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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_ EPISODE _174_ HOST LATONYA M LITTLEJOHN · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A cursing her sidney.
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  Speaker 2: All things ain't what they used to be?
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  Speaker 3: Where did all.
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  Speaker 2: The blue skies?
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  Speaker 4: But boys the.
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  Speaker 1: W person persis.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, things an't what.
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  Speaker 2: They used to be.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good evening, good evening. I'm not sure whether the
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  Speaker 1: but tonight, but I am not your host. I am
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  Speaker 1: the Visionary. Yeah, yeah, that's episode. Uh a, I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to see where the host is for tonight. I see
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  Speaker 1: her guest is backstage. But nevertheless, we're gonna keep it pushing.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know, I'm always prepared to go forth if need be.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I do. So I'm not gonna keep the
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  Speaker 1: guests backstage because I see her back there and I'm
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  Speaker 1: want to go ahead and bring her up. And y'all
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make this happen. This is what we do.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. I am the Visionary, Angela Thomas Smith, and
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  Speaker 1: I see we have another author at the Farren, micklick.
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  Speaker 3: Moore Mac Lamore.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, welcome, welcome, Welcome to the Crew podcast. Do
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  Speaker 1: not delayed, but not denied the podcast. The original host
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  Speaker 1: is Latanya Little John, but I am the Visionary. If
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  Speaker 1: you would please introduce yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be here. So my name is
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  Speaker 3: Farren Baron maclamore and I am the author of Shining
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  Speaker 3: Through My Journey with Incontinent to Your Pigment Tea. I
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  Speaker 3: am a first time author, first time self published author.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been such an amazing journey. And my book
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  Speaker 3: has been nominated for the Distinguished Author's Guild Literary Award,
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  Speaker 3: which has been so rewarding because it is my first book.
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  Speaker 3: So a little bit about me. I'm passionate about helping others,
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  Speaker 3: encouraging others and inspiring people. So this book allowed me
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  Speaker 3: to do that. This book was inspired by my daughter
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  Speaker 3: who was born with this rare condition, so I decided
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  Speaker 3: to write a book about it to bring awareness and
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  Speaker 3: just to be able to encourage those who you know,
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  Speaker 3: have those difficulties and those those disabilities, and just encourage
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  Speaker 3: them that no matter the pact that they have to take,
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  Speaker 3: they can still win, they can still succeed, and just
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  Speaker 3: to just make sure that you know, I've always been
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  Speaker 3: excited to empower people, So this is a book of
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  Speaker 3: empowerment Rezis, and it also teaches self love.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that that that is amazing. I have a brother
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  Speaker 1: that was a quad so I know what it's like
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  Speaker 1: to deal with individuals that have disabilities. I had a friend,
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  Speaker 1: she had a I forget the name of it, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a bile disorder. She didn't have bio movements
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  Speaker 1: like like we normally have bio moments. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: were oftentimes when she would have to go to the
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  Speaker 1: emergency room. So I definitely appreciate you and your willingness
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  Speaker 1: to share your daughter's journey because oftentimes, even as kids,
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  Speaker 1: the world can be so cruel when we we are different.
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  Speaker 1: You know it is I don't even say it's just
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  Speaker 1: that our ability is just a little different, because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that I have I have disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: I have several. If you look at me, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: think that I have disabilities, but one I have complications
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  Speaker 1: from where I was shot from domestic violence, and I
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  Speaker 1: have mobility problems. But to look at me, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: think that there was anything wrong with me. And then
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  Speaker 1: I have some underlying.
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  Speaker 3: Mental health issues.
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  Speaker 1: I've dealt with depression PTSD, So I definitely understand and
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for, you know, just sharing your your
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  Speaker 1: baby's journey and given another person and another child, another
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  Speaker 1: adult out there the encouragement in the inspiration to press on.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you. I think we have someone backstage. It's Trevida.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if Charita is supposed to let me
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  Speaker 1: bring her up too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hey, hey, hey, how are you? I'm good? Are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good? Listen. I have no idea what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: But my bestie text me and asked me if I
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  Speaker 4: could do her show for her tonight because her internet
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  Speaker 4: and stuff is out. And here I am, so you
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  Speaker 4: get me yet again, and so you know that's what Bessie. Here,
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  Speaker 4: they stick up and they show up for each other.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, girl, you just caught me because
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  Speaker 4: I was not to get into bed. I got off
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  Speaker 4: work early today too, and throats a little scratchy, so
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  Speaker 4: I was going to bed.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, how are you doing? Honey? I am good.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing? How was your birthday? It was great?
