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“Brown-Eyed Wonder: A Night with Jasmine Marieh—South Carolina’s Rising Literary Star!”| SC BOOKGAL& FRIENDS PODCAST LIVE STREAMING 7/22/24 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Legs and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
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  Speaker 1: show starts in sevene eight seven six five four three.
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  Speaker 2: Tu on, Hey everyone, this is your girl sle bookeal
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  Speaker 2: a four three and yes, I'm here on my night
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday night. And you guys, I am honored. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always honored to meet a new author. But she
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  Speaker 2: has a special place with me because she is from
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  Speaker 2: my state, South Calina, y'all. So you know, of course
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  Speaker 2: I gotta treat her right. You know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: to night. We're talking about poetry. We're talking about them
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  Speaker 2: words that express us, express our feelings, just express who
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  Speaker 2: we are. So I have an author from South through
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina by the name of Jasmine Mariot, and she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna come opinion, She's gonna chat with us for a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Come on up, girly, Hello, how how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great? How about you?
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  Speaker 2: I am doing great? Money Stone stop you know, lightening
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  Speaker 2: down here? God? So welcome to sc book gallant friends. Chat.
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  Speaker 2: So before we go any further, tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm twenty four years old.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a self published time out time out, no no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you are how.
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  Speaker 3: I was twenty four. I just actually turned twenty four
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  Speaker 3: a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of days ago, and then.
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  Speaker 4: Going on, go ahead, yes, but I am a creative writer,
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  Speaker 4: upcoming creative writer.
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  Speaker 3: I basically lived the life of.
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  Speaker 4: A typical twenty four year old while trying to pursue
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  Speaker 4: my dreams and my passions. I'm currently studying creative writing
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  Speaker 4: at the University of Phoenix on the side, as well
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  Speaker 4: as working but poetry and writing alone and music, anything
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  Speaker 4: art creative has always been a passion of mine. So I'm,
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  Speaker 4: you know, gradually exploring that day by day, slowly but surely.
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  Speaker 2: So. Yeah, so what what about this creative element of
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  Speaker 2: writing and poetry? What draws you to it?
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  Speaker 4: I think if I would say, it gives me like
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  Speaker 4: self identity, you know how everyone has that thing that
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  Speaker 4: they're good at and they're not so good at, or
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  Speaker 4: it makes them feel like themselves the most. I've always gravitated,
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  Speaker 4: gravitated towards poetry and writing ever since I was like five.
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  Speaker 4: I will write about like astrology, the moon and the stars,
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  Speaker 4: things like that, and over time I just kept writing
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  Speaker 4: and writing and writing. Then I realized, like, hey, this
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  Speaker 4: may be something I should pursue and I've been able
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  Speaker 4: to do that and express that through music as well
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  Speaker 4: the other things.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, music too, Yes, let they find out and everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do love something every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: So music, what genre are we talking.
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  Speaker 4: About so lately? Most recently? While I started off with rap,
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  Speaker 4: but now I'm exploring like different genres, like so you know,
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  Speaker 4: adding spoken word to my music so you know, different spiritual,
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  Speaker 4: spiritual based music.
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  Speaker 3: Just all kind of gaveway. It's no limit to it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, find out? Well do you? So? Do you
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  Speaker 2: do like poetry reviews or anything along that line?
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  Speaker 3: Can you say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Do you do poetry reviews or anything along that line?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, literally I have experience with poetry, but I'm this,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just now starting to like explore more stuff in
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  Speaker 4: terms of that. So I'm just seeing playing with everything
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  Speaker 4: and seeing where it leads me to basically.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it when you have no plan. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like to me, it seems like sometimes when you
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  Speaker 2: don't have no plan, that is the plan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, It's like I have it's a structure, but it's
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  Speaker 4: like a wild structure because you know, how you have
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  Speaker 4: a plan, but God has.
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  Speaker 3: Something completely different.
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  Speaker 4: So I've always been able to just I've always been
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  Speaker 4: able to write naturally. Like I want in the future,
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  Speaker 4: I want to go into doing like screenplays and playscripts
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  Speaker 4: and you know, move like stuff, anything creative writing in general.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to explore that. And poetry is just
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  Speaker 4: like the base of it.
