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7/24/25- BELIEVE IN THE JOURNEY HOSTED BY TRIVEDA HARRIS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
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  Speaker 1: show starts in ten five eight seven, six, five four
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  Speaker 1: three two.
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  Speaker 2: One golome to believe in the Journey podcast where I
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  Speaker 2: am your Wholda Harris, And tonight, I have some phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: women who are going to be sharing their journey with
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  Speaker 2: me along with the book that we all did together
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  Speaker 2: called Sacred Seeds of Wisdom, and it is a book
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  Speaker 2: that every black and brown woman needs to have in
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  Speaker 2: their arson. So if you haven't got the book, it's
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  Speaker 2: available now on Amazon. You can reach out to either
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  Speaker 2: one of us and we'll make sure that you get
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  Speaker 2: your copy now. This book was truly a sacred seed
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  Speaker 2: of wisdom to me. I am grateful to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of it with these phenomenal women. It is fourteen
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  Speaker 2: of us collectively, and each one of us has a
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  Speaker 2: different seed that we want to plant with you. But
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  Speaker 2: before we go to the guests that are coming up,
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  Speaker 2: and go to God first, So Dear Heavenly Father, for
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  Speaker 2: bringing us here together as you do each and every
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  Speaker 2: time we're in front of you, Let the words of
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  Speaker 2: our mouths fall upon the ears that need to hear.
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  Speaker 2: We all have walked along the journey and the path
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  Speaker 2: that you have designed for us. But collectively we come
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  Speaker 2: together to create something that everyone, every female needs in
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  Speaker 2: their arsenal, their seeds of wisdom that we wish that
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  Speaker 2: we had as young children. But you have collectively brought
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  Speaker 2: us together in this so that we can leave this
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  Speaker 2: legacy to those who are coming behind us. And you're precureus.
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  Speaker 2: To Holy Name Jesus, we pray Amen. Now, the women
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  Speaker 2: that I have coming tonight is Miss Charlotte, Miss Shana, Christina, Latanya, Tanya,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Farren, and Michelle. I'm not sure if everybody's got
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  Speaker 2: here yet. Some are still on their way, but most
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  Speaker 2: of them are common. So I got Miss Tony, Miss Shane,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Farren, and Miss Christina. Miss miss Christina is it's
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  Speaker 2: traveling right now. She's gonna turn her camera on when
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  Speaker 2: she get in the house, but she coming. She's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be part of this conversation too. Welcome them to the show.
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  Speaker 3: How you guys doing tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Doing wonderful? Thank you so much for having us. You
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  Speaker 2: know I could not extend this. I can't even say
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  Speaker 2: family meeting. I almost say it like that it's a
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  Speaker 2: family meeting, and we had to come together to talk
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  Speaker 2: about what we contributed to this book, because people need
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  Speaker 2: to know what happens behind the scenes, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: always get to know what happens behind the scenes, and
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  Speaker 2: what we had to go through and ourselves to even
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  Speaker 2: convince ourselves sometimes to even be as vulnerable as we
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  Speaker 2: become when we're writing our stories, because sometimes just to
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  Speaker 2: put it on paper is like, Lord, what are they
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  Speaker 2: gonna say?
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  Speaker 3: How are people gonna judge me? How to me? You
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  Speaker 3: know when I share this part of myself with who knows?
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a necessary thing that I think was
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  Speaker 2: there for me to extend this moment of space able
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  Speaker 2: to share what.
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  Speaker 3: It was like for us.
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  Speaker 2: So I want each of you to take a moment
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  Speaker 2: to introduce yourselves, to give them a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: background about who you are. And it doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 2: goes first, like so I hope like looking at the
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  Speaker 2: picture on everybody side and be like, oh no, I can.
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  Speaker 4: Go first, ladies. So, first of all, thank you for
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  Speaker 4: having me have all of us on the show. So
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  Speaker 4: my name is Shana. I am a twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 4: Distinguished Author's Guild Winner. I wrote the book The Prettiest Woman,
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  Speaker 4: and I have a new journal which is nominated called Butterflies.
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  Speaker 3: I Meant to Fly, not to be kept in the jar.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a mother, I'm an entrepreneur, ounteer design business called
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  Speaker 4: us to Letto Decor. I have a youth ministry called
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  Speaker 4: The Prettiest Little Women Ministry. So I'm all about building women,
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  Speaker 4: building young girls up from the inside out. That's why
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  Speaker 4: I was really happy to be a part of this project.
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  Speaker 4: I love collaborative efforts with other women where we could
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  Speaker 4: just just talk and just pour into each other and
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  Speaker 4: build each other up. And I'm starting to feel like
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  Speaker 4: that's my life's purpose, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great purpose. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we tend to run away from that purpose in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning because we're I quite sure black it.
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  Speaker 3: But that's a great, great purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, whoever gets to introduce themselves, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go hello everybody. Thank you so much again, Tavida.
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  Speaker 2: I've been here before and it's always a pleasure, so
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  Speaker 2: thank you for having us. My name is Farren maclamore
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  Speaker 2: and I am a twenty twenty four Distinguished Author is
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  Speaker 2: Guilt nominee twenty twenty five Distinguished Author is Guild ambassador
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  Speaker 2: and nominee, So shout out the Sacred Season wisdom because
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  Speaker 2: we are dagon Data. So congratulations to you all, ladies.
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  Speaker 2: I am a community advocate and a motivational speaker. Through
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  Speaker 2: in my book, I champion for people with disabilities. I
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  Speaker 2: inspire self love and I encourage those to embrace their
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  Speaker 2: differences and love who they see in the mirror. So
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  Speaker 2: I love that I got to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: this amazing journey because it allowed me to leave that
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  Speaker 2: legacy and to tap into my passion which is inspiring
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  Speaker 2: and uplifting, and then just to piggyback off author Shannam.
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  Speaker 2: I love the collaboration, especially you know, with powerful black women.
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  Speaker 2: So this was such an empowering journey to be on.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just excited to be here and excited to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of it. It's Tony, you want to go, shirogo.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Tony Winston and I'm an entrepreneur. I
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  Speaker 5: own my own travel business. It's called Freedom Travel Diva.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the Diva and I travel all over the world
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  Speaker 5: people with me. But I also have a sideline gig
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  Speaker 5: where I work for the federal government and I am divorced.