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  Speaker 3: It was great. I got to get it a little
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  Speaker 3: get away, you know, it's always good to you know,
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  Speaker 3: get away and refocus reset. So yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 3: good weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, listen, my birthday's coming up at the end
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  Speaker 4: of this month, and I am looking forward to turning
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  Speaker 4: forty six. It's a new chapter. Chapter forty five has
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  Speaker 4: been great. So I am blessed and highly favored to
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  Speaker 4: have been able to survive this hurricane. And we're still
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  Speaker 4: picking up the pieces from here. But let's talk about
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  Speaker 4: the nomination for the book. Are you excited about that?
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  Speaker 4: I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 3: I was able to meet some of the authors face
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  Speaker 3: to face this weekend. So, you know, we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of communication, you know, through Messenger and you
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  Speaker 3: know through these you know, supporting each other through our
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  Speaker 3: podcast interviews. So this weekend we had a virtual book
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  Speaker 3: fair and a couple authors came who were local, so
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  Speaker 3: just to be able to put the name with the faces.
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  Speaker 3: They're just as sweet and genuine in person as they
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  Speaker 3: are online. So it was very very rewarding just to
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  Speaker 3: see them and love on them in person.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I saw the pictures from the event that you
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  Speaker 4: guys are at for the DAG Awards just a little.
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  Speaker 1: I think she got knocked out. She probably look South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. South Carolina was destroyed mainly with this this
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  Speaker 1: past hurricane, and a lot of them have just started
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  Speaker 1: to get their power back on and then their internets
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  Speaker 1: go it goes in and out. I was there because
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  Speaker 1: I am of course from South Carolina as well, but
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  Speaker 1: I am in Georgia right now, so I escaped that
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  Speaker 1: part of it, but I was there when the storm
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  Speaker 1: actually hit. My nephew is a firefighter. Shout out to
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  Speaker 1: our first defenders. He's a firefighter. He's actually he works
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  Speaker 1: in two departments in Greenville, South Carolina. He works in
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  Speaker 1: South Greenville as a lieutenant and he's the chief of
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  Speaker 1: the fire department of Dunklin, which is near the border
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  Speaker 1: of Greenville and Greenwood. So shout out to him for
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  Speaker 1: what he do. He just come off a forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hour shift, so I definitely know what they're going through
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  Speaker 1: up there. I saw a lot of the videos and
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  Speaker 1: pictures of the down power lines, the flooding and all
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff. Greenville, the city of Greenville downtown, it
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  Speaker 1: was destroyed. I'm talking about it was under water. And
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of what was going on in
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  Speaker 1: Spartanburg as well, and how it just walked away a
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  Speaker 1: whole intersection on the interstate from I twenty six to
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  Speaker 1: I forty. You can't even google it on the map.
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  Speaker 1: It don't even show on the map. Anymore right now.
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  Speaker 1: They said it's gonna be midw five before those those
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  Speaker 1: interstates are back up, So definitely, I understand. I understand
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  Speaker 1: their their frustration. I understand their struggle. Right now, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, even families, have yet to hear from
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  Speaker 1: their families that are in North Carolina. You know, people
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  Speaker 1: are posting pictures, you know, trying to see if people
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  Speaker 1: have seen these people, you know, and people lost Sailor Action.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Now people are having to.
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  Speaker 1: Understand how serious it it is to be able to
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  Speaker 1: connect to these satellites. They're now developing these phones now
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  Speaker 1: that you can connect directly to the satellite, so all
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  Speaker 1: those that have Apple phones, they can if you're selling service,
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  Speaker 1: you ever lose your selling service, you can connect directly
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  Speaker 1: to the satellite that's in your area. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't even know that. So it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people without connection to their families. So wow,
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  Speaker 1: and you get to celebrate a birthday and you get
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  Speaker 1: to meet some of these amazing authors that you chat with.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that is an amazing feeling. I love
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  Speaker 1: doing live events where you can come off the social
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  Speaker 1: media and actually put a face to that that voice
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  Speaker 1: that you hear, you know sometime and then sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: don't always look like but these these these screams say
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  Speaker 1: we look like. But I just say, everybody say exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same. I sound exactly the same, and I act
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same. So I'm grateful, need to I'm the same.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know what truly.
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  Speaker 1: This journey has been like. I know, how how far
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  Speaker 1: away are you guys from actually partaking in this event,
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  Speaker 1: having your families come out and help celebrate you, and
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  Speaker 1: being able to walk that red carpet and being able
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  Speaker 1: to get that award? How far away are we from that?
