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DA CREW PODCASTSEASON 1_ EPISODE #38 HOST DR ERIKA T MOORE_(SHOW #3) · DA CREW Podcast

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Hey, hey, hey, family and friends, Welcome Welco and welcome to
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Every's joint. I am your host, doctor Erica T. Moore, and
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I'd like to say to you, happy, terrific and tantalizing Tuesday. Yes,
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it's another Tuesday, and I'm excited because it's show number three. That's
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right. I'm here, I'm here and here, and I'm excited to be
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a part of the Clue Podcast. Listen, we are doing great things.
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Listen tonight we have a special show for you, So listen. I'm not
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gonna stall. I'm not going to prolong it. So there's a couple of
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things that I like to do. I need you to share, Share,
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Share, share and fight everyone out share share of Share. And the next
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thing, I like to share a quote with you that is dear to my
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heart and it reasons followed. Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would
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be easier. That's something that I want you just to ponder on as we
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go on through the show. Right, hope is putting faith to work when
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doubting would be easier. Listen, I'm gonna explaining to you why I chose
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this quote and find it appropriate for tonight's show. But listen, I told
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you I'm not stalling. Tonight's guests. Is someone that's dear to my heart
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on the day, in my heart, but this one it's like home because
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maybe because she comes from where I come from. We come from the same
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town, and that is Windance, New York, the one one seven nine
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eight. And listen, I've been watching this young lady since elementary school.
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I remember in the gym watching her dance, you know, with um the
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dance teacher. You know, mister Hayes. This woman is phenomenal. She's
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a mother, she's a wife, she's an entrepreneur, but above all,
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she's an entrepreneur so listen, I'm gonna present to some and introduced to others
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my childhood friend, my sister, my warrior for life friend, sister,
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Tracy Wilkins Francis. Are you there, Tracy, Hey watching girl? Listen?
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Listen. Oh my god, I'm so glad to have you here.
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Let's do you know? Justice? Are you tonight? How are you?
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I am doing well? Blessed and holly favorite? Ye Listen. I've been
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admiring you all my life. Like I said, watching you dance, you
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was quiet, but you knew those dance steps. And it's like if I
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can compare you to Beyonce, and I will compare you to Beyonce because that's
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how great you are. Quiet, right, But when you get on that
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stage, it's like you just transform a whole new, different person. You're
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like, wow, she had all that inside. So listen, tell us,
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tell us a little something about yourself. Oh my goodness, worried I
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start? So, my name is Tracy Wilkins Francis. As you've heard,
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I am from wine Dan just lived there, grew up there, worked there
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for a while before I ventured out on my own. I am a mom
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of a thirteen year old, was turned thirteen and March my own lay and
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oh my goodness, I'm an author of a series of diverse books that make
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life lessons and habits memorable for ages three to nine. I um the owner
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and founder of Energy and Publishing Company, and as Erica said, I perform
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um And yeah, that's that's just some of the stuff. Girl. I'm
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just I'm just proud of you to see something great come out of where we
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come from. You know, growing up, you know, no matter what,
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no matter what the world viewed us as, we were a community that
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loved our people, We cared for people, We looked out for each other.
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You know. So what are your thoughts when you hear they say nothing
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good comes out of wine Dance or they nicknamed us crime Dance. How do
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you feel about that? Well, you know that that's not true, and
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it hurts. It does hurt because these people don't know us. They don't
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know I'm sorry, I don't know where we've been. Um. I remember
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being in college. Um, I went to America University in Washington, d
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C. And having the people from other parts of the Long Island who didn't
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look like me, And as soon as they found Alice from Winding like what.
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They were like surprised, and they had all these preconceived notions. But
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when I broke it down and said, look, we had a band.
