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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST HOSTED BY PATRICE GRIMBALL |DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the sc book yall and friends check. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be talking about the latest and book reviews,
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  Speaker 2: author interviews and life.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in and join us.
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  Speaker 2: We're ready, are.
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  Speaker 3: You, ladies and gentlemen? They I have your attention.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 3: The show starts in ten Life eight seven, six, five
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  Speaker 3: four three few one go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl. Hey everyone, this is
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  Speaker 2: your girl at s book Galt eight four three and
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  Speaker 2: it is another Tuesday night, so we're gonna start off.
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  Speaker 4: How are you.
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  Speaker 2: Well? Your girl had a today that my little nephew
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  Speaker 2: had us going, as my family was say, in the
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  Speaker 2: wrong direction. But he okay, But I just want you
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  Speaker 2: to know, little boy, you owe me some time. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I had to get off early for your little waterhead.
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  Speaker 2: But Auntie loves you and I just want you to
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  Speaker 2: feel better. Okay. But all that said and done, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: I have this book series. I got all three in
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  Speaker 2: mine right here, sir. I know my yaegel, I got
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  Speaker 2: all three and I have three of the authors, well
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  Speaker 2: actually four of the authors with me. Okay, this series, you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: is a compilation of poems that will help you, encourage you,
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  Speaker 2: energize you, motivate you, help you along your healing journey.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, you really just need this in
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  Speaker 2: your life, okay, because there's some poem in one of
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  Speaker 2: these three books that's gonna help you along your way. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So the first book is called Shatters Silence, the second
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  Speaker 2: one is called gather Light, and the third one is
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  Speaker 2: called Rise Unbroken. So I would like you, guys to
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  Speaker 2: meet the ladies of the series. We have Missus Moss,
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  Speaker 2: we have Angela Thomas Smith, we have Missus Johnson, and
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  Speaker 2: we have miss Le Grand Welcome, ladies, Welcome, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Glad to be here. Yes, I am glad.
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  Speaker 2: I am. I'm so glad to have you guys. It's
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  Speaker 2: like all this power in motivational speakers in one area, Like,
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  Speaker 2: how does it? Oh, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: ahead of myself. So we're gonna start off and everybody's
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell us a little bit about themselves. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: first we wanna start one, Miss Michelle and Moss, Can
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  Speaker 2: you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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  Speaker 5: My name is Michelle and Moss and I'm originally from
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  Speaker 5: New Jersey. I now live in Tennessee. I'm a wife,
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  Speaker 5: my grandmother, and I love travel. I love to cook
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  Speaker 5: and share time with my family.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Next next we have Miss Angela Thomas Smith, Queen
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  Speaker 2: of Collaborations, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I I was tryna have me some So
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  Speaker 6: I am. I am a woman of many hats. I
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  Speaker 6: am an author, a poet. I am a host of
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  Speaker 6: Walking in Purpose with Angela on the w b n
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  Speaker 6: N Beverly Nation. I also host a show on empower
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  Speaker 6: Me TV, a roucou station, and I I just I
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  Speaker 6: am the change that I desire to see in this world.
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  Speaker 6: So I am just trying to be led by the
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  Speaker 6: one that created me.
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  Speaker 2: That God drop it in my spirit. I try to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 6: So you may see me all over the place sometimes,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm only doing what He's told me to do.
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  Speaker 2: So that that's that's the short version.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're having a Cheryl La Grand tell us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about yourself. Good evening. I'm originally from New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: I resigned in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: I'm an author, I'm an call author of several books
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  Speaker 4: for the Queen, Miss Andrew Thompson. I'm also I just
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  Speaker 4: started poetry last year. I also do all things like
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  Speaker 4: vital Health, sell Healthy Supple Matched Marshall part of another team,
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  Speaker 4: the Fighting Team.
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  Speaker 7: Also alright, and last, but not least, we have a
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  Speaker 7: Seannett Johnson.
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  Speaker 8: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, my name
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  Speaker 8: is Chanette Johnson. I am from California. I host a
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  Speaker 8: podcast called Let's Talk About It, where we talk about
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  Speaker 8: growing for conviction. I'm also married. I'm a mother of four,
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  Speaker 8: a grandmother. I'm a commercial driver. I just found out
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  Speaker 8: that I can write poetry in twenty twenty four. I
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  Speaker 8: was encouraged to start writing from Angela.
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  Speaker 2: She wants.
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  Speaker 8: She pushed me in to write my feelings down. So
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  Speaker 8: that's how I got started.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it. So, ladies, what means you want to
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  Speaker 2: you write? I mean we you all have multiple books out.
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  Speaker 2: How do you keep that motivation to continue to write? Anyone?
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  Speaker 3: For me?
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  Speaker 2: Because under the ground I don't write money, so that
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  Speaker 2: the board her Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, okay, after you.
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  Speaker 10: Know, being money for twenty from the bigger writing, my
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  Speaker 10: books were playing rod continue three small children, young adults.
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  Speaker 10: I'm trying to leave the lever people graduate around school
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  Speaker 10: and tells you went from college in the grad school
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  Speaker 10: may night, and then I have a jumble when I
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  Speaker 10: go to school online.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason why I started writing it became.
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  Speaker 9: No stop and it's for me and.
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  Speaker 4: When I get it, when I'm going to leave.
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  Speaker 2: The Okay, and I ain't apologize you guys. We're having
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  Speaker 2: those technical difficulties, but you know what, We're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: all this straight for you. Okay, Ms Moss, can you
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  Speaker 2: answer the same question.
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  Speaker 5: I think I first started journaling and then I just
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  Speaker 5: would write stories just for fun. I also started when
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  Speaker 5: I probably, as I'll say, around junior high school, I
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  Speaker 5: did start first writing poetry and then other stories and saying,
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  Speaker 5: like Cheryl said, it is a healing process for me.
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  Speaker 5: And also I too would like to leave a legacy
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  Speaker 5: for my children and my grandchildren just so they know
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  Speaker 5: who their grandmother was, and you know, just things that
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  Speaker 5: our family traditions and you know, things that we just
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  Speaker 5: do in our family.