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  Speaker 3: So? Where about twenty seven days away? Twenty seven days
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  Speaker 3: away No. Number tenth at Theater four forty seven in
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  Speaker 3: Park Forest, Illinois. It's been such an amazing journey. Even now,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's so excited just to network, just to fellowship with
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  Speaker 3: each other. We're all winners in the end, no matter
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  Speaker 3: what happens. And I love the love and support of everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that regardless of what happens. I love
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  Speaker 3: the connections that we built and we have forever connections.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I loved about the journey.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what it's all about, you know, out. It's
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  Speaker 1: amazing when you can connect with like minded people that
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  Speaker 1: it's on one accord, you can get so much, so
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  Speaker 1: so much done. I'm excited for all of you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's amazing. And then to be nominated. So
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  Speaker 1: how did y'all get nominated? Was it by your peers
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  Speaker 1: or was it by a committee?
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  Speaker 3: So the Distinguished Authors Guild group you. So there is
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  Speaker 3: a form that you would fill out. So anybody who
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  Speaker 3: wants to be an author, who thinking about being an author,
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  Speaker 3: who wrote a book, I encourage you to join the
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  Speaker 3: Distinguished Authors Guild group on Facebook and that group is
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  Speaker 3: going to guide you. You submit a form with your
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  Speaker 3: book and they have a team that they have put
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  Speaker 3: together who read the books that are submitted and they
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  Speaker 3: provide feedback to the CEO, Gina Gadson, and they decide
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  Speaker 3: whose books are nominated and then they notify all the
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  Speaker 3: nominees and then you author. This amazing process. They you know,
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  Speaker 3: get you in front of different audiences such as this podcast,
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  Speaker 3: so thank you again for having us, and they just
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  Speaker 3: they just support you through and even during the process,
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  Speaker 3: even after the process. So you just submit your book,
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  Speaker 3: submit your book through the Distinguished Author's Guild and then
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  Speaker 3: they let you know if you're a nominee. Oh that's great.
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  Speaker 4: That's a very simple process too, and I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of self published authors need to actually do that.
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  Speaker 4: But finding areas and networks where there are more writers
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  Speaker 4: and authors that look like us, it's sometimes kind of
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  Speaker 4: hard to do. And since becoming a self published author,
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  Speaker 4: have you found it difficult to find groups of people
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  Speaker 4: that look like you, like you and I?
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  Speaker 3: You know what so far?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's just the connection. So Distinguished Author
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  Speaker 3: Guild is a group you know of people who look
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  Speaker 3: like you and I, and then they just connect you
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  Speaker 3: with all the other associations. You know how Facebook? Do
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  Speaker 3: you know you can say something, Yeah, it brings up.
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  Speaker 3: So no, it's not really difficult. You just have to
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  Speaker 3: be careful because you know, becoming an author, you know
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  Speaker 3: that all these people now who are you know, in
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  Speaker 3: your inbox trying to do this and that for you
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  Speaker 3: and you know, get your money. It's like you become
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  Speaker 3: a target. Uh, So you definitely have to have decernment
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  Speaker 3: wisdom to know who is actually real and who you
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  Speaker 3: know is real to connect, right, they are, they're coming,
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  Speaker 3: They're email you they inbox you and they're wanting to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, do something for a video trailer or you know,
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  Speaker 3: they want they're telling you what the services are, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, you just want to be careful, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with who you connect with and who you choose just
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  Speaker 3: a yeah decision.
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  Speaker 4: That is definitely true because there's always like my inbox
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  Speaker 4: is always blowing up with people.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what are you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I can market your book for you, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: cost you like five hundred dollars if I market for you,
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  Speaker 4: and I can teach you how to do this, this, this,
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  Speaker 4: and this, And it's like, okay, but you're gonna charge
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  Speaker 4: me twelve hundred dollars for you to do all of
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  Speaker 4: this when it's not even twelve hundred dollars worth of
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  Speaker 4: work that you're gonna do. You're gonna give me a
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  Speaker 4: form that I'm gonna have to fill out and I'm
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  Speaker 4: still gonna have to do the majority of the work anyway,
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  Speaker 4: So let me just do it myself and it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be ten times cheaper than what it is that you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to get me to.
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  Speaker 3: Pay you for.
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  Speaker 4: So have you found it to be where you get
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  Speaker 4: probably at least five a day where they're saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: if you sign up for this course, I can give
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  Speaker 4: you this, or I can give you these leads to
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  Speaker 4: help you sell your book in these areas are you
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  Speaker 4: can be part of this.
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  Speaker 3: How many of those do you think you get a day?
