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1 HOUR OF POWER WITH QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The show starts
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  Speaker 1: it night, okay, our seven six three shoot Monday go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: good Monday morning. And welcome, welcome, well, welcome to another
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  Speaker 2: episode of Monday Morning Motivation had Hour of Power with
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  Speaker 2: the Queen. So welcome, welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. So today, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I am going to I'm gonna be doing something different
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  Speaker 2: today since this is the last Monday in this month,
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  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna be going down through shift a
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  Speaker 2: different perspective. Next month, We're gonna be on a different perspective.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be using some different words. We're gonna show
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  Speaker 2: you how to adapt and how to utilize, how you
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  Speaker 2: can utilize these this process, this framework in different ways,
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  Speaker 2: and it does not always have to be the same
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  Speaker 2: words in the same process, but how you can add
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  Speaker 2: different things to it, and how you can continue to
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  Speaker 2: go through the process over and over and over. You
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  Speaker 2: can go through it a couple of times, y'all. It
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  Speaker 2: does not have to be done the same way all
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  Speaker 2: the time. You can switch it up and do it
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  Speaker 2: different ways. And that's what I want to share with
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  Speaker 2: you guys next week. I'm sorry, y'all, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: go live on another platform to y'all know how I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the most tech savvy, but we're gonna get it together.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get it together. So this morning, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be sharing with you guys us a devotion because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people say, well, you got all this
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  Speaker 2: work out here. We never see your work. We never
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  Speaker 2: see your work, so they want to see some of
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  Speaker 2: my work. So I am going to be sharing a
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  Speaker 2: devotion this morning from one of my devotional books. And
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  Speaker 2: then I am going to also be sharing from the
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  Speaker 2: poetry Anathology from my birthday because I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: have shared a lot of that, So I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: sharing that with you guys today. So again I want
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  Speaker 2: to welcome you guys to Monday Motivation our Power. I
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  Speaker 2: hope y'all can hear me. Let me see who's on
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  Speaker 2: here so I can see, but I hope you guys
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  Speaker 2: can hear me. So we are live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm also alive on TikTok. So this morning, again,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I'm going to be sharing. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be sharing about I'm gonna be sharing a devotion
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  Speaker 2: from one of my books that I did. I think
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  Speaker 2: I did this one in December of twenty twenty four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: December twenty twenty four. So I just did this one, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be sharing a devotion out of this book,
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  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna be sharing a poem from my
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  Speaker 2: birthday anathology y'all. This was from my Birthday anathology that
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  Speaker 2: dropped this past April, and shout out to all those
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  Speaker 2: that participated inside of this anathology. I'm gonna be sharing
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  Speaker 2: later on about that. But this morning, again, like always,
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  Speaker 2: I wanna thank you guys for joining in and joining
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  Speaker 2: me this morning. Let me I got one more I
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  Speaker 2: got one more thing to do, y'all. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: this together. Uh it's it's I think it's time for
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  Speaker 2: me to try to get me some assistance where it
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  Speaker 2: won't be long. I have some assistance hopefully, But y'all
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  Speaker 2: got a couple of platforms going on, because we got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things that we're trying to get out
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  Speaker 2: definitely trying to reach some people with the various things
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  Speaker 2: that we are doing. One hundred out the movement. For
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  Speaker 2: those that don't know about the one hundred out the movement,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about that today. Is just gonna
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  Speaker 2: be dropping some nuggets because I know today it's a
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  Speaker 2: hot for a lot of people, and I'm gonna share
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  Speaker 2: this with a lot of people that may not know.
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  Speaker 2: Someone just shared this on my timeline. And of course
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  Speaker 2: those that follow me and support me know that I
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  Speaker 2: am from South Carolina. But a fact that I found out,
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  Speaker 2: it was something that I found out probably about maybe
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  Speaker 2: ten years ago, but it's not something that they teach
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  Speaker 2: us here as part of our South Carolina history. I
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  Speaker 2: did not know that Charleston, South Carolina, was actually where
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  Speaker 2: memorial they actually started. And what they were doing was
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  Speaker 2: memorializing their fallen soldiers, those that had died and they
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  Speaker 2: was just laying out and just laying out, and they
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to give them proper barriers, and so they
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  Speaker 2: did that, put the flags out and did that. So
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  Speaker 2: again they always want to take something from us. So
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  Speaker 2: then they started with the made it, uh, well, we
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  Speaker 2: honor the soldiers and stuff like that, when it really
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  Speaker 2: was about honoring those that had lost their lives during
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  Speaker 2: that war. During that war, and was just throwed out
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  Speaker 2: there like nobody and they just decided and you can
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  Speaker 2: go and read it. I actually, if you are my
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  Speaker 2: friend on Facebook, you actually can see the posts that
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  Speaker 2: I shared. I just shared a post about that. So
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  Speaker 2: if you are from South Carolina and you did not
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  Speaker 2: know that, that is a definitely a fun fact to
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  Speaker 2: know about South Carolina, and definitely if you live here,
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  Speaker 2: it is definitely something that you should know and something
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  Speaker 2: that you should be sharing with your children because they
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  Speaker 2: are definitely not teaching that in the schools, and y'all know, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: with the way things are going now, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things that they're gonna be taken away.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not teaching it to your kids, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not sharing hearing it with your kids, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a possibility that your kids are not gonna
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  Speaker 2: get it. So it's gonna be a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we're gonna have to do as as parents, as
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  Speaker 2: loved ones. There's a lot of stuff that we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to do. Two to really, somebody's wanting to come
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  Speaker 2: on my lives. Let me see, I've never had anybody
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  Speaker 2: come on my live before. But I'm over here trying
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  Speaker 2: some new stuff out on TikTok. So if you want
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  Speaker 2: to come on, just send it back and I'll let
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  Speaker 2: you own. And y'all know, if y'all want to come
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  Speaker 2: on the show, If y'all want to be live on
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  Speaker 2: the show with me on Mondays, all you have to
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  Speaker 2: do is email me Queen U Collaborations, and we definitely
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  Speaker 2: will get you own. And all we do is it's
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  Speaker 2: all about motivation. If if you have a program, a service,
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  Speaker 2: a book, or a message or something, then that is
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  Speaker 2: motivational and you would like to come on and be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the show, just let me know. I
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  Speaker 2: definitely would get you on. So now I am now
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  Speaker 2: live on substack, I am live on TikTok YouTube, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what just happened over here. I was live, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm live. I was live, but it looked like
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  Speaker 2: I froze up on all of the other platforms. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and substack and TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: So this morning, y'all, we are since this is the
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  Speaker 2: last Monday in May, and we have actually finished I
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  Speaker 2: think we finished up our We talked about transformation and
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  Speaker 2: being intentional and then we did a review last week.