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  Speaker 5: I am a daughter, a sister, a auntie, a cousin,
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  Speaker 5: a niece, and I am just so encouraged to be
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  Speaker 5: around so.
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  Speaker 6: Many talented black.
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  Speaker 2: And brown women. When I was invited to this opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to share sacred seeds of wisdom, I did not really
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  Speaker 2: fully grasp the talent that we have in our communities.
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  Speaker 6: Kudos to everyone who is here.
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  Speaker 5: It was I'm just going to shout out everybody because
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  Speaker 5: it was indeed a privilege for me to participate, because
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  Speaker 5: I had to fall back on the information that I
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  Speaker 5: shared for myself. I lost my dad three weeks ago,
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  Speaker 5: so I had to encourage myself. I started to call
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  Speaker 5: doctor Carolyn, and I started to call Tonight to say
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  Speaker 5: that I was not going to be on.
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  Speaker 6: But my dad said to me.
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  Speaker 5: Before he left he wanted me to live my life right.
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  Speaker 5: I knew exactly what that meant. He and I had
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  Speaker 5: our own language.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the oldest, and I was Daddy's girl, and I
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  Speaker 2: looked like him. So if I started to cry to night,
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  Speaker 2: don't y'all feel sorry for me? Join me.
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  Speaker 5: Because my dad was able to talk to me, share
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  Speaker 5: with me and the family.
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  Speaker 2: But he also told us he knew exactly where he
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  Speaker 2: was going.
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  Speaker 5: He said he was going home to be with the Lord,
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  Speaker 5: and that really changed my life.
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  Speaker 2: H m hm.
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  Speaker 5: He changed my life and I will never ever let
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  Speaker 5: anybody discourage me again about anything that I want to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: So my my words of wisdom tonight to everybody here.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody has any shortcomings anything that you put your mind to.
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  Speaker 2: Put God first and He'll take care of the rest.
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  Speaker 2: So Charlotte, mm hmm, well, you're absolutely right. If you
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  Speaker 2: do start to cross tonight, you'll be in good company
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  Speaker 2: because moment, hey, miss Charlotte, yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, it might be noise in the background. I'm currently
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  Speaker 7: in a situation. Well, I'm just going to cut straight
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  Speaker 7: to the point.
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  Speaker 1: High.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Charlotte Simon Ralson. I write a monthly
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  Speaker 7: column for Aspiring Authors magazine called Grief and Gratitude. And
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  Speaker 7: also I'm part of the anthology with all your Beautiful Ladies,
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  Speaker 7: and I just want to tell a little background about
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  Speaker 7: my story. It's just a story about humility. I'm currently
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  Speaker 7: and I'm staying with my daughter now for seven months.
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  Speaker 7: I'm grateful that I'm not in the streets, but I
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  Speaker 7: just I just want to be in a setting where
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  Speaker 7: I have my own place. So like I said, you
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  Speaker 7: might hear noise in the background. I'm on a time
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  Speaker 7: limit because this is not my house. So that's when
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  Speaker 7: I say humility is this is a humbling inspirits for me,
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  Speaker 7: and it's it's you know, just so it's been a
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  Speaker 7: lot of stuff that has happened, as Angelo all the
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  Speaker 7: time on the line and stuff that's going on now,
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  Speaker 7: but in the process of it, of what has happened
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  Speaker 7: has blessed me. I don't want to say nothing now,
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  Speaker 7: but it will happen in September. But I was totally floored.
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  Speaker 7: When it's like I have mixed emotions. I want to
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  Speaker 7: cry because I'm upset, but then the joy is right
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  Speaker 7: there and I have to keep it to myself a
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  Speaker 7: little while longer. So that's where I'm at now. And
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  Speaker 7: I know I'm rushing because like I said, I'm on
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  Speaker 7: a time frame. To excuse me, but just keep me
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  Speaker 7: in prayer. I just want to say thank you'ull to
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  Speaker 7: everybody that's on the line. I'm humbly grateful. I love you, Angela,
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  Speaker 7: and so I'm just grateful to be a part of
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  Speaker 7: this anthology and I can't wait to just do more.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you are in good company. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes godations to show us just who he is, because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you don't understand the purpose behind the things that
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  Speaker 2: he's doing in our lives. I say that life of
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  Speaker 2: different puzzle pieces, and you never understand which piece you
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  Speaker 2: have and where it's going to fit until you're in
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  Speaker 2: the situation that you know, this is where this piece
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  Speaker 2: in my life goes. Right now, you're talking about back
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  Speaker 2: ground noise. I'm in my bedroom tonight doing my podcast
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  Speaker 2: because where I normally am, my daughter is here. Like
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  Speaker 2: I told you earlier, if not, she would be in
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  Speaker 2: here taking over the podcast because she thinks that this
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  Speaker 2: is hers because anytime my laptop comes out, she thinks
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  Speaker 2: that it's time to work and it's time for her
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  Speaker 2: to do her thing. So I had to actually lock
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  Speaker 2: myself in here so she could stay out there with
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  Speaker 2: her mama.
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  Speaker 3: And so we had a whole conversation that I.
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  Speaker 7: Was gonna.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, yes, So you can't be with teach
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  Speaker 2: you right now. So she's the floor and she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I want to go with my.
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  Speaker 3: Tears. Won't work right now. We have stuff to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you in it, yes, yes, but you are fine,
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  Speaker 2: so don't don't worry about that. God has you right
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  Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be in this.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I know that's right. That is definitely true.
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  Speaker 2: So there's absolutely or anything about that. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: God will tell us when it's time to speak and
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  Speaker 2: when it's time to sit still and keep our mouths
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  Speaker 2: closed about the next thing that He's doing in our lives,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes we want to share it with someone who
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  Speaker 2: is not supposed to hear that news.
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  Speaker 3: So sit back and be quiet.
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  Speaker 2: And when God knows this time, then you speak on
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  Speaker 2: what it is that you got going on, because it's
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  Speaker 2: not for us to hear right now. Okay, Pastina, how
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  Speaker 2: are you? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh you all mute? We can't hear ya.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, how are you out?
