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MEET 1 OF 100 AUTHORS TO WATCH 3-26-25 MEET DR TINA M BAKER · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Think a.
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Speaker 2: Mock well.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I am
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Speaker 3: waiting on my special guests for today. I think she
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Speaker 3: may be having issues getting on. Not sure, but let
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Speaker 3: me see if I can get her. M that she is.
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Speaker 3: So I was gonna say if I can get her
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Speaker 3: on the line, But there she is. Y'all know we
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Speaker 3: always have trouble getting on these devices. Technology is something nowadays, y'all,
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Speaker 3: So bear with me as I bring up my guests.
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Speaker 3: I'm waiting for her to come all the way in
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Speaker 3: the studio. For some reason, it's not it's not connecting
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Speaker 3: her camera yet. For some reason that she is. Let
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Speaker 3: me say if I can get her up on the
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Speaker 3: screen now, and then we're gonna bring on in the
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Speaker 3: studio and then we're gonna start this conversation. So while
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Speaker 3: we're doing this, I want y'all to go ahead and
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Speaker 3: share this out with somebody in your circle of influence.
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Speaker 3: You never know what the next person may be in
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Speaker 3: need of. So I want you guys to share this
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Speaker 3: out with somebody because somebody may be in need of
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Speaker 3: what she's gonna share on today. So let me go
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Speaker 3: ahead and bring my guests on in the studio so
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Speaker 3: she can introduce herself. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, how are you hi?
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Speaker 3: Thank god I figured it out techology. Something I tell
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Speaker 3: you is, oh my gosh, how are you. I'm doing great.
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Speaker 3: I can't complain. I won't complain. God is good, Yes
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Speaker 3: he is, Yes, he is a Listen. I began to pray.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, Lord, help me because I don't know what
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Speaker 3: I'm doing. That guess what the moment I that's that prayer,
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Speaker 3: and guess what I'm on. Okay, take your time, just
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Speaker 3: slow down, take your time. Amen. Amen, and he would
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Speaker 3: do just that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Sometime we just we just be moving too fast for
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Speaker 3: our own absolutely, but welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to
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Speaker 3: welcome you to the Crew podcast on behalf of Aspiring
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Speaker 3: Authors magazine and didn't dave us of the Airways. I
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Speaker 3: want to welcome you. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. We all celebrating
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Speaker 3: International Women's History Month. You are also a part of
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Speaker 3: the one hundred Authors movement, so we got a lot
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Speaker 3: to talk about back. So I just want you to
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Speaker 3: sit back, relax, and just decide where you want to
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Speaker 3: start because we got some time. Okay, okay, all right,
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Speaker 3: I'm ready whenever you are. So what is this journey
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Speaker 3: been like? So you are an author, You're a part
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Speaker 3: of the one hundred author movement, you are being recognized
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Speaker 3: tonight as one of the women are part of this
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Speaker 3: movement for the international Women's History mind. So what has
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Speaker 3: this journey been like? An author journey, life period? We
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Speaker 3: want to hear? Well, first of all, let me say
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Speaker 3: thank you for your obedience and following the plans that
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Speaker 3: God has for you and bringing these authors together, being
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Speaker 3: able to write and to be able to express that
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Speaker 3: which I believe when you write that it comes from
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Speaker 3: the heart. And when you're connected, when you're connected to
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Speaker 3: for me to God, he allows for things to be
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Speaker 3: downloaded in your spirit and you're just ready to write
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Speaker 3: about it. So this journey has been truly an eye
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Speaker 3: opener because I get to see an experience just by
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Speaker 3: in the chats, just by just watching and being seeing
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Speaker 3: what other other authors are doing and encouraging one another
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Speaker 3: and be like wow, you know it is some people
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Speaker 3: out here doing some great things and really making an impact.
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Speaker 3: So this journey has been a blessing to my life.
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Speaker 3: It really has been. And like I said, I'm so
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Speaker 3: grateful to be a part of it. I'm so grateful
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Speaker 3: to have met people that are in different states. I'm
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Speaker 3: in the state of Maryland and that are in different
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Speaker 3: states that are doing great things. So I'm I'm looking
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Speaker 3: forward to what all that God has to do while
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Speaker 3: I'm on this journey and supporting other authors and supporting
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Speaker 3: their projects and also allowing them to see what God
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Speaker 3: is doing in my life as well. So I'm excited
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Speaker 3: about the journey. Amen, Amen, And this journey is an
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Speaker 3: author because I to let people know, you know, they
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Speaker 3: think that there's a lot of us, and there's so
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Speaker 3: many of us, and there's so many of us doing it,
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Speaker 3: but it's not. If you look at the Statisicate Artistics
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Speaker 3: says that there's only one percent of us that people
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Speaker 3: that will publish before they leave this earth and a life.
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Speaker 3: They say one percent of people will publish in a lifetime.
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Speaker 3: So you you are part of that one percent. And
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Speaker 3: then you look around and you see so many other
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Speaker 3: people like yourself that are on the same journey. It
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Speaker 3: has to be amazing and to know that you're in
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Speaker 3: that one percent, that that is that that is so amazing.