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  Speaker 2: So now we are just gonna recap. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: recap what we've been doing and what we're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: coming up. We're gonna talk about what's coming up for
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  Speaker 2: the month of June, y'all know, for us over here
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  Speaker 2: at the magazine and us at the podcast at the
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  Speaker 2: Crew Podcast, we celebrate Black Men's History Month for the
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  Speaker 2: month of June, because there is not a month or
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  Speaker 2: an actual recognized celebration for our black kings. And we
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  Speaker 2: want them to know that they are they are, they
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  Speaker 2: are worthy of being celebrated, that we love them, we
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  Speaker 2: appreciate them, they are needed, and we want them to
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  Speaker 2: know that we appreciate them. And not all men or
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  Speaker 2: dads or fathers. So we want to recognize all men
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  Speaker 2: that are doing things because a lot of men in
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  Speaker 2: the community and doing stuff in the community, and they
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  Speaker 2: may not be fathers, so they only celebrate the fathers.
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  Speaker 2: So we are celebrating all kings that are doing amazing
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  Speaker 2: things because there are people out here that are doing things.
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  Speaker 2: They are in generational curses, they are setting new standards
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  Speaker 2: for their family, they set in new traditions, they're doing
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  Speaker 2: different things, and people need to know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: If you are a biblical person, it says that we
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  Speaker 2: should do greater works. And if we're gonna do greater works,
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  Speaker 2: how would they know the greater works? Because we can't
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  Speaker 2: change the Bible. It is already written. So how do
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  Speaker 2: we How do we let people know about our greater works?
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  Speaker 2: We have to share those greater works. How do we
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  Speaker 2: share those greatest works? We have to do the things
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  Speaker 2: that we're doing, like doing these lives, doing these podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: putting out these books. You know, I currently have Amazon
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  Speaker 2: says I have one hundred and forty publications out. Blurb
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  Speaker 2: says I have one hundred and thirty three. So in
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  Speaker 2: between one hundred, I'm gonna say about one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty five maybe publications out in the form of planners, journals, books, calendars, magazines,
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  Speaker 2: you name it, I do it. I love doing anthologies
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  Speaker 2: because I love to help other people that want to
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  Speaker 2: share their story but may not have a whole book.
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  Speaker 2: And I like to bring people together that have similar
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  Speaker 2: stories or similar perspectives and we can share them inside
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  Speaker 2: of a book like we did here inside of this
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  Speaker 2: poetry anthology. Y'all We did this for my birthday. This
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  Speaker 2: was for my birthday, I turned fifty, and we celebrated
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  Speaker 2: National Poetry Awareness Month. So we knocked out three stones.
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  Speaker 2: We knocked out three things with one stone.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to celebrate my birthday. We were able
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate National Poetry Month, and individuals that had something
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  Speaker 2: that they wanted to share, they were able to share
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  Speaker 2: inside of this book. Inside I think it was us.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I can't remember, but I think it was about
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  Speaker 2: twenty of us. Yeah, it was twenty of us, twenty
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  Speaker 2: amazing poets inside of this book. They shared in it
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  Speaker 2: for my birthday. And I'm going to be sharing some
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  Speaker 2: pieces towards the end of this live. But y'all know
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  Speaker 2: how I like to start off everything. And I know
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  Speaker 2: I've been on here talking for about fifteen minutes, but
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  Speaker 2: we have not gotten into our lesson yet. So before
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  Speaker 2: I get into the lesson, I always like to start
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  Speaker 2: off with the prayer. For those that know me, I
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  Speaker 2: love to pray. We have a five am prayer line
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  Speaker 2: if you need a prayer family for joining us, It's
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  Speaker 2: called the Servant Leader's Prayer Line. We pray every morning
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  Speaker 2: at five am. Apostle doctor Kimberly Thomas, who did the
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  Speaker 2: forward for this book. She is our overseer on that line.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys can come over there and pray with us.
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  Speaker 2: Pamela J. Hayes and Shaniya Osborne, they are my prayer bestie. Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We've been doing this for five years. We've been standing
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  Speaker 2: in the gap. We've been praying for people. We've been
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  Speaker 2: believing God for healing, for deliverance, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things, y'all individuals. We've been praying for people to
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  Speaker 2: come home from prison. We've been praying for people that
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  Speaker 2: have had cancer, you name it. We have been standing
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  Speaker 2: on the while and we've been watching God move. We've
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  Speaker 2: been watching God show up and show out, and y'all,
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  Speaker 2: we yet on the while. But this morning I am
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  Speaker 2: going to share a devotion out of this book that
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  Speaker 2: I dropped in December, December sixth of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: and today lesson is going to be It's called Preparing
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  Speaker 2: the Hearts. And the scripture is in how I did
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  Speaker 2: each devotion each day is there's a scripture, then there's
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  Speaker 2: an affirmation. And everybody that follow me now know that
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  Speaker 2: I like poetry, so there is an affirmation poem, and
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  Speaker 2: then there's an additional scripture that you can follow up.
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  Speaker 2: After you've done this lesson, you can follow up if
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  Speaker 2: you want to go deeper, you want to do a
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  Speaker 2: little deeper reading, you can go into another scripture to
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  Speaker 2: accommodate what we talk about here. So this lesson here
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  Speaker 2: the scripture is Philippians three and fourteen is I press
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  Speaker 2: on towards the goal of the price of the upper
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  Speaker 2: calling of God in Christ Jesus. And I tell everybody
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  Speaker 2: when you read a scripture, put yourself in the place
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  Speaker 2: of those words. Put yourself in that make your make
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you're in that scripture. We got to
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  Speaker 2: learn how to make these scriptures become life, really a
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  Speaker 2: part of us. That's what it's all about. When you
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  Speaker 2: can make it become a part of you, you can.
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  Speaker 2: You can it seems like you can get through things,
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  Speaker 2: you can act, you can get new a neeuver because
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  Speaker 2: you're you're in it. So when you understand this, it says,
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  Speaker 2: I press on towards the goal for the price of
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  Speaker 2: the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us be going through stuff and people wonder,
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  Speaker 2: how do we keep going. This is how we keep going.
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  Speaker 2: This is how we keep going because it is above us.
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  Speaker 2: It is not about us in the natural, it's not
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  Speaker 2: about us in our situation of us in just us.
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  Speaker 2: But it's about the bigger picture why he placed us here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's people that you are connected to that
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to to. You're supposed to be able to
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  Speaker 2: lead them, to guide them, to be a a disciple
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  Speaker 2: to them. You're supposed to be able to witness in them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of time we go through stuff
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  Speaker 2: and we wonder, you know, why me? When we always
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  Speaker 2: in the back our mind that questions should be why not?
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  Speaker 2: And then we should be asking ourselves, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: why did we have to go through this? What was
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  Speaker 2: the lesson? What can we get out of what we
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  Speaker 2: went through? Instead of taking the negative, we have to
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  Speaker 2: learn how to take the positive. Because if we are believers,
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  Speaker 2: and whatever you believe, if you are a believer and
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  Speaker 2: you believe whatever your belief system is, and you believe that,
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  Speaker 2: then you have to understand that some of those things
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  Speaker 2: was already laid out. I'm a Christian. I believe in
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  Speaker 2: the world, I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in God.
