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Grace to Grow: Rest, Transitions & Starting Your Podcast | With Desiree Danielle | EP126 · Jess Ask

• 0:37
  Speaker 1: They get it, get get get you said, get what
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  Speaker 1: you just said? Let get it too. Just ass on
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  Speaker 1: the dance glowing.
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  Speaker 2: Your girls just spells, and you know where you've landed.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: You've landed in the safe space with Wes de.
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  Speaker 1: Compress half have fun and guess what just.
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  Speaker 2: As y'all it's being desiltra we here, we are here, Hey,
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: this is a desert does already does already does already
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  Speaker 2: he does already doesn't? Right?
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: You look girl? You look good? Won't you that? Let
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  Speaker 1: me that ain't read? Ready? How you be? Girl? Man,
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  Speaker 1: jess I am good.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: Today has been a uh, busy but good, busy but good.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of speaks to the season it's
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  Speaker 2: been in this transitional preparing season of course, like technically
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: we're going into an actual we're in a new season.
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  Speaker 2: All you know what I'm saying. And you can just
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  Speaker 2: always just tell when things are just shifting and changing. Man,
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: let's talk about a shift. Jessica has been going through shift.
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  Speaker 2: Flip yeah, side laid down to the side that fro
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  Speaker 2: fried use a frying pant y'all your girls mentioned when
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  Speaker 2: I've been telling you about transition and listen, I physically transitioned.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Oh that's not that's that's not right.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't physically, yeah, obviously because you're watching me, but
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  Speaker 2: you know that kind of okay, So let me just
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  Speaker 2: that took a turn, that took a term.
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  Speaker 1: So I moved. I moved.
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  Speaker 2: I moved from Montgomery to Maham, back to my hometown, actually,
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  Speaker 2: back in the place I was raised in. I'm making
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  Speaker 2: the home I was raised in. So I'm renting from
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  Speaker 2: my father right now, which is the very unique opportunity
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  Speaker 2: because somebody was telling me the other day that they
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  Speaker 2: were a lot of black families don't keep or they
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  Speaker 2: haven't don't know a lot of black families that keep
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  Speaker 2: the home. They're always wanting to sell it or do something.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm grateful for the opportunity that my daddy
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  Speaker 2: has given me to, you know, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Move with ease this.
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  Speaker 2: But even though it's been like there's been an ease
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  Speaker 2: to it, it's been some hardship to it for multiple
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: different reasons that some of the stuff I just won't
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  Speaker 2: share because there's none of y'all business.
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  Speaker 1: And I love y'all, but y'all I can't talk to
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  Speaker 1: y'all about it.
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  Speaker 2: But but I will share that. Earlier this year, I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about my my my word for the year,
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  Speaker 2: well for my birthday, and my word for the year
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  Speaker 2: was or is resurrection. And that's the way I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about the fact that I had you guys. Uh
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  Speaker 2: I asked you guys to dress up as we did.
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  Speaker 1: We had all black at your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all had didn't that because did you have the word
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  Speaker 2: then or no? I had the word then and I
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  Speaker 2: seen somebody, I saw someone else do it a black
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  Speaker 2: to the death of Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It was the death of something and was I think
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  Speaker 2: regarding them like being outside like smacking and stuff and
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  Speaker 2: uh so, so I had y'all were black. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought about that yesterday and it made me think that.
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  Speaker 1: Think about my word of the year resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking to our dear friend Bree here,
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  Speaker 2: that's our friend, y'all. I show not too much with y'all,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll share with y'all. But girl, she was praying
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  Speaker 2: for me last night and she said something that was
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  Speaker 2: so powerful. She was like, as you as the Lord showed,
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  Speaker 2: as Jesus showed his hands to the disciple to prove
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  Speaker 2: like him the whole. They he was crucified as you're
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  Speaker 2: going through your crucifixion stage. Because I kept telling people
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm dying. I kept telling I really,
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  Speaker 2: they say, dot of flesh, baby, baby baby.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like I'm still trying to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Lord, I know not to curse this season because
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  Speaker 2: I know this is stretching my capacity. I also know
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  Speaker 2: this is hurting. This is hurt This is painful. People
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  Speaker 2: will see the glitz and Glenna Park, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: tell you all the truth. It's been painful, but if
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  Speaker 2: I can still stand and come through it now on
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  Speaker 2: my own, I got people like your girl does at Wray.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we stuck. Like I wish, I wish somebody
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  Speaker 2: would try to I will. I wish a husband would
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  Speaker 2: for real, but we already know.