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Speaker 3: So to authorship, what was the that that turning point
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Speaker 3: that made you want to say that I really want
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Speaker 3: to be an author, because I didn't start out saying
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Speaker 3: I want to be an author. You know, that was
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Speaker 3: something that never crossed my mind. Yet I have over
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Speaker 3: one hundred and something publications now and never even thought
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Speaker 3: of writing like that was something that I never thought about.
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Speaker 3: You know, so what what thing in you said, Okay,
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Speaker 3: this is what I want. This is a niche for me,
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Speaker 3: This is something that I can do well. The niche
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Speaker 3: was I never like you. I never thought of myself
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Speaker 3: as being an author either. But I love to write, right,
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Speaker 3: So I love to journal. And in those journals they
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Speaker 3: produced a lot of a lot of personal stories that
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Speaker 3: you know, I've been led to share. Share in having
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Speaker 3: to navigate through what I've written and what to share
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Speaker 3: as as I'm being led to do. It comes with,
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Speaker 3: you know, conquering fear. You know, if are people going
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Speaker 3: to want to hear what I have to say? Are
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Speaker 3: people going to you know understand from the the you know,
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Speaker 3: understand where I'm coming from in this particular writing or
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Speaker 3: or or a book or whatever. And so for me,
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Speaker 3: I I love to journal, journal, but I never thought
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Speaker 3: about actually putting it on paper, and putting it in
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Speaker 3: a book. Uh. And and I just began probably about
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Speaker 3: several years ago, probably early part uh doing COVID is. Uh, well,
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Speaker 3: let me let me go back. I published my first
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Speaker 3: self published book at Keith House of a two right,
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Speaker 3: was a self of this book, and it came from
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Speaker 3: an area of me just writing, just journaling, right. And
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Speaker 3: then I believe I was led to to release that
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Speaker 3: to to to help empower young women at that time
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Speaker 3: that was suffering with silent domestic of semestic violence and.
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Speaker 2: Too.
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Speaker 3: It was my therapy to release that book, right. So
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Speaker 3: when I released it, I didn't think anything of being
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Speaker 3: a great author, being a great writer or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: It was a healing process for me. So fast forward now,
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Speaker 3: anything that I've written, right, it's got to do it's
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Speaker 3: been dealing with what's been with how God has been
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Speaker 3: healing me through writing. So I take those and I
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Speaker 3: don't take them lightly. But I just I love to write,
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Speaker 3: and I never just never the thought about being an author.
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Speaker 3: But there are things that I believe are being helping people,
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Speaker 3: which is why I continue doing what I do right
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Speaker 3: and and and and I thank you for that because
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Speaker 3: you know, oftentimes people don't understand why they go through
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Speaker 3: the things that they go through, and they think that
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Speaker 3: they're the only one like that that you you didn't
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Speaker 3: think anybody wanted to hear what you had to say.
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Speaker 3: You know that that is the majority. That is what
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Speaker 3: a majority of the people that come in and sit
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Speaker 3: in the studio, that's what they tell me. This week.
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Speaker 3: I've heard that three times this week. And I want
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Speaker 3: people to understand that. You know, if we are the
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Speaker 3: one percent, then just think of that other ninety nine
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Speaker 3: percent that's out there. It's ninety nine percent out there
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Speaker 3: that that that is not writing, that that is something
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Speaker 3: because they're not writing and they're needing something to read,
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Speaker 3: you know, and there's so many people out there that
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Speaker 3: are going through things and don't know how to release.
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Speaker 3: They don't know how to write, don't know where to start,
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Speaker 3: don't know how to even deal with the things that
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Speaker 3: they're dealing with. You know, we were fortunate enough to
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Speaker 3: you know, discover that gift within us. Yeah, it already
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Speaker 3: placed in us. Yeah, it is. It's truly a gift,
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Speaker 3: a gift, a gift and a voice that needs to
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Speaker 3: be heard. Because if your story impacts just one person
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Speaker 3: to a draw closer to God, I get to know God,
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Speaker 3: be help themselves. Then that's that that that becomes an
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Speaker 3: increase in that one percent, right, you know, so your
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Speaker 3: your voice, your voice is needed in areas that that
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Speaker 3: people are are probably afraid to address. So if there's
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Speaker 3: a story and if their story, if there's a story
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Speaker 3: in you, that story needs to come out of you
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Speaker 3: so that you will be able to impact and help
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Speaker 3: someone else exactly. And I want to know on this
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Speaker 3: journey how hard or easy, because some people say it
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Speaker 3: has been easy for them to start the process and
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Speaker 3: to get these things out. Your first book, I think
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Speaker 3: you said, dealt with domestic violence, suffering silence and suffering silence,
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Speaker 3: suffering domestic domestic So yeah, that that that could have
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Speaker 3: been a topic that could have been sensitive, or maybe
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Speaker 3: you may could have relived some things and may have
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Speaker 3: been triggered. So with a lot of people, how how
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Speaker 3: was that process for you? Was it an easy process
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Speaker 3: writing or was it reliving your testimony? It definitely was
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Speaker 3: not an easy journey. It was not an easy thing
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Speaker 3: to do because there was some things that that I
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Speaker 3: didn't want people to know. But at the same time,
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Speaker 3: there was some things that the Lord was leading me
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Speaker 3: to allow people to know through through my testimony, through
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Speaker 3: what I was living through at the age of six
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Speaker 3: ten years old and being a pastor's child, a p K,
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Speaker 3: a pastor's kid. So it's a lot of things that
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Speaker 3: were that It wasn't easy because if I felt that
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Speaker 3: if if the book when it was published, I knew
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Speaker 3: that my father would get it and would read it.