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  Speaker 3: You know what? They range from about three to five
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  Speaker 3: a day. So the biggest thing is they are trying
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  Speaker 3: to help me build reviews on Amazon. So again I'm
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  Speaker 3: very new to the process. So even being new to
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  Speaker 3: the you know, self published process, again, I perate for
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  Speaker 3: desernment and wisdom because you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: just yeah anybody, you know, Yeah, a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: things you can, you know, get done by yourself. I
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  Speaker 3: mean especially things like Amazar reviews. You know, you're asking
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  Speaker 3: your friends and your family just to go, you know,
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  Speaker 3: leave a review. But I have people that reach out
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  Speaker 3: and they're giving me a list of the things, especially
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  Speaker 3: graphic designers, right, graphic designers are the biggest have been
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  Speaker 3: reaching out to me. Yes, I'm trying to give me.
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  Speaker 4: Some Yeah, those definitely are the main ones because they're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: well I can create a logo, I can do illustrations,
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  Speaker 4: I could do this, And I'm like Okay, well, let
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  Speaker 4: me contact you if I'm in the need for that,
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  Speaker 4: because they'll always say, well, I got a free promo
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  Speaker 4: that's going on and you only have to pay for
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  Speaker 4: such and such, and then it might be like nineteen
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  Speaker 4: ninety nine.
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  Speaker 3: But then after they do.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever it is their free logo is, they come back, oh,
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  Speaker 4: well it's two hundred and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't ask you to do all of that.
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  Speaker 4: You said that the one little thing that you were
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  Speaker 4: gonna do was nineteen ninety nine. You done went off
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  Speaker 4: and did a whole video and all kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of crazy stuff that I didn't ask for, and now
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  Speaker 3: you mad and you want to hould me go on
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  Speaker 3: watch jobs and honey, because I'm not gonna do all
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  Speaker 3: of it. I that fit to do.
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  Speaker 4: Have you started working on the second one that is
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  Speaker 4: basically like the Parents, but I know that's what we
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  Speaker 4: talked about the last time, for the parents of people
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  Speaker 4: who dealing with disabilities and skin disorders and things of
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  Speaker 4: that nature. Have you started on working on that book
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  Speaker 4: to help others get through what they've been going through.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have, and you know it's it's been it
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  Speaker 3: I get to relive it. But this time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: without the pain, you know, without the hurt. Yeah. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's more so of the empowerment stage, like I can
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  Speaker 3: share what you know, my thought process was my experiences
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  Speaker 3: and it I can't wait to share it, like I
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  Speaker 3: cannot wait. I can't wait to share it. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm just you know, getting thoughts out, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: just going back and reading it's just like I can't
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  Speaker 3: believe that, so that happened, you know, of her life,
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  Speaker 3: so mm hmm. Yeah, I can't wait to share it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you you know, you got you gotta be
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  Speaker 3: fired up. But you know it could be this book, this.
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  Speaker 1: Book, this book.
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  Speaker 3: I told you that is what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 4: When you give me what your plan is, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: be like, okay, well this is what you can do
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  Speaker 4: with this, and this is what you can do with that,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: and yeah, I'm gonna stay I'm gonna keep asking.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, well how is this coming? What are you doing
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: with this?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I am that person, like I told you, Yeah, we
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: met by Gods grace and his mercy. However it was
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: by his design and whenever he puts a person in
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: front of me and they told me whatever it is
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: that they want to do. Oh yeah, I'm gonna get
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: on your nerves about it until it's actually done. Now,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: for myself, somebody else has the whole man accountable for
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: things that I say that I'm gonna do, so so
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: it's like I can push you all night and day.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: But for me, it's like, okay, am I gonna drag
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: my feet on something? And sometimes I.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Do, but I'm always all over the place anyway, So
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: it's like, eventually I do do what I said I
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: was gonna do. It's just that I never take time
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: to celebrate any of.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: The stuff that I do. I just do it and
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: be like, Okay, yeah, I did that. Let's move on
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: to something else. And I'm in a place now where
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I'm starting to learn how to celebrate those things. Because
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: one thing I will say, I've written four books myself.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I've been in a couple of anthologies. But you know what,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I have never done a book signing for neither book,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: not one.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Why not have no clue? I have absolutely no clue.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I have not done that. You know when? So when
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I first I had a friend of mine, when I
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: first told her I was writing a book, she was
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: so excited that she was like, I'm throwing you a
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: book signing, and I'm like, like, I now, mind you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I didn't tell anybody that I was writing a book
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: because I didn't want anybody's fear to get in here.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: So I announced that I was writing a book, like
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: after I wrote the book, you know, I showed the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: cover and then I announced it. And even though I
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: did it that way, the support has still been amazing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: So she set me up that first book signing and
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't even know what to do. I
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: wrote interest to Google how the setup is, Like I
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: didn't know, you know, I just know I had I
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: know I was going to invite people to come, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I was going to sign these books. That's all I knew.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: But to do it because for one like me, or
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I can tell you just like me, very personable, can