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We had the best band along island. We went here with the band,
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We went there with the band. We had dance. We you know,
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we before the Marriott, Marquis in all these places. When I started down
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and I'm saying, oh, I didn't know that. Of course you didn't
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know that because it wasn't known. You know that, And I love seeing
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what is going It was happening in wine dance right now, especially recently when
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um another wine dance warrior, Dawa Matthews and spoken with Sybilly's the principal at
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the high school and made it happening so these young men could go to Ghana.
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What about life changing events? Trip? That was? I saw that,
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that was. That was awesome. So that leads me to my next
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question. So, like you said, it's a lie. Great great people
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have come out of windages. We have doctors, lawyers, we have entrepreneurs,
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we have business people, we have I mean just so many different people,
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but no one hears about it. So we're going to blow up this
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show so they can hear about it. So I want to start with you
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because you found it, not Robert Reid to bless me with your predators and
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I listen, listen, I'm grateful. So you are an author, tell
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me, tell me about it. How did that get started? M Well,
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there's a couple of stories behind that that kind of culminated together to make
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it all happen. So years ago. Well, let me go all the
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way back. So when I was about in fourth grade, it was something
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and I always loved to do. I love reading and I love to write.
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Um I would I'm not kid that would rush home to have that book
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in my face on the porch. Um that kid that when you put the
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book away from the table, please don't take the book with you dinner table.
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And also writing creating stories I have. There were a few friends,
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close friends and I we would create these stories with these characters, and after
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we were done, we were brand them. I guess you would call a
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branding now by tying red ribbon around it. And it's ironic because one of
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them is a dear close friend of mine. Also from one dance she listened
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in Georgia now and she is an author too. She's a Christian author,
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self health author, so our our journeys have just manifested himselves that way.
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But um, it really started probably twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. I was
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in a dark place personally. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do.
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I was overwhelming because I was I was still relatively a new mom with
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this two three year old, you know, and a lot of my friends
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their kids were much older. I'm going through this. I'm like, oh
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my goodness, what's going on? And so that led me to journaling,
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okay, and that journaling led me to a women's men online women's ministry I
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can't remember the name of right now, and I submitted some of my journal
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entries and they were like, wow, this is great. Can you write
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for us? So I started writing some devotionals for them. And then the
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next thing, I knew, my husband is planting this seed in my mind,
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which I knew it was just divine intervention. It was the Lord like
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you should really, you know, you should really right, remember what we
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talked about when we went on that vacation without son and where he was going
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crazy for four hours watching Barney. So I said, okay, all right,
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that was time. So I sat down and I wrote these stories,
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and twenty and fifteen they were officially published, the first one Birthday Bubbles,
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and then it grew to ten plus. Because I'm working on UM a couple
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of middle grade books right now. I am so proud of you, UM.
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Speaking of your books, I know you have many books, and I
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have a few. I believe Birthday Bubbles was sent to UM one of my
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grandchildren's for their birthday. But listen, I got this one right here.
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Listen, I am not ready for now. We're gonna talk about all your
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books, but I show I found this one appropriate when I when I was
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going through your catalog, and I find it appropriate because my daughter, our
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daughter Charity, been wanted a dog. My husband and I called her no.
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I told her no, and she got egging the bag. I want
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a dog. I want a dog. I want a dog. So my
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husband finally said, if your mother gets on board, and I was like,
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I'm not getting on the board because a dog, it's like like children.
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She's about to be at the house. Why do I want to take
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on this responsibility. Needless to say, twenty twenty one COVID hit COVID HIT
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he tested the positive one day, I tested the positive. The next day
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I tested. He tested positive June first. I tested positive June second,
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June third, my daughter left the gold look at a dog and came home
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with Zuko. Hey, mom, was Zuko and I'm just like my husband
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was in hospital with COVID. I'm just like, oh love guy, this
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has happened. Then I didn't want to touch the dog. I didn't want
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to get close to the dog because I knew he was gonna make us give
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the dog back. Needless to say, my husband caused me one day from
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the hospital and we just learned how to do the video on Messenger and the
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dog. He was a puppy, Tracy. He was such a cute little
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puppy and he was jumping on the table and I was like, yea of
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my table, yet off my glass basis. He's like, who are you
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talking to? And I was like, huh. You know when your kids
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I'm wrong. I'm like, huh huh. He's like, who you're talking
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to? After I was talking to the dog, then you tell Cherry she
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can have a dog, and he was quiet. Needless to say, Dad
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was in June right, my daughter was going to because remember twenty twenty She
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grabbuate from high school was Colvid. So we wasn't letting anybody go anywhere.