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and I believe that those things that has
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  Speaker 2: happened in the past, those things that they endure, those
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  Speaker 2: things they're still happening now, y'all. There's nothing new under
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  Speaker 2: the sun, there's nothing new falling out of the sky.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing new that's gonna happen. That things that they endure, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to understand that it's just elevated. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a different level. So as things begin to go forward,
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  Speaker 2: and as the world began to evolve, we begin to
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  Speaker 2: evolve it. Things begin to go forward, things are going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to evolve even when we're gonna y'all, we're
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  Speaker 2: starting to begin to see glimpses of what things may
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  Speaker 2: look like, just like we started when we was young.
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  Speaker 2: We used to see these cartoons and see all these
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  Speaker 2: different little things. And now we're starting to see some
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  Speaker 2: of these things that we saw as cartoons. They're becoming
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  Speaker 2: real life. We're seeing them in the natural. We're seeing
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  Speaker 2: these cars that can drive themselves, these these electric cars,
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  Speaker 2: these different things that we saw that we thought were cartoons.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the elevation, it's just the evolving what's to
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  Speaker 2: come and there's other things to even come after us.
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  Speaker 2: So what a blueprint are we leaving? This is what
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  Speaker 2: we have to be concerned about. What evidence of you
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  Speaker 2: are you leaving here? Because we see what's happening in
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  Speaker 2: the natural, we see what our current administration is doing.
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  Speaker 2: We see what's happening. So with everything that's happening and
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  Speaker 2: everything that's going on, how are you making your mark?
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  Speaker 2: How are you making a difference? Because one of the
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  Speaker 2: models here at the Crew Podcast, Aspiring Authors, Magazine, A
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  Speaker 2: A L.
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  Speaker 3: A c.
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  Speaker 2: And everything that's under my brand is that we are
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  Speaker 2: the change that we desire to see in this world.
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  Speaker 2: So how can you be the change if you're not
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  Speaker 2: doing anything? But it's insanity to continue to do the
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  Speaker 2: same things and think that things are going to change
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  Speaker 2: and things are going to get different, and that you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna walk into something different. It's not gonna happen, and
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing falling out of the sky, y'all. Nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: come save you on a white horse. Nobody's gonna just
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  Speaker 2: pop in and everything is gonna be okay. A snap no,
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  Speaker 2: because that's not even how God works. He can change
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  Speaker 2: things at the blink of an eye. In his heimen.
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  Speaker 2: But he don't just think he's just gonna pop in
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  Speaker 2: here and just go y'all, everything he's he's already given
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  Speaker 2: us everything that we need. If you go back over
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  Speaker 2: in Genesis two and two and seven, it said that breath,
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  Speaker 2: that breath of life that he breathed into us, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: everything that we needed was positive into you. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're out here searching and discovering and trying to say
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to find yourself, really have you really sit
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  Speaker 2: down and really spent time with yourself and evaluated yourself
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  Speaker 2: and did those hard talks with yourself and those things
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  Speaker 2: that you know to really get to know yourself. Become
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  Speaker 2: self aware of who you are. That's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that we talked about and begain in the shift,
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  Speaker 2: truly knowing who we are. And when you truly know
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  Speaker 2: who you are, then you can maneuver, you can, you
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  Speaker 2: can you can move in so many different ways. When
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  Speaker 2: we begin to know who we are and love who
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  Speaker 2: we are, then y'all, that's when we can again to
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  Speaker 2: help those that are around us to do the same
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  Speaker 2: for themselves. But a lot of us don't even know
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  Speaker 2: who we are. We don't even love ourselves because there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of us. We have things that we've overcome,
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  Speaker 2: things that we went through, things that was meant to
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  Speaker 2: take us out. But yet we yet stand, yet, we
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  Speaker 2: yet press. Yet we are still we were still here,
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  Speaker 2: and we still fighting, and we have something to fight for.
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  Speaker 2: Because guess what you got anotherother chance, you got another day.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody didn't get this day. If we look at the
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  Speaker 2: person that didn't get it this morning, that didn't get
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  Speaker 2: to wake up this morning. Somebody didn't wake up this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody didn't get an extension of their grace and the mercy.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're seeing this, if you're hearing this, whether
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  Speaker 2: you're watching it live or as a replay, guess what
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  Speaker 2: you're on the side of the living. You got another
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: chance to get it right. You got another chance to
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: pack lives. So what is it that you didn't do
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: yesterday that you can do today? What is it that
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: you can do better for you to make yourself better
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: than you were yesterday? And y'all, that's what we should
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: be doing every day. Every day we should be focused
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: on making ourself better then yesterday. We should always be
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: striving to be the best version of ourselves every day
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that that should be our goal. My thing is I
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  Speaker 2: want to lay down empty, so I give I pour
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  Speaker 2: because I'm my thing. I believe that when I lay down,
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna feel me up again. That's what I believe.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to hold on to nothing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to take nothing with me because guess what
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  Speaker 2: if I don't, if I don't get to see tomorrow.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Did I do what he wanted me to do today?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Did I impact a life today? Did somebody see him
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  Speaker 2: through me? Or did I take something that I was
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: supposed to leave in this earth? Did I take it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to the grave with me? Did it go to that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: brown box with me? Because see, that's what's happening with
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of us. There's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: He's placed on the inside of us that's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be coming out, but yet we sit down on it,
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  Speaker 2: we hold it in. We're waiting on we're waiting on
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  Speaker 2: somebody to do something for us, or we're waiting for
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: we're waiting for something to happen instead of trying to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: make it happen for ourselves. Like it don't say it
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: in the Bible that he if we take one step,
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  Speaker 2: he'll take two. But that's what we've been told. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: we have to believe that if we just step out
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  Speaker 2: on faith. But we believe that if we have faith
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  Speaker 2: the size of a mustard seed, that's how he want us.
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  Speaker 2: The size of a mustle seed. Do you know how
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: big a mustard seed is? Now you need a microscope
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to see a mustard seed. So he wants you to
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  Speaker 2: have just that little faith. We can't have that much faith.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: But yet we can get on a plane, we can
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: get on the bus. Some of us go dive in that.
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  Speaker 2: We get out here on these on these little scooters,
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  Speaker 2: we do all kind of other stuff. We get on
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  Speaker 2: these bridges every day, go across these water We do
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: all this stuff that we have to put faith in
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the things that we're driving, the things that we're utilizing,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the infrastructure, things like that. But we won't put faith
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: in the one that allow all this to happen. He
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: allow all this to happen. He allows us to have
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: cars here, allows us to have the the bridges to cross,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the materials. All that comes from him. That's why I'm
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: reminding when when he says and psalms one, look to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the hiss from what your health comings. When you look
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: to the hiss from what your health coming, you've looked there,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you see all If you just look out, you can
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: see all his green grass.