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Speaker 3: I knew my mother would read it. I knew my
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Speaker 3: siblings would read it, and uh, you know, at that time,
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Speaker 3: you know, I was like wondering, well, how were they
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Speaker 3: gonna feel about what I had written? But at the
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Speaker 3: same time those what I written was my truth and
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Speaker 3: how God allowed me to get through those things with
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Speaker 3: his help. And I tell people all the time that
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Speaker 3: when the Lord orders your steps, he does not order
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Speaker 3: them step your steps for no reason. He orders them
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Speaker 3: for a purpose. And the purpose is it helps you,
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Speaker 3: but it also brings forth to help somebody else. So
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Speaker 3: it's not not it's not always easy, but then it's
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Speaker 3: it's necessary because it's it can. Uh. The the writing
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Speaker 3: helps me and it's my healing. And that's how I
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Speaker 3: see it. When I write, when I go through difficult things,
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Speaker 3: I write it and it's my healing, but it's it's
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Speaker 3: it brings about not only healing for me, but it's
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Speaker 3: to also help someone else. H wow. So if you
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Speaker 3: want to tell us a little bit about your book. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so I read. I wrote it in early part of
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Speaker 3: well two thousand and two, and the name of the
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Speaker 3: book was called Understanding the Pain, and it, like I said,
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Speaker 3: it was self published, uh, self published by a publishing
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Speaker 3: company called Zuolne Press. And it was my first jabber
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Speaker 3: ever writing a book. And it was dedicated to two
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Speaker 3: women who found themselves in bondage to domestic violence, suffering
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Speaker 3: silence and domestic violence relationships and and how they still
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Speaker 3: managed to become overcomers with the help of the Lord.
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Speaker 3: So in that book, I I I talk about there's
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Speaker 3: so many people I was going to to college dormitories
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Speaker 3: and speaking to the young women who were in college. Uh,
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Speaker 3: and they they they found one particular chapter in the book.
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Speaker 3: It was called Praying the Knuckleheads out of Your Life
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Speaker 3: and uh, we we we couldn't get past that particular
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Speaker 3: chapter I remember. And that's that, you know. It was
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Speaker 3: just talking about how how you know when we when
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Speaker 3: we when we're when we're thinking we're loving is the
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Speaker 3: right person and then God shows us it's not. So
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Speaker 3: how how do you how do how do you break
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Speaker 3: that cycle of of of of abuse and thinking you're
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Speaker 3: loving the right person? And for one thing you know,
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Speaker 3: and writing this to therapy for me is that I
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Speaker 3: began to see the real love of God and how
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Speaker 3: he loves me right, not in the not in the
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Speaker 3: sight of how man loves, but in the sight of
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Speaker 3: how He loves. So that particular book was my release
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Speaker 3: of everything that I had gone through, what I had
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Speaker 3: suffered at an early age until the time I left
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Speaker 3: and I joined the military at twenty one. Wow wow wow,
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Speaker 3: So what has what was the military like? Military life?
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Speaker 3: Military life was my escape. It was my escape, and
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Speaker 3: it was my escape. It was me. I had to
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Speaker 3: just depend and trust on the Lord because at that
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Speaker 3: time I was uh having some technical difficulties. Hopefully she'll
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Speaker 3: be able to come back in the studio, her camera
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Speaker 3: went out, and it was it was God's way of
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Speaker 3: saving me from what I was into at that time.
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Speaker 3: It was his way of saving me. So I never
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Speaker 3: thought that I would do twenty years in the United
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Speaker 3: States Navy, but I did, and God's hand was all
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Speaker 3: over that because he was saving my life, preserving me
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Speaker 3: for such a time as this. Wow, my nephew's in
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Speaker 3: the navy. I think he's been in for seven years now. Oops.
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Speaker 3: So yes, thank you for sharing that. I think whenever
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Speaker 3: you knocked your phone down, I think something happened. You
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Speaker 3: went out. You may have to you may have to
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Speaker 3: go out and come back in. Let me see you
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Speaker 3: a message. Technical. Yes, I don't know what's happened. I
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Speaker 3: was telling her she may have to go out and
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Speaker 3: come back in because I can hear her, but she
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Speaker 3: apparently cannot hear me. I don't know what happened. But
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Speaker 3: she blacked out, y'all, awhile, and then she came back in,
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Speaker 3: So evidently something happened to her volume. So we gonna
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Speaker 3: see if she can go out and come back in
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Speaker 3: or if she can I don't know. We trying to
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Speaker 3: get it together. We gonna see, y'all. We gonna see
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Speaker 3: and and y'all know, technology is always, it's always, it's
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Speaker 3: always doing something. We're gonna say, if we can get
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Speaker 3: her back in here so we can get a get
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Speaker 3: a volume and stuff. We're gonna say, if we can
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Speaker 3: get her back in here in just a second, y'all.
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Speaker 3: But nevertheless, y'all, we keep on person, We keep on person.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you that has been the concisests. Y'all have
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Speaker 3: heard the last couple of nights that we've been on
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Speaker 3: individuals that have shared their testimony and shared their story
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Speaker 3: about writing and getting started. It has been the same thing.