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  Speaker 1: I got husband approval hashtag. I'm in there. But I
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  Speaker 1: think that if I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Have people like you breathe Stacy, if I didn't I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have people like y'all, I I would be missed
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  Speaker 2: up right now, real talk, I would be messed up.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to my sister, and I know I've
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  Speaker 2: been I've been wearing out like I'm not a lie.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to the break that we're about
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  Speaker 2: to take. Can you can you talk to them about
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  Speaker 2: the break that we're finna take, because and then we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get into some topics. I think that some people
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  Speaker 2: don't know when it's time to to take a break.
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  Speaker 2: But there's biblical references that we can use in order
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  Speaker 2: to support I need for a risk. You know when
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  Speaker 2: we started last year, we did this last year. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: last year. We did it last year in July. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: really it ain't like it ain't like it isn't like
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  Speaker 2: we're we necessarily say hey, at the time, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do this month this month. It really kind of just
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  Speaker 2: it is probably kind of predicated on kind of like
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  Speaker 2: what's happening, you know what I'm saying. And so last
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  Speaker 2: year we was like, hey, we're gonna take off of
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  Speaker 2: the month. We didn't do that one at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the year. Closer to the top of the.
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  Speaker 1: We did July last year. Yeah, July last year.
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  Speaker 2: And what that did It allowed us to prepare for it, right,
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  Speaker 2: So we record, there's no secret record once a month,
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  Speaker 2: and typically we pre record for the for the next month, right, So,
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: which meant if we're gonna be off a whole month,
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  Speaker 2: that's four episodes that we knew that we had to
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  Speaker 2: have make sure that we had ready to go. So
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: it just allowed us to, uh do some extra recordings
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, so that we were prepared for
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  Speaker 2: the month of July to calm because we won't recording nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Baby went to go part we did with an anti
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  Speaker 1: PAM and she just like loved on a so good.
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  Speaker 1: Like I loved.
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  Speaker 2: She was very intentional about making sure that she planted
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  Speaker 2: seeds of one rest but also planet seeds of uh
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  Speaker 2: just doing the things that you love that brings your
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  Speaker 2: joy to help fill you up, because there's there's gonna
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: be times, yes we need to physically stop and rest,
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  Speaker 2: but there's gonna be sometimes where the schedule is is
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  Speaker 2: not allowing that, right, So you have to do those
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  Speaker 2: do the things that still bring you joy, that still
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  Speaker 2: kind of helped fill you up. And I think that's
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: kind of what I took back from that moment because
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: I loved I always I call it fancy coffee. Yeah,
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: I was about to say she talked about basically basically
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: in TPAM, she said, you can have stopbards at home
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  Speaker 2: and baby listen. She was her spread was laid. So
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: that was the first time I was like, dang, this
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  Speaker 2: fancy coffee. So it was like little certain things that
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: I just picked up and I still kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Do because I was like, I like this, you know.
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  Speaker 2: She's like I like, you know, this kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: is in my coffee, and I like this kind of
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  Speaker 2: teas and I like these things, and so I don't
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  Speaker 2: always have to buy them out.
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  Speaker 1: I can buy them and do that home, like anytime
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  Speaker 1: I get ready to I you don't have to wait
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  Speaker 1: on the pleasure. I don't have to wait on a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: I think that a part of being And this is
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  Speaker 2: for like any creatives, anybody that's been on like YouTube
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: or but especially the people that were called to specifically podcasters.
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  Speaker 2: That first year was a grind, like more so mentally
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: for me, especially when I didn't have desil Ray. So
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: I I got DESI Ray in between year one and
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  Speaker 2: year two when it was zero to one, it was
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  Speaker 2: just me and so I was trying to navigate that thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to figure things out, and I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: successful because as successful as I am now, because it's
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  Speaker 2: when the Lord gives you a partner.
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  Speaker 1: Right, talk to me, talk to the people.
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  Speaker 2: It enhances what you when you what you have, it
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  Speaker 2: does not dilute. And so if you if you're struggling
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  Speaker 2: in partnership or struggling in the season and you have
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  Speaker 2: a partner, the enhancement got to be there even in
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  Speaker 2: the struggle because deesil Ray and I have had struggle moments.
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  Speaker 1: We was homeless. We were homeless.
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  Speaker 2: So when people tell me, oh, I can't, I can't
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  Speaker 2: do this because I don't have but we didn't even
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  Speaker 2: have a place to record.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we was out here.