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  Speaker 4: You can see all the trees, you can see all
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  Speaker 4: of his magnificent work. You can see the animals. You
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: can see the birds, the bees, the fires of the heirs.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: He said, if he will take care of them, why
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: wouldn't he take care of you? So you have to
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: believe that He was gonna take care.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Of you wherever you are. And you have to believe that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: So know that I pressed towards the goal of the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: price of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: What is he calling you to do? What is he
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: calling you to do? What is your purpose? Why are
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you here? That's what you should be doing, And that's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: what's gonna make room for you, and he will make
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: your name great Proverbs eighteen and sixteen. He said it, say.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: The affirmation for today is I am committed to pressing
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  Speaker 2: forward and faith beyond what I can see. Again, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: am committed to pressing forward in faith beyond what I
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: can see. I am committed to pressing forward in faith
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: beyond what I can see because the word tells us
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  Speaker 2: that faith is not the substance of things that we see,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: but it's the things that we hope for. And y'all know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I ain't no theologians, so I'll be paraphrasing stuff so
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: that don't don't jump down my throat if I may
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: say something wrong, because I don't. I don't walk in
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: no office. I don't walk in nothing. I'm just a
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  Speaker 2: child of guy that that that I share my experience
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  Speaker 2: and the things that I've been through, and I am
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: things that I am taught under my teaching. So I'm
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: not an office holder. But I do like poetry, and
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I do write poetry. I do share what is laid
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  Speaker 2: in my spirit. So in this book, in this it
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  Speaker 2: is called Beyond Sight, a thirty one day thirty one
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  Speaker 2: days of empowering faith, affirmations and poetry. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: thirty one day book. And the poem that goes with
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: this section is it says, with eyes on eternity, I
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: move past shadows of doubt, I prove beyond the scene.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I dare to dream, guided by Divine being. That's that piece, y'all.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: That's that bise, and that is an affirmation poem that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I included for that section. So that is the affirmation,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: that is the devotion for today, and it is called
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: it's titled Preparing the Hearts. The scripture was Philippians three fourteen,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I press on towards the goal of the price of
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the upwork call of God in Christ Jesus. The affirmation was,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I am committed to pressing forward in faith beyond what
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I see. And then the affirmation poem is, with eyes
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: on eternity, I move past shadows of doubt, I prove
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: beyond the scene. I dare to dream, guided by the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Divine Being. And that's that piece. So the additional scripture,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: if you want to continue to study, you want to continue,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the additional scripture that you can add to what I
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: shared today would be I am forty and thirty one.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: And that is that part. Oh listen for today, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: That is that part of the section for today. So
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I shared that I was going to share some poetry.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: We did drop a poetry book in April. We dropped
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: it on my birthday, which was April the first I
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: celebrated fifty, So we celebrated my fiftieth birthday inside of
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: this book as well as National Poetry Awareness Month, which
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: is in April. We celebrated that along with twenty amazing
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: poets that wanted to allow their voices to speak. Some
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of them shared poetry to celebrate my birthday. Some shared
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: poetry to honor me. And I'm gonna read a couple
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: of these poems today before we leave. I think we
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: have Cheannette that's on here. Shannette is one of the
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: hosts on the Crew podcast. She also shared inside of
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: this book, and I'm going to share one of her
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: poems that she wrote. Patrise is also in this book.
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  Speaker 2: She is one of the hosts over on the podcast,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and she's on this morning too, So I'm gonna share
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: one of her pieces. I'm gonna share a couple of pieces,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna share their pieces because they are tuned in,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: they are watching. But I'm gonna share a couple of
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: people a couple poems out of the book. Now, I
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: just gotta find them. Let me see where where Patrise said,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Patrice and Janette Chanette, y'all see, I have to look
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: in the in the in the what's the name too?
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: So here is one that Cheanette. This is one that
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Channette wrote and again. Channette is one of the hosts
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: on The Crew podcasts. This is one she wrote on
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: February the twenty eighth. It says, Angela the Messenger and
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: the stillness of night. A whisper flows, a name bestowed
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: where the south light glows. Angela a messenger, appure and bright,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: carrying wisdom like stars in the night, With every word
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: a truth to unfold, stories of courage, dreams to be bold.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: She walks. She walks the path where the wires once dread,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: with grace in her heart and light in her head.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Her laughter a melody, dances in air, a reminder that
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: kindness is always there in face of storms, she stands,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: ever strong, her spirit a hymn, a beautiful song. For
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: wisdom is more than knowledge we gain. It's the love
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: that we share, the joy the pain in each gentle gesture,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: in every embrace. Angela's the messenger, brings hope in this place.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: So let her remind us as she journeys along. The
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  Speaker 2: wisdom is found in the weak, ind the strong, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: moments we cherished, the lesson we learned. Angela a messenger, pure, bright,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: carrying wisdom like a star in the night. And that's
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: that piece that was written by Jeanette Johnson. Again, she
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: is one of the hosts over here on the Crew podcast.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: And again this is the anthology that that poem came
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: out of. I'm gonna read Patrice, let me find Patrice.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Now Patrice had a poem in here as well.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I thought they said she was right here. But I
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: don't see you trying to find Patricia. Trying to find Patrice. Oh,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: there she don't. So she wrote she wrote two pins
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: as well, And I'm gonna read the piece that's titled Grace.