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So it's August twenty twenty one. We think she's going to school online.
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No, she is going to school up in Durham. Who's watching the dogs?
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Tracy, New York. But Tracy checked this out. The girl then
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totally moved out the house. Now where is the dog? So tell me
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was you thinking of me when you wrote this book? What it is you
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to write this book? Child? I was thinking about me, me and
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my husband. So that one is I wanted to create a job the book.
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So when my son was about seven years old, he daddy, can
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I have a hamster? I want a turrible. I want a hamster like
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able hands. But no, you're not getting any pets, not even a
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fish, because you're not responsible enough to have one. We know what one?
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We had a black lab Oh, he was so precious, but he
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was before our someone was born, and he died one month after our someone
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was born. So did I? We were done? We were done,
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okay, but in anyway he just kept begging and begging and bagging, and
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here comes who do you think comes in? Grandma? And granddad, Oh,
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oh, no, I have a dog or a drible So we actually
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did go to like the pet store or whatever and look around like no.
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So Grandma and granddad they come like, oh, why don't you get him
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a rabbit? Like a rabbit? He said he wanted a roar hands barbie
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getting him a rabbit. So Grandma said, oh, there's these cute little
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lionhead rappist. They actually their um face is full of fur and it's shaped
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like a man, so they looked like a line. They're the cutest little
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thing. Next night, I know we got this lion head rabbit. He's
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all excited about it for Christmas, even though you know, how can we
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say no? The grandma and granddad. So he was fine with the rabbit
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because this is Christmas. Mind you, everyone's old the rabbit. Well a
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month later, now the real test begins. Joseph, did you feed the
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rabbit? Did you did you did you get you put water in the rabbit's
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cage? Did you take the rabbit out to play with them? Oh?
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My god, this is too much brush where I can't take it anymore.
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So Grandma, Granddad, this is whobby didn't want. What are we gonna
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do with the pet, should we go and sell them? Because it was
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equally strustful for myself and my husband. My husband's working crazy hours because he
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worked for the Medical Examiner's office, so can you imagine I was still working
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at a school what the time. So my mom grandma said, oh,
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I know one to give the rabbit away and somebody do something. I'll take
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the rabbit back. So grandma and granddad took the rabbit back. And thus
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years later it was a twenty seventeen, so back in twenty twenty so five,
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four, three, three or so years later, I'm not ready for
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her pet was born for all that's my parents out there. In fact,
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there's where's the dedication? The dedication says, I gotta find it. Oh,
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this book is dedicated to Rufus, which is the name of the pet,
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my son's first pet for three months, because he wasn't ready for one.
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H I love it, I love it, and I love all the
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things that came. I have your magnet on my refrigerator. Jojo Bean.
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You gave me bookmarks that I love. You gave me information. I love
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it, I love it, I love it. But what I loved what
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you wrote to Erica, that God continue to bless you and use you to
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inspire a future generation of entrepreneurs. Warriors Forever. Tracy Wilkins Francis. I
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love I love opening packages and receiving my books. But tell me about Jojo
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Beans. Like, I know your son, Joseph. It's the character,
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it's the inspiration behind Joojo. So tell me how success journey has been thus
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far with u Jojo Beans. So u Jojo being as you said, he
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was inspired the characters inspired by my son. And that was that trip that
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I was talking about earlier where we got lost for four hours. My husband
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was like, you know, we were tortured by listening to Barney in the
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video for the DBD. And my husband said, this is funny. And
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I said, well, it might be funny one day, but it's not
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gonna be funny now. He said, you're gonna a book about this.