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  Speaker 3: But when I say I'm just now starting.
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  Speaker 4: Off fresh and I don't know where I'm gonna go,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I could be writing mute, be a songwriter.
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  Speaker 4: I could be write a play next year, So we
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  Speaker 4: never know where it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: So I just try to stay.
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  Speaker 4: Open minded and productive in both fields, just to see
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  Speaker 4: where it takes me, because I feel like if I
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  Speaker 4: have a set plan on it, something different can happen
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  Speaker 4: and you don't know who that could lead you to.
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  Speaker 4: So just being positive and seeing.
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  Speaker 3: Where it leads me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you have this beautiful book, Yes, Brown, I
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  Speaker 2: wonder tell us a little bit about that book.
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  Speaker 4: So this book, the center of this book is about
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  Speaker 4: spirituality and mental health and healing.
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  Speaker 3: Three years ago, I was battling.
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  Speaker 4: Anxiety and depression and I went through really rough time
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  Speaker 4: and I had my first encounter with the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 4: and it taught me a lot about Jesus, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: just my whole belief system changed as a young adult.
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  Speaker 4: And I was inspired enough to put this in a
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  Speaker 4: book in a way that was poetic, in a way
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  Speaker 4: that I knew meant something deeper to me, and I
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  Speaker 4: could always go open this book and it'll make me
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  Speaker 4: look at those experience in a positive way.
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  Speaker 3: So it's very special to me.
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  Speaker 4: And it's the center of it is spirituality and mental health.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, what do you feel is your target
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  Speaker 2: audience when it comes to your book.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like my target audience would be in general,
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  Speaker 4: anyone who loves poetry obviously, but anybody dealing with mental
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  Speaker 4: health or they just feel spiritually misaligned with.
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  Speaker 3: Things and need to find their sensor.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I feel like that this book will help with that,
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  Speaker 4: And it's so precise. You know, you know how certain
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  Speaker 4: things you read you don't truly like catch on to
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  Speaker 4: or resonate. It doesn't resonate with you instantly. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like there's something there's parts in this book that could
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  Speaker 4: resonate with anyone.
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  Speaker 3: So if the target.
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  Speaker 4: Audience could be someone dealing with, you know, anxiety or
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  Speaker 4: just someone looking to gain spiritual knowledge. It could apply
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  Speaker 4: to anybody. So that's what I think it's so special
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: The cover special girl. I am loving this cover. It
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  Speaker 2: a says a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the center of the eye I have a I
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  Speaker 4: have a poem in the book called you and I,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what inspired the cover. I was just like,
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  Speaker 4: what if I just do one eye? You know how
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  Speaker 4: they say keep your third eye open. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: let me, let me explore and see what I can
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  Speaker 4: do with this. Originally was supposed to be my eye,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't know how get that to get on
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  Speaker 4: the cover.
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  Speaker 3: But this that was the result of it. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad I made that decision.
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  Speaker 2: Did you create the cover or you have someone else
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  Speaker 2: created for you.
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  Speaker 3: I collaborated with someone to help me create the cover.
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  Speaker 4: I told them what I needed and we kind of
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  Speaker 4: just like tag teamed it and something very simple. And
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  Speaker 4: I liked how the colors, you know, the shades of brown,
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  Speaker 4: mixed with each other, and that's why it turned out.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, So you know you got a shout out
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  Speaker 2: ever it was you're illustrated.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness is so bad.
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  Speaker 4: It was like a I don't remember the name of
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  Speaker 4: the person, but I found them on fiber and we
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  Speaker 4: basically collaborated.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember the name. I feel so bad, so
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  Speaker 3: sorry to the person when they knew I loved that.
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  Speaker 3: I love it appreciating them.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we basically collapsed on it and shout out
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  Speaker 4: to them.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember the name because I said this was
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  Speaker 3: three years ago. So okay, okay, I can't see that.
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  Speaker 2: I can see that. I can see that. So what
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  Speaker 2: were you thinking when you were writing your book? What
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  Speaker 2: what was going through you? What? What was what was
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  Speaker 2: your thought process of writing your book?