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  Speaker 2: It says Grace, it's a hush in temperest wake, a
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  Speaker 2: gentle hand that will not break. It walks beside the
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: faint of heart, restoring hope. In every part. It's light.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It lifts the falling, calm and sure, a guided lights,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: steadfast and pure, not one not bartered nor repaid, but
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: freely given, never swayed. Grace bends like branches in breathe,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: yet stands like roots beneath the trees. It does not
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: count nor seek its deues, Yet clear'st path leads us through.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: So when the knife feels long and deep and mercy
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: seems too far kept, grace will remain a beacon bright
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: a love that turns dark to light. That's that piece, y'all,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: And that was by Patrice and it's called grace. It's
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: called grace because remember the book is called Crowning Glory
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and it is a journey of grace and wisdom. So
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that that was the book. That was a few of
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the pieces that were shared on this inside of this book.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to read what's on the back of
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the book. So our ford was done by our Apostle,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: and it says heartfelt gratitude to Apostle doctor Kimberly, for
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: gracing us with her wisdom and insight in the four
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: your words like the Path for Many. In honor of
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Queen Angela's fiftieth birthday, which is I'm Queen Angela and
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: National Poetry Month, Crowning Glory is a vibrant anathology that
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: promises to be a collection no that promises to be
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: as joyous and diverse as the voice contained within these pages.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: This collection is more than just an assembly of poems.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: It is a experience that beacons readers into the world
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: where words have the power to transform and to connect us.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Featuring twenty extraorinary poets from across the US. Each poet
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: brings their unique voice and perspective. We even a rich
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: temperance of themes that range from celebration to reflection, to
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: empowerment to resilience. These poems invite readers to explore the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: depths of human emotions and interfaces of life experiences that
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: resonate with anyone who has ever felt the profound impact
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: of perfectly crafted lines up of a perfectly crafted line
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: of pongratic stanzas. Whether you are drawn to a lyrical
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: beauty of language, the raw honesty of personal narratives, or
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: a stern call of empowerment and unity, Crown and Glory
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: offers something for every reader. It is a testament to
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: the belief that our voice matters, and that through poetry
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: we can illuminate the past of our We can illuminate
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: the past of our past, present and future. Join us
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in this joy celebration of a milestone birthday in a
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: extraordinary voices that makes this collection a crowning achievement in
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: the world of poetry. Let each page inspire and remind
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you of the power and beauty that words whole dive
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: in and discover why Crown and Glory is not just
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: a book of poetry, but a celebration of life, legacy,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and the enduring power of the human spirit. So I
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: hope you guys will check out this book. It is
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: available on Amazon, Blurb, mad Cloud, most places you can
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: get a book. It is also available digital, so that
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: means you can get it at most places that sell
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: digital books, Walmart, dot Com, Barnes and Noble Books, a million,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: all of those places. If you just google Queen up
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Collaborations or books by Angela Thomas Smith, you will it
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: is a list of where you can go and find
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: my books will probably come up. Also, if you go
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: to link tree, Queen of Collaboration, backslash Queen of Collaborations,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: you will be able to see a slew of different
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: ways to contact me, different ways to connect with some
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: of the things that I'm doing. How you can get
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: involved with what we're doing. We are coming to a
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: city near you soon a A L a C. Which
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: is the African American Author Literacy Awareness Campaign. We're coming
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: to a city near you soon. We are still coming
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: to Chicago, y'all. We're coming. We are working on a
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: couple of things, Yes, there was a setback, but it's
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: okay because one thing, one thing about me is I
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: don't quit. I don't stop, and it's gonna be even better.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: We're working on a couple of things, have opportunity to
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: connect with some people, so we got some things going.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: We're still headed to Spartanburg, South Carolina. If you want
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: to be a part of that event, y'all, please reach
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: out to Teda. Y'all, this is going to be an
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: amazing event if you want to have a logo placed
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: on our backdrop, and I brought my other backdrop so
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I can show y'all too, because this is the one
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: from from my birthday. I don't know a lot of
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you guys, and this one is a huge. It is
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: way bigger than the other one that I showed' this
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: is and you're probably not gonna be able to see
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: all of it on the screen, but this is from
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: my birthday. This is the one that we did for
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: my birthday, and you see how big it is. So
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going with the smaller one, the one that I
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: showed y'all, because it's easy to transport to and then
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: for me because I'm gonna be taking all of these y'all.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Once we get them each one at each event, I'm
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: gonna be taking all of them and we're gonna just
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: be displaying them around so people are gonna be able
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: to take pictures. They're gonna be able to it's just
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: gonna be a slew of we only have what six stops,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: so by the time we get to the last one,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be seven backdrops. That's gonna show where all
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: we've been and people are gonna be able to take
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: pictures because that last event is gonna be a big event.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be our end of the year event. It's
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: gonna be an amazing event. We're gonna have details coming soon.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: It is going to be in sandy Ton, Sat Antonio, Texas,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: December to sixth. We do know it's gonna be December sixth.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: We are working on all of the logistics exactly where
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be at, but we know that it's gonna
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: be on December to six. So we want you guys
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and pencil pencil in December to six
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: San Antonio, Texas. Go ahead and put down one hundred
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: after moving or A A L, A C. However you
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: want to note it. If you are an author, if
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: you are a creative, if you are a poet, if
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: you are anywhere in the creative field, this is going
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: to be an opportunity for you to come out and network.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: There's gonna be an opportunity because we're gonna be showcasing.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be recognizing a lot of authors. We're going
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: to be recognizing at least call the names of a
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: lot of authors. We're gonna call the names of all
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: of the authors a part of the one hundred Author movement.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: And then we are going to be doing something very special.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I cannot wait to patresus ready to announce this, but
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: we're going to be doing something very special. This is
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: gonna be our inaugural event for this. We're gonna be
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: launching a new program that we're going to be doing
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: every year, and we're gonna be able to recognize and
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: honor some some creatives that's doing some amazing things and
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: really get an opportunity to really create legacy, leave leave
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: a history, leave evidence of what they're doing and and
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: and leave it in a long term type way that
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: people can really be recognized, like we're gonna are cabin
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: so that it can be seen, that people can hear it,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: that it will be talked about. So know that I
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: appreciate you guys. I am getting ready to get on
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: out of here. Sometimes I'm only on thirty forty five minutes,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: but when I have a guest, we usually try to
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: go the whole hour. But y'all know, if I'm on here,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get on and get off. If you
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: are a coach, if you are a motivational speaker, if
• 45:28
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• 45:34
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• 45:38
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• 45:42
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  Speaker 2: Allow your brand to speak, allow your services to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Allow what you're doing to impact somebody else. You never
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: know who may be on my platform that needs to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: hear what you have to say. So if you don't
• 46:02
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• 46:04
  Speaker 2: let them see or hear what you have to say.
• 46:08
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• 46:28
  Speaker 2: where we can find my books, magazine, all of that.
• 46:31
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• 47:27
  Speaker 2: they dropping nuggets. You can even if you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to hear the whole show, you can go over and
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  Speaker 2: hear a three minute clip, a five minute clip, a
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  Speaker 2: share it with somebody. Y'all. It does not hurt. It
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  Speaker 2: does not take a lot to really show support. So y'all,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about us supporting each other. Share like, share like,
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  Speaker 2: next person may be in need of. Somebody may need
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• 48:04
  Speaker 2: podcasters are sharing. We have nine hosts, so I'm sure
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: that they may want to hear something that one of
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: these nine hosts have to say, or even may want
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: to hear something that I have to say. Who knows,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: but we want them to know that it's there, and
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: we want you to be able to share it out,
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  Speaker 2: share it out. If you would please share it out,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: we would love for you to share it out. I
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: see TikTok one started me on another challenge, so I
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: guess I am gonna have to stay on a little
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: longer because I see they got me over here doing
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: another challenge and I'm trying to participate. So I'm gonna
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: stay on and I'm gonna participate with them. So with
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: that being said, y'all. With that being said, I guess
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: that means that I can share another piece of poetry
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: with you guys.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: So let me.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: With the poetry. Look that and see what I'm on share.