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I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So two years later he's remember
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that book idea I talked to you about. So I said okay, and
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that's when I sat and I mapped it out. So the thing about Jojo
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being this is real life situation, is not anything made up. Is everything
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that children will go through birthday bubbles. You know, birthdays. Kids,
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they want to have a birthday if you leave it up to them, birthday
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every day. Consequences of having those birthdays every day, you're not able to
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share with other people. So if your your witch happened, they have a
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birthday every day, and what about everybody else? After a while, it's
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going to get old, you know, m delectable vegetables, that's that's one
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of the popular ones kids. You know, when they get younger, a
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lot than what do they want to eat? Chicken nuggets, fries, pizza,
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cookies. So getting them to understand the meaning of eating healthy. So
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is it best to have them to understand that through something they understand. So
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the characters that I talked to Jojo being about eating healthy or his toys,
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Um, what else is in there? We have safe water safety, all
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of your safety first. So that's all about what the safety around the pool.
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Because one day I took my son and I think my nephew or his
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friend to the pool and I'm watching all these kids just just oh, it
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was just so dangerous, you know, all kinds of things running and jumping
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into the pool and not being aware of the surroundings, going down the pool
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backwards and all this kind of stuff and the parents on the ball, and
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the parents are okay with it. So I created that story to talk about
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war of the safety. How Jojo Being he has all these ideas are all
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unsafe where you have fun? So is he able to have fun and still
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enjoy being at the pool and being by all these rules? Of course you
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know he is. So that's one. The other one is park Blues,
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and that's being aware of your surroundings. It talks about cooperation and listening skills.
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And then my last one is the Christmas Coade that talks that teaches lessons
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about compassion and kindness. So it's all based on things that children say or
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they do. With the Christmas Coade, when if you take a child shopping,
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especially Christmas, where they're gonna do, oh, we're shopping here from
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mom and dad, Oh I want this this, and before you know,
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you have a kurt full of toys and you're not there for what you're supposed
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to be there. So through that journey, Jojo Being learns about compassion and
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kindness and giving and the spirit of Christmas and what Christmas is really is supposed
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to be about through a special friend that he meets means a homeless boy in
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the store trying to get warm. And then after that he understands the meaning
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of the true meaning of Christmas and he does something very compassion and kind.
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He gives us himself to this little boy. I love it. I love
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it, I love it. So listen, we're gonna take our first commercial
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break, and we're gonna come back, but our athopreneur a guest, Miss
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Tracy Wilcoams Francis, We'll be right back after this commercial break. Hey,
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hey, hey, family, welcome, Welcome back to Very's Joint. I'm
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more than a woman's podcast. I'm your host, doctor Erica Timore, and
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I am here with my special guest, the lovely, talented and gifted Ententpreneuria
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and publisher Tracy Wilkins Francis, all the way from Wine Dancer. I just
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messed up your name. I apologized, Tracy Wilkins Frand listen to what's what's
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going on with that beautiful with that beautiful commercial? What's what's what's that about?
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There? Am I gonna do so many things in that conversial. So
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that was just basically some of the things on my author journey. Author visits
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a lot of the events we did, both virtual and in person. I
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think my son's picture was in there because he's the inspiration. And he also
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wrote an illustrated a book that I published eight so that you know he's thirteen
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now. So yeah, the great thing about being an entrepreneur is you get
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a chance to do all these things and really influence their future generation. My
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husband and I we went to career day in wine Dance. We went to
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the Martin Muthie King Elementary School and we spoke to five classes with each about
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thirty weeks or so students in each fork today about what we do with the
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writing, so me as an author and my husband as a film, film
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and script writer. But most importantly, we talked to them about they could
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do the same thing. About the power the pen, how the everything,
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whether it's a commercial or you're writing lyrics, or you're writing a book,
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or you're writing a movie script, anything, video games, even it all
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starts with the pen and in the power of the mine. And their eyes
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just lit up so much, not so much because we were there, but
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I guess because we were there because we were from Wine Dance we looked like
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we took with them so they're just to see the possibilities of what they can
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do. They just were so stoked and so loving. I love it.