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  Speaker 4: Everything was kind of okay, I know I'm writing this book,
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  Speaker 4: but the experience wise, the creativity, it was all kind
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  Speaker 4: of unpredictable. Like I'd be in a move this day
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  Speaker 4: and then I'd sit down and I'd write this out
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  Speaker 4: and then I go back and reading and be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: how can I apply this to the theme that I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to portray in my in the book. Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I was dealing with mental health. So when I was
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  Speaker 4: writing this book, I was still going through these this
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  Speaker 4: dark these dark phases and stuff, and I really was
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  Speaker 4: trying to find a way to escape. And I did
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  Speaker 4: that creatively. So it was a lot of ups and down,
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  Speaker 4: highs and lowells. But I think near the end of
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  Speaker 4: writing the book, I found my center again. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so when I published it, I'm gonna feel I'm not
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  Speaker 4: gonna feel how.
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  Speaker 3: I was fueled when I wrote it, But.
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  Speaker 4: It was very special to finish it and just close that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, close that chapter.
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  Speaker 3: Even if I like getting a feeling now.
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  Speaker 4: I'll open the book back up and it'll just remind
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  Speaker 4: me of what I overcame. So yeah, that's that's basically
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  Speaker 4: how my creative process went.
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  Speaker 3: When it came to writing the book.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little technical that. Yeah, so you're back. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so your mindset is what again? I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: My mindset was basically at a place where it was
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  Speaker 4: just like I was still dealing with mental health things,
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  Speaker 4: so it was unpredictable.
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  Speaker 3: Some days I write.
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  Speaker 4: One way, some days I feel this way, and I
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  Speaker 4: write something completely different. But near the ending, I was
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  Speaker 4: grateful that I was able to put all that together,
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  Speaker 4: and when I released it, I didn't have those feelings
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  Speaker 4: that I have when writing it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that happens with a lot of artists.
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  Speaker 4: Is like when they're asked about their like, say you
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  Speaker 4: put out on an album or something like that, and
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  Speaker 4: they asked, well, what made you write this, And they
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  Speaker 4: really aren't in that same mental head space anymore, so
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  Speaker 4: they're kind of like, well.
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  Speaker 3: This is how I felt and that's it. So like
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  Speaker 3: it was a lot of spiritual highs and lows, but at.
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  Speaker 4: The end I found a way to bring it to
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  Speaker 4: a good rap like with gratitude.
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  Speaker 3: And I peacefully, you know, released it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, So out of all the points in your book,
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  Speaker 2: which one point is the one that.
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  Speaker 4: To get through, I'm gonna say the second poem that
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  Speaker 4: I have in my It's a lot of them that
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  Speaker 4: are very dearly and special to me, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: name it. I'm gonna actually gonn name it too. So
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  Speaker 4: the first one is titled Right, and it's basically about
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  Speaker 4: being in this place of sorrow and then you finally
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  Speaker 4: find Jesus your center and he makes these promises to
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  Speaker 4: you and it fulfills your heart in a way that
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  Speaker 4: only you and him will understand, because no one knows
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  Speaker 4: you like He knows you.
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  Speaker 3: So the name of that poem is titled Right, which
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  Speaker 3: if you when you order.
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  Speaker 4: The book, you'll see what I'm talking about and if
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  Speaker 4: I hopefully it resonates with you.
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  Speaker 3: And then another this is for all the black girls.
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  Speaker 3: Another one is called fix my Hair.
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  Speaker 4: It's basically an analogy of a prayer to God, but
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  Speaker 4: I use references to me sitting in a chair and
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  Speaker 4: I'm making requests to my hairdresser of like, God, this
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  Speaker 4: is what I want. But I'm speaking like he's a
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  Speaker 4: hair hairdresser, and my head is like my mind asking
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  Speaker 4: him to fix, you know, making that analogy, asking him
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  Speaker 4: to fix my mind. But I'm in my hair like
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  Speaker 4: he's the hairdresser. So I think people really like that one.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot of them.