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  Speaker 2: So our new poet of the Year is Marcee Moore.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: She is from Dallas and she is our new Poet
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  Speaker 2: of the Year for twenty twenty five here Aspiring Author's magazine.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: And she wrote how many poems did she do? She
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: did two poems. One was entitled why Me, and one
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: was entitled Challenges. And I'm going to read the one
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: called challenges. Love challenges you, pushes you to the edge.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Love builds you up with the right person by your side.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: You both learned in the struggle, through the fights and
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: the pain, in the moments of doubt, wisdom is gain.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Love teaches you patience to hold your ground, to seek
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: peace and solace in each other. Love is not just
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the highest, it's the lows. You both survive in every challenge.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Wisdom is gain. As your love mateers, wisdom grows bun rows,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: making your love unstoppable. And that's that piece, And that
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: was done by Marsine M. Moore. It's called Challenges, and
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: she is the current Poet of the Year for Aspiring
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Authors Magazine. She is out of Dallas. Y'all can check
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: it out on TikTok. She's on Instagram Marceine m Moore,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: that girl Marsine. But this is her. Y'all want to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: see a picture of her. I can't. Y'all can't see her.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Can y'all see your up there Facebook? Let me see
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: who else got a poem. Shania also did a poem, y'all,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: so I can read one of the Shania's poem. Shanaria
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: is one of the Prayer Warriors. She's one of my
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: prayer besties over on the Servant Leader's prayer line. So
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: this is Shania. She's one of the prayer Warriors. She
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: just released a twenty one day, a thirty one day
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: devotional called The Warn Women and Men of Faith. It's
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: a thirty one day devotional. So she did two poems.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna read the one called Grace many times today.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I will cross others a thirsh cross over a threstshold
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: a hope. I will catch a few of those times.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I need to remember that my life is in fact
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: a continuous series of thresh shows from one moment to
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: the next, from one thought to the next, from one
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: action to the next. Help me appreciate how awesome this is,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: how many are the chances to be really alive. Help
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: me cross into the present moment, into the wonder and
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: to your grace and now this place where we all
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: are unfolding moments by moment by moment grace. And that's
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: that piece, so y'all. That was by Shania. That was
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: by Shania, That was by Shaniam, And then we got
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: a piece by L'chee. Luchae is one of the authors.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: That's going to be in Chicago, and actually she's gonna
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: be on my show this Wednesday. I am going to
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: be doing a show over on the w b n N.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: This is my show. I do a show over there
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: every four weeks on Wednesday, say, she's actually going to
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: be on the show. We're going to be sharing this
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: journey that she's on right now. And this journey is
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: that her baby she's two years old. Her baby is
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: two years old, and her baby is in currently in
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: need of a heart. She is currently on the heart
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: transplant list. We're going to talk about that Wednesday night
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: on the show. We're also going to be hosting a
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: fundraiser as part of US coming to Chicago on June
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: or fourteenth. See, sometimes the enemy get busy when you're
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: doing something positive, you're doing something good, you're doing something
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: that is beyond what you intend on. We intended on
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: going just to do a book event. We were going
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: to just support one of the authors that's a part
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: of the one hundred author movement. But when this baby
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: told me that her baby was still in the hospital
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: and was in need of a heart transplant, I felt
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: that if we're going there to do an event, why
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: not make it about helping this baby and bringing awareness
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: to this baby situation Because she said it was a
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: rare condition, you know, and she's never experienced nothing like this, so,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: you know, I can only imagine what this baby's going through.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: And then she got four other kids at home, and
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: I could just imagine what she's going through. So I'm
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: just trying to do my part to bring awareness. I
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: want to allow her to utilize the platforms that we
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: have here to be able to get this message out.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I've actually reached out to a couple bookstores, a couple
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I think news stations so that we can share this
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: story because we need to get this story out here.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: You have a two year old baby that is in
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: need of a heart transplant, and it can happen to anybody,
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: and we need to know this, you know. And there's
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: probably a lot of things that she don't know that
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: she probably.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: Need to know.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: And there's maybe somebody out here that has been through
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: this that could give her some advice or can shed
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: her in the right direction for resources and different things
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: like that. And see, that's why I keep telling people
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: the four seeds in life period, not just about a movement,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: not just about a book, but the four seeds to
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: be in in all of our lives and every day.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: And that's about connecting, collaborating, creating, in community building. We
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: we've gotten so far away from community and believing in
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: in in in this, in in in our community, and
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: trusting our neighbors. Some of us don't even speak to
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: our neighbors. How how can you walk past somebody every
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: day and live next door to them and not even
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: speak to them? Like I just I don't. I can't
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: for the likes of me get it, Like, really, what
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: what what possesses people like I understand? We be private,
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: We don't want people coming in our houses and stuff
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: like that. But speaking to somebody outside when you you
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: walk past the same breezeway, you walk past the same
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: side walk every day, but you will walk past each
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: other and not say nothing. I've had people walk past me.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: I've said good morning, and they kept on walking like
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: they didn't even hear me. And we live in the
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: same apartment complex. When I lived in that apartment complex
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: in Murder Beach, I had this lady and she lived
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: right behind me. Every day her car. She parked her
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: car right beside my car. Every day I would speak
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: to her, and she would act like I would speaking
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: to myself. She looked at me and kept on going.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: But the little kids had enough sense to speak. How
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: you as the parent won't speak, but the child speak.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I could be sitting on my porch, she can part
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: right in front of my door. She would get out
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: of her car, that baby be waving and she would
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: pull them and walk on right on past I. She
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: ain't like she ain't seen nobody, But every day I spake.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: We gotta get away from that. We got to get
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: back to that that village mentality, and we got to
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: get back to caring about and loving our brothers and
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: our sister. That's one of the commandments. One of the commandments,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: one of the commandments. But y'all, I'm gonna get on.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much. I don't know how much
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: more time this things. Say, I supposed to be on here,
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: but it was like twenty minutes a while ago. How
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: do I How do I know, y'all, y'all, I I've
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: been away for a long time, so I don't know.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: I just started getting back on live. I've been over
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: here doing other stuff. So I do a podcast, So