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Speaker 3: So y'all, we got to move past that, and we
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Speaker 3: got to understand that these journeys, these testimonies that we
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Speaker 3: have are not just for us, but therefore people that
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Speaker 3: we're gonna come in contact with, those that may even
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Speaker 3: come after us. We may not even be meeting the
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Speaker 3: people that we're gonna be sharing these these things that
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Speaker 3: God is allowing us to impart into the world. You know,
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Speaker 3: we may not meet the people that are gonna come
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Speaker 3: in contact with these things. But my guess is back
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Speaker 3: in we're gonna see if we can hear her now,
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Speaker 3: because I'm sure she has some more things that she
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Speaker 3: wants to share, y'all, So let me get her on
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Speaker 3: back in here. Can you hear us now? Yes? Okay, okay, okay.
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Speaker 3: I tell you when it get good and and and
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Speaker 3: and people are really sharing and the enemy is so busy.
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Speaker 3: It's so busy now, but we don't allow it to
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Speaker 3: bother us. We don't allow it to get to us.
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Speaker 3: We just keep on pressing. We we have learned to
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Speaker 3: adapt and learn to to move through and to get through,
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Speaker 3: to get through these things so that we can see
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Speaker 3: what the other side is gonna be, you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying. So we have learned how to press. So
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Speaker 3: know that if anything happened, if I jump, if I
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Speaker 3: fall off, you just keep on topping. You just keep
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Speaker 3: doing what you're doing and I come back. You know.
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Speaker 3: That's what we do. You know, And we cannot We
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Speaker 3: only can't control what we can control. And we can't
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Speaker 3: control technology. We can't control the internet, we can't control
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Speaker 3: this stuff. We all we can do is do the
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Speaker 3: best that we can do, and that's what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: We're coming on here tonight and we're sharing. And I
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Speaker 3: was just sharing with those that are listening. You know
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Speaker 3: a lot of the things that we're doing, a lot
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Speaker 3: of the stuff that we're sharing. You know, it's not
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Speaker 3: for us. It may be for people that we have
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Speaker 3: not even encountered, people that are gonna come after us
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Speaker 3: generations and generations and generations to come, because the Word
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Speaker 3: tells us that we shall do greater works. But how
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Speaker 3: would they know the greater works if we don't put
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Speaker 3: the greater works in the hands of people that can
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Speaker 3: utilize it. So we are given the opportunity to share
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Speaker 3: these things, and we're given the opportunity to be a
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Speaker 3: voice for those that may think that they don't have
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Speaker 3: a boy because there were there was a time. I've
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Speaker 3: not always been this person that would come on the
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Speaker 3: and and and openly talk like I had a studying
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Speaker 3: a stuttering problem. I talked too fast. It was always
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Speaker 3: something that would make me say, oh, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to do this. I don't want to do this. I
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Speaker 3: can't do this. But when when God say, when God
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Speaker 3: say you got to do you got to do it,
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Speaker 3: ain't nothing you can do. All you can do is say, okay,
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Speaker 3: use me, I'll go, you know, even if you don't know.
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Speaker 3: And and and that was me. And I tell people
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Speaker 3: all the time, you know, I didn't know what I
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Speaker 3: was doing when I started a lot of this. You know,
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what God was doing. But I know
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Speaker 3: God was moving. I know God was directing me to
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Speaker 3: do these things. So I just begin to do on it.
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Speaker 3: But back, now that you are back, I want you
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Speaker 3: to share. You were going to share with the listeners
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Speaker 3: a little bit. I think we were talking about your
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Speaker 3: journey in the military. We talked about your journey in
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Speaker 3: the military, and then the enemy just don't want her
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Speaker 3: own here tonight. Don't know why, but we're gonna get
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Speaker 3: it back on here, y'all. We're gonna get it back
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Speaker 3: on here. But we keep pressing, We keep pressing, and
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Speaker 3: what we have learned, and thank you, d D. Thank
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Speaker 3: you for a lot of people. I think writing has
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Speaker 3: become a healing mechanism. It has become therapy, It has
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Speaker 3: become an outlet for some people to release. So you
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Speaker 3: were getting ready to share a little bit about your book,
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Speaker 3: I think mm hmm, yeah, yeah. I was sharing the
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Speaker 3: the uh, the concept of the many stories that were
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Speaker 3: related into my in my book from just experiences from
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Speaker 3: a teenager and like I said, up till the time
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Speaker 3: that I joined the military at twenty one years old,
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Speaker 3: and how my writing, I believe that it was my
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Speaker 3: healing process that God wanted me to heal through. So
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Speaker 3: you know, God can use any number of mechanism to
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Speaker 3: bring healing to his children. And at that particular time,
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Speaker 3: like I said, I never I never thought about branching
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Speaker 3: out to be an author or make millions being a writer.
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Speaker 3: But what I wanted to do is, as the Holy
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Speaker 3: Spirit led me, was to be able to share portions
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Speaker 3: of my story to not only as I'm healing, but
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Speaker 3: as I continuing to overcomingness process of learning who God
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Speaker 3: created me to be and to stand in who He
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Speaker 3: created me to be. You said, at one moment time,
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Speaker 3: you got to stand in who He has created you
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Speaker 3: to be. So my writing is healing for me and
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Speaker 3: help for someone else. So understanding the pain, it doesn't
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Speaker 3: mean that I understood everything all the whise, that the
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Speaker 3: why behind everything that I had to go through. But
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Speaker 3: what it did was it drew me closer to God.