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: talk all day about things that you're passionate about. So
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: you know, you get to talk about your book and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: then you get to tell people your journey. And that's
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: what I loved about the book fair this weekend because
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: these were people I didn't know at all. Like it
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: was breakfast in Gary, Indiana, and as people were looking
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: in to eat breakfast, you know, we were the vendor there. However,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you know, were people that walked up to the table
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: and there were people just sitting there eating breakfast, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: so you know, I was just kindly, hello, how are you?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Can I tell you about my book? And you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: for me, like I had to talk all day, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of shy in those kind of areas. But
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that and I connected with some really good people just
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: just sharing that. So that was a really good feeling.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: But do it. Go get you find you a place.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Look and you have four, so go find your place.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Got to be expensive. Let's go and find you a
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: place and listen, get your book, get your books, sign
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: them and white people out. It's amazing, Like and even
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: for being my first time book signing event, like the support,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: it was amazing. And I told you before like I've
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: included my daughter in this whole journey, so just to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: see her confidence in her glow, you know, yeah, this
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: too was amazing. So yes, so I do have a
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: title for this book coming in the works, and I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to share it. Like I said, I even just going
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: back and looking you know at it today, and like
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I told you before I wrote, I already wrote it,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: you know, when I had, I felt like I had
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the story down. So really just going back and referring
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: to that and then just you know, adding on then
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: just going kind of deeper, just for those mothers and fathers.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Fathers deal with you. So it's not just for mothers,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: but to encourage fathers to I told my husband all
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the time, you know you have a story too, like
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: you have too because you you know, you had your
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: own experience in it. But go back. Now I get
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: to hold you accountable those books. Yes, yes, you definitely
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: will have to do that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Ask me why I haven't done one, And I think
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: for me is for one, I've had people who told
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: me that I would never write a book.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Number two, I've done it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: And anytime somebody told me I'm not gonna do something
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: or I can't do something, I do it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And then it's like, Okay, yeah, you told me I
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: couldn't do it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Now I did it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Let's move on to something else.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: So I never take the time to celebrate anything because
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: of that, I'm trying this year. I've broken the habit
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: just a little bit of not celebrating. So I've started
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: to celebrate myself and things that I've accomplished a little
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: bit more so than before, and so it's like, Okay, yes,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I know I need to do this book signing. When
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: I did the last book that I did, it's a
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: queen's mindset to, uh, well you go Cincida's.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: That's my mentor she I'll help her set it up.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I live in Indiana, but I'll take a flight I
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: want to up, so if we can get together instead
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: of that was amazing. But it's important to celebrate yourself.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And my birthday is one of the biggest things I
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: celebrate every year, whether it's just going to dinner, whether
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: it don't have to be big. Yeah, that's the time
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: where I can celebrate me. And when I became an author,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: it was it was surreal, Like I was like, thank you,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: look sick. I shouldn't never said anything because she's gonna
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: ensure that this happened. Oh lord, I don't think I
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: ever told her that I had never done this either.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I don't think I ever mentioned that, And now that
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I've said it out loud, she's definitely.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Gonna push for that. Like we have an event coming
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: up this weekend in Charleston. It's gonna be different for
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: me because I'm gonna be in the space of actually
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: speaking in front of people, and like we did. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: did something with her in twenty twenty two, I think
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: it was, and we were at Myrtle Beach. It was
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: a small little thing. It wasn't too big, but I
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: didn't have a lot to say. It was a new
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: space for me and I made some good friends there.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: But this is different because I'm one of the ambassadors
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: for our South Carolina area for our podcast team as well,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: So this is definitely taking me outside of my comfort zone.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: So anything that she sees within you, child, she gonna
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: bring it out of you, even if you're trying to
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: hide behind the scenes.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: She just don't go for that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: So this is why I'm doing the podcast. As a
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: matter of fact, as well, we did a virtual monologue
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: together and we've been hooked.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Ever since to each other.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: That's my big sister, my mentor, my friend, my inspiration,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: my encouragement, all of those things.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: So I love her. I adore her in so many ways.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: But let me tell you, she ain't gonna let you
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: just sit back in the sidelines and not do nothing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: It's gonna happen. So I know that this weekend is
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: gonna be amazing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: But I also know what's coming in twenty twenty five
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: is gonna blow my mind even more because she sees
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: stuff in me that I be trying to hide sometimes
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: and don't ever work out that way because if she
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: gets a glimpse of it, she's gonna pull it out.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: So it's just they no need to trying to hide it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: But definitely hold me to the book signing, yes, yeah, yes,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: hold me to beginning of time by the end of