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  Speaker 3: We're just introducing ourselves right now.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, is it my turn? Well, I appreciate you for
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  Speaker 8: having me. My name is Christina, and I I mean
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  Speaker 8: no nonpro professional. I can now say that I'm a writer,
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  Speaker 8: I'm a mom and a wife, and I am just
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  Speaker 8: happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's great to have you here.
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  Speaker 2: Like most of you don't don't know much about me
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  Speaker 2: except for our host this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you a little bit about me. I
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  Speaker 3: am a mother of three. All three of my children
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  Speaker 3: are grown, but they tend to think that they're my parents.
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  Speaker 3: At this point. They tell me that I am hard headed.
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  Speaker 2: I am the hard headed parent they've ever had to
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  Speaker 2: raise in their lives because I don't listen to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh just just.
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  Speaker 2: Turned twenty nine. My middle one is twenty five. My
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  Speaker 2: youngest is twenty two. He'll be twenty three on the
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  Speaker 2: fourth of August. I am a self published author. I
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  Speaker 2: am a coach, motivational speaker. I also have a business,
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  Speaker 2: wings of Transformation Publishing, where I help other authors who
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  Speaker 2: are wanting to self published learn how to do that
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  Speaker 2: themselves as well.
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  Speaker 3: Outside of that, I.
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  Speaker 2: Am a small person in statue, but I am big
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  Speaker 2: in spirit.
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  Speaker 3: I always say that because I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Only four eight, But when you get to know me,
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  Speaker 2: I am six feet tall in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you believe it or not, they ain't got nothing
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  Speaker 3: to do with me.
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  Speaker 2: But in my mind, I'm six feet tall and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do whatever I set my mind to. So if
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  Speaker 2: you tell me I can't do something, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 2: you watch me and see. So I am very shy
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to public speaking. But as I said before,
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  Speaker 2: nobody ever believes me because they can't see where the
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  Speaker 2: shyness comes in at because.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always going show up. And now, I, like I.
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  Speaker 2: Told you, Miss Charlotte when we talked earlier, I'm nervous
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  Speaker 2: every single time I have to do one of these shows,
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  Speaker 2: every time I have to speak.
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  Speaker 3: Something. But that's not hard for me to do.
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  Speaker 2: Being four eight, I can stand beside anybody and disappear.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know, it just is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But collectively, this book has really reached people in many ways,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to say that it's touched me in
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  Speaker 2: a way of being in a space with all of
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  Speaker 2: you women. And one thing that I can say for
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  Speaker 2: myself is as a little girl growing up, I was
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  Speaker 2: always told that I will never amount to anything except
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  Speaker 2: for being an alcoholic and a drug addict like my mother. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I always thought that I was gonna be something different
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  Speaker 2: and something more than that. And what I can say
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  Speaker 2: is being in space with you women has taught me
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  Speaker 2: that I was always meant to be in this space,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of where other people thought I was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be because they planted seeds of doubt. But other people
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  Speaker 2: who were meant to help me see the greatness within me,
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  Speaker 2: planted the seeds of growth possoming to let me know
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  Speaker 2: that I could do anything that I sent my mind to.
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  Speaker 2: And so those are the seeds that have been blossoming
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  Speaker 2: for me. I am learning still how to celebrate myself
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  Speaker 2: and celebrate the lens that I have because I've accomplished
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things in my life. However, I've never
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  Speaker 2: celebrated those things. So last year and this year, I
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  Speaker 2: have made it a point to celebrate my good things
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  Speaker 2: and doing the book signing and book released from my
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  Speaker 2: mob last month.
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  Speaker 3: It was in honor of her.
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  Speaker 2: She passed away two years ago, and I really was
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  Speaker 2: on her sixty sixth birthday, which was July the fifth,
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted a lot of people to be there,
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  Speaker 2: but I realized, and I say this all the time,
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  Speaker 2: whoever is meant to be there will be there. Who
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  Speaker 2: is not meant to be their won't And it has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with anything other than God needs people
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  Speaker 2: to be there in that moment. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: that all the books that I ordered, I sold all
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  Speaker 2: of them at the book signing that was my very
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  Speaker 2: first one, and I sold some of my other books
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't anticipate doing that.
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  Speaker 2: However, it was a blessing and it was a beautiful moment.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't take a lot of pictures or a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things because I was enjoying the moment in space.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 2: One thing about the event that bothered me was I
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  Speaker 2: had my dad came, and I'm grateful that he but
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  Speaker 2: in moments of the event, he was trying to make
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  Speaker 2: it about himself and it was not about him, and
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  Speaker 2: all I could do was laugh because it's like, sir,
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  Speaker 2: today is not about you. Today is about me and
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing. And so I just let him have
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  Speaker 2: his little pity party. But I kept enjoying what I
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  Speaker 2: was doing.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, there are.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be people that are gonna come around who want
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  Speaker 2: to make whatever it is that you're doing about them,
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  Speaker 2: and you gotta know how to redirect the energy, because
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  Speaker 2: I could have let him take away from me and
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  Speaker 2: just be down in that moment, but I did it.
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  Speaker 2: And it took my brother calling me. He was like,
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  Speaker 2: have you talked to your dad? He's still in his
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  Speaker 2: village event last week, and I was like, no, he
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  Speaker 2: ain't called me with that.