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  Speaker 9: And so that's pretty much what guided me to write.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, how about Jmis Johnson, Well, you know and twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty twenty twenty three, my son passed and I had
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  Speaker 8: a hard time dealing with his transitioning, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: I will I didn't have nobody I can talk to.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like I was a burden to people when
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  Speaker 2: I will call them and talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: So with.
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  Speaker 8: One day, I was talking to Angela and she was
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  Speaker 8: just listening to me, and then she just told me, Schnet,
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  Speaker 8: have you ever thought about writing it down?
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  Speaker 2: Write it?
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  Speaker 8: You know, write And so I began to to write
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  Speaker 8: to him, to my son, to let him know how
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  Speaker 8: I was feeling. And you know, my first poem was
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  Speaker 8: entitled good night, where I was saying good night to
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  Speaker 8: him at his service.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, and plus I want.
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  Speaker 8: Other parents that's dealing with the transitioning of a child,
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  Speaker 8: if they ever pick up a poem and read my poem,
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  Speaker 8: they can see that, you know, it's not easy, that
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  Speaker 8: you're not the only one that's have them saying feelings.
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  Speaker 8: And I want my children and my grandchildren to see that.
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  Speaker 8: You know, no matter what the struggle that I deal
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  Speaker 8: with trying to get over not trying to deal with
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  Speaker 8: my sons transitioning that you know, it wasn't easy for me,
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  Speaker 8: but I kept on I kept on going I kept
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  Speaker 8: on moving.
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  Speaker 2: So it looks like we're having a lot of technical difficulties.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys, and that would be because we have
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  Speaker 2: so many, so many great women on the show, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, good and well, and you got a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of powerful people. I'm not even gonna say women only,
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  Speaker 2: but powerful people on one podcast. You know, Well, the
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  Speaker 2: Devil's gonna try to do what he can do. But
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  Speaker 2: guess what, we continue and we travel on. So missus Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: how about you? Can you answer that question for me?
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  Speaker 2: So I started writing after just dealing with a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff. Life was happening, and unfortunately I I
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  Speaker 2: was not handling it well and ended up having to
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  Speaker 2: see a psychiatrist and two therapists. And one of my
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  Speaker 2: therapists suggested that I write, so even if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: do anything with it, she just suggested that I write.
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  Speaker 2: So at that time, I was just journaling. I definitely
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  Speaker 2: never thought I was a poet.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: That was something that I never thought I would be
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  Speaker 2: an author.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely never thought I would be a poet because when
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  Speaker 6: I hear poetry, I I I used to hear people rhyming,
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  Speaker 6: and I mean it was just they were just popping
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  Speaker 6: it off the top of their head and they could
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  Speaker 6: just come up with it at the drop of a dime.
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  Speaker 6: And that was definitely not something that I could do.
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  Speaker 6: So I did not think that that would be something
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  Speaker 6: that I would be doing. I was challenged to write
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  Speaker 6: a poem for a women's conference. It's been probably about
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  Speaker 6: six or seven years ago. I was challenged to write
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  Speaker 6: a poem. I I wrote it based on Proverbs thirty one.
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  Speaker 6: The Victorious Virtualist Woman is what I titled it. And
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  Speaker 6: when the conference leader received the poem, she loved it
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  Speaker 6: and I ended up getting it framed for and it's
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  Speaker 6: just like it. It started something within me and I
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  Speaker 6: just started writing. I I was put in a place
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  Speaker 6: where the podcast that I'm on, everybody over there can
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  Speaker 6: do poetry. And when I say they can, at the
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  Speaker 6: drop of a dime, just just pop it out, just
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  Speaker 6: pop it out. So I just started writing words, and
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  Speaker 6: and I realized that in writing words, that it's how
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  Speaker 6: you say those words, and the emotions that you put
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  Speaker 6: with those words is how that poem is perceived. Be
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  Speaker 6: and and and and it does not matter what Each
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  Speaker 6: person may get something different from your poem.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing that I have done with this series is.
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  Speaker 6: I interpreted the poems because a lot of people sometimes
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  Speaker 6: they read poems and they sometime don't get what is
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  Speaker 6: being said in the poem and they just draw they
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  Speaker 6: own conclusion and then sometime it can be right, sometime
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  Speaker 6: it can be off, sometime it can be totally off.
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  Speaker 6: But what I did in this in in this series
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  Speaker 6: was interpret the poems so that people could get a
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  Speaker 6: understanding of what we were saying.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, I included a playlist so people can
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  Speaker 2: listen to music while they.
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  Speaker 6: Enjoy and reading our books and reading our poems, and
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  Speaker 6: it it kind of give them an opportunity to kind
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  Speaker 6: of relate to the things that we were feeling, what
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  Speaker 6: was coming from our heart.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 6: So that that that's the gist of me getting started
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  Speaker 6: and why I write poetry, just a way for me
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  Speaker 6: to release and I feel like there's someone out there
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  Speaker 6: that can relate to some of the things that we
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  Speaker 6: released through poems, and that sometimes people don't want to
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  Speaker 6: sit down and read whole chapters. They don't want to
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  Speaker 6: sit down and read long books. And if you can
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  Speaker 6: give them that that that message in a short poem,
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  Speaker 6: I think that is that's great, and it helped.
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  Speaker 2: It can help a lot of people. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I continue to write poems. Visherlin, So I guess the
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  Speaker 2: devil thought I was gonna stay out. Yeah, way back,
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  Speaker 2: try again. So I don't know where we left off,
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  Speaker 2: but we're just gonna keep on moving because you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it has to be something in this for all this
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  Speaker 2: technical difficulties, but we ain't even worry about it. So, ladies,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. We're talking about legacies,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of hearing a lot of people say legacies.
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  Speaker 2: What legacy were you trying to leave? When you play sure?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry? What was her question?
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  Speaker 6: That the wind must be blowing really hard down there
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  Speaker 6: in Charleston. It's something going on in Charleston, the wind.
