform I use. It's something like stream yard,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: but I like it. I like the graphic part of it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: It's more and then it's a lot clear. The volumes
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: are are good. Sometimes there is some issues, because y'all
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: know what all these technology and all these platforms. There
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: are issues, but the issues that we have sometimes don't
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: outweigh the benefits of the platform and the different things
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: that we're able to utilize with the platform. So I'm
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: grateful for that. I'm grateful for that and the upgrade
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: on that. Again, we have an opportunity to stream to
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: nine platforms at the same time. So that's we are
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: live now here on Twitch YouTube, and then I'm streaming
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to five six different platform within Facebook's six different areas
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: within Facebook. I think, yeah, I got quite a few
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: pages on Facebook because I have quite a few different things.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: That I do.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I have one for the podcast, have one for the magazine,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: have one for my coaching program have one for the authors,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: so I have quite a few different pages over there,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: so we scream on those pages because we want to
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: keep everybody. We want to keep everybody in the loop.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: We want everybody to know what's going on. But I think, y'all,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: that's about it for me, I've shared a lot. The
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: most important thing is get involved in that twenty one
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: day challenge. Get involved in the one hundred author movement.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: If you are not already attached, I'm telling you it
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: is an opportunity for you the network. If you are
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: someone that like to collaborate, like to partner, like to
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: support others while supporting yourself, and you want that same support,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: then this is the group because we believe in support,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: and we believe in network, and we believe in collaborating.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: So definitely want you guys to join the group and
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: get attached to some of the things that we're doing.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: We may be coming to your city. You can get
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: in and be a part of the event when it
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: comes to your city. See how you can be involved.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: You have to be attached to the movement in order
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: to be involved, So get involved with the movement if
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: you want visibility, if you want to attach y'all come
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  Speaker 1: on over, join the twenty one day Challenge and allow your.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Brand to be seen in her.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: No'aw, it's up to you because you are the face
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: of your brand and nobody can tell your story like you.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: So y'all get involved, get attached, and allow him to
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: move in your life. Y'all, when we move out of
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the way, then he can move and he can do
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the things that he want to do. So I'm on
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: pause for a moment. If y'all got some questions, post
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• 54:59
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• 55:02
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• 55:05
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  Speaker 2: Saying, not being distracted. Sorry about that, y'all. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity to share your brand. Again, you are connected
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  Speaker 1: to approximately ninety nine other individuals. We may have some
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  Speaker 1: authors that are not active, but it does not stop
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  Speaker 1: us from utilizing the.
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  Speaker 2: Ones that are active.
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  Speaker 1: So you have an opportunity to connect with nine nine
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  Speaker 1: other like minded individuals that it's out here.
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  Speaker 2: What we have. One thing that we all have in
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  Speaker 2: coming is we all have a story. We all have
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  Speaker 2: a story.
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  Speaker 1: We all have something that somebody else can benefit from.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing is are you willing to share that story?
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  Speaker 1: Are you willing to be vulnerable enough to allow individuals
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  Speaker 1: to connect with you? So the other individuals can be
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  Speaker 1: healed as you heal. That's what I say. We are
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: healing and we allow on others to heal as we
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: heal by sharing our story, by sharing our perspective, by
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: doing those things that we're doing. So I encourage you guys,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: do not sit by and be idle. Utilize those gifts
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: and those talents. If you have a gift of writing poetry,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: write some poetry, find out.
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  Speaker 2: How you can.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Not how you can incorporate your poetry into a business.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: So I have several people that.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: They said they just started writing poetry and then people
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: would just ask them to write different things for different things.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: So they was they started. I have some that started
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: a business. She does birthdays, she do graduations, any type
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of event that somebody wants a special personalized poem, they usually.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Reach out to her.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: She does the poems, she even does a little design,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: she frames it and then she ships it to them. Yeah,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: there's all types of things that you can incorporate with
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: your brand, with your books, with your whatever it is
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: that you're doing. Give gift boxes every month. Like if
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: you have a book and you have you can create
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: a book club that has a gift box and you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: can send out a gift box every month, you can
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: do prizes like y'all. There's so much stuff that you
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: can do as an author to push your brand and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: to really develop a community, and just because y'all.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: And then you gotta think to y'all.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: A lot of us we go in these groups and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: we're just posting our books, and we're thinking that, hey,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: these people, if you're not connecting with them, they're not
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: gonna buy your book. People want to know who you are.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: And that has been the concisest across various platforms that
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I have been on. I've interviewed people, I've talked to people,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I've sit down and even talking with readers and those
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: that buy your book, you know, one of the things
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: that they'd say is they want to connect to the author.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: They want to know who the author is. They want
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to get a like cause some of these people when
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: they reading your book, they are really thinking that they're
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: in your life, that they are a part of your life.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: So that's the connection that they want. So you have
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: to be able to provide that connection. You have to
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: be relatable. We have to be relatable. We can't just
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: assume that you know, because people follow us that.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: They can relate to us.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: And then sometimes people follow us and we may not
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: even be who they need, but they know that because
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: of the things that we do that people may come across,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: so they stay on the platform and they follow.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: But you may be the person that the person on