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Speaker 3: It drew me closer and to the person that He
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Speaker 3: created me to be. It drew me closer into understanding
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Speaker 3: that I don't have to be like anybody else. I
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Speaker 3: can just be comfortable and who He has created me
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Speaker 3: to be and to know for sure that I'm his child.
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Speaker 3: And it just took a lot. It took it. And
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Speaker 3: you know what, what I what I love about God
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Speaker 3: is because he already knew what I was going to
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Speaker 3: go through, right uh, And he already knew how I
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Speaker 3: was going to respond to how what I was going through.
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Speaker 3: And at the same time, even though I didn't understand
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Speaker 3: every pain that I went through, I never gave up
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Speaker 3: on God. I never gave up on him. I never
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Speaker 3: allowed my situation to keep me in a victim mentality,
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Speaker 3: so you know, and it's all through learning, learning God's
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Speaker 3: word and learning who he says that you are and
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Speaker 3: you can live and who He says that you are
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Speaker 3: even while you're going through different things. So writing that,
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Speaker 3: writing that book in two thousand and two, and even
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Speaker 3: going back a few years ago, dusting off, dusting off
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Speaker 3: of eh, just going back through it. You know, I
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Speaker 3: don't I don't have that same level of why God,
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Speaker 3: Why does why this happened to me? I just praise
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Speaker 3: God and say thank You for allowing me to go
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Speaker 3: through it so that somebody else can can can heal
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Speaker 3: or I can help somebody else make it through the
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Speaker 3: same things that that that I went through as a
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Speaker 3: teenager and up to the time I left home. Wow,
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Speaker 3: that's powerful. That that that that's powerful. I thank God
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Speaker 3: for you sharing because somebody, somebody needed to hear that
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Speaker 3: on tonight. You know, Wow, you know if the if,
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Speaker 3: it's the it's the devil's job to keep you in
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Speaker 3: a victim mentality. Mm hm. He keeps you in a
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Speaker 3: victim mentality. So you're gonna get to know who you
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Speaker 3: are in Christ mm hmm hm. I'm sorry. I so
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Speaker 3: you so you can't live your best life? Right, So
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Speaker 3: you can't live your best life because as long as
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Speaker 3: you're holding on to victim, I can't live my best
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Speaker 3: life in Christ. Hm. Right? You know, and and it's
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Speaker 3: and it's so true. You know that he he is
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Speaker 3: a mender of broken hearts. He is the one that
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Speaker 3: that that will will will will bring you out of
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Speaker 3: darkness into his marvelous life. He is that one and
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Speaker 3: he and he and he longs for you us to
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Speaker 3: get to a point to where, even in all of
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Speaker 3: our mess even in in all of our situations, he
34:48
Speaker 3: wants us to rely upon him. Wow. Total seven. Like healing,
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Speaker 3: like you said, healing and standing. Look, healing and standing
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Speaker 3: and who He has created you to be like that?
35:07
Speaker 3: That that that that healing part when when we heal,
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Speaker 3: we're able to help other people heal because now we
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Speaker 3: we now we understand, we understand that we can stand
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Speaker 3: in who has who He has created us to be.
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Speaker 3: Through that healing process, we have truly learned who we were.
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Speaker 3: You know, when we understand that healing, we got to
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Speaker 3: stop allowing hindrance m HM to cause us to have
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Speaker 3: egos that allow us to have attitudes that stops us
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Speaker 3: from moving in love. So when we learn to heal,
35:58
Speaker 3: we no longer let hindrance houses us to have egos
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Speaker 3: and etetudes, and now we can move in love. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: absolutely absolutely, And the scripture says that love covers a
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Speaker 3: multitude of suns. Right, So in in my loving you,
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Speaker 3: I don't see what you used to be. In my
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Speaker 3: loving you, I don't hold what you used to be
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Speaker 3: in my heart. I don't I don't look at those
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Speaker 3: things that you how how you were right? Because you know,
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Speaker 3: we're displaying the love of Christ. And the love of
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Speaker 3: Christ is so important. Uh, even even as we're journeying,
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Speaker 3: journeying through you know, keep on living and keep on living.
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Speaker 3: The love of Christ is so important because it takes
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Speaker 3: us from from victim to victory. It keeps us in,
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Speaker 3: It keeps us in a victorious state of mind. Even
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Speaker 3: though I might be going through hell, I'm still victorious.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm. From victim to victorious. Wow, Now ain't that something?
37:09
Speaker 3: And and and and how do you get there? You
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Speaker 3: got to go through And people don't understand it's not
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Speaker 3: that you know, we we have to understand that the
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Speaker 3: Word tells us that that we we we believe what
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Speaker 3: we understand that the Word says that these weapons and
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Speaker 3: these things are gonna come, but he tells us that
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Speaker 3: they're not gonna prosper. So if we know that they're
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Speaker 3: not gonna we should have we we should have some
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Speaker 3: word down in us. We should have something down in
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Speaker 3: us that we can stand, that we can that we
37:44
Speaker 3: can stand and who He has created. Yes, and we
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Speaker 3: can stand in and in Genesis two and seven that
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Speaker 3: breath of life that He breathed in us. That I
37:55
Speaker 3: truly believe, the positive everything that we needed. So so
37:59
Speaker 3: we don't have to be out here searching for nothing.