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  Speaker 2: Blowing blowing a lot. You've been going from eighty degrees
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and now we're down to fifty something today, and
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  Speaker 2: when it was hot. Gary Treary, my son even off
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  Speaker 2: of work now because of all the technical difficulties, and
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  Speaker 2: he works from home. So you guys, we're gonna bring
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  Speaker 2: them back, but we're gonna push through because I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe in giving up. I might break, but I ain't
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  Speaker 2: gonna give up. I ain't trying to hit that right,
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  Speaker 2: so and that's my share. You you offline. It's saying
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  Speaker 2: that you are offline.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you only got you only got two bars,
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  Speaker 6: you and Patrise, You and Patrise only got y'all bars
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  Speaker 6: are really low all three miss m Miss Michelin, doctor,
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  Speaker 6: doctor Michelin, and you share and Patrise. It's it's probably
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  Speaker 6: that thing you can do it it's it usually be
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  Speaker 6: the the Internet. But we all know that we can't
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  Speaker 6: control technology. That that's one thing we can't control. We
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  Speaker 6: can control a lot of things, but one thing we
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  Speaker 6: can't control. This technology. We don't have no no, no
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  Speaker 6: say so over that I tell you. But all we
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  Speaker 6: can do is keep pushing. What was your question, Patrisa, what.
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  Speaker 2: When you wrote your points in this book? What was
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  Speaker 2: the legacy that you were wanting to leave your staticky?
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  Speaker 6: But try going out and coming back in sharel Try
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  Speaker 6: try going out and coming back in.
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  Speaker 2: Micheline. Can you answer that question? Sure?
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  Speaker 5: The legacy I wanted to leave is well, for one thing,
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  Speaker 5: when I was born, my mother and father weren't married,
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  Speaker 5: and so I have someone else's name on my birth certificate,
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  Speaker 5: and I didn't want my kids, our children to not
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  Speaker 5: know who their family was and where they came from.
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  Speaker 5: So when I say I want to leave a legacy,
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  Speaker 5: it's like I want them to know, like these are
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  Speaker 5: your people, these this is their background. You know, this
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  Speaker 5: is who actually gave birth to, you know, me who
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  Speaker 5: I gave birth to. So the majority of it is
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  Speaker 5: is based basically on that. Just so my family and
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  Speaker 5: my children and those to come, you know who they
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  Speaker 5: came from and where they came from. So that's basically
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  Speaker 5: the legacy that I would like to leave them, for
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  Speaker 5: them to have knowledge of their ancestors.
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  Speaker 2: Sneth. The legacy I want to leave with my.
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  Speaker 8: Children and my grandchildren is that you know, no matter
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  Speaker 8: how hard life get, don't give up.
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  Speaker 2: Keep on pushing.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I want to lay well, I did lay
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  Speaker 8: the foundation for my children to, you know, to keep
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  Speaker 8: going no matter.
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  Speaker 2: What, no matter what anyone say, no matter what anyone
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  Speaker 2: do to you, you know, just keep going, you know,
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  Speaker 2: never give up.
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  Speaker 8: Never feel ashamed of who you are and where you
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  Speaker 8: came from, because that's what built you. And by me
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  Speaker 8: putting it in in words, they can see that, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: Mama heard, Mama, kept going. You know, even I write
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  Speaker 8: now I got to the point where I'm starting to
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  Speaker 8: write about my two fell marriages.
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  Speaker 9: You know, So.
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  Speaker 2: Did I give up on love?
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  Speaker 8: No? Because what I do, I don't want to got
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  Speaker 8: married again, So you know, just I just want them
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  Speaker 8: to keep going, keep being who God created them to be.
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  Speaker 8: So for me, it's totally different from what these and
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  Speaker 8: these young ladies have said because with me, my linits
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  Speaker 8: stopped with me because I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have kids.
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  Speaker 6: I have nieces and nephews, and I am my mother's
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  Speaker 6: and my father's youngest. I am their baby, so it
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  Speaker 6: stopped with me. So I I really wanna leave a
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  Speaker 6: legacy where people get to h truly know my story,
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  Speaker 6: get to truly know me and the journey that I
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  Speaker 6: have been on. And and I'm so grateful and so
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  Speaker 6: thankful that God has definitely showed me favor and allowing
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  Speaker 6: me to be able to write and and and to
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  Speaker 6: show others how to write, and to be able to
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  Speaker 6: push out these.
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  Speaker 2: Books and these literary works.
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  Speaker 6: I I was over on Amazon today and I I
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  Speaker 6: was just looking one hundred and seventy four literary pieces
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  Speaker 6: on Amazon, and I was like wow, I was like,
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  Speaker 6: I did that. Catherine and Glenn Thomas's baby girl. Did
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  Speaker 6: that somebody that people said wouldn't mount to anything. You know,
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  Speaker 6: when when my mom passed twelve days after my sixteenth birthday,
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  Speaker 6: I was everything but.
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  Speaker 2: A child of God, and I I I was. If
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  Speaker 2: you knew my.
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  Speaker 6: Journey and truly understood my journey, I am a A
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  Speaker 6: a survivor. I am victorious against sexual assault, domestic violence, suicide, attempts,
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  Speaker 6: you name it, I I I I probably.
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  Speaker 2: Have experienced it.
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  Speaker 6: But as I look back over my life, I truly
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  Speaker 6: understand that everything that I endured it was necessary because
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  Speaker 6: if it had not happened, I wouldn't be where I am.
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  Speaker 6: And and you know, God knew who I was before
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  Speaker 6: I was even conceived in my mother's room, and he
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  Speaker 6: knew everything about me, so he knew what to equip
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  Speaker 6: me with and how to EQUI equip me. So I
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  Speaker 6: kind of enjoy, you know, every day I wake up
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  Speaker 6: on this side, you know, I thank him for extending
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  Speaker 6: his grace and his mercy. And then the next thing
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  Speaker 6: I wanna know is what you want me to do today?
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  Speaker 6: What you want me to do today? So I I
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  Speaker 6: oftentimes people will thank me for this and thank me
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  Speaker 6: for that, but God gets all the glory, because if
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  Speaker 6: it was not for him, if it was not for
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  Speaker 6: the gifts and the talents that he placed within me,
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be able to do any other things. I
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  Speaker 6: probably woulda gave up long time ago. I probably woulda
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  Speaker 6: threw in the tower. I I probably woulda threw in
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  Speaker 6: the tower a long time ago. But for me, I
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  Speaker 6: just want people to truly get a opportunity to know
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  Speaker 6: who Angela Thomas Smith truly was what she stood for,
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  Speaker 6: and you know my morals, my values. I I just
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  Speaker 6: want people to, you know, say that I knew her.