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: my platform is in need of.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: But if you're not coming forth and showing yourself, utilizing
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to make yourself known, then how would they
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: know you? How would they know your services? How would
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: they know what books you provide? How would they know
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: your coaching program? How would they know anything about you?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: If you are not sharing.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we are our worst enemy because a lot of
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: us we want to move in silence.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: We want to stay behind the scenes. We don't want
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: to come to the forefront.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: We want to be private people because we don't want
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: people to know who we are. Honestly, you know what
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: that what private? What that's all about. That's still some
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: healing that needs to take place. To be honest, that's
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: still some healing that need to take place. Because he
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: didn't tell us to be in secret here. The only
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: thing that he said for us to do in secret
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: was to pray and to to to fast and when
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: you're doing that anyway, that is something that you're doing
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: for yourself. You're not doing it for anyone else.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: So it should be done in secret.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: But when you're out here in pact the lives, and
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: you're out here, if you're saying.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: You're a speaker, you're a motivation, there's.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: No way that you can move in silence. There's no
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: way that you can move secretly. And you're an influencer
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: and you're supposed to be impacting lives. You're supposed to
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: be that change. You can't be quiet and stay in
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the background and think that you're gonna be able to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: influence and impact anybody.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Because the first thing when people see you, they're gonna
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: think you give it in. They're gonna they don't want
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: to be I don't know what they gonna know. They
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: need to see you out in the front.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: They need to see you moving and operating in that
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: that God has called you too. I'm telling you that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: because I used to be that person, y'all. I used
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: to be that person. I used to think that because
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't have all the accolades.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Didn't have all of the degrees, I.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Didn't have all of the education, I didn't have all
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: of the things that people were throwing around that hey,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: I wasn't hey, I wasn't up there on they level.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: So I was just staying in the background, just doing
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: what I knew that I thought I was supposed to
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: be doing, and just doing it and just making it
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: do what it does. And then God kept placing me
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: in the midst of people. He kept placing me in
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: the circle with people. And every time I would get
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: placed in the circle with people, this would be one
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: of the things that they would say. It's not about titles,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: it's not about degrees, it's not about education. But it's
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: about that that God is placed in you. He's given
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: us all gifts and talents in his word Proverbs eighteen
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: and sixteen and say he will make room for you.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Your gifts will make room for you and make you
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: great before men. And that is paraphrase. But if you
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: go over to Proverbs eighteen and sixteen, you can read
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  Speaker 1: it for yourself. Not only read it for yourself, speak
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: it over your life and allow it to be life
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: so that it can manifest in your life. To a
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: lot of we see this stuff, we read this stuff,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: but we don't believe it and then we don't even
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: speak it over our lives, y'all. I had to speak
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah twenty nine eleven over my life. I had to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: recite that to myself. I had to repeat it to myself,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: repeat it to myself, repeat it to myself. Until one
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  Speaker 1: day I got up and I realized that I had
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: a purpose, because when God dropped it in my spirit,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, ain't no way I'm supposed to have
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: a purpose in going through all of this.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: There's no way this is my purpose.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Going through domestic violence on the brink of committing suicide suicide,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I was suicidal and going through domestic violence, and I
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: was like, ain't no way this can be my purpose,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: not knowing that everything that I endured, everything that I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: went through, y'all, made me able to be able to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: do the stuff that I'm doing now. If I not
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: went through domestic violence, if I had not been shot
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: blank range with a side off shotgun, how would I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: be able to host the twenty four hour domestic Violence
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Awareness Conference and give other individuals, other advocates, and other
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: survivors and opportunity to share their story, to connect with
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: other people so that they know that they don't have
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: to go through this, that they're not alone on this journey.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: But I had to go through it. If I'm not
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: endo it, how could I be here telling you about
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: it today. So whatever you're going through, whatever you have
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: went through, know that it was necessary. It was required,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: It was a part of the process because if you
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: not went through it, you wouldn't be able to tell
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: somebody else how you got through it.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: And because you got through it, you're.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Able to help somebody else. So hold on to that
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: and trust the process and know that there's nothing, nothing,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: that God has all out to come upon you that
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: he didn't already know.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: He knew it before we were even in our mother's womb.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: He knew everything that was gonna take place in our life.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: So trust and believe that he's already made a way out.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: He's already made a way out, he's already ordained and
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: mapped it out. Now it's up to you to walk
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: into it. It's up to you to walk into it.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: It's up to you to catch up with your destiny.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: And if you don't know what your destiny is, if
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: you don't know what your purpose is, if you don't
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: know what it is that you're supposed to be doing, y'all.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: We got coaches over here. I am a coach, you
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: see right here. Coach I can help you. I can
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: help you tap into those gifts and those talents that's
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: on the inside of you, because y'all, they're there. You
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: didn't get dropped out of the sky. You were tritgively
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: placed in this earth, and you were placed here for
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: a reason. It's up to us to discover what those
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: reasons are. Find out what it is that we're supposed
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: to be doing, how we are supposed to be impacting lives,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: because that is what we're supposed to be doing. Walk