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  Speaker 2: Can we borrow your business, then we're gonna give you
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  Speaker 2: flip free publicity type stuff until b GTV. We're not
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: there today, but they're still our brothers and brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of just felt like during the episode today,
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: so guess what you just we're doing an episode. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think that after so much hard work, the
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  Speaker 2: Lord just put on my heart for us to just
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to do this every month. Even though
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: it's just only once a month, it's still on behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: You got the admin part, you have the you have the.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: Editing, you got the social media, media content, you have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things and and just not having to
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: think about interviewing someone talking or having a conversation. I
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: think that it was necessary for that season. And then
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: so when we did it last year, I said, I
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: think this needs to be an annual thing.
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  Speaker 1: We have to plan for.
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  Speaker 2: Risk, and I think that's why a lot of us don't.
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  Speaker 2: We're not successful in the podcasting world because we don't
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  Speaker 2: plan to risk that. Okay, So just a quick we
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: we help people enhance their podcast in podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: So my brand under Jessica S. Smith.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, if you paid attention to my social media lately,
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  Speaker 2: I've been offering podcast strategies and all that good stuff,
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: trying to work on a consistent schedule. But babe, they
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: sold that that first one out. Doesn't rightly they sold
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  Speaker 2: that first one out. There's a and I have something
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  Speaker 2: together called pop podcast on Purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Things that we teach is batch recording. And if you
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: don't know what batch recording is is basically what Desira
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: said in the beginning. As far as we do four
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: episodes in one sitting, we do four episodes in one city,
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: and normally that those episodes are for the for the
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: next month. So when y'all look at these episodes, typically
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: there there are episodes that we did previous month outside
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: of people like you know when we did Omar. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if it's like special stuff, we'll kind of like change
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: up the schedule or whatnot. But and that I'm let's
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: put a pin in that. I'm proud of myself because
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Jessica used to be strict.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just used to be striged.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's gotta be like this, we gotta stay in
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: the same place.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta have this subject.
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  Speaker 2: So as she talked about that, that partnership, what what
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  Speaker 2: what it has done for both of us. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's stretched both of us personally. Like I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: I'm very like woo, let's free, let's go, let's be
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  Speaker 2: just go woo, let's do it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm very high level like visionary, high level.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not used to be. I used to be much
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  Speaker 2: struggle with the details of a thing, right, Jessica's very
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  Speaker 2: type A. It's got to be like dress right, dress
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  Speaker 2: like boom boom boom, were gonna put all things in
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  Speaker 2: the boxes and what our partnership has done was enhanced
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  Speaker 2: what we have, right, So it has made me now
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  Speaker 2: like I'm paying close attention to details of things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, and Jessica has.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just relaxed a little bit because for us
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: not to be a bg TV right now, it could
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: have been a whole thing. It's the background is supposed
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: to be. But you know what's interesting though, I think
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  Speaker 2: I had to go through that part to be able
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: to tell other podcasters.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm teaching weekly via the seven figure podcast community.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: I tell them every week it is okay, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: use what you have, because what you have is enough
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  Speaker 1: for you to start. Oh my god, I'm gonna repeat
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  Speaker 1: that because that just the first one was for me.
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  Speaker 1: This one for y'all. Use what you have. It's enough
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  Speaker 1: for you to start.
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  Speaker 2: Start, and some of us get into our headspace, a
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: headspace of well what it doesn't look like this, and
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: it doesn't look like that. I was talking to a
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: client yesterday when we were doing one on one.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: And I was telling her.
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  Speaker 2: She's she's about to have an adult podcast and she's
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: just a dope person, right, but she's very she is
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: very much so type A because of her profession she
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  Speaker 2: she is together, and I get I got her. I
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: understood her concerns, but I had to tell her. I
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: was like, you have majority of what you would need.
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  Speaker 2: You have the aesthetics, you have, you know what I'm saying,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: you're branding, you have all of this. And when I
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: was we were talking about a mic and another I
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: think a chair or something like that. At first we
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: were bringing it up and I heard her say that,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: but then we got to the deeper issue of what
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: she was concerned about would mess up her consistency.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk.
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  Speaker 2: About you know what I'm saying, Let's talk about that, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we were able to talk about that,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: we were coming up with some solutions regarding, Okay, if
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be this, how would this look right?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: The solution will And I'm saying this or whatever because
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I don't want you to have business. But y'all said
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: it when it comes out, y'all, y'all see it when
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: it comes out, because guess what Jessica and does really
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: more than like gonna have something to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: But but I think I needed to be reminded of
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  Speaker 2: I used to be that person. I used to be
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  Speaker 2: the one telling Desert Ray, no, we can't do this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do this.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do this, and da da da da what
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  Speaker 2: we're about to get ready to do for the break?