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  Speaker 3: So we are we good? You know, I'm not mad
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  Speaker 3: at him or anything like it. You know, what do
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  Speaker 3: you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Do you when you have a situation that you're faced
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  Speaker 2: with that's similar, if not somewhat the exact thing, how
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  Speaker 2: do you handle that? It doesn't matter who answerbody can answer,
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  Speaker 2: you know, oh go ahead, sorry, I think you handled it,
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  Speaker 2: you know fine? I think, And because I've been in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of situations myself, and you know, initially, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're irritated by it, because you know, how can
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  Speaker 2: somebody come to your event making it about them? But
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  Speaker 2: I think you handle it just fine by letting them
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  Speaker 2: have their moment. I think in thosetions for me, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't pay them no attention because it is about you,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel that I don't like to let take,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that energy from me. I don't like let
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: people make I don't like to let anybody make me
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: feel any type of way. So in those moments, I
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: take control of that, even if I have to say,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you know, this is not about you, this is my day.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Sometimes have to make it that plain, but egen, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it's something that I say often. You know, when you
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: have these events, the people who are supposed to be there,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: will be there, and so I used to get wrapped
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: up and then you get all these people that saying, oh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I'm coming or I'll be there, but then when the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: actual day come, they're not there. So I always tell
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: people all the time in those moments, the people are
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: supposed to be there will be there for you, or
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the people that need to be there. And I think
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: that's the people that you want to be there because
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: it's more meaningful. The love is genuine, the love is real.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: But I think you handle it well, which is something
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I would do, is just let you have your moment,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: but at the same time stay, you know, in basking
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: in that moment. That is for me, not letting them
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: take over that moment.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really good. I agree with author Fair.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: And it's funny because I'm like, I was gonna piggyback
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: off of her, but she literally said exactly what I
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: wanted to say. It's something that you know, I've learned
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: in the last couple of years as God has been
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: like positioning me to the forefront if you know me,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and my sister says it all. She's like, you know,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: you always shy to the back I'm like, because you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I don't really want the spotlight. You know, it doesn't
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: necessarily have to be about me. But in the season
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: that I'm in, God is showing me that it's not
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: necessarily about me per se, It's about Him getting the
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: glory through me. And so I had to learn to
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: realize that in those moments, if there is somebody who
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: you know, is trying to take my day, like, I
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: will fall back and let.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Them have their moment.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: But then God starts showing me that he allows people
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: to gravitate towards me anyway, so they can't take, you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: in a way because it is not about them have
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: your moment. But God will start showing me like as
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: he just brings people towards me, like okay, like now
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: let's get back a position and do what you're supposed
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: to be to do anyway, So good, And I have.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: To agree with the with the autie I'm currently and
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say, my secular job, my my career or
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: or my career is actually in leadership manager. So the
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: current situation I'm in, it is not management. So I
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: had to humble myself in the process of of of
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: the turn of events that happened. So long story short,
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: we I had. I'm just gonna say an administrative assistant.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: That's what I was signed to do at this particular event,
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: and turnament out Like you said, I'm always used to
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: being in the forefront, you know, I told you I'm shy,
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: but God has put me in a position in a sense,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: while I'm always in the print. Now on the spiritual side,
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I'm studying to be a minister. I'll be ordained next year.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: But I'm in a church. I do have like a
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: little big mouth, but when it comes to the bishop,
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: I'm like a little kid. I don't say anything. So
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: it's just like it's this kind of funny how stuff happens.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to be more vocal in my spiritual walk,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: but as you stated, I'm trying to learn to speak
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: when necessary. And this project that I had currently, I'm
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: not jumping trying to get everything out. The project that
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I had worked on, I was in the background, but
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: the CEO had gave me a shout out in front
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: of one hundred people, and I.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Was so overwhelmed.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: It was for a sponsorship. I raised my organization over
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: one hundred thousand dollars. You know, I like to talk sometimes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: so I had to do all these calls. And when
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: they showed all these people show up for the event,
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: I was so overwhelmed because I couldn't believe this was me.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: But this God said, this is you. This is why
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: I'm calling.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: He's moving in.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: A way that's like, oh my God, I'm.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: I'm just like wow.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: And she gave me a shout out. And then when
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: she finally said that, she said, Charlotte, I see you. Now.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: This one has switched my position four times in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: last year, so I can't say anything but the last
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: this is the last time I've been shifted to another position.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: And this time God said yes, I didn't have to
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: fight for it. I didn't have to cause I told
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: the Lord I wasn't gonna ask her again and turn
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: around when I was quite and then what I was
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: supposed to do, He pushed me to the forefront. And
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: this time she said, yes, amen, amen, amen, yes, listen.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You all have touched on something that God has been
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: saying to me in the last couple of weeks, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I have been, you know, just trying.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: To in the bag with it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: But it is basically this God has been saying, you
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: were never hidden.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: You are seen when it's your time. And so.
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  Speaker 2: I always say each and every time I do on
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: these shows, God gives me confirmation that I am on
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  Speaker 2: the right path and I'm doing what I'm supposed to
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: be doing. And it blows my mind every single time.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: It's always something and I guess I should be used
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to this by now, but I'm not. I haven't got
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: used to this. But it's the confirmation that he said.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: And I was trying to, you know, just take my
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: bath of mind, my business, you know, have my a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: long time. But God always which anyway, and he was like,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you were never hidden. You were in a space to
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: where those who needed to see you have always seen you.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: It is now time for you to see what they
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: have always known and what always seen. So your spotlight
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: is waiting for you to step in. And so that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: is what's happening in many of our lives right now,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: is that our spotlight is ready for us to take
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the stand, and you gotta be ready to step in.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: God never he doesn't call for you. He doesn't qualify
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the call. Hell qualifies the call. So if He's called
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you to do something. He knows that you're capable of
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: doing it because it's everything that you've needed inside of you.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: And it's time for us to actually walk in our
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: purpose and walk with intention and everything that He puts
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: forth in front of us. Because He will provide you
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: with a vision. And sometimes we get stuck on how
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: are we going to make this vision of reality? We
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: get stuck on the little things. And God said, I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: never asked you to provide anything. I just need you
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to be obedient to the instructions that I've given. So
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: if I told you to go straight and then turn
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: left at the stops, and that's what I need you
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to do. He's the GPS of our lives. He knows
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: exactly he wants us to go. We just gotta be
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: obedient to doing that. We get so.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Caught up in our own free will.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: That we tend to do what we want to do,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: and then GPS will say rerouting. That's God saying I
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: didn't send you on that path. Get back over here,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: stay on the path that I told you, because you're
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: gonna be rerouted. You gonna take a detour that I
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: never intended for you to take. Because everything was mapped
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: out the way I had it for you. Even if
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's dark, if you keep walking through
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the darkness, you will soon find the light. But you
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: gotta go through some darkness to get to the light.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: But we don't always want to go through that. We