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  Speaker 6: You know, my mom worked with her, my granny work
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  Speaker 6: with her. You know I I I want people to
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  Speaker 6: be able to truly know who I am. So that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: why I do what I do, and and that's why
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  Speaker 6: I can't stop writing. You know, I said I was
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  Speaker 6: gonna stop at a hundred books. That's that's what I said.
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  Speaker 6: I said, if I can just get to a hundred books,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: but I got there so fast, I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna do it that fast. So my next
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  Speaker 6: goal was two hundred. And then today I looked and
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  Speaker 6: they said a hundred and seventy four. I was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: I said, I'm almost there, and I I got I
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  Speaker 6: got some books coming out. I got some books coming
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  Speaker 6: out soon. But I just love to write and and
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  Speaker 6: I just love to give those that want an opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to share their thoughts and to share what's in them
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  Speaker 6: to be able to do the same. Because the Word
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: tells us that we should do greater works. How would
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: people know the works that we do if we don't
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  Speaker 6: leave a blueprint, if we don't leave something behind that
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: they can see what we done. Because there's nothing changing
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  Speaker 6: with the Bible. The Bible's gonna be the Bible. We
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: can't change that. But people have to know of those
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: greater works that we did and and to get out
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  Speaker 6: subject because this has nothing to do with it. But
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  Speaker 6: I I tell you one of the greatest miracles that
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  Speaker 6: I'm seeing right before my life. And this young lady
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: she called me when she was first diagnosed with cancer
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  Speaker 6: and she told me, she said, you always say you
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  Speaker 6: wanna write a book about me. And she told me,
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  Speaker 6: she said, you need to go here to write that book.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: That's how she told me she had cancer. She said,
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  Speaker 6: you need to go head and write that book. So
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  Speaker 6: I wrote two books. I did two books for her,
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: and when she told me that she was in stage
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  Speaker 6: four and that she had so many months, I I
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: look at her today. She sent a video she's dancing.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: But yet she send me ah a message and and
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: tells me of all of the different things that the
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: doctor has told her that she has. But yet she
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: call She messaged me to encourage me on today.
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  Speaker 2: HM.
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  Speaker 6: With all the stuff that she got going on, I'm
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: talking about you talking about nine tumors. Here you talking
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: about cancer spreading to your hip, spreading to your liver,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: spreading to this sprey. I mean every part said your body,
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: you can s, you can name, cancer has spread it there.
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  Speaker 6: But yet she was up dancing.
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  Speaker 2: She was up. She said I like doing this to music,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and she just I mean, that is a legacy. And
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  Speaker 2: she has no kids.
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  Speaker 6: So she is writing too, you know, and to be
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  Speaker 6: able to encourage people and to be able to help
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  Speaker 6: people leave a legacy that they would have something that
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: people will be able to remember them by. Because the
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: the book that I wrote for her, I actually it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: it's it's a journal type book on gratitude. Because I
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: call her the Queen of gratitude. Shared about a and
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: I included her m her family in this book. You know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: she gave me different things, bullet points on her family,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: so I included her family in this book as well.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: And she purchased some of the books and presented it
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  Speaker 6: to her family and they were at all. You know,
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  Speaker 6: That's what give me satisfaction, you know, I I I
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  Speaker 6: I just God to to have that talent to be
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  Speaker 6: able to do that and and to be able to
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  Speaker 6: make a difference in somebody's life. So that that is
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  Speaker 6: the legacy that I really want to leave. I I
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  Speaker 6: I want people to say that that was a good lady.
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  Speaker 6: You know, she cared for other people. She didn't always
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  Speaker 6: just care about herself.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 6: She she thought about the the well beings of others.
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  Speaker 6: She pushed others to to to strive for more and
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  Speaker 6: not settling for for little and settling for less. I
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  Speaker 6: I want people to know that if I can do it,
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  Speaker 6: you can do it too. Because God says he has
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: no respectable person. So if one of us can do it,
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: the next person can do it too. So that that
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: is one of the things that I I want to
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: leave with my writing, and and that's why I write,
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: and I can be long winded. So y'all, I'm gonna
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: pass the mic ar to doctor Michelin.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I have I believe it's going that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go, oh, yes, I I want oh, I
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  Speaker 2: think she she may have asked another question. But every
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  Speaker 2: everything I talk about is always gonna tie back to
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  Speaker 2: one thing, giving God glory. That that's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what I do.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: And part of you know this series I I can
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: talk about this series. Click on the link sharel You
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: got to click on the link and come back in. No,
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  Speaker 6: it's not removed.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to go back and go back in
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the messenger that we were in and click on the link.
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  Speaker 2: It's still in there. It's not been removed. I'll send
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  Speaker 2: it to you. I'll send it to you. I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: it's always something. Yes, it is always something. I just
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: send it to cher.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: But again, we don't stop. When God dropped this series
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: in in my spirit it it was truly ah a
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: spiritual awakening for me. The first book, Shattered Silence. It
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: gave us the opportunity to share some things that we
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: may have been silent about and.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Able to talk about it and break free from some
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: of the things that we may have gone through.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm gonna share with you guys the back of
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  Speaker 6: the book how the back of the book reads. It says,
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  Speaker 6: shuttered silence and shuttered silence. Rob Pain finds poetry. This
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  Speaker 6: collection journeys through the darkest corners of human spirit. What
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: suffering is kept secret, and voices are smothered by fear, shame,
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: or traumor. Each poem peers into the quiet agony of suppression,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: tracing invincible wounds.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: That ache beneath the surface.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Yet even a man among the darkest there's a flicker
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  Speaker 6: of defiance and trembling first steps towards recovery. You know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: we all sign sometime that there's things that we've been
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: through that we are solid about.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I wanna talk about my domestic violence.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: I went through domestic violence, and for a long time
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  Speaker 6: I didn't talk about it because I was a shamed.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: I was a shamed because people saw me as a
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  Speaker 6: strong person. They saw me as this person that, oh
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: that would never happen to her. She ain't taking it,
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: she ain't taking it.