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I love it. I love the fact that you and your husband are both
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talented and gifted and you're doing great things together. And as we had to
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opportunity to speak privately before the podcast began, you were sharing a lot of
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great things that you're doing. Um, teaching literacy. Um, it was
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just at a summit. Tell me, tell me what you've been doing.
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What you talk about too? So yeah, so so I Uh. Saturday,
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I was a panelist okay, an amazing group of women from all over
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that was called Unbreakable Success. Spoke about how to achieve unbreakable, unbreakable success
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in your relationships and that's business relationships as well as personal relationships. Um.
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We also talked about testimonies. A lot of women had some amazing, amazing
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testimonies, Um, you know, how they battle cancer and things like that,
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and we gave out a lot of tips. I did it from an
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author perspective. Has a financial person, has somebody a real estate, self
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help coaches, just so many things and it was an amazing experience an opportunity
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to be a part of to be able to to reach out and help people
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in that way. I love it, comment UM. And then the career
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day was last week. I have we have a couple of Arthur visits tomorrow,
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Thursday, next week and then there's a small break and we start over
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a kid and yeah, that's just guys, there's so many things. I
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don't get busy. You're busy and that's it. And that's a good thing,
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Tracy, because you seem like UM, your path as an entrepreneur that
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has rarely taken off, and you are doing great things. So what are
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some of the doors that have been made open or made available to you because
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you are an author? UM, I think being able to get my books
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out there into schools, into libraries. I actually had an organization they were
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doing some research and they found me on Facebook. So they bought They had
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this grant and they bought a booth. They both purchased my Safety First book
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because they were all about doing safety. In each quarter they do a different
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series about safety. So that quarter that reached out to me, it was
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actually border safety. Okay, so many different doors. Even going to UM,
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I went to Roosevelt Library, doctor Able. Yes, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry. He made that possible. So I went there to kick off
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there Read Across America event, because you know, reading month was the month
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of March, and because I did that, I had and one of the
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principles at Roosevelt to reach out to me said, we want you to come
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in and do author physics. So that's one of the schools. I'm going
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to one of their elementary schools next week. So it's just an amazing journey
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and the people that you meet, and the more I meet people, the
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more passionate I get about writing and expressing myself and and what the young people
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are going through and just being a reflection of what they can do when they
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get older. And now, really you have so many young writers and illustrated
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you don't even have to wait till you get older. So I think there's
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some questions in the chat. Yes, my husband asked you how many books
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has you? So that is a good question. I don't have an account
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of it right now. I would have to pull up my spreadsheet, but
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definitely hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, probably somewhere in the thousands. Congratulations.
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Yeah, So definitely, especially when I do the bulk sales. So you
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know, that's a blessing to be able to get the message and the word
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across. Because the other thing I'm passionate about is showing this diversity in literature
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because it's still It's getting better, but it's still not there. There was
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a study by the University of Wisconsin, I think it's the Children's Cooperative Education
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Unit where they said in twenty twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, less than
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eleven percent of the characters in children's books and this is published I'm sure it's
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not self published authors are African Americans or block for other cultures or races.
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It's even less now, this isn't twenty twenty. And how of those books
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feature characters who are UM, Black African American? About thirty maybe twenty five
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to thirty percent are written truly by UM black and African American authors or BIPOP
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by BIPOP people of color, black people in black, indigenous and people of
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color. So how to do better? We must? Yeah that um that
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there's a lot of self published authors coming out now with some amazing books.