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: want to sit there and be like, it's supposed to
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: be perfect. I'm not supposed to see because God ain't
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: gonna show you everything. If he showed you everything here,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: make you through, you'll turn around and say, God, I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: don't want that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I don't want that at all.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: You know, he gonna tell you, I know this what
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you asked me for. So your drive, your determination, your
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: gifts and your talents and your purpose is all tied
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: up into those dark moments.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I wrote a poem.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: One time I was in the hospital, y'all. I was
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: in the hospital. I was in the hallway, waiting in
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the wheelchair, getting ready to go and have an MRI done,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and all of that poem became. It was darkness. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: what I was thinking about when I wrote that poem
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: was I'm going into this tunnel because I have KRII
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: my information, and so I was going into the tunnel
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: to find out what was going on, what was happening,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: if there was any changes, because I had a brain
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: aneurism also, and so they were checking to see if
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it had moved or anything like that. But I was
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: thinking about going into that tunnel and at the bottom,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: like I'm going head first, all I can and see
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: it's my feet. But at the end there is light.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: But at the top there's nothing but darkness. At my head,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: so there's all that. But if I looked at my feet,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: there was the light, and my feet were gonna touch
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: the light before my head did. So I had to
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: stay focused on that. And so I think that's a
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: good metaphor for most of us. When you're in that darkness,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: if your feet keep moving, you will soon be out
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of that darkness. You just got able to keep going
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: because we get stuck. We don't see that God has
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: taking us through this to get us to our breakthrough.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna ask another question, because I'll keep going
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and talking about God and what he gonna.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Do, and we'll be here all night.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to do that because and y'all
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: just playing to talk and y'all can ask questions.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Too, like y'all got to come on here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Now, what fears if there was any him you had
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: doing your writing process for this book. Was there anything
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: that you had a fear of when you started to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: write for the book?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Look, I always go first. I'm like, I'm that girl, I.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Like, I think for me even though like we weren't
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: necessarily caught on guard with it. It was like I
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: wasn't necessarily in the space mentally writing when I wrote
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: my first book. I wasn't necessarily you know, aspiring to
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: be an author. Like God told me to write the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: book to help me get out of the situation that
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: I was in. And I don't think that he meant
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: monetarily either, you know, it was it was more so
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: it was a key of obedience, you know, to help
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: me get to that next step. And so when the
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: opportunity came to do Sacred Seeds of Wisdom, I had
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: no intentions of writing again, you know. And so now
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I have to dig back into that deep places and
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: figure out you know, not only like what am I
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: going to talk about going to be relatable? And so
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I wrote, if you know, in my first book, I
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: use a lot of references, you know, Bible scripts, like
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I'm a Bible girl, like I love the word. It's
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: just something that has been a very necessary too, like
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: in my life over the last you know, probably fifteen years,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: and so that's my default. And so I've talked about
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: you know, being alone or letting you know, women know
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: that you are not alone. And so I used women
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: in the Bible who went through situations that we currently
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: go through now just to say like, you're we're not
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: even knowing.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: We're not even the first people.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Our moms and our grandmas are not even the first
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: people to go through this. This goes all the way
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: back to you know, Sarah and Abraham, you know, just
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: being obedient sacrificing the sun, and Sarah having to intercede
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: for her son. Probably what she was doing was walking
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: him to you know, going to sacrifice him. And so
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: I really just want to be intentional. And sometimes like
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I get in my head like I know, I love
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: the word. But then I've had conversations with people that
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: are like, maybe just have a regular conversation, don't always
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: go to the Bible. And I'm like, and these have
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: been you know, Christian people is telling me that, and
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I try not to. So then I'm like,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: now I'm wrestling with myself like, well, am I two churchy?
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: You know, doesn't sound authentic. But then God was like.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: You're like, if you don't get my word out there,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: because that's what you're supposed to be doing, you know.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: So you are inspiring women, you're encouraging yourself, you're being obedient,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: and you know you you spreading my work.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: That fear like of overcoming the fear of worrying about
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: if to be related, if people are going to want
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: to understand, and also just praying that maybe you know
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: the things that I write about, maybe it will encourage
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: somebody to go look up the Bible because it's relevant
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: and it's where we are today, and you will find
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: something to help you navigate where you are.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: If you just pick up the word, you know. So
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I had to really push myself through that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just stand that completely. I would like to peggyback
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: off of what Mishana just said. As we grow older
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: and we have more experiences. I don't know about you, ladies,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: but I just can't imagine not going to the word
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: because I've made so many silly, stupid, unconscionable mistakes. And
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you said this, mister Traveda. You said that thing about
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: free will you know that will? Those two words get
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: people in so much trouble and sometimes and I don't
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I hope I'm not offending anyone because I love an
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: educated person. But I have a lot of educated people
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: around me, and sometimes they are fools. Yeah, I don't
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: mean any harm by it, but instead of them relying
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: on the and the word that they've been taught, they
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: rely more on their responses, like they need to just
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: say what Confucius said in Aristotle. I mean, don't get
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: me wrong, it's a lot of people that are well read,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: being well rendered me that you beat people overhead with
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: these practices that we all know is junk. If you
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: do not do what's right, right's not going to follow you.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm from Alabama and a lot of my upbringing
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: was the word.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: I mean.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: At three years old, my mother's mother and my beat
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: mama taught me to twenty third song, which is one
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: of my favorites.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: So no, there should not be any fear or shame.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Now do I fear? Sometimes when I'm striking, I know
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: something new.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: I'm sixty four years old. You better believe it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: Us.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: What is the devil going to do.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: When Tony says, because I'm speaking only for me, when I'm.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Trying to do new girl, you know you're but old
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: old and these young girls they got it. They know
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: what they're doing and you don't. If you know what
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I do. I surround myself around a lot of y'all
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: young girls, and y'all share a lot and y'all are
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: nice about it. Y'all share a lot of information with me.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: And that's exactly what a lot of y'all call me,
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Miss Tony. Have you thought about this, miss Tony, let's
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: do this.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: In twenty twenty five, brown and black women were running
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: a lot of stuff.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: We're not just running our homes anymore.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: We're running these jobs, we're running the we're entrepreneurs.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: People are really jealous.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Of us because they know well to hold us back.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: And you know who the day is that they is
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: a lot of folk. They come in, a lot of
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: clus absolute and they.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: Female and they male.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: M Yeah, I'll see a lot of affirmations from that,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: but we're not landing that top us.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: What keeps me going is I'm always motivated to not lay.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Down and just die because somebody want me to because
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: they may because they don't. They've not developed in their
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: own mind to just get up and do something, do
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: something to help yourself.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: We can all wallow, but the self pity thing, it's overrated.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Are you taking time to do all that you could
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: have been?