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  Speaker 2: And and that's that that that was me.
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  Speaker 6: I I I always said that I will never let
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  Speaker 6: anybody put their hand on me. But when you in
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: a dark place, you can never say what you will
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: and what you won't do. And when I tell you
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: I was truly in a dark place. I was in
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: a dark place. But I had to wake up. I
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: I I had to come out. And that was the
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: gathered light part. You know that when when I came out,
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: I began to see the light, you know. I I
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: began to to to truly see that I was worthy,
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: that there was something, you know, God didn't drop me
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: out of this guy, that he placed me here for
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: a reason, you know. And when I realized that I
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: was worthy, then I I came out of that. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: I I broke that cycle of silence and began to
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: talk about it. So and g and gathered lights. These
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: are poems that we talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Survival, our vulnerability, and how we allowed our vulnerability to
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: form strength, to help us grow, help us to gain courage.
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  Speaker 6: These poems move from a amber dawn today, tracing the
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  Speaker 6: slow works of relearning trust, the body's quiet thought, the
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: making of a room in a house, the return of
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: and our appetites, songs and choices. So it was like
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: the flickering of a light, that that fire that we
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: have inside of us coming back, not letting it go out,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: not letting that flame go out, but that flicker reagniting
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  Speaker 6: so that we can be that light again. So we
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: share poems about the light, how how we got through,
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  Speaker 6: how we got through vulnerability and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 6: And Rise Unbroken is the last book in this series.
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  Speaker 6: So Rise I'm Broken is a triumph accumulation of the
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  Speaker 6: echoes of becoming. It is a book of arrival, endowment
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  Speaker 6: and forward looking hope, moving through memories, lineage and possibility.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: These poems transform wounds into wayfounding, blessed, the thresholds leaving
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  Speaker 6: and returning, rebuilding, and making a vow to live not
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  Speaker 6: merely beyond what has happened, but toward what is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Joy Rise and we got to share of how we were.
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  Speaker 6: Still yet determined, how we didn't give up, how we
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: may have been shaken, how we may have been bruised,
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  Speaker 6: but we rose, We we rose Unbroken. So that that
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  Speaker 6: is a little bit about the series. So it gives
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: you different phases of our life and how we were
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: able to deal with these things, and we share it
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  Speaker 6: through our our words. So that's a that's the the series.
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  Speaker 6: Do anybody want to share a poem out of the book.
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  Speaker 5: M I am not at home, and I don't have
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  Speaker 5: my book with me, or I would have you know,
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  Speaker 5: with any other.
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  Speaker 2: Lady, Sonnette, do you have one? I'm looking out on
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  Speaker 2: I pull I'm pulling up my my email. Now, well,
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  Speaker 2: I I have the books, so I'm back when I'll
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  Speaker 2: read one, okay, from each one of us, and and
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna read it out of our last book. So
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Michelin wrote, she wrote three poems, four poems. One was
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: titled no.
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  Speaker 6: She did three poems. One was title Jesus had Me.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: I went to the Potter's house and roots and wings
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  Speaker 6: to fly away? Which one would you like for me
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  Speaker 6: to read?
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  Speaker 9: You can read Jesus had Me?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: So this poem is by doctor Micheline Moss. It says
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  Speaker 6: I was anointed, but I hid my light. It was
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: always shining, but I was shining too bright.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: The anointing not only shone in the day, but also
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: shone brightley at night.
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  Speaker 6: I hid because I didn't feel like I was worthy.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: I didn't really think my father God had chosen me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to brag or boast. I tried to
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: be humble. But the bright light has never made me stumble.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: My father said, where are you? Like he did with
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Adam and Eve.
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  Speaker 2: I was hiding in the garden under the apple tree.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Calm my daughter, and let's go over this list of
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: my and my talents and gifts. This would make me
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: go down memory lane, and I didn't want to reminisce.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: My father asked me, do I have faith over fear?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: He always Oh.
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  Speaker 6: He also reminded me that he has always been near.
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  Speaker 6: So take the blinders off and step into the light.
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  Speaker 6: Release the fear, negativity, and everything.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Will be all right.
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  Speaker 6: You see, Jesus always had me with the holy Spirit
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: of biding inside me. With Jesus as my savor, I
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: never needed to hide. So go, my child, and fulfill
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: your purpose and my plan, and never forget that I
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: am the.
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  Speaker 2: Mighty I am, and that's that peace. So Scheanette.
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  Speaker 6: Schanette did let me see, Let me find Channette. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: Chanette had the body, remembers the lights, what prayer built me, and.
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  Speaker 2: The grace that grew from ashes. You can do the
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: grace that grew from ashes. I knew she was gonna
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: pick that on that one coming a long time. Remember, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is.
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  Speaker 6: The grace that grew from ashes. Once I stood in
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: the quiet aftermath of losing a mother of four twice
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  Speaker 6: the voice reading the sun who carried my heart beat
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: beyond this world. There were days when love felt distant,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: when even my reflection looked like a stranger. But somewhere
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: between the tears and prayers, faith found me again. I
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: did not come as thunder or miracle, but a whisper, steady, certain,
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: reminding me that.
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  Speaker 2: Broken things can still bloom.
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  Speaker 6: Prayer became my anchor, each word a seed of strength,
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: planet deep in the soul of sorrow, and from the
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: soul I rose. Now I stand in the sunlight of
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: a new beginning, a grandmother of four radiant boys who
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: laughter reveals the parts of me grief once hollowed out,
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: A wife again with seven more grown hearts to cherish,
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: and five grandchildren whose joy it's the echo of answer prayers.
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: My life hmm with quiet victory and songs woven from
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: wisdom and grace. Resilience for me is not an armor.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: It is love, soft and fierce, the kind that holds
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: the world gentle leaf, even after it has broken you.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: I am SUNet Johnson, a woman of faith, a keeper
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  Speaker 6: of lineage, a vessel of possibility. My story is not
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: one of endings, but of becoming a testament that through prayer,
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: through love, through steady rhythm of hope, we are all
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: capable of rising into the light again.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: And that's that piece so for me. So Cheryl is
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: watching because for some reason she can't get back in.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna read one of her poems. Cheron, you
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: gonna have to type fast. You got Victory in Christ?