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Yeah, so that's a good thing. But traditionally we still have to break
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down. We still have to bear down warriors and doors. YEP, I
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agree. So let mess you this question. How was how is the support
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from the Wine Dance on Warrior community. Have they been, you know,
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showing up supporting your your books and growths? Like how is the support from
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the Yeah? Absolutely absolutely, whether they're shared on Facebook, but like hey
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I saw you, you know there are or how you know, just showing
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love by hopping on on the podcast like this or my um social media page.
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The love has definitely been there. I mean sometimes I go people are
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like, hey, when I mentioned it, or they seen the books,
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like I've seen that book before. Some people say I've seen you or TV
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Yes not yet, but that's going to too. We declared, we created,
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were declared to created this soul. Black Diamond says, what was your
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inspiration behind the books? So my inspiration is my son, none other than
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my son. He is Jill Joe being he was in that shot um that
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was to end his school uniform. That was him at the beginning of this
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year. So he still looks a lot of two. He looks a lot
31:56
of different. He looks different now because he's going into eighth grade after this
32:00
year my son. Because another reason, and one of the most important reasons
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that I wrote the book is because I've wanted my son and his friends to
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be able to pick up a book and say, wow, these characters look
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like me. It's important to me because my son has such a diverse group
32:21
of friends. So why isn't it reflected in the books that we read?
32:27
I agree, we have time for one more question. What would I want
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to ask you? So we talked about the summit. Did we talk about
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the literacy? The things that you're doing in the elementary school? The literacy?
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So I am a literacy specialist, Yeah, La Francis Hardeman for the
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New York Edge program. Um When did I started that? I started a
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couple of weeks ago. So this is my third week congratulation. Thank you.
32:58
So now I have because they're kindergarten first and second, I'm trying to
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build up that love of reading, and a lot of them do and that's
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a lot of talent. I'm telling you some of the drawings and stories in
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the mind, I'm like wow, So, you know, helping them to
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get that creativity down on paper. So for a showcase, because there's a
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showcase next month, we are going to be creating a comic strip lariary.
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They come up so comic strip slash graphic novel. So that's fun. And
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I also have a Facebook group here called Joe Joe Being Reading friend Z and
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that group was created as a result of alive that I did back in November.
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It was Black Black Friday with a friend of mine, I teach,
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a friend of mine from Florida. We got on we talked about how to
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find how to find engaging books. Okay, because sometimes when your child doesn't
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like to read, it may be that there's a reading issue, but sometimes
34:06
it could be just they're not interested in the book. So we talked about
34:10
what to look for how to get your child to read more. You don't
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necessarily have to get your child to sit in and read a physical book because
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reading is all around us. And I have apparent guide that I created.
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It's free, so if you go to my website and sign up for my
34:30
newsletter, you could download that free guide and it has a lot of links
34:32
to a lot of different sources that you could use and tips to help your
34:37
child to read more and have that desire to read. But back to the
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group, so the book. The group is an extension of that. We
34:45
have a lot of parents, educators and advocates in the group, so there's
34:50
an extension of that Live. I have the parent Empowerment series that kicked off
34:54
with that live where every month is a different topic. So we did reading
34:58
one month, another month, did math another month. We talked about In
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April, we talked about diversity in literature, why it's important. This month
35:10
we're going to be speaking about financial literacy. The lie about homeschooling because a
35:17
lot of people dismiss homeschooling, but actually don't dismiss this so quickly, and
35:22
it's not as um. It's not as complicated as people think. It's actually
35:30
a lot of African Americas, people in general, but especially advocate Americas,
35:36
after the pandemic, pulled their students, their children out of the traditional school
35:42
and homeschool. So about that, and then the last Live four and then
35:46
we'll break for the summer, we'll be talking about special education. Okay,
35:52
I've done all these things, and my child was struggling, at what point,
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yes, can I will I know or should I have the childer value?