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  Speaker 2: She advised it last year. I told her no. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: told her no, but we were, we were. We had
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a target. We had a target. We had a goal
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: to get to one hundred episodes. So I was I
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  Speaker 2: was solid on my note. I think she understood it
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  Speaker 2: more now I was, like the target, there's a different
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: type of target. Like right now we're focusing on and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: we'll just tell you truth. We're focused on monetization, like
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: we're focused on bringing making from content to cash, as
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Omar would say. And so now that's our focus, and
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  Speaker 2: we're taking we take the break.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're taking another break.
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  Speaker 2: So the next few episodes after this you'll see our
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: older episodes.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a throwback. That's first.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just talk about how much is it is a
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  Speaker 2: blessing to be able to like you have we have
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: a there's a bank of content, got a catalog, a
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: catalog of content, like and it's all like because of
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  Speaker 2: it's all kingdom, you know what I'm saying, And we
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: can we can put it back and it still be
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: just as good, just as relevant as it was when
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  Speaker 2: we did it.
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  Speaker 1: A year ago. Yeah or whatever that looked like you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And she and she didn't like last I think last
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: year when we were talking about the break, she was like, no,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: we gotta d So we made sure that we got
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the episodes in this year, like she said, because the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: focus is a little different, and we got the content.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, we can, we can.
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  Speaker 2: We can step back a little bit and grab some
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: some throwbacks and still it still be a blessing. You
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. The content is still relevant. That's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the beauty of starting. Come on, that's the that's the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: beauty of starting. Like I there's there's YouTube videos that
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I'll go in to search something on YouTube
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: because that's what it is. YouTube is a search in
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: nginin right, go in and search something and a video
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: pop up from four years ago, five years ago, six
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: years ago, and guess what, the content that I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: for is still there and it's still very relevant today,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So it's not a yes.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I think as you grow, as you learn, some things.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: As you know, revenue comes and you can actually invest
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: more into what you want to do.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: It's just important to stop start.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I've actually had a conversation with with a guy that's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: starting the podcast, and you know that's this thing.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: He's like, I got a camera all these things. I said, Hey,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you got a phone.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, you got a phone that can connect to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: your laptop and if you want to do it in
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the software program, cool, but you got what you you
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: already got a mic, like what we talk about right now,
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  Speaker 2: you want to prolong it because you ain't got this
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  Speaker 2: camera that cost one thousand dollars.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like use your phone. Just start where you're at,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Start with where you have.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: And then what I'm learning is that our baby, the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: forty plus people love Jessica the love they love Justica.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And that was a majority of who I had in
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: that class that I did the strategy session, and they
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they need that type of intimate time because they it's
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: this technology is moving so fast. By the time they
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: learned one thing, they I mean they still they just
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: learned this one. Now we five steps ahead on iois
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: twenty six. You know what I'm saying, Like I ain't
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: even upgraded my phone from the eighteen you know, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: it's eighteen you're talking about.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: IOI is twenty six, you know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: So there's a there's grace on our lives, apparently to
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: reach the older, older audience or more mature. I don't
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: like saying older, more mature audience, because baby there was
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: a I think she was probably in her late sixties,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: early seventies. Maybe forty forty three thousand people subscribe to
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: her on on Facebook. She's trying to translate that to YouTube,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: like being able to have those type of conversations and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: letting people know, hey, it's possible.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I don't care how old you are. I don't care
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what your budget is. I don't care, you know.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And when people when people, I've had several people like
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: overly anxious about why got have this, to have a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: get this, blah blah blah blah blah, So desiraate, I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: won't I really And this ended up turning kind of
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: turning into this episode. So I will get back to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the whole break thing. But can you explain to people
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: what they need, like the necessities.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: That are needed to start a podcast?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: So the necessity so a podcast is traditionally audio yes, right. Traditionally,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: a podcast is audio where you're recording your voice and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you're putting on a platform where people go and listen.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: So, because technology and the nature of how we consume
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: content has shifted to a lot of video now, even
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: though YouTube has been out since two thousand and five, six,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: seven eight, right, but video content is becoming really popular now.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: So video podcasting has now become a popular thing. So
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: when you're starting a we're gonna speak mainly to video podcasts, right,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: The things you're gonna need is something to record video,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: audio and lighting. Literally, that's those are like the three
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: main that's that's that's the basic too. Photography, videography in general.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: It's like making sure you have good clean audio. And honestly,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: if you have lighting and good decent lighting and decent audio,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and you gotta you know, your video quality maybe be
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: like webcam, yeah quality, like people can can can listen