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: we have a post. So I have a podcast network,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: and we have eight no nine, I'm sorry, we have
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: nine hosts on the network and we are all female network.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: We are.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: It's say my Live with end Oh. So I guess
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: I've been on It's say, unable to verify. Why you
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: can't verify? It's say unable to verify. Yeah, they tripping.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: They just want me to get off the live because
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: they keep talking about they can't verify me when I
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: know them puzzle pieces was fitting the same puzzle pieces,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: but they finally let me do one. But yeah, I
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna start going live on TikTok and just sharing
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: my Monday morning motivations and whenever I can remember, I
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: tried to post clips and stuff from our podcast over here,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: so I do do that, so y'all do get content
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: from us. I just don't go live a lot, but
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: there is content. But I'm gonna do better. I'm gonna
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: do better. I'm gonna do better. Hopefully I can do
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: better over here and start doing some more stuff. If
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: y'all share with us what y'all would like for us
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: to show you guys more of some things that you
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: guys would like for us to do and present, maybe
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: we can start doing a little more of that, just special.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: If I knew how to scream, if somebody know how
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: we could stream live over here through a a third device,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: like I'm live on my phone now, I'm live on
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: my laptop on a program, So if I could figure
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: out how to screen through the program, that would be lovely.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: So if someone know how to do that and don't
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: mind sharing that with me, please inbox me and share me.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Share with me how we could stream our actual podcast
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: through TikTok as well. I would love to do that
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: to be able to share with you guys a little
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: bit of what we're doing through the podcast. So if
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: somebody over there want to share with me, also substatic.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I know we can go live on these different programs,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: but only through mobile devices. I don't know how to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: do it through the laptops, so if you know how
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: to do it through the laptop, please share. That's what
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: we do. That's one of the things that we do
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: with the Author's one hundred Author Movement. If you are
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: a author and you're looking for a author family, please
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: joining us. Join us. We are the one hundred Author Movement,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: brought to you by Aspiring Authors Magazine. So definitely we
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: would love for you to be a part. So connect, Connect, Connect, Connect.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: I see Patrise over here. Let me see. Let me
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: see how I she must not be my friend m
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: because I can't. I can't, oh lesh go. I wanted
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: to see if I can bring her into live. At
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: least I can learn how to work that part. Work.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: I can learn how to work that part, y'all. I'm
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: gonna see if I send her invite. Patrice, I sent
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: you an invite to see if you can come in
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: alive real quick. I just want to see if you
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: can come in. You don't gotta you don't gotta really
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: say nothing or do nothing. Just see if you can
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: come in. I'm just trying to y'all know. I'm always
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out something, trying to see how something works.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: So y'all may see me testing out something in the
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: middle of a broadcast like I'm doing now. I see.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know what.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: I can hear you, but no, I can't see you,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: but I can hear you, Thank God. I don't even
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: know how to move it to do anything, cause I'm
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: just I'm just learning how to do this. Honey, I'm
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: trying to get somebody just huh.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: I'm home to da so I'm might have to figure
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: this out.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: It's too You.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Can turn it on the camera, I guess if you
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: want to.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: But so it has like an expanded like thing, so
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: we actually can add some more people. So this may
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: be a good second way of doing some stuff. Like
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: if you wanna do like a a meet up or
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: something with some authors and you just wanna do it alive,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: you can do it on your phone from your page.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: So you might wanna do a book talk or something like,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: cause you can add more people. You can add more.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: You can add more people and stuff.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, show I don't have to work this morning.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a holiday today, it's a holiday.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to go out here and get this grill.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I got to go start this grill from my mom.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: Trying to find and grow today. I don't grow, but
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to find somebody's grow.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Girl, you gonna you gonna grill? Are you trying to
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: You're trying to get a grill, trying to find somebody?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Are you trying to go to a cookout?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: I'm trying. Yeah.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: So I have Patrice on, so we're we're we're over
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: here playing with some technology. Y'all know, we always playing
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: with stuff. We always trying to explore stuff. We always
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: trying to do stuff. So I'm on TikTok. I'm live
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: on TikTok, and she came on the TikTok Live. I'm
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: screaming on my phone. So y'all probably wondering those that
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: are tuned in on Facebook and Twitch and on substat
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: one of my doing. But I am talking to Patrese
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: in case you can't hear me, and you're wondering what
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: am I doing? That's what I'm doing talking to patrise
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Patrisea is one of the hosts over here. So we
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: were talking about TikTok and we're just trying to figure
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: out some stuff. Y'all know we do that sometime, so
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: don't don't don't, don't pay us no mind. But always
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: we're gonna drop some nuggets in between all this that
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: we're doing. But no, it's always everything that we do
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: is always for the for the the bigger good and
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: for the bigger goal, because it ain't nobody else.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: Of course, another guy I gotta do is get ready
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: for to morrow nights. You guys, I gotta show tomorrow nights.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: I'll make sure to figure this out. Maybe I can
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: do a lot of personal TikTok and then you use platform.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah I can't. I won't be able to see they
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: won't be able to see it. That's what I'm trying
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: to get them to figure out how to how to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: do that, because you have to have certain in order
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: to do it on the actual thing, you have to
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: have some type of approvement. And it say I don't
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: have LinkedIn too, it say I don't have the the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: the what's the name. So that's why I ask them, like,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: what is it that you need to have? It says
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: that my account is not it's not approved for that.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: I have a business account, so I don't know what
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: it is. I don't know what I have a This
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: is a supposedly a business account. I don't know supposing,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: but if you have to have some kind of what's
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: her name? Uh you are?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: You are?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: L or something?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: I know?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: With with LinkedIn, I don't try LinkedIn twice and I
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: tried with both of my accounts. I tried with my
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: author and I tried with my regular one, and it
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: does it says the same thing. Look at my author
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: for tomorrow night. Hey, who is your author?
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: Uh lord, I'm gonna say your name wrong. All I
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: know is last name is is Scott.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: It's who is this trying to come on all things?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: Who are you? Yeah?
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know who that was?