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Speaker 3: But all we got to do was tap into him
38:05
Speaker 3: because he's already in us. Yes, breath. All right, we
38:09
Speaker 3: don't And you said something else that resonated to something
38:14
Speaker 3: that I've been saying across the platform, and and and
38:17
Speaker 3: we we did a we did a conference on it
38:21
Speaker 3: matters of the heart. You know, God attends to the heart.
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Speaker 3: You know, the heart was healing, empowering, aligning with a
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Speaker 3: and trauma.
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Speaker 1: No mo.
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Speaker 3: Part two, Part two is coming in May. Part two
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Speaker 3: is coming May third. Is gonna be on a Saturday,
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Speaker 3: May third from eleven a m. To two pm. Definitely,
38:49
Speaker 3: we would love for you to be a part of that.
38:53
Speaker 3: One of our hosts, her name is Trevita, she is
38:57
Speaker 3: a part of the Crew podcast. She's gonna be hosting that,
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Speaker 3: So I definitely will put you in contact with her
39:02
Speaker 3: so that you can connect with her and be a
39:05
Speaker 3: part of that. We're looking for some hosts, some some
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Speaker 3: individuals that want to come on and share, you know,
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Speaker 3: that share their expertise, their their journey, you know, how
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Speaker 3: they got through whatever, you know, they may have went through,
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Speaker 3: if it was feeling that they went through, if it
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Speaker 3: was an empowerment journey that they was on, if it
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Speaker 3: was them aligning with their purpose, aligning with that that
39:28
Speaker 3: God has already called them to, you know, or if
39:32
Speaker 3: it was a journey of resilience. Because we have the
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Speaker 3: young lady that did resilience in the last conference. She
39:39
Speaker 3: had a stroke two and a half years ago and
39:41
Speaker 3: it's currently still in in in in bed. She's not
39:48
Speaker 3: able to walk, she's still not mobile, but she still
39:52
Speaker 3: had posted a podcast. She's hosted a podcast from bed
39:57
Speaker 3: for three years. This is her third season and her
40:01
Speaker 3: first season she had guests. On her second season, she
40:04
Speaker 3: said she wanted to go to not having guests, and
40:08
Speaker 3: this year she's straight inspirational. It's inspirational moments with Prophet
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Speaker 3: is Teeth and she comes home and she encouraged people.
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Speaker 3: Even when people want to when they want to gas
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40:25
Speaker 3: and all these different social media platforms, she still pressed.
40:29
Speaker 3: She still comes on, She still show up. She still
40:32
Speaker 3: delivered the word of God. I tell you, God is
40:37
Speaker 3: truly He has truly been moving through this podcast, you know,
40:42
Speaker 3: because we come through different walks of life, and just
40:46
Speaker 3: their willingness, because they were willing and they said, yes,
40:50
Speaker 3: you know a lot of people we've invited to come
40:53
Speaker 3: and be a guest, even where you're sitting today, and
40:57
Speaker 3: a lot of people still afraid to come. But you came.
41:03
Speaker 3: You were a will in vessel because you knew that
41:07
Speaker 3: there was something that somebody needed to hear today. So
41:11
Speaker 3: I want you to share how can individuals support your platform,
41:16
Speaker 3: how can they follow you? How can they get your book?
41:20
Speaker 3: And if you have some new things that's coming up,
41:23
Speaker 3: what we can look forward for and the rest of
41:25
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five because we're only three months in, so
41:29
Speaker 3: what we can look for in twenty twenty five, how
41:32
Speaker 3: we can follow you, check out some of the things
41:35
Speaker 3: that you already have and all of that good stuff. Okay,
41:42
Speaker 3: you can follow. I'm easily to be followed on Facebook.
41:45
Speaker 3: I'm on Instagram, my platform, my platform. What I'm working
41:52
Speaker 3: what the Lord is allowing me to work on this
41:56
Speaker 3: coming up fall and that's where my energy is really
42:00
Speaker 3: going to go toward is as a women's conference, and
42:05
Speaker 3: it's gonna it's titled Behold Your Beauty Women's International Conference.
42:13
Speaker 3: I have to tell you, Alisbrier gave that to me.
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Speaker 3: The international wasn't in there until January and and and
42:21
Speaker 3: it is suposed to me just like, no, it's just
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Speaker 3: not going to be just the average conference. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be international. So you have to add in Behold
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Speaker 3: your Beauty International Women's Conference, right, So I'm like, well, Lord,
42:35
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody. But if you said that's what
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Speaker 3: it's going to be, guess what. That's what it's going
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Speaker 3: to be. So it's a it's a conference that that
42:48
Speaker 3: that a conference that will speak and empower women and
42:54
Speaker 3: not not so much. I'm not doing anything new, but
42:58
Speaker 3: I'm just doing it as our Holy Spirit leads me
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Speaker 3: to do it. Because there's so many there, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have I support other women's conferences, I support other
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Speaker 3: women's ministries and things like that. And I'm like, you know, why,
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Speaker 3: why why this particular one? And he was just like,
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Speaker 3: because I need for I need for my children to
43:24
Speaker 3: understand that there is a beauty inside of them that
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Speaker 3: I have given unto them, and you have to behold
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Speaker 3: that beauty to continue to live and trust that He
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Speaker 3: is always with us and that He is for us.