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: through that because they can still hear the content that
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you're that you're putting out, right, Like I be, I
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: don't know if you've ever watched the video, and and
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like I don't know, like squinting make me
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: try to hear better, but I'll be squinting, like, dam
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I don't even know, like if you just lose interest. Right, Yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So audio, it does audio, video and lighting. Right, so
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, uh, everybody has earbuds. Everybody has earbuds.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I don't say everybody, but earbuds are easily accessible. Yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: they're budgetable, they're budgetable. They have Bluetooth mics now that
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: are are pretty reasonable in price, and then there are
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: some like USB mics that plug directly into your into
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: your your computer or whatever that are pretty decently priced. Right. Light,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: free light, natural light, Yeah, a window, a door, sliding door,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: glass door, or you know, ring light. You know, there's
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: also pretty decently priced lighting options. Camera, y'all already know
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: about to say. Everybody got a phone, and.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Most of the phone nowadays are.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Honestly probably better than some of the point shoot cameras
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: that that we look at now, right, Yeah, but there
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: are some entry level options when it comes to video
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that you can invest in that's not gonna cost you
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a bank for you to get started. So let me
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: ask you this question as far as equipment. As far
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: as equipment, because you she is the tech person and
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the just just did show. Okay, as far as equipment.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: If somebody wanted to had a budget of like, uh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: let's say one hundred dollars, is that reasonable to start?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: If I already have my phone, If you already have
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: your phone, yes, literally, like within that light, get your
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: light and something to record your audio.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: When I say record your are there like a mic? Right?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: So when you say light, are you like? Can you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: say the brand of light?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So I have a Newer is a brand that I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: frequent very often. Newer g m V is a brand
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that I frequent often. There's also Ammoran, There's there's a
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: bunch of different companies that pretty much have the same
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: similar light light options.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It's just going to be a matter of budget.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So they even have like some budget friendly ones, Like
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I've gotten lights for thirty dollars, forty dollars, fifty dollars.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Then I've also bought some lights that was two hundred
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars, you know what I'm saying. And really the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: one that was lesser was decent. It was a decent
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: light to get started, you know what I'm saying. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: as I've built, as I've built my kit, and as
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I've invested, I've invested in higher quality pieces. Yeah, so
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Desire is about to start doing like content regarding like
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: teaching people how to like do their lighting or do
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: technical things or whatever. So when she launches that, you guys,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: y'all make sure y'all y'all go.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Over there to her youthube page and like amp it up.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: But no, I had her say that because I'm always asked,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: you know, I want I want to have this and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: it or whatever. Let me tell y'all about Jessica Smith
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: when she was starting. I knew that I needed a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: mic I needed. I knew I needed like yeah, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I knew I knew I wanted a good camera. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: didn't take in consideration even using my phone. I wish
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I did because the first couple episodes would actually probably
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: been decent. I knew how to strip the audio and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: put some decent audio on it and use the audio I
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: had from the mic from the mic, but because I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: smart like that, like I know how to really make
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it look good. But I didn't even consider because I
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: didn't think my phone was a tool outside of me
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: searching or talking on But there's so many things like
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I'm even thinking about, like people you may not have
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: access to like a I'm gonna call it a pro
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: grade editing program like Premiere Pro or the Venture Resolve
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: or Final Cut Pro.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Right, but there's cap cut. There's cap cut.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Cap Cut has the ability for you to be able
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to separate your video on your audio and overlay you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: overlay say the audio from your your actual mic that
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: you did, right, Yeah, and they have a free version
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: that they do that they still allow you to.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Edit pretty well on they do. So I think that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: The biggest thing starting out is just record. You don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: release without recording. And the listen of Drew Viz, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: don't care if you're if you if you spend thousands
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: of dollars on your first on some equipment, those first.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Couple of episodes day, they're gonna be rough. They're gonna
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: be rough. They gonnas and.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I still still feel like there's gonna
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: be some type of roughness to it because I can't
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: say that I even know people that have been in
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the profession just like, oh okay, let me just do it,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: or unless you've been like if you just coach d
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: she's just good at everything. She's just good at everything.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But unless you are that type of special person. You're
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: gonna it's gonna be some rough patches, you know what
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, And like, y'all please go watch my first episode.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It was trash. It was me trying to Hi.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: This is chessca and I'm a little nervous, like I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: did some super Girl.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Real bad with that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: With with the raggedy camera that I tried to I
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: thought I was getting a great deal of y'all. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: camera used to cut off on me in the middle
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: of me recording. And the first time it did it,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it was in the middle of me interviewing Bri she