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: You have? I think that's the only one you have. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: that's the only one you have. So I'm gonna read
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: the only one you have. So Cheryl's poem is called
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  Speaker 2: Victory in Christ, and it says I walked through the fire,
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  Speaker 2: the sickness, the test of loopis then cancer, then heart,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: heart distress.
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  Speaker 6: The way of trials ran heavy and deep. Each journal
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  Speaker 6: I wrote was my soul's vow to keep. My body
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: grew weary, yet still I pressed on, believing the knight
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  Speaker 6: would give birth.
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  Speaker 7: To the dawn.
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  Speaker 2: With tears as my witness, with prayers as my song,
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  Speaker 2: I trusted God's hand to uphold me strong. Still I
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: kept serving His kingdom.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: My aim got into young while enduring the pain those
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: shadows surround me. They could not confine me. For God's
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: holy favor forever was mine's. The valleys were bitter, the
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: storm often near, but his whisper comfort erased every fear.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: Though silence with linger and hope seemed delayed, his promise
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: sustained me. His mercy displayed, emerging much stronger with spirit.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: My spirit was raised. Each step that I took gave
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: my savor the praise. The fire refined me. The trials
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: did mold me. Transforming my weakness to courage made me bold.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: The knight could not hold me. His love made me free.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that east.
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  Speaker 3: So me.
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 6: Consolations of becoming the weight we carry, the grace we
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: share arrival, and I think I Am going to.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Do the shortest one.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: The way we carry the grace we share. We are
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: greater than wounds. We hold greater still because we do
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: not hold them alone. A thousand hands meet my own,
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: sometime only to steady, sometimes gently, to bear the weight
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: of a mile. When my needs forgot the language of rising,
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: I have come to understand resilience is not my armor,
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: but the way I opened my palms together both the
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: sunlight and the rain and the hush between trials, friendships
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: grow strong.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: As chef chafterling oaks. Let us an honor the sacred
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: task of rebuilding stone by stone, song by song, for
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: they're in the circle of those who stayed.
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: I discovered I was always worthy of love, strong enough
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: to heal.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: And that's that piece. And these came out of our
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: final book, which was Rise Unbroken.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: Each one of these poems really showed how we refused
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: to give up and and how we pressed through, and
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: how we truly leaned on the Savior. You know, all
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: these gifts and talents that we have, we wouldn't we
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: wouldn't have 'em if it was not for him, you know.
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: And I oftentimes hear Trevida say, you know, she don't
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: like people to say. She don't like to hear people
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: say that he would never put more on you than
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: you can bear, and and and the more and more
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: she say that, the more and more I truly have
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: realized that, you know, he already know what we gonna bear,
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: you know, and to think that he already equipped us.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: He gave us every gift that we have because he
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: knew what we was gonna go through. He knew everything
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: that we were gonna need. You know, there's nothing new
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: that's happening under the sun. And if if he said
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: it was completed in those seven days and everything was done,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: and and and yet we still.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: See generations after generations after generations. So that means all
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: we got to do is line up with it, because
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: it's already here. Some of us don't even understand the
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: power that we possessed and the things that we carry
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: on the inside of us. All we got to do
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: is position ourselves. But because he's given us the power
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: to overcome everything, and I'm breaking down that word power,
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: Why did he why did he give us those those
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: those gifts, in those talents because he knew that one
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: day we were gonna be willing vessels to be used
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: by him. And it was to educate in power and
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: encourage people. I call it the E three experience. He
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: knew that he was gonna need to have people in place,
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: and he knew what you could bear. He knew that
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: you can get through this.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: He knew that.
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: Cheryl could could fight capcer and and fight it the
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: way that she fought it, because that lady was on
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: five am prayer call every single day when she was
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  Speaker 6: going to that whatever. Some day she was in there
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: on the toilet, throwing up and doing all kinds of
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: other stuff. But she was right there on that prayer line.
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  Speaker 6: God knew that she was gonna have that strength everything
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: that all of us go through. That's why I say,
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  Speaker 6: I don't care what it looked like in the natural.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: You got to look beyond the natural. You got the
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: truly believe the word. You got to believe that he
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  Speaker 6: is who he say he is, and he gonna do
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  Speaker 6: what he said he was gonna do, no matter what
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  Speaker 6: it looked like. That's why I can write about it
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: because I believe it, and ain't nothing. Ain't nothing that
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: we are facing on this earth right now that those
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  Speaker 6: that have come before us, even those that are in
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: the Bible days.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: You know, we got the Bible to be an example.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: They got through it. They got through it because if
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: they had not got through it, guess what, y'all, we
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 6: So guess what we're gonna get through it because there's
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: generations to come after us.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: H It don't start with us, It don't stop with us.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: So if we won't change to come, we may not
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: see it. We may not see it. Happen.
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: But everything that our grandparents, our great grandparents and those
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: before them prayed about, guess what a lot of them
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: didn't get to see it happen. But guess what, they're
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: getting to see it through us because there have been
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: prayers that it went to the grave, and some of
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: them went to the grade believing that things were gonna
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: happen for they kids and their grandkids.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: And now we're able to walk into it.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: We're able to walk into it because I remember going
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  Speaker 6: to my great grandfather's house and sitting at his feet.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: He was a preacher, and I used to I used
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: to be like, Oh, why we gotta go here? I
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: KNOWNE went to church, And that's what I used to say.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: We went to church this morning, and we still have
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: to go cause every time we went, no matter when
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: we went, we was gonna pray. We we was gonna
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: hear a Simon.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: His talk was a sermon. But guess what if I
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: had not sit up under that, Guess what, I wouldn't
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: be able to run that prayer line. I wouldn't able.