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: this year, beginning at least one book signing I should
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: do for before the end of the year. I don't
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: necessarily know if I it's gonna go out. Okay, there
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: we go.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Listen, the double keeps trying to mess ups up, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna give him no credit. I ain't gonna
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: just like yesterday, he gets no credit, he gets no
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: play and what we got going on because he just
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: get on my nerves right now because he missing with
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: this internet service and we got stuff we gotta say,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: and we got stuff we gotta do. But I don't
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: know if I'll do a book signing before the end
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: of the year, but I definitely know the beginning of
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: next year. That's going to be something that I put
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: in the works for myself. But learning to celebrate me
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: is a hard thing for me to do. I'm not
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: really good at that, but I'm working on it. I'm
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: working on it. I will say that I am getting better.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: It is one thing that my kids do fuss at
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: me about as well, because I don't. And they're like, ma,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: you need to celebrate. You need to do something nice
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: for yourself.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: You need to do this.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, okay, well I'll go you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: I might go to Starbucks or something or something crazy
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: like that. And they're like, Okay, that's not really celebrating.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: That's just something you do on a regular basis anyway,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: So you need to do something outside of that.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, well, I.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Don't really know what to do, which I don't because
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I'm always focused on everyone else.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I'll do better one of these days. I don't, you
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: know what. It's just a mong thing. Mo. I learned that,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: but with my mom, because she does so much, I
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: plan stuff for her, like surprise parties, like you're gonna
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get celebrated, you know, And I think as
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: mothers we automatically like our nation. You know, we are
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: natural nurturers, were natural cares. So this year was a
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: year that I wanted to make sure that you know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I've done something different and I done something for me.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: And even being an author, sometimes it was surreal, Like
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: there are times even now that I'm an author. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: what I love about distinguished author's guilt is they address
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: you that way, like they make sure that they put
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: you know, author in front of your name every time
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: they address you. So it makes you like like I'm
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: an author, like I really am an author, and you
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: you began to address yourself the way you feel it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: So it's definitely necessary, you know, to celebrate yourself, just
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: like even the small winds. I'll always make sure that
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: you know that is celebrated. But now that I know
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: that you don't celebrate you know that I'm rooting for
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: you because I'm always rooting for you, but now I
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: will cool, but I thank you for your birthday to
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: celebrate you, to make sure that you Okay, okay, that listen. Okay.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I just did something like I just redesigned a new
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: business card. And when I was working on the design
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: for the business card, I was like, Okay, I'm an author,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I'm an editor, and I also am a podcast host.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: So I was putting that on the card and I
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: was like, dang, I do a lot of stuff because
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I have a publishing business that I started in twenty
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: twenty one, and so I don't really talk about that
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: as much either, and I just people they send me
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: their stuff, I get them. Currently working on a book
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: with some wonderful ladies, and I'm also writing in this
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: book as well, and it's coming out November the eighth,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and so not only do I have the honor and
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: luxury of being a part of this, I'm also the
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: editor and publisher for this book as well.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: So it's a beautiful thing.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: And the title of this book is called From Their Eyes,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: and it's an anthology book and it speaks about basically
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: people who were in foster care, who were raised by
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: other family members or family friends, who were adopted, things
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: of that nature. So it's basically telling their story from
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: their experience. And so it's a spin off to the
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: first book that the Young Lady did, so I have
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: the honor and luxury of doing that one and also,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: you know, publishing it for someone else. So when I
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: was doing that business, card. I was like, okay, do
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I just do it for my business or do I
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: do it for who I am and the things that
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I actually do right now? And so when I was
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: doing it, I did it. I was like, okay, author,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: editor and podcast hosts, and so I put all of
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: my information on there. And so my kids were like, okay,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: it's about time you started putting your titles on stuff.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: And I was like, okay, I'm getting used to these things.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I had done a bid, you know, I asked you
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: guys to send your bios over so that I could
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: figure out what we would talk about. And so I
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: was happy. It was a hard one. Yes, yes, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: it was hard for me. Yes, it was hard. So
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I yeah it was.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: And so he was like, send over your bio and
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: so I'm sending over and I'm like, okay, well I've
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: done a lot of stuff, and so I sent it over.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: He was like, okay, can you shorten that just a
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: little bit. I said, sorry, do you not understand it
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: took me a while to even get this rough draft.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Let me see what I can cut out. And he
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: was like, look here, don't even worry about it. Don't