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Bree was my first guess.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So I set this thing up or whatever.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm playing desl Ray and I'm playing myself at
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the same time.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So it can be done.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to hear no excuses what y'all
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: can't do, because y'all doing any boy, y'allself.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I had to be be desl Ray And at.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: This point Felicia shout out to Felicia, you know, at
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: our admin or one of our admins now, and I
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: just I wish I would have known I could use
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: my phone. I just didn't know that. I didn't I
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: did not The research that I did was so how
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I will say it was high level. It was people
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that had the funds to get there. I wasn't in
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: a space where I could spend six hundred dollars on
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: one camera. I need to have a six hundred dollars budget.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: And so when people say what do I need to use? What? Okay,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: what is your budget? What are you willing to invest?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: That's the first question. You gotta start interviewing yourself. What
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: am I willing to invest right now? What do I
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: have that could help me while I grow into my
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the things that I want?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: You got to give yourself permission as a podcaster to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: grow into the things that you want.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: This is why I love Debby Shan so much.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, people will always hear me sing his praises for
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the simple.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Fact that now David has a leg up.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Just because he has some knowledge on cameras and all
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: this stuff like that, just being as creative, like the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: tools that you have already in you. Like I was
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: into camba before, I was doing canba classes before, so
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: when it came to a thumbnail, I didn't feel like
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: doing it at first. So you won't see them on
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the first thing. But when I started really doing thumbnails,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I was figuring out what I what I wanted to
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: look to do. But I ain't have to worry about
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: who's gonna do my thumbnails. I wouldn't worry about that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I use what I have.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: So David Shan's is a perfect example, because that man
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: did not have all the glitz and glamour.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: He had a white wall that looked like this.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it looked like because I don't
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I can't see what I look like from on y'all's perspective,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: But this is a white wall on the back of me.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And he had rolling chairs. He had it was desk
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: computer chairs. And he would have to go run press record,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: come back, Hey, yo, it's David Shans whatever how you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: have he started, and then he had his conversation. He
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: would have to make sure that the camera was still
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: recording because it was just him and the guests. This
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: is the same man that people pay to help them
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with everything. Keep in mind, like he actually when he
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: started really doing content, though, he was in his dining room,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in his dining room at the table, same thing, with
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a with a little wall, with a little wall. He
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: used what he had.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: He just I don't even think Dave has had the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: creator Creators Club. What is that place called creator? No,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: baby Club creators Babe. Now I'm having a brain fire.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: But his space in Atlanta, We're gonna have to just
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: just tag it. He has a space in Atlanta where
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: other creators can record their content as well. Right, it's
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: an event space too, But he uses that space. He
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: invested in that space. He built that from the ground up.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: But that was he was about four hundred episodes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: When he built it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, So stop looking at what
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: people have. Now.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: We got to stop looking at people.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And this just goes for every not just for podcasting,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: in every stage of life. You can't compare my hundred
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: episodes to your first I can never. I want to
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: get into and understand the technology part or whatever. Right
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: does a ray And I've talked about there and I've
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: even considered like doing like a course or something like
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: that so I can get the technology so when she
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: be talking, I won't miss those whatever she takes because
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: baby talking to does a ray. Sometimes I'll be like, okay,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: let me chat GPT because we were not understand each other.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: But I think that I think there, what was the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: point I was making. I almost forget what was us?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: What was us saying?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I was talking about David Shan's talk about Davis.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, we can't how we can't compare like somebody's whether
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: they are now.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: To where you are, thank you. So I can't compare.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: When I started really learning these terms and how to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: use the camera or whatever, like des a rate woman evolved,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I begged her to let me help her.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I literally begged her, and she finally did, okay, because
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: she couldn't take pictures and record at the same time.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And so I was taking pictures like okay, just press
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: this and I'm just doing I'm just pressing. She adjusted whatever,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and I'm just pressing. I can follow directions, and she said, oh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you did pretty good because I got a good eye.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I think I got a good eye. I can see
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna use what I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: have to assist. I don't know about everything these dolls
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: and turning the camera this that's not my portion yet.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: But I can't compare my my level of excellence in
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: photography or videography to what she brings because she's been
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: doing this for a hundred years.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: She's old.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: She is more mature than me in this space, and
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: so some of us are looking. Unless you're gonna and
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: you're gonna either pay invest money or time time and