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Speaker 3: So it's going to be a phenomenal, fenomenal event. And
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Speaker 3: I not event. I don't call an event a time
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Speaker 3: of wortship, a time of prayer, a time of us
43:57
Speaker 3: coming together, a time of restoring in a time of
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Speaker 3: people getting to know who God is in their life
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Speaker 3: for real, because now is the time that we really
44:10
Speaker 3: need to know our God. It's now so it's not
44:16
Speaker 3: about you know, it's not about being So I'm my God.
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Speaker 3: You know who's gonna come. He says, don't worry about that.
44:23
Speaker 3: You just go for and you do what I've given you.
44:27
Speaker 3: So I've written that He's given me, given me the vision.
44:30
Speaker 3: I wrote the vision. I'm making a plane, and I
44:33
Speaker 3: believe that He's going to give me every resource that
44:36
Speaker 3: I need to carry out this fall in what I
44:40
Speaker 3: need to do, and it's going to be. I have
44:44
Speaker 3: it on Instagram, I have it posted to Facebook. I'm
44:49
Speaker 3: not sure of all the particulars, but I'm just trusting God.
44:52
Speaker 3: For the book is Understanding the Pain that was written
44:57
Speaker 3: in two thousand and two from Zoo Line Press, and
45:01
Speaker 3: I believe that if you if you want a copy
45:04
Speaker 3: of it, just let me know. I'll be able to
45:06
Speaker 3: get a copy of it. I don't charge for the book.
45:09
Speaker 3: I give the book away for free because I feel
45:14
Speaker 3: like it's a it's a it's it's it's it's how
45:18
Speaker 3: God blessed me to be a blessing to others. So
45:21
Speaker 3: I don't charge for the book. I get the book,
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Speaker 3: and I give the book away for free because the Lord,
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Speaker 3: he is kind and I'm thankful about that. So I'm
45:35
Speaker 3: working that particular conference. We're starting to get those things
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Speaker 3: in order. So that's that's my number one priority for
45:46
Speaker 3: the remainder of this year. I also have other projects
45:51
Speaker 3: and I'm working on writing projects and anthologies with a
45:54
Speaker 3: couple other amazing women who are writing I love. I'm
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Speaker 3: supporting this Queen, Queen Angela, She's I see you in Atlanta.
46:06
Speaker 3: My daughter lives in Atlanta, so I'm going to be
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Speaker 3: there in April, so I hope to hope to hope
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Speaker 3: we can hook up in April when I'm there, just
46:17
Speaker 3: so I'll get a chance to meet you face to face.
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Speaker 3: So those are the things that God is allowing me
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Speaker 3: to do right now in this season. I don't have
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Speaker 3: a lot of things going on because He knows me.
46:31
Speaker 3: So so I got to take things one step at
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Speaker 3: a time because God knows me, and I will get overwhelmed,
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Speaker 3: and I don't want to be overwhelmed. I just want
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Speaker 3: to be able to do which will do that what
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Speaker 3: she's called me to do. And if I if what
46:49
Speaker 3: God allows me to do helps one person, then this
46:56
Speaker 3: is not in vain. So I'm just thankful to God
47:01
Speaker 3: about that. I'm also uh I'm also the co pastor
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Speaker 3: of Kingdom Hope Ministry, So we have a website for
47:09
Speaker 3: our church, Kingdom Hope Ministry, and we can be founding
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Speaker 3: at Gambros, Maryland. I'm just excited about every door that
47:18
Speaker 3: God is opening and even super excited about the doors
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Speaker 3: He's closing. So I'm thankful to just being open to
47:29
Speaker 3: whatever God would have me to do in this season.
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Speaker 3: A man, amen that that that that that that was
47:44
Speaker 3: Look if if they didn't get it, they look, they
47:47
Speaker 3: get to go back and listen to the replay. They can.
47:50
Speaker 3: They get to listen to the replay, and that's the
47:53
Speaker 3: that's the good thing about this is they get to
47:56
Speaker 3: listen to the replay and they're definitely gonna get to
47:58
Speaker 3: hear some clips. So they're definitely gonna get to hear this.
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Speaker 3: So it's it's it's gonna be heard. But it wasn't.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't a lot. It was what was need to
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Speaker 3: have been said. I often tell people you can never
48:14
Speaker 3: talk about the things that God have you doing too
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Speaker 3: much because there's somebody that needs to hear it. There's
48:23
Speaker 3: somebody that needs to get it. Because if it wasn't
48:26
Speaker 3: he wouldn't give it to you, you know, so He's
48:28
Speaker 3: given it to us for a reason. So definitely, you
48:32
Speaker 3: you keep being that vessel, you keep sharing, you keep
48:35
Speaker 3: you keep putting it out there so that individuals, you know,
48:40
Speaker 3: I often tell people, we sit on these things that
48:43
Speaker 3: God has given us when he's given us an outlet,
48:46
Speaker 3: he's given us resources, he's given us everything that we need.