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: Gay Now we're very protective over here. Let's know.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Somebody name Nadia, Oh my god, she usually is.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: On the podcast with SPA and huh d D.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Name starting to naja d D naga. Yeah, that's my
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: yes tomorrow night, yeah d D.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We'll figure this out.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it don't it don't let you you gotta have,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: you gotta have something. That's why I ask them what
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: it was that you gotta have in order to do that.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: But they done started me on this, on this challenge again,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: so I gotta stay on here ten more minutes. I'm
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: over here playing these challenges with these people. Cause they Honey,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: they've been viewing y'all. They've been viewing y'all's clips. So
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: I I thank them for the support. So I'm gonna
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: keep on doing these challenges because they viewing the clips
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: and that mean they supporting the podcast. So you know, oh,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: I only got seven more minutes. So for seven minutes,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about the podcast and how y'all can
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: get involved with the podcast. You see how we just
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: randomly do stuff. So we do this all the time.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: So we may just say we're gonna have a conference,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: we have. We do conferences. We even come out and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: host red carpets. We come out and do events. Patrice
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: is the book reviewer for the magazine. She is the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: director of the book reviews for the magazine. She also
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: is the founder and director of Sidelina Book Gap. As
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: you can see if you're on TikTok, you can see
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: her as South Carolina Book Gap, but she does amazing
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: book reviews. She also is a librarian. She works at
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: the Charleston County Library System. She's been doing it for
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: a minute, so she is well diversed and knows what
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: she's doing, so she can offer a lot of different
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: support in the area of book reviews. Don't just be
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: reaching out to her, just asking her questions and trying
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: to get pick her brain, because she ain't doing it.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: She she works for full time job and then she
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: got a ten year old eleven year old how naya is?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: She got a ten year old, so we ain't picking
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: brains for free. So if you want a book red
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: you that there's a small We got small fees for
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: book reviews, and she do good book reviews. I'm telling
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: you the kind that you will want to go post
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: on your pages on your outopage so people can see
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: these types of reviews. Also, there's opportunities for you to
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: be inside of the magazine by being by getting a
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: book review, she may feature you in the magazine, even
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: showing up being a part of her show. She she
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: has a podcast called South Carolina book Dad, So just
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: being a part of the show and being a part
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: of what she's doing could give you an opportunity to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: get more exposure, to get seen in places that you
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: may not be seen in. No, I'm not gonna promise
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: you you finna get no million views and you finn
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: to get no all of that, but I can tell
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: you you will get seen, you will get heard if
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: you want to get those views. Exactly, you gotta share.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: Did you share it there? Did you share your book reviews?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: Did you maybe some type of of of advertisement or
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: some type of I give the self deal like.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: It don't take a whole lot and then all they
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: have to do is pick up the magazine. But if
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: they pick up the magazine, there's a lot of tips
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: inside of the magazine that that that share that show
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: them like different stuff that they can do. Like, people
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: want to know they got these books. Okay, what else
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: do you have to go along with the books? That's
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: there's about seven different other things that you can have
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: to go along with that book after you get that book.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: So how many things do you have going with that book?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't even do that. They get
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: the book and all they do is post it in groups,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: share it in groups and just going from group to
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: group and going from vendor event to vendor event and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: just doing that. But what other things have you develop
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: You have you developed a yeah, have you developed a
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: speaking program? Like have you thought about doing a culture program?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Like if you have a chapter book, you can break
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: those chapters down in two weeks and you can do
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: you can do weekly stuff. I mean even if you
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: don't even want to do a paid culture program, you
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: can do a membership group and start your membership group
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: and get people to come in the group and doing
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: stuff in the group, like do stuff that you would
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: normally do, do exclusive stuff, like extra stuff, like stuff
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: that they only get by being a part of what
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: you're doing. Like sometimes you've got to learn how to
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: be be relatable, approachable, and people want to know who
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: you are. People could care less about these right here.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Sometimes people want to know you. They want to know
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: who you are, they want to know how you function,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: they want to know you. And when they get to
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: know you, then they'll begin to buy these. They will
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: support these once they get to know you because then
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: now when they read these, they know a little bit
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: better about who you are and what you're doing. So yes,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: it's crazy.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: Because I mean people don't realize that.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: Me personally, I will buy a book from an author
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: that I see promoting their books as in not just
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: posting and running, but saying, hey, what do you think
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: about this in my book? What do you think about that?
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: My character did this?
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: Would you do this?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: If they engage me, I'm people willing to give that
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: book another book in a book before I.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: Get somebody who I too, I know that can pop
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: off a good book in a minute.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: Why because I see the hunger in this author, which
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: means it's something in their book that I really need
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 5: to catch or there's something in.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: Their book that is really gonna catch me.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: Right, I'm not saying that all every.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm telling them that I'm gonna have to
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: have you. I'm gonna have to bring you by the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: real and raw Author's Lounge. And and yes, in July,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: in July, we launch it in July. And it's only
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be on Mondays at ten o'clock when all the
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: kiddos is in the bed and you can you can
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: get your wine, you can relax, you can bring and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: and it ain't just for one author I'm talking about.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: We can have round tables. Everybody can bring their books,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: we can talk about we can talk about their books,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: we can talk about whatever. We can talk about whatever's
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: going on in the day. It's just a safe place
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: for us to relax and to talk about whatever it
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: is that we want to talk about. We may want
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: to talk about some erotic poetry. We may want to
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: talk about some some erotic books. Don't know, I don't
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: who knows we may want to talk about Because people
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: don't understand that everything play a part in in in
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: this world, and and and and everything has a place
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: because and not on that like some people like for
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: some people. You have to think situations also play a
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: part in the things that people do too. For say,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: for example, you have people that are incarcerated and and
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: they have mates. You know that they have to come
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: up with creative ways to still fulfill their needs without
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: stepping out. So you you have to think about you
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: know that that's how a lot of this stuff come
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: in play too, because imagination is something else. Your imagination
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: is something else. I'm telling you what you will, and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: I'm giving them a space. They gonna have a space
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: where they can come and play. They can come that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: stuff that they that sometimes you can't talk about because
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of people and again, they don't want to
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: talk about essays, They don't want to talk about dm D,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: d V, they don't want to talk about a lot
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: of that stuff. You know, people don't want to talk
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: about incests. No, they don't want to talk about that
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: in the normal settings because of the stigmas that they
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: may face. But night time they figure and that many
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: people listening, and that many people watching and that and
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: they can just be comfortable. And then those that would
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: be the time when you can really let your guard
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: down and really be yourself and you don't have to
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: worry about the shame of because some people sometimes they don't.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: They don't want people to know that they write these
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: books because of how people may look at them, especially
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: in yeah, and the lights that they're in.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: Whereas you have to flip into.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: These names exactly. And then not only that, like I
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: told them, it's gonna be a space where if they
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: don't want to come on camera, they don't have to
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: come on camera. You know, they can be in the
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: comfort of their home, so they can have their lights
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: as dim as they won't. Just like you're sitting there now,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: you wanna be dark because I was. I was on
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: there the other day. I was in the dark and
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: I just had my little light on and you could
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: barely see me. And that's how I'm gonna be on
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: the show when I come on. That's how I'm gonna
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: be on the show. So I'm letting people be comfortable.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: I'm letting them be them. I'm letting them share their space.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: You know, you know you're gonna have them July seventh.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: We're gonna kick out July seven. That's gonna be the
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: first money day in July. I got a couple of
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: urban authors that's reached out, still just waiting for them
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: to to send the information and reply. But I'm opening
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: it's up for anybody that want to come. But I
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: just want them to know that it is an after
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: hour show. It's not your regular normal show, and it's open.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: It's not just a one interview, a one on one interview.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: It is a round table discussion. We discussion your books,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: were talking about you know, whatever it is that we
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: feel like we want to talk about that all right now, Well,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: I'm still gonna be trying to figure this out. I'm
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: still gonna be trying to figure out this desktop. Two,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out TikTok Substat on this desktop.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: How I can screen both of them from the desktop,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: because they do have features where you can go live,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: because I'm live on both of them right now out
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: but I'm on the phones. I'm on one phone, one phone,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: so I'm screaming on three different devices right now.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: Will you guys, I have to go be mommy.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta go. My time is up. I don't
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: need get my seventy minutes. I don't did over seventy minutes,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: So you guys, bye bye, byebye. Thank you for jumping on.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you TikTok, y'all, keep sharing, keep sharing, Thank you guys,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: all right, Substat, thank you, and goodbye everybody. We'll see
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: y'all next week.