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  Speaker 3: In there that I have.
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  Speaker 4: I hope it's dearly, but those are two of my
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  Speaker 4: I would say favorites.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So what would you say if God said,
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  Speaker 2: which one of your points brings you closer to me
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  Speaker 2: or brings Yeah, I'm about to hit that little heart strength.
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  Speaker 4: It's so many, it's literally, oh, okay, let me think.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, okay, three, three.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, fine, So the first I would say the first
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  Speaker 4: two that I wrote, and then the third one is called.
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  Speaker 3: The third one.
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  Speaker 4: Was the third one I'm telling you I wrote the
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  Speaker 4: book three three years ago. The third one, I would.
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  Speaker 3: Say, it is called You and I.
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  Speaker 4: You and I is basically coordinates with the illustration of
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  Speaker 4: the cover to you and I, but I'm referring to
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  Speaker 4: me and God and I.
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  Speaker 3: Basically.
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  Speaker 4: I think when I wrote that, I was speaking through
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  Speaker 4: his voice to me, like it was him speaking to me,
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  Speaker 4: and the same as when I was saying like I
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  Speaker 4: had an accounter.
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  Speaker 3: With Jesus and he validated his promises to me.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's another poem in there that indicated that,
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  Speaker 4: and that meant so much to me.
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  Speaker 3: So You and I is another very beautiful poem to me. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be the author.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, my home is great, but I to me,
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  Speaker 4: it's beautiful because of the experience behind it and what
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  Speaker 4: I was able to create from that experience. So You
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  Speaker 4: and I is another one that I held dearly. I
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  Speaker 4: do have a poem in my poem Bright I mentioned
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  Speaker 4: mother Shaneier, who also is a mental health advocate as well,
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  Speaker 4: and I shouted her out from that home. So that
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  Speaker 4: meant a lot to me as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So who would you say is your biggest fan?
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  Speaker 2: That person saying, oh my god, you did it, you
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  Speaker 2: did it, you did it. Oh would that person?
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  Speaker 3: For one, I'm gonna put this sounds kind of like.
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  Speaker 4: Not copy, but I'm gonna say I'm my biggest fan
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  Speaker 4: in terms of like because I know the journey and
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  Speaker 4: what it's like to not have you know, people surrounding
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  Speaker 4: you that sees what you see in yourself.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, most definitely.
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  Speaker 4: My siblings and my mom and dad who always encouraged
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  Speaker 4: me and they always knew I had a passion for
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  Speaker 4: creative writing. My mom, she would like repost so many times.
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  Speaker 4: My little brothers and sisters, they admire what I do.
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  Speaker 4: So definitely my family for sure, my immediate AUSO family
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  Speaker 4: that I you know, when I was going through the experience,
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  Speaker 4: those people.
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  Speaker 3: That I was around at that time. So definitely my
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  Speaker 3: younger siblings, my mom and my dad and gind.
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  Speaker 2: It is nothing that only took me on horn too too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you have to somebody got.
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  Speaker 2: To do it. You have to. You have to be
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  Speaker 2: your biggest fan because you're the one that you're looking
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So.
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  Speaker 2: How did it feel when you had your first name
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  Speaker 2: in your hand?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I went back to because I didn't tell you
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  Speaker 4: this either. I had the idea of Brown Eyed Wonder
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  Speaker 4: when I was fifteen years old, but I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: that the book that's what the book was going to
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  Speaker 4: be about.
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  Speaker 3: I just had this cover.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm going to write a book one day,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to be tied around I wonder. I
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  Speaker 4: used to make like little sketches in high school of
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  Speaker 4: like how I wanted the book to look at everything.
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  Speaker 3: But little did I did not know the book would
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  Speaker 3: be about spirituality anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: I just knew like, Okay, you're going to write some
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  Speaker 4: collection of poems, and that's what it's going to be about.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't know where what it was going to
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  Speaker 3: lead to. But oh my god, what was the question?
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  Speaker 2: Got? I just I just girl, listen, you are good.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel when you had your first manuscript
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  Speaker 2: in your hand?
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  Speaker 3: Relieved?