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be able to to do the devotions. I
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: wouldn't be able to do the things that that I do,
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be able to pray for my family. Hum
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: when God know what we gonna go through. And I
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: was bad, y'all, I was a bad child. Sometime I
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: got put out of school in kindergarten.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: I was bad. But guess what.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: He would use anybody. He would use anybody if you're
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: willing and understand that your resilience is a testimony so
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: that somebody else can get through. Because these tests are
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: only for moments. Your moment may be five days, it
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: may be five years, it may be ten years.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: But guess what.
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Guess what, it only for a moment that you may testify,
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: that you may be able to share his goodness, that
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: you may be able to share his glory, because he
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: said that we overcome by.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: The year and the share of our testimonies. So guess what.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: It didn't happen for nothing. It all happened for a reason. Say,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: don't get weary well doing it, because in due time
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: come you shall reap.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: That's what.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna stop because I'm gonna get the picture.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Ain't no picture.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: God is good.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: I won't sit down on them.
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: And I try to tell.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: You, ain't got to be no minister, You ain't got
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: to be no pastor, You ain't got to be no evangelist.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: You ain't got to walk in all them titles. Mm hmmm,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: because some titles ain't nothing.
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: You just got to be willing to be used. And
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: he'll use He'll use you by writing books here, He'll
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: use you by hosting podcasts. He'll use you by by
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: being able to go out and speak and and and
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: be able to hold workshops and be able to go
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: out and serve your community. Never thought I would be
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: an advocate or any other stuff that I do. Definitely
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: never thought I would be on the podcasts. Who I'm
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: talking about bad? I stutter so bad. I used to
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: stutter so bad. I never thought I would be on
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: a podcasts hosted on podcasts. And I know y'all probably
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: catch it sometime, but I had to. It's bad tick.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: I used to all the time. And it's because I
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: had an attitude problem. Had an attitude with my teacher
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: because they said I talked too fast and I read
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: too fast, so she would make she would make me pause.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I would have to actually stop, and I used to
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: have to say one one thousand two, one thousand three
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: one thousand and then I could go on and and
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: keep on reading. And I used to get mad when
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: she make me do that, and I used to smack
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: my lips and it became a tick y'all. But enough
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: about me, and I don't know where all that comes from.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: But hey, somebody needed to hear Hi.
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: They keep messing with, they keep messing with Patrece. But
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Sheron was back. Welcome back, Sheryon.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, can y'all hear me?
• 53:50
  Speaker 9: Hey, we hear yeah, but it's.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, I got this usual outside voice. Okay, Well, I
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: just wonder when she does come back on. But if
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: we're gonna start with you, and if you would please
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: tell everybody how they can follow you, how they can
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: connect with you, and if you got something.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Going on, share that too, okay, then good even again,
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: it's good to be back. Thank you ladies for around
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: me to come back up her little technology problem. But
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: how you can find me on Amazon as a Cheryl
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: la Grand, Facebook, Cheryl Northern La Grand, tiktop Northern La Grand.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: I have an author page CHERYLA Grand also right now.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: Of course you know I'm a call offer with missus
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: Angela Thompson and the series that she got coming now.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: I also just finished a prayer book with Miss Angela,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: Thepodsole and the other ladies on the prayer group. So,
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: like I said, tuly A blessing, being a talk and
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: all the other lady's up here and the ones just
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: not and doing poetry was.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: A challenge for me.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: You know what, I did something for me. I started
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: on the prayer ne Actually I was even on the
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: prayer line. I was going through chemo cancer and lucas
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: at the same time and also heart So all the
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: things I've been doing has motivated me, inspired me, and
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: God used it to strengthen me, to transform me and
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: to the person that He wanted me to be, and.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Just believing trust to him.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: So my advice to anybody, whatever you going through, just
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: keep pushing, keep trusting because it's not going to be always.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: And guess what if we ladies and God blessed us
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: through it, He'll bless you too. It's part transformation, restore.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: If you change your mindset, change your conversation, you could
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: do all things. Because I didn't know anything about poetry,
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I thought it had to rhyme. I thought everything had
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: to be in place, So I just started to speak
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: them from my heart. So I have I hope I
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: said something to encourage someone to see me.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: So how do people follow you?
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: How ca they?
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: You can follow me on Facebook as Cheryl Northern La Grand.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: You can follow me. I'm on Amazon Cheryl La Grand.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: I'm on TikTok and survival I'm on Instagram as Northern
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: La Grand.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: That's where you can follow me, and she on TikTok
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: at Survivor sixty six.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: You can't just put Survivor out there because they won't
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: be able to find you. But uh, I see she's
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Survivor sixty six. I'm everywhere miss doctor Michelin.
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: And all of the social media.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: You can follow me at Michelan Moss on Facebook, i
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: am Micheland, miss Jones, uh doctor Michelle and Missy Moss
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: and on TikTok also Missy Moss.
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: My next project that I'm working on right now is.
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: Another collaboration called I Am a Black Woman, and it's
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: gonna come out, I believe. But in June or July,
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't do a soul project, but I'm finally doing one.
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: I'm doing a devotional that will be coming out my
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: birthdays in July, so I'm gonna have it around that time.
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: And also I hope that I.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: Can encourage someone just just be you, you know, as
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: the book says, shattered the silence, and you know, definitely,
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: you know, gather light and rise I'm broken.
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: We all need to do that. We actually do do it,
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: just sometimes you don't even know that you are doing it.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: And I just feel like love Jesus, love your neighbor,
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: you know, and everything else well fall into place.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, you can follow me. I'm all on.
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: All the platforms. On Facebook, i am Schanette Johnson. On Instagram,
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: I'm just being Scheanette. Let's talk about it. On TikTok
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: Let's talk about it with a red X behind my name,
• 58:33
  Speaker 8: or you can just go to linked link tree and
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: put in Chanette's voice and you will see all the
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: different platforms that I'm on. I also have a website
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: Let's Talk About It with Scheanette and Cornell, where I
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: discussed the different cases of the men that I talked
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: to on my podcast on Let's Talk Talk About It.
• 59:01
  Speaker 8: Also have I released my first book last year, Emerging
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: from the Shadow of Grief after the Loss of my son,
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: that you can find that on Amazon. I'm currently working
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: on my second book because, like I said, I've been
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: having such a hard time dealing with my son transitioning,
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: even though it's going on three years. Grief does not
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: have no time limit. And for the parents that's.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Dealing with grief. I followed his mother name.