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And at what point am I going to say, Okay, you know
36:05
what there might be a real problem. What are the signs, what can
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I do? What are your rights as a parent? So that yeah,
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this twenty twenty three, twenty two, twenty three, and then we'll start
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up again in September October. I love it, Tracy, I am sure.
36:21
I am so proud of you in all of your accomplishments. I solute
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to I celebrate you, my warrior system. I mean you listen to your
36:30
thing with the publishing of the books and everything. I called you were like
36:32
I need to advice. You're right there and the podcast. You are doing
36:37
your thing, and I think I love you, think you I love you
36:43
more, Thank you, thank you. So listen before we go, tell
36:46
the people how they can find you, how they can contact you, how
36:51
they can reach out to you. Because you have your publishing company. We
36:53
didn't get to talk about bachelor. I got to bring you back because we
36:55
are running out of time. Time flies when you're having fun. So listen,
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um black dime. I think I answer her questions already, I apologize,
37:05
So yeah, so tell us how we can contact you, and you
37:07
have any last final thoughts and say the floors yelled at you. Okay,
37:12
so you could UM contact me. My social media handles are on Facebook.
37:19
It's just like it has to hear um, Instagram is Wilkens Francis and YouTube
37:25
is Jojo Being Adventures. So there's some fun videos there with the characters.
37:30
Or you can just simply go to my website at www dot trace Wilkins Frances
37:36
dot com. I think it's in the chat right there. And I just
37:38
want to say, because I know we are talked about this before UM the
37:43
live started about hope, So okay, you UM. There are gonna be
37:50
times where you're gonna get discouraged. There are gonna be times where you're gonna
37:55
want to give up. They're gonna be times where you're gonna doubt yourself in
38:00
question why you're doing this in the first place, or why am I going
38:04
through this? But the number one thing that always keeps me going, because
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trust me, there's been times that I want to give up, is remember
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your why, Remember your why, Remember why you're doing it in the first
38:21
place. And you don't want to be alone on this journey because writing and
38:28
anything in general, but particularly writing is a very isolating thing to do because
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you know, we we go on our computers or I like to keep before
38:42
I put on the computer, and we kind of put ourselves in the office
38:47
or a bubble alone so we could focus. So as you continue to do
38:52
that for a while, it can't get a little depressing. But remember this
38:58
community is tightening, is close out to people. Don't be afraid. There's
39:02
so many people on Facebook. You can reach out to me, you can
39:06
reach out to Erica. There are a lot of Facebook groups out there with
39:08
authors, writers who truly help each other. So remember you are not alone,
39:16
and don't feel like you are alone. When you feel that way,
39:20
reach out to somebody and get that help, get that support, get those
39:23
encouraging words that you need so you could remember your why. That's one of
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the reasons why I do a lot of the things I do, like the
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career day and things like that, because they helped me to remember my why.
39:37
I was going back and forth for men like should I do picture books
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or should I Should I do the middle grade books, or should I just
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forget writing any more books at all? Because I got two books. I'm
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in the middle of them and I haven't finished them because I was just like,
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oh what am I gonna do? And when I went my husband and
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I went to career Day on Friday, and we spoke to those kids and
40:00
the scholars. Excuse and we spoke to the scholars, and I were so
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excited about hearing what we were doing. There was my answer right there.
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I love it. I love it. I thank you again for stopped by
40:15
every joint warding the women's podcast. We're gonna get you back. We're gonna're
40:19
gonna put you back upon the calendar. I am listen, y'all heard it.
40:22
Her information is in the comments. Listen, listen. Contact her for
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your publishing needs for her books, listening her books about everybody again. I
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love you, Tracy, my jo. I love you. We're gonna have
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you back again. Thank you, Thank you having this opportunity. I just
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love. Like I said, I love what you're doing. So you keep
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doing what you're doing. You're an amazing job. And man, thank you,
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thank you, thank you, and there we have it. He leaves
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me. Besides waters you restore it myself. So when you become a believer,