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: A sold fifteen books? If you get up and.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Write absolutely.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Anything you want to do, you can actually do a
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: lot of times we stand in our own way because
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: of what someone else is gonna say. I had a
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: conversation with my baby sister the other day and she
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: was asking me why does she keep interacting or experience
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: in the same situations. And my response to her was
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: is because you keep open for the foolishness that you
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: invite in. And I've always told her you can either
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: go to the circus to watch the show, or you
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: sign in to be a performer. So whichever one you decide,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: that's the.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Role you take on.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: And so she's like, why do you always say that,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I said, because if you going to watch the show,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: then you purchase a ticket. If you're going to perform,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: you gonna put your clown uniform on and you go perform.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: It knows what you're going to do until you show up.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: So however you choose to show up at the circus,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: that's the role you take. I'm going to watch the show,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: which means I'm gonna purchase a ticket. I'm not participating
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: in anything that is foolishness. So therefore you choose to
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: interact with the drama that you invite in. If you
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: don't want nobody coming into your house when they knock
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: on your dough, you ei just just answer or not.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: So if you keep answering, guess what you keep receiving
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: what you ask for.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I said so I told.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Everybody a few years ago when everybody would ask me, well,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: why I don't see you nowhere? Because I'm nowhere that
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: God hasn't called me to be. If it's not on
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: God's schedule for me, maybe I'm not showing up because
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not supposed to be there. So you're not seeing
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: me where God didn't call me to be. So I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: off where God has assigned me. If he didn't assigned
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: me to beat up baby, you ain't gonna see me.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Ain't no need for you to even ask him. When
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: God didn't say I needed to show up here, He
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: didn't put it on my itinerary.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: He didn't put it on my schedule. He didn't put
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: it on my to do this.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: So I don't show up in places where I don't
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: need to show up at so and is just what
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know that's just me.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: But miss Christina, what piece of this book would you
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like for any of the readers to take from what
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: you wrote in the book?
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: I think you know we like I can't remember exactly
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: who said, I think it was Tony, but we as women,
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: we take on a lot of responsibilities, and we are
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: wearing a lot of hats. And we aren't just in
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: the home, in the home or at the work in
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: multiple places. And not only are we at home and
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: in the workplace, we have cobbies and you know, different
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: things that we do munity that we have to show
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: up for. And so people always expect for us to
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: show up because we've always presented as you know, the
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: strong person, the person that can juggle and manage all
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: of these things. And when gets sick, or when we
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: aren't having the best day, or our attitude is a
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: little bit off, or we're going through something that's dramatic,
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: we're still showing up in all of those spaces, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: what I wanted people to understand was we have to heal,
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: and in order to heal, sometimes you have to take
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: a break from all of those things. You can't get
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: all things to all people either you are not taking.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: Care of yourself.
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: And you know, I've been in spaces and places with
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: certain people of certain colors, and if they big told
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: her they're going to the doctor and they're gonna take off,
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: they're gonna get a medical lead form.
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: They don't.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: But HML is your what is it? F m lam
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: LA And you know their time. When it's time for
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: their vacations, they gonna take their vacations. And you better
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: not call them when you know when they have something
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: planning for the day or for the evening, they are out.
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: But we be sitting around trying to do all of
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: these things, and then when it's our turn, we be sitting,
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: you know, feeling guilty about the fact that we sick
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: or we have had it going on so or we
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: need to take some time, or we need to take
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: a mental health day. I want people to know it
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: is okay to kill have to heal ourselves. We have
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: to fill our clubs. We gotta take a if we
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: need to take a mental health break if we need
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: to go and do our own f m l A
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: and take some time off their work so we can
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: take care of ourselves so that we can come back
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: and be one hundred percent, because yes, ma'am, we are
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: going to show up, and yes, ma'am, I'm going to give,
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: and yes, ma'am, we can juggle a lot of things.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: But we also need a break too sometimes, and so
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: while we're taking those breaks, we need to be working
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: on ourselves and filling our cups so we can come
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: back and show up.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And that's what.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I always people. You can't pour from an empty cup.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Everything that you have in your cup is supposed to
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: be the overflow that people get from me. And if
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: they don't want to take the overflow, then they don't
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: want to take nothing from you anyway, because what's in
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: my cup is in my cup if I give you
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: more than what you're supposed to have. And I learned
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: to cut people off in a heartbeat. Now as I've
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: gotten older, I don't have time to be depleted. I
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: got what I got because God gave it to me,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: and ever since my mom passed, I'm standing even more
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: fun on that than I was before because my mom
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: taught me something to live life on your own terms,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: by your means. People always said that my mom was crazy, this, that,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: and the third. But I don't believe she was crazy.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I believe that she was not properly diagnosed early on.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: But when you come from a family who breaks your
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: spirit very early, it it's a downward spiral, and I
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: believe that they're trying to do the same to me.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: But my mama I got the strong willcover to know end.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: That's why my kids say I'm a hard headed parent
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: that they don't really know what they're gonna do with
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: because I don't listen to nothing. But I believe that
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: God instilled that in me for many many reasons. Number one,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: I had a stroke at the age of thirty, diagnosed
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: with the brain anurism of the time, lost the use
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: of my left side twenty and thirteen. I lost my
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: ability to speak, I lost my ability to walk.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: All these things, and I was hard headed.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I drove myself to the hospital the first time so
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: because I refused to get in the ambulance. By the
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: time I got to the hospital, I could not feel
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: my left side at all. I got fussed out of
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: course by the nursing team and the doctor, and every
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: time one of them came in, did I hear right,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: COVID you did? I absolutely did. I ain't gonna lie
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: to y'all talked, Yeah, I did it. So I am
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: very stubborn. I am very hard headed. But God put
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: that in me for many reasons, and I'm slowly learning
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: those reasons. Because number one, I am four eight. People
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: tend to look at me like a little kid.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Half the time. I'm forty six years old.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: People don't believe I'm forty six because I'm sure, and
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: they still say I got a little babyface. Ily have
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: many reapers right now, but I got the gray hair.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: So it is what it is.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: But I've had to stand on me and stand in
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: what it is that I'm trying to get people to understand.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: And being in a professional setting where you are the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: only one of color in those places, it's hard sometimes.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: And I've been told that when I speak it's harsh.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: No it's not harsh. It's direct, and it's to the
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: poor and most of them are used to being coddle.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not here to coddle your feelings. I'm here to
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: get a job done. And if you can't take how
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I'm saying something to you, because it's not oh baby,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I need you to do I'm sorry. I'm not about
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm not about to change my
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: tone to make you feel comfortable. Either you're gonna get
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: it or you don't. But I'm not making any apology