48:49
Speaker 3: If we just utilize those things, you know, we were
48:52
Speaker 3: out here searching when it's already in us. Oh my gosh, yes, yeah,
48:57
Speaker 3: mm hmm, yeah, that is the truth. That is the truth. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: And and allow him to bring those things forth, those
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Speaker 3: gifts that He's given, bring those forth, unafraid and unapologetic
49:12
Speaker 3: about what God is doing in your life. Unafraid and unapologetic. Now,
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that you you go out and you
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Speaker 3: just be this um uh person. That's that's that has
49:28
Speaker 3: that's that has the title. That's that's that's saying your
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Speaker 3: godly but you're un but have ungodly ways. I would
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Speaker 3: put it back right. And and we want to we
49:41
Speaker 3: want to reflect the true image of God in our
49:44
Speaker 3: lives and everything that we do and everything that He
49:46
Speaker 3: has allowed us to do. And to be a part
49:49
Speaker 3: even with connecting with people. We just want to be
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Speaker 3: our We just want to be all our best for God.
49:55
Speaker 3: That's my desire and that's the type of people that
49:59
Speaker 3: I'm asking God to send into my life, those that
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Speaker 3: will be able to impact the kingdom and not heard it? Amen? Amen? Well.
50:09
Speaker 3: I always ask my guests before they leave. I always
50:13
Speaker 3: want them to share something positive encouraging that they can
50:18
Speaker 3: encourage the listeners on whether they're live or if they
50:21
Speaker 3: hear the replay. On this journey that we call life,
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Speaker 3: a well, on this life, on this journey that we
50:31
Speaker 3: call life, we understand that we're going to have ups
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Speaker 3: and downs. We understand that there are trials and tribulations
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Speaker 3: that we're going to go through. But my favorite, one
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Speaker 3: of my favorite scriptures is that many of the afflictions
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Speaker 3: of the right is but God delivers them from the
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Speaker 3: all givers Us from them all. And here is you know,
50:54
Speaker 3: when we think about our trials, when we think about
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Speaker 3: those things that we go through as believers, that we
51:03
Speaker 3: just don't give up, We just don't throw in the towel.
51:06
Speaker 3: We stand and stand and knowing that there is a God,
51:10
Speaker 3: He is our hope. He is our strength. And if
51:13
Speaker 3: you don't have have that strong connection right now that
51:19
Speaker 3: you can pray and ask God to help you with
51:21
Speaker 3: your faith, help you with your unbelief, whatever that is
51:25
Speaker 3: that's hindering you from being closer to God. He wants
51:31
Speaker 3: to hear from you so that He will help you
51:34
Speaker 3: through it. And not only that, is that we're living
51:39
Speaker 3: in such a time that we have to carry the
51:44
Speaker 3: word of God and also demonstrate the love of God.
51:48
Speaker 3: So don't frets, don't fret. Continue to just live, continue
51:57
Speaker 3: to trust God, and continue to live. I'm gonna say
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Speaker 3: that one. Just continue to trust God and to live.
52:09
Speaker 3: And that's my whole thing that I encourage people to do,
52:14
Speaker 3: even when you can't see it. Just continue to trust
52:17
Speaker 3: Him and live. Wow, just live, Just live, Just live,
52:25
Speaker 3: trusting God for everything because he promised that he will
52:30
Speaker 3: take care of us. That he did, That's what he did,
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Speaker 3: and we can live in that promise and we can
52:41
Speaker 3: trust him and take him for his word. Wow. I
52:46
Speaker 3: have truly, I tell you, I have truly been blessed tonight.
52:50
Speaker 3: I want to thank God for stopping by and sharing
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Speaker 3: with me.
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Speaker 2: Hope.
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Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. Anytime, anytime you are part of the one
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Speaker 3: hundred author movements. So know that you know, every opportunity
53:04
Speaker 3: that I get to share you guys, I will definitely
53:07
Speaker 3: be sharing you guys every opportunity I get to I'm
53:11
Speaker 3: putting you on front Street. So get ready, get ready,
53:13
Speaker 3: to get ready. I love sharing, I love bringing individuals together.
53:19
Speaker 3: Those four seeds I'm serious about those four seeds. Connect, collaborate, create,
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Speaker 3: and community. You know, that's what it's gonna take to
53:27
Speaker 3: keep That's what it's gonna take to keep going. And
53:30
Speaker 3: in order for us to be able to leave those
53:33
Speaker 3: greater works, we gotta be able to connect, collaborate, create,
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Speaker 3: and do it as a community. The most important thing
53:42
Speaker 3: is building that community so that those coming after us
53:46
Speaker 3: can see that sense of community, because we let that
53:48
Speaker 3: slip away. But that's a whole nother show. And I
53:51
Speaker 3: tell you, truly, truly, truly have enjoyed you tonight. So
53:57
Speaker 3: I want to thank you for joining us. Your work,
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Speaker 3: come back anytime, and I look forward to seeing you
54:02
Speaker 3: around the one hundred Authors movement again. Thank you, thank you,
54:06
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you, thank you, and God bless amen. Amen,
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Speaker 3: And I want to thank everyone for tuning in tonight
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Speaker 3: that has been a part of this, y'all. Please share
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Speaker 3: If you can tune on back in tonight eight o'clock,
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