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: you either way, you're gonna invest some level of time.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: But if the increase comes when you don't have that
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: much money, unless you gonna pay, like we can't be
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: cheap around like paying people for their for their uh
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: for their expertise. If we're gonna hire a Desi rae
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to come record multiple episodes in a session, let's do that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, like, and then you won't
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have to worry about how it looks because the professional
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: is there. But if you're not the professional, and you
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: go ahead and tell your audience, Hey, this is what
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I'm doing, this is how I'm doing it, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: and then watch this. The fact that I'm this is
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: so good. I want you to I don't want you
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: to miss this. The Lord just dropped this on me.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: And I think the fact that I did not have
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: everything I need made room for desiree.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Did you hear what I just said?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: The fact I didn't have everything that I need on
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the level that I wanted to wanted it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It made room for Desiree, but I still started. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the reason why desil Rae could find me because I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: was visible. You cannot get the help that you want,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: or the help that God wants to sin without your
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: visibil visibility. You have to be seen in the place,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: you know how to.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: They tell us that the women that's that single desiray,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: we ain't gonna find them at the house, we ain't
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: gonna find We ain't gonna find him at house. So
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: you need to go outside. You need to at least
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: go get you some ice creams. You know what I'm saying.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Unless you're trying to date your delivery man, you gotta
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: get out the house, all right, I'm telling you, unless
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: you want to be stuck at not being a podcaster,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: start recording and releasing.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's just as simple as that. And so I'm not
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not fussing I did.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I did because I'm passionate about it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: It's in love because you allowing something that doesn't matter
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to stop from doing what you're supposed to be doing.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: You're allowing something that you think that that supersedes your voice,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: that supersedes the gift that guy has given you the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: supersed supersedes.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: The message that's in your belly.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: You're allowing the quality of a camera and what type
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: of camera. Girl, y'all do not see the equipment that
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: we're using. You just see the results of the equipment.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: So if I can do the same thing with some
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: other equipment that is not as expensive, like my phone.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I've seen people make documentaries and movies with iPhones.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I mean they think they may they may have done
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that with an Android too. I don't know. I'm just
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: saying I just knew it was iPhones.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just use that phone, but the Android has updated.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: We got one church member that has an Android. I'm
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: gonna call her name out, but she knows who she
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: is and it works and it works. So I think that,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: like Desiree said, you said, what we need like sound video,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: light sound video.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It needs.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: If you don't put emphasis on something, get your mic first.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I paid. I think I had a j Lab mic.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: If y'all go look at it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all can see it in the shot,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: but if y'all go look at it, I had a
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: j Lab mic and it was fifty dollars from Best Buy.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: That's your first investment. That was my first investment. My
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: second investment. I paid one hundred dollars for a cannon
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: camera that cut off on me.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: And I'm just used.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I'm just using it as a prop when I when
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I get my thes a, Ray's gonna do my Creators
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: of Space at home. But I did that and that
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  Speaker 2: got that off Facebook marketplace. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So give yourself a grace as you grow. Grace to grow,
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  Speaker 2: Grace to grow. But yep, y'all ending with the thought
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  Speaker 2: that we are going to be taking a break. We
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  Speaker 2: are gonna we're going to take a break. It's necessary
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  Speaker 2: to take a break. And the Lord just dropped this
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  Speaker 2: in my in my spirit, y'all know. If you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: please go read it. It's a story about Noah. Noah's
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  Speaker 2: the man that created the first the first ship, the
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  Speaker 2: first cruise ship, if if you want to call it
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  Speaker 2: like that. But Noah got the assignment from the Lord
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  Speaker 2: to construct a cruise not a cruise ship, but a
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  Speaker 2: arc and because he was going to destroy the land,
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  Speaker 2: right and I think it was, it was. It was
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  Speaker 2: a wild months, if I'm not mistaken. Before they got
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  Speaker 2: off the like the water like it's everything settled to
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  Speaker 2: where they can get back on land.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And one of the things that Noah did.
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  Speaker 2: Was he celebrated himself or celebrated. He celebrated with some libation.
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  Speaker 2: He celebrated, and he rested after the assignment was complete.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord is showing me telling me even right
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  Speaker 2: now that not only do we need to rest, but
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  Speaker 2: we need to celebrate. And that's something that we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to not only rest, but celebrate the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we've made it thus far, to celebrate the winds,
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  Speaker 2: celebrate the accomplishments.
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  Speaker 1: Like who gets the who gets to.
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  Speaker 2: Uh have Tabitha Brown someone of her caliber on the
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  Speaker 2: podcast and on a hundredth episode? You know, who gets
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  Speaker 2: to interview somebody like Omar elta Corey. Who who gets
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  Speaker 2: to dream to ask about certain people? Who has list speaks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, someone that is so balanced and well endowed
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  Speaker 2: in her in her feel like who gets to interview
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  Speaker 2: doctor Defundi?