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: for who I am. If you take someone mean direct
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: with you, that's not problem. Again, that's a personal problem.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: And having to say that to people who are higher
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: up and a different race than myself, it tends to
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: make them uncomfortable. And I've had to say I'm sorry
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: that you feel uncomfortable. But you saying this to me,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: how do you think that makes me feel? Because I
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: can be uncomfortable too because you feel as if you
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: outrank me. But in the lack of knowledge, you're still
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: asking me to help you, and that you don't have
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: the knowledge to do what you want me to tone
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: myself down because you can't handle direct communication. Again, that's
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: a personal problem, and know I won't change for that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: So learning to stand firm on who you are in
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: spaces where you're usually outnumbered is usually how it goes.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: But when you know who you are, you know the
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: value that you provide, you will understand their absence.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: There's going to be a hard time.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I've been I ain't gonna say I've been on vacation
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: for these last couple of months, but y'all, I've been resting.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I've been home, and my daughter has taken over my
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: position at the urgent care facility where I work. And
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: it's funny because I've been gone, but do you know
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: what they say? They tell my daughter to call me
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: when there's something that they don't know how to do,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: and funny.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: And so I went in.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: And work, just picking up a couple of hours because
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I was bored.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: I ain't having to do at the house and I
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: was tired of sit them in the house.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: So I went in and I said, Okay, well have
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: you guys, you know, ordered these supplies.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Well, no, we haven't ordered them since you left.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, but you guys realize I've been gone for a month, right,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: and you have only one of these things left.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: You guys are gonna need these supplies.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Like what Well told, listen to understand the power of
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: your presence and know in your absence it is felt.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: And people don't understand the value that you provide for
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: them until you're no longer in that space. And I
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: said that a long time ago. And this was me
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: just learning my own self and my own power. So
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: what would you say, and this goes for everybody, what
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: would you want people to learn that? What seed would
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: you want to leave with someone or even your younger
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: self is something that you would have wanted to know
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: then versus now, what would you want them to know?
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: It's okay to say no. I've learned that with an
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: as you stated, when my mother passed away, I was
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: there for everybody at one point. My mother was in
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: the hospital, my brother was in hospital, and my sister
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: and I was seeing them on all of them on
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: a regular basis. But me but to break my elbow
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: before my mother transition to realize, hey, you're one person
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: you need to ask for help. So now, as miss
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: Tony said, I just turned sixty in June, and I
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: don't give a oo haha. He doesn't like me. I
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: say no on a regular basis. I took a Charlotte day.
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: If I'm not in the mood, I let people know
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: in a nice fashion. You know, I'm having a moment,
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: and that's it. And and I don't feel guilty about it.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: I say no and don't feel guilty about it. So
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: that's what the youngest self, my younger self, I will
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: tell them. Learn to say no and and starting to
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: stand firm when you know and it's okay because you
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: only got one life to live once you leave this
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: world and know it's hopefully you know, I believe there
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: is a heaven. That's what I know. I said, a
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: mighty God, and I know I'm going to heaven. That's
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: my plan.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: To go to heaven.
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: But I want to. I always just feel that in
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: my daughters, you know, just be your own person. Also,
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: learn to say no. You and I'm trying to whisper.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: I noticed that when my the daughter I'm staying with,
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: she is more like me. And I told her I
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: don't want her to be like me. Learn to say no,
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: you know, because she always wants to help people. And
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: sometimes you can't do it because you know, like you said,
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: we take on so many roles and it's like you know,
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: you said you had a stroke. We take on so
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: much that we are killing ourselves inside.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: It's like.
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: Yes, and and and you know it's you know, you
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: got to come to a point just say no, leave
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: me alone, and it's no. And that's how I That's
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: how I've been I don't want to say move and
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: at this point, but that's how I've been doing it
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: for since twenty seventeen, and I don't and I'm not
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: gonna apologize for it. That's yes.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I'd like to say, encourage yourself, yes, try to encourage
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: someone else. Miss Travado. You said something about you can't
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: pour from an empty hub.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: M hm.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, guys, but for a long
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: long time, I thought I was supposed to help everybody, right, I.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Think all of us in space.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, until I realized when I started to kind of
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: get sick and kind of falter a little bit.
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: People kind of got used to me being in fifteen.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Places doing yes, yes, and then they were looking forward,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: girl where they at? I'll be on the phone, never
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: said Hey, how you doing, girl?
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: Where you at?
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, encourage yourself first, let me let me back
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: up me pray first, courage yourself and encourage others, because
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: once you set the tone for the day of the prayer,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: watching all the orders, whether you want them or not.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Because when I was a little girl, you.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: Only went to the night, but I knew exactly what
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: she's saying.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: God doesn't leave you a fool. You have a conscious
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: man that God talks to. You have to get still,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: quiet enough to hear the small, still voice. I'm gonna
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: leave y'all with that, because that right there'll stop a
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of craziness if we take t got the.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Answer that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: I can answer, I would say to my younger self
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: or even something I had to learn is that you
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: know you are more than enough.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: I struggled a lot.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: I didn't really know it was called people pleasing or whatever,
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: but just wanted to be like the best friend and
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: the best girlfriend, and you know, just always want to
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: be so great at everything and for everybody. Like I
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: didn't realize that I was burning myself out and wearing
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: myself out. And then I realized too that people typically
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: choose themselves first. So I was choosing everybody else and
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: they were choosing themselves, and I was just kind of
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: left standing there, you know, and so I had to
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: really learn that. It broke me for a little bit.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: It's like, well, why aren't I good enough? Or why
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: didn't they do it for me? Or why you know,
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: why don't they go as hard for me as I
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: go for them, And I think I'm just I'm getting
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: to a place where it's like, well I don't even
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: really care, you know. And I had to really be
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: int out not allowing that to change me because I
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: do know that that's one of my gifts and that's
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: what God created me to be.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: He created me as a nurturer.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: But I had to learn the wisdom is you cannot
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: pour from an empty cup. So you can still nurture,
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: you can still love, you can still you know, be
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: what you can be for other people, but you have
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: to learn to be that for yourself first.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: And if they don't like it, then.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: They're probably in that category that's not gonna be around anyway.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: So you know, it's I don't want to I want
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: to say self preservation, like my mom always says, like
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: it's about self preservation. And I was a type that
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: didn't really understand when they said, you know you're on
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: an airplane, you put your mask on first, I'm like
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: that's so toxic, Like you gonna you gotta help somebody
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: else and you got and I'm like I finally am
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: starting to understand, like what that means. It doesn't mean
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: you let somebody else die, but if you die, then
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: you know what's gonna happen.