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: cut it out. Don't do nothing.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I'll just introduce you and then we'll go into all
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: of the stuff that you do.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I didn't realize how hard it
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: is to do a bio for yourself in a sense
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: of putting your accomplishments and things.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Like I said, I just do the stuff because somebody
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: told me I couldn't do it, and I once I
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: do it, I just move on. I don't think about
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: it anymore. And I know that's crazy and I need
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: to start celebrating it. But it's like, okay, I need to,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: you know, acknowledge the fact that I've done this stuff.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: And like my oldest son would fuss at me all
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: the time because I had this this binder full of
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: awards and he was like, okay, you need to hang
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: these on the wall. And I was like, yeah, maybe
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: one day i'll hang them up, and he was like, no,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: you need to hang get them out of the folder
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: and hang them on the wall. And so one day
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: he came home from working, so I had them all
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: lined up in my hallway on the wall. He was like,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: it's about time because I know your awards were getting
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: mad at you being in that dog on folder because
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't go to college until I was thirty four,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: and I made every excuse to not do that as well.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: And my daughter was like, because by then I had
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: been out of school for nineteen years, and it was like, okay,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what I need to be doing.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: And I was just recovering from having a major flat
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: with my condition KERII malformation, and I had every excuse.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: And so my daughter was like, you made an appointment
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: to go and talk to the enrollment specialist. Get up,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: get dress, let's go. And I was like, yeah, I
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: don't think I'm going. She was like, no, get up,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: get dressed, we're going. So we get out there, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: so as we're sitting there talking to the enrollment specialists,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: I'm making up every excuse as to why I cannot
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: start school. And my daughter looked at me she said,
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: look here, let me go ahead and tell you something.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: She said, there is nothing that you cannot do. I've
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: seen you lose your speech, I've seen you lose your
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: ability to walk, but I've also watched you regain every
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: bit of everything that you lost. So there's absolutely no
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: reason why you cannot go to school. So go in there,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: take that assessment test, and then after that, we're going
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: to go talk to financial Aid because you're going to
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: start school. And lo and behold. I passed the assessment test,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: got in, went to Financial Aid, enrolled, and I started
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: school actually on my youngest son's birthday, and so it
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: was it was a great experience, and I actually finished
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: and graduated in a year and nine months. It was
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: supposed to take me two years to complete it. I
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: did it in a year and nine months. And so,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: looking at the stuff that I experienced while doing all.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Of that, it was.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: A note that I had put in there when I
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: joined the National Society of Leadership and Success that they
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: ask you to write down what your goals are for
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: that while you're in school. And so when I did that,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't look at that paper again until I was
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: doing an orientation for the new people who were getting
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success. And
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: so when I looked at the paper of the goal
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: that I had, I was already in the middle of
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: accomplishing that goal, and I had never looked at that
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: paper from the day that I put it in that folder.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: I looked that it about a month or so before
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: graduation came up, and I was speechless when I was
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: telling them, explaining them how they were going to fill
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: that paper out, and I was like, you guys, I
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: gotta take a moment here because I did not realize
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I had accomplished a goal because I haven't opened this
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: binder since they gave it to us, and that was
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: that I wanted to finish school by the spring semester
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen. And I had accomplished that without looking at.
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  Speaker 3: That paper again. So if I write it down, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. See yeah, right, you wrote it, so
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  Speaker 3: it you know. So hearing your testimony as well, because
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  Speaker 3: it's inspiring. I love that your kids push you and
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  Speaker 3: your kids remind you that you can do it because
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  Speaker 3: you know, our kids they can be our biggest advocate.
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  Speaker 3: They can also, you know, hurt our feelings at the
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  Speaker 3: same time. But yeah, you know, and my parents too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the same way. I'm the biggest advocate. And because
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  Speaker 3: you know, anything that our parents do for us after
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  Speaker 3: we're adults is a blessing because they don't have to yes,
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  Speaker 3: and so I love it exactly. I'm in that with
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  Speaker 3: my mom my, girl. You know what, come on, let's
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever you want to do, let me help
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  Speaker 3: you do that. And even in this author journey, she's
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent there. And I tell her all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough. I just just know that
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  Speaker 3: when the Lord blesses me, you're gonna be blessed to
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  Speaker 3: bless But yeah, so most definitely. Now you told me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna make sure I stay on you too. Now
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: make sure I stay on YouTube. Make sure you start
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: celebrating yourself. So for your birthday, that's what we're gonna
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: start with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my birthday is the twenty ninth of this month,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna be forty six. And my mom was
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  Speaker 4: the big supporter of this podcast thing. And when she
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  Speaker 4: began to transition over, she actually my mentor let her
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  Speaker 4: host her own podcast episode, and yeah, and so she was.