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  Speaker 1: Like who gets to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Who gets to be in rooms and be on stages
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  Speaker 2: and get approved for media be a media outlet in
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  Speaker 2: a room full of twenty three thousand people? Like who
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  Speaker 2: gets to do that that deserves celebration. That deserves celebration,
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  Speaker 2: and it also deserves rejuvenation. And so while we're on
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  Speaker 2: this break, we're not taking a we're technically, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a part of the safe space, we're not taking a
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  Speaker 2: break from you because we're still meeting the second and
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  Speaker 2: fourth Mondays be a zoom.
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  Speaker 1: We're on Patreon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing extra content over there, only nineteen dollars a month, y'all, Like,
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  Speaker 2: and that's supporting all the administrative needs right now. Like
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  Speaker 2: this is for that space of y'all. Y'all ask for it,
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  Speaker 2: and so you I would love for you to come
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  Speaker 2: over there and be a part of it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not taking a break from them, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. We're actually teaching them and leaning into freedom
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  Speaker 2: right now. We're leaning into having learning about freedom so
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  Speaker 2: we can be free for the to manage the capacity
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  Speaker 2: that God has for us in twenty twenty six, like
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  Speaker 2: we're anything about Jessica S. Smith is Ford moving It's
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  Speaker 2: Ford movement.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you're gonna be a part of this
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  Speaker 2: process with us, if you're gonna lean and trust on us,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna we're gonna give you the real We're not.
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  Speaker 2: We're not trying to sugarcoat anything any for anybody. So
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  Speaker 2: I hope, if anything, you've learned anything out of this,
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  Speaker 2: out of this space, y'all, I pray that you guys
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  Speaker 2: have learned how to trust what you have right now.
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  Speaker 2: Trust you the version of you right now who hallelujah,
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  Speaker 2: Trust the version of you today, because you can never
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  Speaker 2: If you don't trust the version of you today, tomorrow's
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  Speaker 2: version you won't matter. Tomorrow's version of you won't be
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  Speaker 2: able to be free. Hallelujah. Tomorrow's version of you is
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  Speaker 2: waiting on today's version to start. Twenty one hundred plus
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  Speaker 2: episodes hundred well, I don't know at this point, this
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  Speaker 2: episode probably the one thirties at this point, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And so you gotta trust yourself for the day, trust
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  Speaker 2: what you have, and execute, execute what you have desiate
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  Speaker 2: you got something for the people. Yeah, I would just say,
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  Speaker 2: just piggybacking off what you said. It is just I
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  Speaker 2: think we don't trust. We don't trust who's in us,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, because if we did, we
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't let little things. And I say us, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to myself too, right, we wouldn't let the small things
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  Speaker 2: like stop us from moving forward. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: Because if he says that we have, he knows the
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  Speaker 2: plans that he has for us, their plans to prosper us,
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  Speaker 2: they're good, you know what I'm saying, which means that
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  Speaker 2: everything we need is already in us and it's already
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  Speaker 2: laid out for us.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to keep moving. But we can't get
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  Speaker 1: to it if we ain't starting nothing.
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  Speaker 2: If we have come on now, we can't get to
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  Speaker 2: it if we ain't starting nothing. Y'all. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you guys. We appreciate you guys. Let us know what
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  Speaker 2: you learned. Let's let us know what resonated with you
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  Speaker 2: in the comments. We want to talk if y'all. I
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: don't know about y'all, but y'all being on anybody else platform,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: but this platform, we try to respond to everybody, to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And so when y'all down a come in and it
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  Speaker 2: thing does A ray don't even respond, that's me. That's
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: me responding. And so we're not to the space where
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like my team is going to respond to you.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't, I don't. We don't have that. It's
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it's real over here.
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  Speaker 2: So just tell us what resonated with you, guys, What
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  Speaker 2: do you need from us? Maybe we're gonna start doing
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: more content or say I'm gonna also start doing more
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: content regarding like teaching you about podcasts and the behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes type stuff. Uh, and offering you, guys an
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: opportunity to work with work with not just me, but
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: does ray Like we're a team and so just tell
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  Speaker 2: us what you need, tell us your desire and then
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  Speaker 2: join join the safe space. Right we're doing Uh, We're
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: we're working on surrendering through and through accountability, finding freedom
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and working on exposure. And part of that exposure is
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  Speaker 2: podcast and learning how to be a content creator where
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: our influence lives and grows and resides. And so were
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  Speaker 2: not stand you with the information you guys, So we
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  Speaker 2: want to just invite you with open arms. But we
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  Speaker 2: love you because I feel I feel a Baptist Baptist
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  Speaker 2: long winded at the end, got a little Baptist on annoyingting.
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  Speaker 2: But we love you, We honor you. Thank you so
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: much for tuning in until next time. Until next week,
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