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Exactly. So that was really good for me. You gotta
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: you know, just you're more than enough. And if people
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: don't like it, you know, it's okay. They were not
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: supposed to be there. My mom says, also, a reason
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: a season in a lifetime. So I'm at the age
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: now where I start figuring out, who's that reason, who's
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: that season, who's that life timing?
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. Yeah, let's say let go because
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: because you're still coming to hold on to somebody and
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: they've taking you on, I'm not trying to go on,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: but you won't let him go because of the love
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: or whatever it is that you feel for them. God
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: has told me to let people go, and I'm like, okay, God,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: you know, but I also was very momful of the
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: prayer that I prayed in twenty nineteen. God, those those
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: people who are not connected to the destiny and what
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: you have for me, and help me to be okay
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: with that.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: Did I know he was gonna take some people away
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: that meant the world for me?
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: I did, But before absolutely not, but I knew that
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I had to be okay with it because it was
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: not to his assignment that he has for me. And
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: so as I get to certain seasons, I understand that
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: some people have a pit stop and that's as far
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: as they're supposed to go with me. And I'm okay
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: with letting them go and leaving them where they are,
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: because if they're meant to follow me into the next space,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: they will catch up. I don't have to return to
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: the backspace to go and get them the only where
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: I'm at.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: And so I've learned and made peace with that.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: That's really good.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, listen, I thank you guys for being
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: here because it has been an amazing show. You know,
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: God always takes over because without him, I don't know
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: nothing about none of this stuff, because He gives me
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: everything that I need and all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: given me. He's given me my voice back when doctors
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  Speaker 2: when man said to get used to not being able
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  Speaker 2: to walk, to get used to not being able to talk,
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  Speaker 2: to get used.
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  Speaker 3: To those things.
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  Speaker 2: And my response then was, I don't have to get
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  Speaker 2: used to that, and I don't have to get used
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  Speaker 2: to you. And God has provided all things that I
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  Speaker 2: have enough grateful for the stubbornness that He's put inside
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  Speaker 2: of me to know when to walk away from people
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  Speaker 2: who say stupid stuff to me. And that was some
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  Speaker 2: stupid that doctor said to me. And I'm like, sir,
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  Speaker 2: God didn't tell me that, So I don't gotta get
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  Speaker 2: used to you. Let me go and get my stuff
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  Speaker 2: and get up out of here and go buy my business.
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  Speaker 2: So if you see me walking, you will never know
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  Speaker 2: that I had to learn how to do this again.
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  Speaker 2: When you hear me speak, you would have never known
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  Speaker 2: that I had to learn this again. You would have
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  Speaker 2: never known any of this. And I'm gonna give y'all
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  Speaker 2: a little secret right now. I am an excruciating page.
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  Speaker 2: My head is so bad because I have a keyri headache.
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  Speaker 2: It's about terrain, and every time the question of air changes,
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  Speaker 2: I feel that pain. So the back of my neck
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  Speaker 2: and the back of my head is on fire and
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  Speaker 2: I am in pain. But God allowed me the strength
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do this. And I definitely want
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  Speaker 2: to have you guys back. Let let the guests know
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  Speaker 2: how they can get in contact with you guys, and
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  Speaker 2: then I'm gonna close out with my us So who
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  Speaker 2: wants to go first with how they can get in
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  Speaker 2: touch with you if they have any questions or any
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  Speaker 2: services that you guys want to provide to anyone else.
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  Speaker 6: First.
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  Speaker 2: So you can follow my author page audio and Maclamore
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook, or you can follow my journey at authorfairanmac
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  Speaker 2: Onemore dot com.
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  Speaker 5: Okay me Tony Winston as the Freedom Travel Diva. I'm
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  Speaker 5: Tony S. Winston on Facebook. But I also have a
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  Speaker 5: business PA called the Freedom Travel and I have a
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  Speaker 5: website at www dot Freedom Travel Diva dot com.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, you could follow me on Facebook. It's Charlotte Simon.
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  Speaker 7: That's also my author page. Then I have on Instagram
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  Speaker 7: is Shaw's Web of Artistry, and then my website. Simon says,
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  Speaker 7: right now and I just want to say thank you again.
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  Speaker 7: This has been an exciting event. I wasn't gonna come
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  Speaker 7: on also because I have a middle bolt in my
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  Speaker 7: arm and so my armor is in pain. But I
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  Speaker 7: want to say this is this has been a blessing
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  Speaker 7: just to hear everybody's story and I'm I'm grateful just
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  Speaker 7: for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Am.
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  Speaker 4: So you can find me on Facebook is Shana Jenkins.
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  Speaker 4: You can find me on around two pages aletodecour dot
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  Speaker 4: com and the Prettiest Woman dot the Prettiest Woman under
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  Speaker 4: twenty three and you can follow my website at www
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  Speaker 4: dot a stilettodcoor dash tpw dot com.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go next.
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  Speaker 8: You can also find me at CC picture at your Facebook,
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  Speaker 8: or you email me at thrive at at cultivate dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Again, you ladies, I thank you for being here, and
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  Speaker 2: as I close out, I am going to say what
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  Speaker 2: I always say, and that is stay out of God's business.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing he needs you to do is be
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  Speaker 3: obed into what he's called you to do. So until
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  Speaker 3: next time, I'll see you guys later. Good night,