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  Speaker 4: She was definitely one of a kind and I miss
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: her dearly, but she supported the podcast. I'm grateful that
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: she got an opportunity to see me do this. Also,
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: it was the first time I introduced my mom to
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: my podcast family. She said that she was shocked and
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: surprised that I actually had friends because I'm a loner
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: by choice, and so she could not believe it and
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: they allow her to do the prayer. Oh my gosh,
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: my mom, that prayer.
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  Speaker 3: Was not.
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  Speaker 4: Without some explored in there. So I was like, she
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  Speaker 4: was like, well, God, know who I'm talking to. It's
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: all right, and you know who I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: You are absolutely right, Mama, You are absolutely right. He
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  Speaker 3: knows who he created.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I am grateful that my mom was
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  Speaker 4: here to experience that because it was new and different
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: for me. And so when I'm missing her, I can
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: definitely go back and watch her episode. And then the
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: one that we did together, that lady was something else,
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: something else, And I am grateful that she was my
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: mom because she's taught me a lot while she was here,
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  Speaker 4: and she taught me a lot while she's been gone.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you don't realize just how much they
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: impact your lives until you don't have them in the
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: sense of being able to reach out and touch them.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: So I created a lot of memories because I wasn't
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: raised by my mom, So it was one of those
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: things where I grieved her a lot before she left,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: and then when she left, it was a different kind
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: of grieving, so to speak. And I'm working on a
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: book for her now, and it is one that is
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: titled from Fractured to Fulfilled My Journey with my Mom,
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: and it's basically where we close the chapter of going
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: from a fractured mother and daughter relationship to one that's fulfilled.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: And so that's the one that I'm working on now.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: I hadn't really told anybody about this one, but that
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: is the one that I am working on now. So
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: don't have a deadline for when that one is coming out,
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: but I'll share the cover that I have for it,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: So I will do that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I get a.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I am grateful and honored that you
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  Speaker 3: are here tonight. I'm grateful that my best friend asked
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  Speaker 3: me to do this. And you know what, I will
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: say this, Normally, I would have been at work and
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I would not have been able to do this tonight.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: So I always say that it's always by God's design
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: that we're in the space and in the time that
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: we're supposed to be in. Because I usually worked twelve
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: hour shifts, today we had to close early because our
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: provider had to leave at five, so we didn't have
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: anybody in the office, and so I came home and
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I actually took me a little nap, and I was
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: grateful that I was able to take a little nap
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: and be in the space and a way to be
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: able to do this with you tonight. So it was
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: meant for us to have another conversation and for you
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: to get the information that I think needed to be
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: shared for me. So I'm not going to say that
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: it was you know, it's so you know, God always
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: knows what you're supposed to be doing, when you're supposed
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: to be doing it, and how it's supposed to be done.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: So and these last few minutes we have not had
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: any interruptions with the Internet or anything like that. So
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: it was God's design, God's purpose, in God's plan for
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: us to speak again tonight. Now, is there anything that
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: you want to let any of the listeners know tonight about.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: You that we did not talk about. Just come out
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: now the awards show. Just come out to support the
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: authors at the award show. It's November tenth at Theater
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: forty seven and it's three fifty Victory Drive in Park Force, Illinois,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: So you can go to event right, get your tickets
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: and just come celebrate with us. It's gonna be a celebration.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: I pray that it'd be big. I pray that it
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: be such a celebration just to network, just to fellowship. Yeah,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I just just want people to come out. It's a
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: red carpet event. Who doesn't love to dress up? You know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: you can get all cute, get everything that glitters is gold,
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: so you don't have to We're all gold but gold,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: and just come and support to Distinguished Author's Guilt nominees
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: at the award show November tenth. All right, now, can
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: you tell them how to get your book? Yes? So
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: you can purchase my book at farrenmaclamore dot com. So
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: that's just my first name, last name dot com. That's
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: directly from the publisher. Or you can go online at
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Barnes and Nobles you can search my name or the title,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: or also on Amazon so those news or you can
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: reach out to me directly on Facebook. My author page
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: is author Farrin McLamore, or my personal page is Farren McLamore.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: If you want a personalized copy signed by me, just
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: DM me and I'll get that shit to your front door.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: All right, Well that's all I got for tonight. But
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: as my best friend, this is her podcast is not
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: believe in the journey, but this was her night. And
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: so I always know that you may be delayed, but
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: you'll never be denied because God always has you on
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: the time schedule that He has intended for you. So
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: if one door is closing, that's because God is about
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: to open one that's bigger and better than the one
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: that he closed. All right, until next time, you guys,
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: will see you later.
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  Speaker 2: June, but not to night.
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  Speaker 5: Every second Monday and four Friday of each morning, this
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: is set that you don't want to miss.
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  Speaker 3: Every Body, don't don't
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  Speaker 1: Step