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: in your destiny, catch up with your destiny. Allow those
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: things that he said, those things that have been spoken
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: over your life, and those things that have been prophesied
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: over your life, y'all, allow them to manifest, allow them
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: to come to pass.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: How do you do that.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: You gotta get out here and do something. You can't
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: keep sitting down and expecting things to happen in your life.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop saying it. You gotta get up,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: you gotta move, you gotta put some off behind it.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: We got books in us, we got podcasts in US,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: we got magazine articles in US. We got so much
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: in us that need to come out so that it
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: can impact the world. Y'all, there is a world of
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: people hurting them that are looking for directions, that are
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: looking for a way out. And God has equipped some
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: of us to be that beacon of light for others.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: But yet some of us sit and we're not being obedient.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: To that that He has called us to. Some of
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: us here they're hearing it and ignoring it. But it
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: ain't going nowhere. It ain't going nowhere. So if you
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: keep coming to process this platform and you keep hearing
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the same thing, just humble yourself. Just humble yourself and say, Lord,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: show me the way. You know, I had to move
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: out my way and I just had to say, Lord,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I just use me. I am willing and just use me.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: You just got to be willing to work unto the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Lord and not unto people, because when you work unto people,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: people have expectations, and you can't have expectations when you're
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: dealing with people because we are all different. So when
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: you work unto the Lord, your expectation is that God is.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Gonna do for you what you do for others. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: believe it.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: When when my apostle, doctor Kimberlee Thomas say it, I
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: believe it, and she said it so much to y'all.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I share it everywhere I go because I believe that thing,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: and I believe that what you do for others, God
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: will do for you. So trust him on today, whatever
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: you're standing in need of on today, trust him and
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: believe that he's yet working on your behalf, that he's
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: already worked it out. So whatever it is that you
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: need to walk into that you need to do, because y'all,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: we have to do the work. We can't just expect
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: things to happen. So I challenge you, get involved. Get involved,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Get involved. You have an opportunity to allow your brand
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: to speak, to allow your brand to be heard, to
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: allow your brand to be seen.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Do it.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: You can do it through the one hundred Author Movement.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: You can do it through the twenty one Day Challenge.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: If you just want to get a feel of who
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: we are and what we do over on the various
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: platforms attached to the Queen of Collaboration, this is your
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: opportunity to connect, get involved, and allow God.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: To do what he said he would do. In your life,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: move about your way.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: And let him be y'all. I think my time here
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: is almost up. I'm gonna hang around a few more
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: minutes because I'm trying to do this challenge. I'm trying
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: to be obedient. I'm trying to partake in this challenge
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: over here on TikTok and trying to really see how
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: this works. Not just on TikTok, but y'all, I really
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: want to engage and to really get our community involved
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: and see how we can get some more other community's involved.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: If you are an urban lit author, street lit author,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: real life story author, or if you have a topic
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: that cannot be talked about nor doing normal so called
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: when our babies are up, but you want to say,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: you got a topic on incests or essays or domestic
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: violence or things of that nature that may not can
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: be talked about during prime time while the kids are up. Y'all,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I am launching a podcast called The Real in Raw
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Author Slunge starting July seventh. July seventh is going to
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: be our first day that we air online. It's a
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: safe place for those that have those type of topics.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: If you have a memoir or you have something that
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: may not be appropriate for those babies, and the hours
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: when those babies are up, that ten o'clock hour on Mondays,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be that time where you can come through.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: You can share those those topics that may be set,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: those topics that you know may raise some controversy or
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: may raise some eyebrows, but you want to share them.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: We want you to be able to share it in
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: a safe place. So we have established a real en
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: raw author slounge for those urban lit, those street lit,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: those real life stories, those stories on essays, the d M,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: the domestic violence incences, those things like that. We want
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to provide a space for you. So start in July seventh,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: ten pm Eastern Standard time, we're gonna be going live
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: on the Crew podcast and it's gonna be a our
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: show where we're gonna be sharing maybe whatever the topic
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: is for that day, what's hot in the news. May
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: have an author interview, may have a panel discussion, however
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: we're led that week, that's what we're gonna do. We're
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: opening it up because we want to be able to
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: provide an outlet for discussion. Y'ad, it's time to be
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: able to discuss some of these things. That people have
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: been brushing under the rug, people have been putting aside,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: and they've not been undressing them.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: Y'all.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: When you don't address stuff, when you brush it under
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: the rug, guess what that rug. That rug begins to
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: build up and that rug becomes a mountain. So now
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: it's time to uncover that rug and deal with some
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: of those things that's under that rug. Get that rug
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: cleaned up so it can be flat again and people
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: won't be tripping because when the rugs start rising up,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: people don't trip over. So let's get some things in
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  Speaker 1: order again. Get attached to the one hundred. Get attached
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• 1:16:17
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• 1:16:21
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• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: light to shine because your voice matters.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never alone. I'm never alone. I'm never I've never
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to those on tis time. I appreciate y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all. I appreciate y'all. Because there was twenty
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  Speaker 1: I had two hundred and thirty one viewers that watched
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Even though I did not get any rewards over there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch for tuning in Channette, thank.
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