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  Speaker 4: Relieved that the creativity that I, you know, worked on
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  Speaker 4: was tangible. I could hold it, and my second thought was, Wow,
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  Speaker 4: I wonder, who's wonder who this is gonna help? When
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is this is the key to help somebody?
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  Speaker 4: It's twenty four pages of some kind of goal that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna heal and help somebody, because it did the same
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  Speaker 4: for me. So those were my first two initial reactions.
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  Speaker 4: And then I immediately wanted.
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  Speaker 3: To show my mom. I think the day I showed her,
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  Speaker 3: she was she she.
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  Speaker 4: Lost it and just caring oft bad about it because
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  Speaker 4: I got the first I got the very first copy
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  Speaker 4: mail to my address, and when I saw it, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, oh, it's so.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty, because I you know, when you're in the process.
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  Speaker 4: Of working on things, if you get frustrated and start overthinking,
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  Speaker 4: second guessing yourself, you don't know how it's going to
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  Speaker 4: turned out.
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  Speaker 3: But I was so proud of myself that I was
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  Speaker 3: able to pull that off.
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  Speaker 4: And mind you, at the time when I was writing
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  Speaker 4: the book, I wasn't in the best place mentally, and
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  Speaker 4: I was, you know, still working dealing with you know,
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  Speaker 4: the adult life and adapted to those things. So when
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  Speaker 4: I finally I was like, this is it. This is
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: the start of my career as an author. Obviously, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: think I was telling you earlier. People when they hear
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: that you're off that they expect you to be a
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  Speaker 4: billionaire or I'll blue or something. But that was my
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: first experience, you know, starting my career path, something to
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  Speaker 4: put on my catalog.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I was. I was grateful, very grateful.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: So I should tell you. I know we talked ahead
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: of time, but I didn't tell you about my fun question. Okay, okay, okay,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the fun question is I am a lover of music
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and I am a lover of television.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, these questions.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Are going to be about you your book, and we
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: say entertainment. So okay, first question, what star? It can
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: be an actress, musician, it could be anybody.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, who would you want to read your book?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: And why?
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  Speaker 4: Oh I'm not really like a fangirl type, but if
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I had to, I'd say I like Willow. I love
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: her music and all of her music is about like spirituality,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and she's very authentic. I would love for her to
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: read my book one day, or maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Like hm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying because I don't be like fangirling, like I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: have people that I admire. I know this cliche is
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: such a girl thing for me to say. But Beyonce,
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  Speaker 4: did you see to be Are? Are I love Ariana Grande?
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  Speaker 4: I was? It could reach people like that. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: that would mean a lesson to me. But I don't
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  Speaker 4: be fangirl over people.
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  Speaker 2: So you and my daughter would get along great because
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: she have you ever been to a Beyonce concert?
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Never? It looks like a lot of fun. Expensive but
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: it looks like it's worth it, though, But I love
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Who Okay, I don't think I have the energy to
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  Speaker 2: go to one of her concerts because.
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  Speaker 4: Stimulated at any concert, regardless of who it is, I
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: feel like i'd be overstimulated and read.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: After ten minutes. All right, many, So you have the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: chance for your book to be married m made it
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to an audiobook?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: What voice or who schools? Do you hear reading your book?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Oh? That's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: These are things that I've never thought about.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the end the funk questions.
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  Speaker 3: Is it? Is it crazy to say I don't know?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: No, it is not. It is not crazy because now
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  Speaker 2: that's a goal, Like, okay, I don't not booking me
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: an audience book? So how do I know?
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  Speaker 4: This is just off the top of my head because
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  Speaker 4: it's a song by Tianna Taylor that Taraji p Henson
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: was narrating and she I think it was like poetry
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: at the beginning of the song. Maybe she'd be great
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: narrating and that'd be dope. She's one of my favorite actresses.
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  Speaker 2: So and she is very, very.