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: I believe her handle is Poop and she said to
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: grieve out loud. And that's exactly what I say. Grieve
• 59:51
  Speaker 8: out loud. Don't let nobody tell you when and how
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: to get over the loss of your child, because they
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: don't know what you're dealing with. You know, continuously, you know, right,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 8: start a journal, right, write or down.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Get you a jar.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: I got me these little drawers right here, and I'm
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: gonna start filling them up with memories. And when I
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 8: get sad or and I'm thinking about my son, I'm
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: gonna come in my little in my drawer and I'm
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: going to pull a memory out and I'm gonna read
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: it to so I don't stay in that Greek period
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: so long.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: So I encourage you to do the same as well,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: and don't stay there.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: Get get you on an angela, someone that's gonna encourage you,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: that's gonna push you.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: That's not gonna let you stay in that place.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: That's so I mean somebody that you can go to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: sleep with on the phone and y'all wake up two
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: hours later and y'all start back talking like I've been
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: on the phone talking for two.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Hours, you know.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: And don't put yourself, create yourself from your loved ones.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: Let them love on you. And like I said, look,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: if you if you need to talk, hey, you have
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: my platform. You can come on and talk. Whether we
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: can talk about grief, we can talk about broth or
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: convict you, whatever you want to talk about, Let's talk
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: about it.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: And I love you guys, And that's it. So you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: can I can't. I'm not even gonna tell you all
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: of the platforms that I'm on. Just go to link
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: Tree clean Up Collaborations and then you can scroll down
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: and just figure out how which one you want to
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: connect with, how you want to connect. Everything is there,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: from my books down to the different podcasts that I'm on.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Of course, I am the visionary of the Cup podcast,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: so you will see me behind the scenes most of
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: the time, but sometime I I come out and I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: do different things when they are not live and and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: on the air. I I try to utilize it so you.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: May see me jumping around here during the daytime while
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: they out doing whatever they doing in the end of
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: the day to day. But I do have a website
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: for my books and it is simply my name, Angela
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: Thomas Smith books dot com.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: I try to make it easy so people don't forget,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: so they'll never forget. So you can go over there
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: and check out some of my books.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: You can check out the magazine you sometimes you may
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: find events that we have coming up, different things that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 6: I'm involved in. Definitely you can connect with the podcast
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: from there, but most importantly being able to check out
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: some of the books, cause I tell you, I got
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: books for everybody. I I gotta up the children books.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: I got some poetry books. I got some journals. I
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: got devotionals. I I you name it this over there.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: I even know that was in some some what you
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: call it urban lint. Yeah, I got two urban lit
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: books over there.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: So I I I just like to write. I just
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: like to share and and and I hope that you
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: will you have been blessed by something that we have
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: said on tonight, and that you will go over and
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: support some of the things that we are doing. I
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: do have a book that's coming out on my birthday, y'all.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: It is coming soon A for the first y'all know,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: I always like to drop a book on my birthday
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: to not only celebrate my birthday, but to celebrate others.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: I I love to celebrate others, so I utilize my
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: birthday as a time to celebrate others. So this year,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: I decided to celebrate poets cause National Poetry Awareness. Money
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: keeps off as well April, the whole month of April.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: So I am excited about dropping this book. There's twenty
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: six of us inside of this book. We stepping outside
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: our comfort zone. We had an opportunity just to write
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: about whatever was laid on our heart. It was nothing
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: in particular that we wrote about. It was just poets unite.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: So we have poets. We have one poet out of Nigeria.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: We have poets from all over, So I'm just excited.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: All across the US, I'm excited. We come from different backgrounds,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: we come from different racists, different religions, So we're showing
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: you that diversity can come together and that words truly speak.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: And I have truly enjoyed working with these individuals. So
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: you're gonna get an opportunity to to see some of
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: our best work, and you're gonna get an opportunity to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: meet some of these amazing poets. I'm excited about this book,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: to be honest again, it drops on my birthday. You
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: can go to Amazon right now, y'all can go to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: Amazon right now. It's only ninety nine cent.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: You can down you can order pre order you a
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: copy of the e book for only ninety nine cents.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: And we have an eleven year old, y'all. Inside of
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: our book, we have an eleven year old. She's our
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: youngest poet. She comes out of Charleston, South Carolina. And
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you she she wrote a poem about friendship.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: It's called a Friendship Tree. And I'll tell you when
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: I read that poem, it touched me because we we
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: we we need to we we need to get back
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: to being friends the village, because that's that's what I remember,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: the village. We've gotten away from that village mentality and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: that's because we don't value friendships. So we need to
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: get back to that. And that baby shared a powerful poem.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Inside of this book, you're gonna see some powerful poems
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: come out of this book.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: So I wanna challenge y'all. Go on and grab you
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: a copy right now. It's only ninety nine cent. And
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: by purchasing this copy now before it hit, cause when
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 6: it hit it's gonna be three dollars and thirty three cent,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: you get it now for ninety nine cent, you can
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: help us reach number one as a new release.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: So I'm challenging, y'all. I'm challenging. If you are hearing this,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: even if you're hearing it as a replay, go and
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: grab you a copy, Give somebody else a copy, because y'all,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: we waste ninety nine cent a day. Should Net waste
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: it on a cup of coffee this morning? And she probably.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: It?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, she told me how to still that coffee. Was
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: she wasted it on some coffee this morning, So we
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: can put that in some coffee and not be satisfied.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Then go on and grab you two copies and support
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: these amazing poets for National Poetry Awareness Month and celebrate
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: our birthday. If you don't do it for the poets,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: do it for me because it's my birthday. Show me
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: that you love me. Go grab you a copy for
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: ninety nine cent, y'all, Patrice can't get back on. She's
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: having technical difficult so we're gonna close out, or we're
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: gonna close out. I know she missed asks a getting
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: to aks those questions because she like to aks these
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: little funny questions and and all that stuff. So I
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: know she probably upset, So y'all'll probably see us back
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: on here again, because she probably upset because she didn't
• 1:07:30
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 9: Our time has now.
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  Speaker 2: Come to an end because guess what, I talked too
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