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  Speaker 3: Passionate.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and she's very self assured.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Okay, we got one more for you. I
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  Speaker 2: think you start I think this question. I'm gonna start
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: using all the time. Okay, Lifetime television is on the line.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: You know, they like to do everybody's bio pick.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love I missed Lifetime. I haven't watched Lifetime
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: is so long.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: They had this series that Mary J. Blige was, according
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to her, one of her songs, And that's what started
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: making me look at it because I started to notice
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that they weren't doing a lot of biopics. Clark's sisters
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Tony Bracson, Whitney Houston, TLC, Salt and Pepper get into it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: They called, They called you and they said, we want
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to do a bio pic of you. Who would you
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: want to play you? And why?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know who? Okay, you know what I actually
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: do know. Probably she's gonna laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I probably would get my sister to play me
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: because she's like my doppelganger.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: We look just like and no one knows me. How
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: she knows me? Maybe her.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I can't think of like actress wise who I like
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: identified with that could play me?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I don't knows. Keep it in the family, girl, you think?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Who do you think? If I had to buy? Okay?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: From what I read?
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  Speaker 4: If I'm young, I'm like twenty four, So I don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: know any twenty four year.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Old a listens that look like me? I don't know.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: And since let me tell you from when I read
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: and your age does you nothing because you're very mature.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I was getting to feel, oh, Marcia and ambrocious, ambrocious,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: one of the young ladies from Floor A Tree. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: was getting that early version of Jill Scott when she
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: first came out. M Okay, So that's the vibe that
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I know a lot of people have told me, like
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: like Zoe Kravits or Zoe Kravit's.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Mom lies, so I can see that. I can see that. Well,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: we are down to our last five minutes, so of course, One,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: are you working on anything right now?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I'm working on a lot of things.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Two things I'm not going to mention, but the things
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: that I can mention is I've been doing more content
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: with spoken word poetry. I've been working on music that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: family oriented as well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And then I have two.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Other projects that are in the process, but I'm not
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: going to say too much about those.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I just want to, you know, pop up with it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: But yes, I've been working getting back into my creativelopment,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: So I know we have your your handles at the bottom,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: but tell your viewers, your old readers, your new readers,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: and the people who want to see this who are
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: going to start following you, yes, how they can keep
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: up with you and your work.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, to keep up with my work, you can look
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: up my book Brown I Wonder on Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: It's available.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: You have to look up the title Bround I Wonder
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: with my name Jazz Mariah. I'm also on TikTok, Instagram,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: on Facebook. You see my name as Jazzminemriah on Facebook
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: and handles to my business page and my links to
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: my book and my work. But yeah, that's those are
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: my social media handles and how you can contact me
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and get a copy of the book.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: So yeah, okay, but stay right there because I need
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: to actually one more thing, So you guys, you know
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: that our contest is still going on for our Summer
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Reading Challenge, and we have our secret code word that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Is only shown on Tuesday nights. Of course, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: if you go and you find a post that says
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Summer Reading Challenge and you put in this word, you
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: get two chances to win the ten dollar gift card
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: that is given on every Sunday. So I'm going to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: say tonight's secret word, and I'm going to ask Miss
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Mariah what that word means to her. So our secret
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: word is wonder. So, missus Mariah, what does the word
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: wonder mean to you?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, So, wonder to me is an indication of hope,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: and it's also it also represents to me, this is
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: what it represents, like being a hero, like heroism and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: just reaching for the stars and looking up in times
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: where it feels like you're at a down place, just
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: looking up and remaining hopeful and faithful.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I'll say.
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  Speaker 4: Wonder because you think like I wonder why, or I
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  Speaker 4: wish or I wonder you know this, that and the
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  Speaker 4: third and that's this gateway to imagination. That's a gateway
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  Speaker 4: to all kinds of possibilities. And you never know where
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: what wondering co lead you to.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: So that's what I say.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I don't talking about. You guys, Go
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: grab brown Eye girls. Off them her Jazz Mariah that
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: could be found on Amazon. All are her links social
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: media links at the bottom and look, y'all, she got it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I look, miss Jasmine. Thank you for being with us
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: tonight and blessed us what your presence.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Listen, you keep making a do with a.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Dud, yes, ma'am.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Guys, not the Tuesday night in the books. Always remember
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as an old book because not
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: everybody is one. Read every book. Catch you